World Games 2025

[Josh 11,497]

1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

"The Kazakhstani athlete" in the duathlon.

 

Large "KSA" and a very Arab sounding name on his back.

Must be American  (before anyone comes at me I’m just kidding, Americans usually tend to be bad at geographic) 

[Josh 11,497]

1 minute ago, Gianlu33 said:

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Oh good, I though it was just me 

[Josh 11,497]

56 minutes ago, Gianlu33 said:

I'm watching powerlifting and, meh. Honestly, the athletes don't seem to be in control of the weight like in weightlifting. Here, you just have to hint at it and the exercises seem much “easier”. A big nope

I’m not enjoying it either, but we have a bunch of medal chances in it I think so I’m going to watch it anyways 

[Grassmarket 4,028]

Easy and predictable 8-1 win for Little China in the Softball.  

[Grassmarket 4,028]

Wait wait wait - what insane mutation of petanque is this?   

 

There's no running in petanque!  It's supposed to be played by old geezers with cigarettes stuck to the side of their mouths and a glass of pastis on the side.  

 

OK, so there are three varieties of petanque being played here

 

Petanque lyonnaise - Not petanque at all

Petanque Precision Shooting - The sort of thing people do in training, but too boring for competition

Petanque doubles - Actual proper petanque and the only thing worth watching.  

 

Edited August 14 by Grassmarket

[Grassmarket 4,028]

Bah!  Flying disk on a weather break!  Seems a bit soft to me.  

[heywoodu 16,000]

1 hour ago, Josh said:

Must be American  (before anyone comes at me I’m just kidding, Americans usually tend to be bad at geographic) 

I believe it is the same generic commentator that did dragon boat racing and the other sport where she messed up all kinds of basic things  

 

It is unfortunate, kinda takes away some of the pleasure of watching when there's a commentator who has clearly just not prepared and isn't even aware of basic things like country codes (and not even tiny countries, KAZ and KSA, come on, when in doubt just look it up).

Edited August 14 by heywoodu

[De_Gambassi 1,267]

59 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

Wait wait wait - what insane mutation of petanque is this?   

 

There's no running in petanque!  It's supposed to be played by old geezers with cigarettes stuck to the side of their mouths and a glass of pastis on the side.  

 

OK, so there are three varieties of petanque being played here

 

Petanque lyonnaise - Not petanque at all

Petanque Precision Shooting - The sort of thing people do in training, but too boring for competition

Petanque doubles - Actual proper petanque and the only thing worth watching.  

 

The one you are talking about is not péanque , but boule lyonnaise, which as its name will tell you comes from Lyon and not the Porvence area. 

Traditionnaly, it's as much cig and booze compatible as the other one. But, they have been trying this 'sport' thing for some decades, thus, the running bit.

Internationnaly, there is only one federation running both 'sports', but in France, at least, there are two different differations.

[Gianlu33 5,276]

The points race is just unwatchable without graphics 

[Gianlu33 5,276]

Just now, Gianlu33 said:

The points race is just unwatchable without graphics 

Update: we have graphics now