phelps

women's Javelin throw...

they should bring individual pursuit and point race back as standalone disciplines, instead of this thing...and maybe even put the elimination race as a standalone event in the Olympic schedule, too...

their premier league has 15 teams (and a complicated format, ending with a single match final, a sort of local superbowl)... in the small republic there are 5 small pitches (with capacity between 500 and 700 spectators each) and the National Stadium (which normally hosts the championship's final match and all the international events and has about 5,000 seats)... their teams have never won a match (and obviously they haven't made the 2nd preliminary round as well) in the champions league early stages...but they keep trying...and that's what I like the most and why I try to follow those matches...

talk for yourself! I always watch their football teams in the european cups preliminary rounds (and the Italian Baseball league, when they reach the final series and broadcast it live)...

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yes, you can if the crash happens in the 1st kilometer and it's due to a technical failure (which means you can't have a re-run in any case if you go down by yourself or because of an exchange mistake)...

I'm really getting old...and because of that, at least for the Olympics I feel lucky to have this classic side effect...I'm starting to have insomnia, which means that I don't have any trouble wakin' up at 2 a.m. and going to slep at 11 p.m. every day... so far, no troubles at all... today it was about athletics, sailing, wrestling, some handball (NOR vs FRA men), some basketball (ESP vs SLO men) and right now I'm trying to get back in line with hockey (ARG vs GER, then NED vs AUS, at least)...

well, for me it's mainly about slalom canoeing and fencing... the remaining finals in judo, rowing, swimming, shooting and archery plus some athletics can be reserved for the afternoon delayed watch (and a few look in windows in the middle of live action from the "main field"...

it might well be... in any case, it's the worst shooting range I've ever seen, the worst tv coverage I've ever watched and the worst Italian performance since Seoul 1988... definitely not the best memories I'm gonna save for these Olympics...

considering the current surprising results rate in fencing, there's truly a chance for CAN...and it would be nice...

once again, depite getting older, my body is reacting well tio the first olympic days...going to sleep around 22.30/23 and so far I always woke up at 1.55 a.m., as if I had an incorprated alarm... and so far I never had any moment of fatigue in the very early morning hours, when normally I fall asleep more easily...

street skateboarding must go only because they left Leticia out of the final... how can man do something like that??? poor Leticia... p.s. yes, I have her instagram page among my favourites on my PC...just above Camila Giorgi and Jutta Leerdam's...

yes, everything is already set according to the seedings = the current world ranking (even if they make it official only on the day before the actual competition)...

with 33 starters they couldn't do anything different... at the Olympics, the 10-people heats are not an option...

by the way, Chalmers' split is not so insane...it's comparable with Dressel's 47.2 at the start and it's just 2/10 of a sec quicker than Zach Apple... I mean, we've already seen some of 45's in the past in the internal leg of a 4*100m relay... I don't see him going even close to Gwangju's clockings in the individual race......

sure, Duncan Scott can only loose the 200m Free in a few hours...and if he's not prioritizing some relay, he should be the favourite also in the 200m IM (together with Michael Andrew, but the American doesn't look in the same shape he was at the US Trials)...

on the official site of the Games...each match/race/competition of every sport has full reports with any kind of stat available...

hope it will be a close fight, but I fear the Korean is quite clear favourite...

all the eurosport players feeds are without any commentary...the app is so messy that's very difficult to find some events... I never expected to watch our Volleyball NT or our fencing players with no voice at the Olympics... moreover, we have 3 different ways to get the discovery streams and all 3 have different outcome...just unbelievable!

lots of surprising results... in men's sabre it looks Szilagyi is going for the historical "triplete"... in women's epee, my heart got broken with Isola's loss vs Sun...I think now Popescu is clear favorite (but Lehis lokks also in the shape of her life and the Russian is the classic Cinderella...it will be an interesting final four)...

by the way, I never experienced such a disaster of tv coverage in almost 40 years of Olympics as a spectator (in front of my TV)...

no, you have to choose the Eurosport1 channel stream to have commentary (and get the lower picture quality and all the ads)...

as usual, Olympic Taekwondo is a different beast from nthe rest of the 4-year span...

I hope not... by the way, very impressive performance by Dell'Aquila so far...

not so surprising... Cerezo is the new superstar of this game...she has amzing talent...right now, she might well be already the no.1 in the world pound for pound...