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Why not, she probably doesn't even feel the 5000 m final. She probably also could have won the 800 m while she is at it.

Easily destroying the best in the world after already winning her 1500 heat this morning after a crash. Hassan deserves the gold for most obvious doper. Sometimes i wonder if athletes like her actually try to make their doping so obvious that even officials can't ignore it anymore.

32 year old Bonevacia running sub 45 for the first time in 6 years, nothing to see here (espcially in combination with the improvements of the other dutch 400 m runners).

Yes, "technique" ... is what made her improve by 3 m during the pandemic.

What do they think about Mu?

Jung has only himself to blame, very disappointing performance by him (dressage excluded). Auffarth completely fucked the team, but Jung still should have won individual gold.

Already wanted to write that it is quite funny that she wins gold after all the "hate" she got from you (basically calling her a security risk for the team). Too bad that Blum couldn't be here, otherwise german women could have won all individual golds.

1) His previous results couldn't really be taken serious, they were all at joke events where proper measurement was more than doubtful. 2) I said that this is sad because his competitors got injured, i don't want an olympic final to be decided like that. 3) I have absolutely no problem with him winning a medal, he was one of the top 3 athletes in recent years and i predicted a medal for him. I still wanted someone to win who doesn't have such an ugly style.

No politics at the olympics ...

If this WR will stand, then I would be really interested to know how Germany improved that much. Obviously the most likely explanation is doping, but I wonder how Germany could have such a superior doping program in cycling while being shit in swimming/athletics/rowing.

Not the worst, but completely ridiculous to allow the athletes to decide.

They will get it back anyways (or the US will break it) so it wouldn’t make sense to cry. No one seriously expected that the world record wouldn’t be broken here.

Confusing times by New Zealand and Australia. They are the countries least hit by COVID and it showed in other sports (rowing, swimming). If anything they should be faster than expected. Maybe they saved their best for later on.

I guess this is also the explanation for the poor performances in doping sports like athletics, swimming and rowing? Trust me, if Germany wanted to win tons of medals in those events, they easily could. The know-how is still there, but it is mainly used by other countries (for example GB in rowing).

Disappointing time for both German teams so far. Germany should be at least 10 seconds faster than France in team pursuit if they want to medal. In women’s team sprint I expected an easy gold, but China and Russia seem to be among the few countries that profited from the pandemic.

Very sad result in men’s long jump. 1) Tentoglou has an ugly style 2) His main competitors were injured

They seem to be much stronger than usual, not really surprising sadly.

Shocked by the result of the german women, i was almost sure that they would win. Recently they were almost always superior to Argentina. Very disappointing result and apparently it wasn't even close.

Is it a fact that only those two have been sub 10? Also it isn't as if dozens of asians have been sub 10 at serious competitions and China alone has 2 or 3 times as many white men as all of Europe.

Disgusting progression by Jacobs, sadly this has been coming for some time looking at the overall trend of italian athletics/swimming. I guess Italy got tired of only exporting their know-how to countries like Kenya/Ethiopia/Uganada/Turkey, so now they are back to their old ways.

First of all this isn't true for women and even for men it probably isn't, just because one asian guy had one fast time. Lemaitre and Tortu for example also have been sub 10.

I think for Australia the finals took place around 10 AM of their time, so not much of a problem. GB indeed dealt very well with it.

Currently there is noone who can win the 200 free and 1500 free and even historically this was very rare. Should we get rid of the long jump because Carl Lewis was able to win it and also the 100 m? I think winning the 200, 400 and 1500 free is about as difficult as winning the 100/200/400 m in athletics. The 800 free is unnecessary though. Freestyle is the most popular stroke = most competitve stroke (since there are far more people specializing in it), therefore it absolutely has to have clearly more events than the other strokes. The question is whether those should be individual or relay events and in my opinion it should be individual events, since those are usually more competitive than relays. Freestyle in my opinion should lose 3 events per gender (1 out of 50/100/200 free + 800 free + 4x200 free relay). In that case there would still be 5 freestlye events per gender, which is still 3 more than any other stroke has and in my opinion that would be appropriate for the popularity of freestyle compared to the other strokes.

Completely crazy that in swimming alone they almost won enough golds to finish top 10 in the medal table, again shows that there are clearly too many events. One sport shouldn't be enough to finish top 10 in the medal table, same is true for judo/wrestling/cross-country skiing/speed skating.

I doubt that anyone would pay Saunders to do that.