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10 hours ago, OlympicsFan said:

And people wonder why the US is so dominant in swimming and athletics ...

First they got rid of russia in athletics and now they force the whole world to adapt to their biorhythm.

 

I think its a great idea to modify the race walking program, 50 km race walking has always been one of the most boring/unnecessary events of the games. The best solution in my opinion would be to only have womens 20 km race walking and mens 20 km race walking.

20 km for men will definitely suit the Latin American walkers which usually did better in 20k than 50k. Besides it's all about TV, 4 hours time frame for 50k walk probably drove everyone nuts. Olympics are just a TV puppet now. I wonder when will they remove the marathon from OG next?

6 hours ago, dcro said:

Again, European stations did the same for Pyeongchang (ski jumping, biathlon, luge, nordic combined... all being held at unusual times for the athletes) and will do the same in Tokyo with a bunch of events scheduled for the evening hours (including equestrian for example). Blaming all your problems on NBC is just childish.

NBC started the trend though so they are the ones to blame.

Yeah, well, that figures. One TV station dictates the world what to do. They'll probably do so with the swimming too?

21 minutes ago, RobtheAggie said:

What happened to Kaukenas.  He was DQ'd

Violation of Rule 5.6.f which reads:

Modifying equipment, rifle or clothing, which has been inspected and marked at start inspection, in a prohibited way.

Some strange results for the Czech team behind Davidova, Vitkova 1 miss but 6:51 m behind and Puskarcikova 7 misses & 7:45 behind?

Kamila Zuk 9 misses. This is so bad it's actually hilarious    Davidova is beating her into a fucking submission...

Eckhoff wins by 10 secs. Some last lap!

Eckhoff 2 sec. lead with 500m to go!

Eckhoff 10 secs. behind Davidova after 19/20. Can she make that up?

Davidova 20/20!!

Another kick in the teeth for Kamila Zuk...  who goes 2/5 on the first prone.

Vittozzi 20/20 but Davidova still has a chance after 15/15.

Davidova with a CET time on her watch

Makarainen 5 misses already...

9 minutes ago, phelps said:

 

actually, she has taken even topless photos in the past...she's never had any problem to write about personal things nor showing her body on her social profiles...

 

p.s. she's gone down face-first, but for sure she also hit her bottom hard...

I'm familiar with Vonn's SI photoshoot, thx for the reminder

C'mon, Vonn crashed face-first into the fence while Ross hit the deck with her ass. Besides I don't think someone with so many sponsors like Vonn would show her almost bare butt on Instagram  

So both C.Gow & Guzik get their PBs here (10th & 24th).

Kinga Zbylut has picked a cold and will DNS in the individual.

7 minutes ago, hckosice said:

 

how can anyone make the mass start if his best result is worse than 26th ?

I was talking about Gow not Guzik

Guzik won't sniff a MS in his lifetime.

They said Ruhpolding MS

This is correct:  http://biathlonresults.com/?IBUId=BTCAN12803199301

Grzegorz Guzik on course for PB? (previously 26th).

Christian Gow could have a Top 10. That would be a PB?

Polish TV just said his PB is 11th

And people complained about Fourcade's dominance?

Well, de Jong was kinda in better form this season? But Sablikova still got it done in the end which is maybe a mild surprise?

2 hours ago, dcro said:

Achtereekte

She finished 4th? So I guess you didn't want her to medal?

She won't take part in the slalom IMO. We could see like 20-22 at the slalom start list tbh. This event is really going out with a whimper.

They even dragged Korzeniowski's name into this shitshow. 10k race walk for men? Hell, that's pure BS. This equality thing is total BS. But I get it, nobody cares about race walking anyway so one should feel happy it's still there in the OG programme.