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great news for many European Athletics fans... Eurosport/Discovery media bought the TV & Internet rights of the 2023 World Athletics Championships to be held in Budapest more than 45 European Countries will be able to watch the event on the linear TV Channels Eurosport 1 & Eurosport 2 (the deal doesn't include the Nordic Countries: ) and stream all the events on the Eurosport OTT (in also on Discovery Plus). important note: the agreement is, as usually happens for Eusp/Discovery, on non-exclusive basis, which means that the National TV Networks can still make a deal with ESPN and Eurovision Sports, the rightholders and distributors. https://www.eurosport.com/athletics/warner-bros.-discovery-secures-rights-to-broadcast-the-2023-world-athletics-championships_sto9248427/story.shtml https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1130950/warner-bos-athletics#:~:text=The Budapest 2023 World Athletics,stream the event on discovery%2B.

Terrible night for our TV expert Lele Adani and his obsession for South American Football... no "garra Charrua" tonight...

my picks would be: Nils Van Der Poel as the best man and best performance (sorry for Mondo, but he will have many more chances to win a lot of prizes), Sara Hector best woman, Team Edin best Team and the Beach Volleyball duo as the newcomers of the year.

those covering the rainbow "things" are just a bunch of amateurs if compared to the Chinese TV. I'm not sure if that's completely true, but I saw some tweets about the Chinese TV not showing any stands' picture after the anti-lockout protests started a few days ago just to deny that the rest of the world has finally gone beyond and people are allowed to walk around (even fill a stadium) without too many covid concerns...

also @heywoodu I don't know how to translate this in an exact number of viewers, but the TV ratings look excellent... https://www.lance.com.br/fora-de-campo/opiniao-audiencia-estrondosa-da-globo-mostra-o-poder-do-produto-copa-do-mundo.html

no, that's not good...he should have switched to Italy! and of course also this option is now dead and gone...

@thiago_simoes by the way, now I finally understand why the Chinese girls are always the best on the Balance Beam... it's easy after this kind of training sessions

surely all of them had a great season and deserve any honorable mention... but to me the winner is and always will be...

most likely, by given name and/or nickname...hope not by number (would be so sad)...

did you call it, didn't you?

believe it! believe it!

they were defensive only in group stage. then they dominated a full offensive minded main round (2-1 and 3-2 vs and ), semi & final (2-0 and 3-1 with a missed penalty vs and ). as I wrote, it was the turnaround of the Century under any POV (from attitude to style of play to results). p.s. I was only 8 years old, but I remember that tournament (almost every match) as if it was played last week sad to say, but I have better football memories from the Eighties and Nineties than the last 10/15 years, when I progressively started to dislike the whole environment (from players to referees to officials and footy-related media) and losing interest day after day (nowadays I'm at the all time low...I just follow the world cup and continental champs...and not because of the games themselves, rather for the mystic aura that those global events have on me).

Italy in 1982 won the title advancing from the group stage with 3 tied games And even if it was a 24-team tournament, in that year only the top 2 in each group moved on to the main round. It was quite a turnaround.

aggiungo il clamoroso 3.posto di Federico Pellegrino in una gara "distance" di Fondo. sorpresa se ce n'è una. ieri ottimo secondo posto di Marta Bassino nello Sci Alpino. tra ieri e oggi, weekend da dimenticare per Paris nelle prove veloci: CdM di Discesa già compromessa, direi. per il resto, senza la Jutta, settimana insignificante per me...

1...and only because of the 2 big upsets by and (quickly overturned by the following game of those 2 teams, however ).

Stage #1 ( Val Thorens) Mixed Relay Gold: Emily Harrop & Thibault Anselmet Silver: Ana Alonso Rodriguez & Oriol Cardona Coll Bronze: Cèlia Perillat Pessey & Xavier Gachet

there once was a sport where Italy used to be the dominant force or, at least, a very competitive team... now that this sport has become part of the Olympic program, R.I.P. Italy

always...in any sport, here a single commentator is a very rare exception (even if because 98% of the Italian jornalists can't make a broadcast of any sport except those 2 or 3 "mainstream", they need an "expert" -former player/coach- to explain even the basics of most disciplines).

or the Mexican Codesal at the Italia '90 final (actually also before that match, but especially in that circumstance).

play-by-play is absolutely well balanced, always on top of any situation, never getting crazy nor depressing the viewers. he's mainly a "Germanist", so, he's not used to nor an enthusiast of South American Football...he's very professional. on the other hand, the color commentator, former player Daniele Adani, is a possessed fanatic of South American football, especially Argentina and Uruguay. as @Gianlu33 wrote earlier, he makes always every broadcast with certain teams a mess, a real circus...way beyond any form of acceptable enthusiasm. and we're lucky that on our public TV he can't go as mad as he used to do when he was working for Sky Italia, where he finally lost his job because of his excessive show (screams, not so polite expressions and so on).

you named the poor officiating...I just replied that this is not the worst WC in terms of refereeing at all, 'cause 20 years ago it was way worse...

Paris...

and what a race so far in Lake Louise! Kilde, Hemetsberger and Odermatt in 10/100

going with triple screen, actually Footy on TV, NHL on tablet and Alpine Skiing on PC

just kidding of course... but still...it was part of the karma hitting for their robbery in the 1966 World Cup final...