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Swimming at the Aquatics LEN European Championships 2020


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It’s really about choosing on what to compromise, more athletes from more countries, is leading to more viewers and for some smaller countries, seeing an athletes in the main stage  could lead to more children being exposed to the sport and wanting to take part and become  athletes , in Israel it’s happening with the judo and now Linoy ashram.

On the other hand, it’s against idea of “the best are qualifying” I think that(and I saw you suggested it)in order to make it “fair” there needs to be a law limiting the amount of athletes at the Qualifiers to X and that al those X could participate afterwards.

though it seem to me that the countries that sent more then 2 swimmers from the top , eventually they pushed each other to the top of the qualifiers 

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16 yo David Popovici swam 48.30 sec in the heats of 100m frestyle (link) and qualified for Tokyo! :ROU :clap:

If the lights light up exactly at the correct moment, he was definitely first, since his light went on first. Not sure if those lights are 100% accurate though?

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5 minutes ago, dcro said:

Which, much to my surprise, is also available here and has everything available on-demand as well. Perfect, since Dutch NOS only has an online stream which can't be rewatched, so it's live or nothing there.

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