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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

Progress in filling up the bookcase in our new house All of the boxes we already brought there are now emptied and gone into the bookcase, I'm sure I still have some random stuff laying around here at home/old home, but I'm sure I'll get to that And yes, they are definitely going to be put in a nicer position and so on, instead of this mess (like putting them nice and standing up and such), but I needed to empty all the boxes and kind of sort them a bit, so I can work on making it nice late. Right is sports, left is non-sports (with a large majority of that being related to history)

Poland has a great talent in the women's divisions. Hanna Mazur is being very impressive in the junior World Cup so far, riding 39's as a 16 year old in super slow Tomaszow is really impressive. https://live.isuresults.eu/events/2025_POL_0002/competition/17/results She's also got some endurance, judging by her second place in the mass start today.

So bad being replaced by bad, very roughly speaking. Yeah, that doesn't sound great.

Looks like the rebel offensive in Syria has within two weeks resulted in Assad being ousted from power and gone, that escalated quickly. Does kind of look like the new thing is one of those extremist sharia "disagree with our strict morals and it's the death penalty for you" kind of groups, so...hopefully that's not the reality, but I guess we'll see.

Super nasty fall for Arnaud Boisset in today's first downhill of the season, he was 100% knocked out by hitting his head on the snow....

A whole round of prelims in the women's 1000m in Beijing to eliminate a single skater, that's just...unfortunate

To be fair, that's kind of what you get when you try to pull what he tried to pull

That was one of my highlights of the luge weekend, for sure. It's great that athletes who are good, but also the only ones in their country on this level, can actually race in a team competition this way (especially goes for Ferlazzo and Maag). IBU had these trans-national teams in biathlon relays, but those times are long gone unfortunately.

The full schedule in shorttrack always appears very late, like the day/evening before the first day. So tomorrow evening, you should see it here: https://www.shorttrack.swisstiming.com/?evt=11213100000127

And, in his own words, possible final end of his career. That is quite tragic, he was so excited to compete for his mother's country for at least a season..