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Beach Handball draws: I haven’t study up on recent results yet, so I don’t how competitive each group is. To me Women’s Group A looks like a killer, same with men’s Group B.

I love the look of these games . The logo is great, I like the light blue and yellow color pattern. These games feel like a decent deal. It looks and feels like an event that should be taken semi-seriously and I’m so down. It looks like we’ll have great live coverage as well. TV Information hasn’t been released yet, but because Qatar only got the games 4 months ago, I’d say they’re doing a fantastic job. This week’s been a whirlwind of information on these games, and with 30 days to go I would expect a lot more to come out soon.

Well It’s no mystery to anyone on here that I envy Europe in ways (looking to move there someday), and your election systems are so much better. The 2 party system has been failing so hard since WW2. That’s why I want to see infighting in the Democratic Party, because I need to figure who my candidate will be. The Democrats are mainly anyone not conservative. The GOP are generally pretty well United. They actually make sense as a party. Now, I’d say they’re more together than ever with the moderate conservatives slowly leaving the party. The GOP have an extreme wing and regular conservatives. The problem for the DNC is that they have liberals, progressives, quite a few greens who know their candidates won’t win, democratic socialists (like myself), moderates, centrists, extreme socialists, and few other small minority outliers. The problem is that the demographics change according to the issue. There are pro-gun Democrats, pro-life Democrats, in some cases racist Democrats, financially conservative Democrats, and a party where there’s a constant power struggle between the fractions. I take absolutely no responsibility for the US political system back I’d completely rewrite it in a second. Automatic Voter Registration, Mandatory Voting, Election Day as a National Holiday, Election Day on Monday, Ban Political Parties, Cap Campaign Donations, Goodbye Electoral College, and Direct Election For All Government Positions.

I also hate how the party won’t like them go after each other during the debate. If think realistically its Biden v. winner of Sanders v. Warren. Warren’s and Sander’s supporters will most likely support one or the other in my opinion. I totally agree with you on the candidates doing to much in the primaries by the way.

Mainly I think besides the toxic relationship with bobsled Canada, I think she choose the US to be closer to her husband. What kills me is how ungrateful some Canadian’s are for her achievement. She gave you two gold medal ffs!

I guess that makes sense. Wales and England are generally seen as having much more in common right?

Very is little I love more than watching Parkour. This is FIG nonsense doesn’t do it for me. Honestly this doesn’t even satisfy many of the definitions of Parkour. It’s a shame Parkour Earth got beat out by the FIG to be the governing body. Also Parkour is very similar to Judo in many aspects. It was never meant to be a competition sport. It was meant originally as a martial art, the art of motion many have called it. It was supposed to increase ones spacial awareness and foot travel. The idea was that during an invasion or other threat, a traceur/traceuse (the name for Parkour practitioners) could get to a destination faster and more efficiently than a threat. Parkour has also proven helpful in better balance, fall prevention (for older practitioners), and inner city travel. Parkour involves no tricks (a common mistake people make), and has a loosely defined skill set mainly consisting of leaps, vaults, jumps, rolls, and a few specialty moves. Freerunning was designed specifically for competition and a wider, younger audience. This is the discipline of Parkour where tricks are mandatory. Purists like myself (I’ve practice some basic Parkour on and off) do not like when people mislabel the two. Most Parkour gyms teach basic Parkour, and then focus their students on freerunning. I wouldn’t consider myself an expert because I have very little actual experience in the sport, but I am very knowledgeable about it. I can answer any questions people have while watching the FIG version during the games. My main complaint about the FIG version is that the obstacles aren’t urban. In Parkour, the obstacles are not supposed to be perfectly lauded out artificial setups, they are supposed to be random walls, fountains, railings, roofs, and any other modern architectural figure. Freerunning has evolved to allow such things, but many life long traceurs will tell you they prefer “natural” obstacles that were never built with the intention for Parkour.

How many teams advance to the Euro/Africa qualifier?

What’s the NPB? Is that Japan’s league?

No those are flying targets

So it’s “deer” shooting essentially? I now what an event where both the targets and the shooter are moving. I still wish to see horseback archery over a cross country course one day (a la Brave)

Isn’t running target really similar to laser run

Yes there is, look in the for the “leaderboard” section. You can find results in there.

The running target disciplines have a separate world championship and World Cup circuit last time I cared to look.

Actually running target still exists. There still a pretty good participation rate as well I believe.

That what kills me about a lot of the events that have been dropped. C2 died an instantaneous death, and C2 Mixed isn’t exactly taking off. Tandem died after the 60s. It’s just a shame. I really put the blame on international federations. They fostered these athletes careers for years and killed them in seconds.

Man the Vuelta has been crazy this year. Crashing team cars, crashing riders, leaking pools, pot houses, houses on fire, dirt roads, etc. The Spanish really know how to turn up the entertainment factor.

Yes.

Nope, the youngest X Games Big Air gold medalist of all time. He jumped onto the scene when he was 14. He’s only a year older than me, but much more successful . He probably has one of the biggest catalogs of tricks. He’ll be hard to beat.

Thomas Schaar too

Gavin Bottger is our best upcoming athlete. He was pretty happy to make the quarterfinals. Definitely a lot more world travels than when I was 12.

I got to be honest, I didn’t didn’t expect to hear Crosby, Stills, Nash music this weekend

Like the graphics, everything else sucks. The website is slower than LA traffic. I can’t find PDF results either. Info seems a bit delayed. ITG is running a nice live blog.

Flying Disc commentator to open broadcast “Hi I’m Jake” (then a good awkward 10 second pause)

Ok all entry lists have been finalized (and can be viewed on pages 5 and 6), and the Team Sizes are correct as well.