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Looks like we might be getting a celebration similar to the winter medal ceremonies. The renderings look interesting at least.

They’ve uploaded a few into the results system, but I believe the results are also available here: https://live.swimify.com/competitions/european-youth-olympic-festival-2023-2023-07-24/events/summary/1/1

There was definitely some straight running in that walk race Gold to

All of those sports/disciplines have been confirmed as a part of the sports program Link: https://www.theworldgames.org/news/The-World-Games-17/Sports-Programme-set-for-TWG-2025-in-Chengdu-2466

Albayrak broke his own GR to take gold in the men’s 400m free His time was still a couple seconds off the OQT.

Jackl wins the first gold medal of the Games in the women’s 400m IM.

The article says the club did an internal investigation and then fired him, which would seem to indicate they found some stuff during the investigation.

I’m not following these too closely, but I do enjoy reading everyone’s thoughts. Mass participation threads are the best

The World Games 2022 ultimately cost $65.1M. They came in under budget, but only generated $51M in revenue. A report commissioned by the IWGA did show the event created an economic impact of $165M for the local community, though that was less than originally expected as well. Sources: https://www.al.com/news/2022/08/world-games-14-million-shortfall-we-have-every-intentionto-pay-our-vendors-says-ceo.html and https://www.wbrc.com/2022/12/20/economic-impact-report-shows-world-games-brought-165-million-dollars-lower-than-original-projections/ I do think The World Games are trending positively overall. The IWGA has forged a closer relationship with the IOC. They have a pretty good slot in terms of timing. Participation seems to be trending up as well, though politics and pandemic policies affected last years turnout. They still need to improve some aspects of course. I think some of the financial woes of last year’s event boil down to some missed opportunities by local organizers. They needed to be more aggressive with advertising, ticket initiatives, and broadcast/streaming deals (in my opinion).

will compete in athletics and cultural competitions. Link: https://www.eda.admin.ch/countries/democratic-republic-congo/fr/home/actualite/nouveautes.html/content/eda/fr/meta/news/2023/7/21/96853

Not the most encouraging start to the Games.

IWF considering some sweeping changes to the sport, including the elimination of “press-out” violations. Link: https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1139185/weightlifting-reinvented-news-story

Yeah, I thought the opening ceremony was supposed begin 40 minutes ago…

Phenomenal win by Meeus. I think even he was surprised to have won the stage

First time both teams have scored a goal this tournament.

CGF isn’t really a part of the Olympic ecosystem. They kind of exist as their own thing. I think it would be difficult to offer Olympic qualification opportunities, not mention pushing it back year would leave it in conflict with world championships and other Olympic qualifiers.

Not a bad thing. Even with his focus on Canadian athletes, he’s still one of my favorite sports reporters to follow at major events.

I think it was the right call. It did seem like she made an effort to avoid the ball. It certainly wasn’t intentional.

I’m certainly not the authority on what is and isn’t appropriate conduct for a team trainer, but doing a gesture identified with white nationalism doesn’t seem like an unreasonable place to a draw a line. Also, if he didn’t mean it in that context, he could have put out a statement in conjunction with the team in response to the photo. The situation would have likely been resolved at that point. The article doesn’t mention such an action. In terms of your second hypotheticals, I wouldn’t run around naming my kids after white nationalists or confederate generals, so I guess I would have some questions for people who do.

Toasty 9 degrees and rainy weather in Wellington

Well, the allegations are that he was making the problematic version of the “OK” gesture, which was popularized by white nationalists and incels.

It was 43 degrees where I live in California today. We still have ski resorts open at the higher elevations The Golden State really does have it all

Yeah, the event is still a fair distance away. Injuries, personal problems, political issues, etc. could shave some entries off before the Games begin. It’s just interesting to see the “original” entry figures.

Barbie movie will hopefully get some nods when awards season comes around. It’s Gerwig at her best. I was going to pull a Barbenhiemer, but five hours of film back-to-back is a little much for me. Oppenheimer will have to wait for now. Edit: Oppenheimer was very good. I saw it IMAX, though the sound could have been taken down a notch.

12,500+ athletes entered to compete after the conclusion of the entries process. It would be a participation record and at least 1,200 more than 2018. Link: https://ocasia.org/news/4150-hangzhou-asian-games-set-for-record-number-of-athletes.html Some other highlights - “The team size of six NOC delegations, including China, Thailand, Japan, Republic of Korea, India and Hong Kong, China, surpasses 600 athletes. “Athletics is the most popular sport with 43 NOCs [out of 45] entering teams.” “Eleven sports, including Boxing, Aquatics, Shooting, Weightlifting and E-sports, have attracted more than 30 NOCs.” “Eleven sports, including Athletics, Aquatics and Fencing, have more than 300 athletes registered.”