Gledam najnoviju "Odiseju" sa Met Dejmonom i tek sad kapiram koji je car bio taj Odisej:
Otiš'o u rat, zakleo prelepu brinetu da ga ĉeka 20 godina. Posle 10 godina osvojio lukavstvom neosvojivu Troju, onda se "izgubio" na putu kući i pljačkao sve okolo 3 godine. Onda upao u krizu srednjih godina, te 7 godina živeo na pustom ostrvu s plavušom jer kao izgubio pamćenje, pa se drogirao svaki dan kako bi se setio (cvrc!).
A kada se izgustirao droge i plavuše odjedanput se setio ko je, pa se vratio kući.
To svima ispričao a porodica i ostali ga dočekali - kao heroja!
Majstor, nema šta!👏👏👏
La camiseta alternativa de Bélgica homenajea al Pintor surrealista belga René Magritte. El gráfico en toda la camiseta mezcla el escudo de la federación con su obra "La voix des airs" que recuerda a la región del país donde Magritte creció, el Pays Noir. El jocktag en el cuello interno también se inspira en otra obra del artista.
Here's a mind-blowing statistic: despite making up just ~0.2% of the global population, players with ethnic heritage from the former Yugoslavia are 7.5% of players in the FIFA World Cup Round of 32 (overrepresented by 40x) and play for 9/32 or 28% of teams! -> 🇭🇷🇧🇦🇦🇹🇦🇺🇨🇭🇺🇸🇨🇦🇸🇪🇩🇪
Rafa Nadal won the 2022 French Open with his left foot completely numb. His doctor had been injecting anesthetic into the nerves before every match, for two solid weeks. After one of those matches he couldn’t walk, and his father had to carry him to the hotel.
That was his 14th French Open title. No tennis player, male or female, has ever won the same tournament that many times. His career record at the French Open was 112 wins, 4 losses. That 96.6% win rate is the highest by any player at any major in history. Only three men ever beat him in Paris: Söderling in 2009, Djokovic twice, and Alexander Zverev in his final appearance in 2024.
The forehand that powered all of it spins faster than a washing machine on spin cycle. About 3,200 rotations per minute on average, peaking at 5,000. Federer’s spins at 2,500. Sampras and Agassi were at 1,800. Nadal’s ball spins about 80 times in the time it takes to cross the court.
The condition in his foot is called Müller-Weiss syndrome. It is a rare disease where a small bone in the middle of the foot slowly collapses. He has had it since 2005. There’s no cure. He once said he doesn’t remember what playing without pain feels like.
He retired last November in tears, after Spain lost a Davis Cup quarter-final to the Netherlands. Across 23 years he won 22 Grand Slams, 92 tour titles, and 1,080 of his 1,308 singles matches. He held the world number one ranking for 209 weeks and earned $134.9 million in prize money.
The Netflix series drops May 29, in the middle of this year’s French Open. He turns 40 five days later. The tagline is “A Life Beyond Limits.” That was the job description of a tennis career he played, for years, on a foot doctors said could not hold up.
A young man born in America to a family of Bosniak refugees, who fled the Srebrenica Genocide, grows up to punch Bosnia and Herzegovina's ticket to the 2026 World Cup.
Horror, survival, renewal, triumph. This is the way.
Ker smo pač samo ljudje. Kratkotrajne iskrice v neskončni erupciji življenja, ki nam ga nikoli ne bo dano zares razumeti.
~ Alojz Ihan v svoji kolumni iz oktobra leta 2023. 🕊️
Dear American friends, Europe is your closest ally, not your problem. And we have common enemies. At least that’s how it has been in the last 80 years. We need to stick to this, this is the only reasonable strategy of our common security. Unless something has changed.
Top stat of last month! 📊👇
Between 2004-2024, household real income per capita in the EU grew by 22%.
Largest growth in:
🇷🇴Romania (134%)
🇱🇹Lithuania (95%)
🇬🇷Greece and 🇮🇹Italy registered decreases (-5% and -4%, respectively).
👉 https://t.co/3SdBz0XPFO
#EurostatTopPosts
Volivci so junija lani jasno odločili, da želijo pravico do pomoči pri prostovoljnem končanju življenja, a Slovenija ni zmogla nujnega premika od ideološkega spora k strokovni razpravi, v kolumni za N1 piše prof. dr. Alojz Ihan.
🔗https://t.co/roEXspK5El
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