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Medal for Osman

For people who are entirely out of the loop in terms of all things related to lacrosse, Haudenosaunee championships and whatnot...what exactly is the point (and the pros and cons and such) here?

Once again, this bullshit of having a one-heat 500m nowadays....Shinhama's medal chances are decided the day before the race, for example (and those of others are of course affected by the draw....which always used to be solved super easily by simply having two heats...life can be so simple). Edit: hadn't seen it yet but holy moly Stolz Opening 9.4 was quite the sign already

As long as it doesn't go at the cost of another event...

The strength of Dutch speed skating is exactly it's weakness in team events. It's ridiculous to think that teams for the pursuit or sprint often don't even train together at all until the week of (or even the day of) the event

Well there it is, the easiest to predict death of the year....Alexei Navalny has been murdered in Russian prison. Well, you know, he died after 'feeling unwell' and 'losing consciousness'. Totally out of nowhere, I guess.

Well that women's team sprint was a laughable affair again Men's race was fun.

Yeah, that's what I meant, it was not like they had a bad race in terms of shape...

Then wouldn't it make sense for Hong Kong not to compete as a separate entity? Either compete as an entity with it's own anthem, or have the athletes be part of another entity with an anthem. Or, easier, don't win gold medals, but yeah

The fuck happened with the skis of Strømsheim and Christiansen? This was just unreal, especially Christiansen has shown he is in very much a decent shape... Edit: some rain later on, so a classic 'bib number race'...zero chance at all for anyone with a slighly higher bib.

But how about Hong Kong? If one competes as a certain entity, said entity should have an anthem.... It was even literally announced as 'the anthem of the People's Republic of China!'.

Chinese anthem for a Hong Kong gold Is that a similar thing to Taiwan appearing as 'Chinese Taipei' in the world of sports, despite people knowing it's actually Taiwan?

If the Poles are smart, they put Krzysztof Chmielewski in this 200m fly final instead of slightly slower Micha. Nobody would notice anyway

Now on to the first US stage in over two decades, probably the number one anticipated highlight of the year All those thousands of tickets being sold out within half an hour, I am so looking forward to the weekend

Is that including the Dutch DQ (thanks to Toussaint swimming on her back during the turning point in the freestyle leg)?

Absolutely true. The Elo-like system would in theory be fine, but probably hard to implement in a fair way (just look at the never-ending discussions about FIS points in cross-country skiing), so better not offer any points at all for continental championships. It'd honestly be laughable to get as many points for being the slowest competitive team in the Oceanian championships (you know, finishing 2nd) as you'd get for say beating France, Germany, Poland and Great Britain...but not the Netherlands (or any random combination of those teams), which is obviously a way better result in reality.

Makes you wonder, was it one of those situations where athletes have to train on a road where trucks are racing past them by centimeters? The places where athletes in Kenya train are absolute hellholes in terms of safety... Edit: he was in a car, with several others. https://nation.africa/kenya/sports/athletics/shock-as-world-marathon-record-holder-kiptum-coach-die-in-road-accident-4522064

Oh wow

Yeah that first shooting was unfortunate Still very impressed with the way she made it up and ended up a very decent 11th, that is still one of the top results ever plus it should more or less solidify her chances to start in the mass start

I don't think I have often seen a 'Not qualified' list with this much quality in it at a World Cup, damn Other than Tediashvili, every single one of these athletes is capable of getting into a final...

Huh, now that you mention it... Thanks, I guess these oddly placed championships aren't that much of a high priority everywhere, as one would kind of expect

Wait, what? Is this the first time in history USA can't field a competitive women's 4x100 freestyle team? I genuinely don't remember them not being one of the main medal candidates (I guess my memory is wrong, of course, but still)

Why are the American teams not there in both 4x100 freestyle relays? Edit: the women, I meant, the men suddenly appeared (or, more likely, I had completely overlooked them )

Haitian record

The 17-year old Lebanese record in the 100m breast is gone