Didn't watched any of Conference league games today - it would be difficult to pick to watch it when there is some big games in Europa league. Seems that Fenerbahche - Slavia game was fun. It's big step for Slavia to win this game. After all, it's my most beloved underdog team in Europe  . I just have no idea how I missed to make over 2.5 bet on this game. I think I said that upset is possible in Celtic - Bodo/Glimt game and it happened, despite that it was first official game for Bodo after winter break. In other games everything ended without big surprises. @Joca97, congrats, winning away game in Europe is always big deal, even without away goal rule. |
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It's disappointing result not to beat Napoli, especially when we had so many wasted moments to score. It will be tough for us in second leg, considering how Barca struggle in away games in Europe.
What happened to Borussia? I wasn't able to watch game, but they had no chance agianst Rangers, who aren't performing anything special.
Sheriff continue to big upsets, I don't even know what to say about it.
Zenit loss gainst Betis - it was visible that Zenit aren't in rhytm after winter break, while Betis looked solid.
Atalanta conceded first, but in second half they dominated an won game.
Leipzig - Real Sociedad. Leipzig were much more aggressive, but they didn't managed to win, despite that they had many dangerous moments.
Sevilla and Porto wins was somwewhat expected.
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few interesting matches today in Conference league
for me, Partizan is playing with Sparta, solid chances to pass-through, but we had a long winter break, and just played first match on the weekend, will be tough to qualify for next round
Fenerbahce should win over Slavia, and PSV is in good form to win over Maccabi, but they have a lot of possible missing players, and odds are really low
I think that chances for both teams in Sparta - Partizan is somewhat 50/50. No way that I would bet on Partizan on away game. Fenerbahche - Slavia is most interesting pair for me. I would like to see Slavia reaching round. I have no doubts about PSV today, but odds isn't worth to bet. Celtic - Bodo/Glimt might be interesting, but Bodo is another team which comes out of winter break. |
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I'm not sure how seriously you can ask question whether you're fan of vaccine passports or no. We can argue whether it's needed measure or not, but I doubt that people with common sense will say that he is fan of vaccine passport. Vaccine passport had divided our society so much like no other thing. Even pizza with pineapple isn't such contraversial question. As much as I don't like covid passports, it made sense to have it previously. But now when we have omicron, I think that such passports is pointless. I'm happy that my country followed UK and some other countries example and stopped vaccine passports. Next step - it's time to finally get rid of masks, social distancing and similar stuff. Who would have thought that this one virus could freeze the whole world?
The antidote is discovered after the coronavirus infection. It is mandatory for everyone to take this antidote. And the vaccine passport is a certificate of whether you are virus-free with two doses of the vaccine.
Personally, I like this concept. Because if you want to be safe, you must get vaccinated. And what is the proof that I have received the vaccine? The lockdown is weakening, the school and college are opening, and if anyone goes out without a vaccine, he or she will infect themselves and everyone around them. This vaccine passport is a safe haven to roam-free. Because if everyone gets vaccinated and everyone has a certificate, then there is no chance of spreading corona.
Sorry, but it's nonsense. Vaccinated people still get infected and they also spread virus. Vaccinated people die too. With vaccine it's likely that you will have less serious symptoms, but nobody never said that vaccines gives 100% protection. I got infected having 2 jabs of vaccine. How you would explain such big number of covid cases where 85%-90% of population is vaccinated. @coolcoinz gave example from specific country, you can check it out. |
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agree, Atletico play tonight was really something to forget
it is good that bookies gave so small odds, and I skipped them on my betting (somehow did not expected goals from Levante, and over2.5 was to risky), anyway, Atletico seemed to be good enough for top three, but there will be fight now, could Betis see CL on Barca or Atletico expense?
Atletico looks awful now, but still, I didn't saw them losing against Levante - worst team in the league with just 1 win until now. And yeah, I went with 2.5 over - I was confident about Atleti win, but I had in mind their problems in defense, so, expected to see Levante goal. I think that Betis capable to stay in Champions league spot. I f Atletico isn't going to improve soon, they're moving straight to Europa league spot. But I still don't write-off them yet. Just maybe 2 months agao it looked that Barca will be far from CL spot, but things changed a bit. Same can happen with Atletico. |
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I'm biased about Barca, but I think that playing at home against Napoli we are favorites. Game against Aletico showed that Barca is capable to play good football against solid opponents.
Borussia - Rangers sounds good on paper, but Dortmund is heavy favorites, Rangers looks disppointing after Steve G. left team.
Sheriff - Braga. In Champions league Sheriff made some noise, but I see good value in Braga win. For Sheriff it will be just first official game after winter break, so, they will be far from their best condition.
Zenit also comes out from winter break, but I'm not backing Betis. Zenit will play at home and friendly games Zenit had good results against solid opponents.
Porto - Lazio. Good odds for Porto. They dominate in domestic league, while Lazio looks a bit disappointing. While Olympiacos looks a bit too much underrated against Atalanta. Atalanta have really poor performance recently.
Sevilla is big favorites against Dinamo Zagreb, despite that it's not best period for them. But Dinamo is capable to make surprise.
And Leipzig - Real Sociedad, I'm backing Leipzig, Sociedad isn't as good as they were in first part of season.
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Hey, guys, where are you? Olympics isn't over yet. Time to summarize what happned today.
In hockey, Slovakia made biggest surprise by beating USA. In 3rd period with less than 1 minute remaining they made score 2:2, send game to overtime and then to penalties. It was enough for them to score one penalty to win game. Russia had unexpected difficult game against Denmakr, butthey won it 3:1. Finland had no problems against Switzerland and won 5:1. 2 of their goals were scored to empty net. Sweden in very nervous game managed to beat Canada 2:0. So, we have all-European semifinals between Finalnd - Slovakia and Russia - Sweden.
Tomorrow there is women hockey final between main powerhouses USA and Canada.
Speed skating legen from Nentherlands Ireen Wust won her 13th her medal in winter Olympics and reached Ole Einar Bjoerndalen by total number of medals.
In women biathlon relay, Sweden won first ever golden medal, Russia were 2nd, Germany 3rd. Favorites Norway were just 4th after Tiril Eckhoff had disaster in shooting.
In skiing classic team sprint gold was surprisingly taken by Germany women team, while in men competition Norway dominate again.
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Inter - Liverpool was really good game, 0:2 LFC win is a bit too much IMO and don't full reflect game. Though, I have to admit that Inter looked a bit dull in final 20 minutes when Liverpool scored their goals. Very serious statement from Liverpool for the next round. It's a bit pity that Bayern fianlly scored in the end. Salzburg win would make things a bit more interesting in second leg. I'm really impressed about Salzburg performance today. But still, I don't see much chances for Salzburg in 2nd leg. Bayern sadly scored 1 goal was good for everyone if they were out (potentially) from the CL.
Do you think that 1:1 or 1:0 is big difference for Bayern and minimal lose against Salzburg is real threat to be eliminated? |
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I think there is not many questions about Bayern win today. Maybe we won't see such big score like in Sporting - City game yesterday, but I expect comfortable Bayern win and I see good value in over 3.5 goals @1.85. It's also likely hat Salzburg may respond with a goal.
Inter - Liverpool it's more difficult to decide. LFC is slightly favoured by bookmakers, but I think it's possible that they won't risk much in away game and will try to move things to second leg in Anfield.
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So many interesting things happened today. In hockey tournament Denmark wn against Latvia 3:2 after very good fight, Slovakia unexpected easy - 4:0 beat recent vice-champions Germany. Switzerland win against Czech Republic is another surprise. While Canada had easy life against China. Though, scoring 2 goals for China is good achievement. 1/4 finals already tomorrow - it's USA - Slovakia, Russia - Denmark, Finland - Switzerland and Sweden - Canada which is most interesting pair. Jarl Magnus Riiber threw away golden medal in Nordic combined by simply going wrong way: https://www.eurosport.com/nordic-combined/beijing-2022/2022/he-s-missed-shock-as-jarl-magnus-riiber-goes-wrong-way-to-throw-away-gold-at-beijing-winter-olympics_vid1633865/video.shtmlEduard Latypov in biathlon relay had almost 1 minute lead before last shooting, but then he missed 5 (!!!) times and earned 2 penalty laps. Russian team finished just 3rd aftert that when they already had gold in their hands. Another gold by Norway, silver goes to France. Kamila Valieva won gold in short program, despite doping scandal. In men bobsleigh all 3 medals were taken by athletes from Germany. How unexpected  . in women ski slopestyle Kelly Sildaru of Estonia took home bronze, first medal for her country in this Olympics. Mathilde Gremaud from Switzerland won gold. |
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After all, thanks to Mbappe goal, This game had logical outcome. PSG pushed really hard and deserved to score, while Real just tried to save 0:0 result and try to decide everything at home. And don't know how about others, but when I saw Messi going to make penalty, I had feeling that he will miss it and I was quite confident about. Mbappe had to make it, especially because he earned that penalty.
Sporting 0:5 City. Usually you don't expect such big wins in UCL playoffs. City were big favorites, but I didn't expected 5 goals. Congrats City for reaching next round.
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This forum is starting to lose credibility. My posts were also suddenly deleted, while the quality was just good. What complete nonsense. The only reason my posts have been removed is because I'm participating in the 1xbit campaign. The mods of the forum are breaking their own rules!
C'mon, can you show few examples of your deleted posts? I want to see your ''high quality'' posts because I don't believe that mods would delete posts just because you're in specific campaign. You just trying to look like a victim. It's easy to click the "ignore" button.
It's easy to click ignore button, but it's not solution. If you see shity posts, better report it. And it doesn't matter whether it was made by 1xbit participant or someone else. As someone who is active in the gambling boards and have a few threads there that I maintain, I can safely say that the worst kind of posts I see are those made by 1xBit participants. It's not just the fact that some of them can't write a single grammatically correct sentence, but some posts literally make no sense. And 9 out of 10 times when I come across those, there is a 1xBit signature underneath. It's hard for me to say if all of them are serial spammers, but the majority is.
Agree about their posts in gambling board. Often it's visible that they simply have no idea what about they're talking and they post there to reach their post quota in gambling boards. |
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Finally I found time to make my vote. Actually I know very few women here, so to make my vote I went through several pages of voting thread. I was a bit surprised to realize that some of users are women, I had no idea about it . 1. Absolute Hero of Good: satoshi, theymos, 2. Golden Feather: The Pharmacist 3. Bitcointalk Ninja: TryNinja, LoyceV 4. Bitcoin Geek: philipma1957, DdmrDdmr, o_e_l_e_o 5. Event of the Year: Bitcointalkshow, EZ0010 returning theymos wrongly sent Bitcoin 6. Fail of the Year: NFT's, Shiba Inu 7. Discovery of the Year: n0nce, BlackHatCoiner 8. Best SpamBuster: Ratimov, GazetaBitcoin, TheBeardedBaby 9. Best ScamBuster: lovesmayfamilis, YOSHIE 10. Craft Master: Hhampuz 11. Antihero: BADecker, 1xbit, Tash 12. Miss Bitcointalk: suchmoon 13. Best Moderator: hilariosuandco, xandry, mprep |
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Today there was first 2 heats of men bobsleigh. In 1st and 2nd places Germany already hgave solid lead. But finally we saw Jamaica bobsleigh team. They reached finish, but just after 2 heats they're already 4.20 seconds behind leaders. On the other hand, they're just 0.11 seconds behind another exotic country - Brazil, so they have chance not to finish last. Tomorrow hockey playoffs will begin, we have Latvia - Denmark, Slovakia - Germany, Czech Republic - Switzerland and China - Canada. Slovakia - Germany looks msot difficult to predict, other pairs have obvious favorites. Also, there is biathlon relay event for men and nordic combined competition. Kaillie Humphries won the first-ever gold at the Olympics in the monobob.
Interesting stuff about her - until 2020 she represented Canada and won several medals, including gold. But now she is citizen of USA and now successfully represents her new country. What is interesting, that unlike luge, skeleton or most of bobsleigh events where Germany dominate, in women monobob USA and Canada were best. |
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Even without looking deep into Alpha Tauri car, it looks obvious that's just demo car. If we talk just about livery, previous season it looked better for me. Aston Martin looks closest to car which we will see on track. What I noticed is shape of their front wing, it looks interesting and it's quite high. F1 news.
For the following year, we will have 3 sprint races and they will be Imola Austria and Brazil.
We will also have some changes, points will be assigned to the top 8 and not only to the top 3, and who will make the pole position for the statistical purpose will be given on Friday and not to the winner of the sprint race.
Interesting news about sprint. Seems that sprint racewill have more importance. Also, F1 changed point rules after last year disaster in Spa. Now at least 2 laps of distance is needed to get points. And different amount of points will be given, according to distance, whether it's 25%-50% or 50%-75% of distance. To get full points, at least 75% of distance is needed. BTW, Look what Mercedes posted on Twitter. I think it leaves no questions https://twitter.com/MercedesAMGF1/status/1493228445962321924 |
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What a drama in biathlon women chasing race. Marte Olsbu won it by very solid margin - 1.36 minute. Elvira Oeberg was second, but main drama was about 3rd place - Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold was 3rd with 500m remaining, but then she felt very bad and somehow finished almost walking in 15th place. After race she was helped by doctors. While 3rd place was taken by her teammate from Norway Tiril Eckhoff.
In men race conditions were difficult - snow and strong wind. Johannes Boe had solid lead, but after all he missed 5 shots and finished 5th. His brother Tarjei was 2nd. Race winner is Quentin Fillon Maillet from France, Eduard Latypov - 3rd.
What a comeback by Finland hockey team. They were losing against Sweden 3:0 after 45 minutes, but they made amazing comeback, sent game to overtime and won game.
They finished 1st in group, while Sweden advanced directly to 1/4 final as best 2nd team.
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Yesterday's Atletico - Getafe game was incredible. Atletico defense recently is awful, but still, it was difficultto expect such result. Recent Real results - few months ago I said that's not possible to play stable all season long and some bad period had to come sooner or later. But seems that Sevilla don't want to use gifts from Real . not so sure about Barca, I know that it is far from real city derby, but with Barca in shaken form, Espanyol is certainly motivated to get something from this one, will be interesting for sure, odds are good, nevertheless
After all, it was real city derby. Mixed feelings about draw, maybe it's not worst what could happen, but I expected more. Can someone explain me what Garcia was doing when de Tomas scored? Justterrible game for him. And it's sad to see that such experienced player still react to provocations - cheap red card. It was a bit unexpected to see Dembele on the pitch. And Luuk De Jong, it's popular to mock him, but so far he is doing exactly what we needed from him. |
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Your guess is right. The match was drawn 2-2. But I would say it was a horrible match. We saw 5 red cards in this match. Both teams were very aggressive. Porto committed 18 fouls and Sporting 13 fouls. And referee showed to 3 of Sporting's, 2 of Porto's players' red cards. However, Porto is still 6 points ahead of the points table.
Wouldn't say that it was horrible match. Opposite, I would say that it was great derby. Fight, drama, something that I wanted to see. It's difficult to expect to see nice football in such games. Game ended 2:2, but Porto should be happy about result. They made comeback from losing 2:0 and didn't let Sporting to get closer in the table. And you have to see what happened after game. 3 of 4 red cards were shown after final whistle and everything were close to turn into MMA fight without rules: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQbV8cVZIcQHow surprising, one of red cards was given to Pepe . And managers of both teams also was there - seems tht they're hot guys, especially Porto coach. |
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Another succesful biathlon race for Norway. Johannes Boe won sprint race. Despite that he missed one shot, at one point he had over 40 seconds advantage against others and he won confident. His brotherTarjei Boe won bronze. Quentin Fillon Maillet from France won silver. Interesting that there was very few biathletes who missed 0 shots, but they were slow on track and weren't able to fight for good places. Tmorrow there will be chasing race with 60 fastest athletes. What a game between Russia and Czech Republic hockey teams. Game ended with Czech win 5:4 after oovertime. And it was meaningless game for both teams! 4th Czech goal was amazing - it was scored from 0° angle, though, it was quite big mistake by goalkeeper. In other game Denmark made another surprise and beat Switzerland. Don't know how many of you watched Large Hill ski jumping, but I was amazed about one athlete - Simon Ammann from Switzerland - it was 7th Olympic games fro him. Amazing. I don’t understand why there are always some claims against Russian athletes, then these are some continuations of doping scandals, then this is a ban on performing under the national flag.
In general, the Olympic movement has turned into some kind of political rather than sports struggle. And this is very upsetting, I want to watch fair competitions, and not these asshole showdowns.
Olympics always were more or less political, just remember 1936, 1976, 1980 or 1984 games. Some people say that poltics and sports shouldn't be mixed, but poltics always been big part of sports. And IMO, if in place of Russia there would be some small country, they would be banned without any questions. |
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In hockey tournament Russia achieved another difficult win, this time they beat Denmark 2:0 and they directly qualified to 1/4 final. Tomorrow very early in morning Canada and USA will play - one of main games of hockey tournament, Canada are considered as quite obvious favorites. Germany dominate in skeleton, same like luge - gold and silver in women competition and surprisingly China took bronze. Also, tomorrow we will have men 10 km biathlong sprint, men medal events in skeleton and snowboard cross of mixed teams. I think it's not about age, but about the fact that the decision regarding the individual athlete can affect the result of the team competition.
As for the punishment, I read about similar cases, and for those who got caught for the first time, the most severe was 2 years, and the usual punishment was several months of disqualification.
I'm not very familiar with figure skating, but in other sports team competitions like relay in swimming or athletics, if one athlete get caught with doping, whole team get disqualified and they lose medals. While this story looks unclear and one of reasons why is that doping regulations for athletes under 16 years is a bit different. Also, doping test was taken few month before Olympics, so, it's strange why it took so long to get results of it. |
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