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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...

so close... Mahuchikh can really do 2.04...

and you got it right... Ugandaaaaaa!!!

as they wrote, he moved there when he was 11...he's been raised, educated, trained his entire life in Canada...how can people not consider him fully Canadian? OK, his blood is not from there...probably his heart's still bleeding because he had to leave his native Land, but he must be considered Canadian at 100% in any case...

Mahuchikh!!!

meanwhile Samba made the miracle...the stadium is half full!

no, she can't...she had to slow down... still, she's way faster than any other girl in the race...

she did slow down, but she's still on sub 9-min pace...

is Chepkoech crazy or what? does she really think she can go on like that for the entire 3000m with this weather conditions?

sure it is...as all the winter Games schedules are influenced by the many sports that can't be contested without the sun light... but still, they could have done a much better work also keeping into consideration all the climatic issues...