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Too bad Dutch NOS did that...and still missed the next final, because they were still talking in the studio and acted like the men's 50m backstroke never existed I do prefer the ceremonies being spread out more though, I was about to just call it a day in terms of swimming because it was taking forever.

Kromowidjojo That was long ago.

But she's not even in this entire session

Not in 'unimportant'/non-Olympic events

23.80 damn

Twenty minutes for ceremonies in the middle of the program seems like a bit of a scheduling issue...

Kamminga actually taking the fight to Peaty, sort of

Which, much to my surprise, is also available here and has everything available on-demand as well. Perfect, since Dutch NOS only has an online stream which can't be rewatched, so it's live or nothing there.

Cool, cool. By the way, wanna buy a passport?

Which guy?

I heard Sweden has signed a petition to change Olympiads to Olympia, so they'll be included as the only other nation.

Oh well, they would not be the first foreign party to very grossly underestimate the rather difficult TV market here. I'd give it less than three years.

Well, F1TV for 65 euro (per year!) seems pretty attractive then, assuming that'll remain available. This Viaplay thing sounds like a huge bubble that is just waiting to burst with those prices, that's just going to end up costing them shitloads of money.

Good, hopefully they'll have an offer without that here, we've got TV and Netflix and such already.There's no way a significant amount of people here are going to pay 600-700 euro per year just to watch F1 (which is what most here are interested in).

€60, what the hell Does that include movies and series and all kinds of other things?

Damn, some Swedish company (Nordic Entertainment Group) has come into the Dutch TV rights market and grabbed the rights for darts, F1 and the Bundesliga starting next year...which apparently will be shown on Viaplay or something. Doesn't sound like that will be a regular thing watchable on TV without messing around with streaming from another device to the TV Even worse, somehow it seems those idiots are going to ask for €45....per month. Good luck getting a foothold in the market, especially considering F1TV will remain available and is probably much cheaper (and if Viaplay doesn't offer regular TV broadcasts, but only streaming nonsense, F1TV offers exactly the same).

Still not as bad as a tie for Olympic gold resulting in having nobody who is 'the champion' Two or three athletes is both fine, it's not like with three athletes we will suddenly see 20 clean sweeps per tournament in swimming. As long as the best X go through to the next round, where X is simply the number of available spots in the next round (so either 16 or 8), without more internal restrictions.

So limit it to a lower maximum number of starters in the event. Have a maximum of three athletes to start an event for all I care, the main point is that it's ridiculous to have a higher number of athletes per nation start and then not let athletes - who already are allowed to start in the first place - go to the next round just because two athletes of the same country were faster.

That is the issue. There are two options: 1. Only allow two swimmers to start per nation per event, period. 2. Allow X swimmers to start per nation per event (be that 2, 3, whatever), and then also allow X swimmers in the next round, having restrictions based only on performance instead of nationalities. Not talking about how unrealistic they are, because it won't change anyway, but this system just sucks. It has no winners, who wants to see the 3rd fastest athlete be eliminated? That's just...batshit crazy.

Huh, I always thought it was the same at world championships as well

I thought you said it was cancelled Which means there was supposed to be one, and she couldn't qualify in that way. That sucks bad, but on what grounds does she expect to go to Tokyo anyway, despite not qualifying?

Swimming will never get rid of this completely absurd rule of allowing more than two competitors per country per event to start the heats, but only two to go through to the next round, right? Again, now we've got the women's 100m breaststroke where this dumb rule means we will miss literally one of the three/four best athletes in the semis because of having the same flag as two others who were faster.

Wow, Emelie was Fast.

Isn't missing competitions one of the (in this case unfortunate) consequences of being pregnant? It sucks that qualifiers were then cancelled, but on what grounds does she think she should be there if she couldn't qualify through a qualifier and didn't compete in events that counted for rankings?

Who is Mandy Bujold and what's the problem here? The article doesn't really make it clear for those who don't already know the details