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Hence the question on whether or not she will run again Feels like years ago she ran twice in two weeks or so.

McLaughlin will actually run again? What's next, unicorns inventing space travel?

That's too bad for everyone involved (except for Team Gafinovitz of course), they missed the opprtunity for an athlete going on what's basically legal doping (post-pregnancy)

I'd rather just see the omnium be made into an all-round event I think

Oh, and arguably my biggest annoyance in all of sports, which should absolutely be changed: the pursuit and sprint in biathlon should not in any way be two separate medal events. I don't care how it's solved exactly, but it is utter bullshit that a bad result in one individual medal event can completely destroy your chances in another, separate individual medal event (or even keep you from participating in that one altogether). "So you just need to make sure you have a good sprint." Yeah, that's the point. You simply should not depend on having a good result in Olympic medal event A, just to even stand a chance in Olympic medal event B. Just scrap the pursuit altogether or maybe have like a one-lap qualifier on race day (not as a separate medal event, obviously), but the current situation is just ridiculous.

Track cycling should get an all-round medal event event, of course besides several sprint and endurance events in both single and mass start formats.

Starting off entirely unrealistic, but oh well Every international sports federation should broadcast their events live and non-geoblocked on YouTube. Not on their own fancy channels, not on all kinds of alternatives, but on YouTube: accessible to everyone, it has all the basic controls many of their own players lack (like basic hotkey functionality), can easily be streamed to whichever device and - importantly - is super easy to watch both live, after a pause and when the entire event has ended. Also, race walking should have a longer event, say 50km or so. If not more, Evan Dunfee once argued a 100km would be amazing (but not on the same mentally deadly 2km lap).

Well that's interesting

Nordås was on one shoe for half the race

Aw, Cheruiyot nearly had him

Rain doesn't help.

Oh that's too cheap

Dos Santos

Out of curiousity: in which events don't you care?

I think our buddy Josh is a flag-cheerer and Simbine has a large lack of maple leafs on his flag

Hopefully he keeps that up for a few more months...although really any medal would be awesome in Paris. Enough 4th and 5th places..

Ouch, hopefully that was only cramp for Azu.

12:26, broke the WR by nearly 10 seconds!

Grand total of 6 NR's, what a race this was

Boss Hagos with the 2nd fastest 5k in history Of course also helped by the immense work of Kejelcha, who very much only cared about the time due to him not being selected for the Olympics yet.

On the track even A mascot, I'd assume. Good thing for the strawberry Mekhissi-Bennabad doesn't compete anymore

Jackson out of form, Thompson-Herah out of form, Fraser-Pryce will only start her season at the trials....Jamaica isn't what it has been.

Wiebes has been named as the captain of the team, so the rest should ride for her. Should be a matter of Van Dijk chasing down whenever needed and Vos and Vollering jumping after whatever might be dangerous and then - and this might be the hard one for Vollering - not take turns pulling on the front. If they manage to get Wiebes to the finish in the lead group, however big it may be, it should be a done deal*. *as far as done deals exist in sports

Which seems fair enough...I mean, Shapira at least finishes most of her races, whereas Gafinovitz has 7 (!) DNF's this year alone..