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Alexandra Popp got injured in the warm-up and misses the final

Caroline Garcia wins in Warsaw 64 61 over Ana Bogdan in the final.

Marie Bouzkova won the Prague title 60 63 over Anastasia Potapova. Nothing unusual except for the fact Bouzkova hit ZERO winners all match  That's basically unheard of even in women's tennis. Meanwhile Potapova made 44 unforced errors! That's like 2.93 UE per game!

And common sense prevailed with Kateryna Monzul being the referee in the final.

Yeah, he even scored vs England at Wembley in 2016

Former international (19 caps) Luciano Narsingh made his debut for Miedź Legnica yesterday. Probably the highest-profile Dutch player in the Polish league since Kew Jaliens ca. 10 years ago.

Warsaw final: Caroline Garcia vs Ana Bogdan

Prague final: Marie Bouzkova vs Anastasia Potapova

2 hours ago, phelps said:

of course I don't agree at all with our friend @Fly_like_a_don because Swimming has offered the audience some of the most exciting moments in the Olympic history...

 

and if in general liking it or not it's up to personal taste, saying that there's no action it's pure blasphemy...

 

coming to the quote, I just made a quick research and I found out that in the entire Olympic history (some events were already there in the 1st modern Games, Athens 1896, most of them though are there since 1968 only) there have been very, very few "doubles" between 100m and 200m meters races (and 200m + 400m Freestyle)...

 

that's the full list:

 

Men

 

100m + 200m Freestyle

1968, Michael Wenden, AUS
1972, Mark Spitz, USA
2000, Pieter Van Den Hoogenband, NED

200m + 400m Freestyle

1992, Yevgeny Sadovyi, RUS (CIS)
1996, Danyon Loader, NZL
2004, Ian Thorpe, AUS

100m + 200m Backstroke

1968 and 1972, Roland Matthes, GDR
1976, John Naber, USA
1984, Rick Carey, USA
2000, Lenny Kreyzelburg, USA
2004, Aaron Peirsol, USA
2016, Ryan Murphy, USA
2020, Evgeny Rylov, RUS

100m + 200m Breastroke

2000, Domenico Fioravanti, ITA
2004 and 2008, Kosuke Kitajima, JPN

100m + 200m Butterfly

1972, Mark Spitz, USA
1996, Denis Pankratov, RUS
2004 and 2008, Michael Phelps, USA

 

 

Women

 

100m + 200m Freestyle

1976, Kornelia Ender, GDR
1980, Barbara Krause, GDR

200m + 400m Freestyle

1968, Debbie Meyer, USA
1972, Shane Gould, AUS
2016, Katie Ledecky, USA
2020, Ariarne Titmus, AUS

100m + 200m Backstroke

1972, Melissa Belote, USA
1976, Ulrike Richter, GDR
1984, Rica Reinisch, GDR
1992, Krisztina Egerszegi, HUN
2000, Diana Mocanu, ROU
2012, Missy Franklin, USA
2020, Kaylee McKeown, AUS

100m + 200m Breastroke

1996, Penelope Heyns, RSA

100m + 200m Butterfly

1984, Mary T. Meagher, USA

 

 

as you might notice, the only style with a few more doubles is Backstroke (actually 200m and 400m Medley are usually a double for the same athlete, but it's the only exception in the whole individual schedule)...

 

in a few disciplines, the doubles are almost unheard of...

 

so, that's the simple demonstration that there's way more diversity than people can even imagine in the current swimming program (which doesn't need too much changes, just add the 50m for Back, Breast and Fly and get rid of the mixed gender relays)...

 

p.s. and if we eliminate the doubles obtained by the East Germany's girls (you know why) and by the 2 greatest male swimmers ever (Spitz and Phelps, who got the most of them), the list is basically down to a few "white flies" in the whole history of the Olympic Swimming...

 

so, please...feel free to dislike swimming on personal taste, but stop all the bullshits about the rest...

I always find it hilarious people want to fix something that isn't broken. And then we end up with Olympic "sports" like break dancing and e-sports (looming) In 2236 world will look like in this Surrogates movie with Bruce Willis. I'm quite certain of that.

6th place for Zwolinska is pretty good if she qualified to the final with the last time?

Prague tournament will see a Czech SF between Marie Bouzkova and Linda Noskova. The latter qualified for her first WTA SF (she will turn 18 in November) and this result means she will enter WTA Top 100 for the first time next week. Sadly the US MD cut-off deadline passed on July 18th so she will have to play USO qualifying next month.

16 minutes ago, Mkbw50 said:

Lawn Bowls

I would have NEVER guessed that. Are they actually playing on lawn or some artificial crap indoors?

35 minutes ago, Mkbw50 said:

Pharoah falls 21-11 to Ahmad in her opener.

What sport is that? I assume it's not table tennis?

How many 4th place finishes for on Day 1?

1 hour ago, hckošice said:

Yeah, well, Everywhere in Slovakia can be considered as a short trip

 

we really tiny-tiny

 

Maximum length and width:

428 km between the western and eastern point of the country (Záhorská Ves – Nová Sedlica),

resp. 195 km between the Southern and Northern point of the country (Štúrovo (more famous abroad under the Hungarian name Esztergom) – Skalité)

 

Raków's longest domestic trip (to Pogoń Szczecin) is twice as long as the upcoming trip to Trnava

Netball must be an ultimate pariah of the basketball genre? I mean 3x3 basketball has gained more following in like the last 10 years because it better resembles the old fashioned street/park games with only one basket. I still don't understand this hoopla about netball in Australia & New Zealand?

Raków & Lech made it through into third round of qualifying. Pogoń got embarrassed by Broendby 0-4 while Lechia fell to Rapid 1-2.

Round 3 match-ups:

Lech Poznan vs Vikingur Reykjavik

Raków Częstochowa vs Spartak Trnava @hckošice Short trip for each side since Częstochowa is located in southern Poland

Sebastian Vettel will retire at the end of the season.

Emma Raducanu will work with Dmitri Tursunov during the USO swing The Wimbledon ban is made to look even more stupid when the pin-up player of women's tennis is trying to rescue her ranking with a Russian coach

What are the odds the totally overrated Syephanie Frappart gets the final appointement? They should really give it to Monzul tbh.

Russia has made its way to NASCAR. It's safe to say USA will never ban these Russian ice hockey or tennis players

Yeah, Sweden just doesn't have a great striker at the moment and were always up against it. All signs point to England vs Germany final which would be the most intriguing. France for all their possession have a striker problem too, it turned out Italy was just a defensive mess in that one game.

England leads Sweden 1:0 at half-time.

Yeah, Johnson walked into a political corectness trap all by himself and got swiftly put down by the twitter mob. Guess Africa is really a third world country unworthy of setting off the charts World Records? When a black person gets accused of racism then you know he's a rich black person who has all the priviledges most of Africa doesn't have.

When Warholm & McLaughlin beat the 400H records nobody says anything about the faulty timing? The magic shoes, yeah, obviously but nothing about the clock being wrong.

Malwina Smarzek-Godek hasn't been called up for the second half of the season which means she will probably miss this tournament.