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Swimming by a country mile I do like platform diving as well. I find rowing a bit hard to follow sometimes, I always mix up all the different classes and it's not made easier with the main focus always being on nations instead of athletes The thing I don't like about swimming is the insane amount of events, the similarity between a lot of events and the consequence of that: athletes who will obviously win more medals than in other sports, followed by media designating them "greatest Olympians ever" because of the medal counts. I'd like it much more if there was one breaststroke champion, one backstroke champion and so on.

And to add to that: it's an extra chance for the top teams to make sure they remain the top teams. The smaller the team, the more this sucks.

Keep going like this and before you know it we'll all have to work in the office all the time, that would suuuuuuuck Hopefully employers will now see that having to work 'in the office' is bullshit for a large part of the working population (of course not for all, plenty of jobs where working on a specific location is necessary). Personally I'm hoping my employer will be fine with 1 or 2 days per week at the office.

What the hell

Out of curiousity, where did you see it doesn't apply to the Olympics? All media, including IJF's own press release, seem to point to a four year ban from everything, starting in 2019?

Always....'interesting' to see this system in action every year. You play your godgiven talented ass off and are admired left and right as a fantastic talent, and your reward is being picked by the shittiest team in the league At least it's pretty damn cool to see the Jaguars going not only for Lawrence but also the awesome Travis Etienne.

Wow, police investigates possible criminal behaviour. What has become of the world?

Saw this posted on a Dutch forum as well, I don't get from where we should know him. In which online 'circles' was he famous? Sad for his family, of course

Yeah that sucks Can't really blame those countries of course, but that doesn't make it suck any less.

Like would be the case for a number of other countries. Sad, although of course expected. Hopefully they find some other way, surely India - Amsterdam - Poland is not the only option..

Agreed, which is why I don't much care for events where men and women compete against each other head-to-head (like in athletics). They often come across comical and are just insanely hard to follow, even worse when there is no set order.

The Dutch federation has made it's choices in the three contested categories: Sanne van Dijke is in, Kim Polling is out. Guusje Steenhuis is in, Marhinde Verkerk is out. Henk Grol is in, Roy Meyer is out. Making this the provisional team, with still a chance for Sanne Verhagen to be added and in theory Tessie Savelkouls as well if she would by some miracle recover from her horrific injury. Tornike Tsjakadoea (-60 kg) Juul Franssen (-63 kg) Sanne van Dijke (-70 kg) Guusje Steenhuis (-78 kg) Frank de Wit (-81 kg) Noël van ’t End (-90 kg) Michael Korrel (-100 kg) Henk Grol (+100 kg)

That is terrible

But adding artificial 'excitement' is never really exciting. Plus, this is not something that is going to make Mercedes less dominant, the opposite actually: if they have a shitty qualifying on Friday (which is probably during regular work hours), they can just DRS their way to the front on Saturday and still start in the front in the Grand Prix on Sunday.

They could and should use some junior category for that, this is like trying out completely new formats in the Olympics without any testing Just like that dramatic qualifying format they had a few years ago for one or two races, where at certain times the slowest driver would be eliminated, resulting in basically no action on the track for 15 minutes straight

Maybe this helps They really think young peopl who don't care about F1 now are suddenly going to watch when there's one more race? That's just one more race they are not interested in Oh, and normal qualifying (which will then be for the sprint race) moves to Friday. Which is fantastic, because then working people won't be able to watch and the 'young audience' is at school so couldn't watch even if they wanted. Smart!

Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh.

And about the license: obviously drivers like Ogier can master a car like barely anybody else on the planet. Sadly for him, driving in regular traffic is only for a very, very small part about mastering the car

Wait, did he just drive away while a police officer was trying to stop him? Also curious what the driver of that BMW was thinking. "I can keep up on WRC cars with my pimp car"?

Children and old people do, on vacation And probably not on a lawn

In terms of adding something totally new/different to the Olympics: definitely kabaddi or sepaktakraw. Sadly that would be complete nonsense in terms of competing nations.

Depends on the kind of race though. I can't see him win something like Paris-Roubaix From now until 2030 I'd say a lot of big races will be won by Pogacar, Van der Poel, Van Aert, Alaphilippe (still only 28), Hirschi and so on, but without any doubt that list will also have names in them of people we have never heard of at this moment because they're 15 or something

Kashirina is the only one capable of really going toe-to-toe with Li I think or am I missing someone? (I know Kashirina won't be at the Olympics, so this seems like a skippable event there in terms of seeing any tension )

Wow, buzzer beater of all buzzer beaters How was this decided by the way? I see the match apparently finished 110-103, so it was like a goal difference situation where they had to win with at least 6-7 points?

Yeah I'm not sorry for weightlifting as a sport, but I am sorry for myself I want to see epic battles where the fight for gold is being fought on record-breaking levels, like in Rio 2016. I know it wasn't clean there, and so sadly but absolutely rightfully measures have been taken, but boy was it entertaining.