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There are about 30K Ukrainians in Croatia right now. Not a small number, considering we're a country of 3.8 million.

BRICS countries were never going to support sanctions. And the Russians proved incredibly creative in finding ways around them. Westerners thought locking Russia out of SWIFT was going to be the death blow. The move was considered extreme at time. Not even that worked. And who do you think...

People in the West once believed Russians would turn on Putin after being left without the McDonald's. Time to let go of that fantasy, Putin will be running Russia from his death bed. The question too few people in the West are asking is, who comes after him and what if it's hardline...

There's something like four thousand Ukrainians living in my home town right now, many of them men of military age driving around in BMW's and Jaguars. From what I hear, not a lot of them plan on going back once the war is over. Seems that mostly the privileged class managed to get out. I can...

Another history lesson from the old M51... June 1995. The war in Croatia won't be over for another two months. Croatia doesn't protest "Yugoslavia" taking part. ("Yugoslavia" in name only, really just a Serbo-Montenegrin state that'll eventually get renamed and break apart) Croatia doesn't...

Matsushima is superior to Harimoto in almost every aspect and he's still about three or four seasons away from his peak. Maybe even five. This kid is a serious contender for the 2028 Olympic gold, mark my words.

I'm honestly a bit baffled that the mods allow this thread to go on. Nothing is likely to come out of it other than bad blood among board members.

I see your point. We should definitely nuke Isengard.

The Trump regime massacred a school ful of Iranian children in broad daylight, thus I hereby demand Kanak Jha be banned from all competitions, effective immediately. Also, he's clearly boosting.

ETTU shared the titular sentiment, CAS disagreed. I, for one, am glad that Sidorenko is playing. Serbian athletes competed in the 1992 Olympics when the regime of Slobodan Milošević committed genocide all over former Yugoslavia and no one made a huge fuss over it.

Sidorenko's adaptation is impressive. Anyways, Truls is done here. The injury is obviously bothering him.

Brazil isn't a superpower any more. That 7-1 loss against Germany in 2014 cursed them.

Are those hickies on Truls' neck, lol 🤣

I disagree with Ma Long, lmao.

So do I. Getting the urge to smash your racket every five points isn't expressive play, it's emotional disbalance

Felix needs to take up meditation or something. He has no control over his nerves whatsoever.

It happens to everyone, sure. In most cases, it's a deviation, whereas with Harimoto, it's a pattern. Very much the opposite. Body language is extremely indicative of a person's mental state, and the patterns are pretty universal.

I was talking about his mental game. He blew a 10-6 lead in game 2, made a string of unforced errors and finally, pay attention to the body language and facial expressions when things aren't going his way. This part is pretty self-explanatory. Also, Vlad was taking advantage of his inability to...

When you guys talk about a player being complete or otherwise, it seems that you don't mean the same thing. A complete table tennis player for me is someone who doesn't have blatant deficiencies in technique, footwork, physical fitness, explosive strength, mental game and tactical...

He's at 70% at best. And that's not counting his mental game, which is now a far cry from what it used to be, but the Sidorenko match perfectly illustrates that he isn't quite there yet.