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Happy New Year from Thailand on vacation. Wish everyone has a wonderful 2024.

Happy New Olympic Year dear Totallympians

to all those who are already in 2024 and to all those who are going to enter 2024 in a (relatively) short while... Happy New Olympic Year my friends! and Happy "everything" also to all those who follow a different calendar!

Happy New Year 2024, the Olympic One Please, lets be this year without any new wars, viruses, inflation and so on. Lets only positive things to happen

Less than 30 minutes of this not so excellent 2023 year, let´s jump into a much much much better one in 2024 Happy new Olympic Year 2024 dear Totallympians ! A lot of successes and friendly atmosphere to our beloved forum. A lot of health, love and happiness to you all and your families, and a lot of medals and joy from sports to your countries in this new year and especially in Paris and to my country this dreamed and wished quota to Milano-Cortina in Ice Hockey ! Cheers and PF 2024 !

Still 11 hours to go in California. I believe the Pacific Time Zone is once again the last Totallympics time zone to enter the new year. Lengthy post incoming...

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From a morale perspective losing 10-2 is pretty soul crushing, especially for a junior team. The coaching staff better be ready to deal with that.

Stage 5 in Toblach/Dobbiaco (ITA) TOUR DE SKI 2023/24 - Stage 1 Men´s 10km Classical: 1. Perttu Hyvarinen 23:08.6 2. Erik Valnes 23:24.8 3. Harald Oestberg Amundsen 23:25.8 Full Final Result HERE TOUR DE SKI 2023/24 Provisional Standing After Event 2/7 HERE

Stage 5 in Toblach/Dobbiaco (ITA) TOUR DE SKI 2023/24 - Stage 1 Women´s 10km Classical: 1. Kerttu Niskanen 25:48.0 2. Victoria Carl 25:54.7 3. Jessie Diggins 25:58.7 Full Final Result HERE TOUR DE SKI 2023/24 Provisional Standing After Event 2/7 HERE

1st Finnish victory of the winter season

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waiting for the appropriate thread, this is the detailed timetable of the 2024 European Championships ( Rome, June 6th through June, 12th) https://www.roma2024.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/TIMETABLE-EN.pdf

quite a nice Spengler Cup, this year luckily, there have been quite a lot of close games and very few blowouts (namely, Ambrì thrashed by Frolunda in the first playoff match ) game of the tournament, Davos vs Frolunda (the semifinal match), but really honorable mention for HC Dynamo Pardubice and their amazing comeback from 1-3 to 4-3 in the last 3+ mins of the semifinal vs

Good news for the YOG maybe?

True, but I honnestly don´t see it as such big problem in this particular case, Blowouts happens, in the Juniors all the time, It is not their first blowout, such... I call them "dumb matches" happens time to time. Especially because up to 38th minute it was one fantastic hockey match from both sides, we were even outshooting and outplaying USA in the 2nd period like no one did in this tourney... but then came the 4th and 5th goals within 30 seconds at the end of the 2nd and a horrible game from both reserve goalies in this game (Seriously one of the worst goaltending match I remember, it was like every USA´s shot ended in the net ) and that was the end... from third periode´s 6th goal we benched both our top lines and the bottom lines played their Ice times in the last 20 minutes, so not really surprising a quite entertaining equal game until then ended by a complete blowout. No worried about the moral problem I assure you, our guys will forget this game by tomorrow. The main problem is we just do not know to play them. From all eventual opponents in the quarters we will have to face exactly the one we just do not know to beat at any level at any category... our seniors did not beat Finland since 2003.. the longest current winless streak of our hockey teams..

are also eligible to win a quota since the 2024 Worlds have a higher priority. Should they qualify here then their continental quota will be reallocated.

4 Hills Tournament Stage 2 Garmisch-Partenkirchen KO Round Starting Order Q Athlete Pairing Athlete Q 26 Kasperi VALTO 1 Pius PASCHKE 25 27 Valentin FOUBERT 2 Felix HOFFMANN 24 28 Niko KYTOSAHO 3 Aleksander ZNISZCZOL 23 29 Halvor Egner GRANERUD 4 Kamil STOCH 22 30 Dawid KUBACKI 5 Johann Andre FORFANG 21 31 Naoki NAKAMURA 6 Ren NIKAIDO 20 32 Tate FRANTZ 7 Daniel TSCHOFENIG 19 33 Jan HOERL 8 Clemens AIGNER 18 34 Eetu NOUSIAINEN 9 Ryoyu KOBAYASHI 17 35 Karl GEIGER 10 Alex INSAM 16 36 Erik BELSHAW 11 Lovro KOS 15 37 Vitaliy KALINICHENKO 12 Giovanni BRESADOLA 14 38 Roman KOUDELKA 13 Stephan LEYHE 13 39 Kristoffer Eriksen SUNDAL 14 Philipp RAIMUND 12 40 Artti AIGRO 15 Remo IMHOF 11 41 Daniel Andre TANDE 16 Junshiro KOBAYASHI 10 42 Gregor DESCHWANDEN 17 Constantin SCHMID 9 43 Andrea CAMPREGHER 18 Marius LINDVIK 8 44 Martin HAMANN 19 Peter PREVC 7 45 Antti AALTO 20 Stefan KRAFT 6 46 Simon AMMANN 21 Timi ZAJC 5 47 Francesco CECON 22 Michael HAYBOECK 4 48 Luca ROTH 23 Manuel FETTNER 3 49 Danil VASSILYEV 24 Andreas WELLINGER 2 50 Piotr ZYLA 25 Anze LANISEK 1

This is what happens when you Rest number 1 goaltender. Anyway, There always also a good thing within bad things, This slap arrived at the best time and seriously, this was the best moment to pick a "dumb match". Bad thing this will probably means in the quarterfinals, our cryptonite, so yeah, there always more bad things within bad things at the end.... at leats our goalie is rested and will be fresh on the quarters Tuesday

Para Badminton Race to Paris Paralympic Ranking Lists updated as of December 30th, 2023

Also worth mentioning that the GB mixed duet were top 5 in both the technical and free routines having picked up 2 bronze medals at the European Games and Shortman/ Thorpe took the bronze in the duet freestyle at European Games. The team are getting better, but their acrobatic routine is a weak link that needs a lot of work to put them in contention for Olympic quota. That being said, with the strength of the duets, and if the team can show continued improvement, I think we could see artistic swimming getting another uplift in their funding as we move through to LA '28.

Preliminary entry list is out for the Euro, including USA for some reason. Don't they have their own continental championships some would ask. https://ewf.sport/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/BW.pdf

Tournament results are public records, they should never be copyrightable.

That entire middle weekend is going to be incredible. Toss up for me between Day 8 and Day 9. Both have finals in swimming, track & field, and gymnastics. Plus it's the last 2 rounds of men's golf, the 2 cycling road races (that's going to be something special), all the finals in tennis. I will be locked in!!

Stage 5 in Toblach/Dobbiaco (ITA) TOUR DE SKI 2023/24 - Stage 1 Men´s Sprint Freestyle: 1. Lucas Chanavat 2. Jules Chappaz 3. Ben Ogden Full Final Result HERE TOUR DE SKI 2023/24 Provisional Standing After Event 1/7 HERE

Stage 5 in Toblach/Dobbiaco (ITA) TOUR DE SKI 2023/24 - Stage 1 Women´s Sprint Freestyle: 1. Linn Svahn 2. Jonna Sundling 3. Kristine Stavaas Skistad Full Final Result HERE TOUR DE SKI 2023/24 Provisional Standing After Event 1/7 HERE

My team sport predictions with tiers (I prefer doing it this way instead of just handing out G, S & B): I'll put an * next to not already qualified teams (in some cases I'll be considering the chances of two teams that can't both qualify, eg. Slovenia and Greece in men's basketball). These are tiers that grade the teams according to my perception of their chances to win a medal (ANY medal, not just gold). Though if I rate a team in the highest tier ("very likely to win a medal") it also means they're the main gold medal favorite for me. If you see that a qualified team is not included in any tier then it means I believe the medal chances of that team are rather marginal. I opted to skip 3x3 predictions cuz my knowledge is not deep enough (I follow the results but I'm not too aware about roster changes from tournament to tournament and such). Tiers... Tier 1 - Very Likely to win a medal Tier 2 - Likely to win a medal Tier 3 - In contention for a medal Tier 4 - Outside chance of a medal

Was unaware that this was going on until about an hour ago, but the Gothenburg Mixed Doubles Cup started almost two days ago. All matches will be live-streamed on the WCT (World Curling Tour) YouTube channel https://m.youtube.com/@WCTWorldCurlingTour/streams

Norn Iron ie Northern Ireland’s personality is middle distance runner Ciaran Mageean. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/67797272

Male sportsman of the Year - Josh Kerr (athletics) Female - Katie Archibald (cycling)

As for my biggest qualification hopes they would have to be our women’s volleyball team, Scachter/Dearing in men’s beach volleyball, one of our field hockey teams and our men’s epee team. There’s also our women’s 3x3 team, but their ticket to Paris is almost guaranteed.

I am also hoping Julia Tunks can qualify in Discus, she was too young for Budapest, but might be old enough for Paris. Her PB is 59.11, so not too far off.

https://runningmagazine.ca/the-scene/ugandan-olympic-steeplechaser-found-murdered-in-kenya/

SPENGLER CUP 2023 Saturday 30th December, 2023 - Day 5 ---------------------------------------- Semifinals C1-QF1 HC Davos OT4 - 3 Frolunda HC T1-QF2 Dynamo Pardubice 4 - 3 Team Canada