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Sorry, missed the vote, but those were the two I'd have chosen, so yay

Alena Ivanchenko with a fairly surprising gold for Russia in the women's junior time trial. Big favourite Zoe Bäckstedt finished in second, 10 seconds behind, with Antonia Niedermaier of Germany in third (+25 seconds). The rest was over a minute away from her.

Yep. I'm assuming an Indonesian gold medalist in, say, badminton, would easily be able to live his/her life comfortably with sponsor money?

Not sure about the details for Brazil, but I do know that being a participant in the Olympics will give you a 3000 reais monthly salary for four years, which at the moment is roughly 480 EUR, but that gets less and less every month. Of course being a medalist will greatly increase this, but I don't know to what extent. Plus of course prize money.

Wow, those are HUGE sums I know there are fewer medalists, but still, 380k USD for a gold medal, damn.

Belgium Individual gold medal = €50.000 Individual silver medal = €30.000 Individual bronze medal = €20.000 4th place = €10.000 5th-8th place = €5.000 Team gold medal = €12.500 per athlete Team silver medal = €7.500 per athlete Team bronze medal = €5.000 per athlete Team 4th place = €2.500 per athlete plus fake tournament travel costs Team 5th-8th place = €1.250 per athlete Coaches get a maximum of 25 percent of what their athletes get. When this was announced, it was '90 percent sure' the prize money would be tax free. Netherlands Individual gold medal = €30.000 Individual silver medal = €22.500 Individual bronze medal = €15.000 As for team medals, there is a formula to decide how much every athlete gets: basically the prize money for the equivalent individual result multiplied by the root of the number of participants in the team...the result of that calculation is then divided by the number of participants. An example is the men's fours in rowing, who won gold and will each receive €15.000 per athlete. In large teams, like field hockey, there is a minimum prize to avoid this formula leading to too small prizes. The minimum is €11.000 per athlete for gold, €8.000 for silver and €5.000 for bronze. And it's the Netherlands, so we gotta keep it as cheap as possible. Medals are not accumulated normally, a second medal leads to another formula: two thirds of the money it would be worth in case it was someone's first medal. A third medal is worth one third of the first medal's worth. For example three golds doesn't mean three times 30k, it means 30k plus 20k plus 10k = 60k. And, again, it's the Netherlands: it is specifically mentioned that the prize money is definitely not tax free. So probably around half of it goes out the window immediately. Which is so goddamn annoying, just pay out more and let whatever remains after tax be the official number, so nobody gets 'cheated'.

Impressive win by Kokoro Fuji, who topped every single boulder seemingly with ease. In the end Tomoa Narasaki got close on paper, with three tops, but after missing the first one and with Fuji looking so dominant, it was never really a true battle. Bronze for Manuel Cornu.

And also because you really, really can't compare general interest for the women's event with that for the men's event. Especially when the women's event is during a regular working day and the men's event is on primetime Sunday. It was a great time trial and awesome battle between Van Dijk and Reusser though, what a show! Time trials so far are being fantastic, curious what today will bring.

Started watching Archer a while back, season 6 now (meaning I'm halfway at the moment). I've liked a lot of comedies and found them funny and such, but not often does a show actually make me literally laugh (instead of laughing on the 'inside'), like Archer absolutely does

It's a week later and there's win number two for Pecco Little less sensational this time, but it was definitely tight for a moment at the end, this time with Quartararo. Incredible third place and first ever MotoGP podium for Enea Bastianini and the Avintia team And not because others crashed or something, it was truly on pace! On a two year old bike!

Once again some stuff going on about Patrick Lefevere's....behaviour. During yesterday's Belgian talk show, he was basically shitfaced drunk, not at all the first time during a public appearance. The host at the end, when raising the glass to a good day (with Lefevere's glass being the only basically empty one): "And well, I was going to say that what's still in the glass shows us who drank the most, but...." Dude must have easily taken one or two bottles before, during and probably after the broadcast. Rambling, barely making any sense, hard to even understand what he was saying. Lefevere being Lefevere. Assuming most people here don't understand Dutch, and I do: I can barely understand more of what he's saying than you do

Which is pretty cool. European Games with only Olympic sports don't really add anything, I mean, they've all already got European championships, so....why yet another 'big' event? It's a lot more fun with all kinds of sports one sees way less often As for teqball, I know it because of Eurosport's top-X videos all the time (although not as often anymore nowadays) during commercial timeouts, they had one of teqball as well I see kickboxing is added as well. Some amateur version I guess, instead of the top-of-the-line athletes

Did they, though? Edit: never mind, obviously the Canadians don't count.

Gold for Odile van Aanholt/Elise de Ruijter, although the main thing of their week is that Van Aanholt is still even there. On day two there was a freak accident on/around their boat: a loose line from a boat close to them swept across their deck and got entangled around her neck. This led to her actually being in a hanging position, same as in the execution method, but by accident. Thank goodness the other boat capsized, which threw Van Aanholt into the water and made her able to free herself, otherwise....yeah.

Not sure about earpieces, since they'd be taking away even more of the 'independence' of players, but I'm assuming that was just one small example. Generally speaking, football is of course badly behind almost any other sports in terms of...well, most things. So yeah, generally not a bad point

Deep mourning in Belgium, gold for Ganna. What a race

An epic battle is shaping up

Itamar Einhorn outsprints Sagan and Bol and takes his first ever career win Perfect timing in the sprint, against terrible timing by both Steimle and Sagan and terrible lead-out work by Bol's team.

Evenepoel is flying, already 37 seconds faster than the excellent time trialist Bissegger.

Evenepoel has lost his water bottle, panic and everything

Look who they've got as næstformand DIF at the Copenhagen half marathon. Looks a lot younger while he's at it!

Althaus is kinda dominating the COC in Oslo a tiny bit... Yesterday she won with the same sort of margin.

World Athletics really needs to put 'flawless organization' aside as a (too) important factor. You're just not going to get flawlessly organized events in places like Kenya, because every single year in every single sport we see events all over Africa having all kinds of organizational problems. However, in terms of sports quality and general feel and atmosphere, they're often absolutely amazing. The junior world championships in Nairobi a few years ago showed how badly they should have a senior worlds there, I've never seen a whole stadium party like that all day long, day after day. Best athletics event ever.

Just to clarify, it is about the quality of the road surface only, not about the general infrastructure, how well everything is connected and so on

Good to see 'evidence' that it's not just some urban myth or exaggerating thing when people say one can easily feel it as soon as one crosses the border into Belgium by car, the roads really go from excellent to bad in a matter of minutes when driving