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The finish is bang in Katowice downtown right by the Spodek Arena and the Zietek Rondo. It's a man-made area with the underground tunnel beneath the Korfanty Alley & the Rondo itself. The ground peak is an alley exiting Siemianowice ca. 7 kms before, once you turn into Korfanty Alley by the old tram loop it's all downhill right into the Rondo.

DQ would be mandatory but the real problem is the Katowice finish is notoriously too narrow for a sprint like that. Nothing can be done though. I live literally 15 kms away from downtown Katowice and it's impossible to find anything wider there.

Big crash right at the Tour de Pologne finish in Katowice. Guy got flipped over the barriers. Everyone knows the finish here is way too narrow and I wonder if anything will be done here to change it?

First time Giorgi played a match on clay since Roland Garros 2018!

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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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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/

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

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.