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Interesting, thanks. I was wondering for a while, since the English-language commentators pronounce it that way all the time, but also English-language commentators are rather well-known for completely mispronouncing names (not like having an accent, because that's normal, but messing up entire syllables and such) Cool to see this time the English-language commentators are actually correct

Down goes the hype train.

Out of curiousity, is it 'Popovici', with the i being pronounced at the end, or 'Popovich', with the i not being pronounced?

Makes sense, considering the amount of Olympic medals one can win in that event

That trumpet intro for the Chinese anthem always was and always will be fantastic

In other words, absolutely perfect distribution of his energy

Pretend to be from Sweden or Canada and watch on SVT or CBC

After Kamminga's months and months of (COVID-related) troubles, and barely starting to train not long ago, this is really winning silver instead of losing gold

Triple silver

That would definitely be the wisest decision, I would say She's good on the road, but like you said: no Hungarian teammates, whereas in the regular races she is in the team that is a gazillion times stronger than any women's team has ever been basically, so plenty of good teammates there

No idea about qualifying pathways and such, but in terms of quality Vas would definitely be able to do so. It's of course significantly harder in the men's events, but even there it wouldn't be impossible for the likes of Pidcock or Van der Poel (but probably doing both would be bad for their chances in both, whereas combining them in a strong way might be a bit 'easier' for the women). It's still not super common though, but Ferrand Prevot, Vas, Rissveds and surely some others would at least be capable of competing in both at the Olympics.

Apparently ending his career in a team that's so unprofessional, they were/are riding with (partially) two year old bikes/equipment... https://sporza.be/nl/2023/07/22/verbijstering-over-2-jaar-oude-cranks-van-peter-sagan-wraakroepend-in-2023~1690056185058/ He deserved a better ending than disappearing into nowhere at one of those anonymous French teams, but at least there is the memories of a whole lot better than this (specifically the solo wins ).

What a sprint by Meeus Jasper Disaster beaten at last

And another massive WR I know in athletics it's the shoes in middle and longer distances especially these days, what is the thing in swimming? Is it the suits that always keep improving that much, considering the massive amount of WR's we so often see specifically in swimming?

And the first one to start a standing ovation when Marchand was on his way to break his WR after 15 years

Three DQ's in one race Good to see apparently the underwater rules are finally actually enforced?

Might as well give him next year's gold already

Thank you! I'll look at it better later, but a quick look suggests that is exactly what I was looking for

What a swim for Titmus By the way, does an all-time ranking exist somewhere in swimming? Like World Athletics has this one, where one can see the fastest/best athletes ever (with only everyone's best performance) and the fastest/best performances ever (with multiple performances for athletes): https://worldathletics.org/records/all-time-toplists/sprints/100-metres/outdoor/women/senior Does something similar exist in swimming? So if someone swims, say, 3:56.80, we can say "that's the Xth fastest time ever"?

This whole thing feels like one of those cases where at first it seems like a nonsense decision, because firing someone because of a hand gesture which is very widely known to mean 'Ok' is obviously bullshit, but then at some point a can of worms is opened and the dude turns out to be an actual far-right extremist and violent incel supporter and such Who knows.

Vingegaard had nothing to lose, there was no way he was going to lose 7 minutes (yet he kept looking behind nervously as if Pogacar could somehow close the 7 minutes any moment). He did have something to win, a nice stage (entirely without any risk for his yellow jersey). To do that, his only chance was to go full on the climb and try and break Pogacar there, he had 6-7km to do so. Not doing anything and almost going for a sur place was basically just Vingegaard telling Pogacar "No, I do not want to stage, please take the stage win". It feels a little like a typical ending for the Tour, which was won by easily the strongest rider/team, but also an equally boring rider. I am fully aware the result is the only thing that counts in the end, so one can hardly blame them, but let's say as a fan the heart rate does not go up a single beat when watching Vingegaard and 'Jumbo-Sky'/'US Postal-Visma'/etc. Sort of a Louis Meintjes in course tactics (wait, wait, wait, wait, finish), just a ten times stronger version

Meanwhile in the Tour de Wallonie today, Filippo Ganna did the leadout for Elia Viviani in the bunch sprint....but Viviani was so mediocre that he didn't manage to pass Ganna....and nobody else did neither, so Ganna won a bunch sprint (and a desperately sprinting Viviani didn't know what to do so just raised his hands in 'victory' for Ganna )

Well, that was an anticlimactic last real stage Mostly thanks to Vingegaard not doing anything except for following, following, following (again) and then trying for 3 seconds until Pogacar expectedly outsprinted him. With Pinot, Pidcock, Barguil, Gall, Yates and Yates in the front there was so much potential for a fun last 10km....too bad it was extinguished by Vingegaard (and to a lesser extent Pogacar, although in his case not attacking was at least logical). On the bright side, the passage of Pinot on the Petit Ballon was absolutely, breathtakingly amazing Such a shame they went for it behind him, but wow, what a moment.

Feels a little like Dani Martinez in the same team last week or so: clear concussion, but they let him ride a full mountain stage after that and then pretended to take their responsibility and pull him out...

It's not gonna happen, but how awesome it would be if Pinot finishes his career with a win in his last ever Tour de France mountain stage in his Vosges, where the atmosphere is going to be electric