Swimming at the Aquatics FINA World Championships 2017

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King is raging at Galat right now I bet

 

[dcro 10,210]

4 minutes ago, Майкл said:

 

Exactly. I can't believe how hypocritical some people are - it's perfectly normal when Ledecky or Sjostrem win medal after medal, but not when Russians do so 

 

Your assumption is that everything is on the same level beforehand, and it's not considering the reports from previous years.

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1 minute ago, dcro said:

Your assumption is that everything is on the same level beforehand, and it's not considering the reports from previous years.

 

It would've been perfectly legit assumption if politics hadn't been involved  

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My prediction:

 

1. USA, 2. Russia 3. Great Britain

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2 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

He also said: "It's not that, I was feeling great, ready to challenge for gold."  

 

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1 minute ago, Майкл said:

 

It would've been perfectly legit assumption if politics hadn't been involved  

Well it's not like it's just politics, I'm quite convinced Russian sports has a whole lot of dirty mess in it, maybe even more than the rest of the world  

 

But still I think it's naive to think only Russian medals are possibly not clean. 

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Just now, Майкл said:

 

Who's Jan? 

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2 minutes ago, dareza said:

My prediction:

 

1. USA, 2. Russia 3. Great Britain

 

I'd agree until I saw Russia has had some pasta with magic today apparently, so I'm going for Russian gold  

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5 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Well it's not like it's just politics, I'm quite convinced Russian sports has a whole lot of dirty mess in it, maybe even more than the rest of the world  

 

But still I think it's naive to think only Russian medals are possibly not clean. 

 

There were politicians involved on both sides, that's what I meant  The whole Russian country is messy, you cannot expect of their sport to differ much.

 

Also - there're individuals that used forbidden substances (I don't care whether they were or were not helped by the institutions), they should be punished, of course, but not every Russian athlete deserved to be crucified by Western media.

Edited July 28, 2017 by Майкл

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5 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Who's Jan? 

 

In this case it's Chad