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I chuckle every time you use the word evidence incorrectly.

It is wild that Phelps is the greatest of all time even though he is not even the fastest of all time.

Boy, I spew a lot of shit in a lot of places. It is hard for me to keep up with what and where. But I imagine it was my typical screed against the ranking events being used as the seeding criteria, making showing up all that matters. But the hypocrisy is that the people in charge of UWW only really care about having tournaments in their home countries. So they are often in a single time zone. That time zone makes it impractical for anyone traveling west to east (anyone in the western hemisphere) to attend once, never mind three or four times. The net result is that seeding is a joke. Combine that with the random draw for the majority and seeding is also meaningless. Now, while we are off topic, want to talk swimming? I have some thoughts on the 1500 heats.

Never heard of hallucinations, I see. It is the cute name AI people have coined for "makes shit up".

Third greatest day of the Olympics today. Breakfast with men's 1500 heats. My happy place.

And to clown things up even further, the IBA announced they are giving the Italian boxer a bonus of $50k. So you get nothing for winning, $50k for quitting. They must owe me $100k for not even trying.

My only counterpoint is if they wanted to have wrestler be more active at ranking series events, they would spread them around instead of having several in eastern Europe. What I think they actually want is to have them in their home country along with a rule that encourages attendance.

Came across this: https://www.mmafighting.com/2024/8/1/24210841/olympic-gold-medalist-david-taylor-explains-decision-retire-competition-after-missing-out-2024-games From the article: “I’ve always said I would compete as long as I had the fire,” Taylor told MMA Fighting. “This year, that fire started to just kind of go away. I’ve achieved everything I wanted to achieve in my career. You start off and you want to be a good wrestler, then you set your goals — and I had the highest goal of being an Olympic gold medalist. Being a national champion, being a world champion, being an Olympic gold medalist, it’s hard to continue to recreate that fire every single year. I was 33 years old. I had achieved everything I wanted to achieve. I got a young family, so this year was a challenge to find that fire everyday.”

We have VERY different definitions of evidence.

By land or by sea? I am interested in the e-colympics.

he is such a cartoon

According to The Athletic Khelif's DQ occurred after she had won the semi match and was in the final. Lin's DQ occurred after she had lost the semi match and had clinched a bronze.

While the Russian head of the Russian state-supported IBA made that statement to the Russian state news agency back in March, notably IBA has now walked that claim back. Instead they say what the test was not, and do not confirm what the test was or the specific results. The decision to suspend the boxers was made after the semi-finals of the tournament. When was the test administered? A genetic test is not an overnight process.

Which person? There are two involved. I rely heavily on The Athletic and ESPN for these types of stories as they adhere to journalistic standards of research and verification. They do not make any claim about chromosomes. And neither does the IBA, who kicked this whole thing off. What interweb sources are you relying on?

Ledecky takes care of business this morning by earning the top seed for the 800 final with a relatively pedestrian time. While she is a big favorite this will still be a tough final. The men continue to under-perform. Josh Heilman goes over a second slower than his trials time in the 100 fly and doesn't even make the semis. Oof.

In international wrestling seeds are the equivalent of a perfect attendance award in grade school. They have nothing to do with who is best.

No

So many horrifically bad takes from @jross in this thread. You have zero basis to claim either of these boxers is XY, yet you insist you do know this. I am not sure what has tipped you to irrational, but that is what you are being by insisting you know something you can not possibly know. As for the IBA, in addition to the head of the organization being Russian, and the organization being funded by the Russia state owned energy company Gazprom, the decision to suspend was taken by the Secretary General and CEO and was only ratified by the board a day later. And the suspension only came at the end of the tournament prior to their respective medal round matches.

Yeah, Australia is just so loaded in the 200 that it was only ending one way. For the US to stay within 3 seconds was a surprise. Now we still have a Ledecky 800 and Finke 1500 to look forward to.

You were a tad light on details and minimizing in your Trump disclaimer so I thought I would help you out.

two medals, I believe

Some? All.

One other thing to keep in mind with all of this is that if a school decides to increase scholarships, up to $2.5 million of the increase can be counted toward revenue share. When calculating the increase, the school does it from the old cap, rather than how many they actually used to give out. For example, if a wrestling school used to give out 8.9 scholarships and now will decide to give out 15, the increase will be 5.1 scholarships (15-9.9) for revenue sharing offset purposes, rather than 6.1 (15-8.9).

It means any Power 5 school with a women's equestrian team will have a 50 roster limit and can give any number of scholarships up to 50. And any non-Power 5 school gets to decide if they stay on the old model and do not share revenues, or follow the new Power 5 model. NIL is not impacted by the scholarship limit / roster change decisions.