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Day 8 & 9

It's raining medals

Tyrellia - Medals. One silver, four bronze. That pretty much sums up these last two days for the Ropa-Topian athletes at the Ylompics in Tyrellia. On the eight day of these Ylompic Games, the medals went to the swimmers: silver for the men in the 4x100 meters (the women finished at a fifth place in the women's event), and bronze in the 50 meters freestyle, for Lars Sepers and for Jessica Rubik.
The day ended with The Kazoo Person [Editor: this means someone from The Kazoo Peoples, although the reporter made this up himself] table-tennis player Ben Wee-Kiong defeating Corneel Marsman in 7 sets, and in judo, Saskia Verhaegen was defeated by Carita Lilliewall from Anastiania. Both those winners from day eight went on to be defeated the next day, earning them a silver medal each.
But there were medals for both losers as well: Verhaegen won the bronze medal by defeating Ariddian Julie Lanza, and Marsman needed only 5 sets to defeat Matrin Baggaley from Krytenia, adding another bronze medal for Uhuh-Ropa and Uhuh-Topia.
[Editor: There may also have been a couple of football matches, but the reporter said that Klungelaer has asked him not to say anything about the ties against Liverpool England (men's) and Rejistania (women's) in his report, so the reporter didn't include anything about those matches. We respect Mr. Klungelaer's opinion, so we won't mention that we again didn't win with football. Er... Oops.]

Day 10 & 11

Klungelaer taken to hospital

Tyrellia/Ropadam - Minister Klungelaer and chairman of the Ropa-Topian Sports Alliance was taken to the hospital after he collapsed when he heard that the men's football team had lost from The Kazoo Peoples in Tyrellia. This happened during an argument with Defense Minister Snoodaert who claimed that Klungelaer should grow up and that football is just a game.
After Klungelaer fell mysteriously ill, Snoodaert handed in his resignation to King James while Klungelaer was taken to a nearby (and formerly top-secret) military hospital.
Uhuh-Ropean government officials have asked this newspaper not to dwell on that topic too long and just continue to report about the Ylompics instead, like the tennis match between Hugo Coonincx and Chae Jong-u from Bedistan, which Coonincx lost by the way.
Of course. The people of the Allied States of Ropa-Topia are far more interested in hearing how one of our tennis players was defeated at the Ylompics than some news about a mysterious illness and some (formerly) top-secret military hospital.

Day 12 & 13 - Not a lot happened really at the Ylompics; for Uhuh-Ropa & Uhuh-Topia that is

What hospital?

Ropadam - The hospital where Minister Klungelaer was taken a day ago has vanished. Even Klungelaer himself denies he was taken to a hospital and that it was just a joke to get people to forget about any bad results in any football matches.

Day 14

Klungelaer resigns

Tyrellia/Isle of Uhm - After a humiliating performance of both Ropa-Topian football teams at the Ylompic Games in Tyrellia, Chairman of the Ropa-Topian Sports Alliance Ferdinand Klungelaer has decided to step down. Though he denies that the results of the football teams (like today's tie against Anastiania) had anything to do with his decision, the avid football fan Klungelaer couldn't give any other reason why he had reached this decision. He is still denying that he has been in any hospital recently.
Until a new chairman will be elected, vice-chairman Tomas Kroon (a member of the Uhuh-Topian Imperial Sports Association) will take over from Klungelaer.