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Congrats to the Serbian users, especially those who are Crvena Zvezda-fans. What a penalty shoot-out! That penalty spot though

It's not just the latest continental championship that counts, it's the average of the last two actually (with the older one counting at only 50%). You can find the calculations on page 3 of this document. This means continental points aren't so straightforward. For example, if Germany wins this eurohockey beating the Netherlands in the final, the dutch will still be "Euro 1" because they won the 2017 edition while Germany finished 4th. In Asia the calculation is even more complicated because they count 3 championships for their continental points (they also count asian Champions trophy). I don't know if India will keep Asia 1, but in worst case I think they would lose it to Malaysia (Japan won't, as they don't have great points from before). As Asia 2 they would be losing 45 points. Honestly I don't think both England and Germany can pass them. PS: by the way, I think FIH has the best world ranking system out of any team sport international federations. It's not absolutely perfect but mostly everything is weighted pretty well, many IFs should copy it.

I can kinda see this happening now though. Some Dutch sprinter providing her with the goods and Marit sailing her boat to the other side of the world

Wise reaction.

In case anyone is interested, here's a medal table considering Olympic events only (forgive me for possible mistakes).

that's the fact of this nuclear explosion in Russia few days ago , all the athletes are contaminated

Yeah, it's strange how you have sacrificed a K2 quota like that. Meanwhile we decided to not have Kozák in our women's K4 boat, because it's much more important for us to get all 18 athlete quotas in Szeged than to win gold medals. The fact that we can have two boats in the C1, K1 and K2 events makes it very important for us to send the largest team possible.

Not really surprised. As we say in Brazil, "bonitinho mas ordinário" (cute but stinker).

I’d hope so . I’ll try to get some very nice photos for you.

Nice I sometimes listen to a German ska-rock band named Evil Cavies. Don't know if you have heard about them? Here are a couple of the songs I listen to from them:

managed the first top tier upset today by beating

My todays "good old Italian Ska" mood. had a terrible need today to listen it again in my car when returning from work

terrible day, we had 3 matches vs USA on 3 mats at the same time in QF and they lost all 3 of them ! also the 92kg guy was supposed to be the next big star but lost the 1st round to Russia. 2 of them will be back in action in repechage. 2 of them eliminated. but at least the 5th guy. Amir Hossein Zare destroyed his Russian opponent in the SF 11-1. we will have a finalist in the last FS day. but the team title is gone. it will be between USA and Russia. USA will have 3 finalists tomorrow. and 2 more in bronze medal match.

Iranian athletes always have this problem, but only in some countries (USA and UK for example) it's intentional just to make a statement , to show they are the boss or stupid things like that. most of the time it's just matter of paperwork . there is no political relationship between Iran and Estonia (not bcz there is a problem. but because those countries have nothing in common) they had to go through Finland embassy and that took time. actually the whole team almost missed the competition but some phone calls from high rank government officials made it happen. but it didn't turn out bad for Iran, the reserve guy just won the gold and for the second time in this competition he received favorable calls. the Russian can complain that he got pinned early in first period but well you can't challenge the fall. so he was lucky.

men's Freestyle Wrestling, day #2 semifinals... -61kg: Gabriel Robert Tagg vs Kaiki Yamaguchi / Andrii Dzhelep vs Asgar Mammadaliyev -74kg: Bat-Erdene Byambasuren vs Jintaro Motoyama / David Aaron Carr vs Khadzhimurad Gadzhiyev -86kg: Alik Shebzhukov vs Trent Niemond Hidlay / Deepak Punia vs Miriani Maisuradze -92kg: Ertugrul Agca vs Alan Bagaev / Lucas John Davison vs Batmagnai Enkhtuvshin -125kg: Amir Zare vs Alen Khubulov / Mason Mark Parris vs Pasa Ekrem Karabulut

It's not legal, but it's tolerated as long as you have less than 5 grams on you for personal use. Coffee shops here aren't allowed to sell more than 5 grams per person per day and cannot have a trade stock of more than 500 grams. Coffee shops can be prosecuted if they do not meet strict standards. People having more than 5 grams on them and/or partaking in illegal trade get a fine and/or a prison sentence. Hard drugs are always illegal. So yeah, this would also be very illegal over here too.

Its normal. Entries close weeks before the event, so we always have a decent amount of withdrawals. In big tournaments, there is always a waiting list to fill those slots and we don’t see walkovers. In smaller tournaments, late withdrawals are normally shown as walkovers as there are no reserves to replace the withdrawals.

Quotas for ... How lucky is China to qualify in both eventing and jumping (sigh)... JPN/AUS are prequalified, so they were already very lucky with that. But even today, they would have failed without Wong's inexplicably bad opening round.

Probably not for that long. I mean, Péter Farkas (Wrestling Olympic champion in 1992) "only" got 5 and a half years in 2008 for having the biggest marijuana plantation in Hungary... after which he became a fugitive, but that's a different story.

I can sleep now!!!!!!!!

Deserved gold after an amazing season, i'm very happy for her

Commentators: “climbers don’t like spending money” tell that to my gym membership, purpose built shoes, chalk rentals, and gas money

Yes, I find it much more enjoyable than bouldering. It also requires a little more endurance, which is more my style. I will say that there’s no feeling like topping a Boulder you didn’t think you could.

Yes, this is a nice classic strength boulder. These are my best type. I really struggle on the dynamic ones. I don’t understand how to do those at all. I’m more of a lead climber anyways

Only the live results (link is on the previous page).

Well because their best event, live target archery, has been cancelled from the program.

You have me. There will be streams up the wazoo.

Bouwmeester and his mate apparently had a van with them in which police found 4000 (!) XTC pills and 15kg of marijuana Lifelong imprisonment is apparently an option. @Vektor How would morons like this usually be punished in Hungary, we're all assuming they're going behind bars for a very long time..

sure, but I think they could have tried to go with 2 hands on the small blue handle...probably they would have had more chances with that move rather than with the improbable jumps they tried... however, the 3rd route is also a bit weird at the start, but I think it's a lot more playable than the previous one (well, maybe not "a lot", but still)...let's see if somebody other than Janja can make it to the top...

hey, slow down with that emoticons! or I could get really jealous!

I'm here...

I have in on my TV

And they don’t play in bikinis or speedos. What’s even the point (asked the ISSF)?

Rumour has it they boycotted this thing.

Well it sure was an interesting semifinal to say the least. Here are some stats and facts for y’all. 7 out of 80 possible tops made 3 tops for Garnbret 1 top on boulder 1 2 tops on boulder 2 2 tops on boulder 3 2 tops on boulder 4 It was an incredibly brutal semifinal. I’ll have a full write up available on Totallympics Media’s website after the women’s final.

At US National championship she fell on first day but then she nailed it in second day. I think Kara is like Iordache on a good day she can win. The mental is the problem

Ou Yushan(6.5 D), Guan Chenchen(6.7D) from China or Kara Eaker from USA(6.6D)

Basically right, but not bowls , that is bocce

Some stats based on the above table. Eight nations won all of their medals in Olympic events though only Panama won more than two medals (four total). In terms of percentage Bolivia had most of its medals (80%) from non-Olympic events (4/5). Other high percentages include El Salvador (3/4) and Uruguay (6/9). Among nations which finished in the top 10 Peru (43.6% of total) and Mexico (37.5% of total) relied the most on non-Olympic events while Cuba (14.3% of total), Dominican Republic (15.0% of total) and Brazil (15.2% of total) relied the least on non-Olympic events.

I was expecting a bit more from the first day, we lost a match to Algeria !! probably first time ever in freestyle. but that kid had a tragedy in his family few days ago. that was a mistake sending him here. Parasteh was also terrible losing to Kazakhstan, Firouzpour at 70kg was very close to the final. gave up a 5-0 lead early and had to come back, lost it 5-5 with couple of controversial calls against him. Maghsoudi at 65 wasn't even supposed to be here, he was the last minute replacement because the main guy Amir Mohammad Yazdani denied visa. he is in the final but he was very lucky in QF against Azerbaijan, won the match by a last second caution which was indeed controversial. I have to say the Azeri kid got robbed. btw @phelps great job you recognized our 97kg guy surname which is indeed just Foroutan, but his name is Abbas. not Ali. UWW for some weird reasons always put the father's name for the Iranian wrestlers which is never part of the name. Ali is his father.

Yes. Two rounds of jumping in one day.

As part of our statistics records, we will now keep a record of "Posts Per Day: Top 10" in each year. For the purposes of these lists, we will not include Olympic or TISC Grand Final days as they are always huge outliers in terms of the number of posts. Those Olympic and TISC records will be immortalised in the "Posts Per Day: Top 10 All-Time" list so will be interesting to see the busy days on the forum besides those unique occasions. So, as you can see, yesterday, August 11th, 2019 was the highest of the year (excluding TISC Annual 2019 Grand Final) with 633 posts made. That is also the second highest ever outside of Olympic and TISC Grand Final days. Posts Per Day: Top 10 2016 *Please note that this not include Olympic or TISC Grand Final days 1 July 10th, 2016 442 2 April 17th, 2016 441 3 July 6th, 2016 422 4 May 15th, 2016 415 5 June 25th, 2016 407 6 August 2nd, 2016 400 7 May 14th, 2016 377 8 June 16th, 2016 363 9 June 23rd, 2016 355 10 July 8th, 2016 352 Posts Per Day: Top 10 2017 *Please note that this not include TISC Grand Final days 1 July 23rd, 2017 540 2 July 21st, 2017 437 3 August 13th, 2017 432 4 August 6th, 2017 426 5 August 5th, 2017 372 6 July 22nd, 2017 364 7 July 25th, 2017 358 8 July 24th, 2017 342 9 August 4th, 2017 335 10 July 26th, 2017 333 Posts Per Day: Top 10 2018 *Please note that this not include Olympic or TISC Grand Final days 1 August 12th, 2018 661 2 August 7th, 2018 599 3 April 7th, 2018 576 4 October 27th, 2018 525 5 August 8th, 2018 504 6 August 10th, 2018 502 7 August 9th, 2018 491 8 October 7th, 2018 454 9 August 11th, 2018 440 10 August 4th, 2018 436 Posts Per Day: Top 10 2019 *Please note that this not include TISC Grand Final days 1 August 11th, 2019 633 2 July 21st, 2019 600 3 July 27th, 2019 580 4 July 19th, 2019 543 5 July 23rd, 2019 506 6 June 2016, 2019 494 7 April 6th, 2019 486 8 June 23rd, 2019 480 9 July 26th, 2019 473 10 July 25th, 2019 457

io lo spero...ma se Salvini prende il 51% e si trova a far quel che vuole (e con le ultime pagliacciate grillo-piddine siamo sulla buona strada per stendere il tappeto rosso alla "Bestia"), i guai sono solo all'inizio... comunque, finchè non ci sarà un nuovo governo (con o senza votazioni, politico, istituzionale, tecnico, di scopo...qualunque tipo), il cio dovrà aspettare per trovare un nuovo interlocutore (sperando che nel frattempo non perdano la pazienza)... vedremo (intanto, il vero pericolo di questo buco governativo è l'aumento monstre dell'IVA a gennaio...chissene delle Olimpiadi, a questo punto)...

It's not an excuse. I was just giving an explanation of what they were probably thinking. You are from a multi-cultural, multi-racial country so these things are very ingrained into your education. These guys on the other hand likely don't even think they did a racist gesture, to them it was just a celebration. Also, I think you overstimate how well-informed some people are towards these sensitive issues. Not everyone is well educated about it. The three players who did the gestures are not particularly smart guys, must I add.

Just some random language fact: Benfeito sounds like "bem feito" in Portuguese. It can both mean "well done" or "serves you right". So, whenever Meaghan Benfeito appears, I immediately think about Meaghan Servesyouright. Talking about terrible sounding Canadian names, beach volleyball player Melissa Humana-Paredes also comes to mind. Humana is human in Portuguese and Paredes is Walls. It's like I see her as a human wall or something whenever she appears. At least in volleyball being a wall is kind of neat when blocking.

Brazil ; he tried to escape from the prison by putting this mask the face of his daughter

Well duh, he's got a kid to raise now.

FIBA suspended a player for being pregnant , what a disgraceful decision.