heywoodu

You're right. The federal police knocked on their door and now they're acting all surprised. There are three different police forces in Brazil: civil (they basically investigate crimes), military (they patrol the streets) and the federal police (they combat terrorism, drug trafficking, money laundry... all the big stuff). If the someone from the federal police knocks on your door, you know you screwed things up BIG time. Apparently, the federal police is asking questions about the 2011 World Championships which were staged in Brazil and caused a huge loss of money for the Brazilian Handball Federation. The president of federation at the time was also accused of corruption and money laundry. I think they changed the president, but the federation is pretty much short of money so they have no means to send athletes to major competitions. The Brazilian Olympic Committee usually helps when things get rough, but they are also short on money, and they have to invest in other sports too (rumors say that Valeri Liukin will be hired as the head coach of the women's artistic gymnastics team, and if this turns out to be true, the BOC will be the entity responsible for paying his salary, so they are not wasting any more money on the handball federation anytime soon).

 

The surprising 2015 400m hurdles world champion, Nicholas Bett of Kenya, has died in a road accident today, aged 28 
https://www.nation.co.ke/sports/athletics/-Nicholas-Bett-dies-in-Nandi-road-crash/1100-4702938-u5p43tz/index.html

In posts with 1 or 2 flags I don't care so much, but for posts with a ton of flags, this is so much better 

Zanzibar having a flag here is pretty cool  

In posts with 1 or 2 flags I don't care so much, but for posts with a ton of flags, this is so much better 

@dcro Croatians playing like bullies.
https://www.flashscore.com/match/ERh4xJxE/#match-summary

Surely not in the 100m dash?
Those races are over in a flash
Ready, set go,
A puff and a blow,
10 secs later heywoodu loses more cash

The gold medal winner came from the deep south.
Shut your mouth.

The gold medal winner came from the deep south.
Shut your mouth.

The gold medal winner came from the deep south.
Shut your mouth.

The gold medal winner came from the deep south.
Shut your mouth.

Grass is green, water is wet.

after the Turkenya flop here the the chance of redemption for Turjamaica

No medal for Tortu means losing 30 euro, medal for Tortu means winning 31 euro. 

Go Tortu for a medal
 

Vicaut won't start the final. Injured...

0% Italian, I tell you 

not only them...with this weather, I wouldn't say no to someone offering them to me...

0% Italian, I tell you 

0% Italian, I tell you 

Shaunae's PB is more than second better than Maicel's.

Running 10km in way less than half an hour is not normal. 

Running 10km in way less than half an hour is not normal. 

Amazing, he hasn't completed a championships decathlon since 2014 (started at all in 2015-2018).