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No morning session today, but there is the media 800m this morning. For those who don’t know, both FINA and World Athletics hold a media race during their world championships.

Longtime IWGA Secretary General Co Koren passed away. He was also an important official inside the sport of Tug of War. IWGA write-up: https://www.theworldgames.org/news/The-World-Games-17/Thank-you-Co-2469

U15 Gymnasiade is underway in Rio Link: https://events.isfsports.org/isf-summer-gymnasiade-2023/

Ta Lou and Alfred finishing just off the podium was a bummer

He finally completes his set of medals. with two medal contenders heading into Paris 2024

Laughs in a monthly average of high of 40 C

Scroll past this Bach! Do NOT get any ideas!

Anyone still worried about having a bad world championships?

Because that worked out so well for Spanish players last time

You guys keep throwing around concepts like “public transportation” and “public television.” Those are very foreign concepts to Americans I’ve disliked NBC’s broadcast coverage for years. Although, to their credit, they do make the international feeds available for major events. Unfortunately, they started running commercials (at random in the middle of the competition!!!) over those feeds during Tokyo 2020 and Beijing 2022. Now, I can’t even escape their broadcast choices by watching the international feed, since World Athletics or the HB are catering to their preferences

NBC likes the outer stadium shots because it sets them up nicely for commercial. The warm up shots let them preview big athletes coming up later in the program. I generally watch the international feed for most events, since I prefer to watch the event uninterrupted with neutral commentary. I agree that it’s annoying that the HB is doing that stuff on the international feed too.

A pleasure beating our neighbors as always

Never heard of it

NBC really did a full-on inquisition with that interview though. I mean…making the guy re-watch the race on a monitor and narrate where it went wrong seems like a step too far to me. Athletes are still people as much as pundits/fans want them to be robots. Bottom line, it isn’t how I conduct interviews.

Let’s play a round of women’s basketball then

L.A. just experienced a minor earthquake during the middle of a tropical storm. Plenty to talk about at the dinner table this evening 😅

I’d agree that’s an example of a bad mixed relay. For swimming, I’d drop the gendered 4x100 Free and 4x200 Free in favor of mixed relays, but leave the mixed medley gendered, since it makes more sense in that format. I don’t agree there. If you have a strong men’s program, but a weaker women’s program, you don’t have depth. You have gender disparity in performance. Personally, I think mixed relays have the potential to be a more wholistic measure of team depth. However, as you point out, it doesn’t help if nations won’t take those events seriously.

I really don’t see what everyone dislikes about it. It’s just like the other relays. Plus, like I said above, it could help save quotas in the long run. I really think gendered relays should be dropped from multi-sports games when/where possible. There’s too many “relay only” athletes who take up quotas that could be used elsewhere.

Athletics is just about the only sport my father and I watch together. I will remember Crosser’s throw and Bol’s fall for a while. A pretty eventful start to champs at least.

The “easy way” to fix some of that would be to cut down on the number of duplicate races, namely the m/w 4x400m. You could save some quotas that way too.

They aren’t used to being above sea-level. Probably got too tired at these high altitudes

really couldn’t catch a break this morning, could they?

The back of his uniform has a gorgeous Latin American-style mural on it as well. More race uniforms like that please! https://x.com/justin_britton/status/1692896903044722952?s=46&t=eeNhSzi4Rylqjvpt-IBinQ

Crouser is dealing with blood clots, but he still expects to throw in Budapest.

I still haven’t found anything, and I’ve been looking for a few days now