World Games 2025

[heywoodu 16,000]

Just noticed now that the softball, despite there being no competition on 11 and 12 August, has been entirely cancelled instead of postponed  

 

Double gold medal, meaning nobody can call themselves 'the 2025 World Games champion'.

 

https://www.wbsc.org/en/events/2025-the-world-games-womens-softball/news/the-world-games-mens-softball-medal-game-day-5-blog

[heywoodu 16,000]

The freediving can't seriously be anywhere near ok in terms of health?! One after the other is outright blacking out or just shaking like crazy after surfacing, how do they make combat athletes wear headgear to protect them, yet letting athletes deprive themselves of oxygen to the point of blacking out and causing possible brain damage is absolutely fine?

 

Don't get me wrong, it's impressive, obviously..

[Josh 11,497]

Daje  Marco Orsi! 

[heywoodu 16,000]

100m surface might be one of the coolest swimming events there is, awesome how they just fly through the water (and much nicer to watch than the one that is entirely under water)  

[De_Gambassi 1,267]

 

58 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

The freediving can't seriously be anywhere near ok in terms of health?! One after the other is outright blacking out or just shaking like crazy after surfacing, how do they make combat athletes wear headgear to protect them, yet letting athletes deprive themselves of oxygen to the point of blacking out and causing possible brain damage is absolutely fine?

 

Don't get me wrong, it's impressive, obviously..

 

Considering, they were a bunch of 50 or 60 years olds, it's probably ok. Still, not something I enjoyed watching...

[Josh 11,497]

really pushing early, 3 chances in only six minutes in this men’s floorball semifinal against  but no score yet. 

[Josh 11,497]

Oh wow, didn’t know  Szebasztian Szabo was here and competing in fin swimming 

[heywoodu 16,000]

Szebasztian Szabo, another world and especially European regular swimming medalist taking into the water with fins. 

[heywoodu 16,000]

Just now, Josh said:

Oh wow, didn’t know  Szebasztian Szabo was here and competing in fin swimming 

Not only that, he also competed in the life saving

 

[heywoodu 16,000]

Only silver for Szabo, because apparently, "he didn't want it enough".