The sport’s Olympic debut will be a strange one: Climbers will compete for only three medal spots in a combined classification that includes all three disciplines.

There’s nothing unique about soccer that makes a balanced schedule work.

Did you miss the part where I literally wrote “I don’t care how they do it in Europe”? Geez, read the room.

Yeah, KingOfKong’s argument is basically “Freak occurrences will be more interesting if things were usually more predictable.”

Why do you hate the Emirates Cup?

Counterpoint: instead of one exciting season after which the best player moved to Chelsea and the 2nd player sulked until he moved to Man City, you get chance for chaos every season. I mean your argument is essentially “There was this one freak occurrence which was interesting mostly because things are usually more…

I don’t care how they do it in Europe, playoffs are good.

38,000 feet should do it.

You can have this hill to die on, if you like.

Uh, no. If you visit the Facebook post with the 8-year-old girl’s video embedded, you can tell she’s definitely not a novice.

Now that you mention it, the movie was actually called That Thing You Do. Management regrets the error.

Unless I’m misunderstanding, he’s saying that he didn’t do climbs easier than a 5.8, and the fence was easier than anything he’s climbed.

Being leftist and also being anti-immigrant isn’t necessarily unheard of.

Also, most undocumented immigrants in this country don’t even have to get past the wall—they come on airplanes.

Yeah, “novice” probably stands for “amateur” or “weekend warrior”. Novices don’t do lead or outdoor climbs.

Apropos of nothing, the player who might become Barcelona’s first bona fide homegrown star since Messi is only there because a communist mayor welcomed an immigrant family from Guinea.

Climbing nerd: “It doesn’t say anywhere the crack is on.”

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Oh Xavi knows exactly who’s signing his checks.

I don’t think anyone is saying that Messi isn’t a draw. It’s just dumb to pretend La Liga playing in the US is equivalent to NFL’s London games.