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https://i.imgur.com/lP8Fgt8.mp4 "How come you finished 4th again?" Ouch

Pogacar with a massive case of overestimating his technical abilities.

Yep, Pedersen would have been the only one who had a serious chance against them.. Philipsen as well maybe, since VdP let him get back.

Flat for Pedersen, right when he was looking so strong

Probably not helped by Livigno just being a massive pain in the ass in general in terms of 'reachability' (and the people there being convinced Livigno is the only place in the world that matters, but that's another thing entirely ).

Finally! Oh my that was about time

Traitor is a nice way to describe him, really the only explanation for his actions (because I'm going to naively believe he is not actually dumb) is that he is a foreign agent and not even really hiding it, at all

Wouldn't 8 be better then, if 16 is too much (which, especially for the men, it is)? Then you can at least have a decent format, for which you need 4, 8, 16 or 32 teams (well, or 64 or 128 ).

Which ones? I added the biathlon pursuit day for Bruna and myself, the one I was still hoping for (category B, 2x200 for category A was a bit too much ) Some others would be nice too, but with her (hopefully) competition schedule, it would be unwise to go for something like the day between two competitions, sadly

16 women's teams, because 12 is a shitty number for a tournament - both because the forced continental representation will lead to it being a relatively weak tournament and because you can not make a decent tournament with 12 teams, you'll be forced to have the super awful 'best third placed teams' nonsense. 0 men's teams Instead of a total of 28, we go to a total of 16 teams. We gain 12 x whatever number of players are in a men's team for sports where the Olympics are important, we have a women's tournament with a decent format and we get rid of having junior championships at the Olympics, win-win-win

Wow, the final selection is already made now? Interesting, keep up updates please! I assume Kim Gilli will be on her way, normally?

Nothing too realistic. To be fair, rumours of Verstappen going to team X or Y (mostly Mercedes and Aston Martin) have been going on for years, I'm still expecting him to sit out his entire contract with Red Bull

But that's only a thing in the longer events, since one would generally go all-out in everything under 800 meters anyway. For short/long hurdles, they should simply do the 100/110/400 meter hurdles twice, if they so badly want to have it as a double thing. Having all the hurdle specialists do flat races is fun for a bit, not gonna lie, but it makes the whole thing feel mostly like an exhibition event. Besides, start this in a small stadium in the US instead of something big like this. Now it had the feel of a random training field somewhere in godknowswhere. Why does it need to be so massively American immediately, start a bit more...humble, and try and grow from there.

Oh, right, there is Hirscher But I think that's unlikely as well, given his injury that kept him out of almost the entire season and his results before that which were nowhere near what he would need to qualify....I highly doubt it. It'd be cool, but I doubt it.

Were you scouting interesting new countries to join TISC?