World Games 2025

[Gianlu33 5,999]

Japan's drone crashed down  It's over? There is another race?

 

UPDATE: Okay, we have race 2.

Edited August 16, 2025 by Gianlu33

[heywoodu 16,459]

Just noticing now that Simon Fairweather in the field archery semi's is the same guy who beat Wietse van Alten in the semi's (to then go on and win gold)....at Sydney 2000  

[Gianlu33 5,999]

The Liechtenstein drone caught fire.

In the third race, both Korea and Japan crashed their drones, Hong Kong also crashed, and no one reached the finish line. Race 4 is coming up, with and one win away from gold.

Edited August 16, 2025 by Gianlu33

[mpjmcevoy 377]

23 minutes ago, De_Gambassi said:

What's the story behind Korfbal(l) anyway ? I know it's old, but is it a derivative of the early basketball game (like the various football codes around the world) or is it an native dutch game that somehow evolved like basketball ? Or maybe a bit of both ?

I was looking into something like his last year, though never bottomed stuff out entirely, but the evolution of the 'basket ball' sports family is intriguing, and seems to have less 'lore' than the evolution of the various football codes, evolving from mob football through the English public schools attempts to civilise the mob games, the adaptation of those sports in north America, and the invention of the forward pass, the split to rugby league, the parallel codification in Australia and Ireland of their "no offsides" variations up to the bizarre branch-over to the raquet sports world with teqball.

 

In the Basket sports its much easier to pin down the early stages as Basketball was specifically 'invented' by James Naismith rather than evolved. The interesting thing though is the basic idea spread more quickly than naismith's specific rules. Most of the variations we know were being created in the late 1890's and 1900s within just a few years of naismith's orginal idea. Netball, famously, involved a misinterpretation of actual basketball rules by Ciara Baer (indeed, for much of its existance, the sport was also called 'women's basketball' before acknowledging women might actually play the original sport and changing to netball exclusively!). Its defining traits of zones, no dribbling, reduced contact led to its adoption and adaptation in girls schools thanks to a swedish pedagogue and proto-feminist Bergman Österberg - between them, Baer and Osterberg invented netball.

 

Osterberg is then thought to have brought a version of the gam back to her native Sweden, where it quickly evolved into 'Ringboll' - the 'o' is important so bear with it; and it was here that it evolved from a girls sport to a mixed sex team sport. ringboll had no international presence, and wasn't pushed in an organised way. but a Dutch teacher called Nico Broekhuysen went to Sweden, ostensibly to study Swedish Gymnastics, and came upon the game, and really liked it, particularly the mixed sex aspect.

 

Nico brought the basic idea back to the Netherlands, tweaked the rules, and invented korfball in a more organised way than ringboll - so yes, Korfball is a direct descendent of Basketball, via early commonwealth netball and ringboll.

 

'Dutch' Korfball (simply meaning, of course, 'basketball' in Dutch')

 

Of course, the story has one more twist, as Korfball's popularity in the netherlands led to its swift adoption in South Africa - but on a much bigger playng scale, removing the mixed sex element and being, shall we say, a bit rougher. "South African Korfball", finding itself in a slightly similar situation as Netball in terms of nomenclature, changed its name relative recently, to Ringball ('a', not 'o' - told you watch that)

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13 minutes ago, Gianlu33 said:

The Liechtenstein drone caught fire.

In the third race, both Korea and Japan crashed their drones, Hong Kong also crashed, and no one reached the finish line. Race 4 is coming up, with and one win away from gold.

UPDATE:  caught fire too. I haven't a clue about what's happening

Edited August 16, 2025 by Gianlu33

[De_Gambassi 1,369]

26 minutes ago, mpjmcevoy said:

I was looking into something like his last year, though never bottomed stuff out entirely, but the evolution of the 'basket ball' sports family is intriguing, and seems to have less 'lore' than the evolution of the various football codes, evolving from mob football through the English public schools attempts to civilise the mob games, the adaptation of those sports in north America, and the invention of the forward pass, the split to rugby league, the parallel codification in Australia and Ireland of their "no offsides" variations up to the bizarre branch-over to the raquet sports world with teqball.

 

In the Basket sports its much easier to pin down the early stages as Basketball was specifically 'invented' by James Naismith rather than evolved. The interesting thing though is the basic idea spread more quickly than naismith's specific rules. Most of the variations we know were being created in the late 1890's and 1900s within just a few years of naismith's orginal idea. Netball, famously, involved a misinterpretation of actual basketball rules by Ciara Baer (indeed, for much of its existance, the sport was also called 'women's basketball' before acknowledging women might actually play the original sport and changing to netball exclusively!). Its defining traits of zones, no dribbling, reduced contact led to its adoption and adaptation in girls schools thanks to a swedish pedagogue and proto-feminist Bergman Österberg - between them, Baer and Osterberg invented netball.

 

Osterberg is then thought to have brought a version of the gam back to her native Sweden, where it quickly evolved into 'Ringboll' - the 'o' is important so bear with it; and it was here that it evolved from a girls sport to a mixed sex team sport. ringboll had no international presence, and wasn't pushed in an organised way. but a Dutch teacher called Nico Broekhuysen went to Sweden, ostensibly to study Swedish Gymnastics, and came upon the game, and really liked it, particularly the mixed sex aspect.

 

Nico brought the basic idea back to the Netherlands, tweaked the rules, and invented korfball in a more organised way than ringboll - so yes, Korfball is a direct descendent of Basketball, via early commonwealth netball and ringboll.

 

'Dutch' Korfball (simply meaning, of course, 'basketball' in Dutch')

 

Of course, the story has one more twist, as Korfball's popularity in the netherlands led to its swift adoption in South Africa - but on a much bigger playng scale, removing the mixed sex element and being, shall we say, a bit rougher. "South African Korfball", finding itself in a slightly similar situation as Netball in terms of nomenclature, changed its name relative recently, to Ringball ('a', not 'o' - told you watch that)

Fantastic insight, loved it, thank you very much.

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1 hour ago, Gianlu33 said:

UPDATE:  caught fire too. I haven't a clue about what's happening

I'm guessing the drones are overclocked in some way beyond recommended limits.

[LuizGuilherme 339]

Some kids are starting a Ultimate Freesbee league in some cities around me, maybe in some years they canqualify Brazil in this sport for the first time hehe

 

Since we are one of the Fistball powerhouses nothing is impossible

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1 hour ago, LuizGuilherme said:

Some kids are starting a Ultimate Freesbee league in some cities around me, maybe in some years they canqualify Brazil in this sport for the first time hehe.

It’s a lot of fun. I personally like the open gender format (mixed, but no rules about how many players of each gender have to be on the field on a time). I’d definitely recommend trying the sport if you get the chance.

[Fly_like_a_don 1,162]

Watched cheerleading first time today. I don't like artistic disciplines but felt the result was so accurate to someone watching it first time apart from a knowledgeable commentator. Amazing routine by the Americans to win gold.  and  win the minor medals.