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Which is why simply posting a link to for example a website of the Polish federation would be helpful as well, there is indeed no need to copy-paste almost a hundred athletes here I think

What's being said in the news here the past two days about this is that apparently it's quite popular among (cycling) tourists. And usually considered quite safe as well, although not as safe as Turkmenistan.

Smaller teams have absolutely no effect on the race being more interesting. If anything, it shifts focus even more on controlling the race. Lose the headsets and add salary caps, fine. I don't see the reason to ban power meters, unless much more 'accepted' stuff like meters showing your speed or heart rate are banned as well (which would be odd, I think).

I hate this so much, but it is so good

Sean Newcomb had a no-hitter messed up yesterday for the Atlanta Braves against the LA Dodgers......with only one more out needed

The full Dutch team has been announced: https://www.knhs.nl/nieuws/2018/nederlandse-paardensportteams-fei-wereldruiterspelen-bekend/

What a match

You see? This is exactly what happens when the world's best players pull that shit on the world's biggest stage (the World Cup). Thank you Neymar.

A classics specialist turned mountain beast, someone with 0 weak days in 6 weeks of hardcore GC racing and the best Giro-Tour double since Marco Pantani (haha), someone with 5675th illnesses, a ski jumper and Nicholas Brody in the top-5. This was fun

Time for the final

+1 for Thomas standing on the podium with a Welsh flag, screw the flag

Even here @Pablita wins Come on, someone with so much knowledge about so many sports should post in more sports threads, don't be shy

Too bad the Lampaert/Oss tandem didn't make it, but even with most sprinters being out already it was quite a nice sprint

I do think this is, generally speaking, not even remotely comparable with the barrage of 15/20+ margins in the water polo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Women's_Hockey_World_Cup#First_round

Did we win?

Netherlands and Germany, neighbours in silver arms

In case anyone is interested, the Brazilian federation probably will have a live stream of today's competition again (like yesterday) If so, it should be on their Facebook page. Starting times (Brazilian times, +5 for CET):

Pawel Fajdek? Honestly I don't follow the hammer throw so much to know if he's really that dominant.

Because that's exactly what this thread is about (the biggest gold medal favourites of the entire Olympics)

Relatively speaking, of course Talking about people or teams with like a 90+% chance to win the gold (like Katie Ledecky in the long distances, where basically the only thing that can stop her is if she gets sick or injured). Most events of course don't have anyone who has such a huge chance to win

58.00 for Kathleen Baker in the 100m backstroke, breaking Kylie Masse's WR by 0,10 seconds.

Aaaaaaand gone is her world record

But I think you slightly misunderstood the question The 'goal' is to discuss about the athletes (or teams) with the biggest chance to win a certain event. I mean, sure Barshim and Samba and Manyonga have real chances to win gold, but they're not athletes in an event where one could say 'He basically can't lose!' (Samba can trip over a hurdle, high jump and long jump are rather sensitive for foul jumps). Different than for example a rowing event where a certain boat is absolutely dominant, it's not like it's realistic for this boat to suddenly sink in the Olympic final

First Brazilian female speed skater ever, here we go Larissa Paes, out of Brasilia (which used to have several quite decent inline skating teams), made her debut in Heerenveen (the Netherlands) earlier this month, racing a 500m and a 1500m and of course setting national records in both