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For those not in the loop: what about the heptathlon entries debacle? Edit: something with Sweden and Austria, I guess.

So many stories that make me very glad people are allowed to choose to end their suffering, instead of spending weeks, months or even years longer in mental and/or physical hell just because someone else decided they have to. Coincidentally someone in my area (I don't know them personally) already knows they're going to die next week on Thursday. The only other option would be to wait for potentially another year until the cancer, which has spread everywhere, slowly eats them away while not being able to do anything but keep laying in bed.

Rather busy weekend as basically per usual CL final Bit of cycling here and there Isle of Man TT races 24H Nurburgring Moto3, Moto2, MotoGP Tons of junior racing, F4, Red Bull Rookies and the likes European BMX championships IndyCar NASCAR Roland Garros Athletics Diamond League NHL playoffs It never ends

Which I'm not a fan of (although it is a necessity I believe, due to teams from the 3rd level generally just not having the finances to play on a higher level) I'd love a system where one can promote and relegate from the top to the bottom and back though

Ugh. How about you start by making yourself visible as an athlete, instead of so rarely competing in the first place?

Also one of the big highlights on two wheels is happening right now. After a week of qualifying, today we start with racing at the Isle of Man TT races Live stream of excellent quality on TT+, 20 euro or so and it's definitely worth it Nice view of the madness that is the TT, with a camera inside the helmet of Davey Todd, the fastest man so far.

At 16:00 CET today we have the start of the 24 hours of the Nürburgring, one of the biggest and most awesome races of the year Spotter's guide for the top class (SP 9): https://spotters.guide/resources/2024_ADAC_24h_SG_v1.2-1.pdf

Yeah, I definitely agree something needs to improve in the entire system, I'm just not sure lifetime bans for every kind of doping offences are the way to go. Would definitely want to see some action in terms of changing things though.

Maybe if we ask nicely someone like @ChandlerMne or @NikolaB wants to spend 2 minutes searching in Serbian if Boskovic will play the last week of the Nations League

FOK!, it's entirely general about literally everything, but it includes a sports section where people of course also follow these things But again, a Serbian user here would definitely have much more to say about Boskovic' participation, I'm sure.

Wouldn't this lead to every single match being a 'big match' and so every big match being nothing special anymore? Plus it'd probably destroy the sports in many countries, since at best 1 or 2 teams from most countries would even remotely stand a chance of having any kind of competition then. One might have like 10 different levels between which one can fight for promotion/relegation (we definitely should not have the closed market that is the North American system of sports), but good luck to a small team from, say, Ireland going to an away match against a small team from, say, Turkey, they aren't going to be able to keep paying that

Definitely agree with the latter, not so sure about the former Much as I'd like to see actual cheats be removed forever, there are doping offences where genuine mistakes are involved (say contamination, which should lead to a ban because it can increase performance, but I wouldn't be a fan of a lifetime ban for that). No idea what would be the most fair way to deal with the whole thing though, glad I'm not a rulemaker

Which you do, one of the few Olympians (kind of) on Totallympics is a Brazilian winter athlete, so....

Someone on a Dutch forum posted "apparently Boskovic is scheduled to take part in the last week", so I assume he read that somewhere

Fight for that last ticket quite literally can't be tighter now after a great day (for NED) yesterday

For real? Because somewhere else I read Boskovic would be back then. Curious if any Serbian user has some news about that

Which means cyclocross for example would be fine. Purely in that sense, because obviously it's just nowhere near international enough

It would also make the days calmer, which is useful, but also takes away a bit of that Olympic magic where everyone is filled to the brim with sports from early morning to late night Plus it'd be harder with getting time off from work

I think that is a big underestimation of especially the muscles needed for archery Right now there's already the eternal debate about darts being a sport or not, that would just get worse if included in the Olympics. Besides, I truly doubt any top level player has any serious interest in the Olympics, unlike for example athletes in some other sports that have actively been trying to get into the Olympics (sports climbing, for example). The Olympic tennis tournament is already something that doesn't feel like even 5% as important as a Grand Slam, with darts that would be way less I think.

As a big fan of darts: I absolutely hope not That will genuinely receive more criticism than breaking.

Hence the question on whether or not she will run again Feels like years ago she ran twice in two weeks or so.

McLaughlin will actually run again? What's next, unicorns inventing space travel?

That's too bad for everyone involved (except for Team Gafinovitz of course), they missed the opprtunity for an athlete going on what's basically legal doping (post-pregnancy)

I'd rather just see the omnium be made into an all-round event I think

Oh, and arguably my biggest annoyance in all of sports, which should absolutely be changed: the pursuit and sprint in biathlon should not in any way be two separate medal events. I don't care how it's solved exactly, but it is utter bullshit that a bad result in one individual medal event can completely destroy your chances in another, separate individual medal event (or even keep you from participating in that one altogether). "So you just need to make sure you have a good sprint." Yeah, that's the point. You simply should not depend on having a good result in Olympic medal event A, just to even stand a chance in Olympic medal event B. Just scrap the pursuit altogether or maybe have like a one-lap qualifier on race day (not as a separate medal event, obviously), but the current situation is just ridiculous.