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Mekhissi Benabbad created the reputation of idiotic French steeple chase runners specifically called Mekhissi Benabbad.

Saw the last of the finals today, so now it's safe to read here, but from all the things I saw...there seems to have not really been any major scandal or anything? That's some good progress

I've posted it in between sports a few days ago, but maybe this could be fun suggestion for an Olympic prediction game, stolen from a Dutch forum, where it's basically called 'Team of Gods' The main premise is very simple: you take the following table, and fill it up with individual athletes you think will win a certain event. If the athletes wins said event, you get the points. Player with the most points wins. There's also a table for team events (being defined as every event where a medal is by rule won by more than one athlete at a time, so ice hockey obviously, but also doubles luge or 'mixed team short skateboard track figure shooting' or whatever gets added). The team event table goes from 30 to 27 to 24 all the way down to 3. Obviously the idea is to put your most certain winners highest. The lower number of events at the Winter Olympics might make it better to not go for 32 and 11, but for - just guessing - 20 and 6 or so, but it could also be a good moment to try it out here It's simple and keeping track of points is even simpler (just add the wins, done), and of course just for fun.

Already getting nervous and excited for Beijing now that these Olympics are finished But given our potential Brazilian representation there, that of course has more personal reasons than just "Can't wait to watch sports"

Well what do you know, nice juicy transfusion to get that old edge off.

Oh, right...completely forgot in the chaos of the days before the opening ceremony, I'm too late to join I assume?

Men's modern pentathlon at the moment and then the baseball final is all that's left. Seems perfect to put on in the background tomorrow when cleaning up, because there's plenty of non-Olympic stuff from today I still want to watch Other than that, normal life resuming on Tuesday, luckily I'm still free from work tomorrow for at least one night of alarm-free sleep It's been a boatload of fun, but I'm also feeling a sense of relief and relaxation.

Fully vaccinated now

Just saw the 97kg final, I think Sadulaev vs Snyder is the single thing I've been looking forward to the most of the entire Olympics That was a bit disappointing from Snyder, but what a show from Sadulaev

Huh what?

Well, this is done

Excellent final gold medal decision of the Olympics

Did I miss the news of an exploding salt mine?

Quickly scrolled through because somehow I had a horrible feeling that there would be an "Totallympics will end after Tokyo" post Nothing like that, the relief is huge. Now I'll read

Didn't know, but Nageeye trained in Kipchoge's group for years (hence the rather happy embrace right after the finish). I did know he and Abdi are pretty close, but I didn't know they've been training together in Ethiopia for a long time now, besides already being friends for 10+ years

Luckily we've got people here who are not laypeople, that helps a lot in understanding the decision.

Getting DQ'ed because you kicked too hard....I entirely understand my feelings about this final come from a complete lack of understanding of how competitive karate works, but I really can't find it sad that karate will be gone from the Olympics after this...sort of feels like you fight for gold in "Holding Back Fighting". Edit: Reading the previous two pages helped, at least And most importantly it's good to see the Iranian sort of ok after all.

I may be naive, but I'm holding on to a bit of hope that people (other than federation officials or something) aren't so pathetic?

Looking from a career perspective, Wild badly, badly deserved an Olympic medal, to be fair. This move was a bit shady though, even though all she really did was following the moves in front of her. Good thing Kajihara stayed on silver, a medal was slightly expected here but the pressure at home must have been big

That'll be a DQ for Wild On the other hand, Cavendish survived worse without any issue..

Oh no, Kajihara down

Valente will save her gold though, no problem.

Crash for leader Valente And the Egyptian...

Needs to make sure she doesn't lose one more lap, but that might be hard..

Dideriksen with the attack for gold