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@Sindo Just wanted to check if you're awake. You know, for Temu coupon related reasons

I've been wondering that for most of the Olympic surfing event, when seeing that most of the tricks consisted of staying upright (I was expecting jumps and stuff, but of course that's also because I had no clue ).

But it's in the final, no? How was he robbed by the way? Apart from simply not getting the scores he wanted

This was a joke, correct?

Yeah, this hasn't exactly been a secret It's not like she isn't allowed to compete in Brussels, she just can't compete in the DL races due to ignoring the DL all year long.

But come on, if you and I have a similar deal and I lose, I'd wear a Canadian jersey with my chin up and not try to hide it

Not as far as I know. Theo does have an (older) brother from the world of sports, speed skating great Jan Bos. Patrick is from an entirely different region than Jan and Theo (who are both from a tiny town 5km from my own small town ).

ChatGPT with a few answers as well (including most mentioned things)

Exactly. And judging by how they race, most of the time they're going straight, or at least not with such curvature that they'd lose 10+ seconds.

That's what I meant with the mental barrier. Like for me, as someone who is not used to swimming blind, there is no way I'd dare to go as fast as I can when swimming blind. But at some point, at this kind of level, I kind of assume that due to thousands of hours of training, this has become so much 'second nature' to them, that they're not that worried anymore about whether or not they are swimming straight, which got me wondering what exactly makes them be for example 10-15 seconds slower in the 100m breast stroke.

Not exactly, still a DQ, but running under protest is far from new or unusual. I think I'd always do that, even knowing you're going to get a DQ it's better than not running at all probably.

Fantastic, those threads have now become way more readable (also compared to all other threads)

Something I just started wondering and together with a colleague couldn't really get a clear answer to: what exactly makes blind swimmers slower than non-blind swimmers? Like, take a sport like powerlifting, where you lay on your back and lift a weight up. If you're blind, that should make zero difference for the sport, whereas in for example running, alpine skiing or cycling it's pretty obvious how a blind person is slower, what with the corners and all. But in swimming, once one gets over the of course considerable mental barrier of being able to swim straight and daring to go 100%, what makes one slower than a non-blind swimmer, is there some physical aspect to that as well? Definitely not meant to minimize performances, so I tried to be careful with my wording, just genuinely curious as to how that works

We have more than one Canadian user, no?

Kind of feels like in recent months some of the 'top users' (in terms of activity throughout the years) have gotten, I don't know, an actual life or something and aren't online that much anymore

Warholm standing around with a Norwegian flag around his Swedish jersey, that is weak man. Sore loser

Yes, if he can train on one or two events at a time for a full year or two and set his PB's there, before moving to the next event. No way he can get to 10k points in a real two-day decathlon if he were to make a switch to full-time multi-eventing That's not to say he is not an amazing athlete, but to say that almost 900 points above the current WR is insane It would be beyond amazing if he would manage to get anywhere near 9000.

Watching the handbike races makes me wonder what the rules in terms of design of the bikes are. For example Jetze Plat is using rear wheels that are WAY bigger than basically anyone else's, that seems like a rather big advantage (not saying unfair, because I presume it's all within the rules).

That's worth checking out after work, thanks Meanwhile, the world championships website doesn't offer much, but the tug of war federation has more, including...a live stream https://tug-of-war.tv/live No graphics to speak of, so no idea what we're looking at other than just people pulling a rope, but it's something

She has passed away, the Ugandan federation has announced

Meanwhile, today the tug of war world championships start Highly uninformative website can be found here: https://tow2024.de/en/program-2/ No start lists, nothing at all to suggest where results can be found, only a very general program which doesn't say exactly what's going on. If anyone ( @Olympian1010? ) has any idea about where information can be found, I'm all ears. And of course a live stream would be cool

I doubt Amsterdam would have this though, it's not really a Dutch sport, more of a Frisian thing If only Heerenveen or something would go for the Olympics

Fun fact: tomorrow in the men's 100m freestyle S6, it's the first individual outing for Thijs van Hofweegen at these Olympics, who is the son of the man who found me my current job in 2020 and with that basically got my life on track If I'm not mistaken, Thijs was working as a cleaner every Friday in the place where I stayed before that, until then I had no idea he was a swimmer (and medalist! Silver in Rio) Go Thijs!

Well that was totally random but kind of fun Took me a while to realize it's in Zürich, so a nice bit of warmup for the fans

Some overactive stickler to the rules wanted to prevent Mathieu Bosredon's partner from being able to give him a proper hug and kiss Luckily they decided that rules sometimes should have a bit of leniency. You know, like when the athlete is confined to a very low handbike and simply can't reach over the fence to give someone a hug.