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Meanwhile South Africa seems to be taking Zimbabwe's very succesful path to famine, eternal hunger and everything bad.
http://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/world-economy/the-time-for-reconciliation-is-over-south-africa-votes-to-confiscate-whiteowned-without-compensation/news-story/a8a81155995b1adc1c399d3576c4c0bc

Meanwhile South Africa seems to be taking Zimbabwe's very succesful path to famine, eternal hunger and everything bad.
http://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/world-economy/the-time-for-reconciliation-is-over-south-africa-votes-to-confiscate-whiteowned-without-compensation/news-story/a8a81155995b1adc1c399d3576c4c0bc

It's for increase the suspance
 

What's up with IAAF still having no start lists for tonight? That's bullshit 

He gave Jaziri a win, else it'd be sad to lose right after such a nice win against Dimitrov. 

Meanwhile South Africa seems to be taking Zimbabwe's very succesful path to famine, eternal hunger and everything bad.
http://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/world-economy/the-time-for-reconciliation-is-over-south-africa-votes-to-confiscate-whiteowned-without-compensation/news-story/a8a81155995b1adc1c399d3576c4c0bc

If I was religious, I'd be praying for it to remain this cold (around -5 during the day, -10/15 at night) for at least two more weeks, but sadly that won't happen. As soon as temperatures are dropping significantly for an extended period of time here, people start talking about the possibility of finally having the (in our country) legendary Elfstedentocht again, loosely translated to 'Eleven Cities Tour'.
 
What is this Elfstedentocht? Well, obviously it's speed skating, come on, it's the Netherlands. It's a race over almost 200km, which was first held in 1909. Competitors (many thousands of them) pass through eleven cities of the Friesland province, having to get some sort of stamps along the way to prove they passed the checkpoints (yes, there's modern timing, but we don't need to abolish all traditions in exchange for modern stuff).
 
The problem is, this race can only happen when the lakes and rivers along the way are frozen over enough. Including the first one in 1909, there have now been 15 editions of this race, but sadly the last one already was 21 years ago now: 1997. So now that it's getting cold again, they've stopped the 'traffic' on the waterways and stuff like that, hoping that it'll help freeze things over and get strong enough ice  
 
To illustratie, the finish of the last edition:
 
 

No work today or tomorrow!! Closed due to the beast from the east and storm Emma  . Time for some hot cocoa and a day in front of the telly

Meanwhile South Africa seems to be taking Zimbabwe's very succesful path to famine, eternal hunger and everything bad.
http://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/world-economy/the-time-for-reconciliation-is-over-south-africa-votes-to-confiscate-whiteowned-without-compensation/news-story/a8a81155995b1adc1c399d3576c4c0bc

Oh come on, he again said "D'Almedia".

Done  

Done  

Can anyone with twitter (@heywoodu?) please correct the UCI commentator. Once again he says "Michael D'Almedia" instead of "Michael D'ALMEIDA". I swear he's been pronouncing it wrong since forever!
 
@UCI_Track is his account.

They should copy what the speed skating team pursuit format (the one from the Olympics).

An article just appeared on our media outlets. This is going to be the 14th World Championships for Simona Krupeckaitė, she has 12 medals (2 gold, 5 silver and 5 bronze), so I'd say that's a pretty good TRACK record.
 
Last time when the World Championships were held in this city, Krupeckaitė won silver.

As a spectator, I’ll do it from that angle:
 
Favorite moments:
Gold medal hockey game/finding a German fan club at the game
15k cross country 
Any short track event
Biathlon women’s relay 
Actually being able to talk to people about biathlon in real life 
Starting pin trading
Getting on the Today Show audience/meeting the US team on it 
Being interviewed by 7 Russian TV channels
The events at Czech House
Meeting the Eurosport biathlon commentators
Getting Koshechkin’s autograph 
Randomly meeting like 5 exotic athletes
Being able to use discounts I’m not really eligible for  
 
Disappointments:
Opening ceremony- so freezing
Buses- not enough in times of high demand, often waited an hour
That I barely caught Ledecka’s medal ceremony (I ran in as the anthem was playing)
The lack of atmosphere at some events 
Struggling to understand volunteers 
That I couldn’t resell tickets because I’m not Korean
 

Negative stuff:
- Scheduling sucked balls, no need to go into details because I think we all know it
- Men's normal hill ski jumping, not due to whatever result, but just because of the wind and near-eternal delays
- Women's slopestyle snowboarding, no way that should have been allowed to get started, this was nothing but a lottery, at the very least with a decent winner
- The seconds after the last pair of the women's 5k, everything orange in Gangneung was cheering for Visser's gold, but Annouk van der Weijden and her friends/family were in tears for missing out on a medal by 0,19 seconds.
- Shared gold medal in the bobsleigh
- Men's snowboard halfpipe final, kinda bled to death in the end and the expectations were much higher after that qualifying
- Women's snowboard big air, a tiny bit better than expected with at least someone else than Gasser also doing something nice, but mostly I found those tiny jumps and turns an absolute snoozefest
 
Positive stuff:
- Ester Ledecka's gold in the super-G, definitely one of the highlights of any Games I've seen.
- Hanna Öberg's gold, such a nice and always smiling athlete surprising with Olympic gold, wonderful
- Swedish biathlon men's relay team taking away the gold, awesome
- Absolutely crazy women's biathlon relay
- Nice fights for bobsleigh gold in the two-man and women's competitions
- Simen Hegstad Krüger surprising his countrymen with skiathlon gold
- Johannes Klaebo being crowned as absolute great, at age 21. Not surprising, but given the huge pressure it's rather big.
- Randall/Diggins taking the teamsprint gold. Randall because it's a fantastic way to cap off a big career, Diggins because Diggins.
- Finally Olympic gold for Aljona Savchenko
- Men's ski halfpipe with some awesome tricks
- Men's snowboard halfpipe qualfiying, that was just amazing
- Men's ice hockey final, total craziness
- Germany men's ice hockey team
- The daughter of Marie Martinod (silver) high-fiving Cassie Sharpe (gold) after the women's ski halfpipe final
- Slovak ice hockey team beating Russia in the very first match
- Women's ice hockey final, even the shootouts were good
- David Gleirscher's sensational gold + Felix Loch giving it away in the last turns
- Exciting luge doubles, too bad Penz/Fischler missed out on gold, but it was close and that's always good
- Hungary's shorttrack relay team (some negative points for collecting a billion penalties individually though)
- Yara van Kerkhof's very surprising and lucky silver
- Suzanne Schulting all of a sudden taking gold
- Regino Hernandez giving Spain their first winter medal sinds 1992
- Zoi Sadowski-Synnott, only 16 years old, giving New Zealand their first winter medal since 1992, with same aged Nico Porteous following only hours later
- Spain and New Zealand both having won their last winter medal at the exact same event, 1992 women's slalom, and both finally winning their next one on a snowboard. Fun little coincidence
- Men's 500m speed skating, Lorentzen delivering gold to Norway
- Nuis winning the 1500m and once and for all saying goodbye to his title of King of Chokes
- Bloemen vs Bergsma in the 10k, some negative points for Kramer's race being the last one, that was anticlimactic as shit
- Norwegian men's team pursuit taking gold, Norway is back and that is fucking awesome, the sport really needed that
- Japan's women's team pursuit taking gold and their Dutch coach in tears after all the effort being put in specifically for that gold
- Nao Kodaira winning the 500m gold
- Esmee Visser's 5k gold, when in November she was basically completely unknown and only then had her first TV interview after a good race in the World Cup's B division (where she was asking basic questions like "Should I look at you, or to the camera?")

Biathlon hurts, but when your hobby is to rupture your meniscus, I guess the pain of skiing doesn't frighten you at all.
 

 
She'll start in the relay tomorrow, I'm putting my money on Russia with a pain lover like this.

Like always with track cycling, Tissot Timing is perfect for results, programs, start lists and, yes, live timing
http://www.tissottiming.com/2018/ctrwch/nl-nl/Default/

Did the Russian boys use skis or motorbikes? 
 

Biathlon hurts, but when your hobby is to rupture your meniscus, I guess the pain of skiing doesn't frighten you at all.
 

 
She'll start in the relay tomorrow, I'm putting my money on Russia with a pain lover like this.

If I was religious, I'd be praying for it to remain this cold (around -5 during the day, -10/15 at night) for at least two more weeks, but sadly that won't happen. As soon as temperatures are dropping significantly for an extended period of time here, people start talking about the possibility of finally having the (in our country) legendary Elfstedentocht again, loosely translated to 'Eleven Cities Tour'.
 
What is this Elfstedentocht? Well, obviously it's speed skating, come on, it's the Netherlands. It's a race over almost 200km, which was first held in 1909. Competitors (many thousands of them) pass through eleven cities of the Friesland province, having to get some sort of stamps along the way to prove they passed the checkpoints (yes, there's modern timing, but we don't need to abolish all traditions in exchange for modern stuff).
 
The problem is, this race can only happen when the lakes and rivers along the way are frozen over enough. Including the first one in 1909, there have now been 15 editions of this race, but sadly the last one already was 21 years ago now: 1997. So now that it's getting cold again, they've stopped the 'traffic' on the waterways and stuff like that, hoping that it'll help freeze things over and get strong enough ice  
 
To illustratie, the finish of the last edition:
 
 

Those additional 0.50 cents...

If I was religious, I'd be praying for it to remain this cold (around -5 during the day, -10/15 at night) for at least two more weeks, but sadly that won't happen. As soon as temperatures are dropping significantly for an extended period of time here, people start talking about the possibility of finally having the (in our country) legendary Elfstedentocht again, loosely translated to 'Eleven Cities Tour'.
 
What is this Elfstedentocht? Well, obviously it's speed skating, come on, it's the Netherlands. It's a race over almost 200km, which was first held in 1909. Competitors (many thousands of them) pass through eleven cities of the Friesland province, having to get some sort of stamps along the way to prove they passed the checkpoints (yes, there's modern timing, but we don't need to abolish all traditions in exchange for modern stuff).
 
The problem is, this race can only happen when the lakes and rivers along the way are frozen over enough. Including the first one in 1909, there have now been 15 editions of this race, but sadly the last one already was 21 years ago now: 1997. So now that it's getting cold again, they've stopped the 'traffic' on the waterways and stuff like that, hoping that it'll help freeze things over and get strong enough ice  
 
To illustratie, the finish of the last edition:
 
 

If I was religious, I'd be praying for it to remain this cold (around -5 during the day, -10/15 at night) for at least two more weeks, but sadly that won't happen. As soon as temperatures are dropping significantly for an extended period of time here, people start talking about the possibility of finally having the (in our country) legendary Elfstedentocht again, loosely translated to 'Eleven Cities Tour'.
 
What is this Elfstedentocht? Well, obviously it's speed skating, come on, it's the Netherlands. It's a race over almost 200km, which was first held in 1909. Competitors (many thousands of them) pass through eleven cities of the Friesland province, having to get some sort of stamps along the way to prove they passed the checkpoints (yes, there's modern timing, but we don't need to abolish all traditions in exchange for modern stuff).
 
The problem is, this race can only happen when the lakes and rivers along the way are frozen over enough. Including the first one in 1909, there have now been 15 editions of this race, but sadly the last one already was 21 years ago now: 1997. So now that it's getting cold again, they've stopped the 'traffic' on the waterways and stuff like that, hoping that it'll help freeze things over and get strong enough ice  
 
To illustratie, the finish of the last edition: