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My wife almost killed me when she caught me drinking my 23:30 coffee and you're free to have dinner at this time of the night!

I think you're missing the final by half an hour.

It could count but that was only for the opening ceremony to stay so late.

Is it an advantage for him the road starting to get wet ?

Sad, he was upfront for a long time.

What a lovely advice. As far as I'm concerned I never stayed so late for a live sport event since 1994 football World Cup. I'm not sure if Rio 2016 opening ceremony counts to this record of mine though.

And next season the Gyrfalcons of Valur will play at Grotta Seltjarnarnes who won its second promotion in a row. I hope they don't enjoy the "Grotta" field to build nests there.

Narcis Stefan Mihaila improved from 29th at 10 km mark to 20th at half distance, but I think DQs and DNFs contributed also for that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOWxNUcQHnY

How many "laps" do they have to walk?

Thanks. That's great. I see Corbishley (GBR) has 3 red cards, I think it's much better the 5 minutes penalty than being disqualified from the race.

Now then, I'll pretend to be of a certain age too and follow their example.

IAAF Athletics channel is not going to cover the 50 km walk races: "Thanks for being with us. We'll come back tomorrow". Are the commentators from Svalbard or Jan Mayen that they can't stand 30C night temperature?

Gladly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YCkPJ4rePA

I think you can watch it as a replay on IAAF Athletics channel on youtube. Now I follow it live there.

Wow, a night race, but then maybe today's temperature would have been unbearable. I see they have 33C right now. I see women's race start at the same time.

Did the Men's 50 kilometres walk started or it's due to start at 23:30 local time?

I wouldn't say that, I think not even in the athletics. Very well would mean top 5 - top 10 in the medals table, I'm not sure about results but I don't think we're there.

Thanks but as strange as it sounds French is not in the first 3 languages I know, even if Romania is part of Francofonie.

That's out of my reach online with my Linux Ubuntu 14.04.

I didn't understand how that could happen but i think they didn't cross the rules with that. Unfortunately Japan didn't gain any position since 2nd part of the relay and finished last.

Thank you IAAF. It's there on live youtube. YEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, not quite big but there were some medals in the past. Nowadays however situation got worse and there's only hope for the future.

It is very strange, indeed. But Eurosport Romania isn't what I expect from them lately. For example, we always get football on Saturdays during the Premier League season, from 1 pm to late evening, covering usually 4 live matches plus highlights. I would be happy for example with a 2 hour extended highlights with 2 or 3 replies during the week. Other sports have to suffer because of this policy. And last weekend they had the Motorcycle 24 hour Ball d'Or and instead I couldn't watch the Aragonese Moto GP round.... And during the winter season I already expect to watch Ski Jumping or other events close to Saturday midnight with more than 10 hours delay... Shame is to be shared also by the usual national sports broadcaster TVR but they never presented the Athletics World Championships. Instead I can watch there the all the matches from the Rugby World Championship even if Romania didn't qualify which is a nice effort from them.