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Yeah, the story about the trumpeter is a medieval myth but the Mongol Invasion was real I presume most adults in Poland have heard the Kraków Trumpet Call hundreds if not thousands of times in their lives. It's played every hour from the tower of the St. Mary's church so any tourist who's been to Kraków must have heard it numerous times as well

It's the start of the St. Mary's Trumpet Call - another thing heavily associated with Kraków for several decades. A lot of cities in Europe - especially those dating to medieval times - have similar calls but it's obiously not the same one for each city https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Mary's_Trumpet_Call

As one-sided final as it gets. Nothing for the highlights outside of UK

Szocs totally crushed it - 11-3 in the decider!!! The Chinese from Monaco is furious, almost threw the racquet and kicked the boards.

Szocs in line for a massive comeback. Down 1-3 in sets and leads 6-1 in the decider...

Seifriedsberger wins the women's ski jumping 0.3 pts ahead of Prevc. Kramer with bronze.

Seifriedsberger vs Prevc for the gold after the first round given their advantage. Kramer with a 6 points gap over 4th place.

Five jumpers in and Tamara Mesikova leads the women's competition @hckošice

Elizabeta Samara beats Natalia Bajor 4-3 in the bronze medal match. So that's two medals for in women's singles

Given how TVP lost World Cup ski jumping coverage before last season I wouldn't be surprised if they blocked all outside broadcasts of the sport for EG

They are on TVP Sport. Watching Bajor vs Samara bronze medal match right now

Going topless in public is suddenly an equal rights thing in Catalonia. Guess the conservatives won't protest that idea too much https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66029635

@Rafa MacielSince Sandra Drabik is in the 54kg division, our media say that all EG semi-finalists will qualify for the Paris OG

I think so. There is no Olympic tennis qualifying per se, the WTA ranking is the official measuring stick and French women have completely lost depth in the last few seasons. Other than Garcia & Cornet there is nobody who can play at Gracheva level atm. Parry & Paquet have stalled, Ferro was out injured and Mladenovic is a joke in singles these days.

And here it is. The new French #2 in women's tennis

beats 29-7 in the second SF so we have the somewhat expected final

Bernadette Szocs beats Natalia Bajor 4-0 in the second SF and will play the Chinese from in the final.

@Olympian1010Yeah, I get it IOC propaganda tune is only positive comments about breakdancing are allowed these days. Well, I'm out on this sport wholesale. Can't make "fetch" happen

@phelpsIOC shrunk the 470 class into mixed only and you want them to stay progressive? It's mind-blowing how they butchered the programme and want to promote surfing which is highlights sport only. Most people have no clue about the surfing style points and you are stuck waiting 20 mins for a single wave. Ideal sport to go to the toilet or cook a meal and still nothing happens on the screen in the mean time

@phelpsI presume billards isn't progressive enough to appeal to the mythical "urban sports" standard. After all those 15 year breakdancers wouldn't even be allowed into your local pub which billard is still stronly associated with. Same "problem" why darts won't become an Olympic sport anytime soon. The big trio of "pub sports" - cards, billard & darts i.e. associated with alcohol & tobacco smoking. Nope, not your IOC urban standard

Well, the QF ended like four hours ago and the TVP Sport commentators immediately said Czech Republic plays Poland in SF

If you mean drawing crowds in the US-based World Games? Well, lacrosse is basically unknown in Europe and frisbee is well, a barbecue game. It's the same "problem" why netball is endemic to Australia, everyone else in the world prefers basketball and nobody calls for netball to replace it. The novelty of breakdance will wear out sooner or later, the same way the excitement over slalom in snowboarding (since replaced by the parallels). In 1998 it was the sport of the moment since everyone wanted to watch the novelty but only 20 years later it doesn't move a single needle anymore, even the less bally-hooed moguls remained more popular.

So it should stay at World Games. If IOC thinks the future of Olympics is breakdance and e-sports then we might as well expect nordic walking too. Or maybe chess? Hell, maybe poker should be considered an Olympic sport too?

Breakdance has zero history as a sport and it won't build any in the short attention span generation IMO. Latino dances have a better claim to become an Olympic sport. Plus like I've said before, adults simply do NOT watch children doing sports unless they are parents of kids involved. There is no way getting around that. 15 year olds being world champions in breakdancing is a story but most people watching Olympics are... surprise, surprise... adults!

So much for relying on Polish commentators then