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Finishing board is down, final sprint is on in the men’s race.

leading the women onto the final lap. Came through at around 45 minutes

It was a women’s swimmer from

Another abandon, haven’t caught who it was.

Men through 3.75km somewhere around 42:25. The pack is thinning. Should be a small sprint amongst the top 3-5.

First abandon in the women’s race.

Winds are pretty strong this morning. Swimmers are having to deal with quite a bit of chop.

leading the woman at halfway. Lead group of around 15 swimmers. They went through 2.5km at around 31:40ish

They were right around 28:00 at 2.5km

2 Laps to go for the men, there’s about a lead group of 10 or so.

looking she might drown before the leaders even finish

Forgot about hard open water swimming is to watch without the FINA graphics . There’s still a bunch of swimmers in contention for a medal.

How many more months in Brazil before we see you in the men’s division

Ah yes we have that too. We have a snack here in the US where it’s açaí coated in an outer layer of dark chocolate. It’s very good, I’ve heard their pomegranate flavor is damn good too.

Ah yes the great Pacific nation of . They should just make the an Atlantic Championships.

Frozen yogurt?

Looks like we have about 25 men’s swimmers despite the water temperature. Should be fun

Alrighty, time for the first ever medal event at the ANOC World Beach Games!!! Let’s go !!

Also, as I pointed out during the African Beach and African Games, African rowing is having a bit of renaissance right now. The quality is getting a bit better, and there are plenty of nations fielding rowers. I think it’s good to reward that development.

INAS Global Games Swimming:

Day 2 - Sports Review Beach Handball Beach Tennis Beach Volleyball 4x4 Karate

ANOC World Beach Games 2019 - Day 3 Schedule 6:00 - 7:00 Open Water Swimming: Men’s and Women’s 5km - Final 7:00 - 9:45 Waterski: Men’s and Women’s Jump - Preliminary Round 8:00 - 12:00 Karate: Men’s and Women’s Kata - Round 2 and Ranking Round 9:00 - 12:15 Beach Handball: Men’s Team and Women’s Team - Group Stage 10:30 - 13:30 Wakeboard: Men’s and Women’s Freestyle - Heats 14:00 - 16:00 Wakeboard: Men’s and Women’s Freestyle - LCQ 14:00 - 16:00 Sailing: Men’s and Women’s Kitefoil Racing - Opening Series 14:30 - 22:00 Beach Tennis: Men’s, Women’s, Mixed Doubles - Round of 16 15:00 - 21:30 Basketball 3x3: Men’s and Women’s Team - Group Stage 15:00 - 23:30 Beach Soccer: Men’s and Women’s Team - Group Stage 15:30 - 16:30 Karate: Men’s and Women’s Kata - Medal Matches 16:00 - 0:00 Beach Volleyball 4x4: Men’s and Women’s Team - Group Stage 17:30 - 23:30 Sport Climbing: Men’s and Women’s Boulder - Semifinals

So Turkey continues to be Europe’s asshat today. Our armed forces outside the agree zone for Turkeys buffer zone, invasion, are reporting that the Turks are constantly shelling just outside their positions. Some said they even feel as though Turkey is aiming at them (probably true). This comes hours after the Arab Council declared Turkey’s “peace operation” an invasion. Turkey is really trying to look for war. I also heard a rumor that they dragged a British citizen out of their car and executed them on the spot, but I can’t find confirmation of that. If it was up to me, we’d be at war with Turkey right now (in fact I would have offered NATO support to the coup plotters). Turkey’s got a nice military, but it’d be gone in 0.01 seconds against the US and NATO.

So we’re going to have like a 8 person race tomorrow (this evening for me). That’s great

Somehow Rabat 2019 had a better ceremony than this light show