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September 2019 - A record breaking month September 2019 was certainly a month where us Totallympians have outdone ourselves, setting the forum alight with multiple new records and top 10 all-time placings!! Where to begin?? In terms of the month of September, this was the busiest September in the history of the forum (2016 era onwards). The previous record of 6564 set in September 2018 was smashed with the new September record post total standing at a whopping 9676 posts!! That's an extra 3000+ posts added on to the previous best, very impressive! September 2019 is now the 4th busiest month in terms of posts in the new forum's history. The real story of our success though comes in the closing days of the month. September 28th, 29th and 30th all take places in the Top 4 days in 2019 in terms of post count (excludes TISC Grand Final days), with September 29th the new record for the year with a total of 928 for the day! But that only tells half the story..... September 29th and September 28th also make it onto the Top 10 on the All-Time list (9th and 10th place respectively) surpassing even very busy days set during the 2018 Winter Olympics. Incredible!! In fact, outside of Olympic days or TISC Grand Final days, those are the 2 busiest days ever seen on the forum in terms of post count! New Record Alert!! Totallympics Record Number of Posts per day in 2019 September 29th 928 New Record Alert!! Totallympics Record Number of Posts for September September 2019 9676 Posts Per Day: Top 10 2019 *Please note that this not include TISC Grand Final days 1 September 29th, 2019 928 2 September 28th, 2019 907 3 August 11th, 2019 633 4 September 30th, 2019 627 5 July 21st, 2019 600 6 July 27th, 2019 580 7 July 19th, 2019 543 8 July 23rd, 2019 506 9 June 2016, 2019 494 10 April 6th, 2019 486 Posts Per Day: Top 10 All-Time 1 November 18th, 2017 (TISC Grand Final) 1577 2 November 10th, 2018 (TISC Grand Final) 1440 3 April 29th, 2017 (TISC Grand Final) 1387 4 April 28th, 2018 (TISC Grand Final) 1351 5 June 4th, 2016 (TISC Grand Final) 1300 6 November 19th, 2016 (TISC Grand Final) 1232 7 August 6th, 2016 1219 8 May 4th, 2019 (TISC Grand Final) 1187 9 September 29th, 2019 928 10 September 28th, 2019 907 Congratulations everyone!

Nice, so you have a buddy that you can take with you to your AfD rallies

Perks of being the only fan by the road.

I'm half-expecting Hassan to try to sneak onto the 5000m start line too

Olympic qualifiers: Team (4 quotas): Individual qualifiers through the event finals: Yeo Seo-jeong Individual qualifiers through the all-around: Flávia Saraiva Giulia Steingruber Georgia Godwin Diana Varinska Lee Yun-seo Zsofia Kovacs Martina Dominici Alexa Moreno Danusia Francis Kim Su Jong Aneta Holasova Marcia Vidiaux Maria Holbura Elisa Haemmerle Anastasiya Alistratava Farah Abdul Nancy Mohamed Nazli Savranbasi Barbora Mokosova Filipa Martins Ana Derek Caitlin Rooskrantz Jonna Adlerteg Gabriela Janik Simona Castro Lihie Raz Julie Erichsen Ariana Orrego Oksana Chusovitina Ting Hua-Tien Marina Nekrasova Qualified through host nation quota reallocation: Tan Sze En Gymnasts not qualified, but who would be next in line if other gymnasts qualify through continental championships or miss out due to injury: Megan Ryan Maria Kharenkova Argyro Afrati Maia Fishwick Adela Sajn

Nobody thought that our girls would make it, but... it is real, we have QUALIFIED TO TOKYO 2020! I'm shocked and very very happy for all of them, but especially Ana Pérez, whom I met personally, and Roxana, whose story is simple awesome.

Go and say this into his face. Let's see if you come back in one piece

Olympic qualification, I'd guess.

making your average Chinese girl fed with blood turtle, rather... I'm starting thinkin' that Salazar is actually Ma Junren en travesty...

Botswana DQF in the 4x400 Who qualifies instead? Well, mysteriously it is us!

It's kind of disappointing that nobody got the Casablanca reference.

And here are the promised photos. I'm actually quite happy with them, as in the end I didn't have much time to pick the perfect spot. Unknown Israel Cycling Academy rider... That camera was looking right at me... Astana and CCC... My two new favorite teams.

@OlympicIRLFunny interviews with Irish Olympians is it’s own genre on YouTube at this point. Somehow there’s even less English spoke in this one than the last one

Also, sad that three generations of Memos missed out on representing Turkey.

True, the average difference between two spectators is more or less equal to the average difference between two galaxies.

Oh I believe you without a doubt, I feel like almost every major marathon he gets some airtime and he was one of the first people I saw when I turned on the TV half an hour ago

At the end of the day both pay close to nothing to artists from streaming, so they're both bad in a way

Ahh crap, no worries.... thanks anyway for your informative posts.

I counted the girls again and for a moment I thought Ireland had qualified, but I really counted 32 gymnasts. Bummer. There's still a huge chance someone will qualify through other means (world cup series, continental championships), so I believe there's hope for Ireland.

Incredible, hats off to her! It is worth to highlight that she now qualified for her eighth(!) consecutive Summer Olympics at the age of 44 in a sport where most women quit at their late 20's (at the latest), still highly competitive in Vault. She is a real olympic superstar. She will now become the woman with second most Olympic appearances, just behind Nino Salukvadze and equal to Josefa Idem. Very bitter result for Brazil, normally a sure shot for qualification. Hopefully, they are able to qualify at least some more individuals via the other criteria.

You know for some reasons that match was also "somehow" important for Iran if I remember correctly she didn't lost by Senshou. the Chinese received a caution in last 15 seconds (which annuls the Senshou) she lost by "Hantei" this qualification system makes things a bit weird. some results in other weights help you in another weight !!! for example I want Semeraro to win and Ferracuti to lose (sorry I like all Italian athletes, this is not personal I'm sure you know why ) and beside that it was important for Iran to keep the best ranked Asian athlete. Gong going to the final and probably winning the gold is not a good news for that . another funny thing is I realized there is a chance for Iran to even qualify at 67kg ! how ? we simply have to hope Oceania and America qualify their continental quotas at 75kg (there is an Uzbek athlete in top 10) in that case our 67kg athlete only needs 500-600 pts to catch up 60kg Uzbek Saymatov (and also hoping for Kazakh athletes at +75kg to not get good results) isn't this extremely weird ? Australian results at 75kg will directly affect Iran's chance at 67kg -------------------- PS:the link doesn't work for 61kg results. I just know Giana Lotfy's opponent for bronze is Jovana Prekovic

I bet for Japan on podium

This is of course a fair question, but Bukowiecki himself already had 22m shots, which were nearly impossible to reach at least for Europeans for a long time. So I think, he is kind of part of the new Shot Putter generation, isn't he?

Yeah it's really crap to be honest. Schedules should always be spaced out as best as possible so that athletes are encouraged to try to double up. Hassan though did a special double here which was nice to see.

I think 3 times: 22.36 m by Crouser in round 1, then 22.90 m by Walsh in round 1 and then 22.91 m by Kovacs in round 6. Edit: But i think there were 7 throws past the old championship record (1 by Kovacs, 4 by Crouser, 1 by Walsh and 1 by Romani)

The longest throw not to win a medal before today was 21,58 (Walsh in 2015)! Romani and Hill would have won medals at every other WCh before Doha!

New PB for Ciara Mageean... awesome, can't ask for more

Tatyana Kazankina's 39 year old ER has fallen

I haven’t trusted Hassan since she moved to Salazar. She has great talent, but this is just extreme.

She hardly broke the sweat.

Sifan Hasan doing a Paavo Nurmi here with 1500 and 10000 triumphes

always appeal everything so we will see

M 4x400m Quotas and

22.90 Tomas WALSH

Kielbasinska, Holub, Wyciszkiewicz & Swiety-Ersetic in the 4x400 SF. I fear Swiety-Ersetic will have nothing left for the final tbh.

That wouldn't be a contest, it would be a Spotify playlist.

Shortest non-Chinese name.

In my opinion, Magnus Kirt will surely be fighting for gold. No doubt. He made 90m throw this year and he looks pretty stable. Quali 88m puts him on the list of men who r gonna fight for title. Cheng, Kirt, Vetter is my guess for medals.

So, I believe Chusovitina will qualify now. I can see only seven gymnasts ahead of her, and this would be enough for her to secure at least the position for reallocation of the host nation quota.

Hello everybody for another (sadly already the penultimate) session of worlds athletics championships. We started with the Group A of the M Javelin qualifiers, which just finished. 4 Directly Qualified, Vetter 89.35, Peters 85.34, Vadlejch 84.31 and Weber 84.29

1 host country quota is also going to be reallocated to the all-around competition, but I think this will happen after all the other qualification events next year. So one gymnast from another NOC will be guaranteed to qualify if she doesn't qualify in another way.

Alexa Moreno has one foot in Tokyo Meanwhile Japan is on the chopping block in women’s team

Women's final will feature the highly unexpected duel of Canada vs USA. As shocking as it may sound, men's final will also see Canucks taking on Yanks.

Entries for the African regatta. M1x (19) - W1x (19) - LM2x (7) - LW2x (3) - Apparently nations can qualify only one boat across all four events. The only expection is when 2 or more boats from the same nation finish first, in which case the nation can keep two places.

Great achievement, against all odds.

This is the list of remaining ranking events before the deadline, always possible for WKF to add more events or change something but it seems this is the final list. 2019 Premiere League / 4-6 October / Moscow Premiere League / 29 Nov - 1 Dec / Madrid ----------------------------------------------- 2020 Serie A / 10-12 January / Santiago Premiere League / 24-26 January / Paris African Championship / 7-9 February / Tangier Premiere League / 14-16 February / Dubai Premiere League / 28 Feb - 1 Mar / Salzburg Premiere League / 13-15 March / Rabat European Championship / 25-29 March / Baku * Other continental champs will be held after 6 April and won't affect the ranking.

A couple of playlist stats: Total duration: 2 hours, 39 minutes and 4 seconds Average duration: 4 minutes and 4 seconds Longest video: Hungary - 6 minutes and 19 seconds Shortest video: New Zealand - 2 minutes and 6 seconds Most views: France - 423,688,330 views Least views: Greece - 1,650 views

I realized that there is a big number of nations that could achieve a medal result for the first time at these Championships, so now I'm excited for the competition. has the biggest chance on pommel horse. I'd say that if McClenagham hits his routines twice in a row (qualifications and event final) he has a big chance (more than 80%) to win a medal. has a moderate chance on rings. Zahran depends on mistakes from major contenders and a perfect routine in the final, but he definitely has a chance. has a 50/50 chance of a medal in a number of events (rings, all-around, parallel bars, horizontal bar) but I'm not very confident that their time has come. I would love to be proven wrong. has an outside chance on men's vault. Pretty much like Egypt, they depend on other gymnasts faltering, but a medal is still within reach if everything goes right. has an outside chance on men's floor. This is one of the most unpredictable apparatus, so anything is possible. has low chances on men's vault. has very low chances in a number of events. But Georgiou won a medal at the European Championships and the European Games, so he's lucky this year. won a surprising gold medal at the Asian Championships on pommel horse, so it would be nice to keep an eye on this apparatus. also has a contender on the pommel horse. Keikha has the seventh best score this year among the competitors, and if he makes it to the final let's see what could happen. has low chances with Dominici and Molinari. is the most surprising nation here. Matvei Petrov (born in Russia) has this year's second-best score on the pommel horse (tied with McClenaghan), but he achieved this score in a very small competition and was never able to even come close to a big score again. Still, a distant possibility for a medal. is a long shot for a medal on the high bar. is an even longer shot for a medal on men's vault, but I'm not ruling them out as of yet. I would say Ireland has the biggest chance of a medal. Egypt and Dominican Republic winning medals is perfectly possible too, but it would depend on how other gymnasts perform. Iran, Chile and Turkey are long shots, but nothing impossible. Jordan, Cyprus and Guatemala are not really close, but on a perfect day they could come close to a medal or even get a bronze medal. Argentina and Lithuania would need major mistakes from a big number of contenders. Albania and Indonesia are hoping for a miracle, but we have seen miracles happen before (Vietnam, Puerto Rico, Armenia).

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