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Wow, what a time for Russia. Faster than Welte/Vogel in the world champs.

And let's go with the first full day of action

I think this is something that goes for many people in many countries

As expected. Sad, but better for the athletes than having too much competition and throwing away tomorrow's chances.

And with that, I noticed Danish people can't be irritated by one sentence according to the map

I'll keep these kids in line Sir.

Not necessarily, but to be fair: one can assume that when you go from 1 crappy track to 5 modern tracks and combine that with a huge PR machine and huge funding, it does deliver some noticeable results

Not yet, but Gasly seems like the most logical option. Sainz-Verstappen wasn't working very well considering both of them are a bit....easily heated up, to say it like that Hartley is no real option I assume and the Red Bull Driver Program doesn't really have any realistic other options. There's Daniel Ticktum, but he doesn't have enough points yet and is not that impressive so far, same thing (but still less impressive) for Neil Verhagen and Nirei Fukuzumi and the others are young teenagers who are in British F4 or karting.

Oh well, according to @hckosice any place within 750 kilometers of a large body of water is a coastal region and according to me any country with at least one 500m+ hill is a mountain country, so there we are

This map

I am a bit distrustful towards anything that uses 'BGR' as abbreviation for Bulgaria I think I am too used to IOC codes

Red Bull Racing just confirmed Daniel Ricciardo will leave the team after this season. Most likely he will move to Renault.

France and Great Britain OUT in the men's 4x100m

The Dutch co-commentator (Inge Dekker ) said she is kinda expecting a nine lane final, but I'm definitely curious what it's gonna be.

Denmark and Poland tied for 8th in the 4x100 W I wonder if they'll have a 9 lane final or a swim-off And also: Sweden out.

What do you guys and girls think about the rule that says only two athletes per country can advance to the semi finals? Personally I think it's rather stupid...not specifically that two is not enough, but mostly that you're allowing multiple athletes to start but simply because of nationality, at least one might have to leave even though he or she is good enough. Why not simply say "Ok, two athletes per country per event as maximum"?

[hide] Knockout Round July 30th - August 5th, 2018 12 Nations, Quarterfinals Play-Offs, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Bronze Medal Match, Gold Medal Match Semifinals Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 August 4th 2018, h. 14:00 Ireland 1 Spain August 4th 2018, h. 16:30 Netherlands 2 Australia [/hide]

It keeps being incredible how athletes manage to miss three tests in one year....everyone knows that results in a ban...

Kromowidjojo barely survived, 24,82 seconds, where 24,94 would have meant she would be out.

Oh well, no slight surprise then

Belgium might withdraw from the women's team final, since one of their athletes got injured. That would mean the other three would have to do a day of all-around gymnastics, a day before some finals in which they have some medal chances.

I wish

How wonderful! It was nice knowing you, by the way

Ouch