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  1. heywoodu
    Now I'd like to see William Poromaa try and fail miserably*, after his comments about biathletes basically being failed cross-country skiers. *unlike Nilsson, who like you said gave it a real attempt and definitely did not 'fail'. Most World Cup athletes never get a podium at all in their career, so she's done a fine job. Nice to see her in the races for the real tough ones from now on
  2. heywoodu
    A regular Diamond League.
  3. heywoodu
    Also according to Dutch media, press conference later today. That is awesome!
  4. heywoodu
    But more importantly, which riders?
  5. heywoodu
    I'm already surprised she is planning to even run anything at all
  6. heywoodu
    Super surprising anyway to see doping in a sport where world records set in rocket suits are falling left and right all the time...
  7. heywoodu
    Best throw since Ivan Tikhon in 2008!
  8. heywoodu
    And to think Martin Haven (and John Morgan), the gods of bobsleigh commentary, are native English speakers...throw them a bag of money and let's go.
  9. heywoodu
    Definitely not sarcastic, but honestly I also don't think it's a matter of being dumb My guess is that the main athletics commentator, who is sick, was supposed to be replaced by someone who is kind of the default backup commentator...but he also wasn't available, so the guy doing it today is someone who as far as I know literally only does commentary for football usually. With that in mind, he actually did a pretty good job overall, just that Perkovic/Elkasevic mistake was a bit unfortunate
  10. heywoodu
    What was embarrassing about the race? The times were definitely fine. Women's 200m and men's high jump, those were probably the lowest-level events of the day I'd say
  11. heywoodu
    "In Croatia, the women are good with the discus, for example this Sandra Elkasevic. No Sandra Perkovic this time in Xiamen." I hope the main Dutch athletics commentator gets well soon, because the replacement has a bit to learn, let's say
  12. heywoodu
    Made the screenshot without looking, because I didn't get to the discus yet, but I hope my blind screenshot caught the full result for you
  13. heywoodu
    I am definitely watching (although not entirely live, 20 minutes behind because I forgot ), but it'd be good to have the results to check and so on. Omega isn't updating neither. https://www.omegatiming.com/2024/Xiamen_2024-live-results Edit: whoah, there's life in the DL website!
  14. heywoodu
    I see nothing besides regular sports programming focusing on football..
  15. heywoodu
    If someone could give the Diamond League server a reboot so the site with results loads, that'd be great https://xiamen.diamondleague.com/program-results/program-2024/
  16. heywoodu
    About time for a new Hajo Seppelt special
  17. heywoodu
    Well that is some nonsense.
  18. heywoodu
    I do genuinely hope she gets her life in order though, assuming the bone cancer diagnosis is real. She's still young enough to have a normal life outside of sports, so hopefully she gets better medically speaking, puts this behind her and starts life as a regular working person
  19. heywoodu
    Seems like a relatively small strike on some military base, which at least to the outside world Iran seems to be more or less denying in order to not 'have' to hit back. In the words of Iran at the UN after they attacked last weekend: the matter should now be deemed concluded, one would imagine (and hope, nobody needs this to keep going and going).
  20. heywoodu
    Logical, given the world's average preferences, but too bad. A Sydney or Melbourne Olympics might be my best chance ever for comfortable weather at a Summer Olympics, a rather rare opportunity
  21. heywoodu
    Too bad, July and August kind of feel like the best times of year to visit both Sydney and Melbourne without worrying too much about melting away, and quite nice average temperatures https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Sydney#Climate_data https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Melbourne#Climate_statistics Brisbane at least seems to be not much worse, although June/July would have been slightly better...but like you said, IOC won't allow that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Brisbane
  22. heywoodu
    Beautiful victory for Kasia Niewiadoma in the Fleche Wallone, after already finishing 6th, 5th, 4th, 3rd and 2nd in her career, finally she takes the win, her first in almost five years
  23. heywoodu
    Bernd Hölzenbein, famous for his dive that gave West Germany a free penalty in the 1974 World Cup final, has died. He played in the US in the final years of his career, but said (long) career consisted mostly of many highly impressive years at Eintracht Frankfurt. German football players are leaving this world fast the past few months..
  24. heywoodu
    Right, that makes a lot more sense
  25. heywoodu
    Wow, I'd expect a prouder reaction from dad
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