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2023 Greek Winter Open Championships - Athens (GRE) December 15th - December 17th 2023 Meet Results The following new OQTs were achieved Men's 200m Backstroke Apostolos Christou

OQT1 - OQT2 - OQT3 - OQT2 is the same poule as poule IV at this World Championship (only Ukraine and Brazil missing).

Hello everyone! You may or may not remember this thread from the beginning of the year. With 2023 winding down, the time has come to create an updated simulation based on 2023 results! There are a few questions I have that I wonder if anyone knows the answer of. 1. First things first, this time, I want to try to put myself in the shoes of some more strict NOC's and try to reject certain quotas that they normally would. Does anyone have any links to the selection policies for Netherlands and South Africa? I've already found the selection policy for New Zealand. Every other NOC I'm just going to accept all quotas. If there's any other potential quotas that could be rejected, please let me know. 2. Now that Russia and Belarus have been allowed entry, it has made things reeeeeeallly annoying to simulate. I was wondering if anyone knows if there's any sports federations that won't allow them to compete (or have certain limitations)? I know World Athletics is still banning them and World Aquatics is limiting to one athlete for both countries in swimming. Also, will Russia and Belarus be competing together as one NOC?

Stage 4 in Engelberg (SUI) Men´s Individual Large Hill: 1. Stefan Kraft 327.9 2. Jan Hoerl 323.9 3. Pius Paschke 320.1 Full Final Result HERE

I would say instead of . Hopefully will organize OQT2. I can't wait to cheer for our team from the stands.

Well that is an absurdly stupid thing to do. Didn't he know, that the American round is in March (jk)

Stage 13 in Alta Badia (ITA) Men´s Giant Slalom: 1. Marco Odermatt 2:29.23 2. Filip Zubcic 2:29.42 3. Zan Kranjec 2:31.49 Full Final Results HERE

Stage 4 in Trondheim (NOR) Women´s 10km Classical: 1. Victoria Carl 28:13.6 2. Rosie Brennan 28:33.2 3. Ebba Andersson 28:35.2 Full Final Result HERE

Stage 12 in Val d´Isere (FRA) Women´s Super-G: 1. Federica Brignone 1:21.58 2. Kajsa Vickhoff Lie 1:22.02 3. Sofia Goggia 1:22.17 Full Final Results HERE

Justine Braisaz-Bouchet does a hat-trick and gets the yellow bib too

Canadian National Team Trials 2024 (All athletes will represent Canada at the Pan American Olympic Qualification Tournament) Women’s 50kg: Genevieve Morrison Women’s 53kg: Karla Godinez Women’s 57kg: Hannah Taylor Women’s 62kg: Ana Godinez Women’s 68kg: Linda Morais Women’s 76kg: Justina Di Stasio Men’s 57kg Freestyle: Darthe Capellan Men’s 65kg Freestyle: Lachlan MacNeil Men’s 74kg Freestyle: Stone Lewis Men’s 86kg Freestyle: Alex Moore Men’s 97kg Freestyle: Nishan Randhawa Men’s 125kg Freestyle: Amar Dhesi Hopefully we can qualify five female wrestlers (Di Stasio, Morais, and the two Godinez sisters) at the very least. Seven wrestlers (adding Dhesi and MacNeil) would be best case scenario.

Stage 4 in Trondheim (NOR) Men´s 10km Classical: 1. Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo 24:43.1 2. Paal Golberg 25:00.8 3. Henrik Doennestad 25:04.2 Full Final Result HERE

Apparently Laegreid is DSQ in the mass start, he shoot in the hotel.

The final stage of the World Cup in calendar year 2023 has been completed. Two more stages to come in 2024. , and had a great showing here, had their worst weekend so far in terms of World Cup points won by their skaters. and are also not at the level they showed at the first two world cup weekends in Montréal. These are the top 10 countries in the world based on the number of World Cup points they have gained this year, including points gained in relays: South Korea - 5.376 points (+1.343 points) Canada - 4.929 points (+1.183 points) China - 4.265 points (+983 points) the Netherlands - 3.693 points (+1.007 points) Italy - 2.421 points (+548 points) United States of America - 2.089 points (+627 points) Belgium - 1.547 points (+416 points) Poland - 1.356 points (+314 points) Japan - 1.237 points (+233 points) Kazakhstan - 1.176 points (+381 points)

Ah yeah, I only just woke up. Didn't see the race, but I can't remember ever seeing a double winner on any distance

ISU World Cup 2023/24 - Seoul (Stage 4/6) Women's 500m: 01. Xandra Velzeboer & Selma Poutsma 03. Wang Ye Men's 500m: 01. Liu Shaoang 02. Seo Yi Ra 03. Denis Nikisha Women's 1.500m [2/2]: 01. Kim Gilli 02. Kristen Santos-Griswold 03. Hanne Desmet Men's 1.500m [2/2]: 01. William Dandjinou 02. Park Ji Won 03. Steven Dubois

The Whistler world cup featuring the first instance of a relay that includes the women's doubles (with the order being women's single, men's double, men's single and women's double). Nine countries took part with a full team of six athletes.

Men’s 49er: Women’s iQFoil: Mixed 470: Nacra 17: Men’s Kite: Men’s ICLA 7: Women’s Kite: Women’s ICLA6:

Rylan Wiens and Nathan Zsombar-Murray qualify for Worlds in men’s 10m platform

The first ever European Record in the Mixed Race Walking Marathon 2x2 crap was today established by The notoriously famous newly (Budapest WCh finish line proposal) engaged couple Dominik Černý/Hana Burzalová won today´s first Marathon Race Walk relay competition involoving European nations in Dublin with clock of 3:11:17 So perhaps there a chance to qualify for Paris in the end Let´s hope, remember 22 best teams (Max 5 NOC can qualify 2) from Antalya will qualify directly and best 3 already non-qualified NOCs via ranking...

Team Homan win the women’s title at the GSOC WFG* Masters, after defeating Team Tirinzoni 8-4! Team Homan now improves to 32-4 on the season! Hopefully they can bring this form to next years Scotties (along with Worlds if they qualify) it’s been a long time since Canada’s last won a World/Olympic title in curling.

Final Standing is available here maestro Henry_Leon ady48 Here is the presentation of the three medallists. Congratulation to all three medallists of this prediction contest. @maestro with the gold medal, @Henry_Leon with the silver medal and @ady48 with the bronze medal.

Team Rankings and Individual Adjusted Official Ranking Lists updated as of December 17th, 2023

Serbia won, rather easily. I am really surprised. Great performace alltogether, 15:0 in scores.

If you have thinking, that it's been a year without scandals in Bulgarian weightlifting, fear no more.. So, after a couple of attempts, including one stripped hosting 2 years ago, we are finally going to host the European Weightlifting Championships in February. It is of course included in the Olympic qualification calendar. All good so far. But on Friday, an adviser working for the Ministry of Sports was arrested for bribing the President of the weightlifting federation. He was asking for 30 k Euros from the President, so that the Ministry approves the funding of 600 k Euros for hosting the Euro Championships. This worker turned out to be the son of the National team coach. The next day, the coach himself - Ivan Ivanov, Olympic Champion 92, 4 times World Champion, was also arrested in suspicion of being an accomplice to his son.. The same National coach who has been on the helm for over a decade now and who the Federation have tried removing a few times in the past years. But every time the proposal of a new coach was brought up, almost all of the weightlifters, including Karlos Nasar, have said that they would boycott the National team, if Ivanov was not the coach. Given, that we have our biggest boom in the past 20 years, i'm not denying the work being done by Ivanov, but his relationship with the Federation was always very iffy. Not that those guys are some saints, not by any means, but you can never guess who's in the right. Let's see how things develop and if any charged will be pressed against him.

beat 4-3 and progress to Round 3. Was a real hard battled game, I watched the whole last period and despite the very low speed and a few really silly decisions by players here and there it was a fun match to watch is already leading 3-0 after 1st frame. One sided game as expected

Here's the Netherlands qualification standards Besides athletics/swimming (or injuries) most NOCs accept their quotas. Sweden usually has additional requirements, especially if the person that earned the quota is unfit to use it. Sailing Canada has declined quotas in the past as they don't want poor results impacting their funding.

Michi back to win

Was watching all day yesterday & still did not have time for bobsleigh!

CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING M 10km+10km Skiathlon 1. Johannes Hosflot Klaebo NOR 2. Andrew Musgrave GBR 3. Simen Hegstad Kruger NOR M Sprint Classic 1. Johannes Hosflot Klaebo NOR 2. Erik Valnes NOR 3. Richard Jouve FRA M Team Sprint Free 1. Norway 2. France 3. Italy M 4x7.5km Relay 1. Norway 2. Sweden 3. Germany M 10km Free 1. Harald Ostberg Amundsen NOR 2. Simen Hegstad Kruger NOR 3. Johannes Hosflot Klaebo NOR M 50km Mass Start Classic 1. Iivo Niskanen FIN 2. Pal Golberg NOR 3. Calle Halfvarsson SWE W 10km+10km Skiathlon 1. Ebba Andersson SWE 2. Jessie Diggins USA 3. Frida Karlsson SWE W Sprint Classic 1. Emma Ribom SWE 2. Kristine Stavas Skistad NOR 3. Jasmi Joensuu FIN W Team Sprint Free 1. Sweden 2. United States 3. Norway W 4x7.5km Relay 1. Sweden 2. United States 3. Germany W 10km Free 1. Jessie Diggins USA 2. Ebba Andersson SWE 3. Heidi Weng NOR W 50km Mass Start Classic 1. Ebba Andersson SWE 2. Rosie Brennan USA 3. Frida Karlsson SWE

68kg: Magomedov was the surprise winner, he also takes the quota. (a bit consolation that this quota didn't go back to the 6th guy in the ranking who didn't deserve it at all) 80kg: Barkhordari wins the gold and the quota . he did that with only and only one win ! 57kg: Minina (AIN) won the gold but Luo finished first in GS series despite losing the final. she already has the quota, therefore Lo will get the quota. +67kg: Khan (AIN) won the gold but same as 57kg, that wasn't enough, Xiao finishes first in GS ranking and takes the quota. but keep in mind, nothing is official until WT confirms it

BIATHLON M 10km Sprint 1. Tarjaei Boe NOR 2. Sturla Holm Laegreid NOR 3. Sebastian Samuelsson SWE M 20km Individual 1. Johannes Thingnes Boe NOR 2. Anders Rastorgujevs LAT 3. Sturla Holm Laegreid NOR M 12.5km Pursuit 1. Sebastian Samuelsson SWE 2. Johannes Thingnes Boe NOR 3. Tarjaei Boe NOR M 15km Mass Start 1. Johannes Thingnes Boe NOR 2. Benedikt Doll GER 3. Tommaso Giacomel ITA M 4x7.5km Relay 1. Norway 2. France 3. Germany W 7.5km Sprint 1. Elvira Oeberg SWE 2. Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold NOR 3. Lisa Vittozzi ITA W 15km Individual 1. Lisa Vittozzi ITA 2. Lou Jeanmonnot FRA 3. Franziska Preuss GER W 10km Pursuit 1. Elvira Oeberg SWE 2. Lena Haecki-Gross SUI 3. Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold NOR W 12.5km Mass Start 1. Elvira Oeberg SWE 2. Juni Arnekleiv NOR 3. Justine Braisaz-Bouchet FRA W 4x6km Relay 1. Norway 2. Sweden 3. Italy Mixed Relay 4x6km 1. Norway 2. France 3. Sweden

If I'm not mistaken, this is Sighel's first penalty this season; last year, he used to get at least one per race. However, it's also the first race where Sighel is back to doing what he does best, taking risks at full throttle. The penalty is fair; he widened his arm a bit. But I'm glad to have seen him lively, especially after the insults he received yesterday on a well-known Italian sports Facebook page (to which he responded).

We’ll see what he can do at the upcoming WCs.

Disappointing quarterfinal exit for Canada’s men’s 5000m relay, but other than that it’s been a pretty good WC for us. Excited to see what we’ll be able to do at future WCs and the World Championships in Rotterdam, with Kim Boutin back it could provide us with a couple more medal chances.

ISU World Cup 2023/24 - Seoul (Stage 4/6) Women's 3.000m Relay: 01. the Netherlands 02. South Korea 03. China Men's 5.000m Relay: 01. China 02. the Netherlands 03. Belgium

ISU World Cup 2023/24 - Seoul (Stage 4/6) Overall World Cup Standings after Stage 4 - Women: Kim Gilli - 865 points (-) Kristen Santos-Griswold - 805 points (-) Xandra Velzeboer - 695 points (-) Hanne Desmet - 689 points (-) Selma Poutsma - 508 points (-) Corinne Stoddard - 306 points (+2) Seo Whimin - 436 points (-1) Gong Li - 381 points (+1) Courtney Sarault - 372 points (-2) Wang Ye - 368 points (+3) Overall World Cup Standings after Stage 4 - Men: Steven Dubois - 683 points (+1) Park Ji Won - 681 points (+1) William Dandjinou - 604 points (+1) Kim Gun Woo - 540 points (-3) Liu Shaoang - 501 points (-) Pietro Sighel - 421 points (+1) Jordan Pierre-Gilles - 416 points (-1) Jens van 't Wout - 392 points (-) Hwang Daeheon - 383 points (+3) Luca Spechenhauser - 382 points (-1)

The new bulletin answered that. Basically many many points. We will have the pro tour in Dubai in march and then OQS in Xangai and Budapest for both park ans street

It has also been 30 years since a athlete representing a country other than made the final.

Yes, it should be fine this time... but due to the experience from the previous Olympics, well, we will still remain in alert if you do not mind until the very end. He also had Tokyo basically during the entire qualification in the bag but somehow finally lost that quota in the very last race by a couple of silly places in the semi-finals

2nd QUALIFYING ROUND LAST DAY SCHEDULE Round-Robin December 14th - December 17th, 2023 12 Nations, 3 Groups, the 1st Nation from each Group will qualify for the 3rd Qualifying Round Group K Greenwich Mean Time (GMT ) South Africa vs Bulgaria Period-by-Period: December 17th 2023, h. 13:30, Laugardalur Arena, Reykjavik Estonia vs Iceland Period-by-Period: December 17th 2023, h. 17:00, Laugardalur Arena, Reykjavik Group L Central European Time (GMT +1) Netherlands vs Spain Period-by-Period: December 17th 2023, h. 16:30, Ijssportscentrum, Tilburg Georgia vs Thailand Period-by-Period: December 17th 2023, h. 20:00, Ijssportscentrum, Tilburg Group M Central European Time (GMT +1) Turkiye vs Chinese Taipei Period-by-Period: December 17th 2023, h. 15:30, Pionir Ice Rink, Belgrade Serbia vs Croatia Period-by-Period: December 17th 2023, h. 19:00, Pionir Ice Rink, Belgrade

Bronze in dual moguls for Mikael Kingsbury at the Alpe D’Huez WC!

what should I say, now?

Stage 4 in Engelberg (SUI) Men´s Individual Large Hill: 1. Pius Paschke 316.8 2. Marius Lindvik 315.1 3. Stefan Kraft 313.3 Full Final Result HERE

Best thing is that his sister Posy was on Comms for Eurosport! Best day since cyclist Magnus Bäckstedt commented on his daughter Zoe winning the Junior World Championsips.

Stage 4 in Trondheim (NOR) Men´s 20km Skiathlon: 1. Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo 43:50.7 2. Andrew Musgrave 43:51.4 3. Didrik Toenseth 43:51.5 Full Final Result HERE

Points Points for ,would never have believed that I would hear it this year Miracles apparently does not happens only during Christmas It was also the first career WC points of Ema Kapustová, Congrats, something nice for her after finishing 41st just a couple of seconds behind points Thursday right on her 21st birthday, was her new PB but rather bittersweet on your birthday I mean lol

Stage 4 in Engelberg (SUI) Women´s Individual Large Hill: 1. Nika Prevc 305.3 2. Ema Klinec 302.7 3. Eirin Maria Kvandal 297.0 Full Final Result HERE

Good for Zakopane. Usually the oval is one of the issues for a Wog bid. Maybe they can host in 2038 or later

Women's doubles in the youth Continental Cup in Oberhof this weekend: Sisters don't want to go together?