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phelps

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    phelps got a reaction from heywoodu in Athletics 2018 Discussion Thread   
    3 failures at 1.94 (not sure if the good result was 1.90 or 1.91)...
     
    here you can watch all the Russian championships live and/or on-demand (women's HJ is in day #1, вечерняя сессия...Chicherova's attempts at 1.94 are at about 3h30mins of that video):
    http://eng.rusathletics.com/sor/calendar.4337.htm
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    phelps reacted to heywoodu in Tokyo Summer Olympic Games 2020 News   
    Just like in Rio. That was awesome, on the major Dutch forum the only people watching and posting were people actually interested in the sports instead of people who don't care and just come to troll (which happens a lot when it's during daytime)
     
    Still hate the fact that I'm being mocked for the 200m breaststroke though. One guy asked "who's the favourite for this race?", I answered "Everyone but Balandin."......couple minutes later, Balandin won the gold.
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    phelps reacted to heywoodu in Tokyo Summer Olympic Games 2020 News   
    Morning is fine too, like Pyeongchang  
     
    I mean, I like when it starts anywhere between 23:00 and 01:00, generally speaking, because then most of the sports day is in a time when at least here there won't be people awake asking for your attention  Plus when it's over halfway in the afternoon, that leaves plenty of time for stuff like stocking up in the supermarket, which is hard when the Olympics are in Europe (since then the supermarkets are closed outside of the sports hours  )
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    phelps got a reaction from Olympian1010 in Athletes Deaths Thread   
    unfortunately Ten's death is confirmed...
    https://bnews.kz/en/news/25_year_old_denis_ten_has_died
    R.I.P.
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    phelps got a reaction from zob79 in Fencing FIE World Championships 2018   
    well, I'm not that old (I'm gonna turn 44 in 9 days) to remember foil and epee before wiring (my first really clear memories are about the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles and those weapons were already wired)...
    meanwhile sabre became like the others only after the Seoul 1988 Olympic Games...and I remember that before that, all assaults lasted more than a foil match because there were always a lot of complaints and so many fencers arguing with the refs at every hit...
    and actually many times the fencers also had a lot of discussions even between themselves during the assault, reciprocally complaining about opponent's unfair attemps to manipulate the ref...
    what I liked, it was the rule that after 3 calls of "simultanèe" priority was assigned to one of the 2 athletes (the 1st was by draw, then it was 1 left and 1 right according to the natural sequence), so in case of a 4th call "simultanèe" the hit was going to someone in any case...I'd rather apply that rule also to today's sabre, because I can't stand those coward refs who always call that even 10 or more times in a row every time they do not have a really evident "winner" of the hit...
    I couldn't find anything about the epic mess of the team bronze medal match in Seoul 1988 (guess who were involved? yes, you're right...the Italians were there ), but here is part of the Los Angeles 1984 Team Gold Medal match between ITA and FRA...that's a good expample of how sabre was at the time...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQjDT6ORMyk
     
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    phelps reacted to zob79 in Fencing FIE World Championships 2018   
    What's a world fencing contest without atletes from Congo, Botswana and Togo? I think the WCH should be stopped immediately
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    phelps got a reaction from dcro in Winter Olympic Games Beijing 2022 Olympic Sports Programme   
    sure...if you think that even "the Donald" is better than Hitler and Stalin...
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    phelps got a reaction from dcro in Tokyo Summer Olympic Games 2020 News   
    no, here in Europe it's not like that...
    it's not a question of being sexist...it's really like @dcro wrote...
    most girls here are not really interested in sports (especially some not so popular disciplines not seen as "female oriented"), even when they're given the same exact opportunities as the boys...
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    phelps reacted to hckošice in Tokyo Summer Olympic Games 2020 News   
    Right it´s +7 not +9.
    never been brilliant in maths..
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    phelps got a reaction from heywoodu in Football 2018 Discussion Thread   
    why don't you take a tour to the Roller Sports (Rink Hockey Euro 2018) thread?
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    phelps got a reaction from Olympian1010 in Winter Olympic Games Beijing 2022 Olympic Sports Programme   
    sure...if you think that even "the Donald" is better than Hitler and Stalin...
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    phelps got a reaction from Morten Jensen in Tokyo Summer Olympic Games 2020 News   
    for what I see, the men's 50km race walk starts at 6 a.m. Tokyo time, which means 11 p.m. of the previous day here in Central Europe (and not 9 p.m. CET)...
    and also the Slalom Canoeing races start at 6 a.m. (qualifications) and 7 a.m. (semis & finals) CET...
    in Summer, Tokyo time is UTC+9, which means CET+7...
    https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/japan/tokyo
     
    p.s. I guess the schedule has been compiled by the same genious that made the Pyeongchang one...almost all the finals are locked in the 6 to 10 p.m. local time (and a few in the morning and in the 2 - 4 p.m. slots)...
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    phelps got a reaction from heywoodu in Winter Olympic Games Beijing 2022 Olympic Sports Programme   
    I'm happy you've taken it so light...
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    phelps got a reaction from Olympian1010 in Winter Olympic Games Beijing 2022 Olympic Sports Programme   
    I'm happy you've taken it so light...
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    phelps got a reaction from hckošice in Winter Olympic Games Beijing 2022 Olympic Sports Programme   
    I'm happy you've taken it so light...
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    phelps reacted to intoronto in Winter Olympic Games Beijing 2022 Olympic Sports Programme   
    I am pretty sure Totallympics collectively could create a better sports program. 
     
     
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    phelps got a reaction from NearPup in Winter Olympic Games Beijing 2022 Olympic Sports Programme   
    and here comes out your poor knowledge of the game (and the fact that you've never tried to play it in an organized situation)...
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    phelps reacted to heywoodu in Winter Olympic Games Beijing 2022 Olympic Sports Programme   
    No worries, I enjoyed the ice hockey last Olympics, just wanted to get my Slovak buddy's heart rate to go up  
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    phelps got a reaction from George_D in Fencing FIE World Championships 2018   
    Fencing FIE World Championships 2018  
    Wuxi (CHN) - 19 July 2018 - 27 July 2018  
      Totallympics Results Thread
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    phelps got a reaction from heywoodu in Men's Ice Hockey NHL 2017 - 2018   
    it was just an euphemism/a bit of sarcasm...
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    phelps reacted to hckošice in Women's Basketball FIBA Under 20 Division A European Championship 2018   
    hell must be freezing over..we won a match a useless game between two relegated countries for 15th-16th place, but still IT IS a win
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    phelps reacted to heywoodu in Which Sports Events are you Currently Watching?   
    Thanks, I forgot water polo. Now I have even less time  
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    phelps got a reaction from Olympian1010 in Sailing WS World Championships 2018   
    don't overestimate yourself...you could always find someone ready to make you cry...
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