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we had a full thread dedicated to the 2019 world roller games... this is what happened that time... http://www.worldskate.org/news/44-skateboarding/3127-wrg-2019-downhill-skateboarding.html

I think gender equality is by sport. So gymnastics is equal in that regard.

I would love to see one of my favourite childhood videogames turning into a olympic sport https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Sfn33qZHJQ

No, there aren't. If I'm not mistakes, their federation don't asked for any new event

All fixed.

Olympics are intrinsically about nationality since ancient times. It's always been about nations competing so they don't do real war. Without nationalities the concept of olympics loses it's purpose. Maybe it'll be for the better, but it won't be the olympics anymore and we should therefore close this website.

Like what's the point in watching top level sports if you truly believe all the top contenders are cheaters?

Here are my best moments from these games. Artistic gymnastics ROC winning gold in both team all around competitions. Ferrari taking silver in floor exercise at her fourth olympics, after tearing her achilles in 2017. She had finished fourth three times before, in floor exercise in both 2012 and 2016 and in team all around this year. Athletics Lasitskene winning gold in high jump, after being denied the chance to compete in 2016. Seidel winning bronze in marathon. According to our commentator here, Seidel was working two jobs to fund her olympic preparation, as a barista in a coffee shop and as a babysitter. Fencing Pozdniakova becoming the first right-handed fencer to win gold in women's individual sabre and adding another gold in team sabre, following the steps of her father. Brunet taking a silver and a bronze after her Rio heartbreak. Estonian gold in women's team epee. Szilagyi winning his third consecutive gold in men's individual sabre. Judo France stopping Japan's dominance with a gold medal in the mixed team event. Rowing Italy, France, Netherlands winning the medals in the insane women's lightweight double sculls final. Shooting San Marino's historic medals. Swimming Shields taking a gold medal in the medlay relay after mental health issues and suicide attempt. Sullivan winning silver behind Ledecky, after overcoming mental health issues as well. Water polo Serbia's great team concluding their journey with another gold medal. Wrestling Sadulaev beating Snyder for gold. Naifonov winning a bronze medal. When he was 7 years old, he was held hostage in Beslan school siege and his mother died there. Maroulis winning a bronze medal, after fighting PTSD.

Lottery funding

BALCO scandal unearthed the facts that USA is as dirty as East Germany & co. And federal law was immune to Nike & Big Tech money plus Marion Jones lied to the FBI. It was a spectacular collapse in the end. It's no wonder Carl Lewis keeps it relatively low-key these days, he knows he got away with major doping issues and USTF knows that too. It's better to keep him in the basement while Michael Johnson remains the most visible former US athlete out there.

So IOC should ban USA and IAAF from Olympics

Carl Lewis failed three doping tests during 1988 US Olympic Trials. He admitted it back in 2003 already. It's common knowledge he was a cheater too. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2003/apr/24/athletics.duncanmackay

Ah yes, we should disqualify people based on what DeGambassi or Orangeman or OlympicsFan or other big experts think it's obvious, it' much more reliable and fair than doing anti-doping tests

Remember gender equality doesn't apply to men.... as long as women are equal or more its fine in the eyes of Mr Fencing gold medalist 1976

"Are you hurt?" "But who gives a fuck now"...I think anyone who watched videos made from the stands of the first words between his coach and Jacobs after the 4x100 knew he was going to be out for a while. He might be doping but he's not the one who tested positive so far British journalists have to prove it instead of making vague references Ryan Murphy-style

To not run the rest of the season makes me think he knows he won’t be caught back home and would be protected by some form of corrupt national doping agency. Athletes times don’t normally drop that quickly if he didn’t actually dope for the rest of the year.

Waaaaaait a minute. This ain't over yet!

Whoopsie!

I think the events are mostly set for 2024 (barring weightlifting getting completely kicked out), I'm thinking ahead as to how the IOC may make medaling events gender equal (because they will). Gymnastics poses an interesting conundrum where they'll have to work with wrestling to keep their respective disciplines in the games or either axe the artistic apparatus events or increase the women's event to six apparatuses by adding two of PH/Rings/PB/HB, neither of which are ideal.

Marcell Jacobs has announced he's not racing again this year.

How much notice do other athletes get of teammates testing positive - I presume p not much as Zhanell Hughes was on Instagram less than a hour ago posting pics which I really doubt he would do if he knew what was about to be announced.

Italian National Olympic Comitee decided to pay only the medallist: Gold: 180.000 euro, 30k more than Rio Silver: 90.000 euro, 15k more than Rio Bronze: 60.000 euro, 10k more than Rio

Who here is finding themselves rewatch various medals by Canada? Upon my return to Beijing I moved into a new apartment with a giant smart TV so I broadcast all the medals all the time from CBC's site these past few days. I can't believe I missed W8's gold, I knew they were doing great (look up my posts about them in the heats). I was supposed to watch on a train, but there were complications about getting into the station and the covid outbreak I mentioned. It drained my phone, my time and my patience, so read about it hours later. I've enjoyed it several times on my new TV now.

Você pode ser o cabeça então Vini? Acho q todo mundo aqui te ajudaria de alguma forma.... E eu ia comentar justamente isso, se é pro publico brasileiro, precisa ser com S

So yeah, Viñales screwed his career over. He has been withdrawn from this week's race in Austria due to potentially damaging behaviour with his bike during last week's race. https://www.crash.net/motogp/news/984768/1/yamaha-withdraws-vinales-unexplained-operation-motorcycle

A sport apparel company made a short film about Eko Yuli Irawan, maybe some of you might be interested

eu acho que Brasil com s chama mais atenção do nosso publico alvo

And in a video on TeamNL's youtube channel I heard that they were already on the plane back home the same night or maybe the morning after, with the Argentinian team on the same plane.

Fun fact, Novi Sad loosely translates as "New USA".

The first "rumor" I saw is that Sapporo, Japan showed interest. But my common sense tell me it's just rumor.

Novi Sad is basically the capital of foreign Slovaks so it is not realy surprising

Fewer weightlifting weight categories.

Toggle the first option to “Annual Recorded Best Performances”: https://www.paralympic.org/athletics/rankings Likewise for this one: https://www.paralympic.org/swimming/rankings

Because Totallympics was down all day and in the evening I didn't bother to check Welcome fellow winter sports fan

Looks like Mali might be a force in women's basketball in the future. Silver in 2019, and looks like another medal here coming up.

The ancient Olympic Games were competitions among representatives of greek city-states. During the the games an olympic truce was enacted so that athletes could travel from their cities to the games in safety.

I believe/hope you are trolling, but in case you aren‘t i will try to clarify the things you are having trouble with understanding: I am not angry about Germany not winning more medals, It only makes me sad to see people cheering for obviously doped athletes (who are coincidentally from the same nation as them). I have lost all illusions about sport and I certainly am not biased towards German athletes (you can go back and read what I wrote after the German women set a new world record in the team pursuit). I realized that people who follow sports at this level support doping and I will try not to watch any sports at this level anymore. It has become impossible for me to enjoy any performances, because I can’t stand the injustice anymore, regardless of the nationality of the winner. When you look at the medal table, you realize that mostly countries with very nationalistic populations (USA, China, Russia, GB, Hungary) are doing well and I don’t believe that this is a good thing. Sport in this form is used to divide people of different nationalities/unite against people of other nationalities and I don’t believe that this is a good thing. We saw this as well at the football European championships. Personally I believe that the concept of nationalities/nations should be abandoned and obviously this would also mean getting rid of competitions between nations.

I mean I, for one, would very much like to see the FIG embrace men's rhythmic gymnastics. It's actually a sport I wanted to try out as a kid but was told I couldn't do for reasons.

Well, I'm No one, nice to meet you.

People have said that here as well, but i personally still consider Athens to be better. Sure we got one less Gold then, but we still had double the medals than in Tokyo

In all my observations I failed to notice that the Tokyo games were the best for Bulgaria since Sydney 2000. Well done.

Proud to see 0 "EL" in equestrian and that's my goal (maybe also theres)

Hi there! New kid on the block hailing from the birthplace of the Olympics. Huge 🇧🇻 fan when it comes to winter sports. Looking forward to Beijing 2022 and to sharing news and views with everyone.😇😊

@phelps you have to give credit to this guy, I never saw such a persistent troll. he never gives up on cancelling the Olympics (or anything similar to that) when he fails on "his mission" for Tokyo 2020, he focused on Paralympics 2020 and Beijing 2022. the next is probably Paris 2024. he never gives up

The Chinese Ice Hockey team just went to Russia and supposed to be trained and attend KHL and WHL there until the WOG. They are weak but at least they are training hard. And sorry to @hckošice it's very unlikely to see men's team's withdrawal now.

Stressed rider = stressed horse. A story that goes back to the ancient times. It's like it was her first time riding a horse. Casual fans will as usual just blame the horse, because humans must be faultless, naturally. Does anyone actually believe that a pro-rider would have such problems managing a stressed (even naughty), but at the same time a capable horse? From what I read on the equestrian outlets, Schleu received no sympathy.

Well what do you know, nice juicy transfusion to get that old edge off.