Totallympics Sports Review of 2018

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Male sportsman of the year: David Gleirscher

Female sportsman of the year: Jonelle Price

Team of the year: football team and men's curling team

Junior sportsman of the year: Remco Evenepoel

Junior sportswoman of the year: Alena Kostornaia

Greatest moment of the year: Knockout stages of football WC. Very special and unusual week(s) here.

Biggest idiot of the year: Tried my best, but can't put my finger on the biggest idiot, sadly.

 

Edited December 29, 2018 by dcro

[Vojthas 949]

Male sportsman of the year - Kamil Stoch

Female sportsman of the year - Ester Ledecka.

Team of the year - Polish W4x

Junior sportsman of the year (under 20 years old at 1/1/2018) - Ahmed El Gendy

Junior  sportswoman of the year (under 20 years old at 1/1/2018) - Iga Świątek

Greatest moment of the year - Double gold for Justyna Święty-Ersetic at Europeans in 400 and 4x400 during just 1,5 hour

Biggest idiot of the year - Tamara Alekszejev and Valentin Prades for celebrating medals (Tamara bronze at Europeans, Prades gold at Worlds) before reaching the finish line and eventually losing it to Sarolta Kovács and James Cooke respectively.

[NaBUru38 208]

  On 12/25/2018 at 8:02 PM, Col_Frost said:

  On 12/25/2018 at 11:42 AM, heywoodu said:

Disappointment of the year: Justin Kripps and Francesco Friedrich sharing the 2-man bobsleigh Olympic gold

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But why? Why fact that after four runs they both had exactly the same time is disappointing? I think it was the best two-man competition since SLC.

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Why not have additional tiebreakers? Say, the best run wins, so Germany.

[NaBUru38 208]

Male sportsman of the year, LeBron James (basketball)

Female sportsman of the year. Esther Ledecka (skiing and snowboarding)

Team of the year: Penske (auto racing)

Biggest disappointment of the year: Germany men's national football team.

Biggest idiot of the year: Romano Fenati (motorcycling)

[Col_Frost 179]

  On 12/31/2018 at 8:02 PM, NaBUru38 said:

Why not have additional tiebreakers? Say, the best run wins, so Germany.

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But the ones with best single run time had also worst single run time. So why they should be better?  But seriously, I don't have problems with ties, I don't have problem with tie breakers, in both possibilities I would consider this competition for the best bobsleigh olympic runs from years. But rules are what they are. Maybe in future something will be changed?

[Giovanni Gianni Cattaneo 142]

It's not so easy, but for me:
 

Male sportsman of the year, Martin Fourcade

Female sportsman of the year Ledecka, no dubt.
Team of the year European team of Ryder Cup

Junior sportsman of the year (under 20 years old at 1/1/2018) Kolensikov

Junior  sportswoman of the year (under 20 years old at 1/1/2018) Darya Bilodid

Greatest moment of the year   Korean's Flag at the opening ceremony of Winter Games.

Biggest idiot of the year AIBA,