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my dinner from a few minutes ago... first... then... finally...

Too bad Armenia doesn't have a chance to qualify anymore, just because it'd be pretty cool to have UEFA get that mess thrown in their face.

Hosts, co-hosts, groups, pots, leagues, playoffs and paths, lovely tournament

Ladies and gentlemen after years of loyal competitions after years of effort without stop after making apocalyptic (thx dcro) wars vs Maleficent Gozilla ,King Kong, the Gremlins 1 and 2 ...... and in private

Uch, JW Rosbo and JW Rosbo, Dania and Daria Obratov....these parents

Razymova's improvement is not suspicious at all...

So much for Alice Robinson skipping this stage.

9,5 hours left until the draw. I'd say nobody wants to play in the Italian group and make the useless trip to Baku & back. It's safe to say this will be a one-off concept, it's a horrible idea and those big nations are extremely favored playing all the games at home. Platini's ghost can't be banished quickly enough.

you tatse the icecream in the winter

yeah, I know you're rooting for Silvia and why... Ferracuti was u-21 world champion a few years ago, but then she did almost nothing at senior level, even if our coaches insist to say that she's very talented and sooner or later she'll start winning also in the top class... at the moment, however, I'd rather want Semeraro to qualify for the Olympic Games, as she's definitely more ready to fight for the big medals and she still has a better mentality on the mat... Horne got a 2-month ban...he'll be back in January in Paris... (in German only, unfortunately) https://www.rheinpfalz.de/lokal/kaiserslautern/artikel/karate-jonathan-horne-fuer-zwei-monate-gesperrt/?tx_rhpnews_shownews[reduced]=true

Sure. I like to get something cheap when there's something I want and if I can get it significantly cheaper by waiting a month for some week with a lot of deals, I'll gladly do so

he was already training with the team in the last few weeks...he should be back racing after the North-American trip...

But Baturina is from there, and he ALWAYS says it wrong when she comes.

If you enter your team before tomorrow 12:30 CET (when the first individual competition starts), yes, you very much can

@heywoodu Can you please tell Luge Announcer it's Krasnoyarsk, not Krusnoyarsk.

Can I join this?

Fixed. I appologize for the confusion

You are not 10 years old

Sorry, a little correction: if Romania wins this play-off, they will go to group C and yes, one of the small nations will go to group F.

No, it will be Hungary, Iceland, Bulgaria or Romania.

Congrats @bestmen on becoming the next host of TISC (awaiting my €200 payment to complete the deal) Hard luck @Olympian1010, I guess Satan's edition was a leap too far for TISC. And commiserations @dcro, the plus side is that your chances are increasing with every bid and thanks for showing interest once more. See you all in Algeria for TISC Annual 2020.

It’s fine. Some context (though if you found it where I think you did, you’ll probably already know): In the US there is a tradition where families take nice pictures, and send them out as holiday greetings to other families (Christmas Cards). My family hates said tradition, mostly because I make it impossible to take nice pictures, and pretty much refuse to wear non-athletics clothing. Last year, I jokingly suggested that we recreate famous movie scenes to show our sense of humor. My family liked the idea and so we did. This picture is my parody of The Shinning. We also did the Lion King with our cats. With my dad and sister doing other movies too.

A calender has now been added in the first post in the 2019/20 Biathlon Manager Game thread. Calender for the 2019/20 season:

I am already enjoying

Stadium DJ starts to look for the theme from Jaws.

Windisch is praying he can keep it boring!

Slovenian guys get the afternoon off, can sneak back to the hotel & watch the Liverpool game.

@bestmen wins! We are in for a spectacle.

And now the 'not virgin gymnast' drama is getting interesting after one of the famous sport news website interviewed the coaches: https://www.jawapos.com/sports/30/11/2019/dituding-keluarkan-atlet-karena-tak-perawan-pelatih-membantah-keras/ (in Indonesian) To summarize the article, the coach (who signed the dismissal letter) said that the athlete is unable to keep her performance and ideal weight. She lost badly on national trials against provincial level athlete, and she was considered to SEA Games just because one of our best gymnast injured. Also, she often got caught run away from the dorm to meet her boyfriend and lied that she was doing school work. The gymnastic federation decided to follow the coach recommendation and discharged the athlete. It looks like her mother is not happy with this and started an uproar. Just like my prediction, it is from the gymnasts' side who created the drama

Both group hosts are favored to advance. It's a huge mismatch. Hell, Italy, Germany, England, Netherlands, Spain and Denmark of all teams wil play all three group games at home. The rich only get richer. Makes me wanna cheer for Belgium straight away. The only big football countries that aren't hosts is due to close geographical proximity of another big powerhouse. There's no point of a group with Spain/Portugal, Germany/France or Netherlands/Belgium because that would be a huge fraud. You get all these qualies, playoffs and whatever to be drawn alongside two major powerhouses? No way. That's why Spain/Ireland, Netherlands/Romania or Germany/Hungary groups are there because you can at least sell the false hope of beating the lesser host. This idea is just horrible every way you look at it. Platini should be fucking ashamed of this nonsense but he's lost all credibility already.

Right, proper winter starts now.

Usually Eurosport broadcast all UEFA draws. But I don't know if you can watch this channel in Brazil. Also UEFA has its own live video in the official site. I reccomend you UEFA site, I follow the draws there always + the image quality is very high. PS: I'm proud that the draw will take place in BucharestIt's a historic day for Romania

Omar and Omer Hodzic...

Everyone can, meaning noone can

Someone was reading Totallympics!!! @heywoodu

Don't you worry. I think we are a few getting some major mistakes. Personally I somehow managed to miss the Romanian doping investigations.

Maybe your browser changed? Because I'm - let's say - 99% sure I've usually just scrolled down.

Hulgaard going to try and tie his countryman's Thursday performance?

Holy shit, I didn't even pay attention to other matches, Korea is beating France! (and Slovenia beat Netherlands!)

Plus the whole thing is just boring as shit, there is zero feeling of having a tournament when it's in so many different countries.

As a History professor, students in my class need to be able to locate every country in the world. No if they retain that, I have no idea. But for just a moment in their lives, they should know the difference between Slovenia and Slovakia.

Bjornsen: 2018-19 Ottepaa WC (10 km classic) - 3:11 behind Johaug 2018-19 Seefeld WCh (10 km classic) - 1:41 behind Johaug One summer later... 2019-20 Ruka WC (10 km classic) - 0:45 behind Johaug Brennan: 2018-19 Ottepaa WC (10 km classic) - 3:09 behind Johaug 2018-19 Seefeld WCh (10 km classic) - 1:45 behind Johaug One summer later... 2019-20 Ruka WC (10 km classic) - 0:57 behind Johaug I share your feelings, don't get me wrong, but at least part of the difference is due to Johaug not having destroyed everyone as much as in those races.

Women's Qualified to Final in Individual Trampoline Yanfei Huang Qualified Hikaru Mori Qualified Laura Gallagher Qualified Rosannagh Maclennan Qualified Lea Labrousse Qualified Chisato Dohiata Qualified Iana Lebedeva Qualified Samantha Smith Qualified Full Results: https://live.fig-gymnastics.com/link.php?id=2920 Men's Qualified to Final in Individual Trampoline Lei Gao Qualified Ivan Litvinovich Qualified Andrey Yudin Qualified Dong Dong Qualified Xiao Tu Dmitrii Ushakov Qualified Allan Morante Qualified Ryosuke Sakai Qualified Hiroto Unno Qualified Full Results: https://live.fig-gymnastics.com/link.php?id=2919 So, If I am not wrong. The Olympic quotas go to Women's: The other 2 quotas go to World Ranking Men's: The other 3 quotas go to World Ranking

Mexico has qualified for the 2020 World Qualification Event in both genders Good result, considering it's the America's Challenge is the first tournament for both teams, even if they only had to beat one team to achieve qualification.

I haven't realised that before you wrote it here. I saw some names and nations and thought, "yeah that looks okay". Don't worry, I can decipher what you mean.

by the way, this is mostly for the Italian users (or, at least, those who can easily understand Italian and some slang of our language)... dedicated to Scardoni, Laurent, Pellegrino and their poor/disappointing (especially after the qualification stage) quarterfinals' performance...

Deaths of Olympians in November Elio Locatelli, 76 - Speed skating Alain Porthault, 90 - Athletics Bengt-Erik Grahn, 78 - Alpine skiing Zoltan Domotov, 84 - Water polo Mireille Cayre, 72 - Gymnastics Bridget Adams, 91 - Figure skating Sandrine Daudet, 47 - Short track speed skating Fiorella Negro, 81 - Figure skating Irina Cermakovic, 80 - Field hockey Maximilian Raub, 93 - Canoe sprint Irma Cordero, 77 - Volleyball Fabrizio Nassi, 68 - Volleyball Uwe Rathjen, 76 - Handball Vaclav Pavkovic, 83 - Rowing George Breen, 84 - Swimming Tsvyatko Pashkulov, 74 - Wrestling Bohumel Tomasek, 83 - Basketball Michael Fray, 72 - Athletics Jacques Dupont, 91 - Cycling Eli Pasquale, 59 - Basketball Gerry Carr, 83 - Athletics Sigvard Ericsson, 89 - Speed skating Dimitri Vasilenko, 43 - Gymnastics Stuart Fitzsimmons, 62 - Alpine skiing Istvan Szivos, 71 - Water polo Luciano De Genova, 88 - Weightlifting In addition, two deaths from this summer of medallists from the Tokyo games in 1964. Ken Matthews, 84 - Gold medallist in the 20 km walk Basil Heatley, 85 - Silver medallist in the marathon

That's Bhutan's First ever Olympic quota by qualifications!!

The results thread is now opened: Women's Handball IHF World Championship 2019