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he looked smaller than 170cm to me . so he is not that short after all ( still short comparing to those Russians ) it seems he could have a successful career in weightlifting. but I'm glad he picked a different sport Congrats

oh well. look who is leading in the bronze medal match. (and they just scored another one)

well that was a very quality final . each of those 3 teams could end up on top of the podium but at the end of day only one of them could win the gold. how tall is Han Cong ? he is VERY strong for someone at his size.

so it's technically a knockout competition without repechage wrestling tried that format from 2000 to 2004. that's terrible. I like the round robin part though (athletes travel a long distance for more than just 1 match) but then with only 1 karateka advancing it's worse than the old format . this is interesting. wrestling is now using the (old) karate format. and Karate wants to use the old wrestling format. that's amazing. isn't it ?

You rarely can see any sign of nerves on curlers. but I think Edin was pretty nervous before those last 2 shots on the 10th end. he had to be perfect to make it to the extra end and he was indeed perfect

Thanks, that's interesting, I didn't know basketball in popular there, but I guess I should know, basketball is a popular sport worldwide. I think it's always good to host sport events. at very least it helps the sport in the country to develop and improve we don't know what will happen in July. but I hope it will be with spectators.

FIBA Asia Cup draw A) B) C) D) kind of a boring group for Iran, we will play SYR and KAZ next week during the WC qualifiers. it seems we have to play Syria every single tournament but based on the knockout round bracket we HAVE to beat Japan to finish 1st in the group and avoid Australia in the QF. this is probably the last tournament for some of our old guys. we had this generation since 2007 and they did great by winning 5 medals already (0 medals before 2007 !) but this is their last hurrah , hopefully they win a bronze at least. this is also important for host Indonesia, they have to finish in top 8 to qualify for the 2023 World Cup!! that's fiba's requirement to give them the host quota. @Griff88 is it a sure thing that Indonesia doesn't cancel the tournament in the last minute ? is this sport even popular there ? (I mean the NT level. everybody watches the NBA)

hopefully you get the bronze.

not weird than people in certain places want her dead and buried already in an ongoing investigation. what about innocent until proven guilty? or that phrase applies only when we like it. (and that certainly doesn't apply to a Russian, because they are animals, right? that's how certain western media see people in other countries) if one day she finds guilty. then that's the time to punish the adults who are responsible for this. no matter what a 15 years old can never be responsible herself for such a thing.

that was really sad. I'm not going to write more about this because it won't be nice at all. I learned more about how things works in some western media after this story (not that I didn't know but that was a new low) mission accomplished they managed to destroy that 15 years old criminal monster. I hope she comes back, I wish she comes back stronger but I doubt it. this will be really hard for her. she probably needs a very long break to recover (if she ever does) I genuinely wish her the best of luck for the rest of her life and her career (if there is a career left)

thanks guys well you always here something new. that's one of the dumbest things ever. is it really hard for FIS officials to set the courses themselves and make it more fair ?

I wanted to ask a question about that long time ago. I heard that a lot from the Eurosport commentators. it was just hard to believe. how come such a thing happens. at first I thought maybe that's part of the host nation thing. but apparently that's not the case @phelps how come they decide who set the course ? randomly, is there a draw or something ? or whoever smiles better gets that ?

I think the Russian went for a safe jump after watching the others failing . the degree of difficulty of his jump was much lower comparing to the rest. (while I think his initial jump was 5, but he changed it to something like 4.5)

Yeah

I wonder what @hckošice is doing now before the penalties

will they award the Olympic diplomas here in Beijing ? or that should wait too like the medals ? I mean the clean Alysa Liu has a chance to win a diploma , her Olympic moment shouldn't be ruined or her daddy will be upset. we don't want that, do we ?

Thanks. I know a great deal of nothing about Ice hockey I mean yeah I know the basic, as i know that about every other sport but I don't think I ever watched a full 60 minutes hockey match. just not my taste but recently I started to learn more and understand the sport better good luck tomorrow

how many skaters boycotted the competition so far ? that should be a huge number based on speculation here and some other online places. I mean some American skater's dad was upset, that was a big deal.

Congrats any chance you can beat the USA ? I might end up watching that QF match also congrats for Vlhova's gold medal (yeah I know it's late but still)

our local broadcaster is more interested in Ski Jumping. I have no idea why fortunately I have access to some other TV channels and can watch whatever I want

not for Tsvetkov. after two very close 4th place finishes at least he can leave Beijing with something

can't wait to see who is the first user saying that China cheated in another judging sport for the gold

You always can watch some Curling instead

I got that my question was, why the rules are different here for monobob events ? any special reason?

and why is that ? Germans can't afford making their owns monobobs ?