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I already mentioned the fact that Chopra is coached by a german coach before this competition. Almost all of the elite german coaches were "killed off" for political/monetary reasons (they would have taken jobs away from west german coaches) after the end of the GDR. Other countries like GB, Australia, China or India had no problem with hiring those coaches and it paid off. Germany in general is one of the least pragmatic countries in the world. Ideology trumps everything else. Germany would rather be trash in sports than to hire coaches with the "wrong" ideology. In a global competition you can't really afford ideology though. I would have no problem with Germany stopping to compete at olympics/global sports competitions, it just makes me angry to see the level of incompetence in german sports that burns millions of tax payer money every year. I am rather relieved that Weber didn't win a medal (and that France won a medal after all), this gives the german federation less excuses. Germany is now pretty much where Canada was around 2012 (being completely irrelevant in athletics), will be interesting to see if they react the same way.

South Korea with only 1 top 8 result, they are in the same boat as Germany to some degree. Obviously South Koreans have reached a new evolutionary stage. They just don't give a fuck about childish games. Most countries need sports as a replacement for war though. Also interesting that Denmark is pretty much nonexistant in sports.

The only indian athlete that won a medal (Chopra) has a german coach (Klaus Bartonietz).

First ever world championships for Germany without a medal. Number of top 8 results: 12 12 12 11 10 9 7 7

Not sure what the point of this comparison is? Pakistan has a much bigger population. Medals at the athletics world championships: India (1.5 billion people): 1 Norway (5.4 million people): 4 Norway has roughly 0.3 % of the indian population, but 4 times as many medals.

Don't see Slovenia close to Germany or Australia, but we will see. Last year at euros even Giannis and Jokic with a better supporting cast couldn't win a medal. Slovenia is basically dogshit apart from Doncic, he would probably have to have a historic game for them to beat Australia/Germany (which sadly isn't impossible for him). Crazy that Germany won without Wagner, with Bonga missing half of the game with a "concussion", with a lot of questionable calls at the end (carrying call against Schröder, Schröder not being out of bounds) and with Australia shooting 47 % from three.

4th place would still be a very good result for all canadians who won a medal here except LePage. Rogers, Katzberg, Mitton and Arop are not dominant enough to consider them locks for a medal and i don't see Warner getting better (given his age), but maybe he once again will shock everyone. LePage might also end up without a medal (considering that Neugebauer and the two norwegians are much younger), but i would be surprised if he wouldn't win at least silver next year. Canada at 2019 worlds: 5 medals, 0 gold Canada at 2021 olympics: 6 medals, 2 gold Canada at 2015 worlds: 8 medals, 2 gold Canada at 2016 olympics: 6 medals, 1 gold Canada at 2011 worlds: 1 medal, 0 gold Canada at 2012 olympics: 1 medal, 0 gold Canada at 2007 worlds: 2 medals, 0 gold Canada at 2008 olympics: 2 medals, 0 gold Canada at 2003 worlds: 2 medals, 0 gold Canada at 2004 olympics: 0 medals Canada at 1999 worlds: 2 medals, 0 gold Canada at 2000 olympics: 0 medals Really interesting to see how bad Canada was until roughly 2012. Apparently the big turnaround happened after the 2012 olympics. 3 medals combined at the 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012 olympics and then 6 medals at the 2016 olympics. At the past 6 pre-olympic world championships Canada has won 2 golds (both in 2015) and at the past 6 olympic games Canada has won 3 golds, so actually Canada has "overperformed" in terms of gold medals at the olympics in the past.

I would have thought that Richard Kilty is your favourite non-lithuanian athlete, but i guess you already consider him a honorary citizen?

Just usual condescending british behavior. The same happened with Ingebrigtsen and at the swimming world championships. You could almost think that those people have anything to do with the success of british athletics. France won 12 more medals than GB at the last winter olympics, so if GB beats them by 11 medals or less next year, France will have won more olympic medals during this cycle.

Understandable, although France seems to have other priorities than countries like GB. If France would be nonexistant in most team sports and winter sports like GB, the whole country would probably be on suicide watch.

Freakishly insane overperformance by Canada. None of their athletes was first on the entry list and now they have 4 golds. Complete insanity. Makes all the complaining about some 4th places even more absurd.

Yes, since there are no "anwers". The majority of countries are good in one of those sports, but not both. You could also ask why Poland/Canada are so amazing in hammer throw, but not existant in discus throw. Why is Denmark amazing in badminton but not existant in table tennis? Why is Germany amazing in table tennis but not existant in badminton? You also have to take into consideration that the talent pool for those sports is very limited in most countries, so most countries can't contend for medals in both sports at a global level, even China is struggling. Germany is much better in canoeing, not sure about Poland. Italians might be able to tell you why they are good in rowing (not sure if italians would even agree that they are good in rowing, at least at the senior level) and not existant in canoeing. One athlete (german-born Josefa Idem) has won more than 1/3 of the (gold) medals Italy ever won at sprint canoeing world championships.

Yes, for casual viewers it's better, but not for the people who want to watch as much as possible. There are a billion other ways they could make the viewing experience better (for example don't take 1 hour to introduce all the athletes before every race, don't allow throwing/jumping disciplines to take 10 hours, don't just randomly change the rules halfway through the competition (Swoboda), don't just randomly sent athletes/teams to the final (Germany in women's 4 x 100 m relay), don't allow athletes to decide themselves if they want to compete for medals or get them for free (women's pole vault), don't have absurd height progressions in jumping competitons (for example in men's high jump)).

1) Wouldn't say that they are amazing in rowing. 2) Why are GB/Netherlands/Romania/USA "amazing" in rowing but not in canoeing? 3) Why is Hungary amazing in canoeing but not in rowing? 4) Why is Hungary amazing in sprint canoeing but not slalom canoeing?

The number of medals doesn't reflect it, but Germany should be very happy with the results, especially on the women's side. The women have been dead for a long time now, but suddenly there are multiple amazing talents. - Pauline Jagsch (born in 2003) finished 7th in women's K1 500 m. The second youngest athlete in the final was 4 years older and the youngest athlete who placed higher than her was 7 years younger. - The german team finished 4th in women's C2 500 m with a girl born in 2005 (Hedi Kliemke). None of the medalists had anyone born later than 2002.

Neugebauer's focus this season was clearly on the NCAA (same as pretty much all US-trained athletes in non-olympic years). Can't wait to see what he can do next year when his focus will be on the olympics. Right now i would put my money on him winning gold next year.

Absolutely horrible schedule, basically only evening sessions. One of the worst world championships ever from a viewer's perspective.

Number of medals with 2 days to go: (Population of 30 k): 1 (Population of 267 k): 1 (Population of 68 million): 0 (Population of 83 million): 0

Congrats, but not surprising, given that Germany has a bunch of no-names + Lückenkemper. Germany absolutely didn't deserve to make the final with this pathetic line-up.

Got injured during the long jump (left hip). I think he will retire. At the 2021 olympics he was going for a medal and then also got injured during the high jump. Usually decathles peak in their late twenties, but apparently Kaul peaked as a 21 year old.

Funny, considering that they had a guy named "Wolf" in the team ...

Apparently he doesn't train this event because he thinks that he is "too heavy" and doesn't want to risk an injury. With his jumping ability he surely could get to around 2.10 m if he would train for it.

Never understood this "hype" about decathlon, not sure if decathlon is really more prestigious. I never heard anyone say that modern pentathlon or triathlon are more prestigious than swimming/cycling/running/equestrian/fencing/shooting.

How nice of you. Canada already has 2 (extremely surprising) golds, how about you leave something for others ...

Edit: The previous ranking apparently was wrong (sadly the calculator on the german athletics website seems to use wrong points tables): Apparently the actual ranking for the best first day in decathlon looks like this: 4743 Warner 4738 O'Brien 4736 O'Brien 4728 Eaton 4722 Warner Don't see Neugebauer getting into the top 5, but maybe he has a shot at getting to 4700 points. When Mayer set his world record he only had 4563 points after day 1, which is only the 69th best first day ever.