phelps 7,066 Posted August 21, 2023 #721 Share Posted August 21, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, Monzanator said: (...) Compared to the early 1990s when I started watching athletics Germany has regressed the most out of European countries (followed by France). Meanwhile countries like Netherlands and Italy are maximizing their chances and winning more medals than expected. where? when? and please, don't tell me "in Tokyo", as it was just an exception, when we had 3 medal candidates and we came home with 5 gold medals (and only in athletics, because in the other sports we didn't maximize anything also in those "happy days" of 2021) Edited August 21, 2023 by phelps Gianlu33 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,623 Posted August 21, 2023 #722 Share Posted August 21, 2023 I love how everyone from every country always feels like their country is performing badly. Which is just impossible, because if every country performs badly, we're going to be left with medals that aren't won by anyone Josh 1 If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 13,326 Posted August 21, 2023 #723 Share Posted August 21, 2023 6 minutes ago, heywoodu said: I love how everyone from every country always feels like their country is performing badly. Which is just impossible, because if every country performs badly, we're going to be left with medals that aren't won by anyone why so ? for instance, pretty proud that is after 2 days of competition tied in the medal table with powerhouses like France or Germany maestro, Olympian1010 and Josh 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vektor 3,196 Posted August 21, 2023 #724 Share Posted August 21, 2023 (edited) 10 minutes ago, heywoodu said: I love how everyone from every country always feels like their country is performing badly. Which is just impossible, because if every country performs badly, we're going to be left with medals that aren't won by anyone Well, I am personally not complaining. We got our medal here. We have won 3 gold medals in fencing, 1 in sailing, 1 in swimming, 1 in water polo, 1 in taekwondo and at least one more should be coming up in canoe sprint this year at the Worlds if not more. We are overperforming before Paris in terms of gold medals and Milák isn't even competing. If we would repeat this with Milák also coming back, that would be a 10+ gold medal performance from Hungary in Paris. I hope we aren't setting up ourselves for a disappointment, this year has been "too good to be true" one year before Paris. Edited August 21, 2023 by Vektor maestro 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 7,066 Posted August 21, 2023 #725 Share Posted August 21, 2023 (edited) 11 minutes ago, heywoodu said: I love how everyone from every country always feels like their country is performing badly. Which is just impossible, because if every country performs badly, we're going to be left with medals that aren't won by anyone I'm not saying "performing badly", but still, I can't hear words like "overperforming" and getting "more medals than expected"... with a couple of notable exceptions, it's not true at all...actually, it's the opposite (which, again, doesn't necessarily mean "underperform badly", it's just "not as good as many thought") Edited August 21, 2023 by phelps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 13,326 Posted August 21, 2023 #726 Share Posted August 21, 2023 9 minutes ago, heywoodu said: I love how everyone from every country always feels like their country is performing badly. Which is just impossible, because if every country performs badly, we're going to be left with medals that aren't won by anyone Anyway, small off-topic other sport "spoiler" Congrats for your first hockey (yeah, the real one) win over in history. phelps, Dennis and maestro 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 7,066 Posted August 21, 2023 #727 Share Posted August 21, 2023 1 minute ago, phelps said: I'm not saying "performing badly", but still, I can't hear words like "overperforming" and getting "more medals than expected"... with a couple of notable exceptions, it's not true at all...actually, it's the opposite (which, again, doesn't necessarily mean "underperform badly", it's just "not as good as many thought") in the specific case of this championship, in Italy there were no big expectations, but still Stano and/or Fortunato in the men's 20km are at least a missing medal Palmisano instead got an expected medal (despite all of her injuries, she's way better than any other active specialist and she's always asked to win, also when she's not at 100%) on the other hand, Fabbri won an unexpected silver in the men's shot put (but Weir had troubles when he was expected to fight for the medals), meanwhile Iapichino is definitely the biggest disappointment so far...she should have won at least silver (and she was clearly expected way over 7 meters) in the 1500m, we expected Arese to make the men's final (and nothing more, tbh) and he didn't, but we got Cavalli in the women's final, which is probably one of the biggest surprises of the championship so far Osakue and Ihemeje are in their respective final, which was their initial target...we'll see how they go, but a top 8 placing would be already a great achievement up to you to decide if this is beyond expectations, a fair balance or "underperforming"... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noorderling29 128 Posted August 21, 2023 #728 Share Posted August 21, 2023 3 hours ago, AsensioWillemsen said: Does the NOS show field events? If there’s time left between the races and the irritating conversations with mr. Sedoc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bestmen 2,590 Posted August 21, 2023 #729 Share Posted August 21, 2023 They start during the night , very bad schedule/organization ...especially for pole vault and discus , this is a compete of sport not a darkness party Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bestmen 2,590 Posted August 21, 2023 #730 Share Posted August 21, 2023 The final of 100m at 22h when everybody already went to sleep why dont you do it at 00h when wolfs appear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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