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[Ewan]

Posted by grapevine (here)
Bicycle Obstacle Course

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=nyj4HYNzOVU

That was impressive!

[onawah]

Starting at 30 minutes into the video, focus on a scandal involving France's football star Mbappé, revealing the ironically funny dystopian paranoia that has overtaken today's China.

Posted by onawah (here)
China's Fifth Plenum Mystery: A Political Shift and the Mbappé Scandal
Lei's Real Talk
454K subscribers
Streamed live10/29/26

" China's Fifth Plenum is over—but the real story may be hidden between the lines. Xi Jinping's signature slogans have vanished, attendance has plunged, and sweeping political purges continue. Is Xi's grip on power weakening?
Meanwhile, French football superstar Kylian Mbappé sparked a bizarre political firestorm over a Mao Zedong meme. Why did the controversy explode on the very day the Fifth Plenum opened? Was it a coincidence—or a convenient distraction?
We examine the unusual political signals, the power struggles inside the CCP, and the mystery behind the Mbappé scandal. "

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=PySP9HqxNZw

Lots more details here:
https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/ch...140328378.html

[Bill Ryan]

Some light entertainment here. (Sort of! ).

Cricket followers will appreciate this — and probably smile wryly! — while others, who always thought cricket was a gentle, boring game, may be as shocked as the American guy reacting to all these clips.

This video is all about what serious fast bowling can do to batsmen when they fail to avoid a brutal delivery and get hit by a very hard ball going at 90 mph or faster.

The video thumbnail says "no reaction time", and that's correct. It's all instinct and muscle memory, and the batsman has maybe half a second or less to either hit the ball or somehow get the heck out the way.

American Reacts to Cricket’s Most Dangerous Bouncers… This is Terrifying

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=jseYtCcqi1Q

And a note for anyone not very familiar with cricket. Batting helmets were only introduced in the late 1970s. In the 100 years before that, when bowling was often just as fast, there was no head protection whatsoever.

The famous West Indian Viv Richards always refused to wear a helmet, and when he retired in 1991 was the last international player never to do so. Below is a classic photo of 'King Viv', one of the greatest cricketers to have ever played. He was entirely fearless, and his like has never been seen again.

[Bluegreen]

World Series champs Milwaukee Brewers living up to their name

https://x.com/BookmarkerLove/status/2116197891962224850

[rgray222]

The video shows an urban downhill mountain bike race descending a steep, narrow street in Manizales, Colombia (1:43 Its more fun to watch on full screen)

[rgray222]

Politizing sport is so wrong, and this globalist is showing who he really is and what he is all about, and it is not the betterment of humanity.

Canada to deny visas to Russian hockey players — PM Carney


Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney

The Court of Arbitration for Sport previously instructed the International Ice Hockey Federation to allow Russian national teams to take part in international competitions. Ice hockey federations of several countries stated they were disappointed with the decision

WASHINGTON, November 4. /TASS/. Canada will not issue visas to Russian athletes for participation in the world junior hockey championship, which is set to take place there late this year and early next year, Prime Minister Mark Carney said.

"If you’re asking specifically about the world juniors, the Russians will not be there," he was quoted as saying by the CTV News channel. "This is a decision we take on our own," he added.

On October 30, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) instructed the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) to allow Russian national teams to take part in international competitions. Later, the ice hockey federations of Germany, the Czech Republic, Sweden, and Norway stated they were disappointed with the court’s verdict. The Finnish Ice Hockey Association announced that it was organizing a bloc of countries that would boycott matches involving Russians.

https://tass.com/sports/2212779

[grapevine]

Legendary. . .

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=iRfCbE18MYE

[grapevine]

Mouse Clicks

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-huQbYgraLI

Good heavens - whatever next? Reminds me of how cold it was last winter . . . .