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Any chance for the OC replay? I just realized all the TV feed replays are not available

I suspect the way they are doing the geoblock is by ticking all the countries one by one When the morning athletics action was ongoing, I did not see any live marker and even if I click the link shared by @Vektor all I get is a black screen with endless loading indicator. Fortunately everything is resolved now

Wrote an email to EGTV, then all the replays magically appear lol

Weirdly enough I can't see any live, even with a VPN connected to various European countries

Yeah idk what the organizers are planning. Originally the coach asked the federation to play with a slightly stronger (team among FIFA top 100) opponent and then some crazy idea started then boom let’s invite Argentina. Clearly our federation did not plan this match well, while people are hyping this and that. Now it’s like Argentina has a stopover flight and decided to play some football with a random team to spend the waiting time lol

Also, the local Indonesian organizer tried to get rid of the cancelled U-20 World Cup souvenirs on the eve of friendly match against the country which saved the event

Some of you might know that will play against in a friendly on Monday. The hype was so high here but after it was clear that Messi will not be playing, the situation became Messy Quite a lot of people are reselling their tickets because basically the match now has not much left to offer. My friend after he got his hand on the tickets he directly sell it to a scalper waiting at the exit lane of the ticket booth…

Yeah their plan is to focus on sports that will double as Olympic qualifiers, they projected around 15-20 sports will be held.

The latest serious news was from 2 months ago, where Split is the candidate city (https://www.sptv.hr/novosti/split-napravio-sve-sto-je-trebao-za-domacinstvo-europskih-igara-2027-2023-04-12) Back in 2022, there were claims that "some Western European countries" are interested and it will secure the future hosts until 2031 but nothing else since that.

Well.. Some of the Nowy generation who liked Nowy Sportz like Bach

Ah right, the Olympic Channel which sucked at that time. I still remembered how I sent angry emails to their address because they showed a cycling repechage instead of badminton finals as promised in their "broadcast schedule". In Channel One everyone got to choose what they wanted to watch

I wonder how the rest of the world can watch... 2015 we have it on Youtube 2019 Russian TV provided free streams 2023 no prospect of having both options available

I took a look at athletics and swimming streams, good quality broadcast. The opening ceremony is also nice but the length of speech were too long Also I felt bad for the little girl scouts who are asked to raise the huge flags in the athletics medal ceremonies, the fluttering flag hits them repeatedly...

The Azerbaijanis are all Indonesians lol

Indonesia will rely on badminton, weightlifting, and speed climbing to win gold medals in both the Asian Games and Olympics. For Asian Games, with the absence of pencak silat and no “host powers” to limit other countries from participating in some events, surely the medal prospects for Indonesia will be reduced. I predict 4-5 gold medals for Indonesia in Hangzhou. Other sports with medal chances include wushu, archery, cycling (MTB and probably track), sepak takraw, karate, dragon boat, and artistic gymnastics (relying on Rifda Irfanaluthfi)

Vietnam's main issue has always been funding, that's why their success in SEA Games doesn't really translate to higher level. Their women's runners for example is actually able to challenge for medal in Asian Games (only losing to the imported Bahrainis) but they do not often get the chance to compete internationally or have an even better facility at home. If they can find a way out from this funding problem and get the best program available to their athletes, success will come.

Real crazy sh*t. China was one point away from losing in the semifinal (16-20 down) and then turned the tide to grab the win. From that moment I’m sure Korea won’t even have any chance despite China vs Japan finished after midnight local time

See you again next edition in another Chinese city

QF Draw Results vs vs vs vs

I think this is the most medal for since 2009, but in term of gold 2011 & 2013 are still better

As far as I know, nope. The least I saw was 3 athletes in a few events

The Games ended with good ol’ football where the most populated participant finally winning the gold after 32 years Closing ceremony is tomorrow

The others are pretty boring, unfortunately

For the SEA Games closing ceremony, there is a 'do and don't' list for the spectators and one of the rules is "sit down and respect the leader when the leader is giving a speech"

On the other side of the world, also had an election. The anti-military and pro-Constitutional reform Move Forward Party is neck-to-neck with Pheu Thai which is led by Thaksin’s daughter. The military-aligned parties are clearly not doing well, hopefully they don’t launch another coup…