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Post by flatandy on Feb 10, 2022 12:12:34 GMT
It’s the IOC’s own fault. Finding a way to not kick them out when it was already agreed by all the authorities that they deserved to be kicked out, and were in theory kicked out. You know they’re going to pretend that it’s a one off individual acting on her own…
Also, I can’t be the only one bothered by the ROC acronym. I keep thinking that it’s “Republic of China” even though the PRC are clearly not going to allow that to happen.
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Post by voice on Feb 11, 2022 15:51:33 GMT
On my drive in this morning the DJ was quite funny, he said 'something's gone wrong with the Canadians women's hockey team, its been over 6 minuets since they scored" (9-nil at that point)
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Post by voice on Feb 11, 2022 17:55:31 GMT
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Post by flatandy on Feb 11, 2022 20:33:31 GMT
The Russians shouldn’t be competing at all. The fact that they are doping a 15 year old and then not reporting their test results reinforces that. I feel sorry for the girl who clearly has little agency in what happens to her. But none for the Russian authorities who should get kicked out.
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Post by voice on Feb 11, 2022 21:15:04 GMT
agreed, she's just doing her thing, the ones drugging her are the problem. We've known their entire system is corrupt for years yet the IOC have still fudged it so the Ruskies can be there.
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Post by jimboky on Feb 12, 2022 15:08:05 GMT
can't bring myself to watch these China games, hear it is hell on earth for the athletes there, why we would send them into that hellhole is beyond me
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Post by Repat Van on Feb 12, 2022 15:09:05 GMT
can't bring myself to watch these China games, hear it is hell on earth for the athletes there, why we would send them into that hellhole is beyond me What’s hell on earth about it? Also you know the athletes choose to go right? |
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Post by Repat Van on Feb 12, 2022 15:10:28 GMT
Don't watch it. Not interested in it. Don't like China. Don't like fake snow. It's all sh*t. Bah. China (well, Beijing, is awesome). But yeah I cannot get into the winter games. They’re all rather dull. |
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Post by Repat Van on Feb 12, 2022 15:11:04 GMT
i imagine mogul skiing training over the years would destroy the knees later on in life. probably lots of knee surgeries. BIG womens hockey match tonight. #1 vs #2 When I see joggers, 30 yrs to maybe 50, all I see are knee replacement surgeries in their future, especially when they jog on pavement. And then the ones who jog in a city - breathing in all that pollution deep into their lungs, cancer might be next for them, too. Depends how much you do it. It’s definitely better than being sedentary. And many people have no option but to jog on pavements. |
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Post by jimboky on Feb 12, 2022 15:48:43 GMT
if the goal is health than I believe the best choice is to walk a mile of two every day, or maybe every other day, swimming? but I do agree jogging is better choice then nothing at all
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Post by voice on Feb 14, 2022 6:32:47 GMT
So, the druggie Russian is being allowed to stay an perform at the figure skating. apparently cos shes 15 and there are 'special considerations'
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Post by flatandy on Feb 14, 2022 12:48:15 GMT
It’s odd. It would probably be unfair on her to ban her, but it would be reasonable to ban the entire ROC team. Particularly as one of the reasons she’s allowed to compete is because of the irregular reporting of the test result, which is another responsibility of the Russian authorities. Basically, she was drugged by her coaches, and then her governing authority cheated the notification system, and as a result she’s got off free. I feel 95% sure she is not the responsible party here, but if you’re going to try and ban a country for drug cheating making exceptions to allow them to compete and making extra exceptions to allow their known doped athletes to compete is a double farce which basically says “there are no penalties if you’re a Russian who’s doping”.
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Post by Psalms on Feb 15, 2022 14:44:30 GMT
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Post by Minge är en jävla besserwisser on Feb 15, 2022 20:09:52 GMT
So, the druggie Russian is being allowed to stay an perform at the figure skating. apparently cos shes 15 and there are 'special considerations'
Speaking after the daily media briefing in Beijing, International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Denis Oswald confirmed the 15-year-old Russian’s explanation for her positive test for the banned angina drug trimetazidine was “contamination which happened with a product her grandfather was taking”.[
right up there with too many avocados and too much sex the night before.
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Post by voice on Feb 15, 2022 21:47:48 GMT
Yeah, no one's buying that bs excuse.
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Post by perrykneeham on Feb 19, 2022 10:00:12 GMT
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Post by perrykneeham on Feb 19, 2022 10:05:56 GMT
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Post by flatandy on Feb 19, 2022 10:39:03 GMT
I remember when a single British medal at a winter games was considered a complete miracle and the winners were lauded for decades. We’ve become a bit blasé about our success at slipping recently, when we shouldn’t be considering how unslippy most of Britain is most of the time. If there were competitions specifically designed for sports to be played on damp, mossy surfaces we’d be incredible naturals at them.
So well done to our curlers. I only watched about the stone-slides all tournament, and the most interesting thing was how astonishingly pale the British curlers are, like they’d literally never seen the outside world let alone sunlight.
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Post by flatandy on Feb 19, 2022 10:39:31 GMT
As for Ujah, I am shocked to discover that Olympic medal winning sprinters are trying to cheat. Shocked.
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