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Don't make me take out my rant about the nomenclature of Football and how various forms of gridiron football have just as strong a claim to the name "football" as association football (soccer) does :P But ya, both in tackle football but especially in flag football scoring ten points isn't that impressive.

Ten is really not a lot of points to score in Football. She’ll need to train harder.

I think more flexibility around the venues is, by far, the best reform Bach and friends have instituted. I have a lot of qualms about how Brisbane got the 2032 games, but I do think their regional model is absolutely the future of the Olympics.

That's why I said sustainability theatre, not sustainability. IMO hosting speed skating in an existing venue in the Netherlands is about the appearance of cost cutting moreso than it is really about cost cutting.

But think about all the content(tm) you'd be taking away from NBC! (IMO this is the real reason the swimming program is bloated - it's one of the three tent-pole sports for NBC and they do not want the number of semi-final and final races to go down) And now that the US is good at distance events I doubt NBC would want the 800 to go away either.

Seems like substainability theatre to me.

You really thought I’d let that one slip by? :P

It's called esports to differentiate it from sports already *shrugs*

Early 30s is a pretty normal time for a freestyle skier to retire.

It sounds like he's mostly coming back to have fun, and with that mindset racing for fits better than racing with

Ya, the statement the IOC made when they declined to include women's nordic combined made it sound like the entire sport is on life support.

So apparently it *is* timed, but the FIG only revealed what the times were to the federations... during the appeal. Like the heck? xD

Both things can be true at the same time: maybe the current Olympic boxing rules aren't adequately handling athletes with DSD *and* maybe these two boxers were targeted because they defeated Russian boxers. Either way, I do feel we should take everything the IBA says with a lot of skepticism.

There is also a point where having too low of hormones levels should qualify you for a TUE, because it becomes a health hazzard.

I really wouldn't put this latest Copa America on the US, that was directly organized by CONMEBOL with minimal involvment from any American organization.

Turns out it's surprisingly hard to make a consistent rule where everyone fits into a "male" and "female" binary for sports purposes. I really don't envy the people who have to draft up rules for this.

I don’t think it’s actually timed… hence this mess.

Oh ya, she is legitimately a good skier from what I can see. Likely not good enough to ever make team USA but def good enough to have a solid middle of the pack showing at the Olympics.

Lol Jeanee Crane-Mauzy‘s explanation of what her ties to the country are is genuinely hilarious. She says she wants to compete for Vanuatu to raise awareness for climate change.

As someone from I deeply resent this Eastern Canada erasure!

Based on the results of these Olympics, I think it's realistic for to aim for a top 10 in LA. In Tokyo it felt like we had better than expected Olympics. This time we did even better and it feels like we under-performed a little bit.

About time Italy wins gold in Volleyball xD Seriously, congrats on a really amazing tournament.

It depends. Esports isn’t one thing, it’s a lot of different, completely different scenes. Among the big esports scenes: and are traditionally the biggest countries in fighting games. Is the dominant country in League of Legends, with being the clear number 2. Every world champion (both in terms of the nationality of the players and of the pro teams they represent) have been from one of those two countries since 2013. StarCraft (both Brood Wars and II) is dominated by to the point where every non-Korean players are referred to as “foreigners” even by their own compatriots. Only one major Brood Wars tournament has ever been won by a non-Korean, all the way back in 2000. Foreigners were slightly more successful in StarCraft II. Interestingly the person who is usually considered the best female esports performer of all times is a StarCraft II player, Scarlett. She’s openly trans, which isn’t an issue since most StarCraft tournaments are open. Dota 2 is one of the most diverse esport in terms of nationality. is usually considered the best performing country, with also consistently producing great teams. Players from the following countries have also been world champion: Dota 2 teams often contain players from many different countries, in events where every player must be from the same country you would likely see the strongest teams out of Back when Overwatch esport was a big thing it was dominated by I’m not super familiar with Counter Strike, but my understanding is that are the strongest countries. For Rocket League I would say are the strongest countries, with notable standouts from And that’s sort of it as far as esports scenes I have some familiarity with. Not that any of this matters since there won’t be any esports in the esports Olympic games.

Eventually I'll figure out how to spell Ilya xD

That's honestly pretty awesome.