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You're an absolute troll - I don't understand how you are not banned. Suck the air out of every room. Nauseating.

He‘s too busy staging a pretext for invading Ukraine. Fencing 1976 has to wait in line.

Something tells me I have seen such a person before. Who might that have been? A true enigma of the mystery...

Trouble in paradise... ‘Tremendous coldness’: IOC president condemns Kamila Valieva’s entourage https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/feb/18/tremendous-coldness-ioc-president-slams-kamila-valievas-entourage-over-skaters-treatment Russian Deputy Prime Minister claims Bach comments on Valieva "inappropriate and wrong" https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1119453/chernyshenko-criticises-bach-valieva

I have split this into a separate thread. The previous thread referred specifically to the GamesBids.com main site and not the forums. GamesBids.com Forums cannot be compared directly to Skyscrapercity.com or Totallympics.com because one is a company "With over 800 forum communities, VerticalScope provides the technology that powers the community. Our team of volunteer moderators and administrators watch over the content, and actively patrol for spam, user behavioural issues, and make sure threads are in the right categories" and the other is a site more dedicated and integrated with the forums. Unfortunately, we do not have the resources to extensively moderate a full-featured forum and have disabled some features for very specific security and liability reasons. As some of you may know/remember, there have been times in the past where the forums were subpoenaed for information in civil and criminal lawsuits - and restrictions on some of the services you mentioned help reduce the risk and costs in the future (though it may not seem obvious). For over 20 years we have offered this service, mostly without charge. This forum is not for profit but as a service to support users of our main website. We will consider a couple of your minor suggestions, but we can't consider them all. Thanks for your interest and continued support.

As opposed to not extinguishing a self-inflamed Tibetan protester? Would make the full circle to 2008, I suppose.

Putin's probably going to have to give Bach a ole' fashion spanking, for being a disobedient bad boy all of the sudden, & talking back to the master.

I saw Bach’s comments yesterday. That’s about as stern I’ve ever seen an IOC president be at a games. I’d like to think he was turning a bit, but ….. it’s still Bach

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Herald sun journalism is not journalism at all. It is a Lib spin

Making fun of disabilities and mental health is so not ok. Shame on you!!!!!

Thanks for your commentaries @Karenina i don’t claim to be anything but a once every four years viewer of figure skating, but always look forward to it (and had been looking forward to see Valieva before it all went pear shaped). Appreciate your insight.

There’s lots of threads on individual mascots over the years, you can look for them in the respective forums for them. Or there’s this one, which is more general: Or alternatively, you could start your own, perhaps in general olympics discussions. I’m sure people would love to see them.

That’s your opinion to which you are entitled. In the end, opinions are not evidence.

Worlds will be in Montpellier. Torino is host to the Grand Prix Final next season. I seriously doubt we will see Kamila there. She has already been discarded by Eteri & Co, given the way they treated her post-skate. I don't know what you saw, from the post-competition footage but, Valieva looked absolutely devastated. There was no joy or happiness. The woman talking to her after she was deserted by Eteri, Sergei Dudakov (technical coach for Team Tutberidze) and Danny G (their crap choreographer) was a Channel 1 producer or production assistant. They didn't even stick with her to console her once she was off the podium, and they've already gotten grandpa to take the fall for the TMZ in her system, even though they're going to demand the B sample be tested because they don't believe that it was really in her system. FWIW (not much), Bach in his press conference today called the treatment of Valieva by her entourage "chilling". And that's exactly what it was. The problem with Valieva (and Shcherbakova and Trusova and most of the other skaters at Sambo-70) is that they have pretty shoddy jump technique that isn't being properly dinged by the judging system currently, and the technique they're using relies on remaining as light and small as possible. Raising the age minimum will help, but fixing the way the tech panels call rotation on jumps would also de-incentivize the shoddy technique that relies on abusive practices to keep these girls as tiny as possible for as long as possible. I have no idea whether or not we'll see Valieva again on the international competitive stage. She is talented as heck but after today... One has to wonder if she'll ever be the same competitor she was before the past 3 days.

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Thnaks for your concern, but I’m fine.

That’s your opinion to which you are entitled. In the end, opinions are not evidence.

What you're calling "Cirque du Soleil" has a different, simpler name: Theatre. That's been around for a long time stretching back to Ancient Greece and even before that. Artists have been doing all these things you call "Cirque du Soleil" for a very long time before actual Cirque du Soleil formed. You may not associate art with the Olympic Games, but art and sport have always been intertwined. Every Olympic Games has a vast cultural program, including music, fine art, graphic design, performance, sculpture, architecture, and more. The Ceremonies involve theatrical rituals, and the modern large-scale Ceremony format goes back to 1980, 4 years before Cirque du Soleil formed. This isn't just a modern thing, the Ancient Olympic Games were a place that artists of all practices came together to display their work. If the Olympic Games were simply about athletes, they'd be called "World Championships" and the symbol might be, say, a bar-bell or something. But the Olympics are more than that, hence why the symbol is not of a barbell, but of 5 rings interlocking. You're linking to the producers which is a different crew, different job than who leads the creative direction: in Athens' case, Dimitris Papaioannou, a Greek theatre director. You can see some of his other work here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rK-PLdnQZg&ab_channel=DanceUmbrella There were an enormous number of Greek artists and performers involved in the production, from the creative team building the high-level ideas, to the people creating and directing the props, costumes, choreography, music, and so on. So your linking that, to say that the production was not really Greek, is like saying "Stephen King didn't write this book. His keyboard did!" You're very quick to say that this is wrong and that is wrong and you don't like it; yet you seem to lack basic understanding of what it is you're criticizing and why it is the way it is.

That’s your opinion to which you are entitled. In the end, opinions are not evidence.

Look in the general off-topic discussions forums

The Team Event, of all things, it´s the least problematic of the bunch, i can assure you. The real damage was done with this whole debacle, independent of the Team Event even if it´s related to it.

What's that supposed to mean?

Let‘s be honest here: I fully understand why many Scots want independence, but a freshly independent Scotland would hardly be able to host Olympics on its own without the economic/political support of the UK as a whole. So if there‘s ever a Glasburgh bid, it can only happen while Scotland (still) is part of the UK.

Note to other premiums - make sure you burn all the evidence in the secret meeting hall if this clown ever makes it in

GB Mods, please create a new folder for LA 2028. Thanks.

@AustralianFan they will not stop until you leave the site. Sorry this is happening to you mate.

@AustralianFan nothing will change. What a load of old wank.