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True, and they could get an additional team quota if they don't make it there. Does have any pair skaters though? There weren't any at this year's Korean Nationals.

From my calculations, the Men's Nebelhorn Trophy will be a mess, as all have the right to enter a skater there. But, since two skaters qualified for the free skate but only earned one quota, there will be 7 spots available at Nebelhorn instead of 6. So it'll basically be the entire world's second-tier skaters fighting for two quota spots Same with pairs as will definitely claim one of the 3 quotas, but I'm not sure if (also eligible) has another pair. The women's will be much better though as while the is a sure quota and don't have anyone else who would reach the WCH free skate regularly, so that'll be the world fighting for 5 spots.

Czech commentator (former figure skater) is savaging the Belarus team. "Neumí bruslit"

Czech team 0.5 points ahead of Romania after 3 jumpers

@heywoodu Could Brazil enter a women's relay? Any other Brazilian women in Europe? Shame Gabi Neres didn't make the trip.

If I understand correctly, it's ironic that while it seemed like Bruna and Jacqueline Mourao were competing against each other for the Olympic spot, Jacqueline is the main reason Bruna still has a chance? Because she was the only Brazilian to score under 300 FIS Points at the Championships, and participating in the skiathlon and team sprint will give Brazil extra nation ranking points.

Bit off-topic but Elizabeth Swaney just got added to the Cross Country FIS Points list... will she try and appear in the Sprint? https://www.fis-ski.com/DB/general/athlete-biography.html?sectorcode=CC&listid=300161&competitorid=259065&type=fispoints

Oh you’ll love what the Czechs are doing then. Lol

We lost to Lithuania dark day for Czech biathlon

I live in DC (10 min walk from the White House). It’s a mess. City under curfew. Lots of people rushing to buy food before it started. Sometimes you hear a siren or helicopter in the background. See if there was proven fraud maybe this would be justified sort of like the protests in Belarus but the issue is he hasn’t conclusively proven any of his allegations and I’ve lost my patience with him. It’s not worth this. I really feel for all the law enforcement and first responders who have to deal with this now. The worst part is most Trump supporters I talked to today are so behind him they’d do absolutely anything he’d ask them to do without hesitation. There were some nuanced voices and people with healthy skepticism but definitely the minority. It’s a problem everywhere in politics tbh but especially here. I also think that today’s events will lead to one-party rule one way or the other. If Trump succeeds in staying in power he will try to solidify it, and if Democrats take power they will use today’s events as an excuse to severely restrict any future conservative opposition.

Damn. I thought it was only in Eastern Europe that those kinds of 'fans' existed...

Liberec 2009... Half of the Czech women's ski jumping team (a 12 year old and a 14 year old, there were no age limits) crashed during training and didn't start.

Thanks! Just free-lancing, I kind of just write them whenever I get an idea. Really if you or anyone else here would like to publish in ATR sometime, I'm happy to try and put you in touch, so do let me know. They're real nice and you get paid $100 per article. I hear you. I was considering making it a hit-piece but it's a bit hard to do as someone just starting out. But you know, maybe you could write! Perhaps not in ATR but in your local newspaper or start a blog or something. Honestly my inspiration to write was to share many of the feelings people had here so readers could think a bit more critically about what the IOC does. I've always thought 'fascinating' can mean captivating either in a good or bad way. Murder mysteries are fascinating but you wouldn't want them to occur again... haha

If anyone's interested I just wrote a review of the 2024 sports programme in Around The Rings. Would love to know your thoughts, I tried to keep it somewhat balanced http://aroundtherings.com/site/A__101937/Title__Paris-2024-Sport-Program-A-Young-Persons-Review/292/Articles

If anyone’s interested I published an Around The Rings piece about how the election could impact future Olympics http://aroundtherings.com/site/A__101446/Title__Trump-Vs-Biden-Will-Olympics-Be-the-Winner/292/Articles

Looks good! I am in New Zealand until August so timezones might be hard, but we will cross that bridge

YES YES I don’t have a console so not sure how I’d do Mario/Sonic but that’s a good idea overall

That could work. I'm fine with whatever.

Sure. Maybe make a dedicated thread about it and see what interest there is.

Honestly I think option 1 would be more fun. I mean there's not much you can do with NPCs.

I mean archery/athletics/swimming/fencing would be easy to adapt. Could be creative with the others as well. Soccer you could push a minecart around on rails or something. Sailing could just be a boat race. Biathlon could involve shooting buttons from a distance.

When I was in high school I made a 'stadium' with four waterways and did an 'inter mob aquatics championships' where I basically measured which mob got to the end of the waterway first. Then I did the same thing with items. I don't remember what the fastest mob or item was, haha. But a Totallympics Minecraft Games sounds fun honestly, I'd be down

Yeah they can't actually display the flags because they're wholly unofficial. All the same they are represented by the unofficial flags most places online, including NORCECA, Wikipedia results and even Apple emojis. I agree it's weird for them to compete as they're basically like what Hawaii is to the US. Then again we might start to see Hawaii in the Pacific Games so...

Very true, but each department has an unofficial flag used for sporting events. Martinique's council adopted this new one (and a territorial anthem too!) It used to be the snake flag.

Martinique () has a new flag: Also the flag of Saint Martin () is a hoax and was never used. https://fotw.info/flags/mf.html EDIT: Actually @Sindo they don't use any flag besides French. The one I'd linked before is dubious too. So maybe we could just turn ":MAF" into the French flag for now.