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Kiplimo with the win, nice fight.

Going into the last kilometer or so I thought one of the Kenyans might take the win here, and they do!

I did wonder at the exchange why she wouldn't just take the other one off as well then (better run with no shoes than run unbalanced with one, I'd say), but hadn't noticed she did that later on. Smart indeed

Yeah, but in Australia I'd expect that, I wouldn't expect this heat in Belgrade yet. Then again, I have zero experience with Belgrade, so it's really more a matter of me not knowing enough

Ehtiopia minus one (1) shoe.

How is it this hot already in Belgrade?

That was someone else

With the playoffs closing in, which is the part of the season I do kind of try to follow, I've got a question: what are the main story lines going on right now/this season? Like, is there a certain team that is massively underperforming and surprisingly in danger of not making the playoffs, is there a team that is a sensation this season, something like that

You might want to get some reading glasses, it's right in there

I can only watch the medal fights on-demand anyway (Eurosport), so for the rest I just go by the results. The medal fights with Dutch athletes I'll skip a bit less, depending on how it goes. If it's minute after minute of just standing around and trying to get a grip (which is the case in most judo medal fights sadly), I'll just skip bit by bit

Ah yeah, cross-country here as well, and I'll keep an eye on the judo Grand Slam in Antalya (mostly that will consist of skipping through the medal matches to see if anything interesting happens, I can't bring myself to watch 7 hours of judo in a weekend ).

Here it's going to be one of the quietest sports weekends of the year, since it's the switch from winter to summer sports basically (in November there's usually a weekend like that too, the other way around) All winter sports I can or want to watch have finishes, there's no F1, MotoGP, WSBK or IndyCar. Main things are problably Formula E in Tokyo (which is finished by the time Saturday gets underway) and of course Sunday is the number one sit on the sofa and shut up day of the year, the High Mass, Flander's Most Beautiful, Tour of Flanders Some small stuff around it, like a bit of darts and some junior racing, but that's about it. Oh, and of course rowing on Sunday, The Boat Race Perfect weekend to catch up with lots of stuff, with Saturday and Sunday being fairly quiet (or easy '1 at a time' days) and Monday being a free day because of someone dying 2000 years ago

Eurovision Sport, ugh. Why is everything on their broken platform

Such a bummer. Obviously no fan will be happy to see someone get injured anyway, but it really devalues the next few big races. Of course in 10 years nobody will be talking about who wasn't there, as always, but during the races people will.

With gold for a guy born in 2010. Fantastic, that's two years after I left school....now I am really starting to feel old as well.

Somewhat risky Austrian regional championships on the schedule, apparently. https://worldathletics.org/competition/calendar-results?disciplineId=2

Have fun!

That was the Martin Haven highlight of the year, much as we all wanted a real climax, he seemed to very much enjoy closing up the season with some random talking about stuff behind the scenes

New things? I don't want new things

Still ridiculous that the races in Austria and Switzerland are always so weirdly sold in terms of rights that even FIS themselves isn't allowed to put the tiny highlight videos of them on their own channel...

If any version of hell exists, ISIS rotting there is at least something we agree on

It would feel slightly odd: going to the number one traditional rest day, to avoid old-fashioned traditions (if they exist).... Kidding aside, no idea if it would work. I would personally not like spreading it over two days, since that'd simply take away the 'Grand Final day' feeling. I've also always been happy it is on a Saturday, because it's generally a long day and especially the second half of Sunday mostly feels like "ugh, have to work tomorrow"

Pretty good summary of the situation so far

Right, that can be your opinion of course. Just makes no sense to call her 'dumb pro-war amoeba' considering her consistent anti-war stance, but alright, if that's your wish, so be it

Is that the Sabalenka who consistently has said she doesn't support the war? Also, not weird she eventually ends up losing big, considering her tragedy earlier this week.