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Ah, yeah I had never heard about them, but they seem to be sort of what 'Forum voor Democratie' is in the Netherlands, with the moronic Thierry Baudet as wannabe Führer. I'd still travel with the train though if it goes from A to B and I have to go from A to B I'm mostly surprised trains are painted in the colours of a political party, or does SD have a certain power in Stockholm?

To the slightly uninitiated, it all sounds very much like a bit of a catfight between one Greek and a former Greek, with one of them simply being frustrated at her performance....as if Austria of all countries is such a political powerhouse in the sport rigging medals in their favour, surely it isn't? I hope she'll sort of get over it and start enjoying the sport, because from what she's posting she really sounds like someone who is doing a sport they basically hate, find boring and have no positive feelings about whatsoever, that's not healthy..

What am I missing that is shameful or, even more, scary?

I thought Italians were into the clapping during the anthem thing so never said anything about it, but I'm glad to see there's also Italians who are just as annoyed by it It's really something that got big in the past few years it seems, mainly at non-football things...it's very annoying indeed.

Watching yesterday's combined (at least I assume the rather cumbersome name 'Boulder & Lead' will be changed to combined ), and the lead graphics confused me a bit at first. I thought getting anywhere between holds A and B would give 1 point, between C and D 2 points, between E and F 5 points and then 10 points for the top, which would have been a laughably awful scoring system considering one can get 100 points in bouldering. But of course every hold between A and B is worth 1 point, every hold between C and D is worth 2 points and every hold between E and F is worth 5 points, which makes a lot more sense This combined scoring system this way is at least a billion times better than the terrible thing of multiplying positions, which actually is very hard to follow without constantly calculating all the changing possibilities. With this scoring system, once an athlete did boulder + lead, that's their score and that'll remain their score.

Thanks! And they'll do it in that 'two races at a time' format? Normally not a fan of it, but on workdays it saves time so I'm fine with it

Today the open water swimming starts, but the official timing page is rather...confusing. It says this in terms of schedule: But also this: With the 'Mixed' meaning that women and men both start shortly after one another. So according to one schedule today is the women's 10k and after that the men's 5k, according to the other schedule - both of which are on the same official page - both the women and men have the 10k tomorrow, and at basically the same time. What's going on and who is actually going to do what?

That depends entirely on the athletes. If an athlete is a regular 4:15 runner and the other is a regular 4:45+ runner who even goes above 5 minutes sometimes, it's really not that weird to expect that. The thing is usually the athlete leading after nine events is not a 4:45+ runner, hence why you don't often see such a huge gap being made up. It's all about the specific athletes and their qualities in the individual events, rather than how often something does or doesn't happen. Good thing the icosathlon will never be added to these kind of events, commentators really would be at a loss even more than they are with the decathlon

To be fair, in almost every place I've watched multi-events, be that Dutch, Belgian TV or some English stream, they simply don't seem to know what the event is about. It's like this: if we'd have an athletics omnium with a 100m, 200m, 1500m and 10.000m in that order, obviously the sprinters are going to be far and away above the distance runners, correct? Those commentators I mean would then say the sprinters are on their way to 'easy' medals because they've got such a big gap, totally ignoring the fact that there's still two (semi-)distance events to go and they are likely to lose a whole lot there.

And there goes my hope for Vetter Thiam would have needed to stay at 1.90m or so to keep things potentially close, but never mind now

It's only day three, no worries, things can turn around yet

Oosterwegel She was going so well..

What the hell

Lückenkemper - Kambundji with gold and silver topped the night off beautifully Wonderful session

This Dutch commentator and his English colleagues, I seriously can't... First of all, him and the entire idiot NOS crew come with their report before the decathlon 1500m about how 'since the start of the decathlon yesterday it looked like Simon Ehammer was on his way to a convincing gold medal'. No, it never looked that way, literally anyone who has seen and followed a few decathlons with some sort of interest knows that's not how it works. Meanwhile the Munich 2022/European Athletics commentators on the stream, after Kaul's excellent but not unique javelin throw, kept talking about how it would be the - I quote - 'upset of these championships' if Kaul manages to come all the way back after day one to grab a medal. No, it really wouldn't, he was in pole position most of the time. Learn how multi-events work, for fuck's sake. And to top things off, when Kaul had been across the finish line for 30+ seconds and Ehammer was obviously not there yet, the Dutch commentator finished by saying "And it's Niklas Kaul who takes the world title!". If you don't know how to follow a multi-event, just sit back and relax and enjoy, because it's awesome, but don't be a TV commentator for it... /rant

Which basically means Kaul has given away a large 'virtual lead' today, especially on DT he missed out on a ton of points. Plus Ehammer has a large potential margin to improve on the 1500m (possibly 100+ points), whereas Kaul is close to his limit there... It'll be tighter than it looked like it would after day one.

On one hand I agree that this is bad, on the other hand...we'd have way more of a B-event without this. Personally I do want to see as many of the actual best European athletes compete here as possible, and that wouldn't be the case if all the top athletes had to run another round so shortly after the world championships.

Great to see Bolingo come back from a bad knee injury by reaching the final

You should hear the Belgian commentator this morning, he's nearly finding a bridge to jump off of, damn. And this false start for Bolingo doesn't help, although it should of course be a yellow card judging by what we saw earlier in the men's semi's.

I know the goal was 'one final', but this should definitely count as 'mission accomplished'

That's an injury for Kevin Borlée and RIP Tornados.

Oh wow, that 5.20m of Ehammer If that didn't go wrong, nothing can go wrong one would imagine

Ah, that helped, and seeing the pictures now I do remember that

I am too, considering much like politicians, no matter what you decide, you're always going to be wrong in the eyes of a large group of people

When was that? I'm trying to remember, but can't find any DQ'ed GBS guy in the past two Olympics or past three world championships