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Yeah, quotas are tight but one would have thought the new sports will get the glass half-full treatment and some of the old ones get trimmed down. But here they brought a new event and clearly butchered the concept already. If you want to keep the quotas in sport climbing low then why introduce this sport to the Games to begin with?

lead the pitstop contest. One on three warnings and the other at two.

The men's senior tournament was basically for communist bloc and Asia for years (because IOC was still following the amateur rules and pro players from Western Europe or South America were ineligible to compete). That's why Poland won the 1972 gold medal with a squad consisting of 90% of players that finished third at the World Cup two years later. Back in 1972 teams like Sudan or Burma managed to qualify, later other scrubs like Guatemala or Cuba. Brazil had some future stars as they fielded junior teams alright but those players weren't quite up to the standard aged 19-20 yet.

But the key is, those people come from influential regions of the world - China, Russia, Australia and most of the Latin America. USA is the only athletics powerhouse that has zero presence in race walking over the years.

The speed speciallists are lucky there are no 30 entries overall or else the entire Top 10 from speed climb wouldn't have made the final. So this combined event is unfair to them. It has to be separated like it is in the World Games. It's like in cycling when sprint speciallists will never contend for the overall Grand Tour or a mountain stage victory.

Yeah, I still remember the uproar when Leszek Blanik couldn't qualify for Athens 2004 despite being the reigning WCh silver medallist in the vault No love for apparatus speciallists in gymnastics whatsoever.

Very nice running from #70

Korzeniowski said there are less than 30 judges in the world who can actually work at the Olympics level

I wonder if he realized he's got no chance here so just grabbed the early attention and now he's tailing off big time?

Da hell is Diniz doing?

Diniz hits the toilet

Or get taken off by the judges 200 meters before the stadium! Thankfully Korzeniowski returned with a vengence!

The very same. The only 4x Olympic champion in history. He just said that Toth & Diniz shouldn't threaten the "Japanese youngsters" so let's see how that works.

Men's 50k walk is on. Legendary event in Poland all because of one person (who is commenting this on Polish ES right now)

@Olympian1010They have to separate the speed climb from endurance boulder. There is no other way. Making the final 8 only gives some of the handicap back since even if the speed winner finishes low in the other two events, he/she can still challenge for medals. This seems to affect women more. Only four of Top 10 speed climbers made it past the qualifying while in lead & boulder 8 from Top 10! Huge difference.

Yes, that was my point! Barca could have waited like two days to make the news public

Not before the women's hockey final!

I believe someone mentioned this earlier but the throwing events produced 6/6 success rate when it comes to qualifying winners taking the gold medal. Let's see if javelin manages to continue the trend

Valentino Rossi (motorcycle racing) will retire at the end of the season.

I assume men's shot put was the third easiest perfect score to predict? (after the two 400H events).

Got bad news for you, Anita Wlodarczyk said she will be in Paris already Makes U wonder where is Betty Heidler these days? Probably run out of magic pills

in the final. Meh.

Makes U wonder why they didn't do it for Tokyo? It's damn obvious this system is totally unfair from the scratch?

Yeah, it's clear they HAVE to separate the speed speciallists from boulder experts. With only one typical speed event of the three, those speciallists have no medal chance for the combined.

But the 6.0 scoring system only determined the places (and judges places were more important anyway) while the places determind the final ranking. Brian Orser won both short & free in Sarajevo but only took silver since he fiished 7th in compulsory figures.