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I’m pretty bummed about the quality of the athletics program for this edition. Quite a few events dropped (likely not enough entries), and some top talent missing.

 

Women’s high jump should be one of the best events this week, instead it’s not even being contested :(

“Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair” - Nelson Mandela

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1 minute ago, Olympian1010 said:

I’ve always been fascinated by the European micro-states, and my interest is peaked the minute any multi-sport competition arises.

 

These tend to have a pretty good following on Totallympics, but I don’t tend to see much excitement for them elsewhere. 

So you’re saying that in general multi-games events fans are most interested in multi-game events.  :mumble:

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20 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

So you’re saying that in general multi-games events fans are most interested in multi-game events.  :mumble:

I’m not sure the two are correlated, but there does seem to be an interesting trend :p

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In case y’all want a link to my stories :d

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Gotta say, I’m very pleased with MTVSport’s streaming coverage of the Games. The results system leaves a lot to desired, but at least I can watch most of the events on replay after getting back from the venues.

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I took a look at athletics and swimming streams, good quality broadcast. The opening ceremony is also nice but the length of speech were too long

 

Also I felt bad for the little girl scouts who are asked to raise the huge flags in the athletics medal ceremonies, the fluttering flag hits them repeatedly...

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21 hours ago, Griff88 said:

I took a look at athletics and swimming streams, good quality broadcast.

Shooting events have more helpful graphics than Tokyo 2020 :p

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:AND still the only country without a gold medal after Day 2. 
 

Trap in-person was pretty was cool, even for someone who doesn’t particularly like guns. :SMR still pretty dominant in the shotgun department.

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9 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

:AND still the only country without a gold medal after Day 2. 
 

Trap in-person was pretty was cool, even for someone who doesn’t particularly like guns. :SMR still pretty dominant in the shotgun department.

:AND Jimenez Kasintseva is by far the main favourite in tennis, so it will be at least one gold for Andorra.

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