NearPup

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.

Actually a much weirder story than that!  Cipulis  crashed on the second run, which would have cost him 2nd Place in the World Cup but……his crash damaged the track which was eventually decided to be too dangerous to race, so his crash didn’t count!  
 

You’d think the curlers would get the right medals, but apparently not 
 

what is the forum's view if you're banned permanently from here? 
 
spoiler:   
 

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

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

Play-off
 
 2-0
 
 
 qualified.

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

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.

Oldest female world champion, definitely.  I think there were some older men, pre-WW2. 
 
 

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.

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

Brian Yang has mathematically qualified in men’s singles badminton through the Olympic Rankings!
 
https://www.instagram.com/p/C4xFWe3ujB4/?igsh=NXpuNmVhODRwOTFo

Yeah, for as heartbreaking as 2012 was, it did put the women's national team on the map.

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.

I'm ok with this. It arrives 3 games late, should have been since the beggining

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.

Hey, stop that. We don't like truth here. 

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.

While I understand (but still dislike) having a specific meet or meets to achieve the OQT, these nations which create even harder times is ridiculous. It's not like FINA made the OQT easy to get either.
 
Imagine if Japan was as strict in other sports as it is in swimming, their team would be like 50-75 athletes rather than the near 300 they would normally get.

And now his ex-wife (they divorced before they died), / volleyball player Ruxandra Dumitrescu has passed away at age 46 from cardiac arrest. She was originally from Romania but got Greek citizenship after many years playing in our women's league (17 in total but she got citizenship after 7 years), played for the Greek women's national team at Athens 2004 as well.
 
They had a son together also, he is probably not even a teenager yet, so sad for him to grow up without parents...

Quota alert! Mo Ahmed breaches the men’s 10,000m Olympic standard in athletics clocking a 26:53.01 at The Ten! 

Last bit of spam for today, Mikael Kingsbury won men’s dual moguls gold in Valmalenco for his 90th career WC victory! Probably could get to 100 by the end of next season assuming he doesn’t get injured. 

will not qualify anyone for the first time ever.