Just found out that there is an annual triathlon race in the centre of Paris that does NOT use the Seine but still takes in all the main city centre sites. So literally all they had to do was just use that route for the swimming, and the whole soap opera could have been avoided. But no no no, they knew best....
https://www.timeto.com/Assets/CP_Garmin22_UK.pdf
By the way, why does Russia still have a chance at the Olympics ticket and Belarus doesn't? In theory, each team should have an equal chance and, for example, maybe they should play a play-off games for that place in a format like Russia-Belarus-France-Norway?
1.57,85 for Fontana in the 1500, which as far as we could find is by far the fastest ever debut (of course it's not like she is new to skating, but still). Dan Li once debuted with 2.00,11 and Valerie Maltais once did that in the 3k with 4.15,91 so Fontana broke that 'record' as well yesterday
Mens Ice Hockey Tournament Groups
1) If is in (Personally I put a 20% chance)
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2) If banned and is repeached as best 2nd team from the Final Qualifying Tournaments
(Personally I put a 50% chance)
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3) If banned and is repeached as highest seeded non-qualified (Personally I put a 30% chance)
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First time since 2012 no medals for us. Unfortunately, a lot of our athletes got sick, there must be some illness going on in our team (or maybe other countries were affected too?)
Men's hammer throw was also extremely disappointing especially with NM from Papanastasiou who was one of the favourites to win!