OlympicsFan

1) About the bike: Look at the articles i posted above. 2) She was completely hopeless in the sprint event at europeans and lightyears away from the german girls in qualification. 3) She finished 3rd at 2019 junior worlds in sprint and time trial. She got destroyed by Pröpster who is the german number 4. There was absolutely no indication that she was a special talent. In the time trial both Pröpster and Kouame completely destroyed her by 0.3/0.4 seconds, it wasn't even remotely close.

Are you sure? The following article made it seem as if GB would use a new bike at worlds: https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/the-hope-x-lotus-track-bike-for-the-2024-olympics-is-wilder-than-ever/ https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/about/article/20230727-about-bc-news-Paris-track-bike-to-be-debuted-at-2023-UCI-Cycling-World-Championships-0

I think it is at least 90 % the bike. She was completely lost at european championships not too long ago. She also never did anything remotely impressive at junior level.

The elimination race should be an olympic event, it is more exciting than most of the other events (maybe excluding sprint and keirin). It always baffles me that many federations have no clue what people want to watch. Make events closer/less predictable/easier to follow and more people will watch. Maybe some football representatives bribed officials of other sports in order to get them to make their own sports as unwatchable as possible -> Makes football more popular ...

The omnium format is incredibly stupid, the first 3 events are pretty much pointless.

Obviously they use the wrong tactics, but their goal is obviously right. Impossible to change the system without breaking the rules that were made up to make sure that noone can change the system. There is a long history of people being thrown in jail who were later seen as heroes.

Absolutely the worst world championships i can remember. One event per day and somehow the sessions still last 5 hours and they never manage to stick to the schedule. The paralympic events should either not be part of the program or take place during the break between morning and evening sessions (when noone is forced to watch it).

No, too much rounds is definitely a problem. Maybe they could also do what you said, but basically noone getting eliminated before the semifinal makes it incredibly boring.

It is nice that you are so proud, but you should remember that compound isn't an olympic discipline.

Probably anything that breaks the rhythm.

The world rankings don't mean much, GB has the top 2 positions in the women's world ranking ...

Interesting that it seems to be more unpredictable than shooting. I guess if archery would have more rounds it would also be more predictable. More shots = Less unexpected outcome.

4 out of the 8 individual semifinalists are from the Americas, 2 from Europe (if you include Gazoz) and 2 from Asia. Europe might win both golds despite only having 2 out of the 8 individual semifinalists. Always interesting to see the difference between archery and shooting. India (so far), China, the US, Hungary and Norway are doing much better in shooting than in archery. The Netherlands for example is almost nonexistant in shooting. Japan and Mexico also seem to be doing much better in archery. Also interesting: I just looked at the shooting medal from the last olympics and i was shocked to see that India didn't win a single medal while South Korea only won 1 medal. won twice as many medals as , , and combined ... Combined number of medals of , , , , and : 3 Combined number of medals of and : 4

Unruh must be sitting at home crying right now. Can't believe that Peters made the final, Unruh had a huge chance this week. Overall crazy results. Gazoz was the only "expected" individual medalist. Valencia (and maybe D'Almeida) winning a medal wasn't really shocking either, but apart from that the results were very unexpected and probably won't be repeated next year.

Last time they didn't win an individual recurve medal: 1981 (no pressure for their only remaining athlete in the men's competition ...) Last time they won less than 4 medals in recurve (mixed excluded): 1987 (they can at best get to 2 medals here) Last year they won all 5 golds in recurve ...

https://www.european-athletics.com/news/preview-rising-star-topic-targeting-a-unique-jumps-double-in-jerusalem https://www.european-athletics.com/news/preview-last-year-s-european-u18-stars-poised-for-u20-success-in-jerusalem https://www.european-athletics.com/news/growing-in-speed-and-confidence-werro-plots-a-successful-sign-off-to-her-u20-career-in-jerusalem https://www.european-athletics.com/news/dutch-middle-distance-prodigy-laros-sights-sets-on-breaking-records-and-taking-on-ingebrigtsen

Women's keirin has too many rounds. It should be prelims - semifinal - final (no repechage).

1) Last year Germany was faster in the bronze medal match than they were in the 2nd round, so what you said is evidently nonsense. 2) Germany was 1.4 seconds behind the fastest team in the 2nd round last year, this year they were only 1.1 seconds behind the fastest team in the 2nd round -> Clear improvement. 3) In my opinion you can only behave in a condescending way (which doesn't mean that you should) if you are actually in the right. Behaving that way while being in the wrong just makes you look foolish.

Ok, obviously I'll need to make my point even clearer ... Germany was closer to the top teams (Netherlands/Australia) than last year and obviously times from the finals don't count. Germany only had 2 rides, so obviously it wouldn't make sense to use times from rounds were Germany didn't even compete. You might say that maybe France didn't give their best in the 2nd round and that their time therefore didn't reflect their true strength, but obviously they would have had zero incentive to do so (since a better time in the 2nd round would have given them a chance to ride for gold, so it would make no sense to assume that they didn't given their best in the 2nd round). Not sure why you felt the need to use a completely different definition of "top teams" just to keep the discussion going ... Whatever the reason was for France not making it into the bronze final last year doesn't matter for this discussion and of course neither of us knows what time they could/would/should have gone. Germany is closer to the top teams time wise than last year, although their ranking this year doesn't reflect it.

1) The gap between France and Germany isn't remotely big enough for you to act as if France beating Germany was/would have been a no-brainer. 2) I said that the gap between Germany and the top teams got smaller, although they placed lower. Their time wasn't really relevant, only the gap to the top teams.

Not sure why you (or anyone else) would/should have expected that ... You didn't make the top 3 at the last olympics or the last 2 world championships. I guess the problem wasn't that they underperformed, but that they didn't met your unreasonably high expectations. The solution should probably be that you have more realistic expectations in the future (if you don't want to keep getting disappointed). Of course this doesn't mean that Italy shouldn't strive to do better. The problem isn't that they underperformed, but that they just aren't any better right now.

Dörnbach 7th in qualification, ahead of Richardson and Yakovlev, absolutely didn't think that i would ever be able to write this. Last year he was only 23th in qualification, huge improvement. Last time a german guy placed higher in qualification was in 2017 (when Niederlag placed 2nd). Maybe Dörnbach has a chance at sneaking into the quarterfinal. Lavreysen obviously in a league of his own. The gap between Lavreysen and the 2nd fastest guy (Rudyk) was bigger than the gap between the 2nd fastest guy and the 7th fastest guy.

Not sure why you keep acting as if France is anything special in team sprint. The Netherlands and Australia are in their own class and then there is a bunch of nations (mainly France, GB, Germany) competing for bronze. GB is the favorite for bronze at the moment. Germany was 0.1 seconds behind the 3rd fastest team tonight.

In men's team sprint Germany is closer to the top teams (time-wise), but placed worse than last year. In the end i don't really see the men winning any medal next year.

Wanted to ask the same. We could see some really great performances: Possible U20 world records: Men's long jump (Furlani) Men's javelin throw (Herczeg) Women's javelin throw (Vilagos) Women's heptathlon (Koscak) Possible U20 european records (apart from those mentioned above): Men's 800 m (Laros) Women's 4 x 100 m (GB) Possible championship records (apart from those mentioned above): Men's 400 m (Szwed) Men's 1500 m (Laros) Men's 5000 m (Laros) Men's 110 m hurdles (Diessl) Men's 400 m hurdles (Kostic) Men's 3000 m SC (Del Barrio) Men's pole vault (Imsand) Women's 100 m (Wedderburn-Goodison) Women's 400 m (Manuel) Women's 800 m (Werro/Ives) Women's 3000 m (Caune) Women's 5000 m (Caune) Women's 100 m hurdles (Koscak) Women's 400 m hurdles (Mashanienkova/Uta/Granat) Women's high jump (Topic/Maes) The 5 most interesting (in my opinion) talents on the men's side: Laros (800/1500/5000 m) Herczeg (Javelin throw) Furlani (Long jump) Gräber (Decathlon) Brudin (Discus throw) The 5 most interesting (in my opinion) talents on the women's side: Koscak (Heptathlon/100 m hurdles) Vilagos (Javelin throw) Topic (High/Long jump) Caune (3000/5000 m) Werro (800 m) I am sure that Serbia never had such a strong team at any level, they could finish top 3 in the medal table.