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17 hours ago, Federer91 said:
Amazing achievement by Duplantis. Seeing clips of when he was a little kid, the record was inevitable.
And it's again indoors. Wonder what is the highest mark cleared outdoors?
Outdoor record only 6:14 to Sergey Bubka, 31/07/1994. Think this is the only major WR where the indoor mark is better than the outdoor. I suppose because 1) no wind & 2) much shorter competitions - fresher athletes. -
A big Mile race in New York last night, NRs & PBs all the way down.
https://www.worldathletics.org/news/report/millrose-games-2020-elle-purrier
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9 minutes ago, Kirkpatrick said:
Wasn't this supposed to be 30k race? It even still says so on main fis-ski page. Oh well, 15k and a mass start. Got to live with it.
Shortage of snow, so they had to change it. -
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0 after 35 mins, i am officially 
on this one. 
tomorrow.
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20 minutes ago, hckosice said:
and tennis player Jiří Veselý is Jiří (George) Happy
but still nothing compared to Roman Jebavý...
OK that is the champ, obviously you have the likes of Andreas Wank which doesn’t work in a foreign language, but in your own native language...
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Bah! That is nothing! In the 1980 Moscow Olympics India fielded an all-Singh* 11 man field hockey team!
*Singh is not really a name though, but an honorary title give to Sikhs.
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8 hours ago, Grassmarket said:
World Indoor Tour moves on to Toruń, Poland tonight.
https://www.worldathletics.org/news/preview/torun-copernicus-cup-preview-2020
There might be live coverage here. All in
, but everyone knows that it’s a very easy language to learn. 
Sorry guys, just leads to a message with a lot of ę’s & ł’s which means that you can’t watch out of Poland, -
6 minutes ago, heywoodu said:
Speksnijder is literally just 'bacon cutter', nothing to do with a whaling ship or blubber (anymore)
Yes, I know, but according to Herman Melville (Moby Dick) a Speksnijder was indeed a blubber cutter. However, in today’s IBU race there was actually an Italian girl called Lardschneider, which is the same thing. -
And it’s not just Slavic languages where people have weird names. I remember a 70s Dutch footballer called Zuurbier (sour beer) and there are a few Speksnijders - ie blubber cutter on a whaling ship!
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51 minutes ago, heywoodu said:
Ren Ziwei took the 1500m win in Dresden by launching an all-out attack in the first lap, nearly lapping everyone and holding on for dear life until the finish
That was rather epic, I've rarely seen someone in short track skating where you could almost visibly see his legs burn as much as Ren's legs in the last laps.
Have seen that done before! An Israeli (well, probably Russian) guy - can’t remember his name - did the same thing a couple of years ago. Lapped the field in the first 2-3 laps, but crucially settled into the back of the peleton and then hung on easily in the final of a World Cup 1500m race. -
Khrushchev (Khrush) was also a Ukrainian beetle.
There was a Russian lady 400m runner called Krivoshapka - Crooked Hat. Also a few Chernousov/Chernousovas = Black mouth.
(It’s because of serfdom - owners would give their serfs insulting names)
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7 minutes ago, heywoodu said:
Yeah I've mostly decided to skip the weird Z's and things like that, sorry
It's hard enough to try and keep track of things like Pérez vs Perez
Thin skin is an interesting meaning of someone's name though
There’s a new Russian guy in the WC whose name literally means Shooter - Streltsov.- RobtheAggie and heywoodu
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Geez, sad news....Mickaela Shiffrin’s father was killed in a domestic accident this week. Just awful for her,
TV cameras always focussed on her mother but seemingly her father also travelled with her to her races, and knew lots of people on the Tour.
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World Indoor Tour moves on to Toruń, Poland tonight.
https://www.worldathletics.org/news/preview/torun-copernicus-cup-preview-2020
There might be live coverage here. All in
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2 hours ago, hckosice said:
Also the Group J started
All six games can be followed on the live stream provided by Olympic Channel. You can find the stream on IIHF.com by clicking on the respective game during or shortly before the start of the game on the front page or in the game schedule as well as the live link on the website. This stream is available outside of the United Kingdom (for the afternoon games also in the UK).
The opening match
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For those of us in the UK, all the Team GB matches are on the Freesports Channel as usual, which is also streamed on the STV streaming app if you can’t get the Digital Channel. -
2 hours ago, Monzanator said:
Netherlands is even weaker, Poland leads 7-0 after two periods.
One of sport’s great mysteries is why the world’s skating & field hockey super-power is so verschrikelijk when the two are combined. The only thing they are worse at is penalty shootouts. -
Filip Ingebritsen gets a 3:36.32 WL in the 1500m, will hold it until his brother Jakob runs his first race of the season.
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9 minutes ago, Khadidja Aisha said:
The real reson they sat that Russians doing doping is that russians are a brown people, half turkish and mongolian, and many white people are racist, and dont whant brown people to steal there prizes.
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13 minutes ago, Monzanator said:
In the rowing eights? Please! If all eight rowers had diabetes then you have a case. But if you have 7 healthy rowers that doesn't matter.
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2 hours ago, Monzanator said:
If you're faking an illness any doctor can provide the right papers to fool the system which is deeply flawed. It's a foolish assumption that athletes and doctors are separate items, they're the two sides of the very same coin. Who in the world believes that "those poor naive athletes got used by those evil doctors". That's nonsense and you know it.
Please name me which of these asthmatic skiers or cyclists also have a diabetes? You have asthma or diabetes and you want to be a world class athlete beating healthy competitors? Geez, find a new job. People who are 2 meters tall might also wanna win the Kentucky Derby as jockeys, hell, I haven't seen a 2 meters jockey though! Why? Isn't life supposed to be fair? 5'2" jockeys win the Kentucky Derby and not 6'3" jockeys. That's why asthmatic people shouldn't be winning endurance events either.
Well Steve Redwood won an Olympic Gold in rowing as a diabetic, there are diabetic professional soccer players, there is or was an-all diabetic pro cycling team in the States etc etc. -
43 minutes ago, Monzanator said:
TUE only turns up in endurance sports like cross country or cycling. So it doesn't apply to everyone. In NFL people got banned indefinitely for being alcoholics. But in cross country hordes of Norwegians are faking asthma and become national heroes and Olympic champions. Ban TUE all across endurance sports and the problem is solved. If you really have asthma then become a lawyer or something but if you're faking it, you will still remain in cross country but just try to win it without the phoney support.
There’s plenty of people with diabetes & many other manageable conditions who benefit from TUEs. Are you saying they should be thrown out of top-level sport just because a minority abuse the rules? Hardly fair, the solution is to amend the rules to prevent abuse - only neutral doctors can prescribe, renewals are not automatically granted, statistics are published at year end etc etc. -
Just a reminder World Indoor Tour III tomorrow from Dusseldorf, live on Eurosport.
Looks like the best meet so far.
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I doubt it: the Olympic PV will probably take about four hours and he might have to jump 7-8 times before he can go for a WR.
Both DuPlantis & Lavillenie set their records off pretty artificially short competitions. Dunno how many jumps he did in total - 2 or 3?