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No disrespect, but did he build it all himself, or is it just daddy's money?

I hope there's charges and an investigation into corruption at the Tokyo Olympics. There's too many suspect DQs.

A bunch of footballers are about to get their feelings hurt. lol

That said, this league isn't going to wipe out others like they think.

jesmond3945:
maybe she scared them

Maybe the oyinbo doesn't have even 2 braincells to rub together.

InTheCloudySky:
Creamy fettuccini alfredo, Salmon

Next time, do a vodka sauce instead. It's awesome with fish.

lol They're not going to eat it. Stop it.

Paula Badosa’s hopes of a medal at Tokyo 2020 were dashed on Wednesday as she was forced to retire at the end of the first set of her quarter-final match.

Badosa, the world No. 29 from Spain, was visibly struggling on court amid the intense summer heat in Japan and pulled out after losing the first set 6-3 to Czech Republic’s Marketa Vondrousova.

Vondrousova – who knocked out tournament favourite Naomi Osaka in round three – embraced her opponent as she was slumped in the chair. The Czech will go on to face Elina Svitolina.

The chair umpire cited ‘illness’ as the reason for Badosa’s retirement and she left the court in a wheelchair.

She has withdrawn from her mixed doubles with fellow Spaniard Pablo Carreno Busta.

Players have criticised tournament organisers for forcing them to play in the middle of the day in extreme heats.

Novak Djokovic, the world No. 1 from Serbia, said earlier in the tournament: ‘I don’t understand why they don’t start matches at, say, 3pm.

‘We still have seven hours to play. They have lights on all the courts.

‘You feel you have weights on your shoulders because there’s so much heat and humidity and stagnated air,” the 34-year-old said.

‘You don’t feel yourself, you feel slow with your legs. It’s not the first time we get to experience tough conditions. I spoke to a couple of guys in the locker room and all of them said this is the toughest that they have experienced day to day.

‘I don’t really get why ITF [the International Tennis Federation] doesn’t want to move the matches.’

Earlier on Wednesday, Russian world No. 2 Daniil Medvedev was also left hot and bothered on the court in his third-round win over Fabio Fognini.

Displaying signs of great fatigue, chair umpire Carlos Ramos was left asking him if he was okay to continue or if he needed a physio.

‘What else can I do? I will fight and I can finish the match but I can die,’ Medvedev replied. ‘If I die, are you going to be responsible?’

Medvedev had described conditions in the early rounds as ‘some of the worst’ he’d played in and branded it a ‘joke’ that players only get one minute at changeovers rather than the usual 90 seconds.

https://metro.co.uk/2021/07/28/tennis-ace-paula-badosa-leaves-tokyo-2020-in-wheelchair-amid-extreme-heat-14999501/

Yeah, I don't believe they were fairly banned.

Doesn't matter anyway. Haven't watched, and still refuse to watch.

Considering their people are blowing up buses and leading the Taliban, I would think they have bigger fish to fry. These are the same people executing their women for random reasons. Degenerates. Only Asians make drug tr4ffickers look good.

No puppy visas?
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Nikeballer:
Antarctica

Visa free for Nigerians

lol

skylane:
do I need minimum of bsc to apply?

No.

Op is trying to see how they can trick more people into being tr4fficked.

bmdmix6:
u dey Canada dey find Nigerians.

why u comot in d first place?

$$$$$$

Prestonn:
Village kitchen


●First Photo ~Fried rice and toasted salmone with plantain.

●Second photo ~ Jollof rice, chicken, turkey and plantain.

Happy new week my beautiful people ❤

The plantain rose is a nice touch.

You eat out of my pot, you're now my dinner.

Seriously though. I'd cook them. They look delicious. lol

What are your hobbies and interests? These are opportunities to meet like-minded people.

Try something new. Even if you don't like it, you can meet people.

Use your church as a resource. Many have activities and events.

You can also do volunteer work. Not only do you meet people, but you're doing something you feel good about.

The freaky ones

Post this in the jobs/careers section.

Comedian2019:
You better face your work and avoid useless Naija friend.

lol She can't have friends though?

TheMan3:
why road

Probably for financial reasons.

You would have to wear sunglasses in there.

Think about various problems that you, family, and friends encounter on a regular basis. Think about how you might offer a solution to those problems. It could be a big or small solution.

Then think about how that can be a service or product.

You might want to do a little research by just chatting with friends and neighborhood people.

You may discover that you can have multiple businesses that cost you little more than time. Examine all your resources, not just cash.

Hassanmaye:
Is Asia So corrupt in oloshoism

Yes. It's vile. Some of the many problems they deal with because of it:

- Women despise the men. The relationships are almost 100% transactional and they view each other as things. Women are completely disgusted by men because they see everything through the lens of social imbalance and exploitation. Imagine if your girl didn't respond to you physically. What if all relationships were like that. What if your wife never laid with you again after she had the last child. You would have a relationship with a mannequin.
- Women are miserable. Work, home, and other relationships are all shaped by viewing women as subhuman. There's no joy in anything for them except maybe their kids. Even that is limited because of the next few issues (and more).
- Children are mentally and emotionally damaged. A child growing up in this social climate cannot be normal and form healthy relationships, especially young men. Imagine the terrible creatures they raise. It's basically abuse.
- Women are mentally damaged. Even well-educated women are stunted by the psychotic nature of a society that places little value on them.
- Female children are m**dered or abandoned for being female, and they think it's normal. They don't view women as full members of society. It's like Asians are r3tarded.

TOKYO — The finish line of the men’s triathlon Monday morning looked something like a battlefield scene, bodies sprawled out on ground, trainers coming to the aid of overheated athletes, even a few being helped off with their arms draped over shoulders.

This despite the Olympics moving the start time to 6:30 a.m. in an effort to beat the heat that, as these Tokyo Games have proven, remains undefeated. Temps still reached 85 degrees with a relative humidity of 67.1 percent at start time.

No, the Japanese don’t have to apologize for the weather here — the searing sun, the sky high temps, the pea-soup humidity. No one tells Mother Nature what to do.

But as athletes continue to wilt and wither in these conditions, they do owe everyone an apology for this much: They lied like hell about it.

“With many days of mild and sunny weather, this period provides an ideal climate for athletes to perform their best.”

This quote comes from Japan’s official proposal to host the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Mild? Ideal? Here in Tokyo in July?

“I wasn’t enjoying it at all,” Russian tennis player Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova said after competing Saturday in conditions that have caused everyone from archers, to volunteers to officials to faint.

Daytime temps have hit the mid to upper 90s, with dew points in the mid-70s, a mix that assures triple digit heat indexes. This is a tropical location. Venues such as tennis, beach volleyball, cycling and others are open and exposed.

“Playing in extreme heat and humidity, it’s very challenging,” said Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic. “It’s something we’ve known coming into Tokyo, we heard and expected the conditions would be very tough, but before you come here and experience that, you don’t really know how difficult it is.”

These are, literally, the finest athletes in the world. When they say it’s difficult, it’s difficult. So why did the Japanese claim otherwise? And why did the International Olympic Committee, in granting the bid without comment about the conditions to come, just let them say it?

“Meteorological conditions during the proposed Games-time would be reasonable,” Japan’s proposal promised.

Every athlete has to deal with the same situation, so it’s not fair to say it’s unfair. However, when you’ve trained your entire life to compete in the Olympics, you probably expect a situation that might optimize performance, not punish it.

Japan knew it was lying. They live here. Not a single resident of Tokyo would describe mid-summer here as “mild” or “ideal.” In 2014, soon after the city was awarded the bid, a column in Japan Times wondered how in the world this was going to even work.

“I have been to Manila, Bangkok, Jakarta, Phnom Penh and Singapore in mid-summer and in my experience Tokyo is the worst of them all,” author Robert Whiting wrote. “The only conceivable places that are worse would be staging the games in, say, Death Valley, California, or the Horn of Africa.”

Death Valley 2036? Don’t give the IOC any ideas.

Tokyo is, depending how you measure it, the largest city in the world, with a metro population of over 34 million. It is modern, friendly, beautiful and clean. It’s an incredible place. Except for this time of year.

And they knew it, but claimed otherwise anyway, even boasting they’d provide a place “where athletes can perform at their best.”

The last time Tokyo hosted the Summer Games was 1964. It was held in October to avoid just these kinds of conditions. That made sense.

Well, Japan is 3.6 degrees warmer now on average, per government figures. The number of days hitting 95 or above have gone from an average of one per year to 12. In both 2018 and 2020, it reached a record 106, part of heat waves that saw hundreds pass away.

The good news so far is it hasn’t gotten that bad.

“It would be very hard to have business as usual,” said Carl Parker, a storm specialist for the Weather Channel. “At these levels, athletes are really energized and they start to sweat. The body uses evaporation to cool itself off, but that’s not nearly as effective which is why it perspires even more.”

The Summer Games start between mid-July and late-August now because these months produce far higher television ratings around much of the world. That’s especially true in the United States, when NBC doesn’t have to compete with the NFL, college football, the start of the school year or much else.

Since money always talks with the IOC, here we are. Athlete concerns might have mattered back in 1964. That was then. This is billions.

So Japan put out a bid with a farcical vision of idyllic summer days, like a soft breeze through Northern Wisconsin. And the IOC just pretended not to notice and nodded right along with it.

“What [is] the penalty, if any, for false advertising,” the Japan Times wondered almost a decade ago.

Whatever it is, it appears it’s the athletes who are paying it.

https://sports.yahoo.com/amphtml/japan-lied-about-the-weather-and-now-olympians-are-paying-the-price-010612634.html

You forgot the hype woman. She has one mission: reminding her bff, the bride, that this is her day and she won.

Op is trolling.

I don't believe any of this actually happened.

1. Has a blūnt in her purse at all times.
2. Sweetheart, but can probably whup your a**.
3. Disgusted by brokeness.
4. Ex special forces. Known to hide in the bushes outside exes' houses.
5. More holes than a golf course.
6. Racist.
7. Watch how you talk to her and hurry up already, she doesn't have time to waste.
8. Top employee at her firm. Allergic to losing.
9. Always has a full pot of stew cooking.
10. Known to be a little bit of a pushover. But fortunately she has several large brothers and male cousins that will find you no matter where you hide.
11. Owns lifetime supply of bleach and wigs. Tells people she's Mexican.

Canada express entry:


7251 Plumber
7237 Welder

TOKYO – In addition to an unforgettable experience, covering the Tokyo Olympics entitles members of the press to one (1) commemorative backpack. They’re black, emblazoned with the logo for the Olympics and Paralympics — the ones that still say “2020” — and the media can pick theirs up at a desk in the Main Press Center. Along with a book of venue maps, inside is a cover to put over hot metal seats to avoid scalding skin, along with medication for managing heat stroke.

A few days into the Games, that’s starting to seem more necessary than precautionary.

It’s 90 degrees and feels like 100 with the humidity in Tokyo as the Olympics get underway. It feels like you’re standing on the surface of the sun inside empty open air venues that reflect the rays back in on themselves and the handful of sweating, sweltering attendees. It feels like you need gills to catch your breath.

And that’s if you’re standing still.

Olympians are competing in the biggest event of their lives under conditions that have prompted local authorities to recommend regular people avoid outdoor exercise.

When Tokyo hosted the Summer Olympics in 1964, they were moved to October specifically to avoid the peak heat of July and August. A half a century later, as climate change literally boils the planet alive, we're coming off the hottest decade on record. But the IOC decided to keep the Olympics on their normal summer schedule because it'll collect more in American broadcast fees during this part of the calendar.

Now, with the heat at least as bad as could have been anticipated, organizers and athletes are having to get creative to keep the events from getting too dangerous.

In 2019, a whole year before the Games were originally scheduled to take place, the marathon and race walking events were moved to Sapporo, some 500 miles north of Tokyo, in search of a more moderate climate. Those events are still a couple weeks away, but the current forecast in the city is just a couple degrees cooler than in the capital.

After beach volleyball players struggled to practice on burning sand, event organizers resorted to hosing off the playing surface ahead of the first day of competition. Athletes donned cooling vests filled with ice water to lower their body temperature before their matches and in between sets. And the American team traveled to steamy Florida in the lead-up to the Olympics to prepare for the elements in a dedicated “heat camp.”

USA rugby is taking a similar approach of acclimation when mitigation isn’t possible. During practices, they’re wearing their game kits instead of breezy training gear to better prepare themselves for the gauntlet ahead.

“We knew we’d experience a new level of discomfort training in this heat,” said Matt Long, head of physical performance for Team USA's women's squad. “Instead of expecting ourselves not to get frustrated or easily drained, we accepted that it was a reality we’d have to face and overcome.”

During breaks they drink ice slushies, and when the hard work is done, they retreat to ice baths with popsicles.

But even the best-laid plans can melt under the glare of actual competition and direct sun.

“I wasn’t enjoying it at all,” Russian tennis player Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova said of the extreme heat, despite cruising to a victory in the first round on Saturday. She struggled to take advantage of a tube blowing cool air near the bench and reported still feeling sick an hour after her match was won.

“Every time I had to take the ice pack or ice towel it wasn’t cold at all,” she said. “They expected the heat and it wasn’t 100% ready for us.”

Top-seeded Serbian star Novak Djokovic suggested that the International Tennis Federation should have moved the matches out of the midday to give the athletes a little more relief than cool towels can provide.

“I sincerely don’t understand it,” he said.

Of course the temperature is just one health issue plaguing these Games, and some of the tactics necessary for mitigating the serious threat of COVID-19 make it that much more uncomfortable to manage the extreme heat.

After a scorching noon match on Saturday, Canadian beach volleyball player Sarah Pavan approached the mixed zone struggling to catch her breath. An attendant handed her a mask in accordance with coronavirus protocol.

“My mouth is so sweaty, so sweaty,” Pavan protested half-heartedly as she complied.

“If I pass out,” she said to the assembled media, “you know why."

https://sports.yahoo.com/another-health-issue-is-rearing-its-head-at-the-tokyo-olympics-heat-123140964.html

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