Olympian1010

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. 

I believe he made his 'debut' in one of the IndyCar virtual races - one later than planned, because his rig wasn't delivered yet in time for the race in which he had planned to make his debut  

Ah, Verstappen's famous Dutch internet while living in Monaco  

One would think Tracy Krohn got behind the wheel for a minute there.

Literally disconnected and crashed into a wall the minute after I posted this 

If you love watching live rocket launch, astronaut spacewalk....
 
https://www.youtube.com/spaceofficial
 
Website

All of this seems perfectly normal.
 

Drivers joining in couldn’t see the other cars on track, and as you can imagine, that is a slight issue 

So you need the strength training  
 
Yay nature  

Great, they broke the game.

I have a running belt with 2 bottles and am considering running with a third one in my hand that I can throw away when I'm done with it.

That sounds better than the 25 degrees but terribly humid of today. My warmup was 3.5km, the first 2.5km of which was in a very easy pace, with a low heart rate, plenty of times I barely break a sweat when running in that relaxed pace (roughly 6:40/km)....now sweat was just pouring down my head non-stop. At least for shorter distances this weather isn't so bad for the muscles.

For some reason he is always ill when the Tour visits Bosnia.