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We’re getting a fricken bomb cyclone. We all laughed at this storm earlier in SoCal, but now it’s getting serious. There’s going to be a lot of places breaking single day rainfall records. Thankfully my town improved our drainage a few years back. The mountains are 50-70mph winds with several feet of snow (there’s a real blizzard), and the rest of us are getting hurricane force winds and rain apparently. I have to walk to university tomorrow, not looking forward to it ?. The looming prospect of snow is a very nice touch though.

Must be injured or something then? If it’s the kid I was thinking of, he would have been an odds on favorite for a medal.

WAKO World Championships 2019:

I’ve never seen something more Canadian

Gotta love California

Right, what I’m saying is they need to be smarter. They were much too over ambitious and made some shady decisions in the planning of the games. That model isn’t sustainable.

Yeah in the US we have ESPN+ which pretty much gives us access to every college game. With YouTube, OC, and ESPN+ I can watch pretty much whatever I want.

There are serious problems though. I think the games will be fine in the end, but there was series oversight in places.

You’re not missing anything with NBC Sports Gold (believe me). The big bonus to being in the US is that everything is offered on the Olympic Channel now.

And Water Polo and Handball (Americans like to pretend those sports don’t exist). I do agree that the US and UK are dominating the international sports scene a bit much, but that isn’t what this is about.

That might bite you in the ass actually. In an earthquake scenario, you want buildings that move with the ground. That’s why American and Japanese buildings sway so much during earthquakes. We’ve built our buildings to sway with the earthquakes to prevent collapses and mitigate damage. I’m not sure if the exact science behind it, but it definitely works.

In fairness the organizers, they tried to fix the situation immediately and apologized to all the teams. I think has attempted more than they realistically should have for these games. It’s been a logistical nightmare. However, every venue I’ve seen has been done up nicely for the games, and is functioning at full ability. In the end, I think the organizers will get away with bad planning, but they’ll need to clean up their act if they want to host again.

That’s the major problem for Albania. The rest of Europe modernized and left them pretty far behind. I was reading the other day that not even all their major roads are paved (which is just crazy for a European country). Plus, I don’t think they’ve built/improved much of the infrastructure since WW2. Communist block buildings also weren’t really built to last during earthquakes, so it was only a matter of time I’m afraid.

I didn’t know they offered the NFL GamePass outside the US.

Also, I think @Grassmarket would find this interesting.

So the Chinese have counterfeited our goods so well this time they even got it into the SEA Games. Consider my impresses. Online chess is legit by the way. Most of the worlds best players play online nowadays.

It was confirmed to be felt as far north as Bulgaria, and as far west as Italy. Supposedly our Croatian, Serbian, Montenegrin users should have felt a mean jolt too. You guys feel anything thing @dcro @ChandlerMne @stefanbg (and the others I can’t remember off the top of my head (sorry)?

Kenya needs to be punished severely too. I think that after this Russia business is over, WADA should do the following: Give nations a chance to come forward and confess to doping (for a reduced punishment), after that opportunity passes, any country with a proven systemic doping problem is banned from international sports for a decade (that includes all athletes clean and unclean).

From what I can tell, this is more of a team’s being better than individuals issue. They’ll still have a second chance of course at the zonal qualifiers next year.

As there should be. We caught them first time. I would have been fine with Russia if they really did at least make an attempt to clean up their act, but they did the exact opposite of that. Now, all the athletes beaten by doping Russians get justice. Plus, we should make an example of Russia.

A press release from the organizing committee stated that Paragliding has been dropped from the games. Always nice to see countries not taking a free gold medal at every opportunity they get

Those hard sanctions. Thankfully for Russia, Bach doesn’t like taking action people want him to

Yes, saw it. I’m in class right now, so there’s not much I can do at the moment.