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"The IOC has also scrapped mixed National Olympic Committee events after some caused confusion for athletes and spectators at last year's Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires"

The Worlds Championship have priority

The usual process for applicants would be to complete three very demanding tasks. They will test your mental and physical strength. You will likely scream, cry and question your own existence. However, because the prediction group could really need some new members, you just have to send a PM to its members and write you want to join. The very small prediction group, which I think only consist of me and Wanderer, would really like some new members for 2020. 2020 is an Olympic year which means many prediction and betting contests for Tokyo 2020 will have to be run at the same time. Therefore, the prediction group would like some new members who could help run some of the prediction contests in 2020.

Updated as of December 3rd, 2019

Asian Championship 2012 - 69-1 - 70-1 This is all i found

It's fair to question that she can compete as a woman despite having advantages over other woman due to her having some internal male physical characteristics. Definitely not fair to call her a cheater though. She has done nothing wrong.

Thanks a lot @Wumo

U svakoj olimpijskoj kategoriji: 5 po renkingu i jedna preko preko Grand Slama (ili 6 po renkingu) Po dvije kvote na kontinentalnim kvalifikacijama Europi, Ameriki, Aziji i Afriki, jedna Pacifiku Zadnja kvota je domaćinu ili universality Problem je da na kontinentalnim kvalifikacijama ne možeš nastupati ako je tvoja država kvalificirala 2 ili vise po renkingu Ako imaš jednu kvotu preko renkinga, dobivaš jednu kvotu za kvalifikacije Inače maksimalno dvije kvote Za Hrvatsku to znaci, kod zena ako se kvalificiraju Tomić i Jelić; sto je izgledno, nitko iz HR ne može nastupat na europskim kvalama Ko muških vazi isto ako se Kanaet i Brečić plasiraju po renkingu. To ipak nije vrlo vjerovatno. Ako prodje samo jedan, onda HR može Poslat jednog borca na kvale, ako oba ispadnu onda dvojicu.

I'm not 100% sure this is correct. From my research, it seems it was released in 1987. It was composed by Gu Jianfen and written by Wang Jian in 1986. Liu Huan was the first to sing the song in 1987 at the "Gu Jianfen Concert" which was held in Beijing that year. The same year in December, Mao Amin, the singer in the video, sang it at the fourth Yugoslav Belgrade International Popular Music Festival. I have the information from this site: https://baike.baidu.com/item/绿叶对根的情意/8676220 (Bear in mind, I have used google translate.)

http://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/sport/altrisport/2019/12/03/riforma-cerimoniale-italia-sfilera-penultima-a-pechino-2022_15099b8c-f773-4909-95ff-3514e0036092.html Changes incoming for parade of nations during opening ceremonies in Olympic Games: while Greece will still open the parade and host nation will close it, known future host of the games will precede the host country of the Games in the parade. So, in Tokyo 2020, :USA USA will be the third-last (LA 2028), France second-last (Paris 2024) and Japan obviously last. In Beijing 2022, Italy will be second-last and China will close the ceremony as usual. mah. I really cannot understand the need for this.

No, the ranking will be announced on 9th (Monday), and Wuxi Grand Slam is on 14-15 I think

On the other hand, walking possibly the last ever Olympic 50k at age 50, that's something.

I was bored so I tried to see if I can come up with a better system for predicting medals. Places like GraceNote essentially take the top three contenders and give them gold, silver and bronze. That tends to cause situations where a nation with a 50% chance to win say 12 events would be predicted to win 12 medals, but in reality they would only win six. Usually this is masked by the overall medal count, but it becomes apparent if you look at the details for individual sports. Currently my model is quite early in development, it doesn't take into account the maximum athletes per nation in a specific event or the chances of an athlete to fail (DNS/DSQ/DNF etc). It also only currently works for events where you can obtain a score/time/measurement (placing/head to head events will have to wait). Here's a sample of the men's 100m (top 5) that I was using as my test data. Men's 100m Gold - 76.4% - 17.8% - 1.9% - 1.5% - 0.9% Silver - 60.6% - 17.8% - 5.8% - 4.4% - 4.2% Bronze - 46.0% - 14.7% - 9.9% - 7.7% - 6.3% As mentioned above, the United States is currently a bit inflated due to more than three athletes contributing to its chances (removing them manually and redistributing it would give them 73.3%, 53.5% and 38.6% chances respectively).

IOC changed Olympic parade order, with future host nations entering right before the current host, how stupid is that. FFS

After a bit of research, it seems the song was released in 1999. The song is also known as "Sənsizliyim". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aygün_Kazımova_discography

There are two forms of team rankings - Normal and Olympic system. In both systems, top 3 players' ranks from each NOC are considered and matches between all the NOC are simulated. Normal rankings are used for World Championships and other team tournaments because the playing system is best of 5 single matches viz : A v X, B v Y, C v Z, A v Y, B v X. Virtual matches are simulated between all NOCs, the NOC which wins a virtual match gets 2 points and the other NOC gets zero. For example, if top 3 players of NOC1 is 52, 65, 89 and for NOC2 is 43, 78, 81 then by the playing system the results of virtual matches is given below 52 vs 43 NOC2 wins 65 vs 78 NOC1 wins 89 vs 81 NOC2 wins 52 vs 78 NOC1 wins 65 vs 43 NOC2 wins So NOC2 wins the virtual duel 3-2 and gets 2 points and NOC1 gets 0. Similar simulations occur between all NOCs and they are ranked based on the points garnered If one notices since China has the best 5 men's singles players, it should win all virtual matches and hence it garnered 296 points as number of NOCs is 149 Olympic rankings are used for Olympic Games only and the playing system is BC vs YZ, A vs X, C vs Z, A vs Y, B vs X ie there are 4 singles matches and one doubles match. On a sidenote, India's ranking has been consistently been around 11th-13th because its top 2 players, Sathiyan and Achanta have been in the 30-40 rank range but the third ranked player was always above 100. The ranking leaped to 8th now because Harmeet Desai improved his ranking from 104 to 84

I cried out of screaming laugh and someone next to me asked "Are you OK?", so questioning my existence is also checked

This team quota and the one from North America are a complete joke... there should be a single team quota for the winner of the PanAm Games and no team quota at all for Oceania.

This year she was not eligible, but next year she will be.

Ne, u Moskvi je zadnja prilika za skupljanje bodova za olimp. Renking! pobjednik dobiva 80 bodova, drugi 48, treći 28, četvrti 17, 1/4 finale 12, a nastup 8 bodova. Tako da su veće promjene moguće. nastupa u svakoj kategoriji 16 najboljih sa renkinga Normalno ide pet kvota po renkingu, šesta kvota ide najboljem u grand slam renkingu ako ta država nije uzela već kvotu po normalnom renkingu , inače kvota ide šestom po olimp renkingu.

Final Standing available here Dolby africaboy Gianlu33 Very sorry for the delay! Wanderer has been very busy in the last weeks and I first had the time now to check all the predictions. With that said, here is the final standing of the 2019 ATP & WTA Finals prediction contest. With some great predictions by @Dolby, in especially the ATP Finals, the road to a gold medal was paved. Second medal in 2019 and the first of gold. Congrats, @Dolby! Another medal for @africaboy this year. Solid predictons in both ATP & WTA finals secured him a well-deserved silver medal. Second silver medal of the year and third medal for 2019. Congrats, @africaboy! It has been some time since @Gianlu33 last participated in a Totallympics Prediction Contest and what a way to come back to Totallympics Prediction Contests! He adds a bronze medal to his collection. An excellent performance by him throughout the contest. Welcome back @Gianlu33. Hope to see you in more prediction contests next year. Congratulation with the bronze medal in your comeback. When will @heywoodu win a medal? He was close this time with a 4th-place, but yet again he has to wait another contest in his effort to step on the podium in a Totallympics Prediction Contest. Thanks to all who participated! Women's Handball World Championship is well underway and will conclude this year's prediction contests. We will soon know who will grab the last medals of 2019. Stay tuned! A couple of general news. Firstly, the general standing of the 2019 Totallympics Prediction Contest season will be done between Christmas and New Year. Secondly, Totallympics Prediction Contest will likely see some changes in 2020. You will soon here more about these. The Prediction Group would advise all users to keep an eye on the Prediction Discussion thread here in december. P.s. @Wanderer. If you see this, please check your PM-inbox as soon as possible.

This is the 6th biggest margin in world championship history. Actually in top 7 largest defeats, Australia suffered 6 of them (and Thailand once). See below: Hungary 57–9 Australia 2005 Sweden 66–21 Australia 2009 Austria 52–11 Thailand 2009 Russia 48–8 Australia 2009 Angola 47–8 Australia 2005 France 46–7 Australia 2019 Netherlands 53–15 Australia 2011

Entries for the Oceania team qualifier: Men - Women - Australian women are up against an almighty opponent...

Yes, largely thanks to Tatiana Miloserdova.

NO

35 Years , 6200+ medals and history was created on 3rd December 2019. The good days to the tiny island finally came. Maldives celebrated it's first ever gold in the history of games courtesy of Saaid Hassan in 100m.

So this would happen if Brazil and South Africa fail... -2 +2 -1 +1 'Yay' for Western Europe. What a dreadful outcome that would be. Even if Norway withdraws (possible), the next in line would be Italy, and only after that - Slovakia.

Nope, measles. Apparently the Philippines and to a much bigger extent DR Congo had/have outbreaks this year as well.

For those interested, you can watch “live-streams” and replays of the chess matches here: https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/30th-sea-games-rapid-2019/5/1/1

it was a good exoerience.

One of my favorite sports to watch in person. I was a volunteer at the 2017 World Championships.

I don't really follow trampoline because, quite frankly, I don't care for it. However, I have to say that before this event, Japan had 5 gold medals at the Trampoline World Championships from 1964 until 2018. Now, in 2019 alone, they won 4 gold medals. How different things can be now that the FIG president is Japanese and Japan hosted this event, huh?

weightlifting

Excited to see Nick Nurse shut down Giannis again. Also, add RJ Barrett to the growing list of players committing to play for Canada.

They're not very strong but should have solid teams. Croatia could probably have the strongest one, but we'll see, it's too early. And Croatia has a history of failing when expectations are high.

So do I. For me Germany is not a big problem, not even Russia. The biggest challenge is Croatia at home

Women's Surfing Championship Tour 2019 Event Multiple - 3 April 2019 - 6 December 2019 Surfing at the Summer Olympic Games 2020 - Women's Shortboard Australia (2 Quotas) Brazil (2 Quotas) Costa Rica (1 Quota) France (1 Quota) United States (2 Quotas)

Jesus Angel Garcia Bragado will end his career after the Olympic Games next year at the age of 50. https://www.marca.com/atletismo/2019/12/02/5de4f8bd22601d831c8b45b5.html Journalist: "En Tokio disputará sus octavos Juegos Olímpicos. ¿Será su última gran competición?" Jesus Angel Garcia: "Mi decisión personal es poner punto y final a mi carrera deportiva en los Juegos Olímpicos. Y así lo afrontaré. Será la última vez que me ponga un dorsal." In short, he is asked if Tokyo 2020 is going to be his last big competition. He answers that he has made the decision to end his career at the Olympics. "It will be the last time I put on a bib", he says.