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33 minutes ago, stepansevs said:

I really do not understand why Polish does not go to this athletic team Championship. Ok European Games does not have good reputation. But itnis team Championship. I was in Bydhošť 5 years ago and there were full stadium. Maybe one of reason Is that it it 3 times in row in Poland and it Is time to change it and give it to sb else. Moreover I think great times of athletics in Poland Is over. It Is time for Italy

Bydgoszcz is in a complete different part of the country so it's not really the case of the same people (non)-attending. Like I said before the two reasons are:

a) lack of promotion, I didn't realize athletics will be held in Chorzów until few days before EG and I live less than 20 kms from Chorzów itself

b) EG started in the last week of school when most adults are still working and before the actual holiday period in Poland.

PS. It doesn't help Chorzów will host the Skolimowska Memorial on July 16th. I suspect there will be more people for that meeting than EG three weeks prior.

Klaudia Kardasz is furious after the shot put drama. Apparently the electronics measurement was also affected hence they had to reboot the system and start the competition from the scratch.

https://przegladsportowy.onet.pl/lekkoatletyka/polka-w-centrum-duzego-skandalu-jest-wsciekla-zostalam-oszukana/h2x6xpe

The mascot is the dungeon dragon, a Polish children's fairy tale that takes place in Kraków

Fantini wins the W Hammer with 73.26. Kosonen and Kopron on the podium. Payne in 4th place.

2 minutes ago, Federer91 said:

Who said, that people would come, when we reach Division 1.. Imagine having 4 years to promote this big event, that your country is hosting, that you should be proud of and then the first 3 days have a lower combined attendance then a single Ekstraklassa match.

 

I refuse to believe, that Poland, one of the biggest European sporting nations in my opinion, doesn't care one bit about this event. Even if you don't know karate, BMX, taekwondo etc. this is most likely the golden age for Polish athletics and they can get even 5000 people, let alone 50 000. 

The promotion was sub-standard IMO. I don't know if people here even realized that the Euro Games will have multiple hosting venues and thought it will all happen in Kraków. The multi-location promotion was nowhere to be found and most media here only went gaga that ski jumping will be held in the summer alas even Kamil Stoch recently said he will only compete because the ski jumpers were forced to take part in this event (since it's held in Poland). Yeah, so much for the positive vibes.

The timing is something else, June is not a total holiday period here, school only ended today and most families plan their free time for July & August.

Femke Bol wins 400 with 49.82. Natalia Kaczmarek in 2nd place so all according to plan.

Jaeger 51.66 PB in women's 400 Heat B.

Toimil got a 15.32 mark so some points there.

And they're wiped all the shot put R1 results away (ten marks in total) and we start from the scratch

Yeah, the lines in women's shot put are totally wrong. Dongmo under 19 meters per lines and 19.78 per the measurement. Now there is a delay to change the lines. Sigh...

Klaudia Kardasz measured with 18.56 but even Chmara said the shot landed around 17 meters mark

Katrin Brzyszkowska. A name any Pole would be proud of

Division I action gets underway with women's hammer.

Polish TV hyping up Kaczmarek vs Bol later tonight already...

WTA has agreed to put a flag next to Varvara Gracheva from next week in Bad Homburg. She hasn't received the French passport yet.

French women's tennis is so bad these days that Gracheva will become the French #2 right away (behind Caroline Garcia).

4 hours ago, stepansevs said:

How bad? I am going to Chorzow only with t-shirt and shorts :-D 

The sun is back again. There was a major thunderstorm in the morning but it's all clear now

Well, the Den Bosch final will be repeated in Berlin QF. Alexandrova blasted Cori Gauff 6-4 6-0 winning 11 of the last 12 games while Kudermetova beat #2 Aryna Sabalenka in straight sets.

Camille Jedrzejewski? Sounds like Poland won 1.5 medals there

For all the PGA-LIV merger/takeover hoopla Wyndham Clark winning US Open must be the most anonymous and low-key moment for years. There's literally nothing worth remembering from this tournament at all - aside that McIlroy's putting is horrendous as usual and it cost him another victory in the big picture.

Well, there will be pressure to perform for Wright now. The minor nation underdog story goes away with him switching to United States.

8 hours ago, Mkbw50 said:

Well, Kraków is a big city, so I guess those areas don't generally like the right-wing government

Kraków actually has a left-wing President from the former communist United Workers' Party. It's the biggest Polish city that still has a former communist as President (though technically he's indepedent).

1 hour ago, Olympian1010 said:

We’re getting (watchable) streams of all the sports, and people are still complaining 
 

The lack of commentators doesn’t annoy me too much. People on here always complain about the world feed commentators anyway. Y’all just miss your punching bags 

Stuff like BMX never gets shown on TV here so they don't even have "experts" for it. The road cycling gets covered by former cyclists and two veteran journalists on Eurosport and standard sport journalists on TVP if neccessary.

Well, my TV schedule said 3x3 basket will be for all morning and instead I got canoe sprints

@Werloc@Federer91It's the last week of the school in Poland so everyone is just waiting for the summer break and don't bother with any organized school trips to events like this.

1 hour ago, Olympian1010 said:

It’s probably fine for the time being. Ski Jumping still enjoys higher participation then some of the more niche freestyle events cough *aerials* cough. 

I'm just waiting for IOC to pull the mythical "new fans" attraction card in order to justify killing off ski jumping and nordic combined. Ice skateboarding would probably be urban enough to be viewed as better replacement - though technially slopestyle is skateboarding on skis already so maybe not. 

In the near future WOG will probably be held in Saudi Arabia or somewhere in the Middle East and the funny thing is those sheiks could actually afford to build a completely useless ski jumping hill which would be used 3-4 times and then swiftly dismantled. 

Ski jumping is shrinking with every season. Finland and Czech Republic are dead in the sport and minnows will always be minnows. I'm not surprised team event has been cut down to duets, FIS has no idea how to inject life into this sport and the recent cutdown of team quota in World Cup is pure desperation hoping that minnows will suddenly score points if Top 6 nations will have fewer eligible athletes.

I wonder when ski jumping will be axed from the Olympics and replaced by breakdance on snow/ice?