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2 hours ago, Maxim Fastovsky said:

Isn't it so satisfying to make all the russians cry?

Well, it won't stop Israel from handing out nationality to Russian Jews though. I feel like 90% of Israeli gymnasts and figure skaters are basically Russian or Ukrainian Jews to begin with

Geraghty-Moats only hit 3/15 in the standing in both races? I suppose she won't return to biathlon full-time anytime soon.

Marcus Ericsson won the Nashville street race despite going airborne on lap 5 The race was a total shitfest overall.

19 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Damn, shooting is extremely stable  

Likewise Trampoline gymnastics. The goal for Paris: get over 30 comments In athletics the Barshim/Tamberi/Jacobs gold combo got like 30+ comments in less than 10 minutes

13 minutes ago, Orangehair43 said:

I think Riner must be a contender to light the flame in three years time. 

I bet 5 to 1 it will be Marie-Jose Perec

37 minutes ago, George_D said:

It can give a view but not 100% representative. More posts don't mean more popularity in some sports if these are negative to towards the specific sport.. 

Even if the posts are negative (see my sport climbing format comments) it actually shows interest (i.e. how to make things better).

It's rather clear women's 3x3 basketball was the least followed sport on TO Men's 3x3 escaped that fate due to a) lack of USA b) bitching about Poland's failure

Ledwo co zgasł znicz, a już jakaś dziennikarzyna zaczyna narzekania.

https://www.onet.pl/sport/onetsport/tokio-2020-medale-polakow-zaklamuja-rzeczywistosc-wcale-nie-jest-tak-rozowo/46tpp0c,d87b6cc4

Gdyby faktycznie mielibyśmy się skoncentrować na kilku najbardziej obiecujących sportach, a resztę olać to za 5-6 lat następny dziennikarz na 100% wyskoczyłby z tezą, że takie podejście zabija wiele talentów i powinno się wrócić do szerokiego frontu finansowania dyscyplin olimpijskich. Tu się nie da wygrać z takimi malkontentami.

Generalnie u nas upadły sporty walki, ale takie czasy, że zapasy i judo to dyscypliny niszowe, które bez wsparcia komunistycznego państwa sobie nie radzą. W Atlancie i Sydney jeszcze jechaliśmy siłą rozpędu, ale to się skończyło. W boksie każdy byle nastolatek już łypie okiem na zawodowy kontrakt, a nie żadne tam olimpijskie medale.

Pływanie nam odjechało globalnie, ale tu nigdy nie zdobywaliśmy worka medali. Jedyny sport gdzie faktycznie nie wykorzystujemy potencjału to moim zdaniem kolarstwo torowe, bo posiadanie toru to już połowa sukcesu. Tam spokojnie moglibyśmy przywozić 3-4 medale z każdych IO. No ale tam jest problem w samym związku. Domyślam się, że torowcy są traktowani jako kategoria "B", komornik tor w Pruszkowie zajął, a leśne dziady w zarządzie kłócą się o byle co. Ze dwa lata temu wyskoczyli na Langa, bo chcieli dostawać jakieś pieniądze za to, że Lang niby powoduje straty poprzez trzymanie Tour de Pologne w swoim ręku i sponsorzy przychodzą do Langa a nie do związku. Co za mendy. Sam wszystko zbudował i bardzo dobrze, że tam działacze nie mają podjazdu. A Lang na pewno ma chody w UCI i mało go obchodzą jakieś przyspawane do stołków lokalne dinozaury.

Well, the Spanish walker Tur was still in 3rd place one minute before the finish. That's the ultimate killer in an event that lasts 3 hours and 50 minutes! Kinda sums up the OG performance.

Four months after my previous post here and sure enough, we keep getting those wild cards again Handball is truly an European-centric sport!

Also congrats to Slovakia, that seems like a completely random choice picked out of the hat

It's obvious he did that on purpose. We're not in court so the word "appears" is moot.

4 minutes ago, George_D said:

Even if they finally keep wheightlifting in paris there will be less events (10). This anyway will affect China

The limits were there before anyway so no country could field athletes in all weight classes. Imagine if IOC told Japan they can't field an athlete in every judo category? As usual, double standards is king

Just now, De_Gambassi said:

They did drop baseball and weightlifting (before reinstalling it) though despite the us strenght in these sport. 

Baseball didn't even have 8 nations competing like before and it doesn't even hold World Championship that anyone cares about (even Baseball Classic is basically like U23 football tournament?). Weightlifting has opened up to South America lately and has a much bigger global appeal while baseball is only limited to USA, Japan, Korea & minor Caribbean countries plus maybe Mexico. That's it. Since most baseball fans pay attention to MLB they couldn't be bothered to lobby for the Olympic status of the sport IMO.

This is more like a blackmail from IOC and they won't scratch weightlifting from the programme mainly because China is so dominant here. Scaling back on boxing and threatening to drop wrestling carried more value since China isn't so good in both (and actually they have some presence in women's boxing which makes the women boxing category expansion even more understandable). Any cuts in sports where USA and China are good at simply won't happen IMO.

First post in this thread after three weeks! The power of the Olympics!

Closing ceremonies are usually underwhelming since everyone is more or less exhausted after those two weeks

Biggest surprise in Top 10 is finishing ahead of and I suppose the boost in rowing made that possible.

Kamila Licwinko (high jump) announced she will retire at the end of the season.

France wins 3-2. Oh well.

Three straight attacks out for to start the tie-break

forces a tie-break!!!

was one of my favorites for winning most medals w/o gold Their boxing seems a little off lately.

beats 2-1 after extra time!

I suppose Dani Alves can really retire now?

3 minutes ago, JoshMartini007 said:

Our top three sports historically are athletics, swimming and rowing, but Canada is more of a generalist rather than focusing on a limited amount of sports. This gives us a lot of diversity in our medals, but at the same time we suffer from "being good, but not the best" a lot.

It sure changes over time here as well. Poland used to be a powerhouse in boxing & weightlifting and we completely suck in these sports these days (especially in the former, no boxing medals since 1992). Our wrestling has seen better days too.

I assume cold weather limits the potential for outdoor sports in Canada? I guess your summer months aren't very long or too warm either?

I don't know if Dunfee is deemed as controversial back home (like anyone would even care about race walking in Canada?) but Robert Korzeniowski called him one of the most likeable walkers around

1 minute ago, intoronto said:

I doubt that. Soccer is the sport practiced by youth in Canada.

 

Men's sport is arguably more competitive worldwide (as in more competitive nations/athletes) and therefore it would need more funding to keep up. However that won't fly here.

Canada doesn't stand much of a chance to becoming a force in men's football. What is the most successful Olympic sport for Canada at SOG outside of athletics anyway? I have a hard time recalling anything in particular