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Marcin Krukowski with a total failure though. Sums it up with the classic "Kurwa mać"

Nadeem into JV final. That must be a surprise?

Damian Warner would have won bronze in the long jump with his decathlon effort. U missed a medal chance there

That could be Achilles tendon gone for van der Plaetsen

KJT 40 pts more than Thiam in 100H. She also scored 40 pts more in Doha

4 minutes ago, dcro said:

No, "International" ES.

I assume that was the Dennis guy since Martin Gillingham is probably better than that. I have English commentary unavailable during Eurosport live events these days

1 minute ago, dcro said:

I think I've heard "Katarina Johnson-Thompson" about 50 times since waking up 30 minutes ago.

Are you watching BBC?

Polish ES mentioned her 100H time was 0,18 slower than in Doha WCh.

Abdelrahman choking in JV qualifying Fajdek-style?

And we have our first DNF in the heptathlon hurdles. Rodriguez looks to be injured.

So, have Brazil improved the Rio medal count already (even minus the skateboarding)?

That is some terrible hair dye for Cunha

Well, Polish ES says is looking the strongest!

Tuned in just now. Polish ES says two minutes until finish!

13 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

Yes, Sailing losses 20 quotas for Paris 2024. They also lost quotas from Rio 2016 to Tokyo 2020. Plus, the federation almost (or maybe even did) went bankrupt last year. A lot of question marks about the sports future at the moment.

Yeah, that makes sense on second thought. Sailing as an old school art will get no free pass from the TikTok dancing generation and guess IOC doesn't even try to pretend it can be sold as a sport with future. All this on a planet whose surface is covered by water in 71%

This is for cycling die-hards. Everything will be decided in the last kilometer (or 200m) anyway?

So will the overall athletes quota actually go down for sailing? And that is IOC's point? Mixed events mean fewer sailors out there opening room for quotas in other sports like the totally infamous break-dancing crap that is upon us in Paris?

Just now, Olympian1010 said:

It’s likely that the lack of a women’s heavyweight dingy class was the nail in the coffin for Finn. Like @LDOG said above, the 470s will be combined into a single Mixed Event, and then M/W Kiteboarding will fill the remaining openings on the program.

I have no idea why this mixed gender craze would ruin the sailing classes like that. Hell, the mixed events are aimed to prove only one thing: that women can do just as great as the men and 470 proves that in spades without any additional nonsense already. Why on Earth would 470 be a mixed event then? That makes no sense at all.

I'm not even gonna say a word about kitesurfing. That idea totally blows. A lot of sailors who will be forced to switch to new event will be fuming IMO. Sailing hangs around the same top names a lot so it's not like some new talent will suddently swamp the new event. Another change for a change there. IOC is really losing the plot trying to make radical changes in literally every single sport out there.

3 hours ago, LDOG said:

They will combine the 470s into one mixed event and also add two shitty kiteboard events. Awful.

 

 

Our Finn sailor now has no idea what to do with his career (and his sponsors, etc). I guess we'll see him try the 470 or the 49er with some partner.

3 hours ago, Adriano said:

470 will be seperate in Paris

I believe the 470 could be safe and women's RS:X is the one getting canned? I heard Zofia Klepacka saying she will probably switch to this kitesurfing thing in the fall already?

Some frustrated Australians in trash mode in Olympic village? Rugby & football? I assume those weren't swimmers

https://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/58072039

3 minutes ago, Canada4thewin said:

lol I feel you 

You'd be amazed how often that 1976 final gets repeated on Polish TV. It remains one of only two Olympic gold medals in team sports for Poland (football (soccer) 1972 is the other but we rarely get to see that anymore since 1974 World Cup matches are repeated more often instead).

2 minutes ago, NearPup said:

At least Canada doesn’t have the worst volleyball disappointed of the day (commiseration with our Polish friends)

Three more years of non-stop repeats of Montreal 1976 final on Polish TV now

5th straight QF loss at the Olympics for Poland

This is truly pathetic. We lost to both our bogey rivals here: and

vs will be the premature final IMO.

We have two bronze medals @hckošice

vs into the tie-break

has won an Olympic medal in women's K2 500m in SIX straight Olympics. That must be our record for a single specific event.

We have won 21 medals in sprint canoeing in OG history but still no gold (8 silver, 13 bronze)

Djuraev is only 21 years old? Is he like the next prodigy or what? Latvia winning a medal here must be a major surprise?