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So Fajdek, the red hot favourite for the hammer throw, did not make it past qualifying, but the other Pole made it through in surprise first place. Just making this post in case he wins and someone non-Polish notice the obvious. BTW, that other Pole sounds special needs even for our standards...

Re: Re: It sort of does, though? If you bend some of the rules, it's more likely you bend any rules that need to be bent.

Well, the keirin race was such an obvious example of the big guys getting away with murder that it's not even funny. Zero out of three pretty straightforward DQs were handed out.

Is it a new strategy? Go for 1st place at a completely impossible full *** kind of pace to take some heat off the third-placed half-*** compatriot, a less of an unknown, who runs a slightly less unbelievable pace?

Re: Aaaaand Adrian, one of the favourites in the 94 kg category, has reportedly been notified of an adverse analytical finding in his case as well. Yesterday he said he was "down on the floor, weeping for the injustice to his brother", calling Brasil "a third-world country". Now I think we...

This is too funny. Responding to his brother Tomasz having tested positive for nandrolone, the Polish weightlifter Adrian Zielinski said, among other things [my translation]: "We were tested on a weekly basis before leaving for Rio [...] The Polish anti-doping lab is considered to be one of the...