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De_Gambassi

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    De_Gambassi got a reaction from konig in Summer Olympic Games Los Angeles 2028 Sports Programme   
    They are really pushing their luck... First, introducing a sport (or sports) that is (are) nowhere near deserving to be at the olympics for apparently local political reasons, then letting the athletes cap goes wild without concerns for future hosts and now asking for breaking the nation-states basis of participation. 
     
    God, I wish IOC tells them to fuck off with their silly ideas (not going to happen obv).
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    De_Gambassi reacted to OlympicIRL in International Olympic Committee News   
    I’m honestly glad they are going this route. I have nothing against eSports. I just feel they would be totally out of place at the Summer Olympics. If they want to host a separate eSports version of the Games then what harm and I wish them the best of luck.
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    De_Gambassi reacted to OlympicIRL in Summer Olympic Games Los Angeles 2028 Sports Programme   
    Not to mention rowing which will take place in a 1500m course, though I blame World Rowing for seemingly not caring enough to request an alternative location for the rowing.
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    De_Gambassi got a reaction from dcro in Summer Olympic Games Los Angeles 2028 Sports Programme   
    They are really pushing their luck... First, introducing a sport (or sports) that is (are) nowhere near deserving to be at the olympics for apparently local political reasons, then letting the athletes cap goes wild without concerns for future hosts and now asking for breaking the nation-states basis of participation. 
     
    God, I wish IOC tells them to fuck off with their silly ideas (not going to happen obv).
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    De_Gambassi reacted to Olympian1010 in Summer Olympic Games Los Angeles 2028 Sports Programme   
    participation question will definitely be the forefront of LA28 headlines if lacrosse is approved by the IOC Session.
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    De_Gambassi got a reaction from Makedonas in Summer Olympic Games Los Angeles 2028 Sports Programme   
    That's local politics, which should not be IOC concerns. If IOC validates such a weak international sport, that would be a travesty of the olympic universal ideals.
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    De_Gambassi got a reaction from SalamAkhi in Summer Olympic Games Los Angeles 2028 Sports Programme   
    That's local politics, which should not be IOC concerns. If IOC validates such a weak international sport, that would be a travesty of the olympic universal ideals.
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    De_Gambassi got a reaction from maestro in Summer Olympic Games Paris 2024 Official Countdown Thread   
    Abe as Mario during the Rio ceremony was freaking cool though.
     
    But, I don't see Asterix will feature, it just l'Equipe doing its thing like they did for the  -  match in 2018
     
     
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    De_Gambassi got a reaction from maestro in Summer Olympic Games Paris 2024 Official Countdown Thread   
    L'Equipe today. Olympic Games X Astérix. I love it

     
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    De_Gambassi got a reaction from maestro in Rowing WR World Championships 2023   
    Please do list them. 
     
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    De_Gambassi reacted to heywoodu in Men's Road Cycling UCI World Tour 2023 (La Vuelta Ciclista a España)   
    It is very split. There's a big Dutch forum where it's split between people laughing their heads off at the absurd dominance they're showing (Vingegaard's Tour de France time trial was a real highlight, but Van Aert's climbing for example scores rather high as well) and some people who either just ignore it or try to rationalize it a bit. I believe there's also two other big specific cycling forums, but I don't really post there, so it's hard to say. From what I've read from other people, it's mostly just a "hurray, it's amazing!" atmosphere there though  
     
    Newspapers and 'critical journalists' and such are just cheering along.
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    De_Gambassi got a reaction from El Analyzer in Summer Olympic Games Los Angeles 2028 Sports Programme   
    We are not talking about the CWGs, these sports are built around the Olympics, you simply can't have any of them on a rotation basis. And really, Judo on rotation ?
     
    The issue with martial arts is quite simple anyway, we have the wrong one  Taekwondo should never have been an olympic sport to begin with. Without TWD, Karate would have entered the program at some point in the 90's and absolute no one would have asked for the introduction of TWD after.
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    De_Gambassi reacted to NearPup in Summer Olympic Games Los Angeles 2028 Sports Programme   
    There are two reasons golf being in the Olympics makes sense. The first is that (except in very limited cases *cough* Rio *cough*) there is a championship qualify golf course in every major city, so hosting an Olympic golf tournament is very cheap. Given that, golf does not need to provide much value to make sense.
     
    But maybe the biggest reason: by having golf in the Olympics it ensures the PGA and LPGA will never schedule an important tournament at the same time as the summer games. Dito with tennis and the ATP/WTA. If you want to watch golf during the Olympics the biggest tournament is… the Olympics.
     
    It’s completely fine if more Olympic fans don’t like golf. Golf isn’t in the Olympics for people like us.
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    De_Gambassi reacted to Olympian1010 in Summer Olympic Games Los Angeles 2028 Sports Programme   
    They also reported Tokyo 2020 would be cancelled in early 2021. Their record on Olympics “exclusives” isn’t great. They might be right here (who knows), but I’ve been burned before by them.
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    De_Gambassi reacted to SalamAkhi in Athlétisme - Qualifications pour Paris 2024   
    Mouai. L'impression que certains ont bien senti le coup du retour olympique pour mettre en place une petite cagnotte des familles 
    Après on voit fleurir des "incroyable quand même que untel doive lancer une cagnotte". Bah non, surtout pas quand tu as pris ta retraite un an avant avec la bagatelle de 0 participation en grand championnat international estival. Après bonne chance à Fred Dagée, qui serait déjà parti de loin sans retraite, et qui va devoir réapparaitre dans les rankings ex nihilo. Il a intérêt à enchainer les bonnes perfs rapidement ... ça sent un peu l'habituel retour annoncé et dont on n'entend plus trop parler ensuite. Allez j'arrête la mauvaise langue 
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    De_Gambassi reacted to Olympian1010 in Summer Olympic Games Los Angeles 2028 Sports Programme   
    Breaking has a lot going for it. It takes very few quotas (32). It can be held in almost any venue, including very public locations. It is different from other artistic sports on the program, given the battle element. It translates very well to television. It also, so far, manages to attract a crowd. It was one of the hottest tickets at The World Games and European Games.
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    De_Gambassi reacted to Adriano in Rowing WR World Championships 2023   
    a little uptade
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    De_Gambassi reacted to intoronto in Summer Olympic Games Los Angeles 2028 Sports Programme   
    Where are the quotas going to come for. We are going to have like 4 entries for some events
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    De_Gambassi got a reaction from Josh in Summer Olympic Games Los Angeles 2028 Sports Programme   
    So basically a forever rotation between North America / Japan and former british colonies. That's a fantastic idea.
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    De_Gambassi got a reaction from Josh in Summer Olympic Games Los Angeles 2028 Sports Programme   
    And also athletes in established olympic disciplines who are cut because of the quotas limitation (I'm strongly thinking about canoeing slalom here)

    Honestly, there is little you can do with the current cap of 10,500 athletes and the olympic program as it is. You can tweek it a bit, but really, just a bit.
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    De_Gambassi got a reaction from Makedonas in Rowing WR World Championships 2023   
    Please do list them. 
     
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    De_Gambassi got a reaction from El Analyzer in Summer Olympic Games Los Angeles 2028 Sports Programme   
    And also athletes in established olympic disciplines who are cut because of the quotas limitation (I'm strongly thinking about canoeing slalom here)

    Honestly, there is little you can do with the current cap of 10,500 athletes and the olympic program as it is. You can tweek it a bit, but really, just a bit.
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    De_Gambassi reacted to Ogreman in Rowing WR World Championships 2023   
    Form rankings                  
     
    M1X W1X M2- W2- M2X W2X LM2X LW2X M4- W4- M4X W4X M8+ W8+ 1 GER NED GBR< AUS NED ROU IRL GBR GBR AUS POL NED GBR ROU< 2 DEN AUS ROU> ROU CRO< LTU FRA ROU< AUS ROU NED CHN NED GBR 3 NZL NZL SWI NED ITA CHN< SWI FRA NZL GBR ITA GBR AUS CAN 4 JPN SWI ESP IRL IRL> USA ITA USA< NED USA GBR SWI ROU< AUS 5 GRE GER IRL GRE ROU FRA CZE IRL USA NED AUS UKR GER USA 6 BEL USA LTU GBR ESP IRL ESP GRE> FRA IRL ROU GER USA> CHN 7 CRO AUT SRB USA BEL AUS GRE NZL ROU CHN EST< ITA< CHN ITA 8 BUL UZB< AUS LTU CHN GRE< BEL CHN UKR DEN UKR< USA> ITA GER 9 NED> SRB< DEN< CHI NZL NED NZL ITA SWI< NZL IRL CAN CAN   10 LTU CHN> USA DEN MDA NOR UKR CAN CHN< ESP GER AUS AUT   11 CAN BUL AIN (B) ESP USA POL MEX> POL GER> POL NOR FRA     12 AIN (R) ESP CRO< CZE> FRA GER NOR SWI POL GER SWI ROU     13 SRB LTU NZL CRO AUS GBR POL AUS RSA> CAN LTU CZE     14 HUN ITA< ITA GER NOR< ITA CHN AUT IRL> MEX CHN       15 ITA> AIN (B)< RSA POL GER NZL GER GER ITA   USA       16 NOR CZE CAN ITA GBR CZE POR ESP DEN   CAN       17 URU< TUR NED NZL GRE CAN AUS DEN     CZE       18 BRA ROU TUR CAN CZE SWI> USA TUN             19 ESP GBR> POL AIN (B) SRB RSA TUR> PER             20 AUS UKR FRA FRA POL>   AUT EGY             21 USA AIN (R) CHN CHN UKR<   EST               22 POR FRA GER PAR SWE<   URU               23 AIN (B) JPN HUN   LTU   UZB>               24 CHN POL SLO   BUL   ISR               25 SLO NOR< CZE   URU>   EGY               26 TUN LAT< EGY   RSA                   27 TUR SLO     CUB                   28 MON PER     EGY                   29 ROU KUW     PER                   30 CYP BRN     BRN                   31 ISR TOG                         32 AZE                           33 SWE>                           34 EGY                           35 MEX>                           36 ESA<                           37 BER                           38 FIN                           39 PAR                           40 ZIM                           41 CIV<                           42 IRQ                           43 GEO                           44 BAR                           45 ANG                           46 BEN                           47 SUD                           48 LIB                           So I did this exercise of trying to rank every boat's form coming into these champs. I did this last year for myself and well it wasn't particularly accurate in terms of trying to predict results but hopefully offers some perspective on where boats might finish and expectations for number of Olympic qualifiers. > means I think a given boat will finish higher than where I have ranked them and < means I think it will actually finish lower than where it is ranked here.        
     
    Anyone know why Japan withdrew all their boats except for their single scullers. I assume it is Asian games related but the likes of their W4- would have at least been competitive here
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    De_Gambassi reacted to Noorderling29 in Summer Olympic Games Los Angeles 2028 Sports Programme   
    Seems very unlikely that European countries outside UK and Ireland would chose cricket over Baseball. Both are minority sports, but Baseball seems the more popular on the continent 
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    De_Gambassi reacted to hckošice in [OFF TOPIC] Language Thread   
    I was always interested to see how other Slovaks do when learning french, because I know it from my own experience, it is damn hard for us ! It may not look so, but french is probably harder for us than Arab or Chinese lol, especially because of the french for us, a completely illogical composition of sentences and different tenses trust me it was first for me a real pain in the ass
     
    So really pleasantly surprised to see a guy in 2 months doing quite well
     

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