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Victor and Tilga with an excellent plus to start their second decathlon day.

Awesome bronze for Gardadi Salpeter 4th

Yehualaw desperately needs coins for the parking meters in Budapest.

Why are the graphics broken by the way? It is only showing the time, but you know...hello? Distance to go?

It won't matter in the sense that it's not going to provide athletics with any advantage, correct. In other words, there is simply no need to remove any of the current events.

That sounds awful Like any big city marathon wants to be turned into a slow championship race.... And again this insanely stupid idea of 'if we take away certain events, we will attract a wider audience'. No, you absolute fuckwit, people who don't like athletics will not suddenly start liking athletics if there's no hammer throw and 5k anymore. That will just be half an hour less of athletics for them not to watch. Just like people who didn't like the 50k race walk are not suddenly now watching the 35k race walk. It's just 15km less race walking that they don't watch.

It's the opposite for me: I would believe not cancelling the entire Games, but come on, immediately continueing the opening ceremony with fireworks and everything? On the other hand, if thousands of people were already in the stadium, cancelling the whole thing might have just caused more trouble with everyone leaving in a panic...

It went horribly wrong today at the opening ceremony, with a crush resulting in at least 12 deaths and 11 critically injured victims. Oddly enough, the president made a short statement after the situation, basically saying "something unfortunate happened, lots of injuries, let's be quiet for a few seconds", and then the ceremony continued with lasers and fireworks and stuff. I guess for those who didn't die while trying to get in a little before that.. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/25/madagascar-killed-in-crush-at-indian-ocean-island-games-opening-ceremony

Interesting, here on Eurosport there was no problem at all and Richardson was perfectly visible. She's a tiny 1,55m though, maybe it's that

Great, spoilers for a totally different sport in this thread There goes the fun I was hoping for when watching that after the athletics session. Now it's a minor event, but I hope during the Olympics this time for the first time ever on Totallympics people won't do that

I'm going for Tebogo in 19.60 and Lyles in 19.65

Might be your TV, because it was most definitely shown

Well ok, that was cool

Meanwhile the women's javelin final is as expected....extremely mediocre.

That's probably number one on the list of things I would not want to hear my grandmother say, damn.

Not even the schedule is fully available anymore, had to Google around to see what this morning's schedule was

I wonder if Rojas is injured or something, all those attempts look just entirely....I don't know, lifeless.

Who said that?

Also because a decathlon (or heptathlon) title is a bit more....prestigious, from a global perspective, compared to a niche event like hammer throw (nothing against it personally, but you know)

Kaul in 19th, even better than in the forecast (where he was projected at 21st after three events). Seems closer to the medal positions than before the day started.

About what?

Neugebauer with another massive plus in the shot put The dude is, so far, well on his way to a potential 9000.

Pakistan having a global top-15 or so athlete

Well that is both unfortunate and super expected...

Javelin and 1500m, so the exact opposite of Kaul