Het grote Steun-een-exotisch-wintersportland-topic #1

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Op dinsdag 9 januari 2018 15:32 schreef Dwersdriever het volgende:

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Dan claim ik ze ☺

Hup Democratische Volksrepubliek. Op naar de derde medaille ooit. En fijn dat we er weer bij zijn.

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North Korea missed a deadline in late October to officially enter its pairs team into the Olympics. And it does not yet appear to have made such a request, Alexander Lakernik, a Russian who is vice president of the International Skating Union, said in a telephone interview on Tuesday.

But adding the North Koreans to the Olympic pairs competition would be a simple procedure. And the I.O.C. has said it would keep the doors open to North Korea’s participation for as long as possible. The Olympic committee has also broached the idea of offering North Korea wild-card entries in some Nordic skiing sports and short-track speedskating.

Discussions have been underway about the pairs team, Mr. Lakernik said, and given the special circumstances, “there could be an exception made; but first we need an application.”

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I raced through 5 countries in the last 24hrs to try and get to my race in Croatia. I sat in a taxi for 6 hrs driving through Armenia into Georgia in the middle of the night.
I sat on the front seat of the @turkishairlines plane, sprinted through the airport and snuck through the business class fast transit lane and somehow managed to arrive at the gate 15 min before departure for my flight to Croatia. Once there I found that @turkishairlines had shut the gate early even after their delayed initial flight from Georgia, leaving me stranded. After remembering a scene from a James Bond movie, I pressed all the buttons on the aerobridge door to see if I could somehow open it and sprint down to the connecting flight, unfortunately that didn’t work, and luckily I didn’t get arrested. So here I am sitting at Istanbul airport missing the race that could have possibly gotten me to the Olympics.
It was always going to be a long shot but I had to give it a shot and I did.
Soo many times in life we will get disappointed. When this happens I have two options. I can sit on that chair crying about what could have been and how unfair life is.... or I can go and find some good quality chocolate, pull out my notepad and start planning “what’s next”— I always did like chocolate...

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Op maandag 15 januari 2018 21:16 schreef Arth_NL het volgende:
De Nederlandse aandacht te spijt, Pita Taufatofua - en daarmee Tonga - gaat niet naar de Olympische Spelen.
Reden: Pita heeft zijn vlucht naar de laatste kwalificatiemogelijkheid gemist.

Lees hieronder het verslag van onze held zelf:

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https://www.instagram.com(...)&taken-by=pita_tofua

Rest ons alleen nog een stukje chocolade te eten ter nagedachtenis van de Tongaanse Olympische winterspelendroom.

Gelukkig hebben we de foto's nog.
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Op dinsdag 16 januari 2018 13:50 schreef heywoodu het volgende:

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Deze week ja, hopelijk gaat hij naar Turkije.

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So here I am sitting at Istanbul airport missing the race that could have possibly gotten me to the Olympics.

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Atleten en officials uit Zuid-Korea en Noord-Korea doen onder één vlag mee aan de openingsceremonie van de Olympische Spelen op vrijdag 9 februari. Daarnaast bestaat het vrouwenijshockeyteam uit speelsters van beide landen. Dat is besloten tijdens gesprekken tussen de twee landen, staat in een gezamenlijke verklaring.

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Op zaterdag 20 januari 2018 12:41 schreef heywoodu het volgende:

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Dit zag niemand aankomen, Klaus gaat de Ecuadoriaanse vlag dragen
https://www.pichinchauniversal.com.ec/?p=13728

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SInow twitterde op zaterdag 20-01-2018 om 17:30:09 Pita Taufatofua—the guy you probably know for carrying Tonga’s flag at the Rio Olympics while shirtless and dripping with coconut oil—qualified Saturday for the Winter Olympics as a cross-country skier on.si.com/2FYE1Ug reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 20 januari 2018 18:49 schreef hole1988 het volgende:

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SInow twitterde op zaterdag 20-01-2018 om 17:30:09 Pita Taufatofua—the guy you probably know for carrying Tonga’s flag at the Rio Olympics while shirtless and dripping with coconut oil—qualified Saturday for the Winter Olympics as a cross-country skier on.si.com/2FYE1Ug [ link | afbeelding ] reageer retweet