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Awesome

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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All it did dwas mking me stimble across the garden

And down goas the second glass

You're not?

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

He still hasn't responded has he?

She was very tired all the time, and all the time acting like "meh, I don't care about this shit" Which is exactly why I'm happy she didn't win, I don't want the GS's going to people who act like they don't care about it and who see it as just another title and nothing special.

Chinese alphabet

It's because of the alphabet.

Meanwhile I've poured in the first glass of "port" wine to start the afterparty

Good morning

I still don't get why it's such a shock Together with Tunisia it was the only "hard" song and I like those

Kostova would be so fucking predictable

Actually this is much more fun than Eurovision, because this takes so long, all day

Fantastic job hckosice, wonderfully done

The final medal table