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I’d recommend starting this replay in the morning 
 

Premier League is back and Sheffield Utd got robbed of a goal because the goal-line technology wasn't working. It's such an enormous fuck up even the Hawkeye had to race to point out it was an error on their part and the goal should have been awarded. English football is cursed, I don't know any other league where the VAR constantly gets it wrong.
 
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/53086360

I believe it's made by an Association of Summer Olympic sports federations... It's rather self explanatory.

AIBA is not included though (neither is any Winter federation).

Don't forget French Dijon, where Chechens and Maghreb youth are being...rather violent towards each other these past few days.

Indonesia suppressing West Papua again, North Korea blowing their diplomatic office with the South, China and India fighting over a territory where the people don’t want to live in either of their countries, a shooting in a Texas mall, British tourists spreading disease on a Pacific island; I’m glad to see the world is finally returning to normal.

Nice logo for European Senior Championships 2020, but I wonder whether the event will commence or not

Not only there, after almost 2 months of being free  have suddenly 70 new cases in just 4 days...
 
4 new cases from almost free  as well...
 
Third day in a row in  there was more than 100 daily deaths
 
 also isn't free anymore, there are now 2 new active cases...
 

It also changes on google maps depending what country you’re in 

Meanwhile in Indonesia: a man got positive result for pregnancy after doing COVID rapid test
 
 
(it turns out they used the wrong form - the correct rapid test result is unfortunately positive)

And also they include bibles in it, +1000 rage points for that..

I think NK is just an attention whore in this issue, the building is NK its own's. They can simply change it to other function or just shut it. But they chose to explode the building as a symbolized signal but they literally made it. The attention whore got the attention of the whole world. Also the so-called reason for escalation is the anti-Kim publication balloons from the south. Come on, this old-fashioned thing at least last for 50 years continuously. The whole drama is NK's own one-man show but successfully got won the free commercial of the world. The whole drama could just conclude into one sentence " Look at me, Kim Yo-jong, the sister of Kim Jong Un is on the stage now" 
 

Just finished watching Taking Refuge which premiered today on the Olympic Channel. The (currently) 5 part short documentary follows Niccolò Campriani as he begins a new project of attempting to train a few refugee air rifle shooters for Tokyo 2020. It’s incredibly well made, and the story is very fascinating. The pacing between the 5 episodes is really good as well. I believe they will release a few more episodes as Tokyo 2020 creeps closer once again next year. I’ve really been I impressed with the documentaries I’ve watched on the Olympic Channel. They have really perfected the art of compelling storytelling. 
 
I also released what an amazing person Niccolò Campriani is. I’ve as dismissed him as someone who’s a little stuck up, and a bit of a choke artist when it counts. However, this documentary gave him so much more dimension. He’s a really thoughtful, caring person with a big heart it seems. Now I’m kind of sad that he’s retired from shooting. He works so well as a coach with the refuge athletes though. I’ll be cheering for them big time if they can qualify, get a universality quota, or obtain an IOC special invitation.
 
Here’s link to the documentary playlist: https://www.olympicchannel.com/en/original-series/detail/taking-refuge-target-tokyo-2020/

I’d imagine this would be of interest to you @Griff88
 

I could absolutely lock it to audio only. I think it would be fun to watch events with y’all. 

disastrous and very, very sad news...
 
16 year-young French climber Luce Douady died earlier today while training on an unexplored sector on a cliff near Grenoble... 
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53054385
 
R.I.P. 

I think they would be more of the main purpose if I went ahead with this. It would be more a “hangout” to chat during events/community events.

Myself and @Vojthas think it might be fun to have a Totallympics Discord. I think I brought this idea up a while ago, but I thought I’d develop the idea based off how we’ve used it for our media organization.
 
So besides have a place to talk during website blackouts or worse case scenarios of a forum ending crash; there are a few purposes it would be nice for. 
 
For one, people could chat to each in a more direct manner. There can also be multiple chat rooms so people can chat with each other about different things. Now, this isn’t really all that useful since we already have Totallympics, but it would be a way for people to communicate outside the forum, or in a quicker manner during major events.
 
One of the cool things about Discord is that it has an always running audio channel. So people can just get on and talk to each when ever they want, for as long as they want. Me and Vojthas really enjoyed this feature last night during the Virtual 24 Hrs of Le Mans. We we’re both watching the race, and it was fun to chat back and forth about it. I was 15 seconds ahead of Vojthas, but it wasn’t to big of a deal. I think it would be really fun for the community to get together and watch live events together (especially for those of us sometimes lack people to watch sports with). 
 
There can be multiple audio chat rooms as well, so their could different rooms for different events.
 
You also have the option to share your screen on PC. Now, me and Vojthas had some issues with the stream quality when he tried to cast his footage to me, but it would work better with other people. It again opens up some cool possibilities though. We could maybe have some community movie nights of something.
 
Overall, with all of the other features Discord has, I think it would be nice to have for the forum. We could think of it as more of a lean to, or hangout place.
 
What do you guys think? I could set up a private server just for registered members of Totallympics. It would just be a place to hang and chat more causally. We could also post reminders about community events in there. The server could be moderated to prevent issues. It would in no way be a replacement for Totallympics though (which is good because this place is awesome).

Yesterday's races in the NASCAR Xfinity (pretty awesome) and Truck (rather boring) Series, today's races (Xfinity and Cup) will be on tomorrow's menu I guess. Sleeping for 4-5 hours thanks to the virtual Le Mans 24h race has it's effect now  

North and South Korea setting fire to the world together, that's nice and symbolic. 

Now that's something you don't expect

Btw, I believe police in Poland, Canada and USA uses the same standard X26 series tasers. Average of 1,200 volts with a peak of 50,000 volts. So American police tasers aren't any different from being used elsewhere. So the whole "non-lethal" theory doesn't hold much ground. The death of Igor Stachowiak has been the most high-profile death in police custody in Poland in the last decade so I suggest you don't tell his family "tasers are not lethal".

Yep, and always a perfect mix of being professional and very knowledgeable and simply having an entire aura that says he's having fun and loving what he does.

If someone is at the very least a decent F1 driver, just assume they live in Monaco  You won't be right all the time, but chances are you will be  

His voice is literally the most relaxing sound on the planet. I live for his commentary. It’s always so personal and in-depth.