Josh

Garland in danger of not recording a pole vault mark
 
Edit: and out

Victor goes even further!

The medal fight is getting more and more interesting, massive throw for Victor who is now fully in it as well  

Quotas for                in women's C2
 
Quotas for    in women's C1 via reallocation

Quotas for            in women's K1.

Well, that's disappointing, Varga couldn't take the opportunity to win his first K1 1000 world title. Thankfully next year we will have both Kopasz and Varga in this race.
 
Quotas for            in men's K1

Quotas for          in men's C1. 

Tilga is more and more putting himself in the bronze medal fight.

It's one of the best from a casual viewer's perspective, which I think was the goal here. Basically have everything interesting in a 3-hour window every day in the evening, this way the Worlds have an easier time to fight for the attention of the public. I mean, even 3 hours are too long for most people these days, I wouldn't be surprised if at some point the evening sessions will be crammed into two hours like the Diamond League. 

Yeah, morning sessions have always been for the true athleticos anyway, no casual viewer is going to turn on the TV for some morning athletics over breakfast or something in the weekend (especially if it's not raining and people want to do outside stuff), let alone during a weekday  

Yeah the women's shot put usually goes right past me as well, just like the women's javelin which is just horrendous nowadays and yesterday was basically as boring as expected with the one exception of Kitaguchi's throw  

At this, after so many cycles where the team underperformed, just an Olympic qualification would be satisfying.

South Sudan  impressive so far in their FIBA World Cup debut leading Puerto Rico  at the half 52-42

Tied ballgame!!!  vs   with no time left in the match! And ref calls a foul on South Sudan! Puerto Rico misses both free throws!!!
 
and we are going into Overrrrrrtime hahaha

Startlist 
 
https://iwf.sport/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2023/08/2023-IWF-WCH_START-BOOK.pdf

Very sad story here.  Alexandra Paul    age 31 dies in an automobile accident.  She competed in ice dance at the 2014 Winter Games.
 
Skate Canada says former Olympic figure skater Alexandra Paul killed in car crash | CBC Sports

This includes every player who played at the World Cup.
 
Everyone here who dismissed this as a minor issue or as being overblown really needs to do some serious soul searching imo.

5-8 place pool
 
 4-1 
 1-2
 
 
Semifinals
 
2-3 
 (4) 0-0 (5) 
 

Germany despite being world champions usually are an inconsistent team (their results in pro league as proof). 
 
England/GB are probably the most improved team since Tokyo. Still, Netherlands is likely taking the ticket to Paris.
 
Men's hockey is a toss up right now. The medals next year could go to any of the top 5/6 teams in any order.

Tragic that Lithuania has no stakes in Olympic qualification here, because Asadauskaitė can't qualify twice  
 
Huge underperformance in fencing sunk both Venčkauskaitė's and Serapinaitė's chances, so one of them will most likely qualify through UIPM rankings. 

It's the opposite for me: I would believe not cancelling the entire Games, but come on, immediately continueing the opening ceremony with fireworks and everything?
 
On the other hand, if thousands of people were already in the stadium, cancelling the whole thing might have just caused more trouble with everyone leaving in a panic...

It went horribly wrong today at the opening ceremony, with a crush resulting in at least 12 deaths and 11 critically injured victims. Oddly enough, the president made a short statement after the situation, basically saying "something unfortunate happened, lots of injuries, let's be quiet for a few seconds", and then the ceremony continued with lasers and fireworks and stuff. I guess for those who didn't die while trying to get in a little before that..
 
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/25/madagascar-killed-in-crush-at-indian-ocean-island-games-opening-ceremony

Provisional Standing after Day 7
 
Rank User Nation Total 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 #PP #4 #3 #2 1 Topicmaster1010 134 16 18 19 17 20 19 25       17 6 6 2 CiroMennella99 129 13 18 18 21 21 15 23     1 17 3 9 3 africaboy 129 16 15 21 13 19 21 24       17 4 8 4 Henry_Leon 129 19 15 15 19 18 24 19       16 6 8 5 valtellina 128 18 15 17 15 14 23 26       19 4 3 6 Surreal 123 14 15 10 13 19 23 29     1 14 5 7 7 OlympicsFan 122 12 13 18 19 15 13 32     2 15 5 6 8 maestro 122 9 15 21 13 16 21 27     2 14 4 6 9 Ogreman 122 14 17 17 11 12 25 26     1 16 4 7 10 ady48 120 13 17 19 14 15 15 27     1 16 3 5 11 SteveParker 120 16 18 16 19 13 12 26     1 15 5 8 12 Josh 120 11 10 24 14 18 18 25     1 15 4 6 13 Pablita 119 16 12 14 17 16 15 29     1 15 5 6 14 toulousain 118 11 14 20 12 16 20 25     1 15 3 6 15 rafQ 118 13 16 15 17 16 17 24       14 5 6 16 dinamopinz 117 17 13 13 19 17 15 23     1 14 6 5 17 Monzanator 113 17 11 14 13 14 22 22       14 5 2 18 rybak 108 13 21 16 12 13 18 15       15 5 3 19 Speedy 105 11 7 14 16 16 20 21     1 13 3 4 20 vlad 99 11 15 9 13 18 16 17     1 13 4 4 21 Wanderer 98 14 9 11 13 12 22 17       12 3 4 22 Cinnamon Bun 97 11 14 14 13 14 22 15       12 6 3 23 Hipooo 93 18 8 13 10 9 18 17       13 2 5 24 mpjmcevoy 93 14 11 13 14 9 13 19       12 5 4 25 Siddhartha Talukdar 92 11 11 11 12 16 16 15       9 3 4 26 pedja789 87 14 8 10 10 10 15 20       11 3 2 27 Adriano 85 9 15 22 3 10 11 15       11 5 1 28 Ufilov 69 13 7 11 8 7 13 10       9 1 1  
01: August 19th - Day 1
02: August 20th - Day 2
03: August 21st - Day 3
04: August 22nd  - Day 4
05: August 23rd  - Day 5
06: August 24th - Day 6
07: August 25th - Day 7
08: August 26th- Day 8
09: August 27th- Day 9

I really don't like Coe as the leader of the athletic association. It's a shame there's nobody who even dares to challenge him. I think with him in charge athletics have regressed. He has some good ideas but for some reason he only implements the bad ones like cutting the 50k race walk. I he cuts "less" popular events (let's be real he's talking about field events), then I suspect this could go down the way where we see two different championships one day. One for track and one for field events. 

Yeah, for people who aren't too interested in the decathlon this isn't a great session. Personally I am actually very happy with it, so often the decathlon has to make do with like 5 minutes of attention in between replays of heats where people run 11.50 in a 100m and qualifyings of triple jumps of 13 meters or something, so great to finally see some full decathlon action
 
Plus there already was the marathon, I've been entertained with athletics already since I woke up, it's something else than all the field stuff being ignored because of a billion running heats