Dunadan

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“Whatever the story may be, and I would like to emphasize again that we have no knowledge of possible fraud at the moment, the basketball players have reached fourth place,” says Van Baelen."So they had their place on sporting grounds, as the results show." 

Nice reasoning.

Guessed exactly the same 10 barely knowing anything 

Nah, long live rankings wherever there is a well established world cup style circuit, as opposed to random qualifying competitions one in a while. Ranking fails mostly happens when they consider way too many lower level tournaments, with 3x3 basketball being the extreme case - a normal ranking with world cup + world series would have been much better, but they had to push for "universality" so...

43 minutes ago, JoshMartini007 said:

some rankings are horrible in predicting who is actually the best.

predicting is not their purpose though, rankings are only meant to tell who has been among the best in a certain set of competitions in a certain (past) period.  Qualification tournaments, especially in sports with a draw and an elimination format, are a much worse way to find out who is the best

these pre-match odds 
 

 will soon get medals everywhere, I think they could be 3rd in the medal count by LA 2028

Gold with 4.15m and podium with 4.05m in pole vault, maybe the lowest level ever?

18 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

If I'm not mistaken, it's basically a matter of who the judge finds more 'cool', and there aren't really any actual scoring criteria/deductions/etc.

Yes, it's based on metaphysics - body and soul or something like that. 

Good start.

Same for Italy, they are doing the last training camp until the 18th according to the federation's website.

Bold prediction: the first B-boy to be olympic champion will be  Lagaet

52 minutes ago, Ted said:

What did she accuse him of

Of not being a good fit to the role, like other fencers wrote.

52 minutes ago, Ted said:

Doesn't it all have to do with the mediocre results of Italian fencing in Tokyo?

Yes

Xxx

The count is not really updated though? There have been lots of world championships since March 2020 which replaced previous WChs.

Just looking at golds for example, ITA is missing Ganna's, FRA Alaphilippe's but should also have lost one in modern pentathlon, sailing, a couple in judo, maybe tennis?

6 minutes ago, De_Gambassi said:

Indeed

 

 

Indeed, that was the 2nd funniest thing of these Games- a Brit getting caught immediately after Brits complained that they had been beaten by someone who would surely be caught within days.

4 minutes ago, De_Gambassi said:

AFAIK, there is no rules on this board 

This part is true, that's why it's basically turned into a nest of trolls.

4 minutes ago, dcro said:

This has already been reached for Paris

How? For Paris I count 156 men's events, 151 women's, the rest open or mixed.

5 minutes ago, De_Gambassi said:

Yes, because anti-doping tests have been sooooooooo efficient to catch cheaters for the last decades obviously. I can't believe people still use that non-argument on a sports forum in 2021.

 

PS: British journalists are among the only ones to have dig up some dirt on their own athletes.

Ah yes, we should disqualify people based on what DeGambassi or Orangeman or OlympicsFan or other big experts think it's obvious, it' much more reliable and fair than doing anti-doping tests

Gender equality for quotas can be worked out a bit...5 more quotas for men here, 10 there and so on, but events can't be created out of nowhere - and I guess the goal is to reach something like 45% men's, 45% women's and 10% mixed/open as soon as possible.

"Are you hurt?" "But who gives a fuck now"...I think anyone who watched videos made from the stands of the first words between his coach and Jacobs after the 4x100 knew he was going to be out for a while.

He might be doping but he's not the one who tested positive so far  British journalists have to prove it instead of making vague references Ryan Murphy-style

I think the pattern is clear for 2028. Rhythmic gymnastics will stay, the number of events in gymnastics is the same for men and women. Artistic swimming will stay as mixed, and greco-roman will go.

Hahahahahahahahaha

Before taxes.

It seems like an impossible task to substistute national forums/groups which have been going on for years with hundreds of members. Why would they move, unless their forums crash and stop working and they need a new place.