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I think in MTB Sagan has a higher medal chance in Rio than on the road. Which doesn't mean he has a high medal chance, only that I think it's higher than on the road

Of course mountain biking isn't specifically climbing And yeah, the course is seriously hard. This is not made for Sagan

Dutch media are reporting Peter Sagan will get the only Slovak ticket for the MTB in Rio...hckosice, any truth to that or will he, as planned, be the second Slovak in the MTB race? It'd be quite horrible if he would indeed be the only one..

Athletics Will there be a disqualification in the men's or women's 100m finals? Boxing Will Claressa Shields win the gold medal in the women's middleweight? Will both Nicola Adams and Katie Taylor win a medal in their respective weight classes? Cycling - BMX Will Australia win at least one gold medal? Equestrian Will Germany win more medals than the Netherlands? Field hockey Will either Australia or The Netherlands reach the final in both the men's and women's tournament? Swimming Will there be a disqualification in any of the individual finals? Will any nation medal in all six relays? Water polo Will the men's final be played between two nations out of Serbia, Montenegro and Croatia? Weightlifting Will Iran win at least one gold medal? General Will more than 5 positive doping tests be published before the closing ceremony? Will Brazil reach their highest ever rank in the medal table? Will the youngest medalist at the Rio Olympics be younger than 16 years?

Yes, but remember that the positive sample was the one from the 2008 Olympics, so if the other B sample there is positive as well, her 2012 clean sample means nothing

A German court ruled that Claudia Pechstein will not get her 4,4 million Euro claim

I'd say the first option The second option might be possible if you're the world number 40 or something, but not if you're Nadal

Indeed it doesn't matter because I'll participate either way of course and obviously I'll think of questions either way as well Swimming Will the gold medal in both the women's 50 and women's 100 meter freestyle go to an Australian swimmer? Will Great Britain finish in the top-5 of the swimming medal table?

Because 0.5 is what literally every betting site uses because it's the easiest to avoid any confusion, and since I saw the word "bet" here, I thought: "Well let's use the logical option" In the end it doesn't matter so much of course, the logical one (0.5) or the one that needs more text and thought ("at least this or that"), it's both the same

Athletics Will USA and Jamaica win more 6.5 combined medals in the four relay events? Will Kenya win the gold, silver and bronze medals in the men's 3000m steeplechase? Will African nations win more than 1.5 combined medals in non-running events? Will Caster Semenya (800m), Pawel Fajdek (hammer throw), Ashton Eaton (decathlon) and Almaz Ayana (5000m) all win their respective events? General Will more than 2.5 nations win their first ever Olympic medal? Will an Asian nation medal in any team event?

I've got a question about the biathlon qualification and more specifically about reallocations. Under "F. Reallocation of unused quota places" the document says "Not applicable". However, in May 2017 NOC's who won quota places in the World Cup Nations Cup have to confirm the use of these places. It is of course possible again that not every nation will use every quota place. Now my question is, what will happen with unused quota places? Since the document says "not applicable", does that mean they will be "thrown away" instead of reallocated? And if they are reallocated, who would you guess would get these tickets? Nations that are next in line in the World Cup Nations Cup or do you guys think there will be more than 5-6 athletes who might qualify with the "D4" criteria mentioned in the document? I'm guessing the IOC wants to have exactly 115 male and female athletes at the Olympics, so I almost can't even imagine that unused places won't be reallocated....this "Not applicable" is confusing and worrying me though.

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Wow, that 104 finish by Barney, what a beauty

The whole thing about having no clue which matches I predicted and which I didn't eventually killed my chances

Because last year the hormone rules changed and she could stop taking hormone therapy. When her testosteron was on a level that was like 3-4 times higher than the average female athlete she already didn't have any chance at all...as in, she could barely even get close to 2 minutes. Now she doesn't need to lower her testosteron and she can just keep going and going and ever since that rule changed she has been like a machine. She hasn't even tried running fast yet and she posted 50.7, 1:56 and 4:10 400/800/1500 meters. If it keeps going like this she could easily run sub-49 in the 400 and easily run sub-1:52 in the 800. The hard thing is that it's not like doping in the sense that she's not to blame for being born like that (same for athletes like her), but it is a really tough question whether or not this should be stopped or not. Because if this is not stopped, every female athlete who doesn't have this hyperandrogenism could just as well stop with athletics, because the Semenya's are going to dominate each and every event.

Nice win and cool to see another one with a career Grand Slam and now really being one of the best players of all time Anything better than Murray anyway

Girdlestone didn't die! Those were rumours being speculated on social media, but he is not dead. He is in the intensive care in a hospital in a "critical but stable" condition. So again, he is not dead.

The way Wambui ran in Huelva leads me to believe she too has at least 2-3 seconds in the tank. Remember she is the youngest of them all by far, so she has a lot more potential to grow and get faster. Same thing for Niyonsaba, which we saw today: even without Semenya's "help" she pulled off a huge 1:56 today.. Semenya has had two 1:56-half races this year and she hasn't even been trying. She has not ran a single 800m at 100% and is already easily running under 1:57...if these hormone rules aren't normalized Kratochvilova's doping WR will be absolutely shattered very soon, possible even in Rio already. 1. Semenya will win that fight if these ridiculous hormone rules don't change, the only question is when. 2. Hard to tell, but I think both can definitely go under 1:56 or even faster. 3. That's the only real hard thing to tell...the likes of Sum, Arzamasova of course all have a medal chance, but they need their best day ever and a bad day for Semenya/Niyonsaba/Wambui. Which is of course always possible, like said before, nothing is sure and there are always favourites who fail.

Don't worry, they will. Semenya has like a 90% chance to win and the only one normally capable of staying somewhat close to her with these new hormone rules is Niyonsaba (and Wambui potentially). Obviously it's possible that Semenya and Niyonsaba will fail at the Olympics, I mean, every Olympics has top favourites who fail, but the chance of Burundi winning a medal is very big

We've got the Diamond League in Birmingham in a little bit Some interesting races, for example Niyonsaba in the 800 without Semenya this time and the new huge talent Baboloki Thebe of Botswana making his big league debut in the 400

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He probably saw Mexico's points and immediately delved in the sex, drugs and rock'nroll and a whole lot of alcohol.