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"Has he blown up a little bit, Bart?" "Looks like vd Poel is dropping down A BIT."

Nah, they were already drooling over him when he was 20th. "Oh, he is Dutch MTB champion. Oh, he is Dutch cyclo-cross champion, OH OH! And road champion."

Grass is green, water is wet, Red Bull commentators are obsessed with vd Poel.

Schurter has been spamming a lot of pictures of his new bike on Instagram these last few days, so it must be something special.

They'll both be classified with -1LAP; so Mourao can say it's a tie.

Sorry, I meant Langvad.

Lights going out for Courtney.

Neff is turning into a WTA-esque choker.

I wouldn't mind having 18 equestrian events at the Olympics. All these non-Olympic events are much more developed than some of the events that are being forced into Olympics these days...

Ladislav Majdlen in men's vaulting at Aachen 2006.

We will have 37 athletes. Much more than I expected. Our sports are athletics, beach handball (both teams), judo, rowing, sailing, shooting, sport climbing, swimming, table tennis, weightlifting.

@heywoodu

All-time medal table: I wonder if we could have a first time medalist in Tryon. I guess these nations should have a chance: Bahrain - endurance Colombia - jumping, vaulting Egypt - jumping Israel - jumping Japan - eventing, para-dressage Latvia - para-dressage Mexico - jumping Oman - endurance Uruguay - endurance Some of these are very much outsiders, but hopefully at least one of them willl make it!

[hide] Event & Date Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Individual Endurance Day 1 September 12th, 2018 Mohamed Aida Any Athlete from Argentina Any Athlete from Bahrain x Any Athlete from France Any Athlete from Italy Any Athlete from the Netherlands Saleh Al-Balushi Any Athlete from Qatar Sulaiman Mohammed Almhaimidy Mario Hoffmann Jaume Punti Dachs Any Other Athlete from Spain x Jahan Perlyasamy Barbara Lisarrague Hamdan bin Mohd Al-Maktoum Any Other Athlete from UAE x Isha Judd Any Other Athlete Team Endurance Day 1 September 12th, 2018 Argentina Australia Bahrain France x Germany Italy Netherlands Oman Qatar Saudi Arabia Spain x Switzerland United Arab Emirates x United States Uruguay Any Other Nation Team Reining Day 1 September 12th, 2018 Australia Austria Belgium x Brazil Canada France Germany x Italy Netherlands United States x Any Other Nation Team Dressage Day 2 September 13th, 2018 Canada Denmark Germany x Great Britain x Netherlands Portugal Russia Spain Sweden United States x Any Other Nation Individual Special Dressage Day 3 September 14th, 2018 Daniel Bachmann Andersen Sönke Rothenberger x Dorothee Schneider Isabell Werth x Charlotte Dujardin Carl Hester Edward Gal Inessa Merkulova Therese Nilshagen Juliette Ramel Laura Graves x Kasey Perry-Glass Any Other Athlete Individual Reining Day 4 September 15th, 2018 Any Athlete from Australia Any Athlete from Austria Cira Baeck Bernard Fonck x Franco Bertolani Any Athlete from Canada Mathieu Buton Glen Arthur Estival Grischa Ludwig Gennaro Lendi Daniel Huss Jordan Larson x Cade McCutcheon x Any Other Athlete from the USA Any Other Athlete Individual Freestyle Dressage Day 5 September 16th, 2018 Daniel Bachmann Andersen Sönke Rothenberger x Dorothee Schneider Isabell Werth x Charlotte Dujardin Edward Gal Madeleine Witte-Vrees Severo Jurado Lopez Patrik Kittel Therese Nilshagen Laura Graves x Kasey Perry-Glass Any Other Athlete Individual Eventing Day 5 September 16th, 2018 Christopher Burton x Shane Rose Karin Donckers Selena O'Hanlon Any Athlete from France Ingrid Klimke Julia Krajewski Rosalind Canter x Kristina Cook Piggy French Any Athlete from Ireland Yoshiaki Oiwa Jonelle Price x Tim Price Sara Algotsson-Ostholt Phillip Dutton Marilyn Little Any Other Athlete Team Eventing Day 5 September 16th, 2018 Australia x Belgium Canada France Germany Great Britain x Ireland Italy New Zealand x Sweden United States Any Other Nation Individual Championship Grade V Para-Dressage Day 6 September 18th, 2018 Ciska Vermeulen Estelle Guillet Regine Mispelkamp Sophie Wells x Tomoko Nakamura x Frank Hosmar x Any Other Athlete Individual Championship Grade III Para-Dressage Day 7 September 19th, 2018 Emma Booth Barbara Minneci Lauren Barwick Tobias Thorning Joergensen Angelika Trabert Steffen Zeibig x Natasha Baker x Erin Orford x Rixt van der Horst Rebecca Hart Any Other Athlete Individual Championship Grade I Para-Dressage Day 7 September 19th, 2018 Eveline van Looveren Sergio Oliva Winona Hartvickson Line Munk Madsen Katja Karjalainen Elke Philipp x Sara Morganti Rihards Snikus x Laurentia Tan x Roxanne Trunnell Any Other Athlete Team Vaulting Day 7 September 19th, 2018 Austria x Canada Germany x Italy Switzerland x United States Pas-de-Deux Vaulting Day 8 September 20th, 2018 Jasmin Lindner/Lukas Wacha x Theresa Thiel/Stefan Csandl Any Athletes from Canada Theresa-S. Bresch/Torben Jacobs x Janika Derks/Johannes Kay Lorenzo Lupacchini/Silvia Stopazzini x Syra Schmid/Zoe Maruccio Selina Walder/Svenja Lehmann Any Athletes from the United States Any Other Athlete Team Para-Dressage Day 9 September 21st, 2018 Belgium Brazil Canada Denmark x Finland Germany Great Britain x Italy Netherlands x United States Any Other Nation Team Jumping Day 9 September 21st, 2018 Belgium Brazil Canada Egypt France Germany Great Britain Ireland x Italy Mexico Netherlands x Sweden Switzerland United States x Any Other Nation Individual Freestyle Grade IV Para-Dressage Day 10 September 22nd, 2018 Manon Claeys Rodolpho Riskalla Susanne Jensby Sunesen x Jose Letartre Sanne Voets x Louise Etzner-Jakobsson Angela Peavy x Kate Shoemaker Any Other Athlete Women's Individual Vaulting Day 10 September 22nd, 2018 Katharina Luschin x Lisa Wild Sheena Bendixen Kristina Boe x Janika Derks Sarah Kay Lucy Phillips Anna Cavallaro Silvia Stopazzini Nadja Büttiker x Ilona Hannich Elizabeth Osborn Any Other Athlete Men's Individual Vaulting Day 10 September 22nd, 2018 Dominik Eder Juan Martin Clavijo Thomas Brüsewitz x Jannis Drewell Jannik Heiland x Vincent Haennel Lambert Leclezio x Clement Taillez Balazs Bence Lorenzo Lupacchini Lukas Heppler Any Other Athlete Individual Freestyle Grade II Para-Dressage Day 10 September 22nd, 2018 Pepo Puch x Stinna Tange Kaastrup x Jaana Kivimäki Celine Gerny Lee Pearson x Maurilio Vaccaro Nicole den Dulk Any Other Athlete Squad Vaulting Day 10 September 22nd, 2018 Argentina Austria x Brazil Canada Germany x Italy Netherlands Switzerland x United States Any Other Nation Individual Driving Day 11 September 23rd, 2018 Boyd Exell x Glenn Geerts Edouard Simonet Benjamin Aillaud Mareike Harm Christoph Sandmann Georg von Stein Bram Chardon Ijsbrand Chardon x Koos de Ronde Jerome Voutaz Chester Weber x Misdee Wrigley-Miller Any Other Athlete Team Driving Day 11 September 23rd, 2018 Belgium x France Germany x Netherlands x United States Individual Jumping Day 11 September 23rd, 2018 Any Athlete from Belgium x Any Athlete from Brazil Eric Lamaze Carlos Lopez Kevin Staut Marcus Ehning Any Other Athlete from Germany Cian O'Connor Shane Sweetnam Danielle Goldstein Any Athlete from Italy Harrie Smolders Peder Fredricson x Henrik von Eckermann Steve Guerdat Devin Ryan McLain Ward x Any Other Athlete [/hide]

And it's gold for Kostevych, following a pistol malfunction in the 3rd shoot-off series.

What a final! Now going into 4th shoot-off for the gold!!

Quotas for in women's 25m pistol. Monika Karsch finishes 5th... Looks like she plans to continue her pre-Rio trend of having million near-misses qualificationwise.

Pejčić

Why are only 2/3 current contests featured on the home page?

Pitty we can't hear what the cyclists were saying.

Botswana hosted African Youth Games, making them infinently more experienced than Senegal.

Who is Thomas Bach? A personification of pop culture?

Funny thing is that they can still exchange a quota if there's nobody left with MQS in trap, so in theory you don't even need a MQS there.

Well... Good for them, but it is unfair IMO. Especially in a sport that was previously a model example of how one person can't bring more than one quota to his/her country. In fact, I don't think it's possible in any other sport for one person to earn more than one spot... Obviously, there are specific examples like swimming relays where one swimmer could help more than one relay. But in canoeing for example if you qualify in both K1 and K2 then your nation can still send only two different athletes and not three.