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3 hours ago, Makedonas said:

Really? What about Pennetta vs Vinci at the 2015 US Open?

Pennetta making USO final wasn't that much of a surprise. She made QF there three times plus one SF before winning it. And she won Indian Wells, a bigger title than anything Pavlyuchenkova or Krejcikova ever won before.

They demolished the Calgary luge track, right? I can't see them bidding for another WOG after a move like that given how the luge track is always the main financial dead weight when it comes to WOG bids.

Barbora Krejcikova comes from 3-5 down in the third set to win 9-7 vs Maria Sakkari.

Obviously the most unexpected GS final since Bartoli vs Lisicki at Wimbledon.

Can't wait for the tournament to start so this political thing finally becomes irrelevant. EU has ignored War in Donbass for years so why bother pretending now? Obviously expecting boos when England takes a knee

Thailand team themselves have accepted the apology and said it was a genuine mistake. Time to move on if the team essentially being targeted by this behaviour has moved on already.

@hckošice C'mon, even Slovakia should know you only have to stop Lewandowski when playing Poland

Maria Sakkari beats Iga Swiatek 64 64 and is probably the main favorite the win the women's singles now.

Barbora Krejcikova beats Cori Gauff 76 63 in the third QF.

Czech Republic remians one country that has insane WTA depth despite limited population compared to USA, Russia, Germany or France. And Krejcikova was basically reduced into a top doubles speciallist in the last few years. No way someone could have bet on her making GS SF in singles.

On 07/06/2021 at 23:01, rybak said:

Ok, Drabik is qualified to Tokyo, total disaster is avoided, but still 1 men and 1 women qualified is result below expectations. When the rankings will be closed and qualified boxers will be announced?

Our boxing is downright horrible these days so it's cool we have someone there. Obviously Masternak would have been there if the Games happened in 2020 like planned?

Really happy for Drabik. She was one victory away from making Rio. Got robbed in a 3-2 decision vs some Thai opponent IIRC. She really deserved that qualification!

32 minutes ago, EselTheDonkey said:

It's not a really fitting comparison, though. China still does have at least two Table tennis players in the single events.

Table tennis doesn't have 7(!) different set of individual medals though. It's a much bigger handicap for China to enter only two players in ONE individual event than to have Japan enter 7 judokas in SEVEN weight categories per gender.

Boxing or wrestling would be your comparison. They only allow one entry per nation?

5 minutes ago, Vektor said:

And that is just stupid, especially for judo where we have a lot of athletes competing and there can be an easy solution to ensure diversity, like giving all the continental quotas to those nations who only have a couple of world quotas or none. (And it's not like judo has any issues with diversity)

It's not even about Canada. Japan is the big elephant in the room, if they cut down on China in table tennis to prevent the medal sweep, they have to do the same in judo. You can't apply double standards, let one discipline promote powerhouses and save the other for minor nations. You have to put some consistency here. And they won't expand the number of entries per judo because they have to make room for new sports to begin with. Judo is old fashioned, classic sport that millenials usually ignore. And it will never get the following of athletics or swimming where there are enough entries that both powerhouses and minnows can compete at the same time.

12 minutes ago, Vektor said:

This just shows that one athlete per NOC isn't a good rule for judo (or for any sport where there are weight classes). It would be much better if they would have max. 2 athletes per NOC in a judo event, while they would keep the 7 male/female athletes per NOC rule. So the NOCs couldn't have larger teams than the current maximum (14), but the system would be more flexible. 

Olympics prefer diversity and quota for lesser nations. Top-heavy approach just won't get the go ahead at the Olympics. You can't have it both ways.

They cut down on China in table tennis, overall number of entries in weightlifting and so on. Judo will get those random judokas from Cameroon or Gabon that get bounced 30 seconds into their first fight rather than have a second national quota for a country with multiple elite judokas like Canada in women's 57kg.

If the commentators don't know what the selection criteria is then of course it's dumb if decided for pure speculation. If the criteria was whomever does better at WC goes to Olympics then it's pretty clear cut.

59 minutes ago, Swewi said:

9600?

That was the popular explanation of the WR back then - that Wang ran 24 laps instead of 25.

Well, Dems are trying to make Harris do something so maybe her lies aren't so clean cut this time?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57408094

I haven't paid attention to these 10,000 results lately but are the miracle shoes making their way into stadium running now? Don't tell me it's a coincidence these WRs are beaten by several seconds just like that?

H2H between Deguchi & Klimkait doesn't matter IMO.

It's about their h2h versus all the top competitors in the division. That's the details I need to know.

Besides, Japan faces the same problem in more than one category each & every year. Nobody will make them a favor at the Olympics so nobody will make Canada a favor either.

Tim Duncan was born in US Virgin Islands. Technically that's only an US overseas territory.

Kamala Harris tells immigrants from Guatemala to fuck off. Of course there will be no outrage like when Donald Trump played the same tune. The hypocrites in US politics strike again

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57387350

Yeah, waza-ari 30 seconds before the finish

15 minutes ago, Dnl said:

Yes she is up for the 2nd round , but it’s a tough one vs the ranked 4th Gjakova

Yeah, I noticed the draw. No luck there with Gjakova but no easy outs. Monteiro, Liperteriani & Klimkait into R3.

Has Julia Kowalczyk fought already?

Clippers win it...