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I work for the organizing committee of the 2018 World Junior Badminton Championships. We are drafting up a release on introducing Li Ning as the main sponsor for the event, the company ofc named after the final torchbearer at Beijing 2008

Whoever predicted Ingebrigtsen clean sweep just had a heart attack...

Should have been quicker to conquer those high seas if you wanted more talent, 16th century Polish leaders clearly didn't have a smart mind thinking about future sports results.

Btw, that was the day when I became Olympic lover. It was a hot summer day when my sister and I started to watch this very impressive ceremony. And the rest is history.

Thanks, the new static flags look much nicer, especially on mobile

What a miserable last-lap bell.

Heike Drechsler sweeping the long jump pit is pretty cool.

"Guba" means "gnarly" in Croatian.

I have been reminded of this game. Likely becoming an activity for the next couple of days.

Men's 470 Olympic Quotas:

The 49er armada

I've uncovered the VHS tape of the opening ceremony and will be watching it in half an hour.

I love it when they absolutely scream their lungs out and then end up like 10 meters under the Q

Omg. Two years ago we couldn't even dream of having a male middle distance runner in any championships. Simas Bertašius put so much work in, 3 national records this year and a final at EUROS

Sadly, I can't remember. But I do remember putting alarm for 5am next morning in order to watch my first ever shooting competition. And how did that end? With totally unexpected bronze for our shooter, winning the very first medal of the Games accross all sports...

Colonial empires and their problems... sigh... Where would France and UK be without the African & Carribean talent?

Not exactly yet, 14:08 CET. Time when I indeed plan to rewatch the ceremony.

Who remember this?

Road to Tokio is finally starting also for . Tina Mrak and Veronika Macarol should be first confirmed Olympian in Sailing (Women's 470) after qualifying for the final 10, and being top 7 counting only one boat per nation.

Just came back home to see the final throw live. AMAZING. The true character of a champion!!!!!

Men´s Discus Throw 1. Andrius Gudžius 68.46, 2. Daniel Stahl 68.23, 3. Lukas Weisshaidinger 65.14

Stahl the Gudzius' bridesmaid.

Gudzius @Werloc has just exploded, rest in peace mate.

Polish commentators giggling in the booth like they've had a bottle of vodka in there...

Nothing for 6 years?! *facepalm* She had 55.16 at the 2015 World Championships. 53.80 at 400m (indoors) in 2016. She recovered after injury last year and ran 200m at the NCH (24.13 with +1.4 wind though).

And west of the North Sea

No, new schedule is yet to be published.

I’ve been lucky enough to visit both Vancouver and Whistler and can say, without a doubt, they some if not the best places in the world. Definitely was my favorite vacation, and of course I visited almost all of the venues. My favorite was the bobsled track because I’d never seen one before.

Beijing 2008 was my favourite Olympic ceremony. It was magical, and the lighting of the flame was just wonderfully done. The closing ceremony when the flame was extinguished was one of the saddest moments ever

Looks like no more racing in Laser. Quotas for . Finn is over too... Quotas for . And of course Croatia the first non-qualifier. Results are not fully official yet...

Vancouver 2010 is my favorite because of..well, because of everything The biggest emotions (from the Nodar Kumaritashvili tragedy to the absolutely fantastic Hallelujah cover performance) and then the whole games since the first event (Ski Jumping Normal Hill Individual to the very last second of the games and the goal of Sid in the Ice Hockey final. everything just everything, our first ever Gold medal from winter Olympics since the independence ofc..by Nastya already in the first day of competition, our most successful Winter games in history with 3 medals, 4th place of our Ice Hockey Mens team, participation historic of our womens Ice Hockey team..The absolutely stunning images, landscapes, real winter games. really everything, I can not. It´s stronger than me, Vancouver will be for ever my Number one. from A to Z.

I love OG in Asia because I love watching events at 4am for personal life reasons it will be more difficult for me to follow 2020 than it was in 2008 but still, i will enjoy those nights falling asleep in the sofa with a rowing race on tv.

For a little balance in this argument I looked at the track and field events at Rio 2016. The number of naturalized athletes on some of the major European countries is as follows: Turkey 13 Spain 9 Italy 6 Germany 4 Great Britain, France, Netherlands 2 Poland 1 I'm not counting athletes who were entitled to citizenship since birth (eg those whose parents came from the country they now run for)

Having a child that's older than you is pretty impressive

1. Duckworth (GBR) - 6930 2. Shkurenyov (ANA) - 6860 3. Abele (GER) - 6832 4. Zhuk (BLR) - 6689 5. Uibo (EST) - 6682

I found a video with a soundbite of this Novac guy

Hello from Langkawi i'm not far than Phuket , the first one who finds the logo will get one gift

Feels like TISC. After much complaining, you get points.

That's what I meant. So many field/real hockey rip-offs: ice, roller skates etc, and now apparently also on bikes seeing as this is being discussed in a cycling thread

I agree on that...and I don't understand why they don't do it...it shouldn't be that complicated, I guess...

yeah, ready for another disastrous and disappointing season that will be fabulously completed by a non-direct Olympic quota for Beijing, if we didn´t finish among the semifinalists in Bratislava/Košice next May , which is ofc more than obvious

these European Champs are getting soooo boring...just another Dutch sweep (in the women's individual time trial)...

Done I think @heywoodu is partying during the whole multichamps

Exactly 10 years ago started Beijing 2008. The most successful SVK Olympics ever https://www.olympicchannel.com/en/playback/beijing-2008-opening-ceremony/

Soundtrack...

Well, here not at all Hardly you can find any mention about it, maybe only the athletics thanks Matej Toth´s silver, otherwise nothing. Here our 2 main sports sites first pages as you can see the top news are about the U18 Ice Hockey tournament Hlinka Gretzky Cup in Canada and the Slovakia U18 - Canada U18 match, followed by the death of Stan Mikita (First Slovak player and huge megastar of the NHL) and ofc Spartak Trnava in the Champions League qualifying round 1-1 in Belgrade against the Red Star Šport.sk Sme Šport

When I saw "Loch" part I already thought it was Loch Ness.

Must be a glitch, as besides the results at Aarhus site are often less accurate then those at SAP site. In any case, the newly published schedule suggests no more fleet races for women's 470.

Zanzibar having a flag here is pretty cool