World Games 2025

[heywoodu 16,142]

By the way, so far commentary has been fine, but then I was watching this morning's dragon boat racing and the well-known curse of the generic English commentator surfaced  

 

In the 10-seater 200m final she was going on about how it was a supertight race, followed at the finish by an exclamation of Chinese Taipei's victory. Too bad there's no finish photo, but in fact Thailand won, Chinese Taipei wasn't even in the medals and....it wasn't close, Thailand literally won by nearly a full boat length  

 

The next race was a 500 meter, where the commentator taught us a valuable piece of information specific for dragon boat racing, I suppose: first singling out a specific boat (forgot which one) and saying "they trained so hard for this event" (thanks, I assume the rest didn't?), and then telling us "the 500 meter race is considered a longer event than the 200 meter race". Ah, I was wondering which of the two was the longest.

 

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Edited August 10, 2025 by heywoodu

[heywoodu 16,142]

Did the wakeboard cable finals end up being shown? The schedule's first stream starts with the skim finals, it seems, but cable is what I want to see  

 

Also: I assume the 'cancelled' softball medal matches will be rescheduled..

[Gianlu33 5,374]

7 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Did the wakeboard cable finals end up being shown? The schedule's first stream starts with the skim finals, it seems, but cable is what I want to see  

 

Also: I assume the 'cancelled' softball medal matches will be rescheduled..

Watch out that the cable finals were not broadcast tonight. This is also because they are at a different venue.

[tigersay 35]

9 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Did the wakeboard cable finals end up being shown? The schedule's first stream starts with the skim finals, it seems, but cable is what I want to see  

 

Also: I assume the 'cancelled' softball medal matches will be rescheduled..

https://totallympics.com/forums/topic/24241-world-games-2025/page/43/#findComment-694925

There was a link for them in this comment

[heywoodu 16,142]

Catching up on some muay thai from yesterday, the knee right in the rib cage that finished this fight immediately was a beauty  

 

 

Best shot of the day it seems, all the other semis were just based on points in the end, nothing too special.

[heywoodu 16,142]

5 minutes ago, tigersay said:

https://totallympics.com/forums/topic/24241-world-games-2025/page/43/#findComment-694925

There was a link for them in this comment

Thanks, I'll have a look there! Sorry for asking, but I don't really read anything here until I've seen what I want to see, since unfortunately we don't have separate threads for all the sports so results of everything are mixed in together  

[heywoodu 16,142]

Ugh, all the ne-waza jiu-jitsu semis are being done on tatami 2, the one being shown, meaning that every single one of the fighting semis - which are on tatami 1 - is being ignored on the stream  

 

Saves some time, I suppose.

[Josh 11,800]

 Australia are getting demolished in this lacrosse semifinal, I feel bad I almost wish there was a mercy rule in instances like this 

[heywoodu 16,142]

Women's tug of war was awesome today, such an absolutely soaked field, stomping in the mud all the way  

[Josh 11,800]

 defeat  21-4 in the lacrosse semifinals, commanding win.