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Almaz Ayana has withdrawn from the Women's 10,000m. 
https://olympics.nbcsports.com/2019/09/25/almaz-ayana-track-and-field-world-championships/
 

I'm almost sure that China can send only 2 atletes

Added, thanks a lot

Isn't newcomer in softball? 

Isn't newcomer in softball? 

and they also blocked the youtube braodcast in Italy...
 
if they think that I'm going to watch and above listen to their broadcast, they're just a bunch of poor guys...
 
better watch Israel thrashing out the Kingdom of the Netherlands (right now the score is 6-1 for in the bottom of the 5th)...

once someone from IOC asked this from UWW officials (during the meeting about keeping wrestling at the Olympics) it was Carol Huynh if I'm not wrong and the answer was "we never received any kind of interest from women about Greco-Roman"
 
women's GR simply doesn't exist as far as I know. apparently because that needs upper body strength ! (don't laugh at me that's what some "experts" claim)

Women's strength is based on legs and hips, their upper-body - the one the Greco-Roman wrestling is most "interested" in - is physically worse developed (while visually...) . There are some tries and maybe with the feminism going further and further (sometimes maybe too far - but that's not the point) we will see the women's Greco-Roman wrestlng in the future - surely not in Paris, maybe not even in LA.

more on him...he was born in 1993 in Agadir (MAR) from a Moroccan father and a Dtch mother (that's why he has double citizenship, MAR & NED), but now he lives and trains mainly in France (and surf all over the world)...
 
however, looking at his bio, he's a lot better than I expected as a non full-time follower of this sport...
 
he's not totally unknown at this level...

tomorrow w'll join the club
 
hello the Triple KO
 
    
   
 

No, actually he is from... the Netherlands  
https://www.worldsurfleague.com/athletes/1349/ramzi-boukhiam

But AIBA is interesting  I mean, it is really, really shitty, but I'm interested in any sports federation that elects mobster bosses as it's president.

Croatian results are as random as WTA.
 
Close losses to were followed by 1:12 vs ,and 0:23 (!!) vs .
 
But today they defeated 17:2. I can't even.
 
Perhaps we wasted our best pitchers on unwinnable matches...

I hate how these federations make you think every event ever is a qualification event 

This is why every division in every sport with weight classes should just be called by it's weight rather than some sort of confusing name like bantam, feather or welter.

yes, there's a 5th-8th place PO...
 
by the way, NED lost, but ITA won only 2-1 at the 10th inning against CRO (who yesterday drove Spain crazy, too)...
 
until now, CRO are the most pleasant surprise of the tournament, despite the 2 losses in 2 games...let's see if they can also win a match when they face a weaker opponent in the next few days...

As skateboarding park world championships you have listed this weekend's Vans Park Series finals in Salt Lake City, but the official World Skate ones will be held in Sao Paulo nex week.

I was thinking that as well, but the Dutch are generally a good bet for international tournaments. Either way the Europe/Africa  qualifier should be fun.

You say the same in almost every contest  difficult to believe from someone that has a million posts on a sports forum, majority of them results. 

Just wow. A quarterfinal is almost ours. Magnificent!

I'm still waiting for olympicsfan's take on Germany's performance.

It's yours. No way Argentina loses to Venezuela. 

I mean, most people would take 9 golds over 10 bronzes, but what about 1 gold over 10 bronzes? That's why a point system is probably the best. The question is which one? 3-2-1, 4-2-1, 6-2-1, 9-3-1 are all different types I've seen. Then we have ones that take into account population or GDP or a medal to event ratio...

Or nowadays USA D(eported). That joke was in very bad taste and against my views, but it had to be made in 2019.

I hope some biased judges don't gift him a world medal and the consequential Olympic ticket...