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I hear that luge announcer is still pronouncing all non-English names as if they were Germans. "Jakub Zimonak"

I wonder who was that 'Heywood'?

Emily Sweeney behind the mic.

Aaaand Korea wins of course. I just can't grow to like rugby sevens. First we have Samoa always being the odd duck out, and now Hong Kong too misses their only chance to have a team sport.

What a cheap mistake from Hong Kong now. I guess we go into the extra time.

I don't get what Hong Kong is doing. They got the first attack in the second half, and yet they immediatelly kicked the ball out.

Right. Hope Hong Kong wins this. And I guess Korea beating China in semis potentially prevented rugby version of vs water polo match?

And that is exactly the point. Idealists use religion as scapegoat, while violence is really caused by economic reasons, and as such goes back to the dawn of humanity... I mean, just take a look at casualties of this battle... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Suiyang

I wonder why people still talk about Crusades, but never about Cult of Reason and Reign of Terror? Same thing with inquisition vs lobotomies. People are what they are. Deal with it.

To be fair, IAAF has become a synonim for dirty federation in recent years. It's a nice facelift.

IAAF is no more! Now we have World Athletics. Can't wait to have Athletics World Athletics World Championships thread. https://www.worldathletics.org/

Welp, tomorrow can be both very encouraging and very disheartening for our team. I'm curious to see how they perform at the season opener.

Probably yes. He is also trying to be sneaky though. Given the specific situation, he can both underscore and overscore his targets, and thus make himself look clean - even if the outcome of such judging doesn't make sense. This may sound paranoid, but I'm quite sure about it. Yesterday 4/5 judges had Senhorini as the best Brazilian. And that made sense, since Senhorini performed a relatively clean test, while the other two had big errors for which they fully deserved low 60s... And Saleh? He put Senhorini way behind both Almeida and Oliva... But then again, I always felt like the Olympic qualifications bring the worst in the officials, in all kinds of sports. Much more so than Olympics themselves.

Ilyrii patriam nostam habitant.

I just knew it would happen as soon as that mistake occured.

Can this event still be called Davis Cup though?

Saleh is trying really hard. On tonight's underscoring menu he found Austria. https://results.hippodata.de/2019/1657/html/en/hippodata/resultlist_23.html

South Africa kept the women's quota?

Maybe. I just copied this from Wikipedia.

C/K And apparently I correctly predicted 13th place for them.

Geuke/Gamm's total meltdown from last season keeps going.

So luge announcer started talking about possible new nations who can reach the podium. I thought he was ridiculous since that's pretty much impossible in luge, but then of course Run 1 ended with Poland claiming the lead.

Hopefully run 2 gets cancelled so that C/K get their first win (instead of dropping to 13th by the end).

Brazilians will apparently ship five horses to Moscow for next week's CDI3*. Transporting horses from Western Europe to Moscow is pretty much a logistical nightmare. Usually they end up being on Belarussian border for like 12+ hours alone. That's why you very rarely see non-ex-Soviets competing there, but indeed these are exceptional circumstances for Team Brazil...

Day 4 Women's 10 m air pistol 1. Olfa Charni 2. Radwa Abdel Latif 3. Meskat Aly Women's 10 m air pistol team 1. Tunisia 2. Egypt 3. Algeria Mixed 10 m air rifle team 1. Egypt 2 2. Egypt 1 3. South Africa