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Stoooooooooop!!!!!!!!!! please, stop this troll and his fuckin' bullshit! a new judges' tower will be built and ready by the WSL event in May, it's already been approved and supported by the majority of the French-Polynesia Parliament. anything else, it's bullshit.

Dual Moguls WC Bakuriani, Georgia Men Gold- Mikaël Kingsbury Silver- Ikuma Horishima Bronze- Nick Page Really surprising top 8 finish for Paolo Pascarella Women Gold- Jakara Anthony Silver- Maïa Schwinghammer Bronze- Jaelin Kauf Full Results

Netherlands also announced their roster last week. All of the big names seem to be there. Men: Arno Kamminga 100, 200 Breast Caspar Corbeau 100, 200 Breast Thom de Boer 50 Free Kenzo Simons 50 Free Thomas Jansen 400 IM Nyls Korstanje 100 Fly Kai van Westering 200 Back Stan Pijnenburg relay Women: Marrit Steenbergen 50, 100, 200 free Tes Schouten 100, 200 breast Imani de Jong 400, 1500 free Kira Toussaint 100 back Maaike de Waard 100 back Janna van Kooten 200 free Kim Busch 50 free Milou van Wijk relay Silke Kolkenborg relay Yara van Kalmthout relay

Male: Marco Odermatt (Alpine Skiing) Hifumi Abe (Judo) Nikola Jokic (Basketball) Female: Mollie O'Callaghan (Swimming) Mikaela Shiffrin (Alpine skiing) Femke Bol (Athletics) Non-Olympic: Shohei Ohtani (Baseball) Max Verstappen (Motor racing) Virat Kohli (Cricket) Best Youth: Summer McIntosh (Swimming) Alina Korneeva (Tennis) David Alonso (Motorcycling) Best Men's Team Rugby Baseball Rugby Best Women's Team Association Football Volleyball Water Polo Best Doubles/Mixed Ana Patricia / Duda (Beach Volleyball) Breakthrough: Alexandria Loutitt (Ski jumping) Comeback: Justine Braisaz-Bouchet (Biathlon) Moment: vs World Baseball Classic last at-bat between LA Angels teammates Francis Ngannou knocks down Tyson Fury Los Angeles Chargers blow a 27-0 lead in AFC Wild Card game

My nominees: BEST MALE ATHLETE for sportsmen in Olympic sports Lèon Marchand (Swimming) Marco Odermatt (Alpine Skiing) Noah Lyles (Athletics) Novak Djokovic (Tennis) Armand Duplantis (Athletics) Nikola Jokic (Basketball) BEST FEMALE ATHLETE for sportswomen in Olympic sports Mollie O'Callaghan (Swimming) Kaylee Mc Keown (Swimming) Iga Świątek (Tennis) Faith Kipyegon (Athletics) Femke Bol (Athletics) Mikaela Shiffrin (Alpine Skiing) BEST NON-OLYMPIC ATHLETE for athletes in Non-Olympic sports and disciplines Max Verstappen (F1) BEST PARALYMPIC ATHLETE for athletes with a disability - BEST YOUTH ATHLETE for athletes up to 18 years old (born after January 1st, 2005) (including Olympic, Non-Olympic and Paralympic sports) Summer McIntosh (Swimming) Darja Varfolomeev (Rhythmic Gymnastics) Qiu Qiyuan (Artistic Gymanstics) Kaylia Namour (Artistic Gymnastics) BEST MEN'S TEAM for national men's teams or groups (including Olympic, Non-Olympic and Paralympic sports) Volleyball Rugby (Union) Handball BEST WOMEN'S TEAM for national women's teams or groups (including Olympic, Non-Olympic and Paralympic sports) Swimming 4x100m Freestyle Relay Swimming 4x200m Freestyle Relay Handball BEST DOUBLES/PAIR OR MIXED TEAM for doubles and pairs or mixed teams and groups (including Olympic, Non-Olympic and Paralympic sports) Equestrian - Jumping Team BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR for the most improved athlete (aged 19 or over) or national team (including Olympic, Non-Olympic and Paralympic sports) Jordan Stolz (Speed Skating) Ethan Katzberg (Athletics) Ilia Malinin (Figure Skating) Kaylia Namour (Artistic Gymnastics) COMEBACK OF THE YEAR for athletes or national teams who made a comeback performance in 2023 (including Olympic, Non-Olympic and Paralympic sports) Simone Biles (Artistic Gymnastics) Cameron McEvoy (Swimming) Katarina Johnson-Thompson (Athletics) Sha'carri Richardson (Athletics) Iga Świątek (Tennis) - due to coming back to No. 1 in style Ewa Swoboda (Athletics) - advancing to the 100m WCH final in the end... SPORT MOMENT OF THE YEAR for any sport moment from 2023 Josh Kerr beating Jakob Ingebrigtsen in M 1500m Athletics WCH Final Iga Świątek winning French Open Militiadis Tentoglou winning M Long Jump Athletics WCH Final in Round 6 RSA winning Rugby World Cup Final ARG beating WAL in Rugby World Cup QF FIJ beating AUS in Rugby World Cup Pool C Match and being biased 2 additional moments: W 100m final in Athletics WCH (Ewa Swoboda) W 400m final in Athletics WCH (Natalia Kaczmarek)

Takuto Otoguro won't be able to defend his Olympic title , he lost in Japanese trials today in a very controversial match 6-6 to someone called Kiyooka

Iran NPC is considering rejecting this quota of course team members are trying to talk them into (actually talk to media) reverting this decision

I suspect in the end the surfing competition will get cancelled.

Italian government give ~272 million to NFs: Football 35.852.942 euros (-1.04%) Volleyball 16.518.286 (+13.37) Athletics 15.151.029 (+16.78) Aquatics Sport (Swimming, Diving, Waterpolo, Syncro) 14.782.883 (+10.26%) Snow Sports (+luge, skeleton/bob) 12.665.350 (+9.57%) Tennis 12.196.787 (+12.22%) Basketball 10.197.818 (+7.76%) Cycling 9.819.281 (+1.64%) Fencing 9.309.294 (+11.39%) Gymnastics 8.767.083 (+3.21%) Judo, Karate, Lotta 8.280.355 (+1.54%) Shotgun 6.991.939 (-3.70%) Ice Sports 6.954.240 (+9.54%) Rowing 6.300.164 (+1.13%) Rugby 5.967.045 (+0. 64%) Sailing 5.655.585 (-1.23%) Equestrian 5.611.254 (+8.01%) Boxing 5.531.768 (-0.71%) Baseball and Softball 5.110.138 (+1.18%) Weightlifting 4.973.881 (+16.80%) Motorcycling 4.910.167 (+8.79%) Archery 4.893.063 (-2.93%) Canoe Kayak 4.738.208 (+2.95%) Taekwondo 4.682.157 (+14.09%) Roller sports 4.493.139 (+16.48%) Pentathlon 4.487.047 (+13.51%) Sport Fishing & Underwater sports 4.347.730 (+1.07%) Golf 4.330.255 (+4.95%) Shooting (rifle and pistol) 4.104.791 (-1.11%) Boules 3.647.294 (+2.47%) Water skiing 3.107.068 (+6.49%) Table Tennis 3.096.670 (+1.31%) Handball 3.060.197 (-1.89%) Field Hockey 2.963.225 (+0.41%) Triathlon 2.852.380 (-2.94%) Badminton 2.699.293 (+1.48%) Dance Sports 2.414.708 (+5.39%) Climbing 2.400.050 (+35.57%) Motorboat 2.050.899 (+2.30%) Hunting 1.580.843 (+9.98%) Squash 1.269.112 (+0.08%) Cue sports and bowling 906.001 (+97.78%) FederCombact (Kickboxing, Muay-Thai, Sambo, Savate) 906.001 (+94.21%)

Summary of my early predictions here. Now I will try to update them (e.g. Swimming - W 100m Fly, Equestrian - Dressage Ind and Team and so on...). Also schedulling needs to be improved (mainly Artistic Gymnastics ind apparatus finals) and in the end - a new medal table will be published. SPOILERS ALERT - When i finish, you won't need to watch the games because you know the results already

Yeah, I´ll give you this one, it was about time for Americas to have some games in normal hours, no problem with that I just do not understand WHY they have to schedule all events-all finals of all sports at the very same exact time ? who came with this epochally amazing idea ? Biathlon and alpine skiing and ski jumping finals at same time short track, snowboarding and luge finals as well... a couple of minutes later nada only 3vs3 girls hockey the rest of the afternoon. That just sounds brilliant to me

16:00 to 21:00 in California. Seems perfect to me

No clearly the water sport coalition will form a boycott. Say goodbye to sailing, canoeing, rowing, swimming, 1/3 of the triathlon and the 3000m steeplechase

Parallel Slalom WC Davos, Switzerland Men Gold- Daniele Bagozza Silver- Arvid Auner Bronze- Edwin Coratti Women Gold- Ramona Theresia Hofmeister (3 wins in 3 races in the PSL/PGS World Cup this season ) Silver- Lucia Dalmasso Bronze- Sabine Schoeffmann

one of the easiest panel of choices so far... Men's Ski Cross... Frederic Chappuis is the man that won a world title, more world medals, the most world cup races in the male division, therefore he has to be my pick. Women's Ski Cross...that's even unfair to the other nominèes, the only reasonable choice is Sandra Naeslund. Biathlon, Men's Mass Start...the only really close battle, Martin Fourcade vs Johannes Boe. I go with the Norwegian. Biathlon, Women's Mass Start... Magdalena Neuner is undoubtably the GOAT in this sport, I just can't pick anyone else. Short Track, Women's 3000m Relay...6 gold medals in 9 Games (even if the 2018 one was a gigantic robbery ) speak for themselves...this is THE South Korean event par excellence.

I'm gonna save this post for next year

Street and Park Olympic Qualifier Series Rankings updated as of December 22nd, 2023

While updating my predictions I will try to do Top 8s ( I have already done day 1) but I am not sure if I can do it in all the events . We will see

Three medals at the Bakuriani WC! Mikaël Kingsbury won bronze in moguls, and gold in dual moguls. On the women’s side, Maia Schwinghammer won her first career WC medal with a silver in dual moguls!

Maïa Schwinghammer through to the women’s dual moguls semifinals at the Bakuriani WC! Best ever WC result for her

Some interesting news found on our Polish olympic forum tylko-igrzyska: The World Athletics Council also approved that seeding for the first round of relay competition at the Paris Olympic Games be determined at the World Athletics Relays Bahamas 24. The event in The Bahamas will automatically qualify 14 teams to Paris, but Council has confirmed that the finishing order of the top eight teams in the Bahamas finals will, additionally, determine first round seeding rights to the best lanes for Paris 2024. https://worldathletics.org/news/press-releases/decisions-made-233rd-world-athletics-council-meeting-monaco

Peaty probably needs the 'reps'. The men's 4 x 1 team is the major one, as they don't have a time yet following the DQ in 2023 - I think they're probably safe in most of the other relays on time rankings, including men's and mixed medley. All the same...

James Guy has said all along he won't go but it's a shame Peters didn't take up the offer so they can field a men's medley relay. Will be most interesting to see if Peaty is moving towards his best form again.

Kyrgyz Republic is in the process of changing its flag. https://www.rferl.org/a/kyrgyzstan-flag-change-sunflowers-lawmakers-approve-japarov/32740275.html

Host Country 2024 IHF Women's Olympic Qualification Tournaments TQO 1 : DEBRECEN TQO 2 : TORREVIEJA TQO 3 : NEU-ULM

Woaah, Naeslund had a huge lead with just a couple of gates to go, then inexplicably headed straight down the hill and missed a gate! She got bronze because the fourth place rider had disappeared before her.

No problem, you can edit them

Sure, anybody can vote If everybody agrees I can extend the deadline until Sunday and reveal the nominees on Monday.

Hi all - new to this site and very much enjoyed all of those predictions. I can speak specifically on the British hopes and I would say that I was very surprised to see Charlotte Dujardin not being predicted to medal in the individual dressage. Her recent tests on ImHoTop have been magnificent and she has been there done that multiple times at Olympics. The GB team will also include Charlotte Fry and I would be surprised if they did not claim Gold in the team event. GB have strong teams in the rowing (this has really rebounded since disappointment of Tokyo) and swimming, and even cycling has strengthened in last 12 months. Very excited for the games! I'll be out there for all 3 weeks. Bring it on!