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IOF decided to split the WCH into two. "Distances/Forest" championships every odd year and "Sprint/City" championships every even year. The reason for this decision is to make it possible for more countries to bid for a WCH. Some countries don't have "enough" forest to hold a WCH. IOF hopes that this new system makes it possible to bring more awareness of orienteering in the world. I have heard that Hong Kong is planning to bid for a Sprint WCH. Before that wouldn't have been possible for a country like Hong Kong to bid for a whole WCH, but now it is possible. Also, money I guess. More countries have the possibility to host a WCH which probably mean more federations in IOF, which can lead to more publicity in new countries, which can mean new sponsors to IOF. So yeah.... money!

Update - Week 33 - August 12 to August 18 - 2019 + DL Birmingham 2019 Men's 1500m +1 https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/sweden/kalle-berglund-286019 Women's 3000m Steeplechase +1 https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/spain/irene-sanchez-escribano-262377 Men's Long Jump +3 https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/japan/shotaro-shiroyama-281470 https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/japan/yuki-hashioka-305202 https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/japan/hibiki-tsuha-301867 Women's Long Jump +1 +1 +1 https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/belgium/nafissatou-thiam-258987 https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/serbia/ivana-spanovic-206037 https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/great-britain-ni/katarina-johnson-thompson-238460 Qualified Quotas Overview Men (Total Quota: 388) Women (Total Quota: 374)

Penny Smith can also get a quota, so Australia, Finland, Russia will battle for the two quotas.

I thought someone from the Netherlands would love music that goes 'boom boom'

qualified in women's 3000m steeplechase (athletics). https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/albania/luiza-gega-256102

I somehow missed that Luiza Gega achieved the Olympic Standard in Women's 3000m Steeplechase in Skopje with a time of 9:25.80.

Congrats to the Serbian users, especially those who are Crvena Zvezda-fans. What a penalty shoot-out! That penalty spot though

It was reported yesterday that Sondre Turvoll Fossli had been hospitalized and today it was confirmed. According to a press release from the Norwegian Ski Federation, Fossli suffered a cardiac arrest Monday morning. He quickly got life-saving first aid and was taken to Oslo University Hospital. - Sondre is closely followed by cardiac specialists at the hospital and is doing well, says Ola Rønsen from the Ski Association who, according to the press release, has visited Fossli at the hospital. - He is obviously very happy that he came from this with his life preserved. It is too early to say what consequences this could have for his skiing career, concludes Ola Rønsen.

Nice I sometimes listen to a German ska-rock band named Evil Cavies. Don't know if you have heard about them? Here are a couple of the songs I listen to from them:

Lowry is out... https://www.nba.com/article/2019/08/12/kyle-lowry-withdraws-usa-basketball-world-cup

On the bright side, I think there could be arranged an awesome industrial concert with a band like Rammstein in many of the olympic venues.

If phelps is like me, he had to, for example, re-write FIROUZPOURBANDPEI because I personally don't like names written in caps lock. (Yeah I know, I'm a bit weird )

Because @phelps also have a life beside this forum Also, have you seen the names of some of the wrestlers... Mohmmadsadegh Biglar FIROUZPOURBANDPEI, Amkhad TASHUKHADZHIEV. It takes forever to write these names!

Nope From the official document: "Mixed Team Places allocation at the Continental Games If an NOC wins the mixed team competition after having already obtained a place in: • one gender, then one additional place will be allocated to the individual competition of that gender and the NOC will obtain one individual place in the other gender". In this case, USA won the mixed event, they already have one individual in the men's, so two individual places to two NOCs in men's individual, if both are in top 4. @NearPup was quicker At the European Games, Italy, Netherlands and Spain were the nations in the men's individual semifinals. and already had qualified as individual or team, so received one of the quotas while the second was reallocated to the Final OQT because there was no other nation in top 4.

Hmm... how can I write this... Israel got disqualifed in Men's 4x400m, so Austria stays in the 2nd League and Israel goes down. They don't make it easy for you, @OlympicIRL... On the bright side, you didn't double jinx, only single jinxed

Do you know if they serve æbleskiver and medister together in Solvang around Christmas? If they do, it's like pissing on every Dane and take a dump on us..

@OlympicIRL Serbia got disqualified in the last event, Men's 4x400m Iceland got 2nd in the event, so they are promoted to 2nd League instead of Serbia. Nice job !

Well... "602.14. If the team of the host European Athletics Member Federation is not qualified to participate in the Super League, it shall be included in the Super League, as a ninth team, and such adjustments, as necessary, shall be made to the procedure described in 602.13.1 to 602.13.6. Note: The exception above (i.e. having 9 teams in the Super League) would be allowed only on the condition that the host venue foreseen has a 9-lane 400m track".

According to the new competition regulations for 2021, 9 teams are possible: "602.7. The participating teams shall be divided into a Super League (comprising 8 or, exceptionally, 9 teams), a First League (comprising 12 teams), a Second League (comprising 12 teams), and a Third League (comprising the remaining teams)". https://www.european-athletics.org/mm/Document/EventsMeetings/General/01/28/56/12/600-EuropeanTeamChampionshipsRegulations-inforcesfrom2021_English.pdf

Benjamin Williams with an Olympic Standard in men's triple jump with 17.14m A 40cm improvement of his PB! https://www.european-athletics.org/competitions/european-team-championships/2019/athletics/event/mens-triple-jump/phase=atm062100/index.html?intcmp=[#]-schline-calltoaction

I think it's because the organisers looked at the weather forecast and saw that the best chance for no rain would be around this time. They moved the pole vault from yesterday to today because of the chance of rain. Besides that, there are two pole vault events today, so scheduling could be a reason.

Also Ryan Sanchez with an OQT in men's 800m with 1:45.19. now have full quota (3 athletes) in men's 800m.

Tina Sutej achieves the Olympic Standard with 4.70m in women's pole vault

There is no qualification in relay, so this is the time they end with...

Lisa Ryzih decided to score 0 points with three missed attempts at 4.21m in women's pole vault