Tokyo 2020 Olympics (28 Viewers)
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Wait. Gina Lückenkemper not starting?
Forget her, you are reassigned to Femke Bol from the S Size bum department. Thinking you'll like the becky energy if not you can be reassigned to a stacy or worse.
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Speed climbing is straight up retarded. It’s not even enjoyable to watch.
IOC: we gonna give like 400 medals to swimmers. Make sure they are the greatest olympians ever. Let’s even add an 800m for men and 1500m for women.
IOC also: Let’s add climbing to the Olympics, but we gonna combine all three competitive formats, even though none of the top boulderers and/or sport climbers speed climb, and none of the speed climbers are even decent climbers in the harder disciplines, but we’ll only give a single medal for it all.
They also cut weight classes in sports like wrestling and weightlifting, don’t let nations even bring one athlete per weight class.
But, Moar swimming!
IOC: we gonna give like 400 medals to swimmers. Make sure they are the greatest olympians ever. Let’s even add an 800m for men and 1500m for women.
IOC also: Let’s add climbing to the Olympics, but we gonna combine all three competitive formats, even though none of the top boulderers and/or sport climbers speed climb, and none of the speed climbers are even decent climbers in the harder disciplines, but we’ll only give a single medal for it all.
They also cut weight classes in sports like wrestling and weightlifting, don’t let nations even bring one athlete per weight class.
But, Moar swimming!
Swimming is just 50 statpadding disciplines for America.
Aside from incompetently throwing three different disciplines together, a multiplicative rating is being used so 1-20-19 (avg 13.3) sees you through and a 15-6-5 (avg.8.7) kicks you out.
https://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/58083508
Even as a tourist and like second time watcher of this sport I can see that adding a combined discipline before adding them separately is like adding decathlon before adding the 10 disciplines it's based on. STUPID
Aside from incompetently throwing three different disciplines together, a multiplicative rating is being used so 1-20-19 (avg 13.3) sees you through and a 15-6-5 (avg.8.7) kicks you out.
https://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/58083508
Even as a tourist and like second time watcher of this sport I can see that adding a combined discipline before adding them separately is like adding decathlon before adding the 10 disciplines it's based on. STUPID
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That was really stupid. First time I was watching this sport and when I read the rules I thought all three formats are similar, since the 8 who were supposed to qualify for the finals had to be the best 8 in combined points. Then the Polish girl kicked everyones ass in speed climbing, just to almost fail to qualify for the final because she sucked in bouldering and lead.
Someone might say triathlon includes three different sports, or decathlon having both speed and strength. But in athletics you have the decathlon and you also have medals for each track and field event. Here, instead of giving medals for all three, and perhaps only then giving the 4th medal for the combination, they went for only one medal.
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They are counting it differently.
1, 20 and 19 is counted 1x20x19= 380. While 15x6x5 = 450.
But yeah, 15, 6, 5 is indeed worse than 1, 20, 19.
Edit: You were saying the same. Sorry
Someone might say triathlon includes three different sports, or decathlon having both speed and strength. But in athletics you have the decathlon and you also have medals for each track and field event. Here, instead of giving medals for all three, and perhaps only then giving the 4th medal for the combination, they went for only one medal.
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They are counting it differently.
1, 20 and 19 is counted 1x20x19= 380. While 15x6x5 = 450.
But yeah, 15, 6, 5 is indeed worse than 1, 20, 19.
Edit: You were saying the same. Sorry
That was really stupid. First time I was watching this sport and when I read the rules I thought all three formats are similar, since the 8 who were supposed to qualify for the finals had to be the best 8 in combined points. Then the Polish girl kicked everyones ass in speed climbing, just to almost fail to qualify for the final because she sucked in bouldering and lead.
Someone might say triathlon includes three different sports, or decathlon having both speed and strength. But in athletics you have the decathlon and you also have medals for each track and field event. Here, instead of giving medals for all three, and perhaps only then giving the 4th medal for the combination, they went for only one medal.
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They are counting it differently.
1, 20 and 19 is counted 1x20x19= 380. While 15x6x5 = 450.
But yeah, 15, 6, 5 is indeed worse than 1, 20, 19.
Edit: You were saying the same. Sorry
Someone might say triathlon includes three different sports, or decathlon having both speed and strength. But in athletics you have the decathlon and you also have medals for each track and field event. Here, instead of giving medals for all three, and perhaps only then giving the 4th medal for the combination, they went for only one medal.
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They are counting it differently.
1, 20 and 19 is counted 1x20x19= 380. While 15x6x5 = 450.
But yeah, 15, 6, 5 is indeed worse than 1, 20, 19.
Edit: You were saying the same. Sorry
They really should have just copied the IFSC World Championship format which has been very successful and had 3 separate medal events. Which wouldn’t even have taken any more time. Ridiculous
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Need to do the same for track and field. We could add a running backwards and a running sideways and a crab walk to each of the 100,200, 400m events. And then maybe a combination of all 4 for a medley run. A few more relays.
Can’t wait for the Olympic 100m crabwalk race.
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Anyways. How about Lasha Talakhadze. Beat 2nd place by 47kg total. Set world record in snatch, C&J, and total. Even beat the old steroid era records. And only 12kg away from 500kg total. Mountain of a man.
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The worst part is that Speed climbers aren’t even particularly good climbers. They’re fast, but terrible at the other two events because you actually have to climb difficult problems/routes in bouldering/lead. Put it this way, because it’s so much of a specialist event, none of the top-ranked male or female speed climbers in the world would have qualified for the Olympics because they are awful at the other disciplines, without the automatic qualifying spots given to a couple specialist speed climbers. Whereas Lead and Bouldering have significant crossover ability to each other and even passable in speed.
They really should have just copied the IFSC World Championship format which has been very successful and had 3 separate medal events. Which wouldn’t even have taken any more time. Ridiculous
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Need to do the same for track and field. We could add a running backwards and a running sideways and a crab walk to each of the 100,200, 400m events. And then maybe a combination of all 4 for a medley run. A few more relays.
Can’t wait for the Olympic 100m crabwalk race.
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Anyways. How about Lasha Talakhadze. Beat 2nd place by 47kg total. Set world record in snatch, C&J, and total. Even beat the old steroid era records. And only 12kg away from 500kg total. Mountain of a man.
They really should have just copied the IFSC World Championship format which has been very successful and had 3 separate medal events. Which wouldn’t even have taken any more time. Ridiculous
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Need to do the same for track and field. We could add a running backwards and a running sideways and a crab walk to each of the 100,200, 400m events. And then maybe a combination of all 4 for a medley run. A few more relays.
Can’t wait for the Olympic 100m crabwalk race.
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Anyways. How about Lasha Talakhadze. Beat 2nd place by 47kg total. Set world record in snatch, C&J, and total. Even beat the old steroid era records. And only 12kg away from 500kg total. Mountain of a man.
Just to easy too get excited for a honest bit of sports outside of JJ diarrhea ocean
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Not really an Ondra fan. Not really a fan of anyone on the guys side right now. Most of the top male climbers don’t compete, aside from Ondra, and Adam throws the most hilariously awful tantrums ever while climbing.
Now some of the women.
by the way, did you see Canadian girl in Heptathlon? Georgia Ellenwood.
I think @DAiDEViL will fall in love.
Now some of the women.
by the way, did you see Canadian girl in Heptathlon? Georgia Ellenwood.
I think @DAiDEViL will fall in love.