Nordic combined is a winter sport in which athletes compete in cross-country skiing and ski jumping.
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Many Nordic combined competitions use the Gundersen method, where placement in the ski jumping segment results in time (dis)advantages added to the contestant's total in the cross-country skiing segment
The IOC justified its decision with stark statistics. In a statement, it revealed: "Across most of the popularity indicators, Nordic combined ranked lowest among all Olympic Winter Games disciplines at Sochi 2014, PyeongChang 2018, Beijing 2022 and Milano Cortina 2026."
The committee further elaborated that at the most recent Winter Games, it was "the lowest-ranked discipline in 11 of the 14 popularity indicators assessed,"
IOC and FIFA are the same picture
I should note that though they say works begin Monday, they have in face fenced the whole park off and removed its access to the public, but they don't even have a design yet. This is a purely symbolic political move to say "screw you" to the environmental protestors, anti-Olympics protestors, and those who just want the government to stick to their original plan of No New Stadiums.
The swimmers are 100% AI. They could have stylized it after the fact manually.
Oh good point. I didn't notice it before.
I would lean towards human, because it's clearly stylised and not meant to be a photo. But it also certainly could possibly be AI.
Unusual swimming form in the thumbnail. AI?
I love Pinoe, I loved her with the Reign, I love how outspoken she is, and I love that she and her wife are using their platform for good:
“What we’re doing is subjecting everybody, all women and all people who are identifying as women, to this really invasive testing that only to me just says like, oh, so we’re just trying to whittle it down to a certain type of woman,” Rapinoe said.
It's certainly disrespectful:
“For you as a woman, why will you be tested to prove that you fit?” Semenya said, calling the new screening “a disrespect.”
“You know, it’s like now we need to prove that we are worthy as women to take part in sports,” she continued.
Seem like a good weekend to be in SoCal:
San Diego and LA will the split the women’s semifinals on Tuesday, July 25th, with San Diego hosting the bronze medal match on Friday, July 28th, before the gold medal final takes over the Rose Bowl on Saturday, July 29th — the 2028 Summer Games’ penultimate day of competition.
What is [Olympic hockey] about exactly? It's about defending your country's values. For Canada, it's Freedom, Equality, Diversity.
Maybe it should have been about keeping the puck out of their net. It's beyond me why you keep trying to drag the conversation back to your soapboxing about shit that is not in any way related to your contention that Canada lost due to luck. That's the only discussion that's actually going to happen, anything outside of that will just be you shrieking into the void.
So what's supportable about "luck" being the reason Canada choked on their power play and repeatedly allowed more goals on fewer shots?
!remind me - 276 years
Yeah, let's bring this back to Olympic hockey.
What is it about exactly?
It's about defending your country's values.
For Canada, it's Freedom, Equality, Diversity.
For the US it's: Freedom - to rape kids, start wars for Israel, bully everyone, and eat fast food (boys only, sorry stupid girls)
Equality - 99% of your population is poor and stupid, while only 1% is rich and stupid.
Diversity - You have all sorts of white men, nazis, fascists, kkk, misogynists, average undereducated racists, etc.
But what do I know, I'm just your average University teacher who didn't even had to pay for is PHD in sound spatiliazation, speaks 3 language, and who's work has been presented around the world. Meanwhile, you're a uni-lingual white AMERICAN!
Please remind me about that 5 on 3 powerplay and ignore everything else. And CONGRATULATION for winning a single hockey game. Indeed it was the only game in the history of hockey that ever mattered.
You forgot to use your sockpuppet.
I don't want congratulations (I didn't really read anything after the first couple lines of that), I want to understand why you think luck is the reason the win happened. If you go back and look at the 5-3 power play Canada got, there is a consistent pattern of failure to execute. That's not luck. The US played better defense and the goaltending was superior. An instance of superior performance is about as far from luck as it gets.
The only context that exists in this discussion is that hockey game. Nothing else, at all. Why do you think the course of that one game was luck? It wasn't.
Yo, keep up the wining! At this pace ( 1 gold medal every 46 years), and considering the fact that Canada wont ever win gold again, the USA will surpass Canada in 276 years! Can't wait to see what Barron Trump jr jr will serve to your players and their 12 years old spouses.
There you go:
Congratulation for wining a single hockey game. Congratulation for wining a single hockey game. Congratulation for wining a single hockey game. Congratulation for wining a single hockey game.
Americans are the best at hockey in the entire universe. Everyone saw it. You president has the biggest dick a human ever had, you should go suck it. Please invite our hockey players to eat fast food with pedophiles. And fuck those stupid disgusting women. Canada sucks, please invade us so can reduce our life expectancy by a couple of years, become racist, and vote for nazi-pedophile. Please don't address anything else other than "we won one hockey game", let's make meme about it while our president fucks children. And keep acting EXACTLY like him.
Why don't you just contain yourself to responding to the actual topic here instead of also addressing the voices in your head?
Luck is when you win a single game, knowing that in 4 of 7 or even a 2 of 3, your team would be crushed. Your goalie can't always save you team by overperforming.
Confirmed that you don't know puck
Luck is when you win a single game, knowing that in 4 of 7 or even a 2 of 3, your team would be crushed. Your goalie can't always save you team by overperforming.
Arrogance is when your country is filled with low-iq pedo-nazis and you go around telling the world how great it is.
Is the fact that we are better at hockey than you the reason your country want to invade mine? Or is it because you want to make gun violence the leading cause of death for children here too?
Anyway, for the third time, CONGRATULATION for winning a single hockey game. Please remind me that Canada didn't score on the powerplay and keep master-trolling, just like your president who shit on all of you losers with his crown. And keep looking, I'm sure you can find at least one or two persons outside the US that will agree your team deserved the win.
So this makes team USA's win lucky, instead of the product of better defense and Canada choking on power play?
Just quoting Wikipedia:
In 2017, Russia was suspended from competing at the Olympic Games due to the state-sponsored doping scandal.
I dont see the logic behind banning whole country except for politics, that too around the same time they started a war.
Russia at least was originally banned not for political reasons, but because of systemic cheating among their athletes. I saw someone say that that's changed and the reason the ban continues is politics. I'm not sure. But if it was entirely about the doping, I would think that the IOC has a reasonable stance.
But broadcasters can and absolutely should do more things like this video. Use the Olympics as an opportunity to humiliate countries and athletes like Israel and their bobsledder for their involvement in war crimes including genocide.
Either they should ban israel and america from olympics and fifa or they should apologize to russian atheletes. Absolutely shameful double standards
Sure, let me help you.
This as to do with americans thinking they are better than everyone else at everything, not being able to stfu about it, while being the biggest threat ever to very survival of human species. Example: winning a single game of hockey, against a country 15% of their population that have always dominated them, and deducing they are therefor the best hockey nation ever and it's ok the disrespect the other nation and threaten annexation. Think what you want of pedo-trump, he is the most american thing ever. The sum of decades of under-education and human exploitation. Hope that helps.