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And here it is. The new French #2 in women's tennis

beats 29-7 in the second SF so we have the somewhat expected final

Bernadette Szocs beats Natalia Bajor 4-0 in the second SF and will play the Chinese from in the final.

@Olympian1010Yeah, I get it IOC propaganda tune is only positive comments about breakdancing are allowed these days. Well, I'm out on this sport wholesale. Can't make "fetch" happen

@phelpsIOC shrunk the 470 class into mixed only and you want them to stay progressive? It's mind-blowing how they butchered the programme and want to promote surfing which is highlights sport only. Most people have no clue about the surfing style points and you are stuck waiting 20 mins for a single wave. Ideal sport to go to the toilet or cook a meal and still nothing happens on the screen in the mean time

@phelpsI presume billards isn't progressive enough to appeal to the mythical "urban sports" standard. After all those 15 year breakdancers wouldn't even be allowed into your local pub which billard is still stronly associated with. Same "problem" why darts won't become an Olympic sport anytime soon. The big trio of "pub sports" - cards, billard & darts i.e. associated with alcohol & tobacco smoking. Nope, not your IOC urban standard 

Well, the QF ended like four hours ago and the TVP Sport commentators immediately said Czech Republic plays Poland in SF

27 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

Okay, but that is the majority of sports. I don’t think the Mesopotamians looked at a tree branch and said “I bet I could use this to vault over that bush over there.”

 

I enjoy most sports. The beauty of multi-sport games is the diversity of the program. I don’t particularly like field hockey or fencing, but don’t think they should be off the sports program because I don’t find them appealing when others do.

 

I would imagine there’s a significant crossover between WG and OG fans by the way. It was the public that was interested in things like breakdancing and sumo. Those drove tickets sales, with big tickets sports like lacrosse and ultimate frisbee drawing large crowds as well.

If you mean drawing crowds in the US-based World Games? Well, lacrosse is basically unknown in Europe and frisbee is well, a barbecue game. It's the same "problem" why netball is endemic to Australia, everyone else in the world prefers basketball and nobody calls for netball to replace it. The novelty of breakdance will wear out sooner or later, the same way the excitement over slalom in snowboarding (since replaced by the parallels). In 1998 it was the sport of the moment since everyone wanted to watch the novelty but only 20 years later it doesn't move a single needle anymore, even the less bally-hooed moguls remained more popular.

31 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

I mean…it’s the one dance discipline invited with purely competition in mind. It’s been around for decades, informally maybe, but it has a vibrant history of its own. 
 

It was one of the only sports to sell out completely at The World Games last year.

So it should stay at World Games. If IOC thinks the future of Olympics is breakdance and e-sports then we might as well expect nordic walking too. Or maybe chess? Hell, maybe poker should be considered an Olympic sport too?

Breakdance has zero history as a sport and it won't build any in the short attention span generation IMO. Latino dances have a better claim to become an Olympic sport.

Plus like I've said before, adults simply do NOT watch children doing sports unless they are parents of kids involved. There is no way getting around that. 15 year olds being world champions in breakdancing is a story but most people watching Olympics are... surprise, surprise... adults! 

2 minutes ago, Benolympique said:

no poland faces great britain in the semi-finals

So much for relying on Polish commentators then

beats in the QF and will play next.

I assume we could expect vs final?

Elena Rybakina has withdrawn from Eastbourne and apparently she is still feeling the effects of virus that forced her to withdraw mid-event from Roland Garros

Yeah, Mancini lost to Sandra Drabik on Saturday.

Well, I had live timing from the EA site and it was OK as usual, thankfully my original login still works and more importantly I didn't forget it

Overall a good showing from Poland and we still remain a top European nation in the sport

Bernadette Szocs wins the women's QF and celebrates briefly on the table itself

This week's finals:

Berlin 500

Petra Kvitova def. Donna Vekic 6-2 7-6(6)

Birmingham 250

Jelena Ostapenko def. Barbora Krejcikova 7-6(8) 6-4

Fun fact: Kvitova and Ostapenko will meet in R1 in Eastbourne most likely on Tuesday. They actually played the 2022 final there.

1 hour ago, Olympian1010 said:

The padel venue is fantastic. Nice crowd too.

It's literally downtown Kraków and a popular tourist location

In the end Angels beats Rockies 25-1!  They set franchise record for most runs (25) and hits (28) in one game

Their previous record was 24 runs vs Blue Jays in 1979.

LA Angels just scored 13 runs in one inning vs Rockies (in Colorado). 15-0 is the score after three innings

Well, this whole thing could have been aimed at removing Shoygu & Gerasimov but Putin misjudged how powerful they really are and suddenly it's Prigozhin who will be getting the axe instead as the "coup" turns into a failure?

@heywooduWelcome to XXI century, I guess people want to watch knowing the results in advance? Maybe you could find a way to click on the replay without looking at the video icon? Or tell Bruna to start the video for you?

1 hour ago, Swewi said:

Finland are 11 point back compared the calculations so this was "meant" to be a better day for them actually.

 

Antoher thing maybe someone knows , when givning out individual medals, not that I know if the athletes care, but do they also compare with the other divisions and there could be such results as the men's 800m where the winner comes from a lower ranked group?

Like mentioned above, medals are given based on results from all three divisions, so yeah, even a winner can come from Division II or III.

If Prigozhin goes for an actual coup attempt - against both Putin & the Army - then he is way more stupid than anyone thought and this will be over real fast.

Prigozhin has been talking negative things about the regular Army for some time. This suggests he is being allowed to say that by someone real high... i.e. Putin himself. Putin might not be able to openly criticize the Army since that might cause a true revolt but if a third party does that then it's suddenly Putin's gain.