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1 minute ago, Mkbw50 said:

BEN PROUD

RULE BRITANNIA BRITANNIA RULES THE WAVES

BRITONS NEVER NEVER NEVER SHALL BE SLAVES

I am sorry but this is annoying.

He got 800 points in the sprint race. He needs to drop that by a further 500 points and has to do that 5 times. It doesn't look good

Oleksiak is not going to win a medal here. She does not look like she is in form. 

1 minute ago, dcro said:

FINA graphics showing in lane 1

Graphics problems everywhere.

The graphics are showing the Italian swimmer as a Canadian and off course the announcer thinks he is Canadian lol

After two days of swimming finals at the Commonwealth Youth Games we have a lot of exotic nations winning medals such as  

And Singapore with 4 gold medals!

And the plot thickens... https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/nhl-2018-winter-olympics-alternate-schedule-alternate-reality-172053825.html

Just now, heywoodu said:

Bart Swings carrying the Belgian flag, speed skating represent 

i see a lady carrying the Belgian flag??

Canada losing to Kazakhstan...

8 minutes ago, crovitlaci said:

USA came here with college players.

why?

Japan shocks the world and beats the USA by 8 goals!

1 hour ago, dcro said:

 

Like this. Performing a wrong dive, landing with legs first are most common 0 dives.

 

1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

How does one get a 0? 

 

And this from the 2015 Pan Am Games in platform...

5 hours ago, OlympicsFan said:

Weird ... i just looked at the IAAF top list and it says that she ran 22.00 (+0.4) on July 8th in Ottawa ... did i miss something?

If we assume that 22.50 is the correct time, then we would first have to know the wind conditions she had for her run, in order to judge whether she can make the final at worlds or not. I think she probably has a realistic chance, a medal would still be more than a miracle. Despite the fact that Felix, Thompson and Bowie all won't compete, she would still have to hope that at least one out of Miller, Schippers and Ta Lou doesn't show up that day and even then we would still have at least one american girl who should be much faster + maybe Asher-Smith.

We should also keep in mind that about a month ago she was beaten by Ahoure in Stockholm and beat Haase by 0.08, which is not really a great sign of her strength, considering that Haase is only the 4th fastest german 200 m runner ...

That 22.00 timing was without legal wind conditions... idk if that is correct. Yes a medal is likely impossible but you never know in athletics.

12 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

 

Final might definitely be possible, but to have a serious medal shot I'm fairly sure she'll have to improve a whole lot more  

 

Of course never say never though, it wouldn't be the first major surprise. 

Weirder things have happened, for ex. 10 years ago Sri Lanka won bronze in this event with a slower time.

Commonwealth Youth Games started yesterday in the Bahamas who replaced Saint Lucia as hosts.

Here are results. Not all countries are competing (Brunei Darussalam, Cameroon, Falkland Islands, Montserrat, Seychelles and Swaziland are not). A lot of countries skipped the World Youth Championships in athletics to compete here so hopefully its a high level of competition. Also some countries (like Canada) did not send teams in all sports like they usually do.

Crystal Emmanuel broke the Canadian record in the 200 metres on Tuesday, rewriting one of the oldest records on the books.

The 25-year-old from Toronto sprinted to a time of 22.50 seconds at a meet in Ireland, breaking the record of 22.62 set by Marita Payne-Wiggins — the mother of NBA star Andrew Wiggins — in 1983.

Hopefully a final in London, and possibly a medal !?

3 minutes ago, hckosice said:

 

btw do you know when the official tournaments schedule is planned to be unveiled ? I can not find any information about the date anywhere for a while now

I can double check for you when I get home, which will be early morning your time 

http://time.com/4862180/canada-bc-british-columbia-wildfires/

Pan American Championships in Miami, USA

http://www.teamusa.org/USA-Weightlifting/Events/2017/International/SrPanAms/Start-List

Here is a great article on the possible makeup of Canada's men's hockey team for PyeongChang:

http://www.tsn.ca/some-unfamiliar-names-may-play-for-canada-at-olympics-1.715158

Doesn't look as bad as I expected 

4 minutes ago, Mkbw50 said:

Yeah, that wacky IOC letting in Women's water polo! Next they'll be putting baseball with no countries or something like skateboarding in!

Women's baseball has no chance of getting on the program. There are like 12 ranked teams and women's softball is already in. However women's baseball did make an appearance at the 2015 Pan American Games (however it won't in 2019).

This is a very solid concept. For the 2015 Pan American games there were 17 cities with venues and the distances were further spread a part. Transporation was an issue but overall the games were a success. Considering some venues are 2 hours away for Tokyo 2020, this seems like a normal concept now.

17 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

No, a commentator said this during diving competition.

33 minutes ago, rybak said:

You have maybe an entry list? 

http://fina.org/competition-results/c47678b6-47ab-4f9f-9c8b-9b1bdd81708c/45/9887

Click on results to see entry lists

The 2017 North American Indigenous Games begin in  Toronto today.

Website:http://naig2017.to/en/

5 minutes ago, OlympicsFan said:

True, i actually might prefer those junior competitions to the senior competitions. I think there is much less doping and the athletes seem to be a lot closer/more friendly towards each other + you see some very surprising results, for example the winner of mens high jump (who looks as if he isnt even 6 feet tall by the way -> amazing talent) improved his PB by 6 cm today, you basically never get that at senior level, so the results are much more surprising. If IAAF thinks that those athletes are too young, then maybe they could create U19 and U21 world championships instead.

The IAAF is basically wanting to create a continental championship for this age group