De_Gambassi

French cinema at its best
 
 

At first, I had read 'shootering' and for a couple of seconds, I asked myself what the hell : shooting on skates ?
 
Probably more fun than 'scootering' anyway...

Ils ont envoyés trois représentants en 2019. Depuis 2021, c'est un seul participant à chaque fois. Lors des Championnats d'Europe de cette année, il y avait 4 représentants tricolores.

Les Championnats du Monde Junior d'Haltérophilie ont débutés à Leon en Espagne. Du coté Français, Maelyn Delia Angeline Michel, dans le groupe B des -59kg chez les femmes. Elle sera la seule représentante tricolore puisqu'aucun homme ne sera présent.

29 years after his first World Cup medal the 44 years old Michal Martikán won another medal today.
 
This was his 43rd World Cup Podium the first one was in 1995 when he was 15 years old
 




 
 

 
Apart this he is obviously 5 times Olympic medalist winning medal at every Games he took part (2 Golds - 2 Silvers - 1 Bronze)
 
and 15 times World Champion (23 medals overall) and 15 times European Champion (24 medals Overall)
 

 
Just wanted to put it somewhere, because
 
yeah..., a legend deserve it
 
 
 

Like it wasn't bad enough, countries aren't going to be announced as the country anymore, they're now officially racing under super lame forced nicknames.
 
Dutch Lions
Korean Tigers
American Eagles
Belgian Ice Bears
etc.
 

What nonsense.

Un petit mot sur la Coupe du Monde Junior de Football féminin qui a lieu actuellement en Colombie. La France était dans un groupe avec le Canada, le Brésil et les Fidji. Le premier match face au Canada s'est terminé par un score nul 3-3. La rencontre suivante s'est soldé par une défaite 3-0 face aux Brésiliennes. Heureusement, les Françaises ont bien renforcés leur goal average en humiliant les Fidji 11-0 (Qui ont encaissé 29 buts en 3 matchs). En huitième, les Bleues rencontreront le 2ème du groupe F, c'est à dire soit la Corée du Nord, soit les Pays Bas, soit l'Argentine. La dernière équipe du groupe, le Costa Rica, est déja éliminé.

I was watching the badminton final between the french and british guy (won by the former)
 
I don't think I ever seen such sportmanship in defeat like Krysten Coombs showed us tonight. That was fantastic to see.
 
And kudos to the winner Charles Noakes obviously 
 
 

Ironically they were born within 60 miles of each other as Noakes is from south-east England like Coombs.

joins  on the list of nations with a medal at the Paralympic Games, but not at the Olympic Games (assuming my research is correct).
 
Ask and you shall receive @heywoodu and @intoronto
 
Edit:  was left off the list, since they don't keep as a sperate team at the Olympics.

First ever medalist across both the Olympics or Paralympics.

I certainly didn't expect a full pool for swimming morning sessions. That's great to see.
 
 

Nice gold...but 16s advantage? I can't get used to such races. It's like it's not his category. For me differencies between athletes are too extreme here. Much bigger than in womans boxing. But here everyone is extatic..me...this is the reason i find it difficult to watch. 

Greater China WINNER
 

Hi @Gianlu33, @Griff88, @JoshMartini007, @mpjmcevoy, @vinipereira, @Vic Liu, @Cinnamon Bun, @hckošice, @rybak, @Josh, @avlar, @heywoodu, @Epic Failure, @phelps, @ChandlerMne @Grassmarket, @De_Gambassi, @Olympian1010, @konig, @Monzanator , @dodge, @PHI2019, @Fer GUA Attached is points table based on Top 8 performance in each event where 1st place gets 10 points, 2nd gets 7 pts, 3rd gets 5, 4th gets 2.5, 5th gets 2,6th gets 1.5, 7th gets 1 and 8th gets 0.5 pts. To measure nations' performance few terms have been introduced
'Quota' is number of participants per country in each event. Qualified but non-participation is not included in Quota.
'Top 8' is the number of events a country finished in Top 8.
Conversion = Top 8 / Quota which implies Contingent quality.
'Normalized Points' = Points / (Number of events in that sport). For example, if a country wins just 1 Gold in Archery, they will get 10 points but 10 points/ 5 events = 2 Normalized Points. This metric will be high for countries who earn points in multiple sports.
Aquatics events  has been divided into sports like 'Artistic Swimming', 'Swimming', 'Water Polo' and 'Diving' otherwise 'Sport' can be defined as set of events governed by same federation
 
Salient Observations
1) The nations' rank for points is closely related to rank of total medals won
2)  is ahead of  in points table by a fair distance but very close in Normalized Points as  dominates multiple sports like Diving, Table Tennis, Badminton
3) Countries like  ,  ,  , are ranked high in points table but low in Normalized Points as they won medals in very few sports
4) Despite winning no medals,countries like  ,  ,  have earned decent points
 
Please put in your comments and feedback. There might be data errors due to primary data errors, misinterpretation, or less information on a sport

 
Olympics_2024.xlsx

I certainly didn't expect a full pool for swimming morning sessions. That's great to see.
 
 

I certainly didn't expect a full pool for swimming morning sessions. That's great to see.
 
 

I certainly didn't expect a full pool for swimming morning sessions. That's great to see.
 
 

Impressive set-up...
 

they use one athletics field and two training football fields for this event
 

Impressive set-up...
 

Résultats peu reluisants du côté des Mondiaux de piste u20. On a déjà eu du mal à convertir nos (très) bons juniors en très bons séniors dernièrement, mais là ça si nos sprinters ne passent même plus les quarts aux CM u20 (quand ils sont alignés puisqu'on avait encore 0 fille). 
Une nouvelle fois mieux du côté de la distance avec deux bonnes poursuites (deux médailles d'argent derrière deux équipes qui tapent le RM) mais ça fait un moment que c'est le cas et on ne voit pas forcément de profils monter dans les équipes A. Chez les filles c'est compréhensible vu que l'équipe est encore assez jeune et a passé tous les paliers comme ça (même si Labastugue paraissait prometteuse, elle a complètement disparu). Chez les garçons par contre on n'a pas nécessairement les moyens de garder les meilleurs profils (cf Vauquelin) et la question même de la viabilité de la PPE va peut-être se poser (cf article de DirectVelo). Un succès sur le scratch homme mais c'est vraiment l'épreuve de laquelle on ne peut rien tirer. Il arrive que "n'importe qui" l'emporte en senior, pareil ici, sans parler du fait que les plus forts préféreront viser l'omnium ou la poursuite individuelle.

Not sure how are they in France now but i remember looking at the Equipe newspaper and being jealous of the headlines they gave to non-football (of course football is still the big headline majority of times, but i remember seeing several times big covers for other sports, either after they win or just because some big competition was coming up).
 
There has been good improvements in some newspapers though. But the big problem are the tv channels, that's where the attention is given 100% to football clubs drama (almost every night there are "sport talkshows" in every channel, lasting for one or two hours, where they only talk about benfica/porto/sporting topics).

But tv channels also are mostly just a reflection of how majority of people think. For example, one of the saddest things i remember seeing while i was still living there: Nelson Évora, at the time one of the only four gold medallists in our entire history, after he won the medal, decided to change his training club (for the same reason anyone changes jobs, to get better compensation), and decided to leave Benfica and join Sporting (football club rivals from Lisbon).

Did anyone cared about triple jump at all? About athletics? No. And yet, the backlash of this was so big that people started to hate him, boo him, stop following on social networks, all this things just because he had left one football club to join some other. This was in 2016. Today, 2024, and there are still a lot of people that got happy because he didn't make it to the Olympics, because of what happened back them...
 
Football clubism in Portugal is a super toxic disease and one of the things that i hate there (and that i'm glad is not as bad here in NL )

I wish every person in France that complains here about the coverage of non football sports opened just once one of the sports newpapers in Portugal