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By the way, with this 5k Stolz has now passed Shani Davis and Sven Kramer in the Adelskalender, the alltime allround ranking. Only Roest is ahead now, but of course Stolz has a lot more to gain than Roest, who already has 6:02 and 12:35.

Even though he already had a 6:20 (on sea level), and has a 13:17
 
Ghiotto will eat him alive on the 10k of course, Roest should normally do that as well, kind of the same for both on the 5k (but yeah, 16:14, good luck winning a lot on that)....but in the 500m alone Stolz wins like 40 10k seconds, and in the 1500 he'll destroy both as well  

Might result in the Olympics being cancelled.

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19 participations and 3 medals (Gold, Silver and Bronze)
 
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  14     15   16   Albania 18 19   20   21     22   23   Serbia 25 26   Croatia   28     29   30   31 32 33   34   35         ><
 
Provisional Order of Vote
Session 1
from 10.45  to 12.20 CET
1 Albania   2 Croatia   3 Germany   4 Serbia   5     6     7     8     Session 2
from 13.15  to 15.10 CET
9     10     11     12     13     14     15     16     17     18     Session 3
from 17.00  to 19.00 CET
19     20     21     22     23     24     25     26     27     Session 4
from 20.00  to 21.30 CET
28     29     30     31     32     33     34     35    

6 and 24 please!

Young me would have never imagined one day there'd be a whole segment on the main Dutch daily news program showing several clips from Dragon Ball Z  

RIP Akira Toriyama , thanks for dragon ball, one of the best masterpieces of the animation history.

https://boxing.athlete365.org/boxing-road-to-paris-2024/1st-world-qualification-tournament/
 
At the bottom are the schedules, results etc.

It's not necessarily a problem, she would have easily gotten a visa. The problem isn't that the USA didn't grant her one, it's that due to her having visited Cuba, she should have used the regular visa application process instead of the simple ESTA process, which both her and (more importantly) her federation apparently missed.
 
Had they applied for it in the regular way, well in advance, there most likely would not have been any problem.

It's not necessarily a problem, she would have easily gotten a visa. The problem isn't that the USA didn't grant her one, it's that due to her having visited Cuba, she should have used the regular visa application process instead of the simple ESTA process, which both her and (more importantly) her federation apparently missed.
 
Had they applied for it in the regular way, well in advance, there most likely would not have been any problem.

So quick update from Soldier Hollow.  Tomingas is really a tall athlete.  Anna Mangasson is not.  There was a very skinny Lithuanian female that was right in front of me on the range who I think weighted about 40 kilos.
 
The Men's relay was really fun to watch as the US did well.  The sprint was interesting.  I was the sweeper for lanes 25-30, only about 10 of the 95 biathletes shot from those lanes.  You can actually see my on the broadcast if you look at Stina Nilsson standing shoot, I am in the background.  Also, if you look carefully at 1:09:45 you can see me do my vital work
 
This has been a fun few days.

I can attest for the bolded part  Not much for the skating and wooden shoes though.
 
The common list for Holland, a.k.a. The Netherlands here is -> weed everywhere -> Red Light district -> very tall people -> "they hate us", mostly Bulgaria, but could also be for Eastern Europe.

100% the sterotype it gets in the US, if you add in windmills.

Easy. America is so big, that it is almost in a world of it's own. You have enough quantity of sports inside the country, that there is no need to look at the international sports. When ESPN, Fox Sports, or newspapers for decades have been covering 99% only American leagues and stars, the people have adjusted to only care, or really know, only them. 
 
Of course, the capitalistic, money grabbing (and absurd in my opinion) system of having as many matches, as physically possible, prevents any free time to even attempt watching anything else. 100 matches for your basketball and hockey teams, 200 matches for the baseball one, 40+ Nascar races, golf every week... Good luck trying to get someone to start watching ski-jumping, cycling etc. 
 
 

I can't think of Chipotle without thinking of Chipotlaway
 
 

My family does eat out a lot, so we're not a good example. However, we have family friends who rarely eat fast food.
 
There's also a great deal varriance in the kind of fast food people our consuming. In California, designer fast food chains are popular (build your own sandwich [Jersey Mikes, Firehouse Subs, Jimmy Johns], build your own burritos [Chipotle], build your own pizza [Blaze Pizza, Pieology, MOD Pizza], etc.). Of course, burger chains, fried chicken chains, and more ominbus chains are popular too.

Plus in the end it's just joking around  
 
I wouldn't mind if people say the Netherlands is just full with people smoking weed while either ice skating or wearing wooden shoes  

Gun in one hand, some fast food or take out dinner or whatever in the other  

Be glad they're not carrying guns, because 'Murica  

Why are you all crazy ?

Bingo  

 
 
 

I can't.....

everyone else 

And confirmed, Norwegian media is picking it up quite a lot of course, here's one including some comments from our very own @brunamoura who got asked about it this week  
https://www.vg.no/sport/alpint/i/nQ3nmo/brasiliansk-jubel-for-lucas-braathen-overgang-den-beste-nyheten-noen-gang