European Games 2019

[dcro 10,210]

Yay, we will take part in this event.

[phelps 7,706]

it was a farce in 2015 and it will be a farce in 2019...

it's only a celebration of the former Soviet Republics' power...

the real European Champions are those who win the single discipline European Champs, not this joke...

[heywoodu 15,174]

5 minutes ago, Federer91 said:

 

My thoughts exactly. Only the second edition, but this project seems like a failure. And when i think that in 2015 there was a big enthusiasm when the Games were running.

 

On which planet?  

 

Totallympics doesn't count, we all know we'd stay awake half the night for two weeks if there was a Junior South Burmese Games or something.

Edited May 13, 2018 by heywoodu

[Gianlu33 4,607]

2 minuti fa, phelps ha scritto:

it was a farce in 2015 and it will be a farce in 2019...

it's only a celebration of the former Soviet Republics' power...

the real European Champions are those who win the single discipline European Champs, not this joke...

I see some big improvment since 2015.. we'll have 3 sport that we'll give the European Championship medal and the level will be a little more hight... i hope that in 2023 it will be again better

Edited May 13, 2018 by Gianlu33

[intoronto 5,677]

2 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

 

On which planet?  

 

Totallympics doesn't count, we all know we'd stay awake half the night for two weeks if there was a Junior South Burmese Games or something.

[dcro 10,210]

It wasn't even that much of a thing here either. I remember that the 3rd division team athletics turned out to be my highlight.

[intoronto 5,677]

You need to give events time to grow, look at all the other continental games from their first to last editions.

For ex. Pan Am Games 

 

1951:2513 athletes

2015: 6132 athletes

[heywoodu 15,174]

Just now, dcro said:

It wasn't even that much of a thing here either. I remember that the 3rd division team athletics turned out to be my highlight.

 

The one where the (doping, as turned out later) steeplechase Azeri-Ethiopian/Kenyan was leading by 5 minutes and then stumbled and hit the bar flat on the face in the last lap? 

 

She got away without injury because she got up and won so it's safe to say that was my comical highlight of the Games. 

[dcro 10,210]

4 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

 

The one where the (doping, as turned out later) steeplechase Azeri-Ethiopian/Kenyan was leading by 5 minutes and then stumbled and hit the bar flat on the face in the last lap? 

 

She got away without injury because she got up and won so it's safe to say that was my comical highlight of the Games. 

 

Yes, and the one where won by a single point.

[hckošice 14,900]

2 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

Yes, and the one where won by a single point.

 

We have silver, Austria won gold by 0.5 points, because the Azeri athlete in Hammer throw was doped and disqualified, thus the Austrian athlete in this event moved up from 4th to 3rd place and took 1 more point for his team which in overall resulted in the Austrian gold by this half point, we had to return gold because of that...https://sport.sme.sk/c/8053593/slovensko-dodatocne-prislo-o-zlato-na-eh-v-baku-azerbajdzanec-dopoval.html