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Absolutely horrible match by Germany, 4 points in the first quarter and only 20 points in the first half! I am not sure what it tells us about the french team that Germany still could have won this match ... ? The main reason for the loss were Gobert's amazing defense and the horrible german 2 pt shooting (15/47 = 31.9 % from 2 pt range). I am a bit surprised that Voigtmann (25 points and an efficiency of 28) was so much better than the 2 NBA players Kleber (6 points and an efficiency of 4) and Theis (7 points and an efficiency of 7), maybe he should start over them in the next matches. I also can't help but wonder whether it was the right decision to leave Bonga (who is a good defender and probably could have done a better job against Fournier (who scored 26 points today) in this match) and Pleiß/Hartenstein (who are physically better than all other german centers and probably could have had more defensive impact today) at home. After the first, way too early, impressions i would say that Lithuania should definitely make it out of the 2nd group stage and Australia and France should battle for that 2nd spot. Spain and Serbia are a lock for the semifinal, USA should also make it and i think Lithuania and Greece will fight for the 4th spot.

Funk now officially qualified for the olympics. The race in men's C1 between Anton and Tasiadis is still open.

World best/record for Krause in women's 2000 m SC with 5:52. Of course barely any top runner ever runs this distance (in top shape), but the time is pretty impressive and she completely destroyed Yavi (who is a 9:07 runner in the 3000 m SC this year) over the last 200 m, so i am hopeful that she will be in sub 9:00 shape at the world championships. You don't often see a world best/record at such a short distance being broken by 10 seconds. Before this race the top 2 on the all-time list were Virginia Nyambura (6:02 in 2015) and Beatrice Chepkoech (6:02 in 2015). Edit: 41.67 seconds for the german 4 x 100 m relay. With Mihambo instead of Kwadwo and Mayer/Müller instead of Kwayie they would have broken the european record (41.37 by the GDR back from 1985) today.

In 2015 and 2016 she peaked at the world championships and the olympics and in 2017 she was injured. I am optimistic that she will be in top shape in Doha, but of course this will be the first time that she will be the favorite and everyone in Germany expects her to win gold, so we don't know how she will deal with a situation like that.

I hope not, Reese has won enough and some day age has to get to her + even Reese in top shape can't jump 7.16 m every day, a distance that Mihambo achieved this year even with far from perfect wind. She said that she still left some reserves in training for the world championships and she thinks that she can even get better until the world championships. I am a bit sad that she won't be in the german 4 x 100 m relay, she could have helped them to win a medal, but i think next year at the olympics she could compete in both events.

6.99 m into a 1.4 m/s headwind for Mihambo, her consistency is absolutely insane. Would be a travesty if she wouldn't win gold in Doha. Also very nice new PB for Kaul in men's javelin throw. I thought that the U23 european championships were his season's highlight, but maybe he will be able to again score 8500+ points in Doha.

Very sad that he missed the standard. I think it was a perfectly timed race considering the number of personal bests we saw. Not sure he will get another chance like that (at least this year).

Thanks! So this is the horse that is now called Chipmunk and competes for Jung? Why is that horse allowed to compete again, isn't there a rule that horses can also be banned for doping?

Starting at 16:30 as far as i know, i read somewhere that polish TV will start their broadcast at 15:45 or something like that, but i am not sure about the channel it will be on. https://www.zdf.de/sport/zdf-sportextra/zdf-sportextra-182.html

You really think him not picking Chipmunk is an option after buying that horse from Krajewski? I read somewhere that Jung competed in a jumping nations cup for Germany this year, did he use a different horse there? Would you say that Auffarth or Krajewski can get back into the german team next year, considering that both Dibowski and Rüder are far from reliable at this level?

What do you mean with doping trouble? What did i miss?

Louise Romeike? Is she who i think she is?

What a weird game for Germany ... 0:13 -> 17:21 -> 20:36 Horrible horrible offense, but at least a solid defense. Noone expected a victory, but this is just embarrassing. Thanks to the draw i didn't see a chance for Germany to qualify for the olympics here, but i thought they had a chance to make it out of the second group phase. The games against Lithuania and Australia should be closer, but now it will almost impossible to make it out of the 2nd group phase.

Didn't you also just win a medal in men's judo? I think you should also look at it this way: You're men are maybe subpar for a country like Canada, but your women are for sure way better than it would be expected from a country like Canada.

Absolutely horrible world championships for Germany, no medal in quadruple sculls is unacceptable. I thought that 3 golds (men's lightweight double sculls, men's eight and men's single sculls) were safe, but one of them completely messed up (men's lightweight double sculls) and the other two were also worse than expected. The only positive thing is that Zeidler will only get better if he stays injury-free and that the quadruple sculls usually peak at the olympics. Crazy performances by Ireland and especially the Netherlands, sadly i have no doubt anymore that they will be able to repeat those results next year.

Not even a medal for Warner? It's not as if there are many guys currently who can score 8600 points or more ...

6 medals for the Netherlands in olympic events, more than at the last 4 editions combined. Saying that this isn't an insane improvement must be the most retarded thing i have read on this forum over the years.

2018: 2 medals for the Netherlands in olympic events 2017: 1 medal for the Netherlands in olympic events 2015: 2 medals for the Netherlands in olympic events 2014: 0 medals for the Netherlands in olympic events 2013: 2 medals for the Netherlands in olympic events ... 2019: 4 medals for the Netherlands in olympic events AFTER DAY 1 ... So AFTER DAY 1 of the 2019 world championships the Netherlands have ONLY ONE MEDAL LESS in olympic events THAN THEY HAD IN THE LAST 4 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS COMBINED! Edit: I think it is only 4 medals in olympic events so far, so the Netherlands this year won 1 medal less after day one than in the last 4 editions combined.

Yeah, it would be better for me to stop watching sport. I think it is impossible to be a person who hates injustice and at the same time truly enjoy watching elite sport, but sadly i am kind of addicted ... Sports are my only drug (no alcohol, cigarettes, coffee, refined sugar or other drugs for me), hopefully i will be able to also withstand this temptation with time.

Very good to hear, especially because it should shut up all those people who never can imagine that even in a country like Jamaice underage athletes are doping. Of course this also doesn't make Ato Bolden more trustable.

Very glad to hear that, although it took way too long, i already called her out in 2015, but at that time i got a lot of hate for it.

Yes, before the start of the competition this was considered a safe gold considering that they had been unbeaten the whole season. You have to ask yourself what happened here that they are suddenly beaten by 2 teams. Ireland even beat them comfortably and it is pretty suspicious that, as far as i can tell, the irish team only competed in one world cup. Athletics and cycling get the most heat concerning doping and thankfully it also seems to become a bigger topic in swimming, but there is absolutely no logical reason to think that rowing is any cleaner than those sports. I hope that someone will soon take a close look at the development of the Netherlands, China, Ireland, Poland and New Zealand (at least on the women's side). It makes absolutely no sense that GB, a country that completely dominated this sport just 7 years ago and has a bigger talents pool than for example the Netherlands, Ireland and New Zealand combined and Germany (who always used to be great in rowing too) are suddenly chanceless against a nation like the Netherlands. It is especially worrying because the Netherlands have also completely overtaken track cycling at the same time.

I think the medal table in olympic events after day 1 looks like this: 2/1/0 1/2/1 1/2/0 1/1/0 1/0/0 1/0/0 1/0/0 0/1/1 0/1/0 0/0/2 0/0/1 0/0/1 0/0/1 Edit: It is 1/2/1 for the Netherlands instead of 1/3/1.

Absolutely ridiculous results so far. Ireland, Poland and the Netherlands are suddenly powerhouses. Meanwhile the powerhouses Great Britain and Germany barely win any medals. The Netherlands have 5 medals in olympic events after the first day, more than Germany, GB, China and the US combined. No other nation has more than 3 medals. The Netherlands are making a complete mockery of this sport.

What a huge surprise in men's lightweight double sculls. Germany lost a safe gold medal thanks to the wind. Every year we see the same in rowing, Germany dominates all season long just for someone to completely explode at the world championships, i fear it will be the same in men's eight. Either Germany always gets their training wrong or some of the other nations have a magic way of hitting another level at the world championships.