I’m not the person to really answer this, as I don’t follow table-tennis at all, but as a Swede it’s impossible to avoid the very good tradition of ’pingis’, we’ve had with plenty of success in championships earlier with J-O Waldner and Jörgen Persson. Good that Truls now keep it up.
That was a lucky gold for Cole Hocker because no offense to Hocker he did not stand a chance of winning a gold, not with arguably two of current best 1500m runners in the field, Kerr and Ingrebrigsten. It was expected gold and silver for either one of the two and everyone else would be battling for bronze but as it turned out, both Kerr and Ingrebrigsten appeared to be so engrossed in the tactics of each other that they forgot about the rest of the field, allowing the two Americans to beat them and get medals.
Before today, I would have argued obscure sports should get a chance to shine. Now that I learned breakdancing is an Olympic sport
, I full agree. How the heck is this an Olympic sport?Gen X-ers knows breakdancing. That's the dance of our generation. How do you objectively judge breakdancing? Unless one dancer is leagues better, it's subjective who's the better dancer.
I remember reading an article about the Olympics and breakdancing when it was in it's infancy being talked about. It's argument for being included in the Olympics was down to the artistic floor routine which forms part of gymnastics many disciplines. It was said if such a discipline can be part of the Olympics, why cannot breakdancing which itself is artistic in nature which involve elements of turns and twists with varying levels of difficulty, much like what is found in the tumbles, jumps, turns and twists you see in the gymnastic artistic floor routine.Before today, I would have argued obscure sports should get a chance to shine. Now that I learned breakdancing is an Olympic sport
Gen X-ers knows breakdancing. That's the dance of our generation. How do you objectively judge breakdancing? Unless one dancer is leagues better, it's subjective who's the better dancer.
That is approx. 1 medal/million citizens - 69 million ppl, 65 medals65 medals for Team GB, our third successive Olympics winning over sixty medals. We can be thoroughly pleased with that
I’m still awed by Duplantis’ performance utterly amazing and made me feel a bit better about sport and the Olympics.
I have seen even earlier clips of Mondo training in his garden, I think, but he's still a very young Mondo here.
I saw an interview where Mondo mentioned that his PB on 100 meters was "about 10.5 seconds" from when he was 18 (6 years ago). In pole vaulting the run up is about 45 meters, and he's one of the fastest in the sport, so he should probably have an edge as a sprinter over Warholm.
And they don’t think it stinks either.
My favorite was the Break event. 🙄
