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Yesterday was a GP of the maiden wins. First win for Crutchlow and first british win in the top class since Barry Sheene in 1981! Also John McPhee's first victory in Moto3 and also first ever victory for a Peugeot bike I think? Is not the Peugoet bike a Mahindra? The Peugeot is a rebadged Mahindra....

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I did mean to watch the BMX stuff but forgot. If you can watch a rerun, do. I watched two races, which were the men's semi finals (I think), and it was brutal. One guy hit a jump, and his front forks snapped on landing. In the other, the Brazilian guy faceplanted trying to trail brake through the l...

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US men's sprinting is really in a rough state. The Jamaican's have completely taken over and our team can't seem to get their act together. Something always seems to go wrong. Anyway, with Bolt hanging up his sneakers (and cape), 2020 is open season. De Grasse of Canada looks to be the favorite rig...

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I disagree.... the whole exchange is a rythym and the initial contact disrupted it, and it took place within the US lane. You agree that Brazil should have been DQ'd, then why would the victim be DQ's as well. As for the controversy, in large part there hasn't been much of a controversy... some rum...

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What controversy? The other runner impeded the American baton handoff in the American's lane. I think the DQ of the other team is pretty straight-forward. The reason they gave the Americans a chance to qualify again is because the race is run in lanes and there are only the set amount of lanes avai...

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Slightly controversially, after the USA Women's 4x100 team were disqualified for dropping the baton, they appealed saying that Brazil committed a lane violation and impeded them, so they were allowed to rerun the 4x100m by themselves and went into the final as a fastest loser.

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So, has anyone played Goldeneye Source yet? It is glorious. It's basically Goldeneye's multiplayer mode using the Half Life 2 engine.
All the original levels are there, as well as updated versions of them that are bigger than the original (the entire Dam level is a multiplayer map here).

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He won a wet Moto3 race at the age of 16 and great things were expected of him, but 4 years later he's still in Moto3 and generally under performed with wins coming now and again. I got the impression that early success perhaps went to his head and perhaps he developed the wrong attitude already th...

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Fenati has been sacked by VR46 after his suspension in Austria. Della Porta replaces him.

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We have similar on the UK with rowdy kids heading off to Mediterranean islands to get hammered for a week! But surely you'd think that entitled kids on spring break and professional athletes representing their country were 2 different things? You would think with USOC being so concerned about the i...

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I agree with that to a large extent but even athletes who are willing to do the work would benefit from taking these substances. You've also left out stimulants; which have become immensely popular because of how quickly they metabolize and the way that they improve alertness, energy and aggressive...

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I'd point out that Rio Ferdinand basically was suspended for one season. The suspensions in athletics are far more severe. The bottom line is that it's impossible to ensure that no one in a competition is on banned substances. The costs associated with testing every single competitor with enough fr...

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I've just read this article. What a bunch of sore losers! :x http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/16/australian-cyclist-anna-meares-raises-questions-over-team-gbs-tr/ :thumbdown: She has a point though. A huge disparity between World Champs and Olympic performance raises questions. Winning nothi...

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The punishment has to, by definition (and to be effective in any way), act as a deterrent. That drugs are still a huge problem in sports means the punishments are not strong enough. The problem with the Olympic drugs bans is that the IOC doesn't take a tough stance on drugs bans, but defers it to t...

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I'd agree with what huggybear said, it's not the best show, but if you take it with a pinch of salt and ignore the love interest storyline with Atom, it's a fun show. Just not as compelling as Flash or Arrow. I enjoyed the first season of Supergirl. It is very much along the same lines as flash in ...

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minchy wrote:Just putting it out there..... Dressage is not a sport!

It's the same as diving, gymnastics and synchronised swimming. Sports that mark you for execution, not achievement. It's highly highly technical. Bit boring though.

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That was amazing to see Van Niekerk break Michael Johnson's record in the 400! 8O Run was incredible. For comparison, Kirani James in second, ran the 9th fastest 400m of all time, and was 3/4 of a second down on him. Also for comparison, Kirani James won gold in London in 43.94, a time which just a...

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Pretty boring Sunday evening so I decided to see what Netflix had to offer. Ended up watching Scream. I think last time I saw it it might have been on VHS so it's been a while. I forgot just how damned good a film this is. It's probably the best horror/slasher type movie I've seen (I also loved Scr...

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minchy/huggybear/anyone else who might have watched Legends of Tomorrow - Was it any good? I think I only watched the first few episodes where they are in the 70s with the Dr Stein's young self etc. Does it improve? Did it take a while to find it's feet or is it simply a miss for me? Possible I was...

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Wasn't aware of the Supergirl stuff. That show never really enticed me to watch - was it any good? Did they handle it well? I've always found Superman, iconic as he is, to be a bit boring due to his abilities. (Though I absolutely love the Death of Superman comic storyline - first graphic novel I e...

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And Grant Gustin revealed the story for S3 will be a version of Flashpoint. Biggest issue I foresee is that Cyborg, Aquaman, Wonder Woman, Supes and Batman are all pretty important and, along with Flash actually, they are all tied up in the Justice League movies. I wonder if we'll get discount vers...

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This Olympics has been crazy. On the first day, we've had all kinds of crazy happen. We've had: 2 world records broken 1 Olympic record broken 1 gymnast leg broken A kayak capsizing in the rowing A bunch of injuries in the cycling A bomb squad carrying out a controlled explosion at the finish of the...

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mikeyg123 wrote: This still happens. Every nation is allowed 3 entries no matter how awful they are. I remember a guy almost drowning in the pool a few years ago but still getting through because two other competitors false started.

That was Eric Moussambani. Shockingly that was 16 years ago now.

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I'm more excited about the Paralympics. At the very least, half the events in that are much more interesting. I definitely mean no disrespect for any of the people who compete, but in all honesty watching a guy with no arms swim really fast is genuinely more impressive and inspiring than a guy with...

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I agree with you about the change to allowing pro athletes and PED's. What's even worse is, for track athletes at least, they have to be professionals in order to be competitive but if they're sponsored by a company that isn't an official sponsor of "The Games" there is a black out period from just...

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GingerFurball wrote:A 10 place grid drop for basically nothing the race after the pole sitter got away with ignoring double waved yellows would be farcical.

It wouldn't be for that though, it would be for a series of reprimands, of which the unsafe release is yet another.

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Now double yellows is a red flag, so surely when everyone goes out for there second runs in Q3 and the current pole sitter goes last and makes a mistake in turn 1 so decides to go off in corner 2 and bring out the red flag ruining everyone else's lap times in front of him which would basically be e...

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It was against Dirk Nowitzki's All Stars team, so might be floating around somewhere on Youtube. Dirk used it to recreate Simone Zaza's penalty from Euro 2016 as a joke.

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Gerhard Berger - Imola 1989. PXKTGz9txTw Prime example of what can happen when safety warnings aren't heeded. Think 5 years later. Loads of huge shunts at Tamburello before 1994. Piquet had a massive one there in 1987, and Patrese in 199..1? The reverse angle of Berger's car is terrifying though. t...

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Jenson went to the medical centre, and Sky don't know why.

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Trying to sign into Now TV to watch Arsenal play the MLS Allstar team on SS2. Only it won't recognise my password, but it recognises my email address to tell me it's registered to an account so I can't create a new account, only when I try to reset the account, it doesn't recognise my email as belon...

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David Coulthard - Spa 98 Eddie Irvine - Spa 98 Giancarlo Fisichella - Spa 98 Shinji Nakano - Spa 98 Jacques Villeneurve - Spa 98 Jean Alesi - Spa 98 Johnny Herbert - Spa 98 Ricardo Rosset - Spa 98 - actually go and watch the video, keep an eye out for him at the end. Massive plank. You know, I thin...

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Brundle - Australia 1996 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ausUoOEeGHc His crash at Brazil 1994 was pretty scary as well. Verstappen's rear wheel smacked him in the head as the Benetton went over him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR3-E2c5i8Q Jos had a few huge ones, including the one at Spa in 199...

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There is no real punishment for abuse of the yellow flags being enforced, so drivers and teams interpret the rules as 'don't go green/purple in that sector', instead of 'there's a crashed/slow moving car ahead, be careful'. Tom Dillmann got really angry at the Zandvoort marshals for the F3 race this...

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Kinda bummed for this Olympics. Both sprint hurdle Olympic champions and the WR holders are injured (in Sally Pearson's case), or didn't get picked for the Olympic team (Kendra Harrison and Aries Merritt). 110/100m hurdles are my favourite events, and it sucks to not have the best hurdlers present t...

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He should consider himself lucky that they didn't boot him instead of demoting him, the RB program is not known for its leniency. Plus side is that knowing he's out of a seat this far in advance he can start negotiating with other teams, most Toro Rosso contracts are decided well after all the othe...

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Stranger Things on Netflix is actually incredible tv. It throws back to all the good things about the 1980s. All it needs is Phoebe Cates for season 2 and it'll be complete.

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On this, why does the FA not cite players, as they do in rugby, if an offence is seen by the world on video but not acted on by the referee him(her)self? I get so frustrated when I see a replay of someone, say, elbowing another but, because the referee did not take action, there is 'nothing they ca...

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How many matches will be abandoned for lack of players before the FA chicken out of this rule? I do hope they stand firm on this. Perhaps they should get in a few rugby referees... They can use video technology from next season, so it should go well. Managers can get sent off as well, so I think th...

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Apparently Pogba to United is done as per L'Equipe. 120m Euros. Lot of money for someone benched for Moussa Sissoko a month ago.

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