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Did I say there will be 15 finishers in the decathlon? I meant 11...

Portugal is stealing athletes left and right. Both Dongmo and Inchude represented their nations up the Olympic level. Who said colonialism is dead?

No medal for Bednarek and Fahnbulleh.

Just a water bottle getting thrown instead of a javelin.

Mitchell throwing a tantrum.

Decathlon became kind of sad ever since they reduced the quota from 32 to just 24. Now having like 15 finishers will become the standard.

Presumably Italy takes the relay exchanges *very* seriously.

Yellow card to the audience for disturbing the start?

I guess Kaul is not a serious athlete anymore?

Vjerovali ili ne, nastupamo na Svjetskom prvenstvu u modernom petoboju. I ne samo nastupamo, nego se Krisztian Klis izgleda plasirao u polufinale (11. mjesto u svojoj skupini). Izgledno je da je prešao iz Mađarske.

Wait... We have an athlete? A rather good one who qualified for the semifinal? Based on name, one would probably be right in assuming he's a Hungarian reject, but hey we'll gladly take him.

Which is ridiculous because there is no other event in sport where athletes choosing not to compete is deemed "natural" and "full-faith effort". What would be so unnatural about skeet shooters wanting to stop the shoot-off for gold after 0, 2, 15, 150 additional targets with no resolve?

Regarding the shared golds, everyone tied for gold can just decide together to stop jumping and then what...? 3, 5, 9, 12 shared gold medals become the norm? Jump-off or DQ. This is senior WCh not kindergarten. Athletes should aim to be the best.

Williams surely must have played netball being from Barbados and all.

Yeah, that ain't happening, not by a long shot.

Caune running like she owns the place.

I like that there are no ceremonies stopping the program. IMO, medal ceremonies should only exist at the Olympics and Paralympics (and other rare events like the FIFA World Cup and such). Medal ceremonies come from when sports were held exceptionally. Now everything in sports is over-saturated and the medal ceremonies are simply a waste of good time (in large majority of cases). Just hand out the medals spontaneously right at the conclusion of the event (not the tin ones, the real ones). No need for an anthem. And definitely no need to play Gaudemaus 500 times at the Universiade.

Gillingham just said: "British Berlin Islands"

False start in the 400 m hurdles... wow.

Is athlete running with a massive tumor on her neck?

Kriszan was, funnily enough, barely even shown on live tv for the whole two days. Would have been so random if she snatched that bronze. Overall the broadcast quality has been sub par to say the least. I'm so tired off all those stadium from the outside shots and even more of those warm-up/transport/calling room shots (which only ever show runners, because of course).

And of course no DQ as expected.

False start for GB... Green card coming up.

400 m runners are dropping like flies.