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Winning medals in the Olympics is more than just 'decent'  

Marcel Hirscher is most likely going to announce his immediate retirement Wednesday  
 
He has invited all kinds of media for a press conference and the title of it suggests it's to announce the end of his career.

Unbelievable
 
 
 

Yoko Ono didn't compete.

That part of Pacific is much more calm than a lot of the world’s oceans. A big traditional 24 person va’a could get you between islands.

Poland will only get 2 more athlete quotas with Women's K4, not 4, because two of their athletes already got quotas in K2. It's hard to say who will get the quotas with the "doubling-up" reallocation. 

Athlete

no, quota are by name...

I guess it just doesn’t seem that big of a deal to me.  would have won the race either way. Plus, as I said, they could have used the photo finish technology to determine the winner. Give each girl a small fine and stern warning. Also, publish a press release that says the next athletes to do this will get DSQ’d. I’ve seen people in multiple sports get slaps on the wrists for way worse rule breaks.
 
Also, from an Endurance athletes point-of-view. These races are taxing. It’s nice to have someone to celebrate with at the end. Yes, could have finished and then embraced each other. Instead they choose to celebrate a shared achievement. I’ve seen distance runners and cyclists do this all the time. There is huge comradeship amongst endurance athletes, especially amongst teammates, because generally there the only ones around to support you. Endurance sports to draw many spectators until the elite level, so it’s understandable to me for someone to want to share a victory with someone the most likely train with quite often.
 
There are much worse things to worry about in sports than two athletes sharing an athletic achievement. I think their finish shows class. 
 
I don't want to hear this match fixing crap from users either. Don’t act like Dutch, Croatian, and Indian athletes haven’t ever “fixed” results themselves.

Every country that plays cricket more than recreationally is a top-10 nation in cricket.

Does the event at least count for the Olympic Ranking ? It's a bit tricky and unfair from ITU to call it "Olympic Qualification Event" even if it is not

no...
 
it's just the olympic test event (with the usual ranking points up for grabs)...maybe ITU wanted to create some hype...
 
but if they have to face the same troubles the open water swimming specialists had to face yesterday in their test event (see dedicated thread), it's gonna be an interesting weekend...

No X Games had her listed as . She is most definitely representing . Vans Park probably just doesn’t care enough to change the graphics.

Not even 'wants to get rid off', if I'm not mistaken it's already been killed off with Tokyo 2020 being the last time it's held in a major event (at least until it's brought back one day, who knows).

Paulina Guba - shot put - 18,65 in Warsaw
 
http://live.domtel-sport.pl/?seria=0&runda=3&konkurencja=Kkula&dzien=2019-07-28&impreza=6

They fight to the death using their bats 

Alex Rose threw a new personal best of 66.31m in Kutztown, PA, USA last Friday and achieved the Olympic standard in Men's Discus. 
https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/samoa/alex-rose-257501

How terrible, so close to where a nucleair disaster happened with, like, 1 (possible) death  

Marcin Krukowski, Javelin throw: 85,63 in Warsaw two days ago https://pzla.pl/file/5087-rezultaty.pdf

you are new here  not yet heard about the crystal ball of bestmen 
 

I’d try, but it would take a religious level miracle for the website to work.

Hopefully Milano and Cortina are really like in another country...because if this is a apperitif of what we will have in 2026 than really NO thank you !

Absolutely AWFUL Results site ! AWFUL ! Hallo Napoli ! it´s freaking 2019 !!!

Well I'm probably the only one for whom the site has been working decently but it says there are 13 medal events in shooting, countries can enter max. 2 shooters per event except for team rifle men and team rifle women...so those events exist and are the only (non mixed) team events.

There are team medals in shooting at the Universiade. Results are based on the qualification scores of individual events.