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I still found a good amount of Athens 2004 merch on sale when I visited last year 

Undeniably Greek, but it does remind me a lot of similar ethno-pop entries “Unicorn,” “Fuego,” “Cleopatra.” If the performance is good, it will probably end up in my top 10, or at least threatening it. 

Pretty easy to calculate who leads the medal table @thepharoah 

Unless some streaming becomes available tomorrow, it looks like this will be the second time in a row where there's more reliable coverage of the Pacific Games than the African Games 

Archery World Qualifier quotas
 
Men's W1:  
Men's Compound:  
Men's Recurve:
 
Women's W1:
Women's Compound:
Women's Recurve:

This Globo ad for the Olympics is pretty good.

In case anyone missed this news earlier today.
 
 

And now his ex-wife (they divorced before they died), / volleyball player Ruxandra Dumitrescu has passed away at age 46 from cardiac arrest. She was originally from Romania but got Greek citizenship after many years playing in our women's league (17 in total but she got citizenship after 7 years), played for the Greek women's national team at Athens 2004 as well.
 
They had a son together also, he is probably not even a teenager yet, so sad for him to grow up without parents...

Pretty easy to calculate who leads the medal table @thepharoah 

Hana Goda wins the 1st gold medal of African Games after defeating  Dina Meshref in Final 4-2

I believe they were at one point, but they campaign unaffiliated now. I generally go to their campaign websites and view their platforms/qualifications and endorsements.

African Games isn't a direct qualifying competition in Table tennis , we have the African Qualifiers in Kigali in May 

It appears that the results system is wrong and  beat  in one of the Round of 16 matches. 
 
Therefore the 4 qualifiers are Nigeria x2, Congo and Senegal.
 
Crisis of the 4th qualifier averted. 

Thanks at @hckošice for post "all the finalists" of Ecuador Music Contest (EMC)
 
 
 
 
 

We've elected/voted-to-confirm judges since statehood (according to info I found on the matter), so it's how our government was set up from the beginning in California. The process has changed over time, but it's a core aspect of our democratic system. Some judges we elect through vote, while other judges are proposed by the Governor and then comfirmed or not confirmed through a vote. 
 
As I've said before, voters have a lot of power in California. We can recall (force a vote on whether or not to remove an elected official from office) any elected state officials, including judges (though we've never recalled a judge). Citizen-groups can gather signatures and propose amendments to the State Constitution without ever involving elected representatives. They can also gather signatures to force referendums on legislation passed by elected officials. 

Yeah, I can very much understand people having this in their top-3 and understand people having this in their bottom-3, but anything in between...impossible  You either really dislike it or really like it  

Yeah, results system is up: https://results.accra2023ag.com/wrs/eng/zz/engzz_general-general-schedule.htm
 
It's the same one used by Rabat 2019. It probably means no, or very limited, PDF results 

Announcement 
 
What will happen in the next few days:
 
Waiting for the last votes........................... 
 
Festival of Music begins (Tuesday)  (a song of last year/two years)
 
The venue of the grand final will be revealed 
 
and much more ..... (maybe )
 
 

Those are kind of fun 

Hopefully the weather is better this weekend. It was not nice in the Western half of the country the last few days.

Visma-Lease a Bike debuted their new TT helmets today.
 
 

My votes are a but delayed, but I will send them in the next 18 hours.

@Vektor inspired me to look at my all-time stats. I’ve participated in 11 editions (one more than him ).
 
Juries I’ve given the most points too…
1.  - 53
2.  - 51
3.  - 46
4.  - 43
5.  - 39
 
 are the only juries to not score points from me in those editions.  got close last edition.
 
No jury has ever won my 12 points more than once.  all received 12 points from me despite their limited participation.
 
No jury has received points from me in all 11 editions.
 
 has been one of my reserves four times.

Geez, get a room you two