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We're all here cheering for Croatia's main star, Autistic Go

Netherlands has the world champion?

Good luck to Ujah though, since he tested positive for this and something else

Boxing and definitely, absolutely wrestling Because technique is important, like in any sport, but strength, endurance and training hours simply are important too. And just to clarify, I don't mean this as anything towards Bulgaria at all, just specifically about the sports Sadly there is basically no sport where some form of doping (be that beta blockers to steady the nerves and hands, good old blood transfusions or whatever steroids) doesn't give some form of advantage.

That is just sad

Well yeah, in basically every sport even with doping you still need some serious degree of talent and a shit ton of dedication (even if in this case it's the wrong kind of dedication) to put in the work, simply because generally doping doesn't automagically make you faster or stronger, but because it makes you be able to train more and/or harder. There's really barely any sport where doping would not have an advantage. Even if the advantage is relatively small, that can still make the difference between being someone who sometimes reaches the top-20 or something and being a serious medal contender, since differences at the top are often small.

Well yeah, in basically every sport even with doping you still need some serious degree of talent and a shit ton of dedication (even if in this case it's the wrong kind of dedication) to put in the work, simply because generally doping doesn't automagically make you faster or stronger, but because it makes you be able to train more and/or harder. There's really barely any sport where doping would not have an advantage. Even if the advantage is relatively small, that can still make the difference between being someone who sometimes reaches the top-20 or something and being a serious medal contender, since differences at the top are often small.

Like what, checkers and competitive eating?

There we go https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-afghanistan-taliban-26d485963b7a0d9f2107afcbc38f239a

By the way, I see shooting doesn't only have a team trap event, but also team skeet. After a quick Google search, team skeet is not at all what I had in mind, damn

Hopefully that's not at all realistic, because....why? Are men's floor and vault that bad?

That is awesome And I knew about the Roller Games thread, but I think I was a bit busy with other things to follow that as well

No side effects at all here neither, other than barely a day of feeling a very slightly 1cm sore spot where the needle went in In other news, Canberra going into strict lockdown.....because of one case. In a year. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-58182419

Huh, just now I noticed Kilty was in the team and so is in danger of losing silver..

That'd be sad, it was way more enjoyable to watch than freestyle, where most of the time, well, not really much happened..

As long as the focus is mostly on adding women's events and not replacing men's events, but I fear for that.

Waaaaaait a minute. This ain't over yet!

Whoopsie!

Skateboarding downhill, is that what I think it is? Because that'd be extremely awesome Sure, not really 'Olympic' or something, but neither is breakdancing and that's on the program.

Not sure if it actually is, but shouldn't it be way too late to still add events (or remove them) from the program?

So yeah, Viñales screwed his career over. He has been withdrawn from this week's race in Austria due to potentially damaging behaviour with his bike during last week's race. https://www.crash.net/motogp/news/984768/1/yamaha-withdraws-vinales-unexplained-operation-motorcycle

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