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According to Your Scrumhalf Connection, 40% of players at 2025 Women's Rugby World Cup were openly queer.
 
https://scrumhalfconnection.com/2025/09/02/try-for-love-the-beautifully-queer-heart-of-the-2025-rugby-world-cup/

My apologies, I've got little time to listen to music

According to Your Scrumhalf Connection, 40% of players at 2025 Women's Rugby World Cup were openly queer.
 
https://scrumhalfconnection.com/2025/09/02/try-for-love-the-beautifully-queer-heart-of-the-2025-rugby-world-cup/

Uruguay will debut as a guest country at the 2025 Bolivarian Games in Lima, Peru. It will compete in rowing (!), weightlifting, martial arts, Basque pelota and e-sports.

Uruguay will debut as a guest country at the 2025 Bolivarian Games in Lima, Peru. It will compete in rowing (!), weightlifting, martial arts, Basque pelota and e-sports.

The 2025 Charrúa Awards were for competitions held from July 2024 to June 2025.

Indeed. The Pista Oficial Darwiñ Pineyrúa in Montevideo was closed for two full years to get a new track surface.
 
All basketball club "arenas" except Biguá lack floor heating, so they can't be used when it rains. The federation currently doesn't have a training center.
 
Uruguay doesn't have a single FINA swimming pool - even though Maglione was the FINA president for decades.

The 2025 Charrúa Awards were held yesterday.
 
Golden Charrúa: Patricio Prieto (basketball) Silver Charrúa for best competitor abroad: Rodrigo Bentancur (football) Silver Charrúa for best performance abroad: Felipe Klüver (rowing) Silver Charrúa for sports achievement: Angelina Solari (swimming) Silver Charrúa for newcomers: Eugenia Brun (judo) Charrúa Energy: Julieta Mautone (shooting). AIPS Abelardo Raidi Award: Punto Penal (TV show). Quijote Award: Eduardo Rivas (journalist). Charrúa de Cristal: Fernando Morena (football) National Sports Secretary: Milton Wynants (cycling)

Indeed. The Pista Oficial Darwiñ Pineyrúa in Montevideo was closed for two full years to get a new track surface.
 
All basketball club "arenas" except Biguá lack floor heating, so they can't be used when it rains. The federation currently doesn't have a training center.
 
Uruguay doesn't have a single FINA swimming pool - even though Maglione was the FINA president for decades.

Indeed. The Pista Oficial Darwiñ Pineyrúa in Montevideo was closed for two full years to get a new track surface.
 
All basketball club "arenas" except Biguá lack floor heating, so they can't be used when it rains. The federation currently doesn't have a training center.
 
Uruguay doesn't have a single FINA swimming pool - even though Maglione was the FINA president for decades.

Uruguayan basketball is absolutely pathetic.
 
There's only two professional clubs outside Montevideo (Urupan and Lagomar). Most professional clubs don't have a proper youth team, and spend the benefactor (likely laundering) budget in paying returnees and foreign players.
 
Coaches are completely outdated.
 
All club "arenas" except Biguá lack floor heating, so they can't be used when it rains. The federation currently doesn't have a training center.
 
Ticket sales are minimal except for playoffs. The Antel Arena holds barely any matches, as rental is about US$ 40,000 per day, four times as much as the Estadio Centenario charges football clubs.
 
Worst of all, barra bravas are more violent than ever, to the point that Nacional and Peñarol ultras banned from football find a second home in basketball.

Once again, the FIba AmeriCup aired exclusively on DirecTV, which most Uruguayans don't have, including myself.

World Rugby annoucned today the new SVNS format for 2025/26:
 
https://www.svns.com/en/news/999470/world-rugby-unveils-evolved-svns-model
 
Division 1 will have just 8 teams with 6 tournaments, and Division 2 will have 6 teams with just 3 tournaments. The top 4 teams will advance to the playoffs together with the 8 Division 1 teams.
 
Division 3 will be a single tournament with 8 teams, where the two finalists will advance to Division 2.
 
The 2025 Los Angeles repechage tournament will determine which four teams will play Division 2. The other four teams will play the continental qualifiers for Division 3.
 
I love that they didn't bother to explain what the hell will happen at the end of the season, because the answer is probably the end of the SVNS. And by love I mean hate.

World Rugby annoucned today the new SVNS format for 2025/26:
 
https://www.svns.com/en/news/999470/world-rugby-unveils-evolved-svns-model
 
Division 1 will have just 8 teams with 6 tournaments, and Division 2 will have 6 teams with just 3 tournaments. The top 4 teams will advance to the playoffs together with the 8 Division 1 teams.
 
Division 3 will be a single tournament with 8 teams, where the two finalists will advance to Division 2.
 
The 2025 Los Angeles repechage tournament will determine which four teams will play Division 2. The other four teams will play the continental qualifiers for Division 3.
 
I love that they didn't bother to explain what the hell will happen at the end of the season, because the answer is probably the end of the SVNS. And by love I mean hate.

World Rugby annoucned today the new SVNS format for 2025/26:
 
https://www.svns.com/en/news/999470/world-rugby-unveils-evolved-svns-model
 
Division 1 will have just 8 teams with 6 tournaments, and Division 2 will have 6 teams with just 3 tournaments. The top 4 teams will advance to the playoffs together with the 8 Division 1 teams.
 
Division 3 will be a single tournament with 8 teams, where the two finalists will advance to Division 2.
 
The 2025 Los Angeles repechage tournament will determine which four teams will play Division 2. The other four teams will play the continental qualifiers for Division 3.
 
I love that they didn't bother to explain what the hell will happen at the end of the season, because the answer is probably the end of the SVNS. And by love I mean hate.

World Rugby annoucned today the new SVNS format for 2025/26:
 
https://www.svns.com/en/news/999470/world-rugby-unveils-evolved-svns-model
 
Division 1 will have just 8 teams with 6 tournaments, and Division 2 will have 6 teams with just 3 tournaments. The top 4 teams will advance to the playoffs together with the 8 Division 1 teams.
 
Division 3 will be a single tournament with 8 teams, where the two finalists will advance to Division 2.
 
The 2025 Los Angeles repechage tournament will determine which four teams will play Division 2. The other four teams will play the continental qualifiers for Division 3.
 
I love that they didn't bother to explain what the hell will happen at the end of the season, because the answer is probably the end of the SVNS. And by love I mean hate.

I'm afraid I have little time to vote.

I'm afraid I have little time to vote.

That is real ROFL )))))
 
Russia has a "Friendship cup" in Perm these days.
 
They announced 4 team: 3 national teams - russia, Venezuela, Colombia and "Parma" (local basketball club).
Propaganda described it as an international tournament to show that russian sport is not totally blocked.
Kirilenko was happy to see national teeams from South America.
 
And...
 
"Parma" won the first quarter against Colombia  - 41:2
Total score - 155:53.
 
And... Colombian basketball federation stated that they did not send national team there )))
Furthermore - they even  did not receive invitation ))))
 
P.S. It looks like none of that players played for Colombia ever ))
 
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1009761744137084&set=a.609250904188172

And here you have a quick summary of rugby rules if you needed to explain it to your non-sport-fans-friends before Saturday's finals;)
 
 

Carlos Alcaraz found the Dutch hockey ladies and is.....busy  
 
 

Try button at the bottom right of the screen. It allows to switch language of commentary if available on Max

And that’ll do it!
 
 WIN THE COPA AMERICA!!! 

But as the old Irish saying goes, we must live in hope, should we die in despair.
 
We never win a large number of medals - our sporting landscape historically has been almost anti-Olympic - horseracing, GAA, pre-Olympic golf, Men's soccer, Rugby (15s), and the one or two times we did well, Our swimmer ended up pissing pure Jamesons, and our horse was a junkie. We had the odd excellent boxer, it's true, and a history in middle distance athletics that had seemed to be just that, history.
 
And we were understandbly uncomfortable with the pretty benign but still there jingoism of our big and frankly rather successful Olympic neighbour (hell, I'm part of that too with my odd split Olympic loyalties). It's easy to love the Olympics when you're good at 'em
 
Suddenly, on a much smaller (obviously) scale, with some basic state funding along the GB model, we've discovered we can do some of this stuff. We can row a rowboat, we can sail a sailboat, we can paddle a ... paddleboat, so long as its downhill, we can swing around a horse as well as ride them, we're no' bad at the oul 7's, or with a hockey stick (give some of our lads a hurling stick and watch the mayhem!), we're still good at punching people, our girls even more so than our boys (like we didn't secretly know that for decades!), but we have a lad who is not bad at kicking them too, and we've found a number of good swimmers, none of whom so far are burning the arse out of the test tubes they have to pee in.
 
It's wonderful, and some of them are going to break our hearts, and we need to embrace that.
 
We must live in hope, should we die in despair.

Oh we want the gossip now