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Yeah that's all cool and well, but there either is or should be separate Olympic Games stats and Youth Olympic Games stats A YOG gold medalist is a Youth Olympic champion, not an Olympic champion.

To avoid other people like me having to Google: that's volleyball

Nice way to treat your riders, INEOS

Unbelievable

Nigerian female footballer Ifeanyi Chiejine died after a brief illness. She played 61 matches for Nigeria and played at the 2000 and 2008 Olympics. https://www.pulse.ng/sports/football/ifeanyi-chiejine-dies-after-brief-illness/qqn5v4x

https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1083782/nigerian-athletes-reject-daily-allowance Thank goodness there's often some sort of sportsmanship between athletes themselves.

Belarussian para-rower Dzmitriy Ryshkevich has died aged 33, after capsizing during training for the world championships https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1083781/belarusian-rower-dies-in-training Looks like they were so close to rescueing him in time..

https://www.climbing.com/competition/highs-and-lows-2019-climbing-world-championships/ Wow, really?

oooooooooh scandal

Of course not, I just think the top athletes in bigger nations might do it in a smarter way with a smaller chance of getting caught You know, less....state-funded and stuff.

Yeah....I've been following this stuff too long to seriously expect that

I'm gonna go ahead and say it'll end up being two or three of those B-line sprinters you know could potentially run under 10 seconds but usually don't

That kinda sounds like a cyclocross course. Which is fun and good for, you know, cyclocross...but not for mountain biking

Can't really row in those tiny canals so indoor is the place to go

Ok, not in biathlon then, but in cross-country skiing it shouldn't be a problem

He actually makes a valid point though and I wish he'd stop asking such difficult questions in the early morning It's not about women being incapable of long distances...I'm sure we here all agree they definitely are.

I would very strongly be in favor of that, yes

Yes, adding women's events is generally speaking a good thing, although like with anything in life, a slower and more thorough approach might have been more helpful (for example not adding events that aren't even a thing in the World Cup yet, let it grow a bit first). The thing is, removing competitive men's events to do so is not the right way. It is unfair to the men who get their events taken away, and not adding women's events is unfair to the women in said events. Hence the best solution would be to just accept there need to be more athletes allowed and add the women's events without removing the men's events.

When there are more chances, I'm sure even more girls will start participating in sports. I think the biggest battles in that regard are already behind us though, the bigger thing to change in my opinion would be to stop having special 'light' events for women (like the heptathlon instead of the decathlon). I'm sure everyone should at the very least have the chance to compete in the same discipline?

I wonder how many women will know this thing even exists, considering I'm pretty sure 99% of die hard sports fans have never even heard of it (I certainly wouldn't without this thread)

Yeah...that worked out alright, 14-0

No, but one would be rather....dumb to think there's not a more secret one nowadays

Gold for Emperor Tomoa, bronze for speed specialist Khaibullin, wow! And now former world champion Schubert gets silver.

Ok, Khaibullin with an epic lead performance That majorly messed up Meichi, who can now not finish ahead of Harada anymore, no matter what Tomoa does.

Assuming Khaibullin finishes 6th or 7th, Tomoa could put brother Meichi back in Olympic position by topping the route as final climber I guess he's not aware of that, but imagine the pressure if he is. Current position: Positions if Tomoa gets 1st or 2nd and so Harada and Meichi both move back a position: