Games of the Small States of Europe 2023

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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 

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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.  

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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.  

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

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Edited May 30, 2023 by Olympian1010

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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.

Edited May 31, 2023 by Olympian1010

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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 

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 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.  still pretty dominant in the shotgun department.

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56 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

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

 

Wait for the skiing, though.  

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9 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

 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.  still pretty dominant in the shotgun department.

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