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the IOC didn't want anymore a double standard tournament, with the first part played only by the second tier teams (without the NHL players) and a very short second round + playoffs with only 8 teams playing with the NHLers (what happened to the Slovaks in SLC 2002 still hurts the IIHF)...
 
at the same time, the NHL didn't want a 16-day tournament as it was before with 12 teams taking part to the olympics, so they came to an agreement...only 12 teams, NHL players playing the whole tournament, but at the same time a shorter tournament with that stupid format we have right now (in order to have a shorter break of the NHL regular season)...
 
common interests, I guess...

the IOC didn't want anymore a double standard tournament, with the first part played only by the second tier teams (without the NHL players) and a very short second round + playoffs with only 8 teams playing with the NHLers (what happened to the Slovaks in SLC 2002 still hurts the IIHF)...
 
at the same time, the NHL didn't want a 16-day tournament as it was before with 12 teams taking part to the olympics, so they came to an agreement...only 12 teams, NHL players playing the whole tournament, but at the same time a shorter tournament with that stupid format we have right now (in order to have a shorter break of the NHL regular season)...
 
common interests, I guess...

The world famous winter resorts of Beijing and Milano obviously.

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Fuck yeah !

is it me, or there's a strong English-speaking bunch of people trying to get the full command on the "new" weightlifting world, so to get as many free passes on doping as the old guard have (and as they have now in sports like swimming, athletics, cycling)? 
 
what they're doing only looks a classic West vs East ideological and political battle, not just something "for the good of the sport"...
 
I don't think Miss Davies and her friends are totally "beyond any reasonable suspicion" too, when they try to manouvre the weightlifting politics for the next few years...

is it me, or there's a strong English-speaking bunch of people trying to get the full command on the "new" weightlifting world, so to get as many free passes on doping as the old guard have (and as they have now in sports like swimming, athletics, cycling)? 
 
what they're doing only looks a classic West vs East ideological and political battle, not just something "for the good of the sport"...
 
I don't think Miss Davies and her friends are totally "beyond any reasonable suspicion" too, when they try to manouvre the weightlifting politics for the next few years...

is it me, or there's a strong English-speaking bunch of people trying to get the full command on the "new" weightlifting world, so to get as many free passes on doping as the old guard have (and as they have now in sports like swimming, athletics, cycling)? 
 
what they're doing only looks a classic West vs East ideological and political battle, not just something "for the good of the sport"...
 
I don't think Miss Davies and her friends are totally "beyond any reasonable suspicion" too, when they try to manouvre the weightlifting politics for the next few years...

is it me, or there's a strong English-speaking bunch of people trying to get the full command on the "new" weightlifting world, so to get as many free passes on doping as the old guard have (and as they have now in sports like swimming, athletics, cycling)? 
 
what they're doing only looks a classic West vs East ideological and political battle, not just something "for the good of the sport"...
 
I don't think Miss Davies and her friends are totally "beyond any reasonable suspicion" too, when they try to manouvre the weightlifting politics for the next few years...

@hckošice are you still with us? 🤣

@hckošice are you still with us? 🤣

All games of groups D & E are available for free on the Olympic Channel website...
 
right now, I can't see any link to Group F games, but they could be available as well...need to check later in the afternoon, when the competition starts...

by the way...
 
3 years away from that sh*t and we already have a thread with 2 pages of posts! 
 
and I'm here, too...   
 
I just can't believe it happened for real...

I just can't stop re-watching the Italian commentators' reactions in the last laps of the men's team pursuit on eurosport player...
 
they always make me cry because of the win, but also because how crazy they went...they almost destroyed the commentary box...

https://swimswam.com/news/coronavirus-news/
 
He pulled a contamination defence. 

I fear it's more a political thing, as we now have a new president of our fencing federation...and of course he couldn't do such move just before the Games after he was elected last Spring...
 
however, I don't think Sirovich deserved to be fired as the other 2, who not only didn't lead their teams to the expected resuts, but also made all the wrong choices they could in building up to the Games...
 
men's Sabre got even more than expected (even if with the "wrong" man in the individual event) and the girls we all knew they were overestimated as a team, when individually they just can't get past the second round of any world cup/champs/olympic competition... 

it's quite obvious...
 
now he has to make the most money out of his wonder-success in Tokyo, which means he literally won't even train for the next 6 months at least...
 
he'll be appearing in any tv & radio show day after day and every night he'll be the guest star in every disco-party in all the most famous discos in Italy...
 
that's how you make money in Italy if you're not a footballer of a F1/MotoGP driver or a Tennis/Golf player...
 
no way you can get I'm not even daring to say rich, but just wealthy if you practice any other individual sport than those named above...

We're all here cheering for Croatia's main star, Autistic  
 
Go  

No serious race walk event should have any 5k part though. That is just way too short and completely kills the whole point of the sport, it leads to things like Tom Bosworth's running 1 mile to set the 1 mile 'race walking' record. Actually, 20km is already too short, but alright. It'd be better to remove race walking altogether than to go for events where a single athlete does less than 20km in one race.
 
One of the main reasons why 50k was so awesome is because race walking, more than anything, is about endurance, endurance, endurance.

yes, that substance (ostarine) is the new frontier of steroids, because it has (almost) the same effectivity, but without many of those really dangerous collateral effects that "natural" steroids (not to mention chemical derivates) have...
 
also in Italy many athletes have been caught in the last couple of years (most notable name, Alex Di Giorgio, former swimmer of the Italian National team)...
 
and I think we're gonna see many more in the next future...

The rotation system sucked when it was happening with fencing (thank God fencing has all three team events now) and it sucks with shooting, too.

actually, mixed team skeet is going to replace mixed team trap in Paris 2024...
 
they're going to hold only one of the two disciplines, alternating each time (so, in 2028 mixed team trap will be back instead of mixed team skeet)...

1. Rate the performance on a scale of 1-10
 
Athletics...10+
Weightlifting...9.5
Taekwondo, Sailing, Track Cycling, Rowing, Karate, Gymnastics, Archery...6
Swimming 4.5
most of the remaining sports...3
Shooting, Fencing...1
 
2. What were the surprises and  heartbreaks ?
Surprises - Athletics above all, obviously...
Palmisano was our only true gold medal candidate (and a not locked one), Tamberi was also a minor medal candidate with a bit of optimism...
but the others...who would have ever thought about Jacobs and the men's 4*100m relay? me, not...
Rowing, too...I mean, I expected the women's lightweight double to fight for bronze at best, but they were just amazing, gifting me of one of the most intense feelings of all the games...
Heartbreaks - Frank Chamizo and Manuel Lombardo are maybe the 2 most painful flops of the Games for me, personally...but frankly we had so many disappointing performances (especially in shooting and fencing) that I can't count them...
 
3. Was your country's goal achieved?
definitely, yes...
we expected our usual 30 medals, 8 golds performance...but we come home with a record-breaking total of 40 medals and we're also back to double digit gold total, which is quite surprising if we look at how many expected medals we missed in our supposed main sports...
 
4. Which are the sports that will be invested more in future? 
as usual, our funding is connected to the number of people practicing the sport...so, there's no way to move from the "Football, than the rest" scheme, with swimming, athletics, volleyball, basketball and tennis getting the most money out of our resources left by football...
unfortunately, those disciplines that should get more attention and more money to become more competitive in the next future will be the sports that get the least money, despite their results...

we had a full thread dedicated to the 2019 world roller games...
 
this is what happened that time...
 
http://www.worldskate.org/news/44-skateboarding/3127-wrg-2019-downhill-skateboarding.html