Faramir

Next step: no more surnames but S-girls and S-boys + nickname.

But what's up with this drunk fans thing, is ice hockey like rugby? Do the Dutch speed skating fans at the Olympics also get drunk usually?

Salvatore "Totò" Schillaci, top scorer and best player of the 1990 FIFA World Cup, died at 59 years old - cancer.

Nutella without cocoa? There are tens of brands of the same thing...

Bad weather today, everything postponed to tomorrow.

Flagbearer's curse

Does anyone from countries where the Paralympics are shown on free-to-air TV know or know where to find the audience share for these first 5 days?

are the quarterfinalists - don't know the table, I only know that Italy will face the USA which I guess is the only thing you want to avoid here until the final.

Did the Indian team disappear or retire? Now group G only has 3 teams.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katalin_Kovács

Cross country running does not add anything to the Games, it'd be a repeat of the 10k. With basically the same athletes having a shot every 2 years instead of 4. Then they should add short course swimming as well.

The post really seems like announcing that he has signed a contract with a new club one week after the end of a season

"Sportswriter" Jonathan Liew's contribution to the thread: let's cut sailing, archery, surfing, rowing, equestrian, golf, 3x3 basketball, men's football, volleyball and not-freestyle-swimming. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/aug/12/paris-olympic-games-la-2028-sports-sailing-golf

3) football and I think Gaba in judo. Which maybe would have meant no gold in team event as well. 4) for sure USA, CHN, then FRA, GBR, ITA between the third and the fifth position since they are the only ones that won a gold in 10 or more sports.

Just looking at the full placement table so I could feel worse... Top 3 by number of 4th places: Italy 20 USA 18 GBR 18 Top 3 by number of 5th places: USA 31 Italy 25 Germany 24 Top 3 by number of 6th places: Germany 20 Italy 17 USA 16 Best medals/top5 among NOCs with 15+ medals: China 77,12% USA 72,00% Australia 70,67% Worst medals/top5 among NOCs with 15+ medals: Spain 38,30% Italy 47,06% Germany 48,53%

And that some beach sprint events in rowing will replace the lightweights.

Final update: NOC points total top8 USA 1193 226 CHN 846 155 FRA 699 150 GBR 681 136 ITA 556 120 AUS 541 109 JPN 532 115 GER 491 117 NED 382 76 CAN 341 79 KOR 333 66 ESP 296 69 BRA 247 57 HUN 238 51 NZL 232 53 UKR 170 42 SUI 156 41 POL 149 39 BEL 145 33 UZB 138 28 SWE 127 27 IRI 115 21 KEN 112 21 NOR 112 26 TUR 108 27 DEN 105 24 ROU 103 22 CZE 99 25 IND 99 23 IRL 94 22 MEX 90 24 TPE 90 20 GRE 88 19 KAZ 86 20 BUL 79 16 CRO 79 17 CUB 78 15 ETH 78 20 SRB 75 19 AZE 73 17 JAM 73 20 COL 72 18 THA 70 14 GEO 68 12 AIN 68 15 AUT 66 14 EGY 65 18 RSA 59 12 ISR 58 11 POR 57 14 ECU 56 11 KGZ 54 10 PRK 51 9 ARM 49 11 LTU 49 13 SLO 46 10 PHI 45 8 TUN 41 9 INA 40 8 HKG 39 7 MGL 37 12 MDA 34 7 SVK 34 8 ARG 33 9 BRN 32 5 DOM 30 7 ALG 29 6 MAS 29 6 TJK 26 6 PER 25 6 MAR 24 5 NGR 24 9 FIN 23 9 BOT 20 4 CHI 20 4 EST 20 7 PUR 20 4 KOS 17 3 UGA 17 4 GRN 16 3 VEN 16 7 LCA 15 2 EOR 15 4 GUA 14 2 LAT 14 4 QAT 14 3 ALB 13 3 CIV 12 5 CYP 12 3 JOR 11 2 ZAM 11 3 SGP 10 2 DMA 8 1 PAK 8 1 FIJ 7 1 PAN 7 1 TTO 7 2 VIE 7 2 CPV 6 1 CRC 5 1 PAR 5 2 VIN 5 1 BER 4 1 BUR 4 1 IVB 4 1 KSA 4 1 LBN 4 1 PNG 4 1 SMR 4 1 SYR 4 1 ZIM 4 2 AND 3 1 BAH 3 1 IRQ 3 1 BAR 2 1 BIH 2 1 KIR 2 1 LBR 2 1 LES 2 1 NIG 2 1 UAE 2 1 ARU 1 1 CAY 1 1 121 NOCs (+ AIN and EOR) reaching at least a top 8 placement.

Lower!

Let's see how low they will go now

Austrians went all out to gain 25 points immediately and then, exhausted, were lapped twice in five minutes

Update: NOC points total top8 USA 1031 194 CHN 761 141 FRA 619 135 GBR 604 121 ITA 501 108 AUS 465 93 GER 429 102 JPN 429 95 NED 319 63 CAN 298 68 KOR 289 55 ESP 245 57 BRA 220 50 HUN 182 39 NZL 182 44 SUI 156 41 UKR 149 36 BEL 118 26 POL 115 31 SWE 106 22 UZB 96 20 ROU 92 20 IRL 89 21 IND 84 19 CZE 83 22 KAZ 83 18 TUR 81 21 IRI 80 15 GRE 78 15 DEN 77 19 MEX 77 21 TPE 73 16 NOR 72 19 JAM 71 18 KEN 67 13 CRO 63 14 BUL 62 11 COL 58 14 THA 57 11 AZE 56 13 AUT 55 12 AIN 53 12 CUB 53 11 SRB 52 14 PRK 51 9 ISR 51 10 RSA 48 10 LTU 47 12 POR 46 12 ETH 43 13 EGY 42 13 TUN 41 9 GEO 41 8 INA 40 8 HKG 39 7 ECU 37 7 SVK 34 8 MDA 34 7 SLO 33 8 KGZ 33 6 ARM 31 7 PHI 30 5 MGL 28 9 ARG 28 8 MAS 26 5 PER 25 6 DOM 23 4 FIN 23 9 ALG 23 5 NGR 23 8 EST 20 7 CHI 20 4 MAR 20 4 TJK 20 4 KOS 17 3 GRN 16 3 UGA 16 3 VEN 15 6 LCA 15 2 BRN 15 2 LAT 14 4 GUA 14 2 CYP 12 3 JOR 11 2 BOT 11 2 SGP 10 2 ZAM 10 2 DMA 8 1 PAK 8 1 TTO 7 2 VIE 7 2 FIJ 7 1 CPV 6 1 CRC 5 1 VIN 5 1 PAR 5 2 BER 4 1 BUR 4 1 IVB 4 1 KSA 4 1 LBN 4 1 PNG 4 1 PUR 4 1 SMR 4 1 CIV 4 3 ZIM 4 2 AND 3 1 QAT 3 1 BAR 2 1 BIH 2 1 KIR 2 1 LBR 2 1 UAE 2 1 EOR 2 1 ALB 1 1 ARU 1 1 CAY 1 1

You are fifth in fourth places behind Italy, USA, France, GBR. But considering medals/top5 ratio Canada is not among the worst...among the top ESP, ITA and GER are way worse. And SUI and IND are terrible if we go lower. The best are of course CHN, USA, AUS, KOR, NED. I personally consider the top5 as close to medal to not exclude combat sports, and then top8 as chances.

I think this is similar to what Crouser usually does, pushing on the edge of the ring..Fabbri said it's not exactly legal according to him but since it was almost never called a foul he and others started copying the trick.