{"id":25092,"date":"2022-08-24T12:04:01","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T17:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=25092"},"modified":"2022-08-24T14:51:25","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T19:51:25","slug":"the-agony-of-something-or-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=25092","title":{"rendered":"The Agony of&#8230;something or other."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It isn&#8217;t exactly defeat. This makes falling off the end of a ski jump look tame.<\/p>\n<p>By way of <a href=\"https:\/\/old.reddit.com\/r\/HobbyDrama\/comments\/wu1n17\/hobby_scuffles_week_of_august_22_2022_rules\/ilk19xb\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a comment on Reddit&#8217;s &#8220;Hobby Drama&#8221; sub<\/a>, I learned that there is such a thing as the <a href=\"https:\/\/tanksdriving.com\/tank-biathlon\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">International Tank Biathlon World Championship<\/a>. The 9th one of those is either wrapped up or just wrapping up. Yes, it did go on: it was not called on account of WAR, though the page linked above seems to be confused about whether this is the 2022 or 2021 edition.<\/p>\n<p>But wait, there&#8217;s more! We have a Twitter thread! With video! And commentary!<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">All of the group races at the tank biathlon at the army games have now finished, so here\u2019s a thread of all the best videos from this years races. Starting with the Venezuelan commanders reaction to his crew missing all their targets with the main gun. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/z335R3y6lG\">pic.twitter.com\/z335R3y6lG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CNW (@ConflictsW) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ConflictsW\/status\/1562138242207604737?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 23, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p>Two highlights. Number one is a clip from &#8220;Fast 12: Tank Drift&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Armenian tank crew almost flipping over their tank after losing control whilst taking a corner at high speed <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LFjsDk2CIC\">pic.twitter.com\/LFjsDk2CIC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CNW (@ConflictsW) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ConflictsW\/status\/1562140324922892291?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 23, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p>Number two: everything is better with music.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Here you go buddy! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Eeq79PfbcD\">pic.twitter.com\/Eeq79PfbcD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Robert Krom \ud83d\udcbb\ud83d\udee9\ud83d\udd2d (@maskedfly) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/maskedfly\/status\/1562177150156939264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 23, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p>And this goes out to the Saturday Night Movie Group:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"reddit-embed\" src=\"https:\/\/www.redditmedia.com\/r\/HobbyDrama\/comments\/wu1n17\/hobby_scuffles_week_of_august_22_2022_rules\/ilk420r\/?depth=1&amp;showmore=false&amp;embed=true&amp;showtitle=true&amp;showmedia=false\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups\" style=\"border: none;\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It isn&#8217;t exactly defeat. This makes falling off the end of a ski jump look tame. By way of a comment on Reddit&#8217;s &#8220;Hobby Drama&#8221; sub, I learned that there is such a thing as the International Tank Biathlon World Championship. The 9th one of those is either wrapped up or just wrapping up. Yes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bagatelle","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25092"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25100,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25092\/revisions\/25100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}