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Did Isinbaeva, Kuchina or Shubenkov do anything to deserve the ban? No (although i cant respect Isinbaeva after all she has said in the last couple of months), but please tell me: In which other way should Russia have been punished for their state-run doping system? Do you think that there would have been an other way to make them realize that they cant continue like this? Do i think that american athletes are any cleaner? No, but they werent "stupid" enough to get caught, so (sadly) you cant punish them. For me the biggest joke about all this is that some federations were still allowed to compete in weightlifting, although they have proven to be at least as dirty as the russian federation, IWF clearly should have banned more federations.

I understand you, but i dont think thats the right reaction and i dont get why anyone should be jealous? Its not an achievement to be born in the US, so how do all those medals really have anything to do with you? In the end american athletes wouldve won the exact same number of medals if you never would have been born. Many people just feel that the US isnt treated like a normal country, although they might be completely right to protest this decision. Just take the start times of swimming finals as an example, NBC was able to dictate the start times and american athletes clearly profited from it. So i understand those people who are happy to see american athletes "fail", although they might not have a point in this special case. Its not the "fault" of someone like Bromell to be american, so no one should hope that he gets treated in an unfair way just because he is american. He worked very hard for many years, so its not right to wish that he gets "robbed" here. For the same reason its not right to treat north korean athletes like shit, just because their political leaders are completely mad.

It would have been a start to not allow them to play for all of the last minute of the match ...

I am glad that the dutch girls got punished for their disgusting behavior in the end. We should have beaten the dutch team yesterday, but threw away an easy win, GB was more clutch and finished the job. Overall pretty weak performance by both dutch hockey teams, they should be much more dominant, considering the number of hockey players they have and the amount of money they invest. Hopefully GB will invest even more in the future, to attack the US in the medal table, they are on a good way to become the new GDR.

Please just kick this bullshit sport out of the olympics. Its beyond ridiculous that medals are decided by pure luck, if you get a shit horse, than you have no chance, its absolutely disgusting.

IHF mafia strikes again, the last goal was a scandal, but we all know that IHF wants to protect France, so its not really surprising. It was expected that the french team full of grandpas would get weaker and weaker by every minute, but if you play as shit as the german team today, then you cant really punish them for it. At least we know that the french team full of grandpas will be gone soon. I cant believe that the german players werent able to score more goals against a 50 year old goalkeeper, who looks like a half-dead and can barely move. I just hope that there will be a time when we will be able to play with our best players, without so many injuries. Dissinger and Groetzki were clearly missing today.

Very good and expected decision! Congrats to Japan, hopefully this is the final decision. Dunfee couldnt control his body anymore and was walking in the way of Arai, so Arai had to make room for himself by slightly pushing Dunfee to the side. I hoped that Dunfee would get a medal instead of Tallent, but we have to accept that this is the correct decision, maybe Dunfee will get a medal in a couple years time. Japanese athletes never get caught, Tallent is doing this for almost a decade, so he probably wont be caught, but i dont know about Toth.

Hopefully we will see 4 rounds at the next olympic games, like at the world championships. Then we wont get such random results, with complete underdogs winning gold and silver. The individual qualification obviously is a complete joke, its almost impossible to not qualify for the final if you dont have to retire and then everyone starts with 0 points again. In the team event there was at least a real qualification, with teams like GB being eliminated. There shouldnt be multiple rounds of qualification, just to get down to 35 riders, it makes all the qualification rounds pretty senseless, instead qualification rounds should count for the final result, like at the world championships. Its sad that some people are too childish to quote someone and instead need to talk over their head. If you want to discuss then quote, otherwise stay quiet, its really that simple, every grown-up should know that, its sad that i even need to mention it.

Who said that?

What? Please READ my comment before answering. It makes me really angry, you are wasting my time with your nonsense comments. I said that none equestrian event can be considered a sport and earlier i said that eventing shouldnt be an olympic discipline. Equestrian in general cant be considered a sport and therefore shouldnt be olympic, even formula 1 is more of a sport than equestrian. Its really a shame that there is no way to downvote comment. You are deliberately wasting my time by writing complete nonsense, next time i will report your comment.

Its common knowledge. Skelton probably cant run one km without getting an heartattack, he cant be considered an athlete and if someone like him can win a medal, than jumping and all other equestrian events are not a sport.

No, i am just an ordinary Russophobia, so i will keep THE NAME to myself, bye! You should ask your media about the name, i am sure they will tell you.

Yeah, you did the same before, so there is nothing wrong with me doing the same, you see? If you really need to accuse me of being influenced by propaganda, then you obviously know that you dont have a point, so just stop embarrassing yourself. All those russian cheaters are already bringing enough shame to your country, you shouldnt make it worse by defending them.

I dont want old and/or fat people to win medals. If a 58 year old can win a medal, than its not a sport, thats a fact!

Yeah, you can wait as long as you want. Bye!

Please at least get your facts right, you are embarrassing yourself and your country, it wasnt even a PB for him. Probably your state-run propaganda made you too delusional to get the facts right.

What a horrible results, now even british grandpas win gold medals, this is very bad for the sport. I dont get why we have 4 rounds for teams but only 2 rounds for individuals, everyone knew that we would get completely random medallists by having only 2 rounds, with a first very easy round.

Wow, you are really greedy, you already won a gold medal in race walking, that must be enough for such a small country ... !

So a 22 year old athlete who is two time world champion in the same discipline winning the gold is as surprising as a 29 year old, who didnt even make the final at the world championships last year, winning bronze ... ? Tom Liebscher is much younger than Anoshkin and won the gold medal in mens k1 500 m this year, ahead of Anoshkin, but even if Liebscher wouldve won the bronze here, it wouldve been a huge shock, although he is much younger than Anoshkin. Why didnt Anoshkin win anything before 2015? Why did he suddenly become so good at such a high age? Anoshkin was caught and will be stripped off his medal, the bronze will go to Murray from Australia, there is nothing to argue about. I didnt make any mistake and even if i wouldve made a mistake, then there wouldve been no reason for me to apologize to you.

I think you shouldnt overestimate the heat results. Germany started very fast and the other teams slowed down very quick to save energy. If this wouldve been the final, then they might have catched up to the german team. Before the start of the competition my prediction was Germany ahead of Slovakia and Australia, i think this is still possible.

So a good result is almost impossible. Guerdat already won a gold and has been caught doping, Lamaze also already won a gold and GB just doesnt deserve a gold here, considering how bad their team was. I hope that the guys from Qatar, Sweden and the US will win the medals, but that seems very unlikely. At least Skelton/Lamaze shouldnt win the gold here.

Maybe they just bluffed in the heat? Seriously, why were you sure that your K4 would win the gold? Germany is much better on paper.

Yeah, now it doesnt matter, another russian cheater was caught and lost his medal, i am happy. I would say a 29 year old guy, who never won an individual medal in an olympic discipline before, winning an individual olympic medal is more surprising than a 22 year old, who is a two time world champion in this discipline, winning an olympic gold medal ... but you are obviously too biased to see the facts.

His feet have been parallel for the last couple of km, thats not legal and he should have been disqualified or at least got a warning (i dont know how many warning he had at that time). Correct result would have been Toth ahead of Arai and Dunfee or Toth ahead of Tallent and Arai. The japanese guy got robbed, lets see how "lucky" Canada will be at 2020 olympics.

I am very sad for the japanese guy, what a scandal to disqualify him! Hopefully one of the top 3 will get caught, so that he will get the medal back that was stolen from him today.