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Right. So you've got to be able to do prone and kneeling as a matter of survival to get into the 50m one position final To be fair, the whole thing is a bit anti-climactic for a TV broadcast, since you don't actually see anything happen at all (unlike the shooting in for example biathlon, where you can see the actual targets being hit and such, here you basically see a guy stand for a bit, then hear a click, and see a dot appear on a virtual target). Well, I gave it a try, next up to watch is the skeet and trap and such I believe, which is a whole different cookie and actually shows action

Now I'm curious why

So Bedard is already surpassing Slafkovsky in being the big guy of this generation?

It's still scheduled on Discovery/Eurosport, but they don't actually have any idea yet if or when they'll get any footage, according to one of the commentators. For now it's basically just there as a sort of placeholder spot. Yeah, women's cycling is expanding greatly, it's just the Giro Donne organizers who seem to have dropped the ball massively the past years (just like the French Pyrenees race recently, where they couldn't even provide a somewhat safe course....safe as in, not having all kinds of regular traffic on the course).

Since I usually watch a bit of shooting only once every four years I am sure I am missing something, but here goes: what's up with the entire gold medal match in the 50m rifle 3 positions being done in standing, which as far as I can count is one (1) position? They start at zero for the gold medal match, so after an entire three positions competition, it suddenly ends up with a one position final?

The Giro Donne, starting in two days, was about to be cancelled last minute, although it seems it will start. The organization seems to have no idea what they're doing, they're missing 750k and it seems like things will barely even be broadcast anywhere. Besides, riders are still waiting for the prize money of last year (!), so it's a classic mess in the organization. Without TV images, the race would probably be taken out of the World Tour next year, and honestly, deservedly so. It's always felt a bit messy, and the women's Tour and Vuelta have really dwarfed the Giro Donne in recent years anyway.

One can only hope that this was somehow pulled out of context...

A country not starting in an event at the team championships doesn't lead to disqualification, does it? Especially US media is talking about Boumkwo as 'saving Belgium from disqualification' by making sure they had someone do the 100m hurdles... Sounds like typical US overdramatization, surely? As far as I know it would only cost them points (which might lead to relegation of course), but not an overall DQ. I know it's a bit old, but just managed to catch up with the Boumkwo thing It was good to watch on-demand from AllAthletics, once I figured out how to avoid the incessant spoilers, somewhat. With the results documents including the team standings at hand it was pretty doable. And 6th place for the Netherlands, best ever result despite Aggard's injury in the mixed 4x400m (would have been 5th or even 4th without that, but it would have been 7th had he not finishes, so props to him).

The women staying behind in distances is kind of like the athletics world believing women weren't ready to race 1500m or longer until not even that long ago The debut of the women's 50k at the top level was actually a great race, much better than the usual men's 50k even, where most of the time it's just a matter of staying together for 48km and then sprinting. Women are also more than capable of doing a 15k interval start though, but that's not urban enough for FIS, IOC, etc and all the other old men deciding things.

I can hardly imagine aerials having any serious following anywhere in the world at all, but at least it's....urban?

So now it's a men's and a women's team event in alpine? Duo's of one speed and one technical specialist are at least better than the parallel teams, where technical specialists always get an extra medal chance for whatever reason (although I guess that will stay as well, so technical specialists will be cheering as always ). And the cross-country thing is just awful, largely. Women doing 50k like last season, fine, and finally....but the men having to do the 10k interval is just laughable and way, way too short

Are Brabcova, Sollazzo and Ceccarello all that tiny, or is Frantisek Smetana such an absolute giant of a human specimen? Watching the 10m mixed air rifle bronze medal match, for context

Question is exactly by whom, but yeah. And/or Prigozhin must have gotten quite a nice deal. 'Battle of Moscow (2023)' Wiki page can go back to non-existent

Lol, looks like Prigozhin has said they're turning back and it's over Fail.

Eternal traitor Turkey doing it's thing. Meanwhile

That is useful, I've tried growing some cucumbers but they just ended up a tasteless bit of nothing... Meanwhile rumours are appearing that Kadyrov and his TikTok scum of the earth is moving towards Rostov. That's going to be quite something if true, two groups full with some of the most horrible pieces of shit on earth fighting it out (and lessenning the number of those monsters who can go to Ukraine). Excellent, I do only hope our Russian Totallympians aren't in Rostov.

On the bright side for the Russia fans: Russian fighters last night/morning captured the biggest city they've captured so far in this entire conflict. Sure, it's Rostov and it's inside Russia, but alright Oh and shit ain't over in Rostov yet

Suddenly these Russians don't enjoy the whole "military force entering one's city and start running things" concept now that it's in their own country

Who knows, although so far there are zero signs of it turning into a failure yet I suppose we'll have to wait and see, surely there is going to be plenty of more news today. Russian army would be smart to not fight back, or else it's just an escalation. They'd better negotiate and accept losing everything in order to keep the peace.

There are a lot of reports of Russian army units either standing by while Wagner passes or joining Wagner...

So far Rostov is in his hands, so there's a start. Not like that is necessarily good....I mean, megalomaniac Putin or drugged up war criminal Prigozhin, it's not like one really is better than the other. Might even be better to have the total mess that is the Russian army keep trying their stuff in Ukraine than have the way more organized Wagner take over. Anyhow, the more they kill each other, the better of course.

It's all great, we're enjoying it massively.

Not so much welcome to the current century, since lots and lots of events and federations have their streams perfectly fine in order It's just stuff like these Games which want to be 'special' and so create their own things, which never works out well.

So far the results system doesn't seem to be terrible? Although I've only used it to see results of Tuesday so far, since I'm still trying to watch things Now I thought "Alright, they spoiled the beach handball pool results for me, but let's check out the two finals!" and was welcomed by this: Jesus christ, damn idiots Never mind. I spent hours making my program for these Games the past weeks, only to end up being able to watch basically nothing with any sort of tension due to the incompetence of these organizations

Yeah I noticed, but they are offered like so... How can it be so difficult to simply have the full replays available straight from the schedule section and, most importantly, without spoilers?! This way there's not even any sense in watching the replays anymore since the thumbnails already spoil the result anyway half the time...(not to mention how awful that player is, it doesn't even seem to have basic hotkey support to move forward or backward) Sorry for all the negativity, I'm just super disappointed because I was actually looking forward to watching these Games