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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.

I don't agree about throwing out the 400 free, also pretty absurd take to have 2 butterfly/IM events and only 3 individual freestyle events, despite the freestyle being far more competitive and popular, but for a hungarian this take isn't too surprising. My program for individual events would be: 100/200/400/1500 free, 100/200 back/fly/breast, 200/400 IM Not sure what to do with the relays, i think i would have the 4x100 free relays and a mixed medley relay. The longer the distance, the bigger the gaps and therefore the less interesting the relays. The 4x200 free relays usually have 4 medals contenders at best. It is pretty much the same with the 4x400 m relays in athletics.

I think there is far less diversity than in athletics or even taekwondo, so there is no reasonable explanation (if you don't consider the US buying as many medal events in their best sports a reasonable explanation) for swimming to have that many events. If you are the 2nd best american athlete in the 100 free and you are also decent in the 200 free, you are already pretty much guaranteed 4 medals (4x100 free, 4x200 free, medley relay, mixed medley relay). If you are equally good but were born in a smaller country, you win 0 medals (despite having the exact same abilities).

I wish Saunders wouldn't win a medal.

Yes, absolutely disgusting. Auffarth was expected to fail, but i never expected this from Jung. Best case scenario is one minor medal by Krajewski, very disappointing result.

Perfect olympics for Brazil in swimming. All their medal contenders (Fratus) delivered and then they also won a medal by a complete nobody (Schaffer). I think they won more medals on the men's side than Japan and as many medals as Japan and China combined ...

Obviously the main reason is the fact that the US forced morning finals on everyone else. Not easy to be at your best when you have to do it at 3 AM. I am sure that we will see a differet picture in 2024.

Lol is the correct reaction. Wellbrock/Paltrinieri/Romanchuk dominated men's distance freestyle for the whole olympiad and then this nobody comes around and makes them look like amateurs. He is probably dirty enough to glow in the dark.

Sadly another expected gold for Finke. This guy has one of the most absurd progressions i have ever seen. From complete nobody to dominating Wellbrock/Romanchuk/Paltrinieri, the athletes who dominated men's distance freestyle for years, within a year. If i ever hear another american crying about russian doping again, i will cause a massacre. The US is the dirtiest country of them all, yet their fans somehow find a way to be stupid enough to think that they are the victim.

Great start for my predictions. I only got 4/9 medalists right ... I guess we will see a lot of surprises in athletics. My predictions for tomorrow's events: Women's shot put: Gong, Adams, Saunders Men's high jump: Before the competition i had Ivanjuk, Nedasekau, Harrison, but now i think that almost anyone in the final has a realistic chance. Women's triple jump: Rojas and 2 out of Rickets/Peleteiro/Povea/Mamona, although a medal for Lafond of course would be amazing. Men's 100 m: No idea, but i would be very surprised if De Grasse (and to some degree Simbine) wouldn't medal. Italy might win a medal (something i didn't consider possible) tomorrow thanks to Randazzo/Jacobs. I never thought that Jacobs could go that fast on the biggest stage, very "remarkable" development by him this year. Italian athletics is on a big upswing, i think they will have multiple medal contenders in Paris and might be better than Germany for example.