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They want 7 (!) events in table tennis??
 
Team events need to go. Replace them with M/W doubles if you will. Team events made some sense back when there was a round robin format in 2008, but since 2012 they have basically been ridiculous. As much as 16 players go to the Olympics to lose one doubles bout within the Round of 16 team match. Those representing Australia and the US have zero hope of anything more. Total waste of quotas.

...I actually do prefer watching the team archery event to the individual archery event xD

Meanwhile in America...
 
23 University of Clemson (American) Football players tested positive yesterday.
13 University of Texas (American) Football players tested positive yesterday.
The Philadelphia Phillies of Major League Baseball shut down their training camp facility in Florida after 8 of their players tested positive yesterday.
The Toronto Blue Jays of Major League Baseball had a few positive tests and also shut down their facility. 
11 National Hockey League Players also tested positive yesterday as training camps opened. 
 
We're obviously going to see more tests as more and more players are required to be tested in order to practice. Most of the players who tested positive are asymptomatic, which means they are showing no illness. But that means the virus can be easily spread throughout a locker room and may infect the more vulnerable demographic such as older coaches, trainers, staff, front office workers. Having been apart of countless teams and been in thousands of locker rooms, being 6ft apart is a near impossible task. Contact between players and coaches and staff is an integral part of sport. I can only predict that we will see more and more positive cases in the next few weeks. 
 
Having sports in North America in 2020 does not look as promising as it may seem. 

This is glorious.
 

A significant advantage of a one-party state is that it avoids all the arguments that delay progress in a democratic political system.
 
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Yes, that can definitely be seen as an advantage, but saying 'Agree' is like saying you think a one-party state is a good system. I really don't think it is, but if one has to name an advantage of a system like that, it could be this. 
 
It's like saying "An advantage of that annoying neighbour being killed is that he's not being annoying anymore." That might be true on a purely literal basis, but it doesn't at all outweigh the general disadvantags (like, you know, someone being murdered).

I wish there was an option for 'Neutral', some things really are not just either one way or another..
 
People with serious inheritable disabilities should not be allowed to reproduce.
 
Yes, everyone should have this right, basically. But it is not an evil thing to at the very least discuss if it's humane to reproduce knowing there's a high risk of your child getting a serious disability entirely because of your genes...

Yeah, but humans being divided in seperate races is a rather tricky issue in science, there's not a lot of consensus about. I'm assuming what they mean is not race, but ethnicity, because it's the most likely option, but they could have been clearer  

And this one is rather tricky.
 
Our race has many superior qualities, compared with other races.
 
I strongly agree when race is being seen in the way it's supposed to be seen (ie, humans as a whole, 'the human race'), but I strongly disagree when instead of race, they mean ethnicity  

A video being presented like this already makes it look as shady as possible
 

 
I tried to watch it, but the parts with subtitles go way too fast and the parts without subtitles are impossible for me to understand, so to anyone who watched (preferably someone non-Indian and non-Chinese ): is this as biased as I think it is judging by the thumbnail?

former autosport driver and multiple paralympic champion Alex Zanardi earlier today suffered a terrible accident with his handbike (apparently, he crashed against a truck   ) and now he's in grave life danger...
 
right now he's having a very complicated neurological operation after suffering a hard head trauma...
 
c'mon, man! if there's someone who can survive something like this, it's you! 

That’s how you can tell whether you are watching Pro or Amateur wrestling.
 
Amateur wresting: Hit the ref with a chair - lifetime ban.
Pro wrestling: Hit the ref with a chair - lifetime contract.

(Confidential!) new timetable is out.
 
https://inside.fei.org/system/files/Tokyo2020 OG Event Schedule_EQU v2.00.pdf

https://swimswam.com/two-time-pan-am-games-medalist-guillermo-bertola-receives-4-year-ban/
 
Won medal in Lima 2019...

I’d recommend starting this replay in the morning 
 

They just need to combined the two ideas. The European Games should be the European Championships for all sports involved. If they need to take place in the Winter Olympic year to make that happen, then that’s the compromise that needs to be made. Of course, this puts them in direct competition with the second largest multi-sports games in the world, the Asian Games.

I don't much care what they end up with, as long as it's not a semi-multi-sports event that isn't really separate European championships but also isn't really like a European Games - which is what we've got now. Having a full-blown European Games is fine for me, not having any combined thing is perfectly fine for me as well, they just have to make up their mind.

Ugh, if this is going to stick, I hope this bitchfight between the two sides will be over at some point. 'Euro(pean) Champs' is the worst possible name for an event like this, it is so generic  
 
"I'm going to watch the European table tennis championships at the European championships" sounds rather double. "I'm going to watch table tennis at the European championships" sounds like you're going to watch the European table tennis championships instead of table tennis that happens to be at a sort of, kind of multi-sports event.
 
What this whole combined Euro championships ends up being is just a collection of random European championships nobody - except for a handful of die hards - sees as a multi-sports event  Unlike the European Games, even though I can't remember that being very popular, at least here nobody really cared.

I suppose you haven't heard about Pre-Q Tournament which came into the Beijing 2022 Qualification System. Welcome to the third decade of the XXI century, then.
NOC - created:1935, recognized: 1948
You didn't pass the exam - either from maths or history.
Maybe it's because they just started curling. Interesting way of thinking - if you don't have a skater or alpine skier, you surely won't have a curling team.
 
BTW, curling is the easiest way to get to the Olympics from totally sport zero - you can reach the top national level in quite few years of regular training and if you get to the National Team... well, enough to say became the WCF member in 2009 and next year they will play at Europeans in women's divison A. Just a decade.

I’d recommend starting this replay in the morning 
 

Nothing all that special design wise, but I quite like them. 

ooh, 2022 Euro Champs might not be dead just yet. These a four big pickups ups for the event. Canoe Sprint and Table Tennis have been keys sports to the European Games, so this could be a big loss for the EOC. Of course, sports can probably feature at both events.
 

I’d recommend starting this replay in the morning 
 

Police force is refusing to work and Protestors want to to defund police departments. Problem solved.