European Games 2019

[Grassmarket 4,314]

12 minutes ago, Fly_like_a_don said:

Sambo  

Don't know why Olympic Channel is showing it for 2 days, what a boring sport 

 

What is the difference between Sambo & any other kind of wrestling? As far as I can see the only one is that the athletes wear shorts rather than a leotard.

[Olympian1010 8,321]

1 minute ago, Grassmarket said:

 

What is the difference between Sambo & any other kind of wrestling? As far as I can see the only one is that the athletes wear shorts rather than a leotard.

Not many as it draws from those disciplines. It’s a little more MMA like. There’s move that are legal in Sambo that are illegal in freestyle wrestling. The scoring system is different too.

[phelps 8,766]

Just now, Grassmarket said:

 

What is the difference between Sambo & any other kind of wrestling? As far as I can see the only one is that the athletes wear shorts rather than a leotard.

 

it's a mix between Judo, Wrestling and other Martial Arts and the scoring criteria are different from all the "original" sports that have been used as an inspiration to build the rules of Sambo (which was invented as a form of training for the Soviet Military Forces in the early Twenties of the 20th Century)...

[Olympian1010 8,321]

The first athletics heat is beginning, not really sure what to expect here...

[Olympian1010 8,321]

@hckosice Slovakia is on great form in the athletics competition 

[Grassmarket 4,314]

Well, this athletics badly needs some on-screen graphics, it’s impossible to tell what is going on.

[hckošice 16,641]

7 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

@hckosice Slovakia is on great form in the athletics competition 

 

Our sgtronger part starts in the first half of the event, the remaining disciplines are much much worse, we may finish dead last at the end

 

 

anyway only 10.38 for Volko, but yes, he just returned from injury and peaking his form for Dauha, however he still have to qualify there lol

[Olympian1010 8,321]

I will rarely defend any Russian athletes, but the Armenian athlete just bullied the hell out of him, showed bad sportsmanship, and took cheap shots, and was awarded the sambo match. Not a good look for the sport.

Edited June 23, 2019 by Olympian1010

[Sindo 1,839]

Since Shooting is giving Olympic Quotas, we have a dedicated thread for that, so please use the dedicated thread for the Shooting events

[Grassmarket 4,314]

This is just crazy, we are three events into the athletics and they haven’t showed us the overall match score yet!