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Their E-sporters would still not get any attention as long as this shady act is walking with them

Right, so you'll want baseball or something, which is more known for fat guys eating hot dogs on the stands than for anything else really. Because you might have trouble with competitive eating if you want to see fat guys eating hot dogs

Also in favour of removing athletics, everyone can run, jump or throw different kinds of stuff.

That worked out nicely

Yeah that's what I thought. Oh well, worth a try, but not a problem

There were a few missed medal chances and especially in the beginning some unfortunate things: CommunicationGate at the women's road race, one of the BMX favourites injuring his knee due to a crossing official (but yeah, then he won gold, so there's that), the whole mess against the rowing team, who still got a big medal haul despite being pushed down and down. But then again, if you've got at least 20 events with a serious medal chance, you're absolutely going to have events where you'll miss the medals. It won't mean anything for those who missed the medals, because for them it's about their medal and not someone else's, but in general the Dutch team performed incredibly well. Yes, in terms of overall medals, realistic expections were that Sydney's record of 25 medals would be shattered, so it's not a surprise at all in that sense, but it still has to...you know, happen! Even double digit gold medals for only the second time ever, behind Sydney when there were two swimming superstars, and medals in nearly a third of all sports (like in Rio), that is seriously good. The judo team underperformed immensely, which no sport will make up for as far as how they feel about it of course, but the athletics team...wow. I was realistically counting on 4-5 medals - including a gold or potentially two - if things worked well as a whole, which would've already been an incredible and historical achievement. But EIGHT athletics medals?! Sure, if really every significant possibility worked out well, who knows. As for my favourite Dutch medals (there are plenty non-Dutch among my favourites of course): Niek Kimmann's BMX gold after he injured his knee due to an official and after the semis in the hour before that went almost as dramatically bad as it could have gone for the Dutch team, except Kimmann. The 4x400m men running to silver, I truly never expected a Dutch team in that event being anywhere near the medals, despite their earlier achievements this year, and they wind up with the races of their lifetimes and achieve something so amazing. Abdi Nageeye's marathon silver, 41 years after Gerard Nijboer took silver in Moscow (in a much weaker field and much easier race, according to Nijboer himself), and while guiding his long-time friend Bashir Abdi to the Olympic podium with him! ---- I'm going for 8/10, because the total medal haul was slightly less than realistically expected (albeit not much, hence the 8), but there were a whole lot of really good performances including those just outside the medals - think triathlon, for example.

On that note, is there a way to make the Ignore function work in such a way that you also don't see an ignored users' posts when someone quotes them? I don't think so, since the quote is simply a part of the non-ignored users' post, but who knows It does work well though (if you combine it with manually skipping over any quoted posts by an ignored user), took me about a week to realize why there was a certain meme going around in the forum

Yes, there are certain limits I thought I'd just write the general idea first, but there are a few limitations. Not per event, if you'd like you select 32 biathletes all for the women's sprint or something, but only one can win of course. The main limitation is that every athlete can be picked only once, and that includes individual and non-individual events. For example, you can pick Kamil Stoch in the ski jumping, but if you do, you can't pick the Polish team he'll presumably be a part of (or vice versa). Or in the previous Olympics: you can pick the American women's team pursuit team, but if you do, you can't pick Chloe Dygert for the time trial, because she's already part of that team. As for teams, there is a limit of one team per discipline (which I think is more of a summer issue than winter). A summer example would be that you can not pick a women's tennis double and a men's tennis double (tennis is one discipline), but you can pick an equestrian show jumping team and a dressage team (show jumping and dressage are different disciplines, officially speaking). Those really are the only significant rules if I'm not mistaken, there's nothing about nationalities or anything. I sort of made the mistake this time to think that they need to be from different sports, but that's not the case. I could've picked all the Chinese weightlifters for example in their eight events (not all divers, since some are also part of a synchro duo) But to confirm your last question: yes, you can pick Pavlichenko, Loch, Ludwig, Fischnaller all for the men's luge, but keep in mind that of course only one of them can (potentially) score Unless we see some double gold shenanigans

Damn, shooting is extremely stable

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.