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I am a bit disappointed/surprised that Stützle wasn’t drafted 2nd overall (especially because Marco Sturm is a coach for the Los Angeles Kings) and that Peterka wasn’t drafted in the first round. It would have been crazy for Germany to have more guys than the US/Sweden drafted in the first round. Between 2000 and 2017 Germany only had 2 first round picks (Goc was the 20th pick in 2001 and Draisaitl was the 3rd pick in 2014), but in the last 3 years Germany had 4 first round pick (two of them were top 6 picks). Overall a pretty good year for Germany when it comes to ice hockey ... Personally I would have picked Rossi ahead of Holtz, I also think that Askarov should have been picked earlier. Edit: Peterka was picked 34th by the Buffalo Sabres. Also there were 8! swedish players picked in the 2nd round, their depth is just crazy.

Yesterday the first Nobel prizes were awarded: Medicine: Harvey J. Alter (USA), Michael Houghton (UK) and Charles M. Rice (USA) for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus Physics: Roger (UK) for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity; Reinhard Genzel (Germany) and Andrea Ghez (USA) for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy Tomorrow at 11:45 CEST the prize for chemistry will be awarded, on Thursday at 13:00 CEST the prize for literature will be awarded, on Friday at 11:00 CEST the peace prize will be awarded and next Monday at 11:45 CEST the prize for economic sciences will be awarded. First edit (7 October): The prize in chemistry was awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier (France) and Jennifer A. Doudna (USA) „for the development of a method for genome editing“. I can only recommend to everyone to learn about CRISPR/Cas9 (there are a lot of good introductions on YouTube), since this is probably one of the most groundbreaking „discoveries“ during our lifetime with many practical applications (already). Some of the more famous authors who are favorites for the prize in literature (awarded tomorrow) are Haruki Murakami, Margaret Atwood, Ngugi Wa Thiong‘o, Don DeLillo and Cormac McCarthy. The committee has a history of ignoring „popular“ choices, so there might be a good chance for France (Maryse Condé) to win another prize. Toni Morrison in 1993 was the last black writer to win the prize. The last black african writer to win the prize was Wole Soyinka (Nigeria) in 1986. Second edit (11 October): The Nobel prize in literature was awarded to American poet Louise Glück „for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal“. Funnily enough „Glück“ is the german word for luck ... On friday the Nobel peace prize was awarded to the World Food Programme „for its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict“. Tomorrow the prize in economic sciences will be awarded. The following scientists are among the favorites: Nobuhiro Kiyotaki, Andrei Shleifer, David Card, Ross Levine, Richard Blundell, Joshua Angrist, Avinash Dixit, David Autor, Sanford J. Grossman, John Hardman Moore and Drew Fudenberg

50.99 in the women’s 400 for 17 year old Beatrice Masilingi from Namibia yesterday. Maybe Miller-Uibo has a new challenger?

Italy is doing a great job on the men’s side. I think they could win the Davis Cup in a couple of years with guys like Sinner or Musetti, although of course Canada, Russia and maybe the US will also have the potential to do it.

Really interesting to see that the 4 countries that host a slam have only 2 players in the 4th round and both are no-names born in 2000 (Gaston and Korda). You would think that the countries that host a slam should have a better talent development program. Also interesting to see that 3 guys born in 2000 or later made the 4th round, but Auger-Aliassime, Kuhn and Molleker aren’t among them.

Really nice to see a tiny guy like him do so well. Maybe Schwartzman and Gaston will become the new „big“ two.

I think there are more players like him, but they focus on the doubles (like he usually does too). Zverev vs. Murray at the Australian Open and Brown vs. Nadal at Wimbledon were some of the most entertaining matches in recent memory, so it certainly would be nice to have more unorthodox players. Sadly Monfils doesn’t do much anymore.

I am surprised to see that the junior competitions take place. I am really excited to see what Fruhvirtová can do here. From a german perspective I hope that Vecic and Bartone will do well.

Let’s hope that this is the only thing they have in common ... (hopefully he uses a different „training“ method)

I think they went back on their decision. The qualifying window reopened on 1 September, but only for „pre-identified, advertised and authorised races being staged on World Athletics certified courses, with in-competition drug testing on site“. https://worldathletics.org/news/press-releases/shoe-technology-rules-Tokyo-qualification-roa London should be good with Bekele vs. Kipchoge.

Will it will be ratified? I am very surprised that there was a doping test performed.

How did he let them down?

Why?

Maybe? I am not hurt by your take, since I don’t care about American politics or society. I am also not a leftist (or „rightist“), since I think that seeing the world as either black or white is way too simple and is also responsible for a lot of the current problems (especially in the US). From your comments I gather that you have chosen a side and aren’t open to looking at problems from a different direction, which is why I don’t think that this „discussion“ will lead anywhere.

What a horrible take ... I also very much doubt that the „average“ person with an IQ of 175 chooses to become a lawyer ...

I don’t understand the „hate“ towards Roglic. German commentators also thought that Roglic might help Van Aert, but I really don’t get why he should have done that. Congrats to Van Aert, Hirschi and Alaphilippe for an already great season. I think those 3 and a couple of other guys like Evenepoel or Kämna will give us a lot of exciting races in the next couple of years. I feel like Dumoulin can’t really be happy with his season so far, maybe he will do better in the remaining races. Overall the last 30 km or so were pretty entertaining, although I was pretty surprised that Roglic and Pogacar didnt do better.

So? Could you maybe quote where I was talking about women’s sport in general?

Who exactly said that? I think women’s (beach) volleyball, women’s athletics, women’s gymnastics (except for floor) or women’s swimming are interesting to watch (sometimes also women’s tennis).

I guess once Evenepoel reaches his peak a lot of men’s race will also look like that ... One guy just randomly destroying the field by multiple minutes.

Sagan style ... UCI should disqualify her and give the bronze to the other Dutch athlete ...

This is the first time in years that I watched a women’s race and now I understand why women’s cycling doesn’t get more tv time. This was even worse than watching women’s football, the depth of talent is really poor. With more than 40 km to go it was already clear who would win the medals ... I hope and expect the men’s race to be a lot more interesting/competitive.

Yeah, but none of them is remotely close to competing for a grand tour. It is much easier to just go for stage victories.

Bernal and Pogacar both won it in the year they turned 20, this Norwegian guy was already 22 when he won it ... I think the 2nd place for Aleotti (Born in 1999) and the 3rd place for Van Wilder (Born in 2000) were more impressive, not to mention that Pidcock and Evenepoel are much more likely to „challenge“ Pogacar anyways.

This might have been the best Diamond League Meeting of the year. Now there is one more African guy Ingebrigtsen has to worry about. The development of Ugandan runners recently has been very „impressive“.

Has anyone heard anything about Porte joining Ineos? I think they will come back really strong next year with Bernal, Carapaz, Yates and maybe Porte, but I am not sure who will be the leader. Also not sure if Bernal can beat Pogacar in the future. Maybe they should try to go with some young British guy like Hayter or Pidcock.