Monzanator

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.

beat 3-2 in the final. beat 3-0 for the bronze medal.

10 hours ago, Makedonas said:

Are you going to the tournament? @Monzanator

Sadly no, I live too far away from Warsaw to even consider that. I attended Katowice between 2013-16 before.

And we're off in Warsaw. After some early R1 results we're set for South American derby in R2: Nadia Podoroska vs Laura Pigossi

Kamil Stoch & Nika Kriznar win the second competition.

@hckošice Tamara Mesikova improved to 17th place on day two.

Due to one DSQ and Kinga Rajda's terrible landing two Delia Anamaria Folea & Alessia Mitu-Cosca have guaranteed themselves eternal right to enter in winter World Cup competition which they previously didn't have.

1 hour ago, hckošice said:

maybe an elimination race will be fine too, you know, run the 100m until only two will left..

 

same for 10000m run 25 races until the last 2 stands

 

Anyway off topic but I just read today that from Brisbane 2032 all olympic Swimming competitions will be held on the 25m pool ! I swear it is written here  https://www.olympic.sk/clanok/olympijske-hry-2024-v-parizi-ktore-sa-zacnu-uz-o-dva-roky-budu-v-duchu-inovacii

 

...These standards correspond not only to the sustainable ambitions of the IOC, but also of the International Swimming Federation (FINA). In an effort to further support the sustainability of the Olympic Games, the IOC proposed to reduce the size of the Olympic pool from 50 to 25 meters and to use digital technologies and robots instead of timers.  The changes should apply after the 2032 Olympics in Brisbane....

I'm waiting for a time when using the word "sustainable" in every other frickin' press release will be unsustainable. This excuse is getting hilarious I guess the new generation will come up with some new words to promote so it's only a matter of time - as always.

This is insane. So some athletes will have to run an extra race - like 1,500 meters even? They will be dead tired and complete non-factors come the SF or Final if they actually make it.

Athletes are rested for 400 meters with the relays on the schedule and now they will be forced to run extra race if they don't get automatic spot? Yeah, I can see more DNS in repechages.

This is an idea that profits top-heavy nations, USA (duh), East Africa in 800/1500 but that is about it.

PS. Like mentioned, we'll see people walking off track if they can no longer qualify by place in the heats. The juice won't be worth the squeeze. Hell, some outsiders will walk right off after 100 meters in heats and focus on the repechage already most likely.

I'm amazed how WA is trying to fix something that isn't broken

2 hours ago, Belle said:

1 gold and 2 bronze for Sweden 

 

Sweden need more athletes to perform better. Feels bad that only two guys can do it. 

Speaking of that, Tomasz Majewski said the Daniel Stahl's no mark on the throw that would have been good enough for bronze was overstepped by 4 milimeters. Apparently Americans had such cameras that it was possible to determine such a small foul.