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Cramp for Bat-Ochir

Just turned the TV on and of course, who else, Ser-Od Bat-Ochir in the early attack As is tradition. Awesome runner

Meanwhile the team time trial stage 1 is done and it was a ridiculous affair, the late start is always tricky, but if it's a super rainy evening....yeah. It was dry basically all day, but they had to wait for it to rain and get so dark one would normally be fined for riding without a light.

This sentence really is a rollercoaster. First makes you think "Oh, finally, took some time but at least they're going after that asswhipe", but then you read "against Hermoso" It's amazing how a single federation (and probably like 5 people, undoubtedly close buddies of the president) can make a historic World Cup victory be forgotten in barely a week.

What's that thing with countries having a mediocre event and the ministry of all things comes in and demands and explanation? That sounds so....North Korea-esque What are the leaders of the athletics federation going to say? "They didn't jump high enough and didn't run fast enough"?

And the slow motion of Richardson's face during her race is one of my highlights of the championships, pure art

First three Dutch runners with a fantastic run, but Jiya was away way too early. She nearly left at the starting gun shot

Still waiting

Come on, let the rest of the world have just one thing too

What a championships for Canada No huge huge surprise anywhere, but almost every serious chance being taken is quite something

Time for LePage's life highlight.

No reaction consisting 90% of 'hamdullah hamdullah hamdullah', or is that just with Moroccans?

What a run by Arop And both Algerians need to go to school and take the Timing 1.0 lesson again

Not saying it was bad, but his hurdles race was decent. Nothing great, nothing terrible, but it did help Neugebauer's damage being limited. Of course that was before Neugebauer started really letting it down in the next events

Oh no, she had such a great heat

It depends on your definition of near Roughly half an hour or so by car, but also barely 5 minutes from my work's office in Amersfoort I don't think I have ever mentioned Hoevelaken, but it is something you might hear a lot on the radio in the traffic jam reports. Also, how was your race?

Victor goes even further!

The medal fight is getting more and more interesting, massive throw for Victor who is now fully in it as well

Tilga is more and more putting himself in the bronze medal fight.

Yeah, morning sessions have always been for the true athleticos anyway, no casual viewer is going to turn on the TV for some morning athletics over breakfast or something in the weekend (especially if it's not raining and people want to do outside stuff), let alone during a weekday

Yeah the women's shot put usually goes right past me as well, just like the women's javelin which is just horrendous nowadays and yesterday was basically as boring as expected with the one exception of Kitaguchi's throw

Yeah, for people who aren't too interested in the decathlon this isn't a great session. Personally I am actually very happy with it, so often the decathlon has to make do with like 5 minutes of attention in between replays of heats where people run 11.50 in a 100m and qualifyings of triple jumps of 13 meters or something, so great to finally see some full decathlon action Plus there already was the marathon, I've been entertained with athletics already since I woke up, it's something else than all the field stuff being ignored because of a billion running heats

Right, Neugebauer has dropped the fight for gold now..

Warner not great, Neugebauer's damage is a little smaller now. LePage definitely the real winner of the hurdles.

Oh damn, Neugebauer with an awful race, but escapes a DNF