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Let alone a head of state or government or a ruling party and the ideology represented by that party.

Just from the top of my head: - winning the 100/200 sprint - someone else than winning one of the basketball tournaments - and competitors in general of course not at the expense of :D

Maybe this is one of those typical I-told-you-so moments. I tell everyone that only a fool would count Dressel out. And still, even the anchorwoman on Hungarian TV during the ECh kept BSing that Dressel's 49.xx times are from 2019, yada yada. They are now from 2021 too.

Wohooo, Hungary 14-10 Canada! Well done girls!

I read yesterday about the press conference of the local organizers, and someone said that under local law this is a criminal offense (did not know that) and it will be reported to police. The Greenpeace guy is another level b/c he hurt several people and caused material damages. Hopefully he will be prosecuted. What I wonder is why the air space over the stadium wasn't restricted

Well at least a potential chance to get into the final. Of course the result of the final is already known (USA wins) but as others mentioned it would be a great preparation for the Olympics.

Can someone tell me when is the 100 butterfly being swam for men at that competition? Would be interested in Dressel's time there too, particularly vs. Milak's recent ECh time (50.19)

This is the song by Macedonia (North): (1) VIS RISOVI - ODIME NA EVROPSKO (ОДИМЕ НА ЕВРОПСКО) - YouTube

Isnt that v. ? Or that is even one level further? :D :D

I would add a bronze in Women's water polo (optimistic/even upset but they would deserve it finally :D) Who would be the gold medallist in wrestling (I have 0 clue about that sport) and where does the 3rd gold in swimming come from (1 Milak, 1 Hosszu ok)?

Az atlétika, dzsúdó, úszás esetén még mennyi potenciális kvóta esély van? Gondolom itt az a rendszer hogy csak a kvalifikácios időszak végén veglegesedik a létszám.

Probably along with the number of Iranians and at least one Venezuelan who are on this list.

So Mangiapane now also means “Russia is toast” ? :D

That said it would be not the first effort here in persistent trolling and monomania. The politics thread for example is mainly a small number of nicks repeating the same bull****.

I only want to comment on the Catalan part. There were/are 3 main political blocs/parties in the Catalan separatist movement: the ERC, PDCat (later became JuntsperCat and so on) and the CUP. From these, the CUP are literal anarchists, so definitely very very ultra left. ERC is a left nationalist party, apart from their separatism, some of their politicians regularly criticize the mainstream left (such as PSOE) for not being left enough. And the PDCat albeit it was a centre right party, their main goal was (2017) to push for separatism and not to “oppose the left”. Moreover, in 2017, among the mainstream national (not regional) parties in Spain there was no real left-right split about the attitute towards Catalan separatism, if there was a party which had any understanding towards the separatists, it was the radical left Podemos. And the more to the right a party was in national politics there more it rejected Catalan separatism (the radical right Vox party launched its political prominence by attacking the centre right for not being tough enough on the separatists) So to sum up, to say that Catalan separatism can be characterized as a “rightwing” movement “opposing the left”, and in the other hand, those who oppose the separatism as some kind of “left” is both politically and historically incorrect

To be fair, field hockey (unlike cricket) is being played at competitive level by a number of non Anglo-Saxon/"ex-British Empire" nations, like Germany or Benelux

For me it's modern pentathlon, with no question. Actually it's viability as a sport (not only Olympics) is doubtful for me at the moment. Second is weightlifting, which is now essentially competitive doping. But if it can be cleaned up, I see a future for it, unlike pentathlon. Good point about the practically closed-circuit niche judged sports (RG, artistic swimming), they are certainly better for broadcast than m. pentathlon, but it's an open question how (or if ever) they could be made more competitive, even inside the small group of countries which practice them at a high level.

Too bad it will be in January. Last time I went to an ECh it was the Waterpolo in January 2020 in Budapest. Did not go to the finals or the semifinals (I think it was sold out completely), but the matches I went to were fun, except to close-to-0 or subzero temperature outside... (in non Olympic years the waterpolo ECh is generally in summer when its much more fun particularly in an open air venue) In the end, I ended up attending more matches I originally wanted to (even a completely lopsided group match of HU women where they ended up winning 23-3 or something like that), little I knew back then that this is going to be the last live sport event I attend for a long long time....

There was an interesting broadcast last evening in sky sport news, titled Football's Civil War about the ESL debacle. Here is in youtube if someone is interested:

Of course this is the point. The spending of (Gulf) state owned clubs like PSG and City should also be regulated. But the solution is definitely not the Super League as proposed as it would only cause that the next Neymar will be sold for 500 million euro instead of 222 million euro. And when the Super League money is also insufficient, Barca and Real Madrid, by then with 5-10 bn euro of debt will go to the Spanish state to bail them out because national treasure, yada yada.

Yes, and Laporta also emerged yesterday or so and kept insisting that SL is very much needed. Dear Joan and Florentino, do you know what is needed? Cost cutting for RM and FCB. Let them have a proper austerity programme, instead of having others finance their unsustainable management (sounds familiar? )

I assume Barca will say "our members assembly would have vetoed it anyway" but secretly hoping that this might actually still happen (=€€€€€ which they badly need) With regards to Juve and RM its probably the Pérez and Agnelli clan's hurt ego which stops them to throw the towel. (See Agnelli's whining to the media where he blames everyone for the failure but themselves)

I also found striking that compared to UK press (and obviously that of those countries which had no participating teams like France and Germany) a lot of Spanish press was positive w/ regards to Superliga with the rest kind of neutral. Is RM and FCB now so broke that they need the money no matter what and parts of the press just puts spin to that or is the media bought and owned by the likes of Perez et al?

Marca of Spain now says Agnelli admitted to Reuters that their project is not viable with only 6 teams.

Now on Spanish Mega TV a statement from the remaining rump superliga was read by the anchor of the program "El chiringuito" (the same program which had Pérez with his BS interview yesterday) that the remaining 6 does not give up, they believe their plan is fair it was just not explained enough (or sth to that extent) They also add: given the circumstances we will explore means on how to redesign this project. Desperation has to be really strong in Pérez HQ....