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No splits on-screen, well done IAAF!

Chepkoech is significantly faster than her WR pace.

RIP Amos

Well yeah, with the exception of D-sprinter Gibbons, every African who's somewhat worthy of the World Tour level (or close) is racing in Europe at the moment Like Grmay and Amanuel in the Vuelta.

A graphic with athletes' speed in km/h....during the slow motion replays, that's what I've always wanted

Lol @ Diamond League format

The good old football fan who supports his club by getting his club in major trouble

Van Garderen crashed and is highly unlikely to get back on track so it seems. What a shitshow for EF today, damn.

On the other hand, who cares about a tournament where you've got perfect housing and stuff but the only people watching are one or two friends who happened to be there and a passerby walking her dog?

Formolo and Higuita are in trouble too

And that's it for Roche as well after three Sunweb guys went down (magically, Kelderman wasn't one of them, what the hell )

Big crash and Uran is out (plus two others). Without Uran and Carthy, I guess EF will have to focus entirely on Sergio Higuita. Which is not necessarily a bad thing at all.

Men's eights have been moved to 14.17 CET due to a boat being damaged. First there's some C/D action now.

Time for the eights

There are apparently the (sports) channels we'll have there....I'm not unhappy

Cool, I didn't know there were countries were they literally change the entire name of series like IndyCar to not just a translated version, but to something totally different Brazil continues to surprise me.

Well then pour me a glass and let me join in the celebrations in b4 our Irish friend because I said 'pour me a glass'

Formula Indy? Is that what's actually called the IndyCar Series (which I can imagine since there's always been strong Brazilians in there, like Tony Kanaan and Helio Castroneves) or is 'Formula Indy' a Brazilian championship?

Is that a surprise? I thought sprint canoeing was basically their only 'thing' ever in sports

Very much I believe we'll have SporTV so that should cover quite a lot already. The only cycling I really want to see during that time is the world championships, I'm sure it'll work with internet in case it's nowhere on TV. I believe ESPN shows NASCAR by the way, that'd be great too

The women, that is. The men did compete in the final.

My main issue with Pita is him competing in the Olympics in one sport because he only had to fight two people in qualifying (still better than some Oceanian women who literally didn't have to compete), then competed in the Olympics in another sport because of a flawed qualifying system and some...doubtful uses of the rules, and then trying to qualify in yet another sport where he competes in world championships while he doesn't even have the very basics under control yet. Simply moving to the starting psition was a huge challenge. Good for everyone who tries, and it's no problem if someone is pretty far behind, but do we really need people at the Olympics who just don't really have control over the basics of their sport?

This rule feels like awarding medals for every event in the decathlon or something. Or for both the sprint and pursuit in biathlon. Oh wait, they do and I hate it.

All fun and well, but my point about Senegal and Mali (among others) was entirely based on atmosphere, not on feasability I sure haven't seen every event held there, but every time I did (from world youth championships in athletics in Kenya to African U18 basketball in Mali) the stands were totally filled with jumping and dancing and singing people...while in other, possibly richer countries, the atmosphere in events that I've seen was more...boring.

I've been basically melting away, so I was wondering when ice hockey would start!