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Well no, that's basically how it was described in the interview I assume they meant something like "it was a lot of fun, with talking, dancing and such"

Surprising or not, I was happy to see this many

Just a little fun fact I just read in an interview with some Dutch players: the Netherlands beat Argentina in the final, but the same day there was a party in the Olympic village on a small field somewhere, with the Dutch women but also the Argentinian team, the British team and the Belgian men all talking, dancing and having general fun

European championships in Serbian Novi Sad this weekend. Entry list, sort of, is here: http://www.uec.ch/resources/2021 Events/MTB XCO/2021_euromtb21_entry_v2.pdf Quite a lot of Slovaks @hckošice

Still the same thing for Canada. The list of eligible athletes is presumably taken automatically from the FIS points list, and in the most recent one (from 1 July), oddly there is not a single Canadian athlete with valid points anymore. I have no idea how this is possible, since plenty of Canadians competed last season and so there should be plenty of Canadians in the points list. Meanwhile Thailand and Hungary are listed as having not enough eligible athletes for their quota, which I guess Hungary can still turn around, but Thailand (as expected, of course) will likely have to return one of their two women's quotas.

By the way, only 329 events by the looks of it? So things get added, which means more than 10 events will be dropped compared to Tokyo? Eight of those coming from karate, one being the 50k, baseball/softball....what else?

I honestly don't think anyone here seriously has a problem with trying to reach gender equality, the main issue is with how they're going about it and which things are being thrown away and replaced left and right.

I honestly don't think anyone here seriously has a problem with trying to reach gender equality, the main issue is with how they're going about it and which things are being thrown away and replaced left and right.

Thanks! Not perfect (since it shows only the best result of the year for an athlete, instead of all the best results, including multiple per athlete), but definitely useful Although I probably won't have the time to follow it all too closely, that's going to be a bit too much I'm afraid.

Quite a lot in swimming and a few in athletics, but that was five years ago. I honestly have no idea how good the Dutch athletes - and more importantly, to predict well - the non-Dutch athletes are, it's usually too hard to really find good information about all the results (there's not something like World Athletics' top lists as far as I know). So, anything between 5 and 40 medals, I guess

I think the update is not completely finished yet, like the things mentioned above are still missing (but surely can be brought back, I guess the update unchecked a box here or there?). Also, the whole site is still rather slow as of this morning, but I'm hopeful that will get better once things settle down or something Too bad the latest replies box isn't bolded for unread topics anymore, kinda makes it look like you're all caught up when actually you're not But luckily there is the 'Unread Topics' page to have as bookmarked Totallympics page instead of the main page.

Because Totallympics was down all day and in the evening I didn't bother to check Welcome fellow winter sports fan

No serious race walk event should have any 5k part though. That is just way too short and completely kills the whole point of the sport, it leads to things like Tom Bosworth's running 1 mile to set the 1 mile 'race walking' record. Actually, 20km is already too short, but alright. It'd be better to remove race walking altogether than to go for events where a single athlete does less than 20km in one race. One of the main reasons why 50k was so awesome is because race walking, more than anything, is about endurance, endurance, endurance.

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?