European Games 2023

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51 minutes ago, Vektor said:

Shooting (rifle and pistol) is still the worst traditional Olympic discipline. Even when I watched us winning a gold medal yesterday I couldn't get excited because it's literally just watching numbers appear on a screen. I know that it can be improved with some graphics, but it would still just be a TV graphic, because irl it's an incredibly boring precision game. Skeet and trap are at least visually pleasing and appear more "physical". Even darts seem more of an actual physical sport than air rifle and air pistol. 

 

I don't know, I just don't get how this sport has 15 Olympic events. Way too much for a sport that's both visually unappealing and has low attendance even at the Summer Games. I would strip it down to 1-1 male and female rifle and pistol events and keep the 5 shotgun events. So basically drop the 6 air pistol/rifle events, down to 9 Olympic events instead of the current 15. Anything would be better than this, even E-sports. 

 

Shooting is one of those sports that's lucky it got in during the early days of the Olympics. It definitely would not be added as a new sport today.

 

In discussions about esports being in the Olympics I've used shooting as an example of a sport that's less physical being in the Olympics. In fact, esports and shooting have a lot of common, they are both precision sports that focus on twitch muscles. Funny enough, there is always someone that tries and argue the physicality of shooting and throws in "but tradition" for good measure.

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CANOEING SPRINT

 

Women's K2-500m
Final Results

 

Poland

Karolina Naja

Anna Pulawska

1:40.952

 

Denmark

Emma Joergensen

Frederikke Matthiesen

1:41.342

 

Hungary

Alida Gazso

Tamara Csipes

1:42.538

Full Final Result HERE

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Did the  paddler pass out into the water there?

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 gets their first gold medal 

 

 on the board as well

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CANOEING SPRINT

 

Men's K4-500m
Final Results

 

Spain

Carlos Arevalo

Rodrigo Germade

Saul Craviotto

Marcus Walz

1:19.964

 

Ukraine

Dmytro Danylenko

Oleh Kukharyk

Ivan Semykin

Ihor Trunov

1:20.500

 

Serbia

Andelo Dzombeta

Marko Novakovic

Vladimir Torubarov

Stefan Vrdoljak

1:20.800

Full Final Result HERE

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4 hours ago, stepansevs said:

How bad? I am going to Chorzow only with t-shirt and shorts :-D 

The sun is back again. There was a major thunderstorm in the morning but it's all clear now

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CANOEING SPRINT

 

Men's C1-200m
Final Results

 

Henrikas ZUSTAUTAS

39.700

 

Zaza NADIRADZE

39.796

 

Pablo GRANA

39.852

Full Final Result HERE

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CANOEING SPRINT

 

Women's C1-200m
Final Results

 

Dorota BOROWSKA

46.653

 

Liudmyla LUZAN

46.937

 

Maria CORBERA

47.441

Full Final Result HERE

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CANOEING SPRINT

 

Women's K1-200m
Final Results

 

Emma JOERGENSEN

40.106

 

Milica NOVAKOVIC

41.006

 

Francisca LAIA

41.058

Full Final Result HERE

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9 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

The sun is back again. There was a major thunderstorm in the morning but it's all clear now

So as long as you remember to take a lightning rod, you’ll be fine.