phelps

it's all yours, then...

she's absolutely one of the loveliest athletes/girls I've ever heard on tv...

actually, I love fish and chips (at least, my own interpretation of that...with a different kind of fish...not the typical British haddock)... but I love even more the classic French fries (which I ate a few minutes ago for dinner with roast turkey, by the way)...

Ivet and Mujinga in the final...I really like this women's 200m so far...

Italian TV is just unwatchable...BBC is becoming even worse...Czech TV is showing the Javelin only... now I can only rely on my Swiss neighbours...

she's in full control, by the way...22.16 effortless... and Lalova (Collio) is in!

ready for the Dina(r)ashersmith show... I must confess...BBC has forced me to switch to the Swiss tv...

Duplantis! that guy has "huevos"!

well, you know... when an avalanche starts running, nobody never knows where it's going to end up... now, we can only wait and see...maybe a miracle can happen and a good bunch of cheaters can be caught, even if some of them with many years' delay...

and the last event of the 2019 Judo World Cadet Championships, the Mixed Team competition, was won by...guess who? yes! you're right... obviously it is Japan... I don't know even why I bother writing such result...I don't really know if in the world of sport there's something more predictable than Japan winning a team event in Judo... by the way, in total 13 teams took part in this event...and eventually Azerbaijan won the Silver medal, followed by Russia and Turkey, coming home with the Bronze medal...

and here some "colour" news... https://edition.cnn.com/2019/09/30/sport/athletics-starting-block-camera-scli-intl-spt/index.html it looks that the German sprinters are quite shy, after all...

the top (and best) news of the day... https://totallympics.com/index.php?/topic/1431-doping-cases-and-bans-2019-thread/&do=findComment&comment=246769

finally... one of the most controversial athletes (first) and coaches (then) in T&F history... https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/01/sport/alberto-salazar-athletics-suspension-spt-intl/index.html https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/oct/01/athletics-coach-alberto-salazar-receives-four-year-ban-for-doping-violations still, until they don't get any of his athletes (even after the end of their career, if it's the case...any referral to Mo Farah and Galen Rupp is purely intentional ), I'm not sure this changes anything...

not sure Modibo Keita is still active... I was thinking of Ismael Coulibaly in the men's -80kg...

Italy will deny by itself, choosing Pellielo to run for that card...

Warholm saved his ass...

I fear Benjamin could spoil the party...

well, she just improved from 2.01...it's something not to be forgotten...

no way...she's only 18 and she has very savior coaches...if you break your ankle or Achille's heel because you ask too much from yourself, in high jump you're done for the ages...look at that idiot named Tamberi...he wanted to try 2.41 before Rio 2016 when he would have most likely dominated that competition and now he can only look at a minor european medal in the last 4 years...

and Stahl is putting on a real show right now... nice big man!

most likely she's really tired and mentally "gone"... and she does not think she can do 2.06 or more tonight...

good decision...I don't think she has anything left in the tank and she only risks injuries if she contiues... I think she can be really proud of what she achieved today...

I fear it's happening only in 1 or 2 Countries...there are still many places where it's as strong as hell...

guys, can we write only about athletics, please? I think we've gone way too far with arguments that should be discussed in the Politics thread and not here...thanks!

and she did it!!!!! junior world record!!! what a talent she is...