phelps

maybe he has some family ties with the army, but personally he's a pro athlete (sponsored by Adidas) and a Florida Gators student (he was supposed to be part of the American Football team -he was recruited for that, as he was one of the top prospects coming from the high school football system- but finally he decided to go for the T&F career rather than AF...at least for now...maybe if he wins in Tokyo next year he could leave T&F a switch back to football)...

no, in the past (I mean, 20+ years ago) it was pretty normal to have 2 groups following each other and not running at the same time... old stadiums not always had 2 shot put rings available... also here, it's quite usual that the 2 groups are not parallel, because they have discus throw before that and javelin throw after that which must be ccompleted in different slots, so also the pole vault in normal condition is never perfectly parallel (even because there's always a lot of disparity in terms of results between group A and B, with the one featuring the best specialists usually taking a lot more time than the other)... exactly 12 (with the Italian guy being the first among the eliminated putters )

South Korea have not announced their roster yet, but this move from quite a few days ago, is really impressive... http://www.wbsc.org/kia-tigers-shut-down-star-pitcher-hyeon-jong-yang-to-rest-ahead-of-wbsc-premier12/ p.s. only those crazy Koreans could do something like that...imagine the Dodgers in the MLB shutting down Bueheler and/or Kershaw for the last stint of the RS and the entire playoffs to save them for the National team...no way! and here is also something interesting about the prize money up for grab in this tournament... http://www.wbsc.org/over-5-million-in-prize-money-to-be-awarded-for-2019-wbsc-premier12-40-increase-from-first-edition-in-2015/

and after the end of the Regular Season, the Playoffs have already started, with both the NL & AL Wild Card Games already in the bag and the League division series starting later today (the NLDS, meanwhile the ALDS will start tomorrow)... so, this is the full post-season picture, which will bring us to the big final, the World Series (scheduled to start on Tuesday, October 22nd)... AMERICAN LEAGUE POST-SEASON BRACKET Wild Card Game* League Division Series** League Championship Series*** A New York Yankees Minnesota Twins Winners ALDS "A" vs Winners ALDS "B" Tampa Bay Rays, 5 B Houston Astros Oakland A's, 1 Tampa Bay Rays (AL WCG winners) NATIONAL LEAGUE POST-SEASON BRACKET Wild Card Game League Division Series League Championship Series A Atlanta Braves St.Louis Cardinals Winners NLDS "A" vs Winners NLDS "B" Milwaukee Brewers, 3 B Los Angeles Dodgers Washington Nationals, 4 Washington Nationals (NL WCG winners) * = Single Game Match-up ** = Best-of-5 Series *** = Best-of-7 Series WORLD SERIES: Winners ALCS vs Winners NLCS (Best-of-7 Series)

NATIONAL LEAGUE EAST DIVISION Rank Team Wins Losses Win Pct. 1 Atlanta Braves* 97 65 .599 2 Washington Nationals** 93 69 .574 3 New York Mets 86 76 .531 4 Philadelphia Phillies 81 81 .500 5 Miami Marlins 57 105 .352 CENTRAL DIVISION Rank Team Wins Losses Win Pct. 1 St.Louis Cardinals* 91 71 .562 2 Milwaukee Brewers** 89 73 .549 3 Chicago Cubs 84 78 .519 4 Cincinnati Reds 75 87 .463 5 Pittsburgh Pirates 69 93 .426 WEST DIVISION Rank Team Wins Losses Win Pct. 1 Los Angeles Dodgers* 106 56 .654 2 Arizona D-Backs 85 77 .525 3 San Francisco Giants 77 85 .475 4 Colorado Rockies 71 91 .438 5 San Diego Padres 70 92 .432 * = Teams qualified to the Playoffs as Division Winners ** = Teams qualified to the Wild Card Game (Best League Record among the non-Division Winners)

so, finally the MLB 2019 Regular Season has ended... unfortunately, this time no match no.163 for any team...and actually no much pathos was left in the final week of the RS, as all the teams entering the playoffs were already know before the final weekend... however, this is a final recap of how things went... AMERICAN LEAGUE EAST DIVISION Rank Team Wins Losses Win Pct. 1 New York Yankees* 103 59 .636 2 Tampa Bay Rays** 96 66 .593 3 Boston Red Sox 84 78 .519 4 Toronto Blue Jays 67 95 .414 5 Baltimore Orioles 54 108 .333 CENTRAL DIVISION Rank Team Wins Losses Win Pct. 1 Minnesota Twins* 101 61 .623 2 Cleveland Indians 93 69 .574 3 Chicago White Sox 72 89 .447 4 Kansas City Royals 59 103 .364 5 Detroit Tigers 47 114 .292 WEST DIVISION Rank Team Wins Losses Win Pct. 1 Houston Astros* 107 55 .660 2 Oakland A's** 97 65 .599 3 Texas Rangers 78 84 .481 4 Los Angeles Angels 72 90 .444 5 Seattle Mariners 68 94 .420 * = Teams qualified to the Playoffs as Division Winners ** = Teams qualified to the Wild Card Game (Best League Record among the non-Division Winners)

very much a meh! night... very happy only for Mujinga getting a medal (but so sorry that Ivet could get it, too )... the rest of the program didn't get me really excitied...expected winners (apart for this last race of the night) and no particulary amazing results under a technical point of view (I'm saving just the 21.8 by DAS)... probably the top of the day was the eptathlon battle between Thiam and KJT, but the Swiss TV (using the international clean feed) almost ignored it, so I couldn't feel all the hype)... or maybe it's just me...with the MLB playoffs started and the NHL ready to go, I guess I'm going to find it difficult to follow the rest of this championship closely...

nobody knows where is this from... looking at it, it should be a leaked list of athletes whose biological passport has been analized by this supposed "Hematological Expert" (whose name also we don't know) and declared suspicious rather than absolutely abnormal... moreover, it's a quite old list, as all those guys have their last analysis taken at the beginning of 2016 at latest...

nice table...but there should be a lot more names in it... p.s. and a source is also to be mentioned (together with the name of the supposed "Hematological Expert")...

easy as drinking a cup of tea... and Quinonez!

well, if they don't win a medal in the men's Javelin they should hide themselves for quite a while...

women's 50km race walking, Eleonora Giorgi won bronze...

well, that's normal...we only had 1 chance and we got 1 Bronze... we can be really happy with that...

and now...we only have 1 race left for today...

and it's Gold for Barber!

no Gold for Lyu...

no medal for Germany tonight...

Barber!!!! this is a turnaround...

and finally Kendricks got it... once again, gold for the USA...

and Salazar strikes again! Brazier destroys the field in the men's 800m... he might have been suspended...but if his pupils show up like Hassan and this guy did...

for some reason...

meanwhile I love all kinds of volatiles and courtyard animals...turkeys, chickens, goose, partridges, germans, quails...

and Kendricks is ahead once again! this pole vault final started a bit lazy, but now we have pure fireworks...

because you're not watching Czech TV...they're showing only the Javelin throw...

as you live in a place with high rate of Spanish speaking people (and you're taking Spanish language lessons), you should know what it actually means...