Swimming at the Aquatics FINA World Championships 2017

dcro · July 28, 2017

6 minutes ago, thiago_simoes said:

You mean in swimming? In gymnastics things are getting quite interesting year after year. I remember Cyprus got three gold medals in 2010 while Canada got none. In 2014 Canada did great, but then Australia was the country which had it really bad, with Scotland and Wales getting gold medals, while Australia got none.

Swimming particulary, yes. I guess dividing :GBR into 4 teams does has it perks, less likely that some sport will be completely dominated by the same 3 teams.

hckošice · July 28, 2017

23 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Russian anthem

One of the anthems I'm always secretly whistling along when I'm alone

Hopefully not with the Soviet lyrics :old:

intoronto · July 28, 2017

24 minutes ago, dcro said:

I never really understood the point of those Commonwealth Games. It's basically 3 powerhouses + 50 wild card nations.

Actually its England and Australia who run away with Canada usually a distant third. However its not like those 3 dominate everything. The second tier nations like New Zealand (mind you putting them as second tier is very awkward for me, but in these game they are) Jamaica, South Africa, Kenya and India among others do well.

heywoodu · July 28, 2017

2 minutes ago, dcro said:

Swimming particulary, yes. I guess dividing into 4 teams does has it perks, less likely that some sport will be completely dominated by the same 3 teams.

Yep, like Flower of Scotland when a Scot wins gold, instead of "God save the Queen"

bestmen · July 28, 2017

the swimmer from Argentina Martín Naidich 1500m who could participate tomorrow , has been ban for doping

here

OlympicIRL · July 28, 2017

59 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Russian anthem

One of the anthems I'm always secretly whistling along when I'm alone

The Russian anthem is great! Probably my favourite.

bestmen · July 28, 2017

Just now, OlympicIRL said:

The Russian anthem is great! Probably my favourite.

not really Russian but Soviet USSR

Майкл · July 28, 2017

16 minutes ago, bestmen said:

the swimmer from Argentina Martín Naidich 1500m who could participate tomorrow , has been ban for doping

here

They should anylize his genom! He must be Russian

JoshMartini007 · July 28, 2017

The Commonwealth Games isn't too different than the continental games. It's a bit more entertaining because the diversity of the nations means the medals of certain sports are won by a subset of nations rather than the same group of 3-5 nations. Swimming is dominated by Australia and outside of the top two tier nations there isn't much room for others to win medals. Athletics on the other hand arguably has the top field among any non-World/Olympic event (though not as deep as the European Championship).

Mkbw50 · July 29, 2017

Sjostrom ( :SWE ), Blume ( :DEN ), Kromowidjojo ( :NED ), Manuel ( :USA ), Campbell ( :AUS ), Toro ( :CAN ), Zhu ( :CHN ), Santamans ( :FRA ), Osman ( :EGY ) NEW AF, Liu ( :CHN ), Herasimenia ( :BLR ), Jack ( :AUS ), Weitzeil ( :USA ), van Vliet ( :NED ), Mainville ( :CAN ) and Ikee ( :JPN ) through in Women's 50m Freestyle