heywoodu 15,135 Posted December 14, 2018 #61 Share Posted December 14, 2018 This 4x200 free final was awesome . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thepharoah 2,405 Posted December 14, 2018 #62 Share Posted December 14, 2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thiago_simoes 1,423 Posted December 14, 2018 #63 Share Posted December 14, 2018 (edited) This relay gold medal got me all tearful here. First because I would never ever expect a medal for Brazil in distances longer than 100 m. Our commentators are always proud to say we are the "sprint nation" and 200 m is not exactly a sprint distance, let alone a relay event. Second, because all five medalists come from completely different parts of the country, from the northernmost state (Roraima) to the southernmost state (Rio Grande do Sul), from a western state (Mato Grosso do Sul) to two eastern states (Rio de Janeiro and Bahia). This is incredible. Truly an effort involving swimmers from all parts of the nation! Now, Ethiene Medeiros... No comments. Edit: For those who care, here is a map of Brazil showing the states where all five swimmers come from. Edited December 14, 2018 by thiago_simoes vinipereira and heywoodu 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OlympicIRL 5,532 Posted December 14, 2018 #64 Share Posted December 14, 2018 First ever SC world medal for Ireland! Well done Shane thiago_simoes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 15,135 Posted December 14, 2018 #65 Share Posted December 14, 2018 2 hours ago, thiago_simoes said: This relay gold medal got me all tearful here. First because I would never ever expect a medal for Brazil in distances longer than 100 m. Our commentators are always proud to say we are the "sprint nation" and 200 m is not exactly a sprint distance, let alone a relay event. Second, because all five medalists come from completely different parts of the country, from the northernmost state (Roraima) to the southernmost state (Rio Grande do Sul), from a western state (Mato Grosso do Sul) to two eastern states (Rio de Janeiro and Bahia). This is incredible. Truly an effort involving swimmers from all parts of the nation! Now, Ethiene Medeiros... No comments. Edit: For those who care, here is a map of Brazil showing the states where all five swimmers come from. Cool to see someone from Roraima in the team Like many very northern and/or western states it's a bit like the Kyrgyzstan of Brazil for me, as in: never hear anything about it so it's kinda like a 'far away mystery' thiago_simoes 1 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thiago_simoes 1,423 Posted December 14, 2018 #66 Share Posted December 14, 2018 1 hora atrás, heywoodu disse: Cool to see someone from Roraima in the team Like many very northern and/or western states it's a bit like the Kyrgyzstan of Brazil for me, as in: never hear anything about it so it's kinda like a 'far away mystery' The population of the whole state of Roraima is 576,000 people. This is roughly the same number of people in the town I currently live in, Joinville. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 15,135 Posted December 14, 2018 #67 Share Posted December 14, 2018 1 minute ago, thiago_simoes said: The population of the whole state of Roraima is 576,000 people. This is roughly the same number of people in the town I currently live in, Joinville. Stop calling our biggest cities towns thiago_simoes and Wumo 1 1 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wumo 3,001 Posted December 14, 2018 #68 Share Posted December 14, 2018 (edited) 11 minutes ago, heywoodu said: Stop calling our biggest cities towns At least you can say cities. Denmark only have one ctiy, Copehagen (1.295.686), who is bigger than his "town". The population of Denmark's second biggest city, Aarhus (269.022), is not even half of Joinville's. Edited December 14, 2018 by wumo26 thiago_simoes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 15,135 Posted December 14, 2018 #69 Share Posted December 14, 2018 25 minutes ago, wumo26 said: At least you can say cities. Denmark only have one ctiy, Copehagen (1.295.686), who is bigger than his "town". The population of Denmark's second biggest city, Aarhus (269.022), is not even half of Joinville's. Still 0.4 million people more than our biggest . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thiago_simoes 1,423 Posted December 15, 2018 #70 Share Posted December 15, 2018 Nicholas Santos won two medals (one of them gold) today and this made him the oldest medalist at the short course worlds (and the oldest champion, of course) at 38 years old. And got a medal! Nice achievement for Dylan Carter! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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