De_Gambassi

Don't let it get cold then This is the sport where Swaziland is going to win its first medal after all. It does matter.

It's also interesting to note that the UCI BMX Freestle World Cup is really only an endorsement of a previous established tour run by a private organization, just like skateboarding. Edit: a organization that - besides mistaking swaziland and switzerland - doesn't apparently knows what's the US flag looks like neither.

It was allways shit, don't worry.

Yeah, it's a mistake. (here she is swis) Come on, a white girl from freaking Swaziland beeing a pro BMX freestyler. What the odds of that ?

On a side note, I've just checked previous World Cup results. There were a whooping 8 girls competiting in the first stage in Montpellier... Thank you IOC, thank you.

Heuh... Switzerland ?

What could that be ? (Spain, horses ... ??) Well, simply put (and with almost a week late), it is Spain breaking one of the longuest streak in international sport, winning the Euro Horse-ball Championship after 18 straight wins from France since the beginning of the tournament in 1992. "Historique" all righ, then. Beaware, dutch korfball, you're next.

That's not what I meant.

Then, World Equestrian Games as the first Olympics qualifer (any sport), just like last time ? Only 13 months to go

I really don't think they do. Previous figures had cycling much higher. Obisously, I'm wrting that after Gianlu33 post

Yeah, they just picked some random numbers in a hat.

Yes Durban, most likely. But again, the timing could not be worse for an african bid.

After Doha (low attendance high risk) and Eugene (limited seating capacity), I really don't see IAAF taking any risk with 2023. So most likeley back to Europe or Japan.

The championships are over, it's tables times Medals table Placing table For anyone interested, I've also updated my historic placing table (here). Poland, The Netherlands and Great Britain scored an all time high, when Italy and Ukraine hited an all time low (Russia too, but that was expected)

It wont' be competitive enough until Germany wins a medal.

His four jumps so far have been all kind of awfull, tbh. Mayer's third jump @ 5.10 for anyone interested.

Never doubted him.

Not quite, he'll need to hit his PBs (or very near) in the three remaining events.

The canadian apocalypse championships are still on with Warner trying his best to keep on with the mood.

Good news for the first part About the second one, I guess you're not a fan of supply economics ? I don't really see how having threads with no general interest is such a bad idea. At worst, they will be short lived and forgotten, at best, they will allow more users to engage on more subjects for a longer period of time. They might even trigger new users to post on these subjects. If anything, more threads means more different pages to be indexed, and thus more chances to be find out via a random google search.. tbh, every popular board I know let users post their own thread (under some guidance ofc)

I hate to be that guy. But we really need some more active mods that actually ban people from posting. The shitshow and constant OT by a couple of the users on the athletics world championship thread have been very toxic and has probably turn down more than a few people. On a side note, and generally speaking, I feel people should be encouraged to post their own thread about side subjects (for instance, the new women 50KM walking event could/should have had its own thread).. At the end of the day, the general - insert sport - discussion thread might be conter productive.

Because there are more incentives to dope, the higher level you go (money, fame...). Match fixing is a different beast entirrely, the reward is the same regardless of the level of the match, but the risk to be caught is lower, the lower you go through the ranks. @Agger I won't disagree that the peloton is a lot cleaner that 10 or 15 years ago, but I'd argue it has more to do with the introduction of the blood passport and the various cases brought by the justice, that the anti doping system per se.

Considering that more continental and continental pro cyclists are getting caught than world tour ones, it could only means two things: - that doping is more prevalent at lower professionnal ranks than at top level one, which seems ver, very unlkely. - that the antidoping system is not working and will catch almost only doping athletes that don't have the means (financiaral or otherwise) to get away with it.

Kabbadi not a safe heaven anymore, the world is near total collapse. But I guess the most interesting stat is the one regarding which teams get caught in cycling. #notworking

Yes, I know. and we could also see the 'spring games' happening at some point (an idea from the 60's IIRC). But that's not my point. I think at some point there might be a case for FIS (and IBU) to walk away from the Olympics and have its own games whithout the skating and sliding sports (which are the the ones that commend most of the infrastructure costs and thus the shitty locations and the bad press).