Swimming at the Aquatics FINA World Championships 2019

[GoHungary! 21]

Szilágyi Liliána should just shut her mouth. Not really a smart women unfortunately.

[heywoodu 16,082]

5 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

But they do speak it (it's the third most common language in SA with 7 million native speakers according to Wiki). And I do know of some SA athletes whose mother tongue is Afrikaans.

I once ordered something in South Africa and it had some stamps and documents in Afrikaans on/in it, I found it very funny. Afrikaans is a really funny language for someone who's mother tongue is (regular) Dutch  

 

It's ontopic because what I ordered was Chad le Clos' book  

[GoHungary! 21]

Bogi Kapás is Telegdy's girlfriend.

[GoHungary! 21]

9 minutes ago, George_D said:

Impressive championship for Hungary. They have only golds till now! 

 

4 individual golds from 4 athletes. Only 1 out of these is Hosszú...  Last time we had such a good WC was back in 1991. Very good, but I'm more happy for so many finalists and relay quotas. Quite unusual for Hungary standards.

[phelps 8,341]

48 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

But they do speak it (it's the third most common language in SA with 7 million native speakers according to Wiki). And I do know of some SA athletes whose mother tongue is Afrikaans.

 

yeah, half the Cricket NT has Afrikaans as mother language...

 

the same Francois Pienaar, captain of the great SA team that won the rugby world cup in 1995 and made famous also outside sport fans by the movie Invictus, with Matt Damon (playing Pienaar's role) and Morgan Freeman (playing Nelson Mandela's role), is a pure Afrikaner...

[phelps 8,341]

43 minutes ago, GoHungary! said:

Bogi Kapás is Telegdy's girlfriend.

 

so, basically he's won his gold medal even without racing...

[heywoodu 16,082]

3 minutes ago, phelps said:

 

yeah, half the Cricket NT has Afrikaans as mother language...

 

the same Francois Pienaar, captain of the great SA team that won the rugby world cup in 1995 and made famous also outside sport fans by the movie Invictus, with Matt Damon (playing Pienaar's role) and Morgan Freeman (playing Nelson Mandela's role), is a pure Afrikaner...

Steven Pienaar on the other hand  

 

[phelps 8,341]

49 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

I once ordered something in South Africa and it had some stamps and documents in Afrikaans on/in it, I found it very funny. Afrikaans is a really funny language for someone who's mother tongue is (regular) Dutch  

 

It's ontopic because what I ordered was Chad le Clos' book  

 

basically it's like the kind of Italian language they speak in Tessin (especially those in the mountain areas) opposed to the regular Italian language spoken south of the Border...

[OlympicsFan 860]

Another sad day for german swimming. Hentke missed bronze by 0.26 seconds and Heintz missed bronze by 0.08 seconds. With Ledecky back i don't see Köhler winning a medal in the 800 free and Wellbrock probably won't even make the final in his current shape. For now i will remain hopeful for next year, Wellbrock should be a medal contender in 2-3 events and Köhler could also challenge for some medals, in addition to that Heintz, Selin and Hentke could also become medal contenders depending on how the next 12 months go. I am hoping for 4 medals in pool events and 1 or 2 open water medals, which would be 5/6 more medals than in 2016 and 4/5 more medals than in 2012.

[OlympicsFan 860]

2 hours ago, heywoodu said:

I once ordered something in South Africa and it had some stamps and documents in Afrikaans on/in it, I found it very funny. Afrikaans is a really funny language for someone who's mother tongue is (regular) Dutch  

 

It's ontopic because what I ordered was Chad le Clos' book  

Reminds me of the relation between Yiddish and German ...