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5 Sports Things You Missed This Weekend
Featuring artistic swimming, the Razorback Republic's dominant NCAA track performance, and Florida's stranglehold on the hockey world
I really need to work on my framing here, because I went to the Ireland-Canada cricket match on Friday and said to someone “I like bringing attention to weird sports.” He said… “cricket’s not a weird sport!” He’s right! It’s the second-most popular sport in the world! It’s only about half as weird as football. (Try explaining the intentional grounding r…
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Carter B
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Jun 10
Thanks for the comments on the NCAA track championships. Last year the University of Texas women ran the 5th fastest 4x100 ever. Relays are a rare bread where they just aren't run all that much outside of college so not surprised colleges can practice them and have some great times.
https://worldathletics.org/records/all-time-toplists/relays/4x100-metres-relay/outdoor/women/senior
Because they aren't run at "regular" track events like the Diamond league, they need a way for national teams to qualify so they hold a special relay-only track event before the Olympics just to get the top teams. It was fun watching it this year as so little in track is team based.
https://worldathletics.org/competition/calendar-results/results/7193343