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5 hours ago, bestmen said:
after france , Niger kicks usa ...well done
Great to hear that everything is apparently now going great in Niger, finally.
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7 hours ago, rybak said:
So, my current top, after all songs been released/choosen is:
- Croatia
- Switzerland
- United Kingdom
- Greece
- Belgium
- Portugal
- Estonia
- Norway
- Slovenia
- Austria
- France
- Serbia
- Georgia
- Azerbaijan
- Ireland
- Italy
- Armenia
- Ukraine
- Israel
- Lithuania
- Cyprus
- Australia
- Luxembourg
- Poland
- Spain
- Iceland
- San Marino
- Latvia
- Moldova
- Albania
- Sweden
- Malta
- Denmark
- Netherlands
- Czechia
- Germany
- Finland
How looks your tops? @kungshamra71 @Gianlu33 @Olympian1010 @dezbee2008 @Belle @heywoodu @Vektor @ManuCHIL and other people too, ofc
I only know and so far
I've heard a few others when playing the playlist, but no idea which country those were and they didn't really impress my anyway (I assume France was one, because it was something like 'mon amour' this and 'mon amour' that )
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27 minutes ago, Nish said:
10-15? That’s a bit too much mate. Genuinely Andrews, Bayona, Friedrich, Sato, Hinze are in the mix for medals. Have followed every major track cycling event in last 14 months
Same here And it's a matter of agreeing to disagree, which is of course fine. Anyway it's going to be good in Paris.
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16 minutes ago, Nish said:
She’s done everything to be the top medal contender. World champ last year. Super leagues champs. CWG champ. She’s worked hardest for it. Very good contender for a medal in Sprint too. But Keirin looks to be what she’s worked hard for
Yep, that's what I meant with her being very much a contender in the big mix. There's a whole bunch of contenders who have all worked super hard for it (presumably all of them 'want it the most', and that kind of thing), and if there's one unpredictable event, it's the keirin. Gonna be fun, at least 10-15 riders have a significant medal shot and the fight for gold is most likely going to be fantastically tight
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12 minutes ago, Nish said:
Ellesse Andrews returns in 3 weeks in 3rd round of Nations Cup. She’s aiming that Olympic gold. She’s worked hard for it. Dominated Keirin for past 2 years
Yep, yet another one of many, many contenders for the medals.
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36 minutes ago, Faramir said:
I was surprised by this result too. I expected a win with something like 104%.
Nah, even in North Korea the winner gets a win with 99.98% of the votes or so
I guess those 13% for non-Putin in Russia are the people who managed to vote without an armed military person in the voting booth with them.
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On 3/16/2024 at 9:40 PM, phelps said:
that's one of the reasons why I love Karate
hundreds of Nations from all Continents competing at the highest level and most of them capable of having medal chances in the most important tournaments in the World
but Tommy the King, AKA Fencing Olympic Champion in 1976 just thinks that's not enough...it's not urban and cool...gotta have to replace it with breakdance
One would imagine the chances may increase a little bit if it turns more into a combat sport, so not with controlled hits and such. Real fighting might be more...urban
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9 hours ago, Federer91 said:
You definitely know, that is not the point. There are 100 other countries with build stadiums, that could host junior matches.
Obviously, there's no way any one of those should be in Qatar at all, I assume we all agree on that. I meant I wouldn't even have been surprised if Qatar would build a new stadium for every single one of these events (they most likely won't, but...it is Qatar).
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1 hour ago, Federer91 said:
Weren't these U17 tournaments held every 2 years? Why are they moving annually now, just so Qatar can smoke people, that they are using the stadiums for years to come?
Wait, they're not going to use more slaves to build new stadiums for every single one of these World Cups?
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25 minutes ago, Dennis said:
Schulting doesn't finish after the restart as she's injured, which is tough right before the relay finals as well
The result of that is that will have to do the relay with the line-up with which they got a 3rd place in the World Cup, followed by a win, a win and another win. Plus without Schulting the chance of actually getting a result is bigger anyway
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33 minutes ago, Josh said:
Personally, I’d say even more than a contender. Right now she’s the favourite for gold at Paris (very slightly), and even if she doesn’t win gold I don’t see her missing the podium. But who knows, the Olympics always tend to produce a lot of surprises
Especially the keirin, few events have so many contenders, with the biggest 'favourite' probably still having only like 10% chance
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1 hour ago, phelps said:
and finally the total resurrection of Lisa Vittozzi seems to be almost completed
she looked lost for the sport just a couple of years ago, missing targets from left and right (and being destroyed by media and fans, myself included )...
but Today, after the 2nd win in a row and the new collapse by Tandrevold, she's just a walk in the park away from winning her first Overall World Cup (after winning 1 individual gold -and being part of last year's miracle of our relay- and many more medals at the world champs in the last 2 seasons)
well done, Lisa!
Yeah, especially after those issues in the prone shooting (which were so odd, standing was fine) it's awesome to see how she fought back
I do feel for Tandrevold for really letting it slip through her hands in the last weeks, but overall I'm enjoying this fight, I'd be happy with both of them as overall winner (different than that year with Vittozzi vs Wierer, where I was very strongly cheering for Vittozzi...), so it's a win-win situation for me as viewer
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52 minutes ago, Josh said:
All sessions are available to watch (at least I’m pretty sure, I don’t see any payment options), all you need to do is create an account
Thanks! I'll look at it tomorrow I think, since right after my post Tiz-cycling went back up and had the link to UCI's YouTube video (which is unlisted, so one needs the link)
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Anyone have a clue where the UCI stream of day two can be found? I'd check Tiz-cycling, but their website is down again
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25 minutes ago, vinipereira said:
What a sad way to start this thread. I don't want to state the obvious, but it's truly unfortunate that things like this still happen. That crowd was despicable and the other team should take some accountability.
In a semi-perfect world (because in a perfect world this whole situation wouldn't have happened of course) both teams would very quickly agree to just stop the match until those assholes are removed, but yeah...I doubt that'll happen
Good that he speaks up about it, a quick read in the comments seems to at least be overwhelmingly supportive.
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8 hours ago, Josh said:
I personally haven’t edited Wikipedia in a while (for quite obvious reasons ), but I’ve noticed that @Sportsfan_1234 has been reverting other users edits for no reason whatsoever. I saw a user who attempted to fill in some of the selected Team Canada diving/artistic swimming athletes for Paris (On the “Canada at the 2024 Olympics” article), but neither of those edits lasted very long. So frustrating to see, it’s almost as if he’s owns the article.
What I find most odd is that apparently there's two people fighting each other on Wikipedia editing (seriously, come on), but then they take this fight here and post on Totallympics only to post about their fight on Wikipedia
This whole thread is honestly the weirdest and oddest thing (weirder than the death wishes/threats) I have seen in I guess around 10 years of Totallympics
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5 hours ago, Biathlonfan said:
For the second week in a row ,he goes to finish in the top 5 from a very late start number,btw Tarjei did that too in like 2009 i think,he was 110 i think,and ended up fourth with one miss,and 0.1 second behind third,with the bronze going to a swiss athlete who also started late also with one miss,and that was his only medal in his career,so it was for the best that boe didn't come out on top on that occasion.
Holy moly, impressive memory
Bib 108 for Tarjei, but in Pokljuka 2009 he was 4th behind Swiss Thomas Frei.
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5 minutes ago, JoshMartini007 said:
"Eritrea at the 2024 Summer Olympics"
Due to some fighting between users the page was under draft for months despite many other nations being allowed to have a page.
Wow. Are Wikipedia people that petty that a simple normal page like this can apparently not stay open?
Although reading back a bit in this thread, with some unexplainable shit-throwing back and forth going on....yeah, Wikipedia people seem...odd
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Posted · Edited by heywoodu
Ice hockey player (former NHL and KHL) Konstantin Koltsov , also the boyfriend of Aryna Sabalenka since 2021, suddenly passed away in Miami (where I assume he was with Sabalenka) aged 42.