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Day 12 Wednesday Today I would watch: - athletics - M Hammer throw final with Paweł Fajdek as probably biggest chance for Gold for Poland in Tokyo, M 800 final hopefully with Adam Kszczot, W 400 hurdles final with Dalilah Muhammad and Sydney Mclaughlin both in form to beat WR, W 400 semis - who will be faster - Justyna Święty-Ersetic or Lisanne de Witte?, M 110 hurdles powerful semis - equestrian ind. jumping final - But it's coliding with athletics - what an awful scheduling here - cycling track men's sprint - some Polish-Dutch rivalry is possible here - Women's handball quarterfinals - with no Polish team, but I would cheer the Netherlands and France on - beach volleyball men's QFs - maybe a Polish pair will be here - Sky Brown in skateboarding - and last 2kms in open water W swim PS. And I hope there would be a medal for Lebanon - whatever event.

Postponed to 2021 in order to accurately represent The Olympics.

I wonder how many people voluntarily go and watch that knowing his life is still in danger. The TV director showing replays (multiple, from all kinds of angles) within minutes, while there were and still are fears for his life, was just disgusting. That person needs to be fired, if you don't know how to do a job (and it is a rather universal thing in sports to not show these kind of replays until more is known about someone's condition), do something else.

The rumours here in PL are somebody died in this accicent. A rider or a man standing behind the barriers. I hope these rumours are false.

A nice throwback for all of us who watched the OBS feeds 4 years ago.

First time Giorgi played a match on clay since Roland Garros 2018!

day #12, I guess... obviously, today it's only about one word, one sport, my "reason of life"...Artistic Swimming! I'm joking, of course... being a bit more serious (but only a bit), my main events of the day will be for sure Track Cycling (men's Team pursuit and women's Keirin), Open Water Swimming (women's race), today's Wrestling finals and Athletics (all of today's program)... then, the remaining finals (the last Sailing events and the Equestrian Individual Jumping above all) and a good team sports wrap up, especially my beloved Waterpolo, Field Hockey, Baseball and Handball (as they are all in the hot stages now)...

It wasn't mistakes, it was his psyche. At least in Rio it was because he had in his head what he did in London. And now he'll have there what he did in both London and Rio. It'll be a huge pression and I'm not totally sure that he can manage that. WCh is a different thing, it's his home but Olympics? I think Wlodarczyk is bigger favourite for gold than Fajdek. It's ironic cause she has some rivals who can defeat her, especially that she's after ijnury. Fajdek can lose only with himself but it's a very dangerous opponent. Someone ones told me that Fajdek will never get an olympic medal. It was after Moscow or Beijing WCh, I don't remember. I do remember however that I laughed in his face back then. And after that came Rio and now I'm not so sure that he was wrong. But I hope he was.

Using the word "logic" in the context of Olympic qualification is highly inappropriate.

Indeed, today's the start of men's sprinting: will be interesting to see what Mateusz Rudyk can do. He is very talented and one of the biggest threats for Lavreysen. We'll see tomorrow in the finals! Nice that you cheer for The Netherlands. Every support helps! You cannot have a bad day in the quarterfinals. By the way: there are some rumours that the best Dutch player in history, Nycke Groot, will return to the national team (because of Estavana Polman's injury). That would be great. Today also reigning Olympic champion marathon swimming Sharon van Rouwendaal. I really like her. She always is so determined and committed. And beside that: she endures the freaks of het French coach Philipe Lucas. Now she has an shoulder injury (again), hopefully next year she can fight for a medal. Other highlights: men team pursuit, team jumping equestrian and hockey semis.

The 75th anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima would have taken place on August 6 and 9, the final day of the 2020 Olympics, if it had taken place this year. Here is a story I wrote about an American Olympian who has an extraordinary connection to Japan, whose grandparents survived the Hiroshima bombings, and whose father rescued them and brought them all to America. https://theolympians.co/2020/08/05/the-palchikoffs-how-the-grandparents-of-an-american-olympian-survived-the-russian-revolution-and-the-atomic-bombing-of-hiroshima/

@Sindo I believe the J 22 North American championships are canceled. Not 100% sure, but thought I would let you know so you can look into it.

For context, the Oklahoma City bomber used 2 tons of ammonium nitrate to carry out his terrorist attack. The store of the same material that exploded in Beirut today was somewhere around 1,300 times larger.

- Athletics - Men's Hammer and Men's 800m would be most interesting for me, also Women's 3000m Steeple and first day of Decathlon - Boxing - another final and some semifinals - Track Cycling - Men's Team Pursuit final and Men's Sprint which is the biggest and probably the only one chance for a medal for Poland - Equestrian - Jumping final - Open Water Swimming - Women's 10km - Sailing - 470 medal races - Wrestling - last day of Greco-Roman finals and some Women's and Freestyle competitions

I have been reading the guidelines for all 2020 Olympic sports over the last few weeks trying to gain a better understanding of how athletes can qualifying for the Olympics. When I came to reading the qualification guidelines for the Athletics I became a little confused and was wondering if anybody would be able to answer my query. So I see that athletes can qualify by entry standard and their world rankings as well as athletes by universality place and athletes running only in the relays. I then looked at the road to Olympic Games 2020 - https://www.worldathletics.org/stats-zone/road-to/7132391?eventId=10229634 - and seen that 91 athletes meet the entry standard time for the Men's Marathon but the entry number is 80. Would all these athletes be able to compete or would some of them have to be cut? Also as it stands 31 athletes meet the entry standard time for the Men's 100m. Lets say 12 athletes obtain a universality spot, would it then be 13 athletes qualifying via the world rankings to reach the enter number of 56 or would it be 25 athletes with the universality spots added on top to take it over the 56 limit? Would that logic also apply to the other events in Athletics?

Men's Multi-Stage Race Non-Olympic Event Final Mountain Classification CALMEJANE Lilian 33 TEJADA CANACUE Harold Alfonso 20 ZIMMERMANN Georg 17 Rank Athletes Nation Result 4 BERNARD Julien 16 5 BERNAL GOMEZ Egan Arley 12 6 MARQUEZ ROMAN Marti 10 7 SIVAKOV Pavel 10 8 COSNEFROY Benoit 10 9 VLASOV Aleksandr 8 10 LADAGNOUS Matthieu 8 11 PINOT Thibaut 6 12 VINJEBO Emil Nygaard 5 13 MOLLEMA Bauke 5 14 BARGUIL Warren 4 15 PORTE Richie 3 16 CASTROVIEJO NICOLAS Jonathan 3 17 VAN BAARLE Dylan 3 18 ANGULO SAMPEDRO Antonio 3 19 DELACROIX Théo 3 20 HOLLER Nikodemus 3 21 BARDET Romain 2 22 AMADOR Andrey 2 23 AZURMENDI SAGASTIBELTZA Ibai 2 24 TRARIEUX Julien 2 25 LEROUX Samuel 2 26 VALLS FERRI Rafael 1 27 REICHENBACH Sébastien 1 28 RIOU Alan 1

Definitely the Gold Medal of Abhinav Bindra in 2008 Beijing in 10m Air Rifle. Where I distributed sweets to my colleagues after that. My students doing live commentary n all shouting n clapping inside the classroom. All inside the academy were startled to see the noise. That was beautiful moment.

Men's Multi-Stage Race Non-Olympic Event Stage 3 Results BERNAL GOMEZ Egan Arley 4:36:44 SIVAKOV Pavel +10 VLASOV Aleksandr +17 Rank Athletes Nation Result 4 PINOT Thibaut +31 5 MOLLEMA Bauke +01:05 6 BARGUIL Warren +01:09 7 PORTE Richie +01:11 8 BARDET Romain +01:18 9 REICHENBACH Sébastien +01:39 10 VALLS FERRI Rafael +01:39 11 ROCHAS Rémy +01:55 12 INKELAAR Kevin +01:59 13 MADOUAS Valentin +02:05 14 VUILLERMOZ Alexis +02:05 15 ELISSONDE Kenny +02:16 16 GALLOPIN Tony +02:23 17 PERNSTEINER Hermann +02:23 18 GARCIA SOSA Jhojan Orlando +02:23 19 PETILLI Simone +02:38 20 KUDUS Merhawi +02:38 21 AMEZQUETA MORENO Julen +02:42 22 MASNADA Fausto +02:45 23 CARBONI Giovanni +03:06 24 GUILLONNET Adrien +03:10 25 CHEREL Mikael +03:10 26 EG Niklas +03:28 27 CUADROS MORATA Alvaro +03:56 28 LOPEZ MORENO Miguel Angel +03:59 29 ITURRIA SEGUROLA Mikel +04:04 30 GEOGHEGAN HART Tao +04:43 31 SANCHEZ Luis León +04:43 32 EIKING Odd Christian +05:05 33 ARMIRAIL Bruno +05:11 34 FROOME Chris +05:11 35 MARQUEZ ROMAN Marti +05:17 36 RIES Michel +05:17 37 PARRA CUERDA Jose Felix +05:33 38 FERASSE Thibault +06:14 39 BERGSTRÖM FRISK Erik +06:29 40 MORENO SANCHEZ Ivan +06:29 41 SENNI Manuel +06:33 42 BOUET Maxime +07:00 43 COMBAUD Romain +07:00 44 BOHORQUEZ SANCHEZ Hernando +07:00 45 LEDANOIS Kevin +07:00 46 ZANA Filippo +07:12 47 LATOUR Pierre +07:42 48 DE WITTE Mathias +07:52 49 LUDVIGSSON Tobias +08:52 50 DAVIES Scott +08:52 51 BRAVO OIARBIDE Garikoitz +08:52 52 CABOT Jeremy +08:52 53 EVANS Alexander +09:39 54 MONACO Alessandro +09:53 55 SWIFT Connor +10:41 56 CASTROVIEJO NICOLAS Jonathan +12:32 57 FRAILE MATARRANZ Omar +12:32 58 ROSSKOPF Joseph +12:32 59 ZIMMERMANN Georg +12:32 60 GONÇALVES José +12:32 61 TEJADA CANACUE Harold Alfonso +12:32 62 BELLICAUD Jeremy +12:32 63 CUADRADO RUIZ DE GAUNA Unai +12:32 64 BERNARD Julien +12:32 65 COQUARD Bryan +13:04 66 CALMEJANE Lilian +13:39 67 LADAGNOUS Matthieu +14:55 68 VAN BAARLE Dylan +16:45 69 BOU COMPANY Joan +16:45 70 AMADOR Andrey +16:45 71 ČERNÝ Josef +17:14 72 VAN DER LIJKE Nick +18:50 73 COSNEFROY Benoit +19:24 74 BARTHE Cyril +21:27 75 DOMBROWSKI Frederik +21:27 76 DUCHESNE Antoine +21:27 77 GONZALEZ LOPEZ David +21:27 78 LOPEZ CARAVACA Jordi +21:27 79 SOUPE Geoffrey +21:27 80 GUERNALEC Thibault +21:27 81 VAN ENGELEN Adne +21:27 82 RIOU Alan +21:27 83 BATTAGLIN Enrico +21:27 84 PAILLOT Yoann +21:27 85 BAGÜES KALPARSORO Aritz +21:27 86 MALUCELLI Matteo +21:27 87 RUIZ SEDANO Ibon +21:27 88 CLARKE William +21:27 89 VINJEBO Emil Nygaard +21:27 90 PASQUALON Andrea +21:27 91 VENTURINI Clement +21:27 92 ORSINI Umberto +21:27 93 COLBRELLI Sonny +22:26 94 ANGULO SAMPEDRO Antonio +22:26 95 MAURELET Flavien +22:26 96 DEBUSSCHERE Jens +24:18 97 BACKAERT Frederik +24:18 98 DE GENDT Aime +24:18 99 ANTOMARCHI Julien +27:45 100 LEROUX Samuel +30:22 101 HOLLER Nikodemus +31:56 102 PALUTA Michal +31:56 103 DELACROIX Théo +34:23 104 IDJOUADIENE Pierre +34:23 105 WISNIOWSKI Lukasz +34:23 106 MORICE Julien +34:23 107 MATHIS Marco +34:23 108 HAVIK Piotr +34:23 109 AZURMENDI SAGASTIBELTZA Ibai +34:23 110 VERMEULEN Emiel +34:23 111 BOUZAS REY Martin +34:23 112 ARAIZ MICHEL Sergio Nestor +34:23 113 SISKEVICIUS Evaldas +34:23 114 TURGIS Anthony +34:23 115 VAN KEIRSBULCK Guillaume +34:23 116 WELTEN Bram +34:23 117 BONIFAZIO Niccolò +34:23 118 LOUVET Louis +34:23 119 LISSON Christoffer +34:23 120 ZHYHUNOU Dzmitry +34:23 121 CONSONNI Simone +34:23 122 VANBILSEN Kenneth +34:23 123 CAM Maxime +34:23 124 REZA Kevin +34:23 125 TRARIEUX Julien +34:23 126 LAPORTE Christophe +34:23 127 SAEZ BENITO Hector +34:23 128 DE KLEIJN Arvid +34:23 129 PETIT Adrien +34:23 130 VAN NIEKERK Morné +34:23 131 SABATINI Fabio +34:23 132 LEMOINE Cyril +34:23 133 VIVIANI Elia +34:23 134 MALDONADO Anthony +34:23 135 HUREL Tony +34:23 136 LONARDI Giovanni +34:23 BENFATTO Marco DNF CARSTENSEN Lucas DNF DE ROOIJ Jesse DNF BEPPU Fumiyuki DNF BUITRAGO SANCHEZ Santiago DNF KRON Andreas Lorentz DNF

Men's Multi-Stage Race Non-Olympic Event Stage 1 Results COQUARD Bryan 4:35:00 VIVIANI Elia +00 COLBRELLI Sonny +00 Rank Athletes Nation Result 4 PASQUALON Andrea +00 5 VENTURINI Clement +00 6 BERNAL GOMEZ Egan Arley +00 7 ČERNÝ Josef +00 8 BARDET Romain +00 9 MALDONADO Anthony +00 10 VAN DER LIJKE Nick +00 11 CALMEJANE Lilian +00 12 MAURELET Flavien +00 13 DE WITTE Mathias +00 14 GALLOPIN Tony +00 15 BRAVO OIARBIDE Garikoitz +00 16 EG Niklas +00 17 MOLLEMA Bauke +00 18 MARQUEZ ROMAN Marti +00 19 GARCIA SOSA Jhojan Orlando +00 20 FERASSE Thibault +00 21 MASNADA Fausto +00 22 MORENO SANCHEZ Ivan +00 23 BOU COMPANY Joan +00 24 BARGUIL Warren +00 25 LATOUR Pierre +00 26 EIKING Odd Christian +00 27 GONÇALVES José +00 28 MONACO Alessandro +00 29 DAVIES Scott +00 30 TRARIEUX Julien +00 31 LOPEZ CARAVACA Jordi +00 32 VLASOV Aleksandr +00 33 CARBONI Giovanni +00 34 PETILLI Simone +00 35 BERNARD Julien +00 36 GEOGHEGAN HART Tao +00 37 SENNI Manuel +00 38 BOUZAS REY Martin +00 39 IDJOUADIENE Pierre +00 40 SIVAKOV Pavel +00 41 BARTHE Cyril +00 42 SWIFT Connor +00 43 DEBUSSCHERE Jens +00 44 RIES Michel +00 45 SANCHEZ Luis León +00 46 VUILLERMOZ Alexis +00 47 ROCHAS Rémy +00 48 RUIZ SEDANO Ibon +00 49 BELLICAUD Jeremy +00 50 COMBAUD Romain +00 51 VAN ENGELEN Adne +00 52 DOMBROWSKI Frederik +00 53 CHEREL Mikael +00 54 INKELAAR Kevin +00 55 AZURMENDI SAGASTIBELTZA Ibai +00 56 BOUET Maxime +00 57 REICHENBACH Sébastien +00 58 PERNSTEINER Hermann +00 59 COSNEFROY Benoit +00 60 PORTE Richie +00 61 LOPEZ MORENO Miguel Angel +00 62 VALLS FERRI Rafael +00 63 GUILLONNET Adrien +00 64 PARRA CUERDA Jose Felix +00 65 BUITRAGO SANCHEZ Santiago +00 66 ZIMMERMANN Georg +00 67 ITURRIA SEGUROLA Mikel +00 68 ROSSKOPF Joseph +00 69 BOHORQUEZ SANCHEZ Hernando +00 70 BERGSTRÖM FRISK Erik +00 71 CUADROS MORATA Alvaro +00 72 SABATINI Fabio +00 73 FROOME Chris +00 74 KRON Andreas Lorentz +00 75 CASTROVIEJO NICOLAS Jonathan +00 76 LEDANOIS Kevin +00 77 AMADOR Andrey +00 78 AMEZQUETA MORENO Julen +00 79 PALUTA Michal +00 80 ORSINI Umberto +00 81 VAN BAARLE Dylan +00 82 ANTOMARCHI Julien +00 83 FRAILE MATARRANZ Omar +00 84 BAGÜES KALPARSORO Aritz +00 85 MALUCELLI Matteo +00 86 ELISSONDE Kenny +00 87 BATTAGLIN Enrico +00 88 BACKAERT Frederik +01:38 89 TEJADA CANACUE Harold Alfonso +00 90 DE GENDT Aime +01:46 91 MADOUAS Valentin +00 92 PINOT Thibaut +00 93 LADAGNOUS Matthieu +00 94 ARMIRAIL Bruno +01:56 95 KUDUS Merhawi +00 96 TURGIS Anthony +00 97 GONZALEZ LOPEZ David +00 98 BONIFAZIO Niccolò +00 99 LISSON Christoffer +00 100 WELTEN Bram +00 101 VINJEBO Emil Nygaard +00 102 LAPORTE Christophe +04:26 103 HAVIK Piotr +00 104 CONSONNI Simone +06:49 105 VANBILSEN Kenneth +10:12 106 MATHIS Marco +10:12 107 MORICE Julien +10:12 108 ZANA Filippo +10:12 109 SOUPE Geoffrey +10:12 110 HUREL Tony +10:12 111 PAILLOT Yoann +10:12 112 CLARKE William +10:12 113 HOLLER Nikodemus +10:12 114 DE ROOIJ Jesse +10:12 115 CARSTENSEN Lucas +10:12 116 BEPPU Fumiyuki +10:12 117 DELACROIX Théo +10:12 118 DUCHESNE Antoine +10:12 119 LONARDI Giovanni +10:12 120 RIOU Alan +10:12 121 EVANS Alexander +10:12 122 SAEZ BENITO Hector +10:12 123 CUADRADO RUIZ DE GAUNA Unai +10:12 124 SISKEVICIUS Evaldas +10:12 125 LOUVET Louis +10:12 126 ARAIZ MICHEL Sergio Nestor +10:12 127 ANGULO SAMPEDRO Antonio +10:12 128 LUDVIGSSON Tobias +13:23 129 WISNIOWSKI Lukasz +13:23 130 DE KLEIJN Arvid +13:23 131 CAM Maxime +16:54 132 GUERNALEC Thibault +16:54 133 LEROUX Samuel +16:54 134 ZHYHUNOU Dzmitry +16:54 135 LEMOINE Cyril +16:54 136 REZA Kevin +16:54 137 VAN KEIRSBULCK Guillaume +24:44 138 JENSEN August +24:44 139 BENFATTO Marco +24:44 140 PETIT Adrien +24:44 141 VAN NIEKERK Morné +24:54 142 VERMEULEN Emiel +24:55 143 CABOT Jeremy +24:55 144 SIMON Julien +00 SCHNAPKA Matthias DNF LEVASSEUR Jordan DNF GROSU Eduard-Michael DNF

According to Polish TV Fabio Jakobsen is in artificial coma and intubated. He was taken to the hospital.

One hospital as been completely decommissioned by the blast, and ABC is reporting that people are driving to cities 50 miles away from Beirut in order to seek treatment, since hospitals in Beirut have reached capacity. I’ve seen media outlets reporting as many as 4000 (or more than that because numbers still aren’t fully known) people injured. It’s a complete catastrophe

The Lebanese government is fucked. Apparently a store of (confiscated?, discarded?) ammonium nitrate is responsible for the explosion. It’s also being reported that this store of ammonium nitrate has been left unchecked for 6 years. 6 years!