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Thanks. The question came from the posts here, which were basically all "Poor Schleu, horrible for her " and to my surprise, nobody seemed to be in any way negative towards her for mishandling the horse. Good to see she didn't receive sympathy on equestrian outlets

Just reading back on the moment of Schleu's drama, which I hadn't done yet. I was surprised how basically everyone seemed to feel mostly sympathy for Schleu, where I expected most people to be, well, disgusted by her. Where does the sympathy come from, even while she was clearly being painfully aggressive towards the poor animal (who one can hardly actually blame)? No idea where to find a modern pentathlon forum or something, so I'm genuinely curious what the general thoughts about it are among people who follow the sport.

Ah yeah, those took forever on every taekwondo day but thanks to not watching live, I could skip them in a minute

Because why not, I made a list of what the result would be if we had this format in the 20k in Tokyo I took all nations with at least two men and two women 1. China 5:45.20 2. Japan 5:46.34 3. Italy 5:47.12 4. Spain 5:51.00 5. Colombia 5:52.55 6. Ecuador 5:55.23 7. Australia 6:00.45 8. Mexico 6:03.32 9. India 6:07.27 10. Peru 6:09.13 11. Guatemala 6:20.45 12. Ukraine 6:23.35

Interestingly this is something I see as positive, personally. Whereas the Olympics used to be promoted as a sort of 'Phelps/Bolt going for more glory, and oh yeah, there's a few other little thingies as well', this time that wasn't the case for this exact reason.

By the way, junior worlds are next week....in Nairobi! https://www.worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-u20-championships/nairobi21 Sadly, I don't think any event will have a clearer effect of the lack of spectators (I assume, at least) than this one...the youth worlds a few years ago there were absolutely electric, the whole damn stadium was moving because of all the cheering and dancing and shouting and partying!

Oh that sounds fantastic, another event where seeing who is doing well is nearly impossible! And TV having graphics other than the individual standings during the race? Haha, no way, why would we want that? That would only make things clearer, can't have that !

Have there even been 35km events already?

Judging by the starters named so far, one would imagine Roglic being the main favourite for the win, with a big host of possible challengers at least for the podium positions (if not more): - INEOS duo Bernal/Carapaz, if they fail there could be a Yates if he's found some better form and if that doesn't work out neither there's still Sivakov - Carthy (and in his shadow, Uran) for EF Education - Landa, and considering Bahrain's insane year so far I wouldn't even count out Padun and definitely not Haig - MAL and Mas for Movistar, and Valverde somehow? Who knows, it's Movistar - Vlasov for Astana, Ciccone with Trek, who knows even DSM with Bardet - Kuss if it doesn't work out for Roglic It could be a very interesting Vuelta

If you're absolutely forced to have five weights per gender, this does seem like quite a fair distribution. It's not ideal at all, but I can't think of a better distribution with the limit of five weights.

This judo dude, who got bronze at the world championships in 2003. But he was killed in prison....where he was for shooting a young guy in the head for not drinking alcohol with him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgen_Sotnikov

Wait, weight classes will be redivided again?

Yep. There's already plenty of users who are apparently active, yet never really appear in sports threads and such, which really should be the 'body' of a forum like this (one would assume). It'd be great if they'd actually check those out as well

What on earth is this piece of 'music' I would rather give up watching sports for the rest of my life

What's the general tone in this article? It's one of those paywall things sadly, but I'm rather curious. Edit: Never mind, I think it's available for free here "Board sports, such as tobogganing"

The realbiathlon forum did that years ago and since then, the forum is basically just a part of the Tapatalk website... https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/realbiathlon/ With Tapatalk's functionality instead of their own and things like that, I believe. Not sure how it goes exactly anymore there, mostly because I slowly stopped going there because the layout and everything was so annoying and impractical once it went to Tapatalk

Their E-sporters would still not get any attention as long as this shady act is walking with them

Right, so you'll want baseball or something, which is more known for fat guys eating hot dogs on the stands than for anything else really. Because you might have trouble with competitive eating if you want to see fat guys eating hot dogs

Also in favour of removing athletics, everyone can run, jump or throw different kinds of stuff.

That worked out nicely

Yeah that's what I thought. Oh well, worth a try, but not a problem

There were a few missed medal chances and especially in the beginning some unfortunate things: CommunicationGate at the women's road race, one of the BMX favourites injuring his knee due to a crossing official (but yeah, then he won gold, so there's that), the whole mess against the rowing team, who still got a big medal haul despite being pushed down and down. But then again, if you've got at least 20 events with a serious medal chance, you're absolutely going to have events where you'll miss the medals. It won't mean anything for those who missed the medals, because for them it's about their medal and not someone else's, but in general the Dutch team performed incredibly well. Yes, in terms of overall medals, realistic expections were that Sydney's record of 25 medals would be shattered, so it's not a surprise at all in that sense, but it still has to...you know, happen! Even double digit gold medals for only the second time ever, behind Sydney when there were two swimming superstars, and medals in nearly a third of all sports (like in Rio), that is seriously good. The judo team underperformed immensely, which no sport will make up for as far as how they feel about it of course, but the athletics team...wow. I was realistically counting on 4-5 medals - including a gold or potentially two - if things worked well as a whole, which would've already been an incredible and historical achievement. But EIGHT athletics medals?! Sure, if really every significant possibility worked out well, who knows. As for my favourite Dutch medals (there are plenty non-Dutch among my favourites of course): Niek Kimmann's BMX gold after he injured his knee due to an official and after the semis in the hour before that went almost as dramatically bad as it could have gone for the Dutch team, except Kimmann. The 4x400m men running to silver, I truly never expected a Dutch team in that event being anywhere near the medals, despite their earlier achievements this year, and they wind up with the races of their lifetimes and achieve something so amazing. Abdi Nageeye's marathon silver, 41 years after Gerard Nijboer took silver in Moscow (in a much weaker field and much easier race, according to Nijboer himself), and while guiding his long-time friend Bashir Abdi to the Olympic podium with him! ---- I'm going for 8/10, because the total medal haul was slightly less than realistically expected (albeit not much, hence the 8), but there were a whole lot of really good performances including those just outside the medals - think triathlon, for example.

On that note, is there a way to make the Ignore function work in such a way that you also don't see an ignored users' posts when someone quotes them? I don't think so, since the quote is simply a part of the non-ignored users' post, but who knows It does work well though (if you combine it with manually skipping over any quoted posts by an ignored user), took me about a week to realize why there was a certain meme going around in the forum

Yes, there are certain limits I thought I'd just write the general idea first, but there are a few limitations. Not per event, if you'd like you select 32 biathletes all for the women's sprint or something, but only one can win of course. The main limitation is that every athlete can be picked only once, and that includes individual and non-individual events. For example, you can pick Kamil Stoch in the ski jumping, but if you do, you can't pick the Polish team he'll presumably be a part of (or vice versa). Or in the previous Olympics: you can pick the American women's team pursuit team, but if you do, you can't pick Chloe Dygert for the time trial, because she's already part of that team. As for teams, there is a limit of one team per discipline (which I think is more of a summer issue than winter). A summer example would be that you can not pick a women's tennis double and a men's tennis double (tennis is one discipline), but you can pick an equestrian show jumping team and a dressage team (show jumping and dressage are different disciplines, officially speaking). Those really are the only significant rules if I'm not mistaken, there's nothing about nationalities or anything. I sort of made the mistake this time to think that they need to be from different sports, but that's not the case. I could've picked all the Chinese weightlifters for example in their eight events (not all divers, since some are also part of a synchro duo) But to confirm your last question: yes, you can pick Pavlichenko, Loch, Ludwig, Fischnaller all for the men's luge, but keep in mind that of course only one of them can (potentially) score Unless we see some double gold shenanigans

Damn, shooting is extremely stable