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Sadly this isn't something new. There has been a slump for some time now. Tokyo and Beijing still had respectable numbers, but not on the level of previous Games. After Tokyo was the first downtrend, which was always expected, after such a big event and people needing some time off and to take a breather. Usually things rebounded in 2 months for the start of the winter season, but even this last winter season, excluding the Olympics, felt empty for the most part. And then the war came and activity just took a nosedive.. I can add myself to the list of people, that are more busy than before and want to do/watch different things, but i still try to follow and watch the sports as much, as possible. But to be honest, when i come here and see, that there isn't much discussion going on about the different events, i'm not too eager to leave a comment as well and just browse through.. Hope things change and can go back to normal.

Good to see, that the IOC still have principles and don't discriminate the Winter Olympics. Instead of only shitting on the Summer Olympics they are being equally fair and are shitting on the Winter ones too. They haven't reached full equilibrium, but 2030 is close.

What, no video games on ice, i'm disappointed...

What about Macedonia

Popovici with a surprisingly close race, especially after that 1/2. I was thinking he could have a crack at sub 47, but looks like he went too fast on the first 50. Dressel could have easily won after all.

Stop the presses, Bulgaria actually won a match in the Nations League NASA should investigate, if there is not a break in the space time continuum, as such unbelievable events don't happen in current time.

Scared to lose to Popovici

This is true and this time i'm on the side of the TV networks. The past couple of years all the governing bodies and whatnot thought they were the Champions League or the Premier League in their demands and greed and lost track of their place in the (sporting) world... Case in point, FINA, who are rather delusional of their importance in the grande scheme of things. IAAF (pardon WA..) are next in line. When this was on Eurosport it was treated like a big thing, like a jewel for many, many years. It was getting promotion months in advance and was a staple of the summer along with the Tour, the tennis Slams and the athletics Worlds.. I was crossing the days on the calendar half a year in advance in anticipation. And look at it now.. Last time there was no airing here and now it's on our national broadcaster BNT That tells it all, when broke BNT has the rights. This means that no one else wanted them, because swimming is irrelevant and they have donated the rights. And by the other comments here, there are countries, bigger swimming countries, that don't even air it at all.

Italy on fireeeeee Majestic swim by Ceccon and now a second gold with Pilatto and in the 100, which isn't her best distance.

[hide] Event & Date Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Men's 400m Freestyle Day 1 June 18th 2022 Mack Horton X Elijah Winnington Felix Auboeck Guilherme Costa Fernando Scheffer Ji Xinjie Lukas Martens X Daniel Jervis Marco De Tullio Danas Rapsys Ahmed Hafnaoui Trey Freeman Kieran Smith X Any Other Athlete Women's 400m Freestyle Day 1 June 18th 2022 Kiah Melverton Lani Pellister Summer McIntosh X Li Bingjie X Tang Muhan Isabel Gose Waka Kobori Miyu Namba Erika Fairweather Merve Tuncel Katie Ledecky X Leah Smith Any Other Athlete Men's 400m Individual Medley Day 1 June 18th 2022 Brendon Smith Wang Shun Leon Marchand Duncan Scott Brodie Williams Alberto Razzetti Tomoru Honda Daiya Seto X Lewis Clareburt Jeremy Desplanches Carson Foster X Chase Kalisz X Any Other Athlete Men's 4x100m Freestyle Relay Day 1 June 18th 2022 Australia X Brazil China Germany Great Britain Hungary Italy X Netherlands United States X Any Other Nation Women's 4x100m Freestyle Relay Day 1 June 18th 2022 Australia X Canada X China France Great Britain Hungary Italy Japan Netherlands Sweden United States X Any Other Nation Men's 100m Breaststroke Day 2 June 19th 2022 Zac Stubblety-Cook Felipe Franca Silva Joao Luiz Gomes Yan Zibei Lucas Matzerath Fabian Schwingenschloegl James Wilby Nicolo Martinenghi X Ryuya Mura Andrius Sidlauskas Arno Kamminga X Michael Andrew X Nic Fink Any Other Athlete Women's 100m Butterfly Day 2 June 19th 2022 Brianna Throssell Lana Pudar Katarine Savard Zhang Yufei X Emilie Beckmann Marie Wattel Anna Ntountounaki Elena Di Liddo Louise Hansson X Claire Curzan Torri Huske X Any Other Athlete Men's 50m Butterfly Day 2 June 19th 2022 Gabriel Santos Nicholas Santos Maxime Grousset Florent Manaudou Benjamin Proud X Szebastian Szabo Naoki Mizunuma Nyls Korstanje Thomas Verhoeven Diogo Ribeiro Michael Andrew X Caeleb Dressel X Any Other Athlete Women's 200m Individual Medley Day 2 June 19th 2022 Kaylee McKeown X Mary-Sophie Harvey Sydney Pickrem X Abbie Wood Katinka Hosszu Anastasia Gorbenko Yui Ohashi Rika Omoto Kristen Romano Maria Ugolkova Leah Hayes Alex Walsh X Any Other Athlete Men's 200m Freestyle Day 3 June 20th 2022 Zac Incerti Elijah Winnington Felix Auboeck Fernando Scheffer Ji Xinjie Lukas Martens Thomas Dean X Duncan Scott Katsuhiro Matsumoto Hwang Sunwoo Danas Rapsys David Popovici X Drew Kibler Kieran Smith X Any Other Athlete Women's 1500m Freestyle Day 3 June 20th 2022 Moesha Johnson Lani Pallister X Kristel Kobrich Li Bingjie Viktoria Mihalyvari-Farkas Simona Quadarella X Miyu Namba Merve Tuncel Katie Grimes Katie Ledecky X Any Other Athlete Women's 100m Backstroke Day 3 June 20th 2022 Kaylee McKeown X Kylie Masse X Taylor Ruck Emma Terebo Medi Harris Anastasia Gorbenko Kira Toussaint Maaike De Waard Louise Hansson Claire Curzan Regan Smith X Any Other Athlete Men's 100m Backstroke Day 3 June 20th 2022 Any Athlete from Australia Xu Jiayu X Yohann Ndoye-Brouard Mewen Tomac Luke Greenbank Apostolos Christou Thomas Ceccon X Ryosuke Irie Robert Glinta Hunter Armstrong Ryan Murphy X Any Other Athlete Women's 100m Breaststroke Day 3 June 20th 2022 Yu Jingyao X Tang Qianting Ida Hulkko Anna Elendt Arianna Castiglioni Benedetta Pilato Reona Aoki Kotryna Teterevkova Tatjana Schoenmaker Lara Van Niekerk Sophie Hansson X Lilly King X Annie Lazor Any Other Athlete Men's 800m Freestyle Day 4 June 21st 2022 Samuel Short Elijah Winnington Felix Auboeck Guilherme Costa Any Chinese Athlete Lukas Martens X Florian Wellbrock X Daniel Jervis Any Italian Athlete X Henrik Christiansen Mykhailo Romanchuk Charlie Clark Bobby Finke Any Other Athlete Women's 200m Freestyle Day 4 June 21st 2022 Mollie O'Callaghan Madi Wilson Summer McIntosh Penny Oleksiak X Tang Muhan X Yang Junxuan Barbora Seemanova Charlotte Bonnet Freya Anderson Siobhan Haughey X Leah Smith Claire Weinstein Any Other Athlete Men's 200m Butterfly Day 4 June 21st 2022 Leonardo De Deus Chen Juner Wang Kuan-Hung Leon Marchand James Guy Tamas Kenderesi X Kristof Milak X Tomoru Honda Krzysztof Chmielewski Chad Le Clos Noe Ponti Trenton Julian Luca Urlando X Any Other Athlete Men's 50m Breaststroke Day 4 June 21st 2022 Joao Gomes X Caio Pumputis Lucas Matzerath James Wilby Itay Goldfaden Simone Cerasuolo Nicolo Martinenghi X Jan Kozakiewicz Huseyin Sakci Michael Andrew X Nic Fink Any Other Athlete Mixed 4x100m Medley Relay Day 4 June 21st 2022 Australia X Brazil Canada China X France Germany Great Britain Hungary Italy Japan Netherlands South Africa Sweden United States X Any Other Nation Women's 200m Butterfly Day 5 June 22nd 2022 Elizabeth Dekkers Lana Pudar Summer McIntosh X Zhang Yufei X Zhu Jiaming Laura Stephens Katinka Hosszu Boglarka Kapas Kina Hayashi Ana Monteiro Hali Flickinger X Regan Smith Any Other Athlete Men's 100m Freestyle Day 5 June 22nd 2022 Any Australian Athlete Maxime Grousset Rafael Miroslaw Lewis Burras Tom Dean Nandor Nemeth X Alessandro Miressi X Hwang Sunwoo David Popovici Andrej Barna Brooks Curry Caeleb Dressel X Any Other Athlete Women's 50m Backstroke Day 5 June 22nd 2022 Bronte Job Kylie Masse X Ingrid Wilm Mimosa Jallow Analia Pigree Medi Harris Silvia Scalia Maaike De Waard Kira Toussaint X Katharine Berkoff Regan Smith X Any Other Athlete Men's 200m Individual Medley Day 5 June 22nd 2022 Finlay Knox Wang Shun Leon Marchand Tom Dean Duncan Scott Daiya Seto X Lewis Clareburt Tomoe Hvas Matthew Sates Hugo Gonzalez Jeremy Desplanches X Carson Foster Chase Kalisz X Any Other Athlete Women's 4x200m Freestyle Relay Day 5 June 22nd 2022 Australia Brazil Canada X China X Hong Kong Hungary Italy Japan Sweden United States X Any Other Nation Women's 100m Freestyle Day 6 June 23rd 2022 Mollie O'Callaghan Shayna Jack Penny Oleksiak X Kayla Sanchez Yang Junxuan Zhang Yufei Marie Wattel Anna Hopkin Siobhan Haughey X Sarah Sjostrom X Claire Curzan Torri Huske Any Other Athlete Women's 200m Breaststroke Day 6 June 23rd 2022 Jenna Strauch Kelsey Wog Yu Jingyao X Molly Renshaw Abbie Wood X Francesca Fangio Kotryna Teterevkova Kaylene Corbett Tatjana Schoenmaker Sophie Hansson Lisa Mamie Kate Douglass Lilly King X Any Other Athlete Men's 200m Backstroke Day 6 June 23rd 2022 Joshua Edwards-Smith Mitch Larkin Xu Jiayu Any French Athlete Luke Greenbank X Adam Telegdy Ryosuke Irie Radoslaw Kawecki Pieter Coetze Oleksander Zheltyakov Shaine Casas X Ryan Murphy X Any Other Athlete Men's 200m Breaststroke Day 6 June 23rd 2022 Zac Stubblety-Cook X Qin Haiyang Matti Mattsson James Wilby Yu Hanaguruma Ryuya Mura Dmitriy Balandin Caspar Corbeau Arno Kamminga X Erik Persson Nic Fink X Charlie Swanson Any Other Athlete Men's 4x200m Freestyle Relay Day 6 June 23rd 2022 Australia X Brazil China Germany Great Britain Hungary Italy X Japan United States X Any Other Nation Women's 50m Butterfly Day 7 June 24th 2022 Zhang Yufei Emilie Beckmann X Farida Osman Melanie Henique X Marie Wattel Anna Ntountounaki Maaike De Waard Louise Hansson Sara Junevik Claire Curzan Torri Huske X Any Other Athlete Men's 50m Freestyle Day 7 June 24th 2022 Bruno Fratus Joshua Liendo Maxime Grousset Florent Manaudou X Lewis Burras Benjamin Proud Kristian Gkolomeev X Thomas De Boer Jesse Puts Any Polish Athlete Bjoern Seeliger Michael Andrew Caeleb Dressel X Any Other Athlete Men's 100m Butterfly Day 7 June 24th 2022 Matthew Temple Josif Miladinov Joshua Liendo James Guy Kristof Milak X Szebastian Szabo Federico Burdisso Katsuhiro Matsumoto Naoki Mizunuma Jakub Majerski Noe Ponti Michael Andrew X Caeleb Dressel X Any Other Athlete Women's 200m Backstroke Day 7 June 24th 2022 Kaylee McKeown X Kylie Masse X Taylor Ruck Liu Yaxin Peng Xuwei Katalin Burian Dora Molnar Anastasia Gorbenko Margherita Panziera Phoebe Bacon X Rhyan White Any Other Athlete Women's 800m Freestyle Day 7 June 24th 2022 Kiah Melverton Lani Pellister Summer McIntosh Li Bingjie X Tang Muhan Isabel Gose Ajna Kesely Simona Quadarella X Any Japanese Athlete Merve Tuncel Katie Ledecky X Leah Smith Any Other Athlete Mixed 4x100m Freestyle Relay Day 7 June 24th 2022 Australia X Brazil Canada China X France Great Britain Hungary Japan Netherlands United States X Any Other Nation Men's 50m Backstroke Day 8 June 25th 2022 Isaac Cooper Yohann Ndoye-Brouard Ole Braunschweig Apostolos Christou X Any Italian Athlete Ryosuke Irie Andrew Jeffcoat Ksawery Masiuk Robert Glinta Pieter Coetze Hugo Gonzalez X Hunter Armstrong X Justin Ress Any Other Athlete Women's 50m Breaststroke Day 8 June 25th 2022 Chelsea Hodges Jhennifer Conceicao Ida Hulkko Anastasia Gorbenko Arianna Castiglioni Benedetta Pilato X Reona Aoki Ruta Meilutyte Tatjana Schoenmaker Lara Van Niekerk X Sophie Hansson Lilly King X Annie Lazor Any Other Athlete Men's 1500m Freestyle Day 8 June 25th 2022 Felix Auboeck Guilherme Costa Lukas Martens Florian Wellbrock X Daniel Jervis Akos Kalmar Daniel Wiffen Gregorio Paltrinieri X Henrik Christiansen Ahmed Hafnaoui Sergii Frolov Mykhailo Romanchuk X Charlie Clark Bobby Finke Any Other Athlete Women's 50m Freestyle Day 8 June 25th 2022 Meg Harris Shayna Jack Any Chinese Athlete X Melanie Henique Marie Wattel Anna Hopkin Any Dutch Athlete Katarzyna Wasick Sarah Sjostrom X Erika Brown Torri Huske X Any Other Athlete Women's 400m Individual Medley Day 8 June 25th 2022 Jenna Forrester Tessa Cieplucha Summer McIntosh X Ge Chutong Abbie Wood Katinka Hosszu X Viktoria Mihalyvari-Farkas Yui Ohasi Ageha Tanigawa Deniz Ertan Katie Grimes Emma Weyant X Any Other Athlete Men's 4x100m Medley Relay Day 8 June 25th 2022 Australia X Brazil Canada China France Great Britain Hungary Italy X Japan Netherlands United States X Any Other Nation Women's 4x100m Medley Relay Day 8 June 25th 2022 Australia X Canada X China France Great Britain Hungary Italy Japan Netherlands Sweden United States X Any Other Nation [/hide]

Watched Top Gun the other day and plan to go again in the next few days with different friends. Absolutely breathtaking, checked all the hype boxes i was reading. Really bummed that there is no IMAX screens around me.

[hide] Women's Tournament Preliminary Round June 20th - June 24th, 2022 16 Nations, 4 Groups, the 1st-placed Nation from each Group will qualify for the Quarterfinals. The 2nd-and 3rd-placed Nations from each Group will qualify for the Playoffs. Group A Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 20th 2022, h. 19:30 Canada 3 Italy June 20th 2022, h. 21:00 Hungary 6 Colombia June 22nd 2022, h. 19:30 Colombia 3 Canada June 22nd 2022, h. 21:00 Italy 2 Hungary June 24th 2022, h. 19:30 Italy 5 Colombia June 24th 2022, h. 21:00 Hungary 4 Canada Group B Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 20th 2022, h. 18:00 South Africa 22 United States June 20th 2022, h. 19:30 Netherlands 15 Argentina June 22nd 2022, h. 18:00 Argentina 4 South Africa June 22nd 2022, h. 19:30 United States 6 Netherlands June 24th 2022, h. 18:00 United States 20 Argentina June 24th 2022, h. 19:30 Netherlands 17 South Africa Group C Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 20th 2022, h. 18:00 New Zealand 8 Brazil June 20th 2022, h. 19:30 Kazakhstan 10 Australia June 22nd 2022, h. 18:00 Australia 6 New Zealand June 22nd 2022, h. 19:30 Brazil 3 Kazakhstan June 24th 2022, h. 18:00 Brazil 15 Australia June 24th 2022, h. 19:30 Kazakhstan 2 New Zealand Group D Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 20th 2022, h. 18:00 Greece 7 Thailand June 20th 2022, h. 19:30 France 6 Spain June 22nd 2022, h. 18:00 Spain 4 Greece June 22nd 2022, h. 19:30 Thailand 3 France June 24th 2022, h. 18:00 Thailand 8 Spain June 24th 2022, h. 19:30 France 4 Greece Top 3 Place 1st 2nd 3rd Nation United States Australia Hungary Men's Tournament Preliminary Round June 21st - June 25th, 2022 16 Nations, 4 Groups, the 1st-placed Nation from each Group will qualify for the Quarterfinals. The 2nd-and 3rd-placed Nations from each Group will qualify for the Playoffs. Group A Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 21st 2022, h. 19:30 Brazil 2 Georgia June 21st 2022, h. 21:00 Montenegro 3 Hungary June 23rd 2022, h. 19:30 Georgia 5 Montenegro June 23rd 2022, h. 21:00 Hungary 8 Brazil June 25th 2022, h. 19:30 Brazil 4 Montenegro June 25th 2022, h. 21:00 Hungary 8 Georgia Group B Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 21st 2022, h. 18:00 Germany 4 Japan June 21st 2022, h. 19:30 Greece 2 Croatia June 23rd 2022, h. 18:00 Croatia 3 Germany June 23rd 2022, h. 19:30 Japan 5 Greece June 25th 2022, h. 18:00 Japan 6 Croatia June 25th 2022, h. 19:30 Greece 1 Germany Group C Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 21st 2022, h. 18:00 South Africa 13 Italy June 21st 2022, h. 19:30 Canada 9 Spain June 23rd 2022, h. 18:00 Spain 15 South Africa June 23rd 2022, h. 19:30 Italy 11 Canada June 25th 2022, h. 18:00 Italy 1 Spain June 25th 2022, h. 19:30 Canada 4 South Africa Group D Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 21st 2022, h. 18:00 Australia 6 Kazakhstan June 21st 2022, h. 19:30 United States 6 Serbia June 23rd 2022, h. 18:00 Serbia 8 Australia June 23rd 2022, h. 19:30 Kazakhstan 7 United States June 25th 2022, h. 18:00 Kazakhstan 15 Serbia June 25th 2022, h. 19:30 United States 3 Australia Top 3 Place 1st 2nd 3rd Nation Hungary Serbia Greece [/hide]

I don't watch beach volleyball outside the Olympics, but this is being shown on TV here, so i caught a couple of matches. And yeah, the empty stands is what stood out. And it's not like they are half empty or 2/3rds, stands are completely empty. And it's Rome. I know beach volleyball is not that prominent, but come on...

Cyclingnews is now a paywall ?!? F that. Anyone to recommend another good site for cycling news?

Went to sleep with Corvette and Porsche dominating in GTPRO and waking up to AF Corse having a healthy lead Too bad Toyota are not having any problems, so we can have more drama.

FIA have really dropped the ball this year with the calendar. Usually in the Le Mans weekend they try to not have much confrontation with other events, but this year we have also an F1 weekend, a WTCR weekend, a Superbike weekend.. With so many dates, i don't know how they can't make a more balanced calendar and spreading the different series.

If you are a movie fan you are probably knowing what is happening right now and that we are seeing history unfolding before our eyes. Top Gun Maverick is doing a madman boxoffice run, that is going to be talked about decades from now. Things like this just doesn't happen to anything that's not Star Wars or MCU in the US. It just had a 90 million second US weekend with a new all time record of just 29% decline from the the premier weekend (for blockbuster 100+ million openings). Current projections have it making the top 15 US all time with a conservative numbers at 520-550, with some insiders having it going to 600 with the amazing holds it currently shows. And it's not only the US, there were insane holds in almost every other country for the second weekend, i even saw single digit drops in some major markets. Absolute bonkers positive word-of-mouth is carrying this film. Top Gun: Maverick Has Won The First A+ CinemaScore Of 2022 What else could be said, beside what i have been humming for years and some people have just started realizing. Tom Cruise is and has been the Biggest Movie star in the world and probably the last true one we are going to see. This persons love, passion and dedication to the craft of cinema and the desire to bring the ultimate experience to the viewers is almost unparalleled to any other actor out there (at least for those younger than him). PS. Looks like i am extra excited about this situation, sorry about that.

Well, the Federation can always bring lower level players. I'm sure they will find volunteers to play at the World Cup and expose themselves

Serbia are going with a younger squad for the first weeks tournament in Canada. 5 of their biggest names, Atanasijević, Podraščanin, Lisinac, Nemanja Petrić and Marko Ivović are off of the team. This will be a good time as ever to get a win over them, as we are playing the opening match.

This time it wasn't that close like last year, bit Pizzolato is becoming like a black cat for Karlos. Weightlifting isn't a sport where you could form a duel, a rivalry between two athletes that much, as there is no face-off, but these two are the best thing to try it. That Pizzolato lift at 217 was high class, he is very impressive. Bad news for him is that Karlos is only 17-18 and will accumulate more strength and experience in the coming years. Hope losing twice to him will serve as motivation.

Looks like i won't be getting my beauty sleep, as it's 10:20 pm and Djokovic - Nadal have barely begun their 4 hour battle.

3 out of 3 Only disappointment is that this 100th edition should have been held in Bulgaria, so it could have been a real celebration for the sport. Only if it wasn't for the power hungry morons here, who just don't f'n go away and continue to try to destroy the sport.

Iga needs a tough match from time to time, though that collapse from 5:2 and then again in the tiebreake was questionable.

Hahahha The PR team were fast to delete them, but they should have informed her, when giving the fat check, that it's going to be European sports fans and not casual entertainment Superbowl crowd.