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Laurance is cooked, but Milesi is acting as a perfect teammate in trying to keep the chasers away

Meanwhile in the men's U23 road race, Axel Laurance is on the way to the world title, possibly. Behind him is a group which would have caught up with him if it wasn't for Lorenzo Milesi trying to keep the pace low.

Ah yeah, that's a thing too. What does, say Van der Poel (or less realistically but still hopefully, Sagan) need to do to qualify or for the Olympics?

Amazing ride by Prevot and her super heavy gear.

Aaaand it's 1-1

Fantastic kick by Santos, awful goalkeeping by Earps and 1-0 Colombia shortly before half time

DNS for Rissveds by the way (concussion)

Yes, Pauline van Baarle is having a great ride so far

Women are on the way, Lecomte with a Lecomte attack.

Of course not It's also not even really a statement to help himself, it's just to say what happened Basically his message is "I tested positive".

Nasty, nasty attack by Gorry.

Like USA, in the case of Asinga?

He's a sprinter.....no idea how any sprinter isn't on at least a grey list

A lot less for me now that McLaughlin is out and the race is devalued somewhat Although of course in the end history doesn't really remember who was not there.

In the case of McLaughlin it also kind of feels like wanting to keep her 'unbeatable aura' alive towards the Olympics. Kind of a Bob Kersee thing to keep athletes from competing a lot, especially McLaughlin barely ever competes compared to plenty of other top athletes.

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That's Letsile T. instead of Issam A.

Oh come on Especially points 1 and 2 are very obviously not planned for a Japan vs Sweden match (and 10+ minutes is, luckily, not that rare anymore nowadays, if play is stopped, that time should be added later) Point 3 is right though. I mean, obviously not in a 'FIFA tries to screw Sweden!' conspiracy kind of sense, but no idea why we have a VAR nowadays when a Japanese player simply stumbling on her own - that can happen, but is not a foul of course - still results in a penalty.

'Good' thing the US probably will have plenty of government money available for a massive rebuilding effort (with 'good' of course being in quotes because this whole thing is massively tragic obviously). Especially the aerial photos of Lahaina city, showing like two or three small buildings still somewhat standing and the rest just utterly burned down

Of course not literally every politician can be focused on the defense of the country, there's no sense in that And yeah, the states being geographically closest to Russia and therefore most threatened by an aggressive neighbour would make sense (like the Baltic states), I don't really see many other countries do the same.

Right, it does make a bit of sense then, thanks Another reason to be in favour of one-nation events, I suppose

Yes, the fact that this chance even exists is weird. Group games should not be possible to be repeated until the final.

It is weird though that the chance even exists of having a group match repeat in the semi's instead of in the final

Spain dominated the 1st half, Netherlands got away lucky with 0-0 there. From then on, it was more or less equal (with the Netherlands blowing away Spain for a bit after the 1-0), but my lord the amount of chances missed by Beerensteyn....absolutely unbelievable (that's her own chances, not even counting the many, many times she went for it herself when a teammate was free) It even led directly to the 2-1 in the end. And same thing as NED - ARG in the World Cup last year: NED came back (from 2-0 there), had ARG absolutely on it's knees and ready to be knocked out with a tiny punch, but then NED went back to the way they played that led to being 2-0 behind in the first place Now after 1-1 today, which came after a short period of massive domination, they went back to the lackluster way they played before that...at least it never really went back to the one-sided 1st half, but still.

That sounds cool, but would end up being filled with athletes from big nations which have stricter qualifying criteria than the IF's (like the Dutch for the Olympics, most sports have stricter requirements than just qualifying internationally). Bullshit as it is, countries/NOC's do have a right to choose whether or not they want certain extra tight criteria. And the World Athletics system nowadays is just plain weird anyway, with great performances not being as important as choosing the 'right' place to compete and even hoping that some athletes will not start so the field gets smaller (and you get a higher placing).