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I respect her for trying to regain her level and becoming fit again, but by now you'd think her body has given enough hints that it doesn't want to do the whole sprinting business anymore.

I didn't know we even competed in this sport, but apparently four Dutch boats made it to the semi-finals:

Watch out, he'll win the 200m as well. That's 100m extra space for shenanagans.

I got a little behind on the beach volleyball tournaments: Espinho, Portugal Challenge tournament (14-17 July) Women: 1. Clancy/Mariafe 2. Quiggle/Schermerhorn 3. Andressa/Vitoria Men: 1. Bryl/Losiak 2. Ermacora/Pristauz 3. Samoilovs/Smedins Agadir, Morocco Challenge tournament (21-24 July) Women: 1. Piersma/Van Driel 2. Hermannova/Stochlova 3. Menegatti/Gottardi Men: 1. Immers/Boermans 2. Berntzen/Mol 3. Krattiger/Beer Both tournaments had fairly weak fields, mostly the Moroccon one. Next Beach Pro Tour event is the Hamburg, Germany Elite tournament (10-14 August). The pro tour (something like world cups) keep going all the way into november with trips to South Africa, Brazil and Australia still coming up. Currently ongoing is a European 'Nations cup' where two teams per country face off against each other, sort of like the Olympic qualification tournaments.

Emmanuel won the decathlon last night! Apparently with a score that would have placed him 4th at the previous U20 worlds. The whole top 3 broke 8000 points then, which none of the current generation have done. I don't know if the previous generation was particularly strong, or this one slightly weaker.

Why is Sophia not a 100m sprinter, he has barely any hurdling technique and just barges through to the final battered and bruised from all the hurdles he's hitting.

I tuned into the middle of the pole vault and was really wondering 'Did Emmanuel skip this distance or has he failed already?' Great NU20R by Seedo just before though!

Gabriel Emmanuel is working on an incredible decathlon filled with PBs. This could be a very close battle with the Swede Thelander.

I love that you basically need live updated excel spreadsheets to properly follow the multi events.

Please not motorsport for the love of mother earth. Let's not give 'Who can burn fossil fuels around a lap the fastest' competitions any more attention than they need. There's far far far far too much money spent on formula 1 cars and flying them all over the world already.

These 110m hurdles heats are bizarre to watch. Every heat is won by a guy hitting anywhere between 3 to 8 hurdles on the way to victory. They're just powering through the hurdles instead of jumping over them and beating the rest of the field on raw speed alone.

Afternoon session is live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBRzrhYxw9A&ab_channel=WorldAthletics

I believe there was about an eight week break between the US season and the world championship and Kimmann took that time period as a break from training to recharge as well. The Suisse have a great generation with Marquart and Claessens in this sport!

Sarina Wiegman succesfully defends her title!

I believe there is no discussion thread for the women's world tour. Results in the Tour de France Femmes: Yellow jersey: Annemiek van Vleuten Polkadot jersey: Demi Vollering Green jersey: Marianne Vos White jersey: Shirin van Anrooij Not too bad if I say so myself

No medals for the Dutch is a disappointing result, even if I haven't checked which boats were present.

These events are always a pleasure to watch. Barely any downtime because of the different age groups competing in a single event, and always fast paced close races. Another bronze medal for Merel Smulders (the younger sister) after three Dutch women qualified for the finals. On the mens side Kimmann was not in shape and there's a large gap in quality between him and the other Dutch men.

Thanks for the coverage @hckošice! After this tournament I suddenly feel like it would be a good idea to travel to Slovakia...

After winning 3 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze in Judo, the Dutch team loses the second round of the mixed team tournament to Italy. Real shame. I fear that all our strongest judoka were in the lightest weight classes this time (which is the opposite in our senior team actually).

Yeah Baauw has been one of the strongest riders in womens bmx for a few years now, but in Dutch media she's in the shadow of the Smulders sisters.

Really enjoying the photos you place every day @hckošice! Another two bronze medals yesterday in Judo and in Gymnastics. That's now a medal in 3 of the 5 sports we participated in, not too bad.

One of the favorites for a medal Judy Baauw injured herself in training and is out of the tournament.

No impressive results by the Dutch cyclists so far. Top 10 finishes in the time trials and individual race, but no medals. However I believe our team is really young 14-15, probably competing against 17-18 year olds. That also partly answers your earlier question @Werloc. The level at these games wholly depends on the squads NOCs send. I believe the Dutch usually focus on younger athletes for the EYOF and apparently they chose not to send an athletics or handball squad even though we usually perform well in those sports.

Difficult choice for the track cycling mens sprint between Hoy, Kenny and Lavreysen. The latter is super dominant at the moment, but the others have a greater legacy built up already.

And they both won gold! Travel to Slovakia? A good idea for Dutch judokas