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Might be helpful to put a 2016 on that

Except the people of Hong Kong who the world will turn their back on.

Hong Kong is no longer Hong Kong, China. It is Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China. The IOC should throw out their NOC.

Probably.

@OlympicIRL I’ve got the Slogan as well, where does that go in the order of reveals?

It would be funny if we threw two non-user songs in there as dark horses If @OlympicIRL is abstaining from voting, he could chose two and random from nations left.

He can claim that colleges “indoctrinate” students in liberal ideology, but I’d argue that college gives students the tools not to fall for the classic lies, fear-mongering, and authoritarian policies of conservatism. I used to respect conservatives. We used to have shared morals. I knew conservatives who saw the same problems with our country that I did, and only difference between us was how we were going to solve the problem. Now conservatives don’t want to acknowledge the problem, and their only concern is consolidating power and enforcing a system that only benefits the rich and powerful of this country. It’s no secret that I have an extreme dislike of Biden too, but I do actually trust him to have a well reasoned response to pandemics, to continue funding for basic human rights like education, and to not take policy actions based of vain megalomaniac-like attitudes. These are literally the most basic qualities that any democratic leader should have. I would also remind Trump that attacking and pushing university students to their limits hasn’t historically ended well for world leaders. The only organizations we should remove the tax-exempt status from for “indoctrination” are the organized religions of this country.

He’s an idiot, or worse yet, a clear anti-Semite. Between this and Kapernick, the NFL has made their opinion on race pretty clear.

Hahaha. Spoken like a true American Real talk though, I didn’t like it either like I said in my original post. It wasn’t the most interesting to watch, and the results seem more questionable than the other events (based on a) where the final measurement is made and b) teams at the end seem to have an advantage).

The Presidents of Brazil, Honduras, and Bolivia have all tested positive for Covid-19.

Oh right Doesn’t make the rest of my year any better, but that does save the year as a whole a little bit. To be completely honest, it feels like Lausanne 2020 was over a year ago at this point.

Also, Oooooooooooooooooooooooooo! That’s 2 wins out of 4 events for the Orangers! My heart will not be able to handle the rest of the events if we’re actually going to have a shot at this title. @bmo It’s shaping up to be a great competition between our teams.

Event #4 Newton’s Cradle This was a new event to the Marble League. I can’t say I’m the biggest fan of it, but it’s always nice to see them try new stuff. The scoring seemed a bit skewed towards later runners though.

No multi-sports games in 2020. I don’t know how many years it’s been since we’ve had a year without a multi-sports games

Just to clarify, I’m not upset it wasn’t removed. I was just more shocked that they left it on Netflix given how much it mirrors the current situation (even if it is still very outlandish). It uses police brutality in response to a student protest as a punchline at one point, and it’s a little hard to laugh at that having seen the police do that IRL for the last month of so.

Really surprised Community kept the police brutality parody episode on Netflix. I mean it’s funny, but it definitely hits differently at the moment.

What a loss I grew up watching him at the X Games and the Olympics. This is the hardest I’ve been affected by an athlete death in a while. I vividly remember cheering for him on multiple occasions. He wasn’t an athlete I follow in-depth or on social media, but he was someone I always pulled for the big contests. This has just been the worst year for the Olympic movement.

@JohnFoyne World Games 2022 Bulletin #2 laid out the broadcast plans for the World Games 2022. There will once again be a universally available 24/7 channel for the duration of the Games. RHBs can then choose from the various ISB feeds which sports they want to broadcast. It’s unclear in this document if IFs will be allowed to broadcast their sports again, but I heard they won’t, so that’s super unfortunate. They should still be very good coverage of the games though. Personally, I’m hoping NBC puts together an online platform to watch all the feeds directly like they do for the Olympics. I seriously doubt they will, but hopefully we get some sports on the Olympic Channel or NBC at the very least. Bulletin #2: https://eventor.orienteering.org/Documents/Event/3789/1/Bulletin-2 (Page 15)

Yep.

ISB was the host broadcaster for Wroclaw 2017 (a role they will hold again in 2022). They worked with the Olympic Channel to bring expanded coverage of the World Games. The model worked as such: There would be a World feed that showed action from the 2017 World Games constantly (24/7). All sports (minus Air Sports ams Tug of War for some reason) would be shown on that channel at some point. This ensured coverage for nearly every sport, and the maximum possible audience for the World Games via the Olympic Channel. There was then the “rights holding broadcasters” (I.e. Eurosport, Sport1, NBC, etc.). Rights holding broadcasters could broadcast whatever the ISB made available for them. So they could show all finals live because they were using multiple feeds/channels. There was also the IFs, and this is the part of the model I really liked. IFs could use the ISB footage or even their own broadcast services to broadcast the games on their normal platforms. World Archery broadcast all of the Field Archery sessions to YouTube for issuance. Korfball, Canoe Polo, Floorball, Muaythai did same. Some federations (Billiards, Fistball, Orienteering) also had their own online channels at that point and used them. Most importantly, IFs could use their normal commentators. So under this model, anyone with internet access around the World was guaranteed to be able to watch the World Games on the Olympic Channel. Sure it wasn’t perfect, and you couldn’t exactly choose what you wanted to watch, but everyone had unrestricted access to a 24/7 channel showing action from the games. People invested in these sports, could then watch full coverage of the World Games in that sport where they would normally watch live events. Broadcasters from various countries could then show whatever sports were popular in their country, and whatever sports they were hoping to introduce the public too. The model was chaotic, and you had to be “in the know” a little to take full advantage of it, but it was probably one of the best models for multi-sports games broadcasting in the modern streaming era. Now to answer the question you actually asked, I believe NBC has the rights to the 2022 World Games in the U.S. (so yes, the Olympic Channel still has the rights).