thepharoah

Decision on the protest will be given tomorrow morning. Don’t have high hopes. 

India lodges protest against Bahrain in the mixed relay after the Bahranian runner stays on Hima's lane.. And the protest has been accepted ...

Is anyone else a bit disappointed with Kazakhstan's performance? They are usually safely in the top 5, but they have been stuck with bronze medals, but even then their total medal haul is low. They still have boxing (though without their heavier weights they have been relatively struggling) and canoeing to try to move up the table.

Gold and Silver in Men's 800m 

Great news Congrats and happy birthday enjoy 

Thank you all for great wishes guys. I spent my birthday half working, half eating cake and watching tennis  Also, I became uncle! My sister gave a birth to a baby boy, so great day indeed! 

What chokers. They (and Japan) waste so much potential in Track Cycling here.

Not only Qatar does steal or let's say take young African talents , the whole world do so and it won't stop as long as these athletes can't find a good life at their homes , but i should take the other point of view what would these athletes do if they didn't travel and stayed in Sudan , Mauritania , yemen or even Egypt as long as We don't care about athletics i don't seriously know why , they wouldn't have reached this level , they wouldn't have been given these world class coaches , world class facilities , so it's really complicated topic but i do unterstand why you are angry , last thing i'm really impressed by the Indian program in Athletics and iam sure that this program will fastly provide very big results on international level 

For me the line is drawn depending on where the athlete was developed in his/her sport. If x country didn't have anything to do with the formation as an athlete of the person in question then for me that country is feeding from the system of another country.  
 
With this criteria for example Duplantis is (or should have been) american, while someone like Mo Farah is clearly british.

Maybe they are using that ridiculous World championships format, where only the best 3 scores count in qualifications. That's right, "all-around" where only 3/4 scores count.

If you take all four scores for an athlete and add it, the amount showing is much less.

Lucky with 2,24m, the level wasn't really high...

Yes, he defeated the famous Africans Yaser Bagharab and Kazuya Shiojiri.
( ), , ...Africa is expanding.

In direct match-ups, South Korea and Japan lose too many matches against China across most sports. I was hoping it'd get a little closer between these three. However, China will win less gold medals than last time (151) without for example their Weightlifting team or all these extra events in Shooting gone.

Head covering is not compulsory.
 
Well actually the Thai athlete is from Southern Thailand which is the area with biggest Muslim population in Thailand. Same goes with Philippines...

Gold for  In men's recurve teams 

I also like how crowd is really to it

No they're all africans  , even the white in field events are Egyptians , but to be honest all these athletes went there in a very young age so it's similar situation with European countries 

It reminds me of old action movies 

I was wrong

The women’s team recurve Gold Medal Match is starting, I think we might see a TPE victory today

I'm quite sure I saw at least one girl who didn't cover her hair. from Vietnam I think.

Time for some Pencak Silat Finals 

Gold medal for Egypt in Asian Games  Now we have a gold and silver in thrse games , not bad