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I very much hope so, but I do think it will be a 4th place because of a certain Norwegian who absolutely shouldn't have been in this final...

Fairly popular opinion among less casual fans, I believe.

Happy for Kennedy, but too bad nobody can call herself "the world champion" now

Amazing 1500m final

Distance heats at these world championships are flying fast, 14:32 5k now

Scum of the earth Utkin is, like Prigozhin, also named as likely having been on the plane. Buh-bye. I don't think it was a deliberate act by the way, most likely it spontaneously malfunctioned after a coincidental form of physical contact with a Russian rapidly disintegrating tube-shaped object.

Having a medal ceremony in the FIFA World Cup, where quite literally nobody cares about the concept of a silver or bronze medal (most people don't even know that exists, you either win the World Cup or you don't), but not in things like athletics world championships....no thanks

So at least they have some medal for the photos and stuff, and in the excitement, instead of that nonsense with a medal ceremony the next day, with athletes getting their medals when all of the adrenaline and excitement is basically long gone. It's World Athletics saying "we know medal ceremonies really should be shortly after the event, for sure in the same day, but we're not going to do that anyway, so shut up"

The fuck is wrong with the World Athletics website being down every single time after the session? https://worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-championships/budapest23/timetable

Time for the steeple, maybe after that the high jump will start, can't wait!

New wildfires in Greece, of course these wildfires didn't hit houses of celebrities in Hollywood at all. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66574476

Either vastly overestimates or, or is like 'nah we have no chance anywhere'. Failing to see that having 20 different athletes with a 20% medal chance (so each one of them not being a massive medal favourite by itself) is very likely going to result in medals

Apparently the UK Eurosport commentators had some brilliant argumentation for not disqualifying Warholm: "He can go much faster than this in the final, so he should not be DQ'ed." Uhm..huh?

Massive up-and-down session. Awesome gold for Richardson, stunning throw by Ståhl, but on the other hand.....Warholm not being DQ'ed because he is too big of a star and teenage sensation (and pretty much medal favourite, if not title favourite) Jaydon Hibbert being injured.... Still entertaining though, as always

I love how everyone from every country always feels like their country is performing badly. Which is just impossible, because if every country performs badly, we're going to be left with medals that aren't won by anyone

Yeah I had entirely missed it, until someone pointed it out to me just last week

Yeah, NOS has switched to a commentator for field events (who does indeed do cycling and short track as well, sadly), who is trying to create his own 'legend' by absolutely constantly making up weird sentences and wordplays, instead of doing his job and spontaneously have some nice stuff in between It's almost as annoying as a lot of English-language commentators in car racing, where it feels like all of them (except for Martin Haven) have an extreme need of having some recognizable 'logo' as a sentence. "And it's pedal to the metal, and it's go go go go go go!" from one of them at every single start, or "And it's eyes to the lights and foot to the floor!" from another, also at every single start. I am so super glad Eurosport finally has athletics rights back after six long years, Dutch Eurosport is blessed with a fantastic commentator there (who also does cross-country skiing in the winter and sometimes biathlon), who is already great on his own and even better with his Eurosport co-commentator (a manager of lots and lots of especially middle to long distance runners, so the amount of inside knowledge he has is incredible). They're great in terms of athletics stuff, but they also work amazingly well together, clearly enjoying what they're doing, bashing each other lightheartedly if there's some wrong prediction or something and just overall having fun while informing us viewers of everything we should know.

https://www.logicallyfacts.com/en/fact-check/false-obama-s-and-other-celebrities-estates-and-mansions-survived-the-maui-fires-not-because-they-were-directed

I'm glad that commentators on TV here don't really update the situation of the field event finals when they aren't shown, that would really take away all of the remaining tension in case they suddenly do show some throws or jumps

Ah, only in Maui. Interesting that these conspiracy theories include houses that, well, how to say that gently.....aren't even on Maui.

Yes, unbelievable coincidence. Also, the heavy rains and winds recently in the Alps region did not affect a single celebrity house in Monaco....unbelievable! And are we all just supposed to believe that the current Tenerife wildfires are coincidentally not affecting all the rich people's mansions on Lanzarote and Gran Canaria at all..?!

Mostly known as a classic power abuser. As one of the pundits on Dutch TV said yesterday (someone with lots of connections into among other things Spanish women's football): "You'd wish these players a world title, you'd wish Spain a world title.....just not this coach. Every win for the Spanish women's team is a loss for women suffering from male power abuse." Which was not to say she was unhappy with Spain winning, because as she said: the players absolutely deserved it, nothing against them at all. On the 'bright' side for the Netherlands: one of the current Dutch players, who I believe has a Spanish and a Dutch parent, plays for the Netherlands now because she was one of many being bullied and abused out of the Spanish football world by Vilda

Become European and get Eurosport where every field event has it's very own stream (available live and on-demand, as streams in 2023 should be)

Honestly I'm fine with warmup/transport/call room shots, as long as they are done in appropriate moments....which they are barely ever done of course I found it nice to see the preparation of the 100m final for example, with the guys preparing their start blocks and everything, instead of just the usual on-screen graphic followed by the official intros. Stadium shots from the outside in events like this can suck it though, they literally add nothing. No insight in preparations, no building up tension, nothing.

They show a different live calculation in the stadium? Because on TV Vetter was shown as bronze basically the whole way, with Vidts and then Krizsan being close for a bit, but in the last 100 meters or so they took the live standings away from the graphics, so on TV there was never any sense that anything unexpected happened in the fight for bronze...