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I found out about this recently. It's not about historical sport pictures but about Olympic mascot's history. At 1980 Olympics besides Misha there was a mascot just for one sport - sailing. It's a baby seal Vigry. Estonian SSR chamber of commerce did a contest because sailing competitions were in Tallinn and this mascot won. Some information in English: source. Information in Russian.

LOL , all the country is contaminated , china tries to hide the truth just like many countries Anyway & certainly this virus was created into labs , they planed to exterminate 1/3 of people

i'm already on it, but you're right it's a little too much. I'll start to upload the previews next week. So far the following quotas are 100% sure: in men's team pursuit. in men's team sprint in women's team sprint Even if they get disqualified at this year's worlds, they couldn't drop below 8th place.

Looks like a stylized Early Cyrillic alphabet.

It is the current Russian coat of arms. It is a coat of arms of Moscow too

host countries usually try to take advantage but in certain countries in certain sports, there is no limit for them, they do EVERYTHING they can to get results. I'm saying this after years of following sports in Asia, specially this sport of wrestling ! Kazakhstan hosted the World Championship not long time ago and their average freestyle team finished 2nd !!!! I think they never even made it to top 10 before but this year all of a sudden 9 out of their 10 wrestlers received unbelievable easy draws ! I'm sure none of you guys believe me when I say the draw was fixed. you probably think "no way, that's not possible" but this is not co-incidence UWW changed the draw system after that.

Un­der-23 ath­letes will compete at the Caribbean Games, which are scheduled to be held once every four years.

Sorry for late reply, just got here. But yeah, watched some tennis yesterday and today, and it seemingly worked fine.

Dropping, the 'ice & snow' mantra seems like a very bad idea to me. Stuff need to have a meaning also. We would lose that meaning in that scenario. Besides, it's not like egyptian handball fans would suddenly become ski jumping fans, just because the two sports are held during the same olympics.

lol, what about no ? Curling would never ever have been an olympic sport without the winter olympics. Neither sports like skeleton nor luge. They're minuscule sports worldwide. I mean just compare them to non summer olympic sports like karate, squash or baseball... People should just stop comparing both events, they're two different beasts and that's it. And that's fine.

Updated General Standings and Medal Tables available here 2020 Totallympics Prediction Contests Provisional Top 3 toulousain 1075 africaboy 1025 ritesh 890 Prediction contests poll for February: https://totallympics.com/index.php?/topic/2229-prediction-contests-poll-contest-selection-for-february/

Individual General Standing Updated as of January 28th, 2020 Rank User Nation +/- # Avg. Points 1 toulousain 2 537,5 1075 2 africaboy 2 512,5 1025 3 ritesh 2 445,0 890 4 NikolaB 2 415,0 830 5 Henry_Leon 2 410,0 820 6 hckosice 2 383,5 767 7 Pablita 2 357,5 715 8 ady48 2 335,0 670 9 George_D 2 317,5 635 10 vinipereira 2 310,5 621 11 mihamiha 1 620,0 620 12 Monzanator 2 265,0 530 13 MCMXC 2 216,5 433 14 Agger 2 211,5 423 15 Gianlu33 2 203,0 406 16 Federer91 2 195,0 390 16 dcro 2 195,0 390 18 tuniscof 2 192,5 385 19 heywoodu 2 190,0 380 20 Giovanni Gianni Cattaneo 2 185,5 371 21 JOSE SEIJO 2 185,0 370 22 SteveParker 2 176,0 352 23 Vojthas 2 157,5 315 24 Herberth10 2 153,5 307 25 bestmen 2 147,0 294 26 Dolby 2 140,0 280 27 Laraja 2 130,0 260 28 anuj 1 235,0 235 29 sami-eg 1 225,0 225 29 Ufilov 2 112,5 225 31 CCB 1 215,0 215 32 vlad 2 105,0 210 33 IoNuTzZ 2 104,5 209 34 szy123 2 103,5 207 35 Speedy 2 100,0 200 36 LDOG 1 168,0 168 37 Wanderer 2 71,0 142 38 Chatan 2 70,0 140 39 rybak 1 133,0 133 40 EselTheDonkey 1 119,0 119 41 monte88 1 65,0 65 42 Illya 1 60,0 60 Team General Standing Updated as of January 28th, 2020 Rank Nation Points +/- User 1 Pt. User 2 Pt. User 3 Pt. 1 Italy 1941 Henry_Leon 820 Pablita 715 Gianlu33 406 2 Romania 1905 africaboy 1025 ady48 670 vlad 210 3 India 1405 ritesh 890 Dolby 280 anuj 235 4 France 1215 toulousain 1075 Chatan 140 - - 5 Brazil 1188 vinipereira 621 Herberth10 307 Laraja 260 6 Poland 1070 Monzanator 530 Vojthas 315 Ufilov 225 7 Serbia 830 NikolaB 830 - - - - 8 Slovakia 767 hckosice 767 - - - - 9 Greece 635 George_D 635 - - - - 10 Slovenia 620 mihamiha 620 - - - - 11 Netherlands 595 heywoodu 380 CCB 215 - - 12 Great Britain 433 MCMXC 433 - - - - 13 Denmark 423 Agger 423 - - - - 14 Bulgaria 390 Federer91 390 - - - - 14 Croatia 390 dcro 390 - - - - 16 Tunisia 385 tuniscof 385 - - - - 17 Spain 370 JOSE SEIJO 370 - - - - 18 Algeria 294 bestmen 294 - - - - 19 Egypt 225 sami-eg 225 - - - - 20 Argentina 168 LDOG 168 - - - - 21 New Zealand 142 Wanderer 142 - - - - 22 Germany 119 EselTheDonkey 119 - - - - 23 Ukraine 60 Illya 60 - - - - Individual Medal Count Updated as of January 28th, 2020 Rank User Gold Silver Bronze Total 1 toulousain 1 0 0 1 1 africaboy 1 0 0 1 3 hckosice 0 1 0 1 3 mihamiha 0 1 0 1 5 ritesh 0 0 1 1 5 NikolaB 0 0 1 1 Total 2 2 2 6 Team Medal Count Updated as of January 28th, 2020 Rank User Gold Silver Bronze Total 1 France 1 0 0 1 1 Romania 1 0 0 1 3 Slovakia 0 1 0 1 3 Slovenia 0 1 0 1 5 India 0 0 1 1 5 Serbia 0 0 1 1 Total 2 2 2 6

He actually said after this match that he will go to the ski in Switzerland after the semis, he probably knows that Novak will beat him

https://www.gracenote.com/virtual-medal-table/ Here is the full medal table simulation from Gracenote @Benolympique

I am not following Badminton, but if said tournament is to take place in Wuhan city itself, its 100% that it will be moved as the city is under lockdown/quarantine (and probably will be for the foreseeable future) Whether or not it will be moved out of China altogether will probably depend on how this situation evolves in the coming weeks

Badminton Asia Confederation definitely fear to bear the responsibility of athletes infection especially during the Olympic year. The host city is definitely gonna change, but if it's in China is still questionable.

A lots of Olympic qualification events in February have moved to elsewhere outside China including boxing, basketball and football. Those will be held in March and April are not that urgent to decide. I suppose March events may suspend or change the location, April events may be held as usual if the virus is over. As the government putting all available resource to contain the virus spread including transport restriction in Wuhan and the social awareness arising to prevent the virus by 'strictly staying at home and cutting off social contact', I personally think the virus outbreak would gradually decrease in mid Feb and end in March

If it was in another big Chinese city, meh, but yeah, considering it is in Wuhan itself it might be a good idea to move it

I have already explained 5 times, who finish better between France and Belgium in Berlin will fly to Tokyo, and in my opinion France is better with a good margin.

I don't think they'll cancel or move an event this early. I would though be surprised if they don't consider moving it (especially as it's in Wuhan), maybe even already considering potential hosts (should be a bunch of potential hosts who could put it up fairly quick). Give it a bit more time, I would say.

Federer survives to another 5th set thriller and will play semis

He just missed 7 match points in 4th set against Federer Federer won the set, 10-8, from 6-3 for Sandgren in 4th set tie-break

There are but 5 serious non European Winter Olympic countries -USA, Canada.Japan, China , Sth Korea ( and the last 2 are Olympic medal obsessives who will pour millions into any event on the Olympic ptogram even if previously unknown to them ) Other countries may win medals eg Australia & NZ but they are very sporty places who enter everything (& must compete in their summer )

He is in deed a German. Together with Julian Autenrieth he won a Bronze at 2013 youth European Championships in the 470er class. Ironically, the Oceania quota place of ASA would have been reallocated to Germany (16th place at WCh in 2019).

when the new rankings come out, it would be really helpful if someone who knows the intricacies of the UCI track ranking could do up a little preview of the World Championship and what possible qualification scenarios exist I realize it's probably far too much work though!

Rankings are here: https://www.fig-gymnastics.com/site/rankings/ranking_wag.php https://www.fig-gymnastics.com/site/rankings/ranking_mag.php Everything else is explained in this pdf - criteria 5ART Olympic Qualification Tie-breaking Rules_E._FINALpdf.pdf

I'm guessing our Uruguayan friend meant 'All-Star rookies'

Exactly 95 years ago was played the first ever international Ice Hockey game on Slovak soil, The European Championships in the lake of Štrbské Pleso It was supposed to be played in Prague, However, the weather came into play. Even during the Christmas holidays in the capital of the Czechoslovak Republic it was freezing strong enough, but immediately after the New Year there was a significant warming. The ice on the Slavia Prague rink melted and so the European Championships was supposed to be moved to the Jordán pond in the Czech city of Tábor according to plan B. The Sovakian city in the High Tatras Štrbské Pleso was supposed to be the last option. On the Jordan Pond, however, some holes appeared, and therefore the Minister of Industry Ladislav Novak at the Congress of the Ligue Internationale de Hockey sur Glace (LIHG), nowadays IIHF, on 6 January 1925 announced that the European Championship venue will be in the High Tatras and matches will take place on the natural ice of Strbske Pleso. Czechoslovakia (Team composed only by Czech players) won the title ahead of Austria and Switzerland

Meanwhile some people in India are under observation for the coronavirus now, RIP. You know shit is gonna hit the fan big time when the country known for incredibly terrible hygiene and a huge amount of people gets infected.