De_Gambassi

Come on... Wrestling (UWW wrestling I mean) has as much to do with the antique greece 'wrestling' than Soccer has to with the chinese ball game that the FIFA endorsed some years ago: pretty much nothing. Most modern sports emerged from different folk traditional western europe games and were codified during the 19th century (mainly in England) Wrestling is hardly any different. Many sports could claim some kind of ancestry with relative similar looking games found in one or another antique civilization (and many do actually), it doesn't mean they are the same sports, not by a long shot. Regarding, the number of events and considering wrestling beeing only a d tier sport, it shouldn't have too many spots. I realize that some sports are more equal than others, and some kind of compromise has to be reached to safeguard the many weight classes, disciplines, boat types, etc one sport could have. With its compromise in mind, I'm okish with 18 events (would still prefer 15 or 16), but I'll hate seeing once again wrestling growing out of proportion with what it is (just as much as I hate seeing swimming almost reaching the number of events of athletics). /personall and all that.

Not sure about that.They were also supposed to show of most of the eventing competition, but ehy didn't. Another french channel will probably show everything (Equidia Life), but I don't know if it is available though satelite.

I have to admit, the scenery looks really cool.

There is no world where wrestling would have more events than cycling or gymnastics at the Olympics that could make sense. 18 events for wrestling ,is allready too much.

Good grief, I've seen almost 7 kms. I feel cheated

I was only able to catch the last few kms, but apprently there was no breakaway during the all day ?

Mascot's time What would be some sports games whithout, a mascot ? That's right : nothing . The FIRS is proud to present to the World: Ningning, an apparently skating capable flower very much into colors : Soon enough on ebay NingNing is making people happy

Suprise of the day: the french baseball team defeated the home team in front of a packed stadium

Count on me ! I can feel the excitement spreading through the world But, seriouslsy, less than stellar sporting events and cheap trollling aside it is quite a big deal and a huge step forward for the roller sports familly. Edit: at the very least, some of the names in the roller speed skating should ring a bell or two in the Netherlands.

Yeah, I guess, there is not so much you can do with it sportswize. Yes, but that's the same problem with the other general threads here, someone which is only interested in the legacy issue might not click on a general thread about Rio Games. Besides, we could have a nice recap of every venues and what they become (yeah, that's a bit of work)

Has the Sambodrome beeing used by any sporting event since the Olympics ? OT: I think we should have a Rio legacy thread that covers the good, the bad and the ugly whithout rose or doom & gloom tinted glasses

Before, skatboarding was invited to Tokyo 2020, the closer, the sport was ever to the olympic dream was in 1992, when rink hockey was played as a demonstration sport during the Barcelona games. Luckely enough, the final between Spain and Argentina has just been uploaded on the Olympic Channel https://www.olympicchannel.com/es/events/world-roller-games-2017/

Q&A: -------- What the hell ? : First, thank you for this great question. The Roller Games are the first roller sports games organized by the roller sports federation also known as the "Fédération internationale de Roller Sports", pardon my french). During these games, 110 events from 10 disciplines will be show off during 15 days. 4,000 athletes are expected. Nanjing, like in Nanjing, China ? : Yes, very good ! Not exactly your roller sports mecca, the city was initially chosen to host the second Roller Games in 2019, but after the withdraw of Barcelona in early 2016, both cities switch places making Nanjing the host city of these inaugural games. So what are the sports ? : Immagine the Winter Olympic Games but without the snow and the ice ? Excited yet ? No ? well, you should, because that is exactly what you're going to get: Artistic, Alpine, Speed, Hockey (x2 !)... Wait...two hockeys ? : Yes ! One is played on classic quad skates, when the second one is played on inline skates (pro tip: don't mention the existence of the other hockey to the other group). Rink Hockey, Artistic and Roller Rerby are played on quad skates; Alpine, Downhill, Freestyle, Inline Hockey and Speed are played on inline skates; and finally skateboarding is played... well, on skateboards. No rollerball then ? I'm affraid no. But you have Roller Derby (but yes, that's not the same without the explosions) Why should I care? Because... it's on TV !. Ah forget about that, it probably won't be. Still, with 110 events, the odds are one of your countrymen is going to win one of these medals. And you like some random medals as much as the next guy, right ? Any streams anywhere ? The federation actually has a pretty serviceable streaming service here. There is some hoping, we will be able to catch most of it.

World Roller Games 2017 Nanjing (CHN) - 27 August 2017 - 10 September 2017 Totallympics Results Thread

FFS, AG2R that's not even faking at trying ! (Yes, I'm late)

The future semi-senil grand pa in me wanted to share something It's actually not the first time, the Nîmes romans arenas host a sporting event. In the early 90's the arenas were coverted and a couple of handball matches and a Davis Cup tie were played there. Thank you for your time.

Could it be becuase it was never needed in the first place . Oh, the audacity.

I just realized that you didn't stated it was a men's road cyling event in the thread's tittle. And yet, I didn't get confused, thinking it could be a women BMX event. intriguing

Once, your top favorite GC rider's team is not also the favorite team to win a TTT, I'll agree Same with ITT, really.

I can understand why they chose Nîmes for the postcard thing, but from a crowd perspective, it'is going to be rough. Cycling ends in July here.

Well, I guess, it's good to know. Still a discipline that has nothind to do with the Olympics IMHO.

Too bad, he was such of an enthousiast of french litterature ...

Really ?

That sounds likely. The best ones are shooting videos for youtube as we speak. Though, we are stuck with these ones until the IOC find his sense back.