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This is about said boyfriends using banned substances though, so they should probably dump those boyfriends

To be fair, it is simply not unthinkable. And it might get proven for example by hair analysis, where in this case it might be possible that Thibus is shown to not have been a user of this substance and Imboden has been, in which case the defense has quite a good point.

Sweat, obviously

And in today's news: she's going with the 'it came from sex' defense. So they're throwing her partner Race Imboden under the bus, but considering he is retired anyway, I'm sure he doesn't care Dutch media for some reason seems to have a weird focus on specifically mentioning oral sex. Like they want to make it more, you know, juicy

True, although that came afterwards. He reached his goals, but of course didn't just stop running then, and then also ran the standard because he performed quite a lot better than he had expected Still, it's cool he scripted his own functioning program to select the smartest races to race (where a lot of athletes told him it's just a matter of racing the highly labled races to get more points, but that's of course not exactly how it works).

We can by now definitely say it's absolutely going to happen Brazilian media noticing it as well. https://ge.globo.com/olimpiadas-de-inverno/noticia/2024/03/06/destaque-mundial-lucas-braathen-decide-defender-o-brasil-no-esqui-estou-apaixonado.ghtml

John Heymans has been talking about how he wrote a computer script to qualify for the Olympics in only 4 races https://www.runnersworld.com/nl/nieuws/a46591071/heymans-olympische-spelen-chatgpt/ Basically, he expected he'd run around 13:15, and he was going entirely for the world ranking qualification pathway instead of the time limits. He entered all athletes who ran 13:15 in the past 5-6 years, ran their results through his script to basically see how many points they got in which races. Some more statistical analysis and stuff was done on the data, and in the end the script gave him a handful of races as best options to score an optimal amount of points...which is what he did, and so he rose on the world ranking all the way to a qualifying spot with only 4 races

Any individual sport where only one athlete per nation can compete in an event is terrible, indeed I kind of understand it when the entire field of participants is only 16 athletes (which is of course not the case in swimming for example), but then the solution would be to simply have a more grown up tournament instead of only 16 participants...but then we get to the athlete limit which apparently can't be touched. It's all not great, of course we all want to see at least the entire world's top-15 or so compete....are there many countries with multiple athletes in the top-15 in taekwondo? I would assume South Korea and Iran, but that's really not more than a guess Edit: oh wait, it's not even '1 athlete per weight class', but 'X athletes in total, where X is lower than the number of weight classes'?

It'd be something...missing one Olympics by choice, missing another due to injury...and then actually going to one because of escaping a significant doping ban

Yeah, that was bound to happen, given that Norwegian journalists had already been fishing for contacts within the Brazilian federation for at least a few days Interesting though, not that long ago the rule within the Brazilian snow sports federation was that people who had competed for another country already could absolutely under no circumstances compete for Brazil. I guess the sudden marketing opportunity did change that I just mostly really, really hope this isn't going to make the Brazilian snow sports federation take away even more of their money (which is quite a lot) from other sports so they can spend every cent on Braathen...personally I find this really cool news, but I do also fear the effect it will have on the other sports, specifically cross-country skiing of course.

But on what basis can a judge campaign? A judge needs to uphold laws, not have a certain political (even if officially they're unaffiliated) standpoint on said laws... Do they all campaign "I'll sentence people according to the law"? That makes it hard to choose

Oh right, judges are elected. It remains incredible how 'the system' apparently keeps thinking putting the theoretically separated branches back together is....good?

One day we'll look back at the Olympic history and go "yeah kids, there were times when people got Olympic medals for stuff like literature, break dancing and painting"

Yeah, I can very much understand people having this in their top-3 and understand people having this in their bottom-3, but anything in between...impossible You either really dislike it or really like it

Heard Europapa for the first time today...it is definitely...uhm...special Nice throwback to the 90's gabber music, but other than that, not entirely my thing yet, I think

Oh nice, a whole back and forth about a person who prefers to be called 'they' instead of 'her'. Even the 'what is a lock?' discussion was more useful

That was a super easy 390 meters for Bol, luckily she noticed in time she did need to increase it a bit in the last 10

Armand 'lock' Duplantis having a bit of an issue.

Dutch interviewer really wants to blame it on 'bad luck' when talking to Visser, but come on. It's obviously a mistake, which sucks, but which happens

Visser hits the first hurdle and that's the end of that

Duplantis might have a chance, yeah

Taylor might want to run for president one day, plenty of Charisma.... Sorry.

Horrible injury yesterday in the men's -73kg bronze medal fight for home favourite Obidkhon Nomonov, who got thrown on his arm. At first I thought "cool throw", so I wanted to see it again...only then I realized it was not quiet because he simply lost, it had turned quiet because his elbow snapped all the way an elbow shouldn't go...damn.

I don't know which NBA comments he made, but I generally simply like him as well Plus the 10 year old version of me for sure finds his Dragon Ball Z things cool

Cool, throwback to where he came from Would have been nice if Usain Bolt had done that too at some point, a bit of a token of appreciation to the event he started out in