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How does it work with having athletes in the same classification, some of whom have two arms (but one with a deformity on the hand I think), whereas others have no arms? Isn't that way too different to be somewhat fair? Then again, I know you have to combine wildly different impairments to avoid having 800 events with one or two athletes each, but it's sometimes a little hard to really judge how fair an event can be within the boundaries of one class.

Sure, taking a summer vacation to Afghanistan is not asking for trouble at all... https://thehill.com/policy/international/middle-east-north-africa/569307-dozens-of-california-students-parents-stranded

@Agger How is the Danish pronunciation of the Belgian/Dutch Eurosport commentator who tried to fool viewers today by thinking they had Danish commentary? https://streamable.com/wpfz4d

Watching the track cycling now, and out of curiousity: why do C1, C2 and C3 all exist, even though they compete as one? What's the point, other than to differentiate between disabilities, if nothing is actually done with said differences? It seems like a whole lot of classification work for basically nothing... Unlike in para-skiing for example, where the clock runs faster/slower depending on the classification.

Yep, poor beloved Gaddafi.

Yes, keep emphasizing it again and again, because that makes it more believeable

Like @Dunadan said, they were actually even shown (and posted here I believe), tons of Facebook live streams. It was obscure and it was playing with the rules, but it was definitely not breaking the rules.

Situation about the Belgian men's team: https://www.hln.be/sport/grootschalige-fraude-3x3-lions-organiseerden-fictieve-wedstrijden-om-op-olympische-spelen-te-geraken-boic-wacht-af~a808e67d Basically it says there's been a major fraud, in which Belgium entered 27 tournaments in the FIBA systems where their players gained enough points to get into the OQT and eventually qualify for Tokyo. Mongolia-style, basically, but as far as I know the tournaments in Mongolia were at least actually played, whereas here it says the Belgian tournaments were entirely made up and not a ball was actually touched...

Anderson hadn't played on the main tour since halfway last year. Early this year he decided to give his Tour card back, because he wanted to spend more time at home in Australia after the birth of his second son...

Kyle Anderson, 33 years old Apparently something to do with kidney failure..

What the hell, 33 years old https://www.pdc.tv/news/2021/08/24/australian-star-kyle-anderson-passes-away

First pro win for Erik Fetter last week, Hungary is growing very rapidly in the cycling world @Vektor https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/tour-du-limousin/2021/stage-4

Fairly insane evening last night in North America's Cheboksary, with Thompson-Herah getting very close to nucleair FloJo's WR being the most, let's say, interesting moment Nice to see Kambundji beat everyone in the 200

And wow, that 400m semi of Roshawn Clarke must have been the fail of the year. Just, wow. Learned a very hard lesson right there.

Out of curiousity, are the commentators by any chance selected for a specific inability to pronounce names? Easily half the names are pronounced wildly differently by them than one would reasonably expect

Jama Karaacin, 'who has a history of athletics'. Also known as Jama Aden, who has a history of doping, syringes, EPO, etc. Gotta love it, just change your name and vamos.

My lord what is happening

It's Valverde, way too early to call it a career especially since he already said he'll go for 2022 as well

Damn, nasty nasty fall from Valverde in one of the descents. Seems to be very lucky he stopped sliding in time, otherwise he could have taken a deep tumble downwards, while now he was at least able to climb up (with the help of Rojas) after catching his breath a bit. That right shoulder is gonna be the main issue, seems like a collarbone injury.

Welcome @Medard81! And welcome @Noorderling29!

A bit surprising?! Wow, that is something I had never in my life expected, I'd have been more than a bit surprised already if there even was a Dutch participant The final will be tomorrow I assume? Any idea around which time? I want to watch that!

He could try and go the Virginia Fuchs/Laurence Vincent-Lapointe way, considering the contaminated batch and/or cancer medicine in the pasta sauce defenses probably won't hold with a variety of different substances

That will depend on the athletes. The current Olympic RS:X champion took a quick trip to iQFOiL in between Rio and Tokyo and immediately won European gold before going straight back to RS:X and the road to Tokyo

And this was a really cool one! I honestly did not expect him to win when the main pack was only half a minute behind at the bottom