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Where do you get your "information" from? Telegram ... ?

"The French government and energy experts were quick to stress that the tensions will not have any immediate impact on France's needs for uranium as extraction is continuing and, should it stop, existing stocks could still cover approximately two years." "France is not dependent on any one site, company or country to ensure the security of supply for its power plants.” https://www.politico.eu/article/niger-coup-spark-concerns-france-uranium-dependency/ “If the situation in Niger gets worse, this would certainly complicate the adoption of sanctions on Russian uranium in the short term.” "But given the enduring presence of French companies in Burkina Faso and Mali, no matter the anti-Paris disposition of the juntas there, there may be little change to the current status quo." "After the 1974 coup, which overthrew the country’s first post-colonial government, Grégoire said that “negotiations took place because the French had imposed contracts that were financially detrimental to the Nigeriens, but there was never any question of kicking them out." https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/08/01/uranium-niger-france-coup/ "Niger, which has Africa's highest-grade uranium ores, produced 2,020 metric tons of uranium in 2022, about 5% of world mining output, according to the WNA. This was down from 2,991 tons in 2020." "Niger has one major mining operation in the north operated by France's state-owned Orano, another major mine which closed in 2021, with one under development." "French nuclear power plants source less than 10% of their uranium from Niger." https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/uranium-mines-niger-worlds-7th-biggest-producer-2023-07-28/ "France is also the world's largest net exporter of nuclear energy, bringing in more than €3 billion per year." "Niger has maintained a market share of between 4 and 6 percent of the global uranium trade for the last decade." "Niger supplied France with around 18 percent of its uranium between 2005 and 2020." "France’s largest suppliers, Kazakhstan and Australia, provided 20 and 19 percent, respectively." "The EU’s nuclear agency Euratom – which gets one-quarter of its uranium from Niger – has also said it is not worried about the coup affecting nuclear power production. If imports from Niger are being cut, there are no immediate risks to the security of nuclear power production in the short term." "The European Commission said the 27-nation bloc had sufficient inventories of uranium to mitigate any short-term supply risks." "Another factor that will help mitigate any fluctuations are the relatively low fuel cycle costs (including for uranium, uranium enrichment, conversion and fuel fabrication) of generating nuclear power. The NEA estimates uranium to count for only about 6 percent of the cost of nuclear energy – a figure overshadowed by the 59 percent in investment costs and 25 percent in operation and maintenance costs." "The possible suspension of uranium supplies to France also raises questions about whether Niger could effectively replace French demand without seeing a sharp economic decline itself – 33 percent of Nigerien exports go to France, almost all of which are radioactive fuel." https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20230801-does-the-coup-in-niger-threaten-nuclear-power-plants-in-france

Depressing results for Germany. Only the female sprinters can compete for medals. The men have been shit for almost a decade now, the gap doesn't get any smaller. Right now i wouldn't even bet on Germany winning gold in women's team sprint in Paris, GB will probably have another big time drop next year. Would be interesting to know if men and women are using the same bike (in different sizes)?

You can also become a billionaire when your parents are poor, doesn't mean that you have the same chances as someone born rich ... I guess in that sense it is a perfect reflection of society. Personally i would like to watch COMPETITIONS where you can't buy your way to success, but i guess that will never happen. If smaller nations can't afford the same material, then everyone should only be allowed to use material that anyone can afford.

Revenge for eliminating Germany in women's football world cup.

3/16 spots for Europe (and only if you include Turkey), but 5/16 spots for the Americas is pretty surprising. Japan with as many spots as all of Europe. Spain/Germany/Italy/GB/France all without a single spot. I think before the start of the competitions noone would have predicted that the Czech Republic/Chile would have more spots than Spain/Germany/Italy/GB/France combined. Also the 4 nations that reached the women's team semifinal combine for only 1 athlete in the round of last 8.

GB apparently with their miracle bikes again. Not sure if you can even call it a sport when the material is that important. It is the same in other "sports" (luge, bob, canoeing, cross-country skiing). Hard to get excited for "sports" like that. I guess the big countries will never allow everyone to have the same material.

Don't see how, would probably need a fluke like in 2022. They have absolutely no concept (coach's fault) and they don't have the right mentality/aren't "independent" (problem of the system/youth academies). They (it is the same with the men) always look like "passengers", they just let it happen and are completely unable to adapt/snap out of it. No accountability.

Interesting comparisons: Coach of the german women's volleyball team when they qualified for the women's nations league final for the first time: Vital Heynen Coach of the german men's volleyball team when they last were relevant at world stage (Bronze at 2014 worlds, only ever medal for Germany): Vital Heynen Coach of the german men's handball team when they last won a medal at world stage (Bronze at the 2016 olympics): Dagur Sigurdsson Coach of the women's basketball team when they reached their best result in 25 years (6th at this year's european championships): Lisa Thomaidis

If people aren't fired for not performing, then you will never be able to establish the right culture.

Perfect reflection of the state of german sport/society. The problems are the same everywhere. The people that are responsible won't allow anything to change because they would have to give up power/money. Those "bureaucrats" are doing an amazing job of destroying everything from the inside.

Top 8: Men: / / / / / // Women: 3 x /2 x / // Not very encouraging results from a european perspective ...

Nations with at least one athlete in the round of last 16: Men: : 2 /////////////: 1 Women: : 3 : 2 //////////: 1 , , , , , , and are the only countries that are still represented in both competitions. Somewhat surprising that and aren't included. Really impressive diversity (especially on the men's side). In total 20 countries still have at least one athlete in competition.

Argentina is world champion on the men's side and irrelevant on the women's side. Belgium is also nowhere to be seen (and of course eastern european and most african countries as well).

I know that this won't happen, but: The women should play on a smaller field and with smaller goals. People don't seem to have a problem with different "standards" in other sports (for example 100/110 m hurdles in athletics with different heights).

Very good to hear. Very fair decision.

1) Is there any livestream? 2) Will the mixed recurve team final take place today?

Pretty good first day for Germany. Obviously the men's team was disappointing. Does anyone know the score of their lost match against the US? (The "live" scoring didn't really help) I think that the women's team (sadly) will finish 4th. Mexico looks like the favorite for gold and the other two teams also scored clearly higher in the quarterfinal.

Encouraging 3rd place for Germany even without 3 of their biggest talents (Bonga, Kalu, Duru). First ever medal for Germany at U18 level. Kharchenkov, Kayil and to some degree Grünloh looked promising. Kharchenkov and Kayil (and Anderson) are young enough to come back next year.

1) Short course times aren't very indicative, mainly because the top guys don't compete or aren't in top shape. Wellbrock swam 14:06 when he was 14:36 long course. Hafanoui swam 14:10, which translates to 14:40 at best -> 9 seconds slower than he went this week. When Wellbrock was as old as Hafanoui was last year, he went 14:36. Now, 5 years later, he improved by 2 seconds. Hafanoui on the other hand improved his PB by 45 seconds this year. Wellbrock improved his PB by 19 seconds when he was younger than Hafnaoui, while Hafnoui improved his PB by 45 seconds while being older. Saying that their progression is remotely comparable is completely absurd. 2) Really wonder how often he got tested after being completely irrelevant last year. Would love to see the number of his tests vs. the number of Wellbrock's tests. Also would like to know who is responsible for him. Hard to imagine tunisian officials regularly flying around the world just to test him. Maybe he wasn't faster because he wasn't rested or maybe he wasn't faster because he couldn't go faster. Anyways you have to admire his "confidence", he doesn't ever need to go fast before worlds/olympics to test his training, somehow he just knows that it will work out and that he will always drop massive amounts of time. You almost have to envy him ... 3) How about you stop throwing around the word "unrested"? If Short would have gone 3:42 unrested, he would have gone at least 3:38 at worlds. If you go 3:42 unrested you don't drop less than two seconds when fully rested. His 3:42 in-season is still infinitely more impressive than anything Hafnaoui ever did in-season. I still haven't heard why exactly Märtens and Wellbrock, who were both already qualified after last year's worlds, had to go fast in-season, but Hafanoui and Short (who both weren't qualified) didn't. The mental gymnastics you need to justify this point of view is astonishing. Edit: I just calculated by how much Hafanoui improved his PB in the 400/800/1500 free vs. by how much everyone else combined (all finalists in the 400/800/1500 free) improved their PB: Overall improvement by Hafanoui: 39.90 seconds (3 races) Overall improvement by everyone else: 41.04 seconds (21 races)

Oh no ... results like that show that IAAF was probably right to introduce a ranking system. Peak Mihambo probably would have jumped 8 m in that competition ...

1) No, i don't ignore it. I explicitely wrote "never done anything in 800/1500 free long course". I also don't ignore that his short course time was still clearly slower than Wellbrock's, who has a long course PB of 14:34. Hafanoui's short course PB doesn't in any way translate to 14:31 long course. 2) If i remember correctly he never swam any in-season time that would final at worlds. When you only need to swim/run fast once a season, then it is much easier to not fail any tests. He can basically hide all-year long and just appear at worlds. Märtens and Wellbrock could have done the same (since they were already qualified), but they chose not to do it. 3) Also interesting that you say that Short (and Finke) didn't need to peak until worlds. So Short just expected to qualify in the 400 free at 80 % against guys like Winnington? Doesn't seem plausible to me. Wellbrock and Märtens had far less reason than Finke and Short to swim fast in-season, but they still did it. 4) Mellouli's doping history, the fact that Hafanoui always comes out of nowhere for worlds/olympics and the fact that he didn't do anything in the 800/1500 free (long course) before this week and then just went clearly faster than guys like Wellbrock or Paltrinieri ever did (after years of competing at the highest level) leads me to be 100 % convinced that he is a cheater. Hopefully one day things will be sorted out.

Also interesting: Olympic events without an australian finalist: 6 Olympic events without an american finalist: 1 (Smith missed the men's 400 free final by 0.34 seconds) Olympic events with 2 australian finalists: 9 Olympic events with 2 american finalists: 19

Not very encouraging that only one european nation finished top 6. Quite surprising that the Netherlands was so close to Italy and that Japan finished ahead of France. Japan for sure has the worst points to medals ratio. More points than France, but 1/3 of the medals of Tunisia ...

Maybe a 50/100/200/400/800/1500 free/100/200 breast/back/fly/200/400 IM mixed medley relay ... I would give the honor of finishing 16th to New Zealand, since they won a medal (women's 400 free), unlike Spain.