World Games 2025

[heywoodu 16,461]

1 minute ago, Gianlu33 said:

This 4x25m relay is one of the strangest things I've ever seen in a swimming pool

Looked nicer than the 50m manikin carry, which is in reality just a 20m freestyle followed by a dive and another 20m manikin carry  

[Josh 13,502]

3 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

4x25m in a 50m pool, this must be interesting  

I’m not watching, how the hell does it work? 

[heywoodu 16,461]

The tug-of-war stream is now available on-demand, so those who want to do so (me, me, me) can now watch  

[heywoodu 16,461]

Just now, Josh said:

I’m not watching, how the hell does it work? 

 

First swimmer carries a manikin halfway, where a teammate is waiting to take over the manikin and carry it to the other side of the pool. There athlete three starts and basically repeats it, so at the start, there are two athletes of each team waiting at the 25m mark, the pool is somewhat full  

[Gianlu33 6,015]

Well, this should be the only italian gold medal chance today. Let's see

[Josh 13,502]

1 minute ago, heywoodu said:

Looked nicer than the 50m manikin carry, which is in reality just a 20m freestyle followed by a dive and another 20m manikin carry  

Every time I see the word “manikin” mentioned I keep thinking you carry a man in a mankini during the event  

Which of course isn’t the case, but still, if they had it as mannequin the confusion definitely could’ve been avoided  

[Gianlu33 6,015]

1 minute ago, Gianlu33 said:

Well, this should be the only italian gold medal chance today. Let's see

Won and archived with a new WR   What was bound to happen has happened, and any other gold medals today (in swimming? karate?) will definitely be an unexpected bonus

[Josh 13,502]

Rare medal chance for  in men’s karate, let’s go Rob Timmermans! 

[Josh 13,502]

Well this match is getting away from  quickly… 

 

It’s like these guys have forgot how to catch and run this inning. 
 

1-6 down with 4 of those runs being in the 5th inning, guess we’ll be taking on  for bronze. 

[heywoodu 16,461]

6 minutes ago, Josh said:

Rare medal chance for  in men’s karate, let’s go Rob Timmermans! 

Cool! Originally competed for Curaçao, but I guess he needed to switch to Aruba for this, while he is most certainly Dutch (he has his own dojo or whatever you call it here)