heywoodu

Hello from Oberwiesenthal, where there will be FESA Cup races tomorrow and Sunday Spot the Brazilian, I assure you she's on the photo

Still, the men were 7 seconds away from their first relay podium in...26 years?

Another, and this time quite high profile case in the 'technical sport where doping doesnt really help' that is football. I wonder what it will be, 3 months ban?

Any chance one could rewatch these events on YouTube? Such a tragedy Eurosport doesn't do weightlifting anymore And it's not on Eurovisionsports neither.

Aaaaaand it's gone thanks to the slightly older Slind

As I believe you've posted every single season, after commenting on recent results, suggesting enough interest to keep checking the results again and again only to be able to say "I don't care"

world record to finish of these championships

Julia Tannheimer is such an impressive talent.

Yeah, but there as well: are all of these swimmers suddenly the best ever? I know and understand they're good, but it would be an extreme coincidence if in one specific event suddenly a handful of the best ever appear. It 'smells' way more like either some sort of thing with the pool or some sort of new breakthrough in clothing or something like that, some of the margins with which the records are being smashed are truly insane and seem to go way further than just 'ah, first time she raced in a 25m pool I mean, imagine a 20+ WR world championships in athletics, we'd be desperately looking for explanations (like the super shoes in recent years, so at least there is an explanation there)

It's not just Walsh though, WR's are dropping like flies. 8x Gretchen Walsh 3x Summer McIntosh 3x Noè Ponti 2x Jordan Crooks 2x Kate Douglass (and a few single ones plus relays) In 5 days....that is insane. Either something is up with the pool, or no top swimmer has taken short course somewhat serious in the past 20 years or so (which is possible, I guess, but why all of a sudden now? ). It's just a bit odd, and arguably not really great for the image of swimming. Don't get me wrong, still enjoying the event as always

Kinda feels like the Russian athletics championships when they were in Cheboksary and all the Russians had mega performances there (and then not really outside of it) Although to be fair, the World Cup saw tons of WR's as well, so it might feel more like a sort of trend of some new development (hopefully in equipment).

And with some margin in some cases. It's like before this year, nobody took it seriously, it's quite insane to see this many WR's fall...whoever built that pool is incredible

Is this the first time (some) top swimmers are actually taking the short course world championships serious, or what? This is what I meant earlier in the year about the 'believability' of a sport

Any idea what makes the Budapest pool so fast by the way? I know in speed skating and track cycling altitude plays a role, for example, but isn't water...you know...water? I get that it has something to do with the pool and some kind of technology, that's obvious, but not really sure what it is that can make a pool 'faster'.

25k is definitely more than enough for WR's in a sport where quite a few athletes realistically can compete in 4-5+ events in one championship