Dennis

6 hours ago, Monzanator said:

AZ Alkmaar beat Legia Warsaw 1-0 but two Legia players (Josue & Pankov) were arrested after the game since they allegedly caused bodily harm to one of the stadium stewards In return Legia owner claims he was hit by the Dutch police when he tried to intervene and find out what's going on.

 

 

I live in Alkmaar, was born and raised here, and have never seen this much police in and around the city as I saw yesterday. They were really worried about the fans of Legia.

It's the story of Legia against the story of the Dutch police now. Police here claims that fans of Legia were aggressive, managed to steal pepperspray and batons from the police, and Legia fans without tickets stormed the stadium and managed to get in. The two players that got arrested allegedly abused personnel of AZ Alkmaar.

Polish politicians are now also complaining, contacted the Dutch Prime Minister and even proposed to get the European Parliament involved in this case. Dutch media suggest that it's because of the upcoming elections in Poland as their party, PiS, is known for being critical towards Western Europe in general. Not sure if there's any truth to that.

2 hours ago, Noorderling29 said:

Last year we won 9 medals in Olympic events so slightly disappointing😀

And we should have had 8 gold medals, not 5. Silver in the men's sculls 1.2 seconds behind the gold, men's eight 1.0 second behind the Brits and the women's quadruple sculls failing to win by 0.6 seconds. They flopped. 

 3 - 0  in the bronze medal match  

 FEMKE BOL! 

Femke 

 Tentoglou 

Title stays in  

Are we now an ice hockey powerhouse? 

5 minutes ago, Federer91 said:

What is it with athletes in the 400 m, that never attempt to run both individual events? Shorter sprinters do the double, middle distance runners do the 800/1500, long distance runners to the 5000/10000, or 10000 and the marathon in some cases.

 

Warholm and Bol are generational talents, who could very well run them both. Especially since the heats are basically a training run for them. Granted the organizers will have to help with not scheduling both events in the same days.. And don't say it's a hard endurance race of.... 50 seconds, where if you run once in 2 days you are spent for the rest of the week. There are harder demanding sports, than the 400 m, like cross-country and biathlon where athletes are competing 3 consecutive days. 

 

Yes, you need technique for the hurdles, which makes the option very limited to pure flat sprinters. But the hurdle specialists like Warholm and Bol souldn't have issues attempting both events, especially when they have top results in both of them.

Bol won the triple last year at the European Championships (400mh, 400m and 4x400m), so she has tried it and was successful. However, here on top of the 400mh, she also has the 4x400m and the 4x400m mixed in her program, so that’s already 7 races in one week.
 

Add another potential 3 races in the 400m flat and she would have to run 10 times, which is possible, but I doubt anyone can maintain a high level for so many races. 

Vuleta! So well deserved 

First world title ever for  according to the Dutch Eurosport commentators

Why. 

One of the closest Madison races I’ve ever seen. This was intense 

Ganna 

And there's the Hungarian medal, and it's gold! 

 5-4  

FIRST WORLD TITLE SINCE 1991! 

12-12, penalty shoot out now 

 and  qualified from

Group B.
 

 (2nd in group stage) and  (3rd in group stage) missed out. 

5 hours ago, Grassmarket said:

Yet another FTA event, I’m guessing a WR attempt from Sifan Hassan.

 

 

I don't think she had any intentions of running a WR only 6 weeks after winning the London marathon. The 10k was moved to Saturday to give Hassan the opportunity to compete in both the 10k and the 1.500m in front of her home crowd.

She ran 29:37.83, which is the WL time by 22 seconds, but of course not even close to the WR.

1 hour ago, Grassmarket said:

Women’s cycling often a bit lacking in drama, but two great stages to round off the Vuelta yesterday & today.  Even down to the bit where riders emerge suddenly from the clouds at the top of mounrains to save or lose their jerseys!  Not quite oxygen tanks, but pretty near.

I agree. It was exciting until the last seconds. I'm also very impressed by 21-year old  Realini. If she can keep this level, she will be a big force to be reckoned with in the upcoming years.

Great to see the Faroe Islands, Greece and Georgia make their debut! 

Surprising bronze medal for the Dutch women! 

 took the gold with a big margin on  

Medal Table:

Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Japan	5	2	2	9
Italy	3	1	6	10
China	2	2	0	4
Colombia	2	1	1	4
Armenia	2	1	0	3
Argentina	1	0	0	1
Germany	0	2	0	2
United States of America	0	2	0	2
Canada	0	1	1	2
Romania	0	1	0	1
France	0	0	1	1
Kazakhstan	0	0	1	1
Hungary	0	0	1	1
Egypt	0	0	1	1

Women's Vault:

1.  Mia Giuliana Mainardi (13.383)
2.  July Marano (13.266)
3.  Ming van Eijken (13.000)
4.  Zoe Tsaprailis (12.966)
5.  Abigail Martin (12.849)
6.  Jayla Hang (12.833)
7.  Victoriane Charron (12.816)
8.  Mizuno Mika (DNF)

Women's Uneven Bars:

1.  Caterina Gaddi (13.600)
2.  Helen Kevric (13.266)
3.  Giulia Perotti (13.100)
4.  Nakamura Haruka (12.533)
5.  Yamaguchi Sara (12.500)
6.  Mia Giuliana Mainardi (12.366)
7.  Leire Escauriaza (11.333)
8.  Hezly Rivera (9.900)

Women's Beam:

1.  Yu Hanyue (13.133)
2.  Gabriela Vanoaga (12.833)
3.  Cristella Brunetti-Burns (12.600)
4.  Yamaguchi Sara (12.400)
5.  Yang Ko-Wen (11.733)
6.  Vanesa Masova (11.366)
7.  Marlene Gotthardt (11.333)
8.  Giulia Perotti (10.933)

Women's Floor:

1.  Giulia Perotti (12.900)
2.  Hezly Rivera (12.833)
3.  Nakamura Haruka (12.800)
4.  Abigail Martin (12.533)
5.  Jayla Hang (12.500)
6.  Victoriane Charron (12.466)
7.  Hwang Seohyun (12.400)
8.  Jemima Taylor (11.600)

Men's Floor:

1.  Angel Barajas (13.900)
2.  Timo Eder (13.500)
3.  Tommaso Brugnami (13.333)
4.  Anthony Mansard (13.200)
5.  Tanida Masaharu (13.100)
6.  Yang Chunjie (12.933)
7.  Tsunogai Tomoharu (12.800)
8.  Maxim Kovalenko (12.333)

Men's Pommel Horse:

1.  Hamlet Manukyan (14.633)
2.  Mamikon Khachatryan (14.100)
3.  Zeinolla Idrissov (14.066)
4.  Alexander Yolshina-Cash (13.600)
5.  Mostafa Ahmed (13.300)
6.  He Xiang (12.766)
7.  Yang Chunjie (12.666)
8.  Manoah Felicite (10.000)

Men's Rings:

1.  Hamlet Manukyan (13.633)
2.  Tanida Masaharu (13.466)
3.  Riccardo Villa (13.433)
4.  Erik Baghdasaryan (13.400)
5.  Tsunogai Tomoharu (13.100)
6.  Yang Chunjie (12.966)
7.  Marcus Pietarinen (12.933)
8.  Kai Uemura (12.433)

Men's Vault:

1.  Tommaso Brugnami (14.133)
2.  Victor Canuel (14.016)
3.  Szilard Zavory (13.883)
4.  Maxim Kovalenko (13.833)
5.  Alperen Ege Avci (13.583)
6.  Daniel Trifonov (13.166)
7.  Jakob Kvamsoee (13.150)
8.  Kamiyama Haruto (12.049)

Men's Parallel Bars:

1.  Angel Barajas & Tsunogai Tomoharu (13.733)
2.  
3.  Yahia Zakaria (13.700)
4.  Erik Baghdasaryan &  Tanida Masaharu (13.633)
5.  
6.  Winston Powell (13.600)
7.  Qin Guohuan (12.900)
8.  Yang Chunjie (12.233)

Men's Horizontal Bar:

1.  Tsunogai Tomoharu (13.666)
2.  He Xiang (13.633)
3.  Angel Barajas (13.433)
4.  Anthony Mansard (13.200)
5.  Riccardo Villa (12.966)
6.  Winston Powell (12.900)
7.  Zala Samu Zambori (12.866)
8.  Tanida Masaharu (10.200)

Japan continues their strong championships and Italy won their 4th bronze medal in 4 events!