opruh

2 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

Philippines and Thailand should have the best teams by far. If memory serves, both played pretty well at the Asian Winter Games.

I just found out that we are the champions last sea games Yup i'll definitely see this live.

1 minute ago, Olympian1010 said:

I’m sure that it would be fun. I’ve never been to one personally, but I know people love to go to them. I’d totally recommend short track if it’s on the program too.

Ice hockey is not really popular here so I guess it will be easier to get tickets for me.  I believe there's no short track for this games but I will definitely watch live if there's one here, I like short track more than figure skating.

2 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Understandable. Well if you don't need it, why bother (here it's extremely common to do all your little things - going to the supermarket/shops/friends etc - by bike), although it is really nice to go on a bike ride for a few hours in a quiet place and just relax  

Well i'm seeing more and more cyclists here with some bike lanes sprouting up across the country. I might try learning again, but not this year. 

1 minute ago, heywoodu said:

 

Never tried? And no, it's no offense, but as someone coming from a country where literally every child learns it before age 5 or something I'm always surprised to read when someone doesn't know how (although obviously it's easy to understand when one didn't learn it)  

Tried with training wheels, I had a race with my brother when I was a kid and had a bad fall (even with training wheels lol). Tried learning again from my friends when I was a teenager but I always get too nervous, i guess i'm scared of having another fall lol.

Team China had an awful performance in the recently concluded Japan open. I fear for their medal chances in next year's olympics.

As someone who doesnt know how to ride a bicycle without training wheels, I envy these guys, kudos to all the participants and winners. 

20 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

Based on what I’ve seen (as in sports I’ve attended) Weightlifting is a must do in person (though I had a seat right next to the head of the IWF at the 2017 World Championships, so I may be biased), Track Cycling is also a must see (it looks great on TV, but nothing compares to seeing it in person), the modern pentathlon is cool because you can see so much, but viewing experiences can be mixed, Athletics is meh (At sat right across from the pole vault at the US champs and that was an awesome experience), Equestrian was fun for someone who’d never had the chance to see it in person before, Fencing is really hard to watch in person, Rugby Sevens will always be entertaining (Even If Singapore dominates the tournament), Sailing is cool if you can get close (you could watch of a pier at the 2017 Special Olympic World Games the boats came right in front), I get the opinion Speaktakraw would be cool, Skateboarding would be fun, and I have absolutely zero clue about underwater hockey (but I would 100% have a ticket to it)

Weightlifting and taekwondo will be hosted in the same venue, i kinda like weightlifting plus we have an olympic medallist from weightlifting so it looks like i will have to watch that too live.  I'm not interested in taekwondo though lol. What do you think about ice hockey games, i really enjoy watching highlights of those, not sure how it will be live. 

57 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

@opruh will you attend the games? I’ve always enjoyed watching the SEA Games. Unfortunately, this year they fall during my first semester university finals. 52 sports! I’d love to watch, so hopefully I can work my magic and find some replays.

Not much details about tickets yet but I'm looking to getting the ones for gymnastics and tennis for now, venues for both is about twenty to thirty minutes drive from my home. Tickets will probably be cheap except for basketball and volleyball.

I haven't watch recent films like Avengers Endgame, The Lion King and the latest spiderman yet but at least I'm excited about Cats later this year.

Also, our Aquatics Center which is still under construction. 

It's not that big but I really like it. 

After a very long time, Philippines will finally have a new stadium to host the 2019 SEA Games. Capacity is only 20,000 which is really small compared to that of our neighbors but at least our government finally built a decent one.

^ Both her A and B sample tested positive for Ligandrol, should be a lengthy ban for the australian. Sad that there's another convicted doper added in this thread. 

35 minutes ago, thiago_simoes said:

I mean he's an a**hole. Plain and simple. He pushed a female Brazilian swimmer during practice once, confronted a fellow swimmer on the podium, destroyed possible evidence against him... 

And China topped the medal table thanks to diving, not swimming. They did not even finish in the top 3 in swimming events, even if you count open water swimming (US, Australia and Hungary were the top 3). My bias can be disgusting all you want it to be, and so is your poor judgement and senseless defense of a convicted doper. 

He's an asshole so let's called him guilty of doping again when in fact fina ruled out against it...

 But but wada has a case against him which has no result yet but oh wait let's attack him because he's an asshole. 

(And pushing a brazilian swimmer, lol at these gossip headlines)

3) Yep your bias is way more disgusting since your silent when it comes to the far worse doping record of america and other western countries.

For a forum with an overwhelming members from western countries, I'm glad to be a very loud minority here.

2 hours ago, thiago_simoes said:

 

When you are given a second, third, fourth, fifth chance, and you've proven you are an a**hole, and your actions can be seen as a desperate attempt to hide cheating, there's no way this person can redeem himself. Even Efimova is a lot more humble when faced with criticism.

 

Everybody is free to choose who to admire, of course, so more power to you.

Sun doped Once in 2014 and got punished for it. What's the second, third, fourth, fifth chance you're talking about, you mean like that american athlete who thinks his bolt's biggest rival just because he doped three fucking times. You're biased is disgusting. I'm glad China topped the medal table once again, now you have a new reason to be bitter and sourgrape for another year. 

2 hours ago, thiago_simoes said:

They have a lot more good and successful examples too. Besides, when you usually have the best athletes in a given sport, it's expected that somehow cheaters will try hard to join the team as well so they can keep up. China is not the best in swimming, and Russia tries to be the best in everything but they mostly fall flat on their faces when competing against clean American swimmers. It's not hard to figure out, really.

 

Woah your excuses for the american athletes that doped are amazing. "Let's ignore the fact that more american athletes have their olympic medals stripped off because of doping but focus on their clean athletes, then proceed to label a nation with a much cleaner record as a cheat." Impressive, you're a good and well behaved fanboy.

14 minutes ago, thiago_simoes said:

 

We've seen many cases of doping from China and Russia, so they are the ones responsible for tarnishing their own images. 

Funny because from records, america has far more cases, i guess they are immune to tarnishing their own images to you.

13 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

She was very impressive already in Budapest as 15 year old.

Ye was impressive too when she won olympic medals at the same age but western media reacted in a very unprofessional and slanderous manner. 

Time to use my favorite emoji

Badminton

Volleyball, Diving

Gymnastics, Basketball, Athletics, Wrestling

Etc.

"I did not take this substance knowingly. Swimming has been my passion since I was 10-years-old and I would never intentionally take a banned substance that would disrespect my sport or jeopardise my career," the post said.

- australian swimmer Shayna Jack

I truly hope she's ok, I cant imagine all the insults and protest coming her way from her own teammate mack horton. 

#imwithshaynajack

Well done Chupkov, you made mother Russia proud! 

Keep it going Russia. 

China have a good chance of winning the XD gold only lol. Their MS and MD is so weak right now. They might have a chance in WS and WD (but Japan dominates here).

China (ever since I discovered their glorious badminton team 10+ years ago)

Russia (forgot when I started cheering for them

Serbia (or maybe just Novak and the other Serbian tennis players, i'm not sure)