They went with the unusual order of Hungary - Countries - Host (US in this case)
With the various China’s as China, Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong China and Macau China.
73 countries represented. Most 1-10 competitors. 50 Australia who went with an Aussie Aussie Aussie chant. Host nation of the US had over 1000 which kind of reflects the “if you don’t have to pay too much for travel you can do it” nature of the competition.
are you ready for some fkng korfball???
the world games are on at the moment. basically the ocho olympics
free to watch at https://live.theworldgames.org/
been watching some fistball, freediving and tug of war today. korfball semis about to start.
How have I never heard of this before?!
aussies got rinsed by the french in ultimate frisbee. i thought we were good at that. oh well
now trying to work out how wushu works. seems pretty indistinguishable from most biff you used to see on lydiard st most friday nights
funny name alert in the squash - hungary’s balasz farkas
FISTBALL.
I’ve watched one point and Essendon can just ■■■■ off now.
Turns out I had an email in my inbox talking about the Victorian in the Sprint Orienteering. So random.
WHY AM I ONLY LEARNING ABOUT THIS SPORT NOW
punch tennis
Bigass grass volleyball
oh sht they have parkour
i wonder which failed academic is representing aus
Floorball looks fun.
I watched a little of this last night and found the course very tame.
No threat of death or even serious injury and very little of the cool running up walls stuff.
it’s a sport that suffers from highlight dilemma
the broader appeal comes from the fancy sht on video that’s the result of 10/20/30+ attempts. whereas in competition they dial it back 30% or so to a point where things can be performed consistently
It’s the lack of Michael Scott for mine
i’ve decided that sambo is the worst martial art
are you grappling? are you striking? are you pushing them out of the ring? what the fk are you doing? pick a lane
-edit- i’ve also decided that the only difference between all the martial arts is how loose the garmet you wear is. scale is greco-roman down to judo.
get on board the archery field recurve
basically to your standard olympic archery what cross country is to the 1500m
We missed this?
Opening ceremony.
Some highlights.
