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It's like swimming, no boundaries for WRs.

No joy. But it wouldn't really matter, as GB would obliterate it in 2020.

Italy

You don't even notice when it leaves.

Canada What's the point in two riders pushing forward when it's 3rd rider that counts?

You are saying that most children play basketball indoors in their free time? No way Jose. Winter is too cold for such activities.

For some reason I was sure I saw him on the start list this morning... Later on I could watch only the start of men's qualification.

Well, still big thumbs up for eliminating Hindes.

Gold for Netherlands? They were slow in qualification.

Australians also got screwed. They almost ran over Belorussian who was still down on the track. No gun was fired.

Relegations left and right. China set WRs in both qualification and first round. Great Britain was also faster than Germany in qualification. First Germans got into final after GB's relegation, and then they won gold after China's relegation. In the final round they were also slower than Australians that won bronze medal match. So that was gold for Germany despite not having the fastest time in any of the rounds.

Oh, so Belarus doesn't get a re-run after falling in men's team sprint. Didn't know that rule is only for certain nations.

Great time for Vogel/Welte in women's team sprint. Unfortunately, the first thing that comes to my mind when I hear about these two is their London 2012 gold... That competition was quite pathetic.

Suppose it's high time for the Dutch to completely focus on some shady engineering.

That's absolutely nowhere for their Olympic standards.

Yup, they are going to be nowhere until Tokyo, when suddenly some technology will get them 80% of gold medals.

[hide] Event and Date Gold Medal Winner Silver Medal Winner Bronze Medal Winner Athletes Women's Team Sprint Day 1, April 12th, 2017 China Russia Germany Australia Canada China Colombia France Germany Netherlands Russia Spain Any Other Men's Team Sprint Day 1, April 12th, 2017 Great Britain Germany New Zealand Australia France Germany Great Britain Japan Netherlands New Zealand Poland Russia Any Other Women's Scratch Race Day 1, April 12th, 2017 Kirsten Wild Jolien D'Hoore Sarah Hammer Amy Cure Verena Eberhardt Jolien D'Hoore Stephanie Roorda Jarmila Machacova Elinor Barker Rachele Barbieri Kirsten Wild Evegeniya Romanyuta Sarah Hammer Any Other Women's Team Pursuit Day 2, April 13th, 2017 Great Britain United States Canada Australia Canada China France Germany Great Britain Italy New Zealand United States Any Other Men's Keirin Day 2, April 13th, 2017 Fabian Puerta Zapata Francois Pervis Sam Webster Matthew Glaetzer Fabian Puerta Zapata Tomas Babek Francois Pervis Joachim Eilers Callum Skinner Yuta Wakimoto Azizul Awang Matthijs Büchli Sam Webster Any Other Men's Team Pursuit Day 2, April 13th, 2017 Australia Great Britain New Zealand Australia Belgium Canada Denmark France Great Britain Italy New Zealand Russia Any Other Men's Scratch Race Day 2, April 13th, 2017 Someone from Spain Morgan Kneisky Cheung King Lok Morgan Kneisky Lucas Liss Cheung King Lok Felix English Adrian Teklinski Evgeny Kovalev Someone from Spain Someone from Switzerland Roman Gladush Zachary Kovalcik Any Other Women's Sprint Day 3, April 14th, 2017 Kristina Vogel Anastasiya Voynova Lee Wai Sze Stephanie Morton Zhong Tianshi Katy Marchant Kristina Vogel Miriam Welte Lee Wai Sze Simona Krupeckaite Natasha Hansen Anastasiya Voynova Tania Calvo Barbero Any Other Women's Omnium Day 3, April 14th, 2017 Sarah Hammer Jolien D'Hoore Kirsten Wild Amy Cure Jolien D'Hoore Lotte Kopecky Tatsiana Sharakova Luo Xiaoling Laurien Berthon Yumi Kajihara Kirsten Wild Anita Yvonne Stenberg Sarah Hammer Any Other Men's Indivudual Pursuit Day 3, April 14th, 2017 Andrew Tennant Callum Scotson Any Other Callum Scotson Mikhail Shemetau Jay Lamoureux Thomas Denis Kersten Thiele Andrew Tennant Filippo Ganna Artyom Zakharov Dion Beukeboom Sebastian Mora Any Other Men's Points Race Day 3, April 14th, 2017 Eloy Teruel Kenny de Ketele Any Other Sam Welsford Andreas Graf Raman Ramanau Kenny de Ketele Moreno de Pauw Benjamin Thomas Cheung King Lok Regan Gough Eloy Teruel Ian Holt Any Other Women's 500m Time Trial Day 4, April 15th, 2017 Kristina Vogel Lee Wai Sze Anastasiya Voynova Zhong Tianshi Martha Bayona Pineda Katy Marchant Kristina Vogel Miriam Welte Lee Wai Sze Laurine van Riessen Daria Shmeleva Anastasiya Voynova Tania Calvo Barbero Olena Starikova Any Other Men's Omnium Day 4, April 15th, 2017 Attilio Viviani Eloy Teruel Any Other Liu Hao Leung Chun Wing Attilio Viviani Artyom Zakharov Park Sang-Hoon Aaron Gate Dylan Kennett Eloy Teruel Gaël Suter Any Other Men's Sprint Day 4, April 15th, 2017 Someone from Russia Callum Skinner Fabian Puerta Zapata Matthew Glaetzer Fabian Puerta Zapata Quentin Lafargue Joachim Eilers Callum Skinner Yoshitaku Nagasako Azizul Awang Matthijs Büchli Sam Webster Someone from Russia Any Other Women's Madison Day 4, April 15th, 2017 Australia Great Britain Italy Australia France Great Britain Hong Kong Ireland Italy New Zealand Russia Ukraine Any Other Women's Individual Pursuit Day 4, April 15th, 2017 Jennifer Valente Katie Archibald Amy Cure Amy Cure Rebecca Wiasak Lotte Kopecky Annie Foreman-Mackey Elise Delzenne Katie Archibald Beatrice Bartelloni Jaime Nielsen Jennifer Valente Ruth Winder Any Other Women's Keirin Day 5, April 16th, 2017 Someone from Russia Lee Wai Sze Someone from China Someone from Australia Someone from China Martha Bayona Pineda Kristina Vogel Miriam Welte Lee Wai Sze Simona Krupeckaite Shanne Braspennincx Someone from Russia Lee Hyejin Lyubov Basova Any Other Women's Points Race Day 5, April 16th, 2017 Jasmin Duehring Elise Delzenne Any Other Lotte Kopecky Ina Savenka Jasmin Duehring Jarmila Machacova Elise Delzenne Someone from Great Britain Minami Uwano Anita Yvonne Stenberg Gulnaz Badykova Kimberly Geist Sarah Hammer Any Other Men's 1000m Time Trial Day 5, April 16th, 2017 Someone from France Denis Dmitriev Someone from New Zealand Matthew Glaetzer Tomas Babek Someone from France Joachim Eilers Callum Skinner Yoshitaku Nagasako Azizul Awang Someone from Netherlands Someone from New Zealand Krzysztof Maksel Denis Dmitriev Any Other Men's Madison Day 5, April 16th, 2017 Spain Belgium France Belgium Denmark Belgium Great Britain Ireland Italy New Zealand Poland Spain Any Other [/hide]

Exactly. Who cares about the conventions of professional level sports? "Normal" people play basketball/football/running on summer, hockey/skiing/ice skating on winter. Let's keep it at that. Luckily, this seems to be only some ridiculous blog or whatever.

That's an awful proposition. Medal tables would basically become meaningless, just like the names of Olympics (Winter and Summer)...

Never say never when Agenda 2020 is in question

Wasn't Philippe Gilbert doing something similar not long ago? And Tom Boonen too.

That would at least allow a lot more nations to experience ice hockey. However, competition system used at 2016 WYOG is unbelievably ridiculous. Qualification points were completely based on head to head results. You could literally have second best result in one event and still finish 9th there because you were randomly paired with the best athlete in round one. Suppose it was very hard to have fastest lap competition as a time trial.

Amazing Let's just hope he won't switch nationality...

But yeah, they are proposing some mixed team events that don't even exist at this point. It's like Universiade....

Or mixed sport mixed gender lol. For example, mixed team archery-boxing-canoeing.