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Ya I would definitively *hate* this... Fencing has really great team events. I would hate to see it change. It's also an extremely fun event to actually contest as an amateur (I did a little bit of fencing in university) Having two fencer teams or, god forbid, a mixed weapon team event would not be good at all.

Quad God ate the competition whole, my goodness. He is just incredible.

Pairs, not ice dance :P I don't have a lot of hope they will keep progressing given their age tbh. But the fact they won a world championship this late in their career is incredibly impressive.

Incredible win by Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps in the pairs event! Really didn't expect Canada to win a world title this year, at 40(!) I believe Stellato-Dudek is now the oldest ever world champion. Stellato-Dudek and Deschamps both had very long career, it's incredible to see them achieve a world title after so much time. Silver for Riku Miura Ryuchi and Kihara, bronze for Minerva Fabienne Hase and Nikita Volodin

Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps are world champions in pairs! They did a brilliant free skate and both the crowd and the world feed commentators were going wild.

TBH I’m a lot less mad since Tokyo (and becoming an American, which happened after London xD )

Essentially the easiest possible draw, not too bad xD

Ya, golfers have been asking for a team event since day zero. If golf is going to be in the Olympics this is necessary.

It does seem like the Brisbane games aren't in any real risk of being cancelled, but the big project (rebuilding the Gabba) seems less and less likely to happen.

The way Agenda 2020(+5) awards the games is a big mistake. The complete lack of transparancy and awarding the games this far (11 years!) in advance seems bound to create issues.

This made some sense back when the OQTs were easy, but... they really aren't anymore.

There is also a bronze medal in the men's 1500m from Brendan Corey, who is from my hometown of Fredericton :D

Would be very funny if a bunch of American runners, swimmers and gymnasts fled to Canada and requested asylum after failing to make the US Olympic team.

Woo three ( and ) athletes in the quarterfinals with Corey, Doak and Sarault :D

Still baffled that in the women's 60kg they didn't make three brackets rather than four brackets with a playoff.

Now that artistic swimming has reformed it's scoring system I think it's fair to say that boxing has the worst judging of any Olympic sport. I wouldn't be upset to see the sport dropped entirely for that reason (my preference would be for them to get the judging into shape, but... that doesn't seem to be happening)

Gotta love all this transparency

And for tennis I think it makes some sense, the players are very loosely tied to their national federation and the Russian and Bielorissuan players on tour all seem to live in the US, the Caribbeans or in Western Europe anyway.

And Freestyle Skiing needs to remove it's 32 athlete per country limit It's at least possible now for a country to qualify in every taekwondo event, which imo was one of the big improvement over the old (pre-Rio) qualification system.

He isn't naturalized.

She'll entice her students to watch :P Breaking is going to be such a big anomaly in the history of the Olympics, if nothing else it will be really interesting to see how it unfolds and how the public reacts to it.

You better not watch them in Paris :P

I'm increasingly tempted to change the gender markers on my passports to an X purely to annoy certain people xD

"The North American and European political left" describes both people and positions I agree with 100% and people and positions that I think are batshit crazy so... xD

Then by the definition you gave me I guess every Argentinian is woke? At least everyone who is aware and conscious of whatever "social problems" exist. Which is why I objected to the definition, it's just meaningless, people basically came up with a buzzword and then tried to reverse engineer a definition onto it, and it's just too broad to be useful in a debate. It just describes a feeling, and everyone feels it at a different threshold. In practice "woke" is getting used to mean "anyone who's further to the left on social issues than I am", and since everyone has different views on social issues everyone has a different personal definition of what woke is.