Monzanator

8 minutes ago, phelps said:

 

you're forgetting this one...8 years before Emmons (the same day of Mauer vs Horneber)...

 

Yes, I was about to say I recall Wang Yifu blowing at least one gold somewhere in 1996 or 2000 but it's been over 20 years so I didn't remember the details exactly. Thx for the reminder.

41 minutes ago, Jinzha said:

Why must you do this to me!

 

Great idea to watch all the highlights everyone mentions. I sometimes watch French sport highlights to work on my French, but this'll be a great way to be introduced to Italian, Hungarian(?) and Polish highlights among others!

Don't know if this works outside of Poland but here's the infamous last round of the Atlanta 1996 10m air rifle where Renata Mauer won gold after Petra Horneber blew a 1,7 pt lead with the last shot. Even the Polish commentator was convinced this is only a battle for silver & bronze and Horneber has a gold in the bag. She had until she choked it away...  Only Matthew Emmons in the 2008 three positions last round can challenge that but he blamed it on a premature trigger reaction IIRC.

https://sport.tvp.pl/8047523/60-lat-tvp-zlote-momenty-mauer-mistrzynia-w-atlancie

Yan Bingtao led 9-2 vs Elliot Slessor and it's 9-7 now. Can he finish this one off?

Calgary 1988 - figure skating but that was still communist TV, blah.

Seoul 1988 - Waldemar Legien wins gold in judo.

Albertville 1992 - Patrick Ortlieb wins men's  downhill.

Barcelona 1992 - Men's modern pentathon gold for Skrzypaszek (with horse jumping as the last event) and Korzeniowski getting pulled at the stadium gate while walking 2nd. Internationally Kevin Young blasts the 400m hurdles WR. Bubka bombs out with no height.

Lillehammer 1994 - Silvio Fauner vs Bjoern Daehlie in the men's cross country relay.

Atlanta 1996 - Polish judo & wrestling. Michael Johnson's 200m WR.

Nagano 1998 -  Horrible weather at Nozawa Onsen biathlon venue (still Dafovska, Fillipova and Anna Stera). Men's hockey tournament with NHL players.

Sydney 2000 - Men's 800m final, Angelo Taylor wins 400m hurdles from lane 1. Robert Korzeniowski sweeps the walking double (one after Segura DQ during the post-race interview).

Salt Lake City 2002 - Yeah, I watched the Bradbury fiasco live as well but I remember Jeremy Wotherspoon's stumble in the 500m speed skating more.

Athens 2004 - Borzhakovskiy's last-to-first works once, Jedrzejczak vs Thomas in the 200m butterfly. Robert Krawczyk loses a place in judo final 8 seconds from the end.

Torino 2006 - Evelyne Leu wins the women's aerials. Tomasz Sikora wins silver in mass start. Giorgio Rocca bombs out in slalom.

Beijing 2008 - Majewski wins gold in shot put. Katie Hoff completely bombs in the pool as Rice wins three golds IIRC.

Vancouver 2010 - Kowalczyk beats Bjoergen in the 30km finish.

London 2012 - Majewski & Zielinski wins two golds for Poland in a space of 20 minutes IIRC. Meilutyte wins gold.

Sochi 2014 - Mikaela Shiffrin wins slalom. Brodka beats Verweij by 0,007 in the 1500m speed skating.

Rio de Janeiro 2016 - Puig vs Kerber tennis final. Swimming was a full of surprises for me but maybe I lost track of some of these new names there.

Pyeongchang 2018 - Yes, have to go with women's Super-G and Ester Ledecka.

Donna Vekic beat Arantxa Rus in the first Main Draw match after the break.

Six years on and Rodchenkov claims Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle's doping case was a set up to make the Russian lab look competent.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-8560231/Grigory-Rodchenkov-falsified-Russian-athletes-drug-tests-country-got-Olympic-ban.html

Ronnie O'Sullivan and Thepichaya Un-Nooh played probably the fastest 9 frame session in Crucible history. 9 minute frame average and O'Sullivan leads 8-1.

2 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Probably, although considering the amount of blown tyres in the last two laps, it might have just as easily ended in disaster. 

You have to take a risk when fighting the evil empire. With both Mercedes having issues like that, it won't be repeated again for a long while. Red Bull blew it.

Red Bull lost the win. If they didn't pit Max for the FL push, he'd easily win ahead of the punctured Hamilton.

Puncture for Bottas ruins the Mercedes parade.

23 minutes ago, Federer91 said:

I have seen more safety cars in these 4 races than probably in 2-3 years prior 2010. This sport has become so boring on every level....

Hey, you'd love NASCAR in the 00s when they threw cautions for hot-dog wrappers

13 laps in and two safety cars already....

Democrats and Joe Biden are afraid of TikTok too. Guess the anti-China bias is one thing that actually unites the otherwise divided US politics

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/28/politics/biden-campaign-tiktok/index.html

6 minutes ago, Vojthas said:

Can you imagine that MTK Budapest, the club of Jewish origin, was accused of being neo-nazi? Just because their supporters' flag at the match featured numbers 1/8/8/8 in the corners. The idiots from UEFA thought it's 18/88 (AH/HH - if you don't know, google up), while it was 1888 - year of creation of the club.

Yeah, I know what those numbers stand for in that context I'm shocked UEFA didn't ban players from wearing #18 on the shirts yet

Just now, Olympian1010 said:

I’m not doing this with you again today. 

Hey, that was written in the story. Stories like that convince me Americans simply don't know anything about Europe to begin with  

2 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

Geography isn’t History. Americans are notoriously, stereotypically bad a geography 

Confederate States belong to history though? I suppose even Americans know where those states are located? Then again, there's no cure for stupidity.

I wonder if the Norwegians know their flag promotes racism?

Speaking of unfair...

Norwegian flag got mistaken for a Confederate flag so it was taken down. Only in America   (and then you wonder why Americans need history lessons).

https://eu.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/local/2020/07/28/st-johns-inns-norwegian-flag-removed-over-confederate-flag-confusion/5502297002/

8 minutes ago, rybak said:

I have fallen to this music and I can't stop listening this since few days...

 

Huh? You've never seen 'Platoon' before? Tough to call this one a discovery.... in 2020.

Matthew Stafford has been put on the COVID inactive list.

https://www.nfl.com/news/lions-qb-matthew-stafford-placed-on-reserve-covid-19-list

14 minutes ago, OlympicsFan said:

Since you mentioned the 1500 m ... didn’t Hassan and Cheruiyot win with a tactic like that at the last world championships?

The answer is simple - Hassan is the female Rudisha. Nothing too surprising about that. African middle-distance runners have been guilty of some bad tactics in the past but I suppose someone can finally get it right from time to time.

25 minutes ago, Vojthas said:

 

The myth is busted.

 

It's not a myth, it's an exception from the rule. Wilson Kipketer could have been his own pacemaker too but those are generational talents that don't grow on trees. There are more Johnny Grays than Kipketers and Rudishas in this world out there. Just ask Hicham El Guerrodj why he lost the 1,500 in Sydney

So, is Jemma Rekkie a new Rudisha, a new Gray or none of the above?

Nobody runs races like that anymore (not since Borzhakovskiy made his last-to-first work ONCE which proved to be the new Holy Graal of 800m running if your last name isn't Rudisha).

18 minutes ago, Vojthas said:

1919:

- "There will be no more such a war."

- "The peace won't last long."

 

Hey, IOC wanted to get rid of wrestling already, they are allowing pro boxers to fight at the Olympics given how amateur boxing has bottomed out and all the kids want money as pros, 50km race walking is on death row, it doesn't take a genius to figure out the 5,000 & 10,000 distances at speed skating will be removed as the sport moves into sprint-speciallist mode. 500m was one weak point for Netherlands for many years which maybe prevented the upheaval but once the Dutch lose the grip on the longer distances they will cut bait in 5 seconds IMO. Introduction of mass starts and relays into speed skating has signalled the change and it's only a matter of time the longest distances will be sacrificed and IOC will sell us the story "fans have demanded it"

13 minutes ago, Vojthas said:

You said you haven't watched "Game of Thrones" (neither have I). But I assume you also haven't seen "The Crown" or "The Last Kingdom". Well, these episodes are about an hour long. And they do have success. As well as some TV series in Poland like "Belfer" or "Mały Zgon".

You are correct, I didn't watch The Crown and Last Kingdom either. Apart from Yellowstone I focused mostly on UK/Irish/Australian crime/mystery shows in the last 5 years. US shows are focused too much on fantasy/sci-fi stuff I never enjoyed to begin with. It's like everyone wants to cash in with the Lord of the Rings craze from the 00s. I just don't like that genre at all. I don't know if you're old enough to remember how the Polish "Witcher" was ridiculed back in the 2001 when it was first made. Fast forward 20 years and it's making noise on Netflix, I'd never see that coming but guess the demand for fantasy shows remains high (it will eventually go away when people become tired of it).

I don't think Polish audience has so many issues with run time like the Americans do right now.

2 minutes ago, Dragon said:

Suntans are illegal in Scotland, Wales and Ireland,

Reekie might well be a potential Olympic champion if she keeps improving like she's been doing

 

800m are won by tactics and the infamous 250-300m sprint. If she doesn't have that, she won't win anything (like Laura Muir who doesn't have the long finish and can only win timed races and you know Olympics and World Champs are never won on time unless someone is sacrificed as a pacemaker).