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Paweł Twardosz Adam Cieślar Wojciech Marusarz (all nordic combined) suddenly retires Our 8th placed team at 2019 World Championships is gone... For now, in A team for 2020/2021 season we have only one athlete - Szczepan Kupczak....

This's photo of Syrian delegation during parade of nations in the 1st Mediterranean Games ever which was held in Alexandria Egypt at 1951 this was poster of tournament

I suggest leaving this thread as it is and letting everyone who wishes to participate here post whatever they want. Making any sort of contest, poll or something would "spoil" a part of the fun of the prediction contests next year. In particular those contests where you have to predict only medalists.

I just finished making the day 1 predictions polls. Here is the link: https://forms.gle/qkXXbGggMHDDsHvT8 Let me know if you like this or want to stick with @rafalgorka points system. @Fly_like_a_don @Wumo @Gianlu33

Here's the news. Nobody in Polish Skiing Federation cares about nordic combined, snowboard and alpine skiing. Nobody! The most important people are related to ski jumping and the thing should be called Polish Ski Jumping Federation. Our nordic combined rose from the dead in the last few years (there was nothing for 20 years since Stanislaw Ustupski retired in mid 90s) but Adam Cieslar and Pawel Slowiok were second-rate ski jumpers who converted to nordic combined and somehow managed to get some reasonable results. Szczepan Kupczak is the only guy who doesn't suck at cross country and has the best results. Local clubs are way too poor to carry such a niche sport like NC and like I said, the national federation only cares about ski jumping. Case closed. Btw, our bobsleigh national team also collapsed after last season but that's a case for a different story

Marusarz was "fifth" the best our athlete in this sport, he was always among reserves, it's probably reason why you never heard about him. Słowiok retired already last year as well...

Because he is not afraid to speak his mind.

has selected its first 3 for Tokyo https://athletics.ca/hofbauer-pidhoresky-dunfee-earn-early-nominations-for-tokyo-olympic-games/

Luckily we're still going to Guangxi!

I managed to confirm that Canada won team and individual golds (Page 32), what leaves only the bronze medalists in mystery (and the composition of the Bermudan team). http://www.startinggate.ca/ourclients/CEMediaGuide.pdf

Now this is the story I haven't heard before

Not "maybe", he is indeed famous internationally, I think I have read a story that Hitler personally awarded gold medal to him in 1936 after defeating the two Germans with a big margin

I am not going to do anymore. That was a trial run to see if people liked it. I could resume it sometime next year, when we have clear medal contenders and participants for every event.

It was so nice of you to do so much work. Apparently the problem is now everyone is going to be damn busy as things are returning to normalcy .Even colleges and schools are opening so after few days we may have very less replies .... Maybe we can all take break from this prediction and return like next year beginning or the spring season or as and when you wish.

This week I start working almost as normal again, so I will have less time to continue this thread. Thank you all for nice conversation. Bmo have done good job to organize these polls. But I think LDOG suggestion is good, too. We will see how it goes. I will try to come back here in weekend. Stay healthy!

Ilya Ilyin, two time gold medallist (but both revoke for doping), retired after Tokyo2020 postpone. Weightlifting is a bit more clean

New qualification period

so far, it's only the Softball activity... but I fear that also the next WBC would eventually be moved to 2022, as the Baseball Olympic qualifiers (both the Panamerican tournament and the Global "last chance" tournament) have to be rescheduled for early Spring 2021... p.s. the new KBO (South Korean pro baseball league) season starts tomorrow (all 5 scheduled games should start at 7 a.m. CET)... all the games of the season are available for free on Twitch.tv (search for KBO channel on that platform)...

5th August

The difficult part of having a poll where users choose gold, silver and bronze medallists (complete podium) is that the poll would have to have around 8-10 athletes/teams/nations for the gold medal then 8-10 for silver and 8-10 fro bronze. Of course some of the athletes/teams/nations would be the an option for every medal. I see some would like to have a projected medal table for Tokyo 2020. If that is the case then every event poll would have to have three "questions" each. So question number 1 would be, "Pick your gold medallist for X-event". Question number 2 would be "Pick your silver medallist for X-event" and bronze likewise. For athletics we would have a big ass amount of polls, questions and medal candidates. I think It would actually just be eaiser to create prediction templates for every event like in the prediction contest and then users can just show their predictions. A thread with prediction templates for Olympic events could be created in each Olympic sports thread. Users could then choose their medallists for each event. Of course people could just write their predictions here or in a separate thread in the different Olympics sports thread. Also, a suggestion to @rafalgorka. Instead of giving 3, 2 and 1 point for gold, silver and bronze, the athlete/team/nation which gets most 1st places will be projected to win gold. The athlete/team/nation with most 2nd places gets silver and bronze likewise. An example of what I mean: For archery mixed team it would look like this: KOR 3rg 3fl 3gi 3be 3wu NED 2rg ITA 1rg 1gg 2gi TPE 2fl 2wu JPN 1fl 1be CHN 1gi 2be 1wu Gold - Silver - Bronze - or In case two or more athletes/teams/nations have an equal amount of 1st or 2nd or 3rd places, the amount of top 3 places will be the tie-breaker. Example: Japan has two 3rd places. China and Italy both have two 3rd places and one 2nd place. Therefore China and Italy beat Japan in a tiebreaker. I don't know how to solve the tie-breaker between China and Italy as both team have the exact same amount of places? Maybe someone has a suggestion for such a case.