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(08-04-2024, 10:55 AM)ElwoodBlues1 link Wrote:https://au.yahoo.com/sports/gold-silver-...28940.html
A bizarre situation imo....a country is either eligible or not and if Belarus are out then so are their athletes imho, regardless of their political status as neutrals or good guy Belaruskies.
Russia are banned and Belarus and their Dictator Putin Puppet president Lukashenko and citizens should be treated the same as an entirety.
Not sure why they aren't allowed to compete really. It's a farcical situation to politicise the games that are supposed to be about the international community coming together.
Eanwhile Israel are competing...
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Stingers were good last night.
I can't say I'm a fan of water polo, but in the end the game became very interesting. Bizarrely, to me at least, the first 3 Qtrs were almost procedural like a warm up, then in the last it all came alive.
One thing that I can't get my head around, they can pinpoint each other with passes, and do so routinely to hit a raised hand, but then miss the 2m wide goal completely! :o
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08-16-2024, 02:55 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-16-2024, 02:58 AM by LP.)
I've watched the video today of the Breaker girl who lost in the Olympic qualifiers to Raygun.
I've got to say there wasn't a lot of difference between them, and it sounds like much of the social media and media vitriol is baseless.
I'll say this, the Aussie girls are quite different in moves to most of the international competitors and that seems to be the big issue, most of the international competitors are the same same but different, almost clones, while the Aussie moves and style is drastically different.
Also no doubt also that Breaking is physical enough to be a sport, it's probably as deserving if not more deserving than some of the gymnastic or skating events at various Olympics.
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One of the problems with events that rely on an independent observer rather than a 'first past the post in the quickest time' is that they will always have this 'eye of the beholder' criteria.
Things like Gymnastics, synchronised swimming, diving, breaking, skateboarding...even boxing (other than knockout) etc...these all rather depend on a judges perceptions and bias.
It's usually where the biggest controversies arise.
