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A lot of sports have been ruined with rule changes, modern pentathlon has actually been better with these rules I think. I would never watch something span over 2 days. Short and quick finals is what most audience want. Obviously can be optimised further, but this is definitely an excellent job and that's how a sport should be.

World Cup 1 Cairo, April 7-12 Women: Gold: Blanka Guzi - 1,488 pts (New World Record) Silver: Anastasiya Malashenoka Bronze: Viyaleta Hureyeva Men: Gold: Moutaz Mohamed - 1,608 pts (New World Record) Silver: Mathis Rochat Bronze: Mihaly Koleszar

Great victory for Moutaz Mohamed

Felt the athletes didn't give it their all in swimming, it was slow

Test rankings are not true either. Give at least 30 nations test status and force top teams to face smaller teams then I will consider it true. A sport which does not give all teams an opportunity to play against top teams and wants to use rankings for Olympic qualification does not deserve a spot in Olympics. Yes, the reason to have the sport is India and money but I feel there can be many ways you can do it. Now that India won WC it could easily be winner + 4 regional qualifiers + host OR Top ranking+ 4 regional+ host... But just distributing 4/6 quotas on ranking is way too unjust.

I don't think rankings are fair in cricket. There's no cricket between India and Italy or Papua New Guinea for the latter team to improve their performance or get better in rankings. It's just top 8 teams that regularly play against each other. In long term, if more teams being competitive there will be more interesting match ups rather than between same old teams.

Just 3 WC + WC Final. I think I'll follow this WC Let's go

Would have preferred regional qualifier + global qualifier. Since India won the T20 WC it could have been WC Winner + 5 regional qualifiers.

Marathon and race walking acts as a good change to the otherwise schedule which takes place in stadium. I don't think I'll be interested in these standalone events though. There can be world race walking, throwing, jumping, middle distance, combined, relays, sprints, middle and long distance etc in non world championship years but removing the events is so unnecessary..

What's the probability of another postponement?

Wonder how many nations from middle east will be able to attend them

So less than 12 hours to go to for the controversial final to start rigged in favour of Funny how WBC held every 4 years has almost the same teams in same groups, controversial decisions in semis aside ensures such unjust final. Thanks to tournament rules, Team USA, having played Sunday and getting the day off Monday, has a pitching advantage. Every USA pitcher is technically eligible to pitch. Venezuela, meanwhile, will be limited by back-to-back rules. It doesn't quite seem fair to have a setup like this. Hopefully no baseball after 2028. Olympics doesn't need such unfair sports.

It was the first international hockey match in Hyderabad since 2003. The stadium had been left unused. Recently it got a makeover, increased seating, new astroturf, floodlights, dressing rooms and gpo painted. It had the old turfs in a bad condition until few months ago when I went. Sergio Pagni, India's compound archery coach was then guiding young archers. Bushes had grown on some part of the stadium, the cement seating had been damaged and a significant part of old turf had worn out making it non usable for hockey. A lot of people I met during the tournament here especially those in 30s 40s were confused with the quarter system and were asking when did it become quarter.. wasn't it two halves of 35 mins each... Hockey used to be popular once but after 2000s it has gone on decline and post 2010s it's been an exponential decline with the rise of T20 Cricket and IPL.

Massive crowd for the final game between had a better possession but conversion rate was pretty poor within the circle leading to a narrow loss.

Little late to post won 1-0 against Hard luck for the Italians @Gianlu33 @phelps @Sindo @copravolley So punch the last ticket to Women's Hockey World Cup