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Only if the speed skating is done in Heerenveen.

Full Paris 2024 Projected Medalists Summary Still unsure as to which weightclass Lukas Krjpalek (judo) will compete in at Paris. As for changes I’ve made, here’s a list: Rugby Sevens- Men’s Tournament Originally, it was Gold- New Zealand, Silver- Fiji, Bronze- Australia. Now, after the first two stops of the HSBC World Series, Gold- Australia, Silver- Argentina, Bronze- Fiji. Rugby Sevens- Women’s Tournament Originally, it was Gold- New Zealand, Silver- Australia, Bronze- United States. Now, after the first two stops of the HSBC World Series, Gold- Australia, Silver- France, Bronze- New Zealand. Rowing- Men’s Double Sculls/Pair Sinkovic brothers switched back to pairs for Paris, which has altered my medal predictions in both categories. For double sculls, originally it was Gold- Valentin Sinkovic/Martin Sinkovic, Silver- Melvin Twellaar/Stef Broenink, and Bronze- Aleix García/Rodrigo Conde. Now, it’s Gold- Melvin Twellaar/Stef Broenink, Silver- Aleix García/Rodrigo Conde, Bronze- Matteo Sartori/Luca Rambaldi. For pairs, originally it was Gold- Jaime Canalejo/Javier Garcia, Silver- Roman Röösli/Andrin Gulich, Bronze- Marius Cozmiuc/Sergiu Bejan. Now, it’s Gold- Valentin Sinkovic/Martin Sinkovic, Silver- Jaime Canalejo/Javier García, Bronze- Roman Röösli/Andrin Gulich Judo- Men’s +100kg Took out Lukas Krpalek as I still have no clue on which weightclass he’ll be competing in. Cuba’s Andy Granda now has bronze. Table Tennis- Men’s Singles Predicted Dario Jorgic to win bronze, now I’ve changed it to Lin Yun-Ju. Tennis- Women’s Doubles Krejcikova/Siniakova aren’t partnered up together anymore, so changed it to Siniakova/Vondrousova (IMO the third best Czech women’s doubles player) ignore: turboyev. BTW, later on I’ll also be doing a medal table/list of medalists by sport, and a list of medalists by country. This stuff takes a while to do (approximately spent around 30 hours doing these predictions) so if you could show some support it would be much appreciated. Another couple of changes in swimming, I now have Great Britain winning silver in men’s 4x100m freestyle relay (swimming), which bumps both Australia (now bronze) and Italy (out of a medal position) down. Probably gonna change women’s rugby sevens/women’s BMX freestyle/women’s C1/K1/men’s 100m and 200m butterfly predictions/men’s and women’s street/women’s freestyle wrestling too, only one bronze for New Zealand/no medal for China/same C1/K1 silver and bronze medalists/Milak on the podium/two repeat athletes on the podium for Japan/all Japan gold medalists all sound unlikely.

Right, time to mute the Totallympics for a while again to avoid heart attacks Obviously I will be breaking every single light bulb though.

yay the crashing bulbs period is finally here again thanks @Sindo

OQTs remaining women's Epee: Barcelona (11/02/2024) & Nanjing (24/03/2024) women's Foil: Paris (14/01/2024) & Cairo (25/02/2024) women's Sabre: Lima (11/02/2024); Athens (03/03/2024) & Sint-Niklaas (17/03/2024) men's Epee: Heidenheim (24/02/2024) & Buenos Aires (24/03/2024) men's Foil: Paris (14/01/2024) & Cairo (25/02/2024) men's Sabre: Tbilisi (11/02/2024); Padua (03/03/2024) & Budapest (24/03/2024)

Apparently it is. With medal ceremonies in New York City

the men's Epee, instead, is a real mess and are all involved in a very hard fight for the top 4 places, which of course would determine also the Continental spots with 2 rounds to go, only and look quite safe, but for all the remaining spot (and their influence on who is going to qualify or not) it's definitely to close to call right now really, anything can still happen p.s. as often happens, are the only safe qualifier, as they have no opponents in the African Continent and they're too good to drop outside the top 16 of the overall ranking

in the women's Epee, are closing the gap (but they're still quite distant from) and for the Top 4 places in the OQR, but unless something catastrphic happens, all of these teams are in good position to earn their Olympic spot. the only real threat looks to be , if they can get another couple of top 2 placings in the last competitions of the OQP and one or more of the above teams miss out on good positions the remaining Continental spots should go to the currents "owners", as their main rivals are way behind and only a top 2 placing in the next events might move the ranking for them ( are basically qualified because of lack of opponents, both in the African dedicated standing and also in the overall ranking there's no risk for them to drop outside the top 16)

Men's Team Epee Current OQR after Today's event 297 Q by Ranking 257 Q by Ranking 238 Q by Ranking 228 Q by Ranking ________________________________________ 228 Q by Continental Spot (Europe) 224 Q by Continental Spot (Pan-America) 209 Q by Continental Spot (Asia) 186 Q by Continental Spot (Africa) 157 155 153 143 135 123 104 104 104 100 95

Men's Team Epee ( Vancouver) Gold: Japan Silver: Italy Bronze: Venezuela Semifinals Italy b. Venezuela 44-36 Japan b. switzerland 45-30 Bronze Medal Match Venezuela b. Switzerland 27-26 Gold Medal Match Japan b. Italy 32-27 Full Ranking & Results https://fie.org/competitions/2024/823?tab=results

Women's Team Epee ( Vancouver) Gold: Estonia Silver: United States Bronze: Ukraine Semifinals Estonia b. South Korea 43-42 USA b. Ukraine 45-43 Bronze Medal Match Ukraine b. South Korea 37-36 Gold Medal Match Estonia b. USA 36-32 Full Ranking & Results https://fie.org/competitions/2024/452?tab=results

Day 16 (August 11, 2024) Athletics- Women’s Marathon Gold- Gotytom Gebrelase Silver- Ruth Chepngetich Bronze- Peres Chepchirchir Basketball- Women’s Tournament Gold- United States Silver- China Bronze- Belgium United States and China clear 1-2 in the world right now. Belgium defeats Australia 88-83 for bronze. Handball- Men’s Tournament Gold- France Silver- Denmark Bronze- Sweden Sweden wins bronze with a dramatic 32-31 victory over Spain. Jim Gottfridsson with the buzzer beater. Modern Pentathlon- Women’s Individual Gold- Elena Micheli Silver- Mayan Oliver Bronze- Élodie Clouvel Track Cycling- Men’s Keirin Gold- Kevin Quintero Silver- Harrie Lavreysen Bronze- Matthew Glaetzer First gold medal for Colombia at Paris! Track Cycling- Women’s Sprint Gold- Emma Finucane Silver- Emma Hinze Bronze- Martha Bayona Pineda Track Cycling- Women’s Omnium Gold- Lotte Kopecky Silver- Jennifer Valiente Bronze- Katie Archibald Volleyball- Women’s Tournament Gold- United States Silver- Italy Bronze- Turkey Waterpolo- Men’s Tournament Gold- Greece Silver- Hungary Bronze- Spain Spain wins bronze with a 15-12 victory over Croatia. Weightlifting- Women’s +81kg Gold- Wenwen Li Silver- Younghee Son Bronze- Sarah Robles Wrestling- Men’s 65kg Freestyle Gold- Haji Aliyev Silver- Bajrang Punia Bronze- Rahman Amouzad Bronze- Iszmail Muszukajev Wrestling- Men’s 90kg Freestyle Gold- Akhmed Tazhudinov Silver- Magomedkhan Magomedov Bronze- Kyle Snyder Bronze- Batyrbek Tsakulov First gold medal for Bahrain at Paris! Wrestling- Women’s 76kg Gold- Yuka Kagami Silver- Epp Mae Bronze- Aipert Medet Krzy Bronze- Adeline Gray Cuba’s Milamys Marín and Egypt’s Samar Amer 5th. Could’ve swore I did this already but I guess not… (edit: just checked and I seemed to have done it twice somehow) Final Table After Day 16 (changes will be made) 43-35-41– 119 39-19-18– 76 18-19-13– 50 17-16-14– 47 15-13-13– 41 14-18-18– 50 14-10-10– 34 13-11-12– 36 10-16-20– 46 10-6-10– 26 8-7-7– 22 7-7-7– 21 6-11-10– 27 6-5-8– 19 5-4-3– 12 5-3-5– 13 5-3-4– 12 5-2-6– 13 4-3-4– 11 4-2-5– 11 3-6-4– 13 3-5-3– 11 3-5-2– 10 3-4-3– 10 3-4-3– 10 3-3-3– 9 3-2-6– 11 3-1-2– 6 2-6-5– 13 2-5-3– 10 2-4-9– 15 2-4-4– 10 2-3-4– 9 2-2-6– 10 2-2-4– 8 2-2-3– 7 2-2-2– 6 2-2-1– 5 2-1-4– 7 2-1-4– 7 2-1-4– 7 2-1-0– 3 2-1-0– 3 2-0-2– 4 2-0-1– 3 2-0-1– 3 2-0-0– 2 1-4-3– 8 1-4-2– 7 1-2-6– 9 1-2-5– 8 1-2-5– 8 1-1-3– 5 1-1-1– 3 1-1-1– 3 1-0-2– 3 1-0-2– 3 1-0-1– 2 1-0-0–1 1-0-0– 1 1-0-0– 1 1-0-0– 1 0-4-1– 5 0-3-3– 6 0-2-1– 3 0-1-3– 4 0-1-2– 3 0-1-2– 3 0-1-1– 2 0-1-1– 2 0-1-1– 2 0-1-1– 2 0-1-1– 2 0-1-0– 1 0-1-0– 1 0-1-0– 1 0-1-0– 1 0-1-0– 1 0-1-0– 1 0-1-0– 1 0-1-0– 1 0-1-0– 1 0-1-0– 1 0-1-0– 1 0-0-2– 2 0-0-2– 2 0-0-1– 1 0-0-1– 1 0-0-1– 1 0-0-1– 1 0-0-1– 1 0-0-1– 1 0-0-1– 1

This WR has been on notice for a while now and I'm glad someone has finally done it even if I'm a little sad to see Hackett lose his last WR. I think it'll probably go down again in the near future.

Prêmio Brasil Olímpico

We are in the OQT by some miracle, despite the fact that our team still sucks. I wouldn't be surprised at all if qualifies to Paris instead of us from that group. OQT1 - OQT2 - OQT3 -

First career podium for Gregor Deschwanden some 12 years after his World Cup debut (Lillehammer 2011). Also the third-oldest first time podium finisher after Jan Matura (Sapporo 2013 winner) and... Pius Paschke from two weeks ago

Das macht es einfacher. Da es zwei Chancen geben wird den Quotenplatz zu erreichen! Hoffentlich funktioniert das, immerhin ist noch ein bisschen Zeit bis dahin.

After 4 races: Men's kite: 12p ------ 12p 21p 30p After 2 races: Men's Ilca7: 13p -------- 40p Women's Ilca6: (9) (21) --------- (27) Mixed 470: (6) -------- (14) is the only contender in women's Kite, but has DNC in three races, TLE in teh other one. Does she still get the quota or has to finish at least a race???

leading the men's kite figth for the Olympics

New weekly update about winter sports. We had 74 events this week, but 2 of this was cancelled, both in alpine skiing. After 230 events, 31 NOCs won a medal, the new entries are Andorra and Romania. For the 1st time of the season, we had women's bobsleigh and luge events. 29 23 35 [87] 27 21 18 [66] 26 17 24 [67] 24 24 15 [63] 22 16 19 [57] 29 17 17 [53] 13 16 08 [37] 10 17 15 [42] 10 15 15 [40] 10 13 10 [33] 10 11 07 [28] 08 10 10 [28] 08 06 11 [25] 03 05 04 [12] 03 04 03 [10] 03 02 02 [07] 01 03 01 [05] 01 02 02 [05] 01 02 01 [04] 01 02 00 [03] 01 00 01 [02] 00 01 06 [07] 00 01 01 [02] 00 01 01 [02] 00 01 00 [01] 00 00 03 [03] 00 00 02 [02] 00 00 01 [01] 00 00 01 [01] 00 00 01 [01] 00 00 01 [01]

Gorbachev reincarnated and ready to bring glasnost-perestroika to Indonesia

It was not to be. Maybe the 200 free PB earlier in the session took it out of her so she could "only" go 57.79. Mollie put on a bit of a show in the 200 free going 1:54.36. It's gonna take a WR to beat her in Paris and even that might not be enough. Iona Anderson (100BK) and Thomas Neill (200FR) both earned themselves Doha QTs. Kaylee did as well (200FR) but she's already ruled out going.

Day 3, Mon, 29.07 28. ARCHERY - M Team 1. Korea Rep. 2. China 3. Turkey 29. ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS - M Team 1. China 2. Japan 3. Bulgaria 30. CANOE SLALOM - M C1 1. Benjamin Savsek SLO 2. Lukas Rohan CZE 3. Nicolas Gestin FRA 31. DIVING - M Synchro 10m Platform 1. CHina 2. Ukraine 3. Mexico 32. EQUESTRIAN - Eventing Team 1. Germany 2. United States 3. Great Britain Team GB gets gold with a very narrow win. 33. EQUESTRIAN - Eventing Individual 1. Julia Krajewski GER 2. Yasmin Ingham GBR 3. Tim Price NZL 34. FENCING - M Foil Ind 1. Alexander Massialas USA 2. Tommaso Marini ITA 3. Gerek Meinhardt USA 35. FENCING - W Sabre Ind 1. Misaki Emura JPN 2. Sara Balzer FRA 3. Despina Gkhontura GRE 36. JUDO - W -57kg 1. Christa Deguchi CAN 2. Haruka Funakubo JPN 3. Lkhagvatogoogiin Enkhriilen MGL 3. Nora Gjakova KOS Deguchi wins internal Canadian battle in this category and then goes to win first gold for Canada in Paris. 37. JUDO - M -73kg 1. Soichi Hashimoto JPN 2. Nils Stump SUI 3. Hidayat Heydarov AZE 3. Murodjon Yuldoshev UZB Another silver for Italy in Paris. 38. MOUNTAIN BIKE - M Cross-country 1. Tom Pidcock GBR 2. Nino Schurter SUI 3. David Valero Serrano ESP 39. SHOOTING - M Air Rifle 1. Haoran Yang CHN 2. Zalan Pekler HUN 3. Frantisek Smetana CZE 40. SHOOTING - W Air Rifle 1. Han Jiayu CHN 2. Zhilin Wang CHN 3. Seonaid McIntosh GBR 41. SWIMMING - W 400m IM 1. Summer McIntosh CAN 2. Katie Grimes USA 3. Jenna Forrester AUS 42. SWIMMING - M 200m Free 1. DAvid Popovichi ROU 2. Tom Dean GBR 3. Matthew Richards GBR 43. SWIMMING - M 100m Back 1. Ryan Murphy USA 2. Thomas Ceccon ITA 3. Hunter Armstrong USA 44. SWIMMING - W 100m Breast 1. Ruta Meilutyte LTU 2. Tatjana Schoenmakers RSA 3. Lydia Jacoby USA 45. SWIMMING - W 200m Free 1. Mollie O'Callaghan AUS 2. Ariarne Titmus AUS 3. Summer McIntosh CAN

Just one of those days on the range for Fak today.

IIHF Moment of the Year nomination

if he adapts well to the track requirements in terms of specific skills, this brings the quartet on a different perspective and should start worrying

NON-Olympic action Today in Doha in the men's -96kg class, the Gold medal went surprisingly to Shahzadbek Matyakubov with a Total of 371kg (modest result, tbh), who just edged out by 1 kilo Davit Hovannisyan. Bronze went to Yang Tae Bong with a Total of 364kg. In the women's -76kg class, dominated the competition, as often happens when no lifter from is competing. Jong Chun Hui recorded 115-135-250kg and easily got the Gold medal. Gintare Brazaite (100-125-225kg) won Silver ahead of Alexia Gonzalez (93-114-207kg).

Unrelated, buy New York City could honnestly be a pretty intriguing winter Olympic host.

is probably considered the favorite here for what it’s worth.

European Nation League Finals Semifinals Netherlands v. Spain France v. Germany

In the men's -89kg class, a final C&J lift of 223kg gave Karlos Nasar victory with a Total of 393kg, despite being down in 6th place in snatch (170kg), and put him in the record books yet again. By surpassing both his own junior mark and Tian Tao’s senior world record in C&J he took his tally of world records at youth, junior and senior level to 30 since April 2021. Yeison Lopez Lopez, who has competed at 96kg after serving a doping suspension last year, made a six-from-six 180-210-390kg for 2nd place. He overtakes team-mate Brayan Rodallegas in the extended rankings and now he's 3rd behind Li Dayin from China, who withdrew here, and Nasar. Olympic Bronze medallist (behind 2 convicted dopers ) Antonino Pizzolato is one of the 3 lifters who made huge moves in the rankings. On his return from a back injury that stopped him lifting in 3 qualifiers, Pizzolato made four good lifts for 170-210-380kg. That gave him 3rd place in Doha and 6th useful place in the OQR. The 3rd big move was by Boady Santavy, who had his elbow reconstructed ten months ago and lifted at 96kg on his return at the World Championships in Saudi Arabia two months ago. Santavy, 26, made 172-100-372kg for snatch silver, 6th place on Total and 9th place in the OQR. This was his 1st career competition at 89kg. Keydomar Vallenilla, 3rd in snatch behind Lopez Lopez and Santavy, missed his last two C&J efforts and finished 5th on 171-207-378kg, one place behind the Ro Kwang Yol, who took C&J silver on 168-211-379kg. Marin Robu dropped out of the top ten in the OQR after he bombed out in snatch in the B Group. Two members of the IWF executive board were involved in an intriguing multi-national tussle lower down the rankings, where things get complicated for athletes chasing the one continental slot for Paris 2024. Forrester Osei, chair of the IWF Athletes Commission who lifts for and Kyle Bruce. It started well for Osei with a 145kg C&J but was followed by 5 no-lifts, leaving him with a lot to do. Osei, who was born in London, raised in Ghana and now works as a strength and conditioning coach in Qatar, will need to improve his best total by about 25kg by the end of qualifying in April. Osei and others in contention from will also need an ranked in the top ten, Karim Abokahla, to move up to 102kg for Paris, which he may do. If he does, the 89kg continental place will be open to athletes from Africa or Oceania, rather than Oceania only.

I am genuinely trying to decide whether or not this is meant in a serious way

Two athletes still young enough to compete as juniors made day seven of the IWF Grand Prix in Doha the most exciting day yet. In the women’s 71kg, the 20-year-old Olivia Reeves set seven junior world records in 5 lifts to enhance her ranking position. Song Kuk Hyang finished 1st ahead of the Olympic rankings leader Liao Guifang, but the most exciting contest was a head-to-head between Reeves and the Olympic 76kg silver medallist Kate Vibert, who finished 3rd and 4th. Despite dropping down to 71kg and making a career-high total that exceeded her Olympic performance by 5kg, Vibert finds herself in a worse position in the rankings because of Reeves’ run of success. Nations can send only athlete per weight category and now has two in the top 4 on the extended list after Reeves made 115-147-262kg, setting junior world records across the board, and Vibert finished 112-142-254kg. Song failed with a world record attempt on her last lift. She made 120-149-269 while Liao finished 116-148-264, which is 9kg below her best qualifying total. Others who made big gains in the rankings were Vanessa Sarno, up 10kg to 249kg (from 9th to 5th useful place in the OQR), and Olympic bronze medallist Chen Wen-Huei, up 8kg to 243kg (sneakin' in into the top 10, 8th useful place in the OQR now, climbing from previous 12th). Mun Minhee made a 7kg gain in the B group, finishing 1kg behind Eyglo Sturlodottir, who made 104-127-231kg to move within striking distance of the top ten of the OQR (still she has almost 10 lifters yet to pass). the unlucky lifter of the day is Amanda Da Costa Schott, who dropped momentarily out of the top 10 of the OQR.

Grand Prix II ( Doha) men's -81kg Gold: Karlos May Nasar (393kg Total) Silver: Yeison Lopez Lopez (391kg Total) Bronze: Antonino Pizzolato (380kg Total)

Perfekt. Deutschland gegen Frankreich im Halbfinale. Leider auswärts in beiden Spielen.

sorry, I couldn't manage that yesterday...it will come later today

Going to work now. I will be back here in the evening CET. 👍👍👍

You compare Gpd pib i dont know what , i forgot to tell that cost of life is not the same , in germany you take the taxi 20€ you lent an appartement 500 ,1 pizza 10 €, you pay 1 coffe 2€ ,the price here you can divide all that by 10 or 15 here hospitals are free, large part of medicaments are 100%free , school is free , university is free ,TV is free,gasoline+energy are cheap ....etc ..etc Except cars are expensive because imported which is a good thing "no more pollution" I have thousands of tv channels from 5 continents , i pay less than 1€ per year Btw your Tv channels are ugly , when you watch 1 match of football each 10 minutes they put 90 publicities of Mcdonalds and kinder you gonna find a plastic toy they say , prices like 6,99€ instead 7 buy 3 coffee you get 1 for free but the price of 3 coffee was already x4 so the additional one was not really free you even miss the half of match while you paid your subscription 99,99€ instead 100 how can they scam you easily like that while your IQ is high like you pretend

Speed Skating WC Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Poland Day 3 Women’s 1000m Gold- Miho Takagi (1:15.28) Silver- Brittany Bowe (1:16.20) Bronze- Kimi Goetz (1:16.25) Men’s 500m Gold- Laurent Dubreuil (34.73) Silver- Tingyu Gao (34.79) Bronze- Damian Zurek (34.87) Men’s 5000m Gold- Patrick Roest (6:18.01) Silver- Hallgeir Engebråten (6:23.84) Bronze- Davide Ghiotto (6:24.66) Another 4th for Ted-Jan Bloemen. Women’s Mass Start Gold- Irene Schouten (60 pts/8:42.90) Silver- Ivanie Blondin (40 pts/8:42.94) Bronze- Mia Kilburg-Mangnello (20 pts/8:42.95) Full Results

The People's Republic of the Celtic Nations have won these championships.

Day 15 (August 10, 2024) Athletics- Men’s High Jump I say Gold for Barshim as well. But i may be biased because he is my fav high jumper and probably even my fav no-POL athlete these days. He's got Polish coach :-) No medal for Tamberi would be sad for me cause he's my second-fav male high jumper. It can obviosly happen though. And Woo is serious contender for sure, I haven't picked him for medal myself but maybe you're right. Athletics- Women’s 100m Hurdles I believe Harrison will win this one. Finally she will prove she can run her best in the final as well. Not only in prelims, semis or DL meetings. So i think she will win this one. But ofc - she may even not make it through US Trials here, because US Trials level in some events will be amazing and this is one of those events... No fan of Amusan at all so I don't want her to get a medal here. But she's a contender ofc. Athletics- Men’s 800m I haven't predicted gold for Arop either but maybe we should be more optimistic here. He has a chance for gold. He looked simply great in Budapest. Looking at him - after first 100m you just knew he will win this final. Athletics- Men’s 5000m I said Ingebrigtsen will get 1500-5000 double but surely UGA can have a gold here. Athletics- Women’s 4x400m Relay Athletics- Men’s 4x400m Relay I agree - 2 golds for USA in M and W 4x400 Basketball- Men’s Tournament I may be very disappointed but for now I'm thinking M basketball will be one of the best events in Paris. I just can't wait to see these matches. My only hope is GRE will advance and Giannis will play (but both these things are not very likely). Anyway, let the best remaining top 4 teams qualify now and let's not have many NOs when the best players will be asked to join their teams. Beach Volleyball- Men’s Tournament Yes, SWE and NOR are my favs as well. Where do you see POL here? Diving- Men’s 10m Platform I like the UKR kid very much but i don't see it happen. It would require both CHN athletes to screw things up (one of them can always screw up, but both of them in the same event... - very unlikely imo). And AUS is really strong here as well. Anyway, I predicted a surprised gold for UKR in synchro platform due to CHN collapse, we'll see. Handball- Women’s Tournament It would be very sad for FRA to get to the final here, and then lose it in front of their own crowd. But at least there will be some crowd in the stands this time. Anyway, it can happen ofc, we'll see WCH results soon... Volleyball- Men’s Tournament I believe in POL team here, i predicted them for gold as well, but i'm afraid we'll lose QF game again - OR we will win QF relatively easily and then we will celebrate too much, lose our concentraton and implode heavily in a SF But if we advance to the final somehow - I don't tnink we'll meet JPN there, they are strong but - i don't know how to say it politely - JPN guys are playing well but they are not hmm... high enough??? Ofc, after what i wrote, POL will lose QF against JPN for sure... Waterpolo- Women’s Tournament Here i predicted gold for HUN but you are right here i guess

Comments under those videos are enjoyable , world finally understands who they are

Jakub Borguľa won yesterday the sprint in Pokljuka. It was his first competition as a junior. Great result and achievement. Today finished 10th in the Individual, while his mate Adamov was 4th.

Apparently it's likely to be the last World Cup in Tomaszow, considering next summer a new track in Zakopane - on 1km altitude - should open it's doors. Curious how it's going to be there, athletes are....not impressed, to say the very least, with Tomaszow (in terms of being one of the most boring cities they've ever been to, and the ice this week has often been horrible) Personally I really don't mind: there's a nice atmosphere inside the arena during the races, with a nice audience being there, unlike often is the case in for example the Asian and North American legs. Plus terrible ice isn't necessarily bad, as long as the ice quality is more or less the same between the 1st and last pair of a distance, it's fine. It's not fun if every single track is always a super speedway, you also need tracks that are heavy and favour the distance athletes more than sprinters, who are favoured in the high altitude tracks.

Breaking news. Lake Placid has put forth an offer to host sliding sports for the 2026 Winter Olympics, which are scheduled to take place in Italy, where organizers are struggling to provide a venue for bobsled, luge and skeleton racing. The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee announced the bid after its quarterly meeting Thursday, only two days after the chief of the Milan-Cortina Games said it is possible the hosts could come up with a new proposal to build a track.

Bettman needs to retire

I don't know where put this, so After 1 month and 158 events in 14 sports (only luge and ice hockey have still 0 events), 29 NOCs won at last a medal. This week, Ukraine and Australia sign their 1st podium of the winter season. 22 16 13 [51] 18 12 11 [41] 17 10 20 [47] 16 19 11 [46] 16 15 24 [55] 10 11 09 [30] 09 10 06 [25] 08 13 12 [33] 08 07 07 [22] 07 07 04 [20] 06 07 09 [22] 06 07 05 [18] 06 03 08 [17] 03 05 04 [12] 02 02 02 [06] 01 03 01 [05] 01 02 02 [05] 01 02 01 [04] 01 02 00 [03] 00 01 02 [03] 00 01 01 [02] 00 01 01 [02] 00 01 01 [02] 00 01 00 [01] 00 00 03 [03] 00 00 02 [02] 00 00 01 [01] 00 00 01 [01] 00 00 01 [01]

Day 16 Sun 11.08 317. ATHLETICS - W Marathon 1. Tigst Assefa ETH 2. Ruth Chepngetich KEN 3. Magdalena Shauri TAN 318. BASKETBALL - W Tournament 1. United States 2. China 3. France 319. HANDBALL - M Tournament 1. France 2. Denmark 3. Germany 320. MODERN PENTATHLON - W Ind 1. Alice Sotero ITA 2. Elena Micheli ITA 3. Laura Asadauskaite LTU 321. TRACK CYCLING - M Keirin 1. Kevin Quintero COL 2. Matthew Richardson AUS 3. Harrie Lavreysen NED 322. TRACK CYCLING - W Sprint 1. Emma Finucane GBR 2. Lea Friedrich GER 3. Emma Hinze GER 323. TRACK CYCLING - W Omnium 1. Lotte Kopecky BEL 2. Jennifer Valente USA 3. Katie Archibald GBR 324. VOLLEYBALL - W Tournament 1. United States 2. Turkey 3. Serbia 325. WATER POLO - M Tournament 1. Hungary 2. Greece 3. Spain 326. WEIGHTLIFTING - W +81kg 1. Li Wenwen CHN 2. Park Hye-jeong KOR 3. Duangaksorn Chaidee THA 327. WRESTLING FREESTYLE - M 65kg 1. Tomor Ochiryn-Tulga MGL 2. Rahman Amouzad IRI 3. Iszmail Muszukajev HUN 3. Sebastian Rivera PUR 328. WRESTLING FREESTYLE - M 97kg 1. Akhmed Tazhudinov BRN 2. Magomedkhan Magomedov AZE 3. Kyle Snyder USA 3. Givi Matcharashvili GEO 329. WRESTLING FREESTYLE - W 76kg 1. Yuka Kagami JPN 2. Aiperi Medet Kyzy KGZ 3. Adeline Gray USA 3. Milaimys Marin CUB

1. DIVING - W Synchro 3m Springboard 1. China 2. United States 3. Great Britain Similar results to 2023 WCH, but this time USA will be able to repeat their qualifying score in the final 2. FENCING - W Epee Ind 1. Marie-Florence Candassamy FRA 2. Vivian Kong HKG 3. Alberta Santuccio ITA Candassamy, current World Champion and no. 1 in world rankings, winning gold on home soil in style. Allez Les Bleus! 3. FENCING - M Sabre Ind 1. Sandro Bazadze GEO 2. Eli Dershwitz USA 3. Aron Szilagyi HUN Bazadze making revenge for the 2023 WCH final 4. JUDO - W -48kg 1. Natsumi Tsunoda JPN 2. Assunta Scutto ITA 3. Shirine Boukli FRA 3. Milica Nikolic SRB Tsunoda coming from behind with an ippon in the final seconds, a final for the ages 5. JUDO - M -60kg 1. Ryuju Nagayama JPN 2. Francisco Garrigos ESP 3. Dilshodbek Baratov UZB 3. Balabay Aghayev AZE 2nd gold for JPN, Nagayama instead of Takato in the olympic tournament turns out to be a good choice 6. ROAD CYCLING - M Ind Time Trial 1. Remco Evenepoel BEL 2. Tadej Pogacar SLO 3. Filippo Ganna ITA Day 1 is pretty good for current World Champions, so Evenepoel gets gold as well. But it is very close race, all three medalists within 15 seconds 7. ROAD CYCLING - W Ind Time Trial 1. Chloe Dygert USA 2. Demi Vollering NED 3. Grace Brown AUS First gold of the games for Team USA 8. RUGBY SEVENS - M Tournament 1. Fiji 2. New Zealand 3. Argentina Aaaaand Fiji wins again, never underestimate the heart of the champion, they say... Ireland 4th after last-minute try by Argentina 9. SHOOTING - Mixed Team 10m Air Rifle 1. China 2. India 3. Iran Iran hard-won bronze against hosts 10. SKATEBOARDING - M Street 1. Aurelien Giraud FRA 2. Nyjah Huston USA 3. Gustavo Ribeiro POR And 2nd gold for France on Day 1, no surprise here as well 11. SWIMMING - M 400m Free 1. Ahmed Hafnaoui TUN 2. Samuel Short AUS 3. Lukas Martens GER This time Tunisia gets gold from Lane 4, not 8 12. SWIMMING - W 400m Free 1. Ariarne Titmus AUS 2. Katie Ledecky USA 3. Summer McIntosh CAN McIntosh gets her first medal here, much better race for her than 2023 WCH 13. SWIMMING - W 4x100m Free Relay 1. Australia 2. United States 3. China Aussies with WR, obviously 14. SWIMMING - M 4x100m Free Relay 1. Australia 2. Italy 3. Great Britain Chalmers denying Ceccon by 0,01 sec. GBR didn't get DSQ this time. But US did.