World Games 2025

[Griff88 2,008]

3 hours ago, heywoodu said:

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.

I already have doubt the first time she pronounced Myanmar as "Mahn-yahn-mar" And surely ICF didn't give her the handbook for the pursuit rules because she thought the winners are based on the order of the boats crossing the finish line instead of the time to complete the 2000 m course (completely surprised when Spain won the bronze in the 2000m 8-seater)

[Josh 11,526]

40.45 WR in the men’s bi fins 100m for  Kropidlowski!  

Edited August 10 by Josh

[heywoodu 16,004]

Just now, Griff88 said:

I already have doubt the first time she pronounced Myanmar as "Mahn-yahn-mar" And surely ICF didn't give her the handbook for the pursuit rules because she thought the winners are based on the order of the boats crossing the finish line instead of the time to complete the 2000 m course (completely surprised when Spain won the bronze in the 2000m 8-seater)

Yeah the way she pronounced Myanmar already annoyed me yesterday as well

 

As for the pursuit: she didn't know the rules but also, to be fair, the way they showed it made it incredibly shitty to follow the race. Like, how can you have a time trial format race with basically no split times at all and nothing but a final result afterwards?  

[Josh 11,526]

 was so close to tying the game with 25 seconds to go but just misses off the crossbar 

 

 leads  1-0 at the half, Novak with the goal. 

Edited August 10 by Josh

[Griff88 2,008]

6 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Yeah the way she pronounced Myanmar already annoyed me yesterday as well

 

As for the pursuit: she didn't know the rules but also, to be fair, the way they showed it made it incredibly shitty to follow the race. Like, how can you have a time trial format race with basically no split times at all and nothing but a final result afterwards?  

Yeah I'd say is better to make it like road cycling time trial with longer intervals and using a longer track. Maybe they have issues with the finish tower which is fixed in position, but that would be better than "here just watch a bunch of boats circling and do wait for us to sort the mess in the end"

[heywoodu 16,004]

Nandor Kiss with an insane WR on the 400m surface. Two seconds in a sub-3 minute event is insane.

[Josh 11,526]

2:52.62,  Nandor Kiss absolutely demolishes the WR in men’s surface 400m 

Edited August 10 by Josh

[heywoodu 16,004]

3 minutes ago, Josh said:

2:58.62,  Nandor Kiss absolutely demolishes the WR in men’s surface 400m 

That time, but minus 6 seconds  

[Josh 11,526]

YESSSSSSS!!!  Coetzee brings Namibia within one! 

[Josh 11,526]

2 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

That time, but minus 6 seconds  

Maybe multitasking isn’t the best idea…