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Yes. Things might change a little now that it's moved to 2021, in which he was supposed to go for the Tour de France I think, but Olympic MTB gold is his main big goal for now at least.

Yes, everything might change.

 

I make my predictions for 2020 - it is day after day as it could have happened, if the games were not postponed.

 

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1 minute ago, rafalgorka said:

Looks like he confirmed MTB in Tokyo 2020.

 

https://naszosie.pl/2019/09/05/mathieu-van-der-poel-nie-wystartuje-w-tokio-w-wyscigu-szosowym/

 

Yes that's what I meant, the latest 'news' (mostly from last year) is about him having made the choice for MTB and not the road race. Possibly the current situation changes something, but for now - to the best of our knowledge - that's still the plan.

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Yes that's what I meant, the latest 'news' (mostly from last year) is about him having made the choice for MTB and not the road race. Possibly the current situation changes something, but for now - to the best of our knowledge - that's still the plan.

 

I predicted clean sweep 1-2-3 for the Netherlands in women's road race. Do you think it is possible? What do you think about this young girl - Lorena Wiebes? I put her in 2nd place.

 

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THIS IS LIST OF EVENTS FOR

Day 5 Wednesday

 

  1. 3x3 BASKETBALL – Women

 

  1. 3x3 BASKETBALL – Men

 

  1. ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS – Men Individual All-Around

 

  1. CYCLING ROAD – Men Individual Time Trial

 

  1. CYCLING ROAD – Women Individual Time Trial

 

  1. DIVING – Men Synchronised 3m Springboard

 

  1. EQUESTRIAN – Dressage Individual

 

  1. FENCING – Men Sabre Team

 

  1. JUDO – Women -70 kg

 

  1. JUDO – Men -90 kg

 

  1. ROWING – Women Double Sculls

 

  1. ROWING – Men Double Sculls

 

  1. ROWING – Women Four

 

  1. ROWING – Men Four

 

  1. RUGBY – Men

 

  1. SURFING – Women

 

  1. SURFING - Men

 

  1. SWIMMING – Women 200m Freestyle

 

  1. SWIMMING – Men 200m Butterfly

 

  1. SWIMMING – Women 200m Individual Medley

 

  1. SWIMMING – Women 1500m Freestyle

 

  1. SWIMMING – Men 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay

 

  1. WEIGHTLIFTING – Men 73 kg

 

Any thoughts, olympic fans? ;-))

 

Stay healthy!

 

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14 hours ago, rafalgorka said:

Don't worry. On day 5 Fede is swimming 200 freestyle ;-))))))

 

I expect 6 silver medals for Italy in first 4 days. Which one of them has the biggest chances for gold in your opinion? I have my bets here ;-)

 

day 1 - Vito Del'Aquilla - Taekwondo Men -58 kg

day 2 - Elisa Di Francisca - Fencing Women Foil Individual

day 2 - Manuel Lombardo - Judo Men -66 kg

day 2 - Gabriele Detti - Swimming Men 400m Freestyle

day 3 - Alessio Foconi - Fencing Men Foil Individual

day 3 - Diana Bacosi - Shooting Women Skeet

day 4 - none

-In cycling,men's road race, everithing it's possible. Italy have good chances, with Trentin, WC silver medallist and european champion, and Nibali, probably gold in Rio without fall down.
- In taekwondo, Vito dell'Aquila's silver is rigth, but have minimum 40% for gold.
-In mixed Archery, Nespoli/Landi are a good good team. Gold is hard, but not impossible.
- In men's individual sabre, Curatoli (n.3 WR and bronze in WC) and Samele are in good position. Maybe both are out at the first round, maybe both in medal.
- In the women's epee there are Navarria, WC 2018, and Fiamingo, two times WC and silver medal in Rio. In 2019 Worldcup, they were focused on team competition, so have a bad ranking. But in Tokyo, they are  among the favorites.

So, at the end of day1, i think italy has minimum 1 gold medal.:
Ciclyng road 15%
taekwondo 40%
Mixed archery 20%
FEncing men individual sabre 25%
fencing women epee 45%

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-In cycling,men's road race, everithing it's possible. Italy have good chances, with Trentin, WC silver medallist and european champion, and Nibali, probably gold in Rio without fall down.

 

This course is most likely too hard for Trentin, it's not just hilly, it's basically mountaineous..of course there are plenty of options left, like you said, everything is possible in men's road races :p 

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  1. EQUESTRIAN – Dressage Team

 

  1. GERMANY                                                              wch18-1
  2. UNITED STATES                                                    wch18-2
  3. GREAT BRITAIN                                                    wch18-3

 

American team has become useless this year. It's much more likely that Denmark will be on the podium (either silver or bronze).

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THIS IS LIST OF EVENTS FOR

Day 5 Wednesday

 

  1. 3x3 BASKETBALL – Women

 

  1. 3x3 BASKETBALL – Men

 

  1. ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS – Men Individual All-Around

 

  1. CYCLING ROAD – Men Individual Time Trial

 

  1. CYCLING ROAD – Women Individual Time Trial

 

  1. DIVING – Men Synchronised 3m Springboard

 

  1. EQUESTRIAN – Dressage Individual

 

  1. FENCING – Men Sabre Team

 

  1. JUDO – Women -70 kg

 

  1. JUDO – Men -90 kg

 

  1. ROWING – Women Double Sculls

 

  1. ROWING – Men Double Sculls

 

  1. ROWING – Women Four

 

  1. ROWING – Men Four

 

  1. RUGBY – Men

 

  1. SURFING – Women

 

  1. SURFING - Men

 

  1. SWIMMING – Women 200m Freestyle

 

  1. SWIMMING – Men 200m Butterfly

 

  1. SWIMMING – Women 200m Individual Medley

 

  1. SWIMMING – Women 1500m Freestyle

 

  1. SWIMMING – Men 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay

 

  1. WEIGHTLIFTING – Men 73 kg

 

Any thoughts, olympic fans? ;-))

 

Stay healthy!

18) My prediction would be: Ledecky and Titmus will fight for gold, bronze is very open (Anderson, Pellegrini, Sjöstrom (if she swims it), Haughey, Ikee, Oleksiak, Ruck, McKeon, Schmitt, 2 chinese girls)

19) Milak ahead of Urlando and Seto (or maybe LeClos/Kenderesi)

20) Hosszu ahead of 2 out of Ohashi/Baker/Margalis/Walsh/Ye Shiwen

21) Ledecky ahead of Quadarella and Köhler or one of the chinese girls

22) USA, Japan, Russia, GB and Australia are all very close, so too close to call ...

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My predictions ctd.

 

Day 2 Sunday

 

  1. ARCHERY – Women Team

 

  1. CHINESE TAIPEI                                                               wch19-1
  2. KOREA REPUBLIC                                                            wch19-2
  3. GREAT BRITAIN                                                               wch19-3

 

  1. CYCLING ROAD – Women Road Race

 

  1. NED   Annemiek van Vleuten                                              wch 19-1, indrank-3
  2. NED   Lorena Wiebes                                                           indrank-1
  3. NED   Anna van der Breggen                                               wch 19-2

 

  1. DIVING – Women Synchronised 3m Platform

 

  1. CHN   Shi Tingmao, Wang Han                                           wch19-1, rank-2
  2. CAN   Jennifer Abel, Melissa Citrini-Beaulieu                    wch19-2, rank-1
  3. MEX   Paola Espinosa, Melany Hernandez                          wch19-3

 

  1. FENCING – Women Foil Individual

 

  1. RUS    Inna Deriglazova                                                        wch19-1, indrank-1
  2. ITA     Elisa Di Francisca                                                      wch19-3, indrank-2
  3. FRA    Pauline Ranvier                                                         wch19-2

 

  1. FENCING – Men Epee Individual

 

  1. HUN   Gergely Siklosi                                                          wch19-1, indrank-3
  2. RUS    Sergey Bida                                                               wch19-2, indrank-1
  3. JPN     Masaru Yamada                                                        indrank-2

 

  1. JUDO – Women -52 kg

 

  1. JPN     Uta Abe                                                                     wch19-1, indrank-1
  2. FRA    Amandine Buchard                                                   indrank-2
  3. RUS    Natalia Kuziutina                                                       wch19-2

KOS   Majlinda Kelmendi                                                    wch19-3, indrank-4

 

  1. JUDO – Men -66 kg

 

  1. JPN     Joshiro Maruyama                                                     wch19-1, indrank-2
  2. ITA     Manuel Lombardo                                                     indrank-1
  3. KOR   Kim Lim-Hwan                                                          wch19-2, indrank-8

MDA  Denis Vieru                                                                wch19-3

 

  1. SHOOTING – Women 10m Air Pistol

 

  1. GRE   Anna Korakaki                                                          wch18-1, indrank-3
  2. SRB    Zorana Arunovic                                                        wch18-2, indrank-1
  3. IND    Manu Bhaker                                                             indrank-2

 

  1. SHOOTING – Men 10m Air Rifle

 

  1. IND    Divyansh Singh Panwar                                             indrank-1
  2. RUS    Sergey Kamenskiy                                                     wch18-1, indrank-5
  3. CRO   Petar Gorsa                                                                wch18-2, indrank-2

 

  1. SKATEBOARDING – Men Street

 

  1. USA   Nyjah Huston                                                            indrank-1, wch19-1
  2. JPN     Yuto Horigome                                                          indrank-2, wch19-2
  3. POR    Gustavo Ribeiro                                                         indrank-3, wch19-3

 

  1. SWIMMING – Men 400m Individual Medley

 

  1. JPN     Daiya Seto                                                                 wch19-1, indrank-1
  2. USA   Jay Litherland                                                            wch19-2, indrank-2
  3. GBR   Max Litchfield                                                           wch19-7, indrank-3

 

  1. SWIMMING – Men 400m Freestyle

 

  1. AUS   Mack Horton                                                             wch19-2, indrank-2
  2. ITA     Gabriele Detti                                                            wch19-3, indrank-3
  3. LTU    Danas Rapsys                                                            wch19-4, indrank-4

 

  1. SWIMMING – Women 400m Individual Medley

 

  1. HUN   Katinka Hosszu                                                         wch19-1, indrank-1
  2. CHN   Ye Shiwen                                                                 wch19-2, indrank-2
  3. JPN     Yui Ohashi                                                                 wch19-3, indrank-3

 

  1. SWIMMING – Women 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay

 

  1. AUSTRALIA                                                                       wch19-1, rank-1
  2. UNITED STATES                                                                wch19-2, rank-2
  3. CANADA                                                                             wch19-3, rank-3

 

  1. TAEKWONDO – Women -57 kg

 

  1. GBR   Jade Jones                                                                  wch19-1, indrank-1
  2. KOR   Lee Ah-Reum                                                            wch19-2, indrank-2
  3. CAN   Skylar Park                                                                wch19-3, indrank-6

CHN   Zhou Lijun                                                                 wch19-3, indrank-8

 

  1. TAEKWONDO – Men -68 kg

 

  1. KOR   Lee Dae-Hoon                                                           wch19-3, indrank-1
  2. GBR   Bradly Sinden                                                            wch19-1, indrank-2
  3. ESP     Javier Perez                                                                wch19-2, indrank-4

CHN   Shuai Zhao                                                                indrank-3

 

  1. WEIGHTLIFTING – Men 61 kg

 

  1. CHN   Li Fabin                                                                     wch19-1, indrank-1
  2. INA    Eko Yuli Irawan                                                        wch19-2, indrank-2
  3. COL   Francisco Mosquera                                                   wch19-3, indrank-5

 

  1. WEIGHTLIFTING – Men 67 kg

 

  1. CHN   Chen Lijun                                                                 wch19-1, indrank-1
  2. PRK    Pak Jong-Ju                                                                wch19-3, indrank-3
  3. UZB   Adkhamjon Ergashev                                                wch19-4, indrank-4

 

TOKYO 2020 MEDAL TABLE AFTER DAY 2 SUNDAY 29/339

 

  1. KOREA REPUBLIC             6-3-1                     10
  2. CHINA                                  4-1-4                     9
  3. JAPAN                                 3-3-2                     8
  4. HUNGARY                          2-1-0                     3
  5. AUSTRALIA                        2-0-0                     2
  6. RUSSIA                                1-3-1                     5
  7. NETHERLANDS                 1-2-1                     4
  8. UNITED STATES                1-2-1                     4
  9. INDIA                                   1-1-4                     6
  10. GREAT BRITAIN                1-1-2                     4
  11. BRAZIL                                 1-0-0                     1
  12. CHINESE TAIPEI                1-0-0                     1
  13. GEORGIA                            1-0-0                     1
  14. GREECE                                1-0-0                     1
  15. SLOVENIA                          1-0-0                     1
  16. THAILAND                          1-0-0                     1
  17. UKRAINE                            1-0-0                     1
  18. ITALY                                    0-4-2                     6
  19. KOREA DPR                        0-2-0                     2
  20. CANADA                             0-1-2                     3
  21. FRANCE                               0-1-1                     2
  22. SERBIA                                 0-1-1                     2
  23. DENMARK                          0-1-0                     1
  24. INDONESIA                        0-1-0                     1
  25. ROMANIA                          0-1-0                     1
  26. KOSOVO                             0-0-2                     2
  27. SPAIN                                  0-0-2                     2
  28. UZBEKISTAN                     0-0-2                     2
  29. COLOMBIA                        0-0-1                     1
  30. CROATIA                             0-0-1                     1
  31. IRAN                                     0-0-1                     1
  32. KAZAKHSTAN                   0-0-1                     1
  33. LITHUANIA                        0-0-1                     1
  34. MEXICO                              0-0-1                     1
  35. MOLDOVA                         0-0-1                     1
  36. MONGOLIA                       0-0-1                     1
  37. PORTUGAL                        0-0-1                     1

 

About your swimming predictions: I would say that they look pretty good, but i think the US will win a medal in women's 400 IM and i also think Hagino and/or an american guy not named Litherland will win a medal in men's 400 IM.

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Day 3 Monday

 

  1. ARCHERY – Men Team

 

  1.  CHINA                                                                                wch19-1
  2.  INDIA                                                                                 wch19-2
  3.  KOREA REPUBLIC                                                           wch19-3

 

  1. ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS – Men Team

 

  1. RUSSIA                                                                                wch19-1
  2. UNITED STATES                                                                rank-1
  3. CHINA                                                                                 wch19-2

 

  1. CANOE SLALOM – Men C1

 

  1. FRA    Cedric Joly                                                                 wch19-1
  2. GER   Sideris Tasiadis                                                          rank-1
  3. ESP     Ander Elosegi                                                            wch19-2

 

  1. CYCLING MOUNTAIN BIKE – Men Cross-Country

 

  1. SUI     Nino Schurter                                                            wch19-1, rank-1
  2. SUI     Mathias Fluckiger                                                      wch19-2, rank-2
  3. BRA   Henrique Avancini                                                    rank-3

 

  1. DIVING – Men Synchronised 10m Platform

 

  1. CHN   Cao Yuan, Chen Aisen                                              wch19-1
  2. RUS    Aleksandr Bondar, Viktor Minibaev                         wch19-2
  3. GBR   Tom Daley, Matty Lee                                              wch19-3

 

  1. FENCING – Women Sabre Individual

 

  1. UKR   Olga Kharlan                                                             wch19-1, rank-1
  2. RUS    Sofya Velikaya                                                          wch19-2, rank-2
  3. FRA    Manon Brunet                                                            rank-3

 

  1. FENCING – Men Foil Individual

 

  1. FRA    Enzo Lefort                                                               wch19-1, rank-2
  2. ITA     Alessio Foconi                                                           rank-1
  3. GBR   Marcus Mepstead                                                      wch19-2

 

  1. JUDO – Women -57 kg

 

  1. CAN   Christa Deguchi                                                         wch19-1, rank-1
  2. JPN     Tsukasa Yoshida                                                       wch19-2, rank-2
  3. POL   Julia Kowalczyk                                                      wch19-3

FRA    Sarah Cysique                                                            wch19-5

 

  1. JUDO – Men -73 kg

 

  1. JPN     Shohei Ono                                                    wch19-1
  2. AZE    Rustam Orujov                                               wch19-2, rank-2
  3. RUS    Denis Yartsev                                                wch19-3

CAN   Arthur Margelidon                                         rank-4

 

  1. SHOOTING – Women Skeet

 

  1. CHN   Wei Meng                                                      rank-1
  2. ITA     Diana Bacosi                                                  wch19-1
  3. GER   Nadine Messerschmidt                                   rank-2

 

  1. SHOOTING – Men Skeet

 

  1. USA   Vincent Hancock                                           wch18-1
  2. SWE   Stefan Nilsson                                                rank-1
  3. CZE    Tomas Nydrle                                                wch19-1

 

  1. SKATEBOARDING – Women Street

 

  1. BRA   Pamela Rosa                                                  wch19-1
  2. BRA   Rayssa Leal                                                    wch19-2
  3. JPN     Aori Nishimura                                              wch19-3

 

  1. SWIMMING – Women 100m Butterfly

 

  1. CAN   Maggie MacNeil                                            wch-1, rank-1
  2. SWE   Sarah Sjostrom                                               wch-2, rank-2
  3. AUS   Emma McKeon                                              wch-3, rank-3

 

  1. SWIMMING – Men 100m Breaststroke

 

  1. GBR   Adam Peaty                                                   wch-1, rank-1
  2. BLR    Ilya Shymanovich                                          wch-12 , rank-2
  3. GBR   James Wilby                                                   wch-2, rank-3

 

  1. SWIMMING – Women 400m Freestyle

 

  1. AUS    Ariarne Titmus                                               wch-1, rank-1
  2. USA   Katie Ledecky                                               wch-2, rank-2
  3. USA   Leah Smith                                                     wch-3, rank-3

 

  1. SWIMMING – Men 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay

 

  1. UNITED STATES                                                    wch-1, rank-1
  2. RUSSIA                                                                    wch-2, rank-2
  3. AUSTRALIA                                                           wch-3, rank-3

 

  1. TABLE TENNIS – Mixed Doubles

 

  1. CHN   Xu Xin, Liu Shiwen                                       wch19-1
  2. JPN     Maharu Yoshimura, Kasumi Ishikawa          wch19-2
  3. GER   Patrick Franziska, Petrissa Solja                    wch19-3

 

  1. TAEKWONDO – Women -67 kg

 

  1. CHN   Zhang Mengyu                                               wch-1
  2. CRO   Matea Jelic                                                     rank-1
  3. TUR    Nur Tatar                                                        wch-2

CIV    Ruth Gbagbi                                                   rank-2

 

  1. TAEKWONDO – Men -80 kg

 

  1. AZE    Milad Beigi                                                    wch-1
  2. RUS    Maksim Khramtcov                                       rank-1
  3. GRE   Apostolos Telikostoglou                                wch-2

CIV    Cheick Sallah Cisse                                       rank-3

 

  1. TRIATHLON – Men

 

  1. FRA    Vincent Luis                                                  wch19-1
  2. ESP     Mario Mola                                                    wch19-2
  3. ESP     Javier Gomez                                                 wch19-3

 

  1. WEIGHTLIFTING – Women 55 kg

 

  1. CHN   Liao Qiuyun                                                   wch19-1
  2. PHI     Hidylyn Diaz                                                  wch19-3
  3. COL   Yenny Sinnisterra                                          wch19-5

 

TOKYO 2020 MEDAL TABLE AFTER DAY 3 MONDAY 50/339

 

  1. CHINA                                  10-1-5                   16
  2. KOREA REPUBLIC             6-3-2                     11
  3. JAPAN                                 4-5-3                     12
  4. UNITED STATES                3-4-2                     9
  5. FRANCE                               3-1-3                     7
  6. AUSTRALIA                        3-0-2                     5
  7. RUSSIA                                2-7-2                     11
  8. GREAT BRITAIN                2-1-5                     8
  9. CANADA                             2-1-3                     6
  10. BRAZIL                                 2-1-1                     4
  11. HUNGARY                          2-1-0                     3
  12. UKRAINE                            2-0-0                     2
  13. INDIA                                   1-2-4                     7
  14. NETHERLANDS                 1-2-1                     4
  15. AZERBAIJAN                      1-1-0                     2
  16. SWITZERLAND                  1-1-0                     2
  17. GREECE                                1-0-1                     2
  18. CHINESE TAIPEI                1-0-0                     1
  19. GEORGIA                            1-0-0                     1
  20. SLOVENIA                          1-0-0                     1
  21. THAILAND                          1-0-0                     1
  22. ITALY                                    0-6-2                     8
  23. KOREA DPR                        0-2-0                     2
  24. SWEDEN                             0-2-0                     2
  25. SPAIN                                  0-1-4                     5
  26. GERMANY                          0-1-2                     3
  27. SERBIA                                 0-1-1                     2
  28. CROATIA                             0-1-1                     2
  29. BELARUS                             0-1-0                     1
  30. DENMARK                          0-1-0                     1
  31. INDONESIA                        0-1-0                     1
  32. PHILIPPINES                      0-1-0                     1
  33. ROMANIA                          0-1-0                     1
  34. COLOMBIA                        0-0-2                     2
  35. IVORY COAST                    0-0-2                     2
  36. KOSOVO                             0-0-2                     2
  37. UZBEKISTAN                     0-0-2                     2
  38. CZECH REPUBLIC             0-0-1                     1
  39. IRAN                                     0-0-1                     1
  40. KAZAKHSTAN                   0-0-1                     1
  41. LITHUANIA                        0-0-1                     1
  42. MEXICO                              0-0-1                     1
  43. MOLDOVA                         0-0-1                     1
  44. MONGOLIA                       0-0-1                     1
  45. POLAND                              0-0-1                     1
  46. PORTUGAL                        0-0-1                     1

2) I would be very surprised if the US would finish ahead of China and Japan.

8) Would be quite funny if Deguchi would steal the gold medal from a japanese girl in front of her home crowd.

16) I don't see Australia beating Brazil (or even Italy).

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    • copravolley
      Speed Skating ISU World Cup 2024 - 2025

      By copravolley · Posted

      Besides, I think Eitrem will be better than Ghiotto. You can see it after 1500 meters. He is younger. The whole Norwegian team is also in great shape. You just have to look at the team Norway has, how many new and young skaters there are and in our group A there is one Trentini, who takes last place. In every winter sport we invest too little money to be counted.   If Eitrem has the same form over long distances as he does over 1500 metres, he will dominate this season, not Ghiotto or Roest.
    • copravolley
      Speed Skating ISU World Cup 2024 - 2025

      By copravolley · Posted

      Looking at last season's 1st World Cup, it's worse for now and it should be the other way around. Bosa out of shape, Trentini weak. Both will drop to a lower group. It's similar to skeleton, i.e. regression instead of progress. I hope this doesn't mean Ghiotto is also in weaker form, because it could end up with 0 podiums this weekend.
    • Josh
      Speed Skating ISU World Cup 2024 - 2025

      By Josh · Posted

      Get well soon! 
    • copravolley
      Speed Skating ISU World Cup 2024 - 2025

      By copravolley · Posted

      In general, our picture for a little over 1 year until the home games looks like this:     - the women's sector is still based on one Lollo, who is 3 years older than 2022, - the women's and men's sprint sector is based on one Bosa and possibly the young Pergher (0% possobility for medal in 2026), - Ghiotto has made a lot of progress and that is a big plus. He could result to give our even 3 medals, including 1/2 gold. Our team's performance also depends to a large extent on Ghiotto's form, - the rest of the men's team is basically unchanged. There is Giovannoni in the mass start, there is Malfatti in the longer distances, but they are not competitors on the podium of a major event.   I will repeat myself: if Ghiotto continues to make such progress, we will probably win 3 medals, 2 of which gold and it will be a success. If something doesn`t work out, an injury, illness, etc. (we know from Vitozzi that this can happen to anyone), then it could be very bad. By the way, this also applies to other sports: the above-mentioned Vitozzi in biathlon, Goggia in downhill, Brignone in giant slalom, etc.
    • Topicmaster1010
      Winter Olympic Games Milano Cortina 2026 Early Qualification Predictions

      By Topicmaster1010 · Posted

      With the World Cup season in most of the winter sports about to begin and qualification in some sports already underway, I think it's about time for this thread.    Template    ... Team Size Prediction for Winter Olympic Games 2026 Milano Cortina   Ski Sports   Alpine Skiing  () - Cross Country Skiing  () - Ski Jumping  () - Nordic Combined  () - Freestyle Skiing  () - Snowboarding  () - Biathlon  () - Ski Mountaineering  () -     Skating Sports   Speed Skating  () - Short Track Speed Skating  () - Figure Skating  () -     Sleigh Sports   Luge  () - Skeleton  () - Bobsleigh  () -     Team Sports   Curling  () - Ice Hockey  () -       Total Optimistic Prediction  -  () Total Pessimistic Prediction  - ()   Total Realistic Prediction  -  ()
    • Josh
      Beach Volleyball FIVB Pro Tour 2024

      By Josh · Posted

      Haikou Challenge | Haikou, China   Women’s Tournament Gold-  Xue Chen/Zeng Jinjin Silver-  Molly Shaw/Toni Rodriguez Bronze-  Lezana Placette/Alexia Richard   Men’s Tournament Gold-  Evan Cory/Cody Caldwell Silver-  Thomas Hodges/Zachary Schubert Bronze-  Gianluca Dal Corso/Marco Viscovich   Full Results
    • copravolley
      Speed Skating ISU World Cup 2024 - 2025

      By copravolley · Posted

      Today is a day without Italians in the leads positions. I`m worried that they are not trying to revive this our sprint. There is only one Bosa and he is old. Pergher is young but she is also only one. It is a pity. After the Olympics they will probably 100% give up on the entire sprint. Our medal bag in Cortina will depend 90% on Ghiotto, just like it did on Fabris in Turin 2006. If Ghiotto will be in goodshape, he can even win 2 individual golds + a team medal. If not, it will be a flop. Apart from him, only Lollobrigida can compete in the mass start and possibly Giovannini in the men's mass start.
    • Gianlu33
      2026 Winter Olympics - Very Early Predictions

      By Gianlu33 · Posted

      Yup, actually they have just some juniors pairs in the dance event 
    • rafalgorka
      2026 Winter Olympics - Very Early Predictions

      By rafalgorka · Posted

      No ice Dance pair?
    • rafalgorka
      2026 Winter Olympics - Very Early Predictions

      By rafalgorka · Posted

      Why?
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