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Silver medal for in road cycling

Most people don't like FIFA either and nobody thinks about boycotting the World Cup

I don't know if anyone has already posted it but I have just found out a survey from Miami University about the new Davis Cup https://miamioh.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5i3hO7BbLSExpYO?Q_CHL=social&Q_SocialSource=twitter If you want to express your opinion about the new format this can be your chance!

He is not going to retire immediately nor any other olympians. They will play Chinese league match and still may attend next year’s group WCH and Asian Games. I think the main reason is the commercial value. They will fade out in a very slow pace. Even Zhang Jike didn’t announce retirement. The other question there are three trials for this WCH, the champion of each trial will earn a berth. Ma Long didn’t won any of these. To be clear Fan Zhendong won twice and Liang Jingkun won once so three other persons are chosen by the association. The official reason of absence of veterans are to keep healthy and avoid injuries after highly competitive OG season.

And more than Austria and Norway :-D

Stealing a joke from Twitter: the fenestration of Prague.

Meanwhile in the Slav part of the globe... The Czech President (currently Covid-19 positive) named the new PM while being in a special cube

Another one for the collection.

Team Greece Men: Apostolos Christou Dimitrios Markos Georgios Spanoudakis Andreas Vazaios Women: Georgia Damasioti Maria Drasidou Anna Ntountounaki

Italy do it since 2018

And now silver for in track and field !

The longest term damage is trying to get a games for 2030 and longer. Most people around the world world do not like the IOC.

China is triggered enough to run the financial pressure over lack of WTA tournaments even without Taiwan. WTA raised the purse for 1st round GS losers and so on, there is the big push for pay equality too. I wonder how is that possible with the loss of Chinese money? The long-term plans could blow right up now. The only reasonable replacement is Middle East. It would be hilarious if WTA had to stage events in Saudi Arabia to make up for the Chinese losses

I am sure. Tibet, Hong Kong and Taiwan are all lost to the Western world. COVID has allowed China to call people racists whenever someone says "Chinese virus". NBC pays too much money for WOG to be held without Americans for instance. Nobody in USA would tune in to watch Russians and Norwegians win

No sporting boycotts will happen. I'm amazed how delusional people are. The Tibet situation was much bigger in 2008 and they held the Games there. Money is more important to IOC than people realize. The days when they banned Ingemar Stenmark from taking part in WOG are long over

So happy to see qualified at last @hckošice They’d been knocking on the door for a while.

WTA has announced the suspension of all tournaments in Hong Kong and China.

qualified for the first time ever in Sledge Hockey By finishing 2nd and last qualified from the Final Qualifying Tournament in Berlin. Results and final standing here in this link Top 2 Teams qualified & https://stats.iihf.com/parahockey/9/IHX400200_76_15_0.pdf

I expected that but was hoping for much tighter game, but as expected we sadly joined today the club of Bullies

https://swimswam.com/penns-lia-thomas-breaks-200-500-free-records-in-meet-with-princeton-cornell/

Take away the first & last 10 minutes & it wasn’t that bad.

I just watched the video. It's not one of the three trials I mentioned. It's just a warm up match after the list published. @MHSN

Konta annouces her retirement

@NearPup said it right. To prepare Paris cycle, Ma Long obviously will not attend Paris OG as well as Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen.

Stephanie Balduccini (Swimming) won 7 gold medals and will probably be the biggest medalist at these Games.

China didn’t send him because they wanted to give experience to younger players.

Panna Udvardy won the W60 in Brasilia and is set to enter WTA Top 100. After Nuria Parrizas Diaz she is the second player this season to crack Top 100 playing mostly ITF events.

It would've been even worse, if @Olympian1010 hadn't joined the jury

Mr Slovakia will 0 medals in Tokyo but ended up winning a few.

Tennis could financially suffer badly this coming decade. The next Gen are pretty unpopular and will not bring in no where near as much revenue as the greats have done so. And now this meant the WTA will be in a financial hole as well. If a breakaway tour happens as Djokovic wants to run once retired then even the Grand Slams could be at risk.