#day of slovenian sport

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09/23/2024 is Day of Slovenian Sport 🇸🇮, Celebrate Bi-sexuality Day 🇺🇸, National Checkers/Dogs in Politics Day 🇺🇸, National Great American Pot Pie Day 🇺🇸, Restless Legs Awareness Day 🇺🇸, International Day of Sign Languages 🇺🇳

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Yugoslavia and yugo rock

Joker Out’s new song, Šta bih ja, was inspired by yugorock! Not sure what that means? JokerOutSubs has got you!

‘Yugo rock’ or ‘Yu rock’ is rock with some elements derived from traditional/ethnic/folklore music, as well as other musical genres, including blues, country, reggae, jazz rock and rockabilly. They were added to appease the public, since rock itself was considered a western influence. 

Rock music in Yugoslavia became popular in the sixties. Before that, after the second world war, partisan songs were more popular. This is music associated with resistance groups that fought German occupation across Yugoslavia, Italy and other parts of Eastern Europe. However, in 1956, the Cominform (a coordinated body of communist parties across Europe, designed to keep all communist governments following Stalinist principles) was dissolved. After this point, the connection with the Soviet Union was severed and music tastes began to change accordingly. 

With influences from the west, rock music started gaining popularity. At first, musicians only sang covers of foreign songs (as closely to the original as possible) but in the sixties, bands such as Indexi started making original music. In the seventies, Bijelo dugme were formed and became incredibly popular. At the same time, Parni valjak were also rising to fame. However, the ‘new wave’ of Yugo rock was said to be started by a group called Buldožer.

Some characteristics of New Wave were more political lyrics and taking inspiration from punk. The most famous New Wave bands in Yugoslavia were Azra, Idoli, Prljavo kazalište, Električni orgazam, Psihomodo pop and, in Slovenia at the time, Lačni Franz, Buldožer and Pankrti (an interview with their singer Peter Lovšin can be found at    • [ENG SUB] Bojan Cvjetićanin about roc...  ). 

A second New Wave generation from Belgrade emerged in later years. Among their representatives were Partibrejkers (formed 1982). They combined the blues with British R and B, rockabilly and classic rock and roll. 

In 1982, the groups Ekaterina Velika and Disciplina Kičme (Disciplin A Kitschme) were established, contributing to the second New Wave generation, along with Slovenian group Videosex (formed 1983) with singer Anja Rupel. One of their most famous songs, a cover of 'Zemlja pleše,' can be found at    • Videosex - Zemlja Plese - The Original

The New Wave was characterised by a burst of creativity and activity in the music scene across the region, with many artists emerging and creating excellent music in a short period of time. Many have drawn parallels between the New Wave era and today, where in Slovenia many young bands are gaining recognition. This parallel is only strengthened by the fact that Joker Out, one of the most successful young bands in Slovenia today, have a song named Novi val (New Wave). 

The socio-political significance

Yugoslavia (1918–1992), a federal republic, was made up of six republics (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia). Despite the differences between the republics one could argue that the pop-cultural identity was so strong, having influence that went beyond government control and the ability to connect people through the region, that it could be named as the seventh republic. Besides sport, yugorock was one of the last connecting links within a  country that was drifting apart in a variety of areas, including economic. 

Important yugorock bands 

Bijelo Dugme: Considered by many to be the biggest Yugo rock band, Bijelo Dugme were formed in 1974 in Sarajevo. They were the biggest trendsetters in rock music at the time. They had a huge influence on Joker Out since their earliest days as a band. In the 'Kofi brejk' interview Bojan shared that the first concert he ever attended was by Bijelo Dugme, and they were also mentioned several times by Joker Out as having had a big influence on the whole band. In addition, Joker Out covered two of their songs, ‘Selma’ (Radio Koper, 32 min) and ‘Djurdjevdan’ (Belgrade concert, 3.11.2023). You can check out some more of their songs on our playlist linked at the bottom of this post!

Plavi orkestar were formed in 1983 in Sarajevo and had a rich career with eight albums, releasing hits such as ‘Ako su to samo bile laži’, ‘Lovac i košuta’, ‘Odlazim’, ‘Bolje biti pijan nego star’, ‘Suada’ and many more. Some media outlets, like Jutarnji list and Mladina have compared Joker Out’s style to theirs, and Bojan also mentioned Plavi orkestar as one of the bands that influenced him.

Parni valjak are a Croatian band, formed in 1975 in Zagreb. They had many ‘evergreen’ hits, including ‘Sve još miriše na nju’, ‘Jesen u meni’ and ‘Zastave’. In the Carpe Diem series, when asked whom they would listen to forever if they could only choose one artist, Jure chose Parni valjak. At Arsenal Fest in 2023, Bojan interrupted an interview to sing along to ‘Jesen u meni’ as they were playing in the background! 

Indexi were a Bosnian band, who were active from 1962 to 2001. They were extremely influential, with hits like ‘Svijet u kome živim’ and ‘Negdje u kraju, u zatišju’, and became known as the ‘pioneers of psychedelic rock and roll.’ In the Kurir interview, Bojan mentions them as one of his musical role models.

Ekatarina velika, sometimes shortened to EKV, were a Serbian band who were active between 1982 and 1994. They are considered one of the most influential artists in the yugorock scene, with popular songs like ‘Krug’, ‘Par godina na nas’ and ‘Srce’. In the Rdeče in črno interview, Bojan’s voice was compared to that of the lead singer in Ekatarina velika. 

Idoli were one of the most remarkable new wave bands based in Belgrade, active during the early 80's. They are regarded as one of the most outstanding and influential representatives of the Yugoslav rock music and their album 'Odbrana i poslednji dani' ('Defense and The Last Days') was voted as the greatest Yugoslav rock album of all time. During the Kurir interview, Bojan mentioned that ‘Ona’ was inspired by Idoli and their unique sound.

Songs Joker Out have mentioned 

‘Računajte na nas’ by Đorđe Balašević is a very important yugorock song in Joker Out’s history, as it inspired the lyrics of ‘Carpe Diem’. While ‘Računajte na nas’ (‘Count on Us’) is about a generation standing up and fighting for peace, Bojan switched the lyric to ‘ne računajte na nas’ (don’t count on us), meaning that you cannot count on them to join in with the ‘game of hatred’ pervasive in modern society. 

‘Kreni prema meni’ is a song performed by Partibrejkers, a Serbian rock band from Belgrade, known for their rebellious energy, both in sound and spirit. The band is still active and well received all over former Yugoslav countries. The song was covered by Joker Out at the Lent festival in 2018.

‘Sanjao sam moju Ružicu’ by Leteći odred was covered by Apokalipsa, Bojan’s former band, in 2015 during Vičstock Avdicija. Bojan also sang it at the Prulček bar with Buržuzija, Kris and Jan’s former band. Leteći odred is a Croatian pop band with a prosperous and successful musical career and performances for over 30 years.

In September 2016, Joker Out posted a setlist from one of their earliest gigs on their Instagram. It included three notable yugorock song covers - ‘Frida’ by Psihomodopop, ‘Motori’ by Divlje jagode and ‘Ne Zovi Mama Doktora’ by Prljavo Kazalište.

If you’d like to listen to any of these artists or songs, check out our curated playlist on YouTube or Spotify!

Sources:

Kregar, Tone, et al. Za domovino - z rockom naprej! Jugo rock: slovensko-srbske paralele. Muzej novejše zgodovine Celje. 2020.

Perković, Ante, and Lah, Klemen. Sedma republika: pop kultura in razpad Jugoslavije. Zenit, 2018.

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Primož Roglič and Tadej Pogačar during the Day for the medals: Reception of Slovenian sport heroes on 30.9.2019 on Kongresni square, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

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Ryman's one year round-up

Ok, overall this year was pretty awesome, we had some crazy adventures! Even though some of it wasn’t the top thing I had on my list of things I wanted to do, We made some great memories and accomplished a lot as a family.

Coming into this year, I was nervous, and I did not know what to expect coming into a foreign country.

I was worried that I would not fit in, and I would be an outcast all year. And to make matters worse,  I WAS SICK ON THE FIRST FREAKING WEEK OF SCHOOL!!! (I had covid-19 for those who are wondering) even though I got an extra week of summer out of it, I still wished I went on the first day, so I could be caught up in the assignments, and things I needed to get done.

So the friday before the second week of school, I came with both of my parents  and met everybody. Soon after, I met one of my best friends to this day, Lucas. Me and him have the same sense of humor, like the same sports, play the same games, and like the same movies.

One of my favorite adventures we had this year was my class field trip to lake bohinj, slovenia. We stayed In a hotel for 2 nights, and everybody got to pick a roommate or roommates. I chose Lucas and Lucas chose me (obviously) And for the next 3 days we got to bike, swim, kayak, hike, eat, play, and have the time of our lives with each other.

I Loved this year because anywhere we went, You couldnt compare to the U.S. Like for example, We went ziplining in the countryside of slovenia as a family. One zipline we went on was 80 meters up and 70 meters long. When you were zooming along, you could see peaceful lakes, rivers,waterfalls, forest, beautiful trees, and a peaceful village.

Now, After living in europe for a year, I can finally be the one to say that that is a CLASSIC european adventure. From the tropical, palm tree filled, crystal clear waters of croatia, to beautiful slovenian forests, I loved all of it. Though at the moment, I really want to go home. I think part of it is because my best friend of all time just left from his visit, and me and him had such a good time together. Its sad to see someone or people go back to a place that is your home too, after a very fun, long stay with them.

But other than that this year was awesome and we lived the european dream for 1 year, going on 2.

To all reading this in portland right now, I miss all of you and cant wait to see you guys again. Thanks for reading and have a great day. 

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The influence of the so-called Ljubljana School stretches well beyond its Central European roots and its Franco-German seed long predates the planetary notoriety of its most prominent member, Slavoj Žižek. Somehow metaphysically appropriate, it is neither a school nor an official entity of any type, and its members insist the name is something that the outside world imposed on them. There is no building, but there is a unique blend of German Idealism, Lacanian psychoanalysis and Marx, the amalgam of which is used to probe everything from film and music to politics, economics, violence and even tickling. Jokes too play a big role in the Ljubljana School’s popularity, but small as Slovenia and its population of 2 million may be, Žižek is not so easy to find. Like Hegel, the man is hard to get a hold of. On any given day he (Žižek, not Hegel) is as likely to be giving a lecture in Montana as South Korea, exchanging letters with the members of Pussy Riot or Skyping with Julian Assange. London’s Royal Opera House has commissioned four operas inspired by his writings. An attempt to track down the Slovenian thinker meant a personal detour through a botched e-mail address, a Labor Day holiday in Venice, one missed flight, a Metelkova late night, a flat bicycle tire and just a taste of duty-free Glenlivet. Suddenly it was Sunday evening before an early morning flight, and my hopes for a meeting Žižek were going the way of Yugoslavia. Then, the phone rang. “Oh, hi, yes, this is Slavoj… Slavoj Žižek.” The next morning at the Union Cafe, he enters sporting a Lacoste golf shirt and a book by philosopher and “friend” Alain Badiou. Žižek places his cell phone on the table, since he is waiting for a call from “some idiot at DHL” about a delivery. We order coffee and begin talking. The cafe’s business model doesn’t quite work. Žižek was recently married. He just got back from a weekend in Venice. The Slovenian prime minister is to resign that very day. How does he, a Lacanian-Hegelian-Marxist philosopher from little Ljubljana, account for his global success? “Communist oppression,” he says.

Benjamin Cunningham, from his essay “Breakfast with Zizek”, January 26, 2015, Published in BODY

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Hello folks!

I've reached 2010 so it's time to update on how the cataloging project is going.

For those of you who haven't seen this before I took on the completely insane large task of trying to catalogue every gymnast whose performances survive in meet videos on youtube. The goal being so that fans can look up the name of their favorite gymnast and follow their career even in small or obscure meets that they may not know exist or haven't had individual routines uploaded in more easily searchable form. The second goal was so that gymnasts who may not know that any of their elite careers survived can find their own performances. The example I used before is that there is a Yugoslavian gymnast's floor routine at the end of the Spanish coverage of the 1982 World Cup. When google searching that woman to make sure I had her name spelled correctly I found no evidence of a gymnast but I did find a Slovenian philosophy professor who likely has no reason to know that a tiny bit of her teenage sport survives.

Originally I was doing this on a google doc but after several months (and about 350 pages) into that I finally accepted that was the wrong medium and have moved it all into spread sheet form which you can find here.

The first sheets in the document are the meets themselves with links to youtube and include things like the date and location of the meet, the format of competition, who was the broadcaster, what language the commentary is in, and who were the commentators.

The meet sheets are broken up into Elite (which is the backbone of the document), NCAA Post Season, Professional Leagues (eventually Bundesliga video will get it's sheet), Exhibitions as well as two sheets I want to explain. HV Recordings are those meets that we have surviving through video taken with home movie or video cameras either by fans in the stands or national federations. Because the experience of watching meets in this format is so different I wanted to catalogue them but keep them to their own page. Because it's often difficult or impossible to identify individual gymnasts in some of those recordings HV recordings are excluded from the individual gymnast sheets. The other odd ball is the USGF Single Elimination tournament which is a slightly odd creature to watch now but included some performances from great American gymnasts that don't have a lot of meet footage. They get their own sheet because it's just a strange beast but I wanted to be able to include them in the gymnasts index.

After that you get four sheets of gymnasts in alphabetical order (broken up to reduce lag). Those sheets are sorted by name and date with gymnasts listed in FAMILY NAME Given Name format. Please note the links are to the video in general not specific time stamps. If a gymnast is known by a different name either by marriage, name change, or transliteration differences (within limits) there are lines telling you where to find the main entry for that gymnast. For example: IOURTCHENKO Nataliia SEE: YURCHENKO Natalia or RYBACKI Beth SEE: KLINE Beth. Post Season NCAA performances are are only included if the gymnast was already in the document from a previous elite performance to limit the scope of the project.

This project is months from completion but you will find everything up to 2010 right now.

So what do I need help with: Well first of all I will have made mistakes. The sheer amount of data here makes that inevitable. As did the several days of brute force data entry when things were moved off the google doc and into the sheets. At one point Boginskaya was given to Belgium for example before the mistake was caught.

One of my biggest priorities is to try and spell peoples names as correctly as possible (given that this is an English language document). The invention of FIG licenses has made that a bit cleaner as I've gotten into more modern recordings but they strip off all the dialectic marks which are part of these people's names and I have made an effort to restore them but I'd appreciate any corrections people notice.

I am deeply concerned about Chinese and Korean gymnasts which have had non standardized spellings in some of the earlier material and whose family names and given names were often given in whatever order a meet decided but my ability to google the name and find the correct order was sometimes limited. I am also very concerned that I have used the wrong family names for Latin American and Spanish gymnasts because meets would often choose those at random. I've even seen Brazilian broadcasts that used inconsistent family names for the same gymnast at the same competition and European meets that decided to pick two names at random and designate them given and family names when they were both family names. I've done my best to try and locate the most correct versions but more eyes would be helpful.

Otherwise people are welcome to use the project as it is now if you want. If you save it to your own computer you will be able to sort the data how you want. Just know that this is a working document and so will continue to change as I make my way through future years.

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I'm so excited for the Tour de France this year, so I'm going to infodump about it. Strap in or skip, it's up to you.

So to get into why this year's TdF is exciting, we have to rewind a couple years to 2020. The Tour was delayed (cuz COVID) but the race did happen. The guy who was going to win it was Slovenian cyclist for Team Jumbo-Visma Primoz Roglic (I'm going to miss a lot of accents because reasons, no disrespect to anybody's names). Primoz Roglic had won the Vuelta Espana (Like the TdF but for Spain) and was seen as the race favorite. He comes into the second to last stage with the Yellow Jersey, and it's a Time Trial (a solo effort against the clock rather than a full-on race where everybody is riding the same road at the same time). Primoz Roglic is more of a climber than a Time Trialist, but he's still pretty good at TTs, and it's by no means a liability for him.

But then, his fellow Slovenian, Team UAE rider Tadej Pogacar happened, obliterating Roglic's time trial result and taking the race lead just before the final stage, which is largely a formality and a last chance for sprinters to win a stage. A lot of people accused Pogacar of being a doper, but there's been no evidence since then to support it.

So then 2021. Pogacar is back as defending champion of the TdF, Primoz Roglic is back to try and get his title. Primoz Roglic goes on to have a bad spate of luck and suffers enough crashes that he retires from the race. Team Jumbo-Visma isn't out of the race, though. They end up having a shockingly good TdF, with climbing domestique Sepp Kuss becoming the first ever Coloradoan to win a stage of the TdF, Belgian Champion Wout Van Aert winning a mini triple crown of a mountaintop stage, a time trial stage, and a sprint stage, and revealing that the scrawny danish kid they'd added to the roster was a secret Plan B weapon who came out as the only person who could threaten Pogacar's dominance. Pogacar won the Tour, but Jonas Vingegaard came out of nowhere to be the only potential answer to him.

2022: Pogacar is back again as the defending champion, Jumbo-Visma bring in the team again, with Primoz Roglic, Jonas Vingegaard, Wout Van Aert, Sepp Kuss, and four others. The race starts with a few stages in Denmark, and there's too much to coherently write out here, so I've got to dive temporarily into a bullet list.

Stage 1 is a time trial won by somebody nobody thought would be capable of winning a time trial. It helps that it was raining that day, which made a lot of the favorites ease back and take fewer risks

Wout Van Aert has a series of second-place finishes in bunch sprints, including one where he sat up to celebrate and somebody else kept sprinting (this was the second time this happened to him IN THE YEAR 2022, WOUT STOP DOING THIS)

EF Education-EasyPost rider Magnus Cort delights his home country of Denmark by becoming the king of immediately launching breakaways every stage in Denmark and keeps it up until a positive COVID test drops him out at Stage 10

Wout Van Aert did a better job of sprinting in the TdF than anybody had ever done since the Green Jersey (Sprinter's Classification) was introduced, blowing easily over the Sprint Points record previously held by Peter Sagan

The mini-Paris Roubaix stage went terribly for Jumbo Visma with double-bike changes for Vingegaard, and Primoz Roglic having some bad crashes.

Jumbo-Visma had a very clever plan to unseat Pogacar and get Jonas Vingegaard into the yellow jersey, and it worked perfectly.

On a mountain descent, Vingegaard and Pogacar were alone at the head of the race, Vingegaard almost crashed, and then Pogacar DID crash and Vingegaard SLOWED DOWN FOR POGACAR TO CATCH UP it was an incredible moment of sportsmanship for what is shaping up to become a cycling rivalry that I'm sure will go down as one of the greatest rivalries in all of sport.

Vingegaard won the Tour

So now, in 2023, both Pogacar and Vingegaard have been showing in the lead-up to the TdF that they are in a league of their own. Pogacar nearly won the Ardennes Triple Crown (a series of prestigious races in Flanders) before he crashed out in Liege-Bastogne-Liege. Vingegaard has completely wrecked the competition in Tour of the Basque Country and the Criterium du Dauphine. Vingegaard and Pogacar did meet in Paris-Nice and Pogacar won there, but just watching the two of them will be very exciting. Except there is more! Biniam Girmay is looking like he'll be in the Tour de France, and I don't think he's a threat to the Yellow Jersey, but he is a good time trialist and he's a great sprinter. In 2022, he won a stage of the Giro D'Italia (like the TdF but in Italy), by outsprinting one of cycling's greatest all-rounders, Matheiu Van Der Poel in Stage 10. That made him the first ever black African to win a stage of a Grand Tour. He had to retire because his celebratory champagne bottle launched its cork into his eye, but he's recovered and just won Stage 2 of the Tour de Suisse yesterday. I think he's a serious contender for the Green Jersey this year based on his performance against Wout Van Aert yesterday and what he did against MVDP last year, and I'm hoping to see some greatness from him.

Don't watch the Tour in full if you have better things to do, but I do recommend watching the extended highlights that NBCSN puts on Youtube, they're great.

[rose-bookblood]

15 tags, 15 mutuals

Thanks @cherrybombfangirlwrites for tagging me!

Rules: Answer these questions either with yourself or an OC.

I'm doing myself and Sheryl, because I love overcomplicating and also I just finished draft 2 of RWR.

Me

1. Are you named after anyone?

No, but I was this close to getting named after not one, but two characters from the Arthurian legends.

2. When was the last time you cried?

I cried back to back twice last night lol. I don't remember which came first, but one was watching Outlander and the other reading in-depth analyses of single Fullmetal Alchemist shots on Tumblr (I do that more often than is socially acceptable).

3. Do you have kids?

No and the thought horrifies me.

4. Do you use sarcasm?

A bit too much sometimes, oops.

5. What's the first thing you notice about people?

No idea, I guess colors?

6. What's your eye color?

A mix of blue, green and grey.

7. Scary movies or happy endings?

I can't do scary.

8. Any special talents?

I'm good at memorizing stuff (I can recite a lot of bus schedules lol).

9. Where were you born?

In Trieste, an Italian city (really really) close to the Slovenian border.

10. What are your hobbies?

Reading, writing, watching TV shows, learning languages, swimming and playing the piano.

11. Do you have any pets?

Two striped grey cats whom I adore <3

12. What sports do you play/have you played?

I suck at any sport other than swimming and sailing, though I want to pick up roller skating.

13. How tall are you?

1.56 meters.

14. Favorite subject in school?

Languages, specifically Spanish, which I started studying in middle school.

15. Dream job?

Author and translator, and it's getting closer to becoming a reality everyday.

Sheryl

1. Are you named after anyone?

Not that I'm aware.

2. When was the last time you cried?

When I was 12. [She will not elaborate because she's Like That and also because it's sorta spoilery.]

3. Do you have kids?

No, and it's beyond me why anyone would have kids when we risk our lives every day.

4. Do you use sarcasm?

Yes.

5. What's the first thing you notice about people?

New people? Usually if they're alien or human and, in the second case, if they look like they might kill me.

6. What's your eye color?

Brown.

7. Scary movies or happy endings?

I've never seen a movie, but I guess I prefer less boring stuff.

8. Any special talents?

I suppose my fighting and shooting skills.

9. Where were you born?

Somewhere in Mexico, close to the US border (not that it matters).

10. What are your hobbies?

Walking in the woods.

11. Do you have any pets?

If Moren counts.

12. What sports do you play/have you played?

I have to train to fight and hunt.

13. How tall are you?

1.71 meters.

14. Favorite subject in school?

I never went to school, but I liked learning how to shoot.

15. Dream job?

Not having to live underground and worry about dying every time I go outside would be enough.

Tagging @italiangothicwriteblr, @ink-fireplace-coffee, @mel-writes-with-her-dragons, @retrogayyde and whoever wants to join!

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On this day in Wikipedia: Friday, 26th January

Welcome, mirë se vjen, welkom, croeso 🤗 What does @Wikipedia say about 26th January through the years 🏛️📜🗓️?

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26th January 1824 🗓️ : Birth - Emil Czyrniański Emil Czyrniański, Polish chemist (d. 1888) "Emilian (also Emil) Czyrniański (Lemko Емілиян Чырняньскій; January 26, 1824 – April 14, 1888) was a Polish chemist of Lemko descent, science writer, rector of the Jagiellonian University and co-founder of the Polish Academy of Learning. He is responsible for developing chemical nomenclature in..."

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26th January 🗓️ : Holiday - Engineer's Day (Panama) "Engineer's Day is observed in several countries on various dates of the year...."

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09/23/2023 is Autumnal Equinox 🌎🍁, Day of Slovenian Sport 🇸🇮⚽️, Celebrate Bisexuality Day 🇺🇲🌈, National Checkers/Dogs in Politics Day 🇺🇲🐶, National Great American Pot Pie Day 🇺🇲🥧, Restless Legs Awareness Day 🇺🇲🦵, National Hunting and Fishing Day 🇺🇲🏹🎣, National Public Lands Day 🇺🇲, International Day of Sign Languages 🇺🇳

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[skiijumpinng]

Cene Prevc on ending his career

a translation of this article on Siol.net

You didn't jump in any Grand Prix or Continental Cup competitions this summer. Any particular reason?

In the spring I realised that my other goals were more challenging than ski jumping and that I would sleep better if I did something in other areas. That's why I hardly trained anymore. A few times I jumped for fun. I am starting my studies in electrical engineering in October. I also want to finish the higher education programme for rural and landscape management at the Naklo Biotechnical Centre. As far as ski jumping is concerned, this means that I will not take part in the World Cup next season.

What about the Continental Cup competitions?

Not that either.

So you've finished your career then?

If it goes on like this, then yeah. The Slovenian Ski Federation is leaving the door open for me. If I am still of the same opinion as I am at the moment, then I will finish my career in Planica.

In the spring there were already rumours about this. How much of it was true?

I was persuaded not to end the story and to leave the door open. They've said I should think about it.

So what is the timeline for your decision? Are you still going to jump?

That's exactly it. Trainings are no longer my priority. I don't go to them anymore. At the moment, the only thing on my mind is to go from exam to exam. A few weeks ago I was asked what I was trying to get in shape for and I joked that it was for each exam.

Is there nothing tempting you to come back?

I would love to do some testing. I'm waiting for Peter Slatnar to make a new version of the shoes again after many years. I am waiting for him to finish them and test them. At worst, as a trialjumper on a ski flying hill. I simply cannot say goodbye to those.

What was the deciding factor, given that you had your best season behind you?

Exactly that – the fact that it was a great season.

Did the last season surprise you?

No, it didn't. Moreso personal challenges, what to achieve while growing in a particular sport. I was very close to making myself happy. What is more important in my mind now is to improve myself in other areas of my life. To finish two schools.

The season starts in November. When will you decide?

Realistically, it's more or less decided – I'm not going to jump. The federation suggested that I should think about it. Personally, it hasn't happened. I haven't changed my mind in six months.

But you jumped well at the national championships. You were fourth, just behind the podium.

I laughed to myself because I jumped well. But from jump to jump, it was obvious that I was making bigger and bigger mistakes. You need consistency.

If you look at your career, the last season must have given you the most satisfaction. What did ski jumping give you?

First of all work habits. There were a lot of difficult moments in between, so it's hard to be surprised by any moment in my future. Not only the moments from my life, but also from others I've heard.

What has been the most beautiful moment in your career?

The last jump in Planica, where I jumped 246 metres. And immediately afterwards, 243 metres in Vikersund.

What about the Olympic silver in the team event?

It's a very nice memory. But that Olympic medal is an indication of how much effort and torture it takes to get anywhere. That Olympic competition was not difficult at all compared to the internal qualification we had the day before.

[freifraufischer]

Elite WAG Video Performance Finding Aide Project: An Update

I posted about this project last month (and I likely still have months to go before it's finished) but I thought I'd post the work in progress for people to look over and spot any errors (given the size of the document and the number of entries I'm bound to have made several).

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E5xO-lfdYnK-vls4WC6K9lLj_AmReXWFbt3pQ-vLwnI/edit?usp=sharing

So what is this? Well I have gone through every elite meet on youtube that I could find through 2000 put an entry under the name of a gymnast if they appear in that meet video. It will give you a link to the video on youtube (not time stamped because this is already insanity) as well as the language the commentary is in if it has commentary and in some cases the broadcaster.

Here is an example of a relatively short entry:

Li Yan (CHN)

1989 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships TO. Part 2. English Commentary. Eurosport. 1989 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships TO. English Commentary. ESPN. 1989 DTB Pokal AA. German Commentary. 1991 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships EF Day 1. English Commentary. Eurosport. 1991 Chunichi Cup EF. Japanese Commentary. 1991 Tokyo Cup. Japanese Commentary.

And here is another example of an entry that includes NCAA:

Leah Homma (CAN) / UCLA

1989 Canadian Gymnastics Championships. English Commentary. CTV. 1989 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships TO. Part 1. English Commentary. Eurosport. 1989 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships TO. English Commentary. ESPN. 1989 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships AA. English Commentary. Eurosport. 1990 USSR vs The World. English Commentary. CBC. 1995 Pac-10 Conference Championships. English Commentary. ESPN. 1995 NCAA National Championships. English Commentary. CBS. 1996 Pac-10 Conference Championships. English Commentary. 1996 NCAA National Championships. English Commentary. CBS. 1997 NCAA National Championships. English Commentary. CBS.

The goal would be two fold: First for fans to be able have a location to find all the meets their favorite gymnasts were in and follow their career even in smaller meets they may not know existed or didn't know were available. The second is to give a place for gymnasts who may not know bits of their elite careers survived to find it. The example I've been giving is that during the Spanish broadcast of the 1982 World Cup they aired a floor routine of a Yugoslav gymnast (it was held in Yugoslavia and she was the highest placed local gymnast though she finished far down in the standings). When I cross referenced her name to make sure it was spelled correctly I didn't find anything about her as a gymnast but I did find her as a Slovenian philosophy professor. There is no reason to think she'd have any idea that a tiny bit of her teenage sport was preserved in Spain and then put up on youtube.

With that second goal in mind I have tried to use the most correct spelling of names I could (with the understanding that this is an English document) including the dialectic marks that are often stripped off names by foreign broadcasters and the FIG. I've used what I believe is the most common transliterated spellings but offer alternatives in the "aka" line so that someone can search the document for a gymnast and still find their entries.

What do I need help in? Well I'd appreciate it if people (especially non english speakers familiar with your country's gymnasts) could check and make sure I have people's names spelled correctly. This is really important to me.

I am particularly worried about Chinese gymnasts who even through the 1980s often had their names spelled wildly differently by different broadcasters. The document uses family name first for Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and Hungarian gymnasts but some of the broadcasts I was using were very inconsistent about figuring out what that might be.

I am additionally very worried that I've simply listed South and Central American gymnasts by the wrong family name. I have had family who lived in Mexico so I know in general how at least Mexican family names work but I very much do not trust the various international gymnastics meets to have used the correct names (I'm looking at you 1999 Pan Ams that I know massacred Latin American names).

If you are just looking to use the document you are welcome to do so, gymnasts are listed first by their name and country code, a line with alternate names for that gymnast such as marriage and hyphenated names as well as including alternate transliterations if they appeared at major championships under that spelling. There are NCAA post season meet entries (conference championships, regionals/nationals) but only for gymnasts who were already in the document from elite meets. The idea of the NCAA entries is a bonus so that people can follow a career and I have some Bundesliga meet video that I will use the same way.

The goal of this project will be to reach the current time. After I'm done in data collection I intend to put things into a spreadsheet form so people can download and sort it however interests them but for now it's easier for me to compile in this form.

[pcwt]

TOUR’21 Stage 21: Wonderful Wout, Tour For Tadej! Pt.6

Stage for Wout van Aert and Tadej Pogačar in yellow for Paris!

He wins in the mountains..

He wins in time trials..

And now he wins on the Champs Élysées, the most coveted sprint stage in cycling..

Is there anything Wout van Aert can’t do?

Looking to deliver Mark Cavendish his record 35th Tour de France stage win, Deceuninck–Quick-Step controlled the final stage of the Tour de France as it lapped the Champs Élysées in Paris, but the final 6km brought trouble as other teams tried to get in the mix, disrupting the lead-out train that had been so effective the past three weeks. Losing his lead-out man Michael Mørkøv’s wheel, Cavendish had to navigate his own way through the bunch and got boxed in, forcing him to settle for third on the day as he secured the green jersey, the second of his career. The quest for the 35th stage win will have to wait another year. But though we were denied a chance to witness that record-breaking feat, we were rewarded with a van Aert Tour performance that hearkens back to an older era of the sport when champions would win in any terrain, instead of specializing heavily in one area. Perhaps there was a little bit of Merckx riding with the Belgian champion today as he completed his Tour hat trick.

Meanwhile, Tadej Pogačar picked up his second yellow jersey, white jersey and polka dot jersey in 10 months. Many Tour champions will tell you getting the second win is harder than the first, so now that the 22-year-old Slovenian has that out of the way, how many more times will we see him stand atop the podium in Paris?

[felipeandletizia]

Felipe and Letizia retrospective: June 27th

2004: Athens Olympic torch relay at Puerta de Alcala square, in Madrid.

2005: Lunch offered to Israeli president Moshé Katsav

2006: Inauguration of the retrospective exhibition of the artist Manuel Valdés in Madrid and Soccer match between Spain and France for the 2006 World Cup in Hannover, Germany

2007: Audiences at la Zarzuela and Bartolomé de las Casas Award

2008: Lunch on the occasion of the celebration of the General Assembly of the Association “Sport Cultura Barcelona”

2011: Audience at la Zarzuela

2013: Forum Impulsa 2013 (1, 2)

2014: Received Doña María Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Presidency. & Meeting with the presidents and directors of the Royal Academies at the Institute of Spain. His Majesty met with the heads of the institutions that represent, in Spain, excellence in the sciences, arts and humanities.

2015: 30th anniversary of the Observatory of the Canary Islands and inauguration of the “Quijote” Telescopes and robotic telescopes (LCOGTN, MASTER, QES, OTA-SLOOH and MAGEC) in Tenerife.

2017: Received Slovenian President Borut Pahor at the Zarzuela Palace in Madrid and Opening of the “Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK): From Kapital to Capital” at the National Museum Queen Sofia Art Center in Madrid.

2018: Commemoration of the “International Deafblind Day”

2019: Audiences at la Zarzuela (1, 2, 3); Audiences in Barcelona & Dinner and award ceremony of the International Logistics Exhibition Awards (SIL) in Barcelona

2021: Official dinner for the GSMA Mobile World Congress 2021 in Barcelona

F&L Through the Years: 788/??