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Inace od znacajnijih rezultata prosle nedelje Basta i Kolaric osvojili turnir u Turskoj, a Ivan Dejanovic 4. na Svetskom celendz kupu na vratilu

You can think whatever you want, this is one of those rare cases where it is quite evident, if you know some very undelightful details, that she used this ban as a form of escape. You have absolutely no idea what she lived through, the fact that she came back like this is astonishing. She was one of the most tested Lithuanian athletes from 2012 to 2018, instigating that she used doping when her results got bad and after she already won it all is pretty stupid. Is it good that she purposefully missed her doping tests? No. But she was done, she thought she would never swim competitively again and she used the safety net of the ban so that she wouldn't have to make that choice herself and that the federation & media would stop pestering her about the upcoming 2020 Olympics. You don't know what it was like for Meilutytė when she stopped winning gold and immediately the journalists and many many sports fans turned on her, made fun of her body, harrassed her and all that.

Can't put into words how absolutely insane and unprecedented this comeback is. She told everyone to not expect anything of her and that she is only swimming for herself now. She is not pushing herself too hard for results and she's only been training for half a year after a three year hiatus. She is no longer dealing with the bullshit of journalists that were one of the primary reasons she fell into depression and decided not to pursue professional sports. And now she is back, with a bronze medal at the World Championships, only 0.09s away from the gold. We don't know how long we'll have her, she might even say that she quits swimming again tomorrow, but as long as she's in the sport, I'm going to continue to support her, because she is capable of so many great things and is an absolute fighter. I'm hoping she'll go for Paris OG, but I definitely understand if she decides not to. I'm just happy that she gave us the comeback that many of us Lithuanian fans were secretly hoping for, especially when the rumours started flying that she's swimming in Kaunas again. What a star.

Oh, yeah, happens all the time on BBC! Not with football or rugby of course, but with athletics, swimming....

Australia didn't even buy rights to the 2019 WCs but thankfully it's being broadcast this time. She missed tests after she'd already stopped training and competing. I don't see anything suspect about her at all.

Mental health is so important. Not everyone can handle being thrust into the limelight, especially now with social media where a lot of these athletes are only a click away from being directly contacted. It is always so sad when the media/public effectively destroy someone's sporting career because they couldn't live up to the high standards.

I just found the news cause I was at work till now That's absolutely a huge performance for Romania. The future looks great for the next Olympics

Hey Totallympians A message to all predictors. First of all, thank you for your participation in the prediction contests, I'm glad many of you wanted to participate. Secondly, from Friday and over the weekend I will not be on the forum much, as me and my fiancée are going to have our wedding this Friday. On Saturday and Sunday, we will be away on a weekend trip to celebrate the wedding. I have sent a PM to @Sindo if he could post the prediction designs for the Playoffs for men's and women's water polo wchs prediction contest while I was away. I don't know if he will available as he earlier wrote that he would be at the Mediterrean Games? In case he will not be available here on the forum during the weekend, I would like to hear if someone could be a stand-in and post the prediction designs for the Playoff-rounds? I will be posting the final standing of the Swimming Prediction Contest when I come back on Sunday, and the Water Polo provisional standing will be updated also. That is all from me, Wumo

Kristian Ceh had taken over as the best discus thrower this season but Daniel Ståhl just took back the WL with 71.47 at the swedish club championship.

Da, čuo sam ovo za odbojku, deluje mi da su to dobre vesti za nas, mada ko zna. Da se kvalifikujemo u odbojci za muškarce i u košarci za muškarce i odbojka žene naravno plus vaterpolo i ja sam zadovoljan. Sve preko toga je bonus. Basketaši dobiše i Portoriko uz mučenje 21:19 Plus nema Drehsela na startnoj listi za polufinale

Od timskih sportova samo odbojka sto je po meni bolje plus kod musk nece biti tu Francuzi i plus Rusija sigurno!! Za individualne sportove mislim da je manji broj kvota plus video sam skoro da su kajak bas unistili vise nema muski k2 1000 vec k2 500 plus k1 1000, k1 200 su izbacili i u muskoj i u zenskoj konkurenciji

Барна је имао сасвим добро време за јутарње квалификације, а врв би ово време био довољно и за финале. Е сад за медаљу ће требати дебело испод 37. Попович и Дресел су ипак спејс шатл у овом моменту, али бронза није далеко

Are you kidding @bestmen ? What's have the comparison between tourism in Morocco and in Algeria to do with the games ? I mean do you think they will be tourists coming just to see the mediterranean games even the official website won't encourage anyone to come

Weird, I remember always hating the fact that the Olympic Games don't count towards the World Cup total score. Since we're not a medal winning nation, the World Championships are going to be reduced to funding games for us, which is sad, because we usually got quite a few world cup points since we were timing our form for the championships every year. Now, those rare top 20s won't feel that much special without any points behind them.

Some shocking news to me: • the IBU World Championships will no longer be included in the World Cup Total Score. Thus, there are no more World Cup points collected at World Championship events. This is in line with IBU’s general direction to make the World Championships a stand-alone flagship event • there will be no more dropped results in the World Cup Total Score. Every competition in the World Cup will count toward the Total Score • the point system for the Total Score and the Discipline Scores will be adjusted to increase the value between the top results ensuring that if athletes are forced to miss a race due to sickness they will still have the possibility of being able to win the Crystal Globes https://www.biathlonworld.com/news/carlsson-2022-biathlon-rules/7zLHlnECP6Ggp3VxDf1HQp

She didn't have a good national trials. Hopefully the cut in funding won't discourage her too much and that she'll compete in at least the Americas Championships.

Earlier on it was announced that New Zealand would only send two individuals instead of a team for the World Dressage Championships in Herning. However that changed today, as their shooting star Gaylene Lennard, who previously removed herself from consideration due to limited experience, has changed her mind and will be going to Denmark after all. Therefore the Group G qualification is set to be much more interesting than usual, with battling it out. New Zealand has a fair chance of upsetting Australia. Group F spot will once again be left unclaimed, since nobody will habe a team in Herning. Special qualifier will be staged later.

The very first quotas to be decided.

ndma vise kontinentalnih kvalifikacija u odbojci, posle 3 svetska turnira gleda se renking ostalo ne znam, uglavnom manji broj kvota

Replays are here. As you see, not a very convenient format! Home (eurovisionsports.tv)

No-brainer. This multi-sport European Championships made no sense from the start and who knows how long that idea keeps going. Athletics is big enough it doesn't need to share the table with other sports.

Always nice to see other nations win from our region because it happens so rarely at the WCh and the Olympics. Popovici is so young, I very much hope he can keep this up for at least two more years and win that Olympic gold.

WOW Gold medal for Romania Congrats @vlad

Less so now: you just take the preproduced feed & slap a commentator in his bedroom on it.

TV schedules aren't about relevance. They're about the cost of acquiring the rights versus the amount of viewers they'll get. And while us sports nuts mightn't like it, repeats of sitcoms or reality shows get more viewers per dollar/pound/euro than most sports

This tourist explains everything

Anita Wlodarczyk is out of World & European Champs due to her car thief injury