thepharoah

2018 Individual European Championships
 
 
Men's Finals (Today @ 2 & 4 p.m. CET)
 
Bronze Medal Match: Raphael Kandra vs Lucas Serme
Gold Medal Match: Borja Golàn vs George Parker
 
 
Women's Finals (Today @ 1 & 3 p.m. CET)
 
Bronze Medal Match: Nele Gilis vs Tinne Gilis
Gold Medal Match: Coline Aumard vs Millie Tomlinson

A team that lost a game 8-0 ends up winning the tournament.
 
Malaysia squandered a 5-2 lead with 8 minutes to go and a 6-5 in the last minute. I feel their chance for OG is gone with this...

Only after the Germany-New Zealand men's QF match in Rio, this is the craziest hockey match I've seen.

Malaysia already 4-1 up before half-time.
 
Japan is a low level team, Pakistan really shouldn't have lost to them. 

2-0
 
Heung Min Son is saved.

and in the Baseball Gold medal match, Japan lost to Korea once again...
 
3-0 for the Koreans the final score of today's match (with the result basically decided after the 1st inning, when KOR scored 2 of their 3 runs)...

No Malaysia  is going to win a historic gold 

He's finally back 

wow. medal in table tennis !
 
well done Noshad

No, I´m not. Actually I am a huge fan and admirer of womens and a real supporter of womens sport
 
...but the truth is that I lost 10 years of my life today watching that match..

Serbian club will finish with -20 GD...

I still can't believe that my favorite club is in group stage  This is like a dream really.

There will be no gold for the host today, good news or bad news?
 

2018 Individual European Championships started yesterday in Graz (AUT)...
all infos, schedules, results (and link to youtube live broadcast) here:
https://www.europeansquash.com/sport/tournament.aspx?id=8017FB04-0282-4A97-BCBC-C8CA95EF0E2B
 
unfortunately, some of the best European players like Gregory Gaultier,  James Willstrop among the men and Camille Serme among the women are not at the start of this event...

And it's Goooold 

I was checking some stats and Ehsan Haddadi is only the 2nd athlete in history of Asian Games to win the same event 4 times in a row ! (Shigenobu Murofushi won hammer throw 5 times in a row) and considering Haddadi's age, at least one more AG is possible for him. of course Svetlana Radizvil can makes it 4 next time. that was her 3rd title.
 
but this was the first time Ehsan crying after winning the gold. which was a very easy win actually. he had tough situations in past 2-3 years. he almost went to jail before Rio Olympics. had so many surgeries. lost his coach etc. I lost respect for him because of those charges but maybe he was innocent after all . the final verdict never made it into the news. but he is a true patriot and that's why I like him. he had some nice Persian poems about Iran written on his shirt in today's competition.

Let him first reach another GS final  

WL 69.72 in discus throw by Daniel Stahl at swedish nationals

And finally... the day came: Ginobili retires from basketball.
 
Euroleague, Olympic and NBA x 4 champion, NBA All-Star x2. Up there with Gasol as the most succesful non-american basketball player ever.
 
Even though I'm not a huge basketball fan he was protagonist of some of the fondest childhood memories I have about sport.
 
Farewell Manu  

The 2 Uzbek athletes cleared 1.91 m in women's HJ

Several Indonesian medallists at the Asian Games have offered to raise money and donate their win bonuses to the victims that were hit by a series of earthquakes at Lombok island.
http://www.euronews.com/2018/08/29/indonesian-medal-winners-contribute-towards-lombok-cause

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/45277281?ns_linkname=sport&ns_campaign=bbc_sport&ns_source=facebook&ns_mchannel=social
 
Son Heung-Min could face mandatory military service even if he wins gold medal at Asian Games 

Both Ferrer and Youzhny retires in their last matches at Grand Slam :/ 

I removed all non-Olympic events that I could. For clarification weightlifting was left as is while in karate I only removed the lightest weightclass as I cannot combine the two heavier weightclasses.
 
Medals Lost (at least 10)
- 45
- 43
- 36
- 26
- 20
- 19
- 18
- 18
- 16
- 13
- 12
- 12
- 11
- 10
- 10
 
Unsurprisingly Indonesia was hit the hardest, losing 45 medals, but still sitting in 11th on the medal table. Overall Southeast Asia took the hardest hit. Thailand lost half its medals and also dropped out of the top 10 and is sitting in 15th. Malaysia lost 18/20 medals. Bahrain and Kazakhstan have both moved into the top 10 (8th and 10th respectively). Japan despite being a distant second only lost 13 medals. North Korea is the only nation in the old top 10 to lose fewer than 10 medals (2 lost). The following nations which won medals no longer have any; Afghanistan, Cambodia, Unified Korea, Laos and Myanmar.
 
Top 10 (G-S-B)
1. 77-49-37
2. 36-36-57
3. 21-29-32
4. 11-7-7
5. 11-6-13
6. 9-14-9
7. 8-11-8
8. 8-3-5
9. 6-11-9
10. 6-9-23