Slovenia National Thread / Paris 2024

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14 minutes ago, justony said:

Road to Tokio is finally starting also for .

 

Tina Mrak and Veronika Macarol should be first confirmed Olympian in Sailing (Women's 470) after qualifying for the final 10, and being top 7 counting only one boat per nation.

 

Congrats.

 

btw Mrak in Slovakian means "cloud". is this the same in your language too ?

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in few minutes it will start farewell game for sani bečirovič and boštjan nachbar

they gathered great players and coaches who will play match in stožice

Bečirovića team Fragiskos Alvertis, Pero Antić, Marco Belinelli, Vladimer Boisa, Primož Brezec, Primož Brolih, Luigi Datome, Dimitris Diamantidis, Jurica Golemac, Jasmin Hukić, Vlatko Ilievski, Šarunas Jasikevičius, Slavko Kotnik, Saša Pavlović, Miroslav Raduljica in Matjaž Smodiš. Dalibor Bagarić in Rodrigo de la Fuente,

coaches Memi Bečirović, Saša Đorđević, Dimitris Itoudis, Tone Krump in Željko Obradović.

Nachbarja team Boris Gorenc, Goran Jagodnik, Nenad Krstić, Jaka Lakovič, Erazem Lorbek, Marko Milić, Rašo Nesterović, Smiljan Pavić, Igor Rakočević, Uroš Slokar, Zoran Planinić, Beno Udrih, Samo Udrih, Nikola Vujčić in Jiri Welsch.

coaches Zoran Martić, Grega Nachbar, Aleš Pipan, Zmago Sagadin in Jure Zdovc.

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On 8. 8. 2018 at 22:05, hckosice said:

 

Congrats.

 

btw Mrak in Slovakian means "cloud". is this the same in your language too ?

Sorry, I am a slow reader  No, lately I am not that present. 

 

Mrak means "dark" in Slovenian, as the part of the day, when daylight comes to an end. So something similar, dark. 

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16 minutes ago, justony said:

Sorry, I am a slow reader  No, lately I am not that present. 

 

Mrak means "dark" in Slovenian, as the part of the day, when daylight comes to an end. So something similar, dark. 

 

Ah, cool in SVK it´s "súmrak" but the word mrak itself is for cloud.

 

Really interesting, how or languages are quite similar (especially using same words) but at the same time quite different (with the meanings of those words)

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1 minute ago, hckosice said:

 

Ah, cool in SVK it´s "súmrak" but the word mrak itself is for cloud.

 

Really interesting, how or languages are quite similar (especially using same words) but at the same time quite different (with the meanings of those words)

Our word for cloud is "oblak", like our goalkeeper Jan Oblak. 

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7 minutes ago, justony said:

Our word for cloud is "oblak", like our goalkeeper Jan Oblak. 

 

 

Same here, it´s the second meaning of the word Oblak.

 

Oblak in SVK/CZE = Window, Cloud, cloud of smoke

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Next qualifier is Tjaša Oder - Swimming (W 1500m Freestyle).

 

So, currently, on the Road to Tokio - 3 confirmed athletes:

 

SAILING (2): Veronika Mrak, Tina Macarol (470 W)

SWIMMING (1): Tjaša Oder (1500 m Free W)

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 OLYMPIC FOCUS  

 

I will try to go through all previous performances and to find out, what the future brings, if particular sport will have  representatives in Tokio.

 

PART 1

Archery

 

Slovenia participated on 5 occasions in archery. There were only men, who took this sport at the Olympics. First one was Bojan Postružnik, who competed in Montreal 1976, where he finished as 9th, which is still best performance ever by a Slovenian archer.

 

In 1992 Samo Medved was so close to qualify for knockout competition, as he came in 33rd position. Four years later in Atlanta Medved, Matevž Krumpestar and Peter Koprivnikar went on to finish as high as 5th in Team event, losing to later champions South Korea in quarterfinals. Medved was our best indvividual, finishing as 14th.

 

Later on Peter Koprivnikar competed also in Sydney 2000, but was defeated in first round (Round of 64). Last competitor took place in London 2012, Klemen Štrajhar failed to win in opening round.

 

As for the future, it is sad Compound is not an olympic discipline, in that case Toja Ellison would be hot medal favourite, since she is former World champion (2014) and this season gold medalist at European Games. 

On this day no athlete has met the standards, but there are 3 hopes, who are currently among top 100 in World Rankings. Gašper Štrajhar is closest to Tokio at current 37th place, Den Habjan Malavašič is 78th, while Ana Umer could become first Slovenian female representative in archery, so far she is at 94th place in World Rankings.

 

 

 

 

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 OLYMPIC FOCUS  

 

I will try to go through all previous performances and to find out, what the future brings, if particular sport will have  representatives in Tokio.

 

PART 2

 

Artistic Swimming

 

This part will be one of the shortest possible. Slovenia never had an athlete at the Olympic Games. This sport is very new. Only in 1999, there was first live presentation on Faculty of Sports in Ljubljana for academic reasons, and it was not until 2009, when first club (Rusalka from Velenje) was established.

 

Today there are 5 clubs in the country and we even have our very own National team.

But it is getting better. Nika Seljak became first artistic swimmer, to compete on the international level.

In June she performed at Junior ECH in Prague.

 

 

 

Edited August 7, 2019 by justony

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A true champion

 

 

 

JANJA GARNBRET

Already two times World Champion in Japan this week,

could become first ever climber with a triple, if she wins Combined on Tuesday.

 

Born: 19.03.1999, Šmartno pri Slovenj Gradcu

Sport: Sport Climbing

Height, weight: 164 cm, 47 kg

 

World Cup: 25 wins, first person to win all 6 events in one season in Boulder

World Cup Overall: 7 total wins (3 in Lead, 3 in Combined, 1 in Boulder)

World Championships: 5 golds, 1 silver