Winter Olympic Games Beijing 2022 News

[heywoodu 15,135]

1 hour ago, hckošice said:

Any stamps collector here ? Our Mail service released yesterday a new one

 

I do still have three books pretty full with stamps, but I don't think I've really taken any significant time for that hobby in at least 10 years  

 

These are cool, maybe there's space for them in my books  

[hckošice 14,820]

Today our NOC ceremoniously handed to the athletes the checks with awards for the medals at the Beijing Winter Olympic Games. was about time I mean, it is already june (but, ok, the winter season officially ended last Sunday so...)

 

275 000 EUR for the bronze medalist Ice Hockey team (Beijing 2022 Team captain Marek Hrivík (second from right) received the check in the name of the team)

The team Staff recieved 27 000 EUR

 

 

 

And Petra Vlhová Gold medalist in W Slalom received 50 000 EUR (one of her coaches Matej Gemza took the check on her behalf, since Petra is already in full preparation and trainings on snow) Her team staff received 16 500 EUR

 

 

 

Another pleasant touch took place today, Our NOC after the checks awarding ceremony presented to our Hockey NT coach Craig Ramsay the Slovak NOC gold badge (order), which is the highest award of our NOC

 

 

 

Also the NOC president informed that Juraj "the son of god" Slafkovský is among the 5 EOC nominated athletes for the "Piotr Nurowski" award fot the best European youth athlete of the year in winter sports !

 

(the other nominated athletes are Nika Prevc SLO - Ski Jumping, Victoria Olivier - AUT Alpine Skiing, Lorenzo Previtali - ITA Speed Skating and Leon Ulbricht - GER Snowboarding)

 

[Swewi 381]

2 hours ago, hckošice said:

Today our NOC ceremoniously handed to the athletes the checks with awards for the medals at the Beijing Winter Olympic Games. was about time I mean, it is already june (but, ok, the winter season officially ended last Sunday so...)

 

275 000 EUR for the bronze medalist Ice Hockey team (Beijing 2022 Team captain Marek Hrivík (second from right) received the check in the name of the team)

The team Staff recieved 27 000 EUR

 

 

 

And Petra Vlhová Gold medalist in W Slalom received 50 000 EUR (one of her coaches Matej Gemza took the check on her behalf, since Petra is already in full preparation and trainings on snow) Her team staff received 16 500 EUR

 

 

 

Another pleasant touch took place today, Our NOC after the checks awarding ceremony presented to our Hockey NT coach Craig Ramsay the Slovak NOC gold badge (order), which is the highest award of our NOC

 

 

 

Also the NOC president informed that Juraj "the son of god" Slafkovský is among the 5 EOC nominated athletes for the "Piotr Nurowski" award fot the best European youth athlete of the year in winter sports !

 

(the other nominated athletes are Nika Prevc SLO - Ski Jumping, Victoria Olivier - AUT Alpine Skiing, Lorenzo Previtali - ITA Speed Skating and Leon Ulbricht - GER Snowboarding)

 

And all Swedish athletes receive 0 for the medals fromfrom our olympic committ

[hckošice 14,820]

39 minutes ago, Swewi said:

And all Swedish athletes receive 0 for the medals fromfrom our olympic committ

well, Sweden has gazillon of medals at WOGs so I guess that would not be economically smart for your NOC to pay off everyone

[Grassmarket 3,396]

11 minutes ago, hckošice said:

well, Sweden has gazillon of medals at WOGs so I guess that would not be economically smart for your NOC to pay off everyone

 Like  is a monarchy.  It is only Republics that bribe athletes. The rest of us compete for glory.  

[hckošice 14,820]

1 minute ago, Grassmarket said:

 Like  is a monarchy.  It is only Republics that bribe athletes. The rest of us compete for glory.  

oh yes, you and your immortal queen

[Grassmarket 3,396]

2 minutes ago, hckošice said:

oh yes, you and your immortal queen

Well, she’s not dead yet, which is the first hurdle.  

[orangeman 1,989]

We're just getting out of "soft" lockdown here in Beijing (don't ask what "hard" lockdown is).  After months of not being able to find Bing Dwen Dwen anywhere in this country, I stopped by a random gas station by my place the other day to find this.  Not even the surviving Olympic shops have this sort of supply.  

 

[Grassmarket 3,396]

1 hour ago, orangeman said:

We're just getting out of "soft" lockdown here in Beijing (don't ask what "hard" lockdown is).  After months of not being able to find Bing Dwen Dwen anywhere in this country, I stopped by a random gas station by my place the other day to find this.  Not even the surviving Olympic shops have this sort of supply.  

 

Reminds me of the true story of my cousin’s schoolboy son, who once made a small fortune when he found a supply of ultra-rare & valuable  Minion Candy (no, I don’t either) in a small Polski Skłep here in Edinburgh.