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Swimming at the Aquatics FINA World Championships 2022


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On 6/18/2022 at 12:24 PM, Monzanator said:

:EGY Osman made the final by 0,02.

So Anna Ntountounaki was 9th, missing out on the final by 0.02. At the Tokyo Olympics she was also 9th, missing out on the final by 0.06. She was so close to making the final both times, I really hope she can make it at the next Worlds :cry:

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:GRE Apostolos Christou with a CR of 52.09 (previously 52.26) in the men's 100 backstroke semifinals :hyper:

Obviously broke his own NR as well (previously 52.77) :yes

 

Really hoping he can win a medal here, although last year at the Euros he only won bronze with 52.97 after swimming 52.77 in the semifinals (which would've been enough for gold in the final...)

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2 hours ago, dullard said:

With Haughey pulling out of the 100 and 200 free, Oleksiak is the only medalist from Tokyo in either of those races to compete in Budapest (bronze in the 200).  And seeing as she finished 4th in the 100, looking pretty good there, too.  

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On 6/18/2022 at 5:34 PM, Grassmarket said:

I think it’s more to do with all the knock-on changes from the originally-planned Fukuoka 2021. TV Companies have their sports schedules set & the rights paid for years in advance, so when a major event is changed at (relativity) the last minute, it gets bumped to the bottom of the priorities list.

It's not new though. Swimming championships seem to have been pushed away gradually for a few years now (before 2020).

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I agree, and also it's the WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS in Swimming, how is that less relevant than the shite is on BBC Two for those two hours

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TV schedules aren't about relevance. They're about the cost of acquiring the rights versus the amount of viewers they'll get. And while us sports nuts mightn't like it, repeats of sitcoms or reality shows get more viewers per dollar/pound/euro than most sports

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35 minutes ago, JoshMartini007 said:

Yeah, live TV is very expensive for TV stations. Unlike syndication shows where you can show them over and over, for sports you only get one chance.

Less so now: you just take the preproduced feed & slap a commentator in his bedroom on it.

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