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It's been a few days, but I'll make it short and sweet. Thank you, @Dnl for hosting the show with everything thrown at you, and congratulations to @Hipooo on your first win. Also my congrats to @Wanderer and @Belle on your podium finishes It's nice to be among the handful of countries with a perfect attendance rate, and we're definitely keeping it going. Also, my thanks to those who voted for the United States: . I'd say a 12th place finish isn't bad, I was hoping for a top 5 finish, but this is nice. I will admit this edition isn't the greatest in terms of quality, tho. I really struggled to pick 12 songs to give points to. Finally, here are my personal votes 12 -- 11 -- 10 -- 9 -- 8 -- 7 -- 6 -- 5 -- 4 -- 3 -- 2 -- 1 -- R1 -- R2 -- R3 --

She should have enough reindeer to start a farm.

Funnily enough, I knew the Canadian song from a Canadian reality tv show parody cartoon I have a special place in my heart for this show.

Congratulations @Hipooo Thank you @Dnl for all of your hard work! Also thank you to everyone who voted for Greece and gave us 48 points! Unfortunately we finished in 29th place, although I am not surprised and personally I would not have given our song any points. We are one of the 15 countries that never missed a version of the song contests, however we are the only ones who never finished top 10. I hope this will change soon. I already have song ideas for both contests in 2022. Here are my personal votes (vs how many points Greece gave to them) 12 points- (11) 11- (12) 10- (4) 9- (8) 8- (0) 7- (2) 6- (5) 5- (6) 4- (0) 3- (7) 2- (0) 1- (0) Canada and Sweden were by far my favourites. Those two and USA were the only ones I knew before this contest, although Czech Republic also sounded familiar. Canada @intoronto I always liked, although I knew the modern version from the movie "Cars" and did not know about this earlier version, and Sweden @Belle was a song that I enjoyed a lot during my teenage years and always gives me good/happy memories when I hear it.

Romanian team for Oestersund MEN George Buta Cornel Puchianu Raul Flore Women Anastasia Tolmacheva Elena Chirkova The rest will be in the IBU cup for women i supose (Natalia Ushkina, Eniko Marton, Andreea Mezdrea) and for men (Dmitrii Shamaev, George Coltea and maybe Duicu or Grumeza or even Oskin) Shamaev and Ushkina are trying to get points to qualify for the world cup

Quota places for Paris 2024 will be allocated at the 2022-2023 World Championships https://www.issf-sports.org/news.ashx?newsid=3678

Where does it says that?

Women’s handball due up in a few minutes to get sporting action under way

70 Days To Go ...

Though I understand that OCA wants to make it step by step to get Oceania involved into Asian Games, I think Oceania should be counted on medal table and receiving identical medals. Furthermore, I think we should treat Oceania as Asian countries in terms of sports games or federations. I would like to see more OG quotas allocated to Asia and Oceania combined. The reason is quite simple. Australia takes advantage of current quota allocation system. Firstly and obviously enough, Australia earn a lot of team sports quotas almost in a free path as Oceania representative. Moreover, if Australia finds themselves cannot earn the free quota then they choose to join Asia federation and takes advantage of us, especially FIFA world cup. When they find the 0.5 Oceania quota is useless they just quit. So to be fair, I would rather Oceania joins Asia system wholly instead of picking some sports favoring themselves and I also would like to see Asian Games and other continental events more competitive with the Oceanian teams.

The new Vaccination add

Horrible indeed Also yet another reason why I've got so much respect for first responders of any kind, imagine being a firefighter, police officer, medic or whatever and walking into a horror scene like this...how they are able to put it aside for a second and actually help, I don't know.

The defending Canadian champions, Team Bottcher, have started the Olympic trials 0-3 and are likely to miss the playoffs. 2006 gold medalist Brad Gushue and 2014 gold medalist Brad Jacobs are both 3-0 while former Canadian number 1 and 2017 trials finalist Mike McEwen is also undefeated at 2-0.

I am little bit disappointed of lack of interest for this championship. The arena Is nearly empty for each session (i can not compare with previous championship, because it is first ECH which i attented). One "funny" moment. Organizators asked some school (students) to go there. It was really boring for them and so they made paper plane and it was landed on ice at moment when curlers was curling one stone. Finally they agreed to repeat this stone.

Gratulace! Viděl jsem že někde v půli vedla... Popravdě až od tebe jsem se dozvěděl že je ta píseň od Lenny a už 5 let! Já to občas slyšel z rádia a myslel jsem že je to od někoho zahraničního. Jo a taky si ji posledni tyden pořád zpívám :-D

I gave Spain 2 points but I guess the other Greek jury members did not

Even here I struggled to choose between these two @hckošice

12 points: Franco Battiato - Centro Di Gravità Permanente 11 points: Muzsikás & Márta Sebestyén - Repülj Madár, Repülj 10 points: The Rumour Said Fire - The Balcony 9 points: Charly García & Spinetta - Rezo Por Vos 8 points: jautì - Akys 7 points: Emmanuel - La Chica De Humo 6 points: KLA Project - Yogyakarta 5 points: Claudio Capéo - Un Homme Debout 4 points: The Pogues - A Rainy Night In Soho 3 points: Vitorino - Vou-Me Embora Vou Partir 2 points: Joe Arroyo - La Rebelión 1 point: Billy Ocean - Red Light Spells Danger

Nobody who is in can ask that!!

Sorry for my bad post yesterday . Congrats to @Hipooo for the amazing win and to @Wanderer for the wonderful 2nd place. Thank you to @Dnl. @Wumo and @OlympicIRL for this amazing edition. and yes I will return for Sweden. I have already a song I want to select. Lol once again thanks to all who voted for Avicii. 8 gold medals not bad.

For me, this was one of the best Italian songs since your win! I love it! I am happy I discovered Franco Battiato and thank you for this! Please continue to reveal such great artists! <3

I really shouldn't need to explain this. More famous doesn't equal better, yes, they may be more critically acclaimed, but that does not mean that their music is better only because they have more views on Youtube. Also, in the modern age of this industry, we tend to imagine that we as people are responsible for who gets famous, but there are so many games behind the scenes that nobody becomes famous without a reason, especially when we're talking mainstream fame. And no, I'm not only talking about the games that labels play - buying spots on the radio, having a different platform where they can pitch music to Spotify, millions upon millions of dollars in marketing, venue placement and all that good shit, I'm also talking about Spotify and Youtube algorhythms that work for people who are already ahead, not for emerging artists, and especially not for artists that are not coming from a country that's a major player in the music soundscape. Basically, more and more nowadays you're listening to what's put in front of you, and rarely do you look for ways to seek out music on your own, this was made apparent by Spotify and how people consume music through playlists and are not even listening to full albums most of the time. Artists like Avicii don't come out of nowhere, artists nowadays are massively produced and the labels paint a pretty picture to make you think they're hot and up and coming, but everything is planned out years in advance. You could see that by looking at credits and seeing what songwriters wrote songs for who and then went on to become famous artists themselves after years of grind in the industry making connections, oooor another good example would be a huge super star Taylor Swift having a huge tour and who is warming up the stage for her? Shawn Mendes, Troye Sivan, Fifth Harmony that were put there by their labels and are now all huge artists. Lenny never had the chance to become more famous than Avicii, does that mean that she should automatically lose to him? ABSOLUTELY NOT.

Czech Republic's gold moves them to 11th in the All-Time medal table. New Zealand enters the table in 18th position. For nations tied in the table, countback has been used to separate them by looking at their highest non-medal winning result.... Totallympics International Song Contest All-Time Medal Table Updated after Edition XVII (TISC Open 2021) Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total 1 Ireland 5 0 3 8 2 Great Britain 2 1 1 4 3 Canada 2 1 1 4 4 Italy 1 2 0 3 5 Sweden 1 1 2 4 6 Germany 1 1 0 2 7 Netherlands 1 1 0 2 8 Denmark 1 0 1 2 9 Serbia 1 0 1 2 10 Lithuania 1 0 0 1 11 Czech Republic 1 0 0 1 12 Colombia 0 2 0 2 13 United States 0 1 2 3 14 Australia 0 1 1 2 15 Norway 0 1 0 1 16 Slovakia 0 1 0 1 17 Brazil 0 1 0 1 18 New Zealand 0 1 0 1 19 Mexico 0 1 0 1 20 China 0 1 0 1 21 France 0 0 3 3 22 Malta 0 0 1 1 23 Romania 0 0 1 1 Total Medals 17 17 17 51

I didn't have time yet to update all the hyperlinks but I did edit this basic table. Still 15 nations in the ever-present club Nations at the Totallympics International Song Contest Nations Highlighted in yellow are ever-present participants and have taken part in every edition to date Nation Number of Participations Debut Algeria 9 TISC Open 2015 Antarctica 0 Special Guest TISC Annual 2018 Argentina 17 TISC Open 2013 Australia 5 TISC Open 2014 Austria 2 TISC Annual 2018 Azerbaijan 9 TISC Open 2013 Brazil 17 TISC Open 2013 Bulgaria 16 TISC Open 2013 Canada 15 TISC Open 2013 Chile 7 TISC Annual 2015 China 6 TISC Annual 2019 Colombia 9 TISC Open 2014 Croatia 15 TISC Open 2013 Czech Republic 10 TISC Open 2013 Denmark 17 TISC Open 2013 Egypt 9 TISC Open 2013 Estonia 3 TISC Open 2014 Finland 10 TISC Open 2014 France 17 TISC Open 2013 Germany 12 TISC Open 2013 Great Britain 16 TISC Open 2013 Greece 17 TISC Open 2013 Guyana 4 TISC Open 2013 Hungary 8 TISC Annual 2014 India 16 TISC Open 2013 Indonesia 12 TISC Annual 2016 Iran 4 TISC Annual 2017 Ireland 17 TISC Open 2013 Israel 4 TISC Annual 2020 Italy 17 TISC Open 2013 Kazakhstan 13 TISC Open 2013 Latvia 2 TISC Open 2013 Lebanon 1 TISC Open 2014 Lithuania 17 TISC Open 2013 Malta 17 TISC Open 2013 Mexico 17 TISC Open 2013 Moldova 10 TISC Open 2015 Montenegro 2 TISC Annual 2014 Morocco 5 TISC Open 2013 Netherlands 15 TISC Open 2014 New Zealand 15 TISC Open 2014 Norway 6 TISC Annual 2014 Poland 17 TISC Open 2013 Portugal 13 TISC Open 2015 Romania 15 TISC Open 2013 Russia 8 TISC Open 2013 Serbia 17 TISC Open 2013 Slovakia 17 TISC Open 2013 Slovenia 17 TISC Open 2013 Spain 12 TISC Annual 2014 Sweden 9 TISC Open 2013 Switzerland 3 TISC Open 2014 Tunisia 15 TISC Annual 2014 Turkey 8 TISC Open 2013 Ukraine 3 TISC Open 2013 United States 17 TISC Open 2013 Uruguay 2 TISC Open 2017 Venezuela 2 TISC Annual 2018 Vietnam 2 TISC Open 2013

and the Womens internal qualification is over as well. It was very tense. After the first race yesterday Zuzana Remeňová was on the qualifying position, all her opponents already competed at the WC only Zuzana never, so she was so close of her debut. Nominačné rýchlostné preteky na 7,5 km 1. REMEŇOVÁ Zuzana 0+1 1 28:44 2. REMEŇOVÁ Mária 1+2 3 29:32 +0:48 3. HORVÁTOVÁ Henrieta 0+2 2 29:38 +0:54 4. MACHYNIAKOVÁ Júlia 0+2 2 30:09 +1:15 5. MACHYNIAKOVÁ Veronika 3+0 3 31:20 +2:26 But the second race with 4 shooting changed the final result, Both Remeňová sisters were fast on her skis, but biathlon is also about shooting and this at the end was the decisive moment for Henrieta Horvátová to win this internal qualification and accompany the Fialková sisters in Ostersund. Nominačné skr. vytrvalostné preteky na 12,5 km 1. HORVÁTOVÁ Henrieta 1+1+00 2 45:21 2. MACHYNIAKOVÁ Júlia 0+0+11 2 46:19 +0:58 3. REMEŇOVÁ Mária 1+3+22 8 46:49 +1:28 4. REMEŇOVÁ Zuzana 3+0++1 7 46:50 +1:29 5. KAPUSTOVÁ Ema 1+1+13 6 47:44 +2:23 6. MACHYNIAKOVÁ Veronika 0+2+11 4 48:02 +2:41 7. HOLMIKOVÁ Veronika 3+2+12 8 54:13 +8:52 So the final Standing was really tight ! 1. Horvátová 196.87, 2. Z. Remeňová 196.73 W Team in Ostersund World Cup Paulína Fialková, Ivona Fialková, Henrieta Horvátová W Team in Idre IBU Cup Mária Remeňová, Zuzana Remeňová, Júlia Machyniaková, Veronika Machyniaková

thanks to Chinese Taipei NOC, all technical handbooks of the 2022 Asian Games are available here https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1gvgwm0dlA8JW3j7-6npwBdzzo0GGeHbq only Esports handbook is missing, because they still didn't finalize the rules.

Very tragic night here. First there was a fire at a retirement home that killed 9 people. Now, when i woke up, found out there was a Macedonian bus accident, in the middle of the night, with 52 people, 45 of which died, many children of them. They were 4 buses returning to Macedonia from vacation to Istanbul, when one of them hits the railing, flips over and bursts into flames. Only 7 people manage to escape. Our police/medics said they haven't seen such horrific scenes, when arriving. Macedonian PM and other diplomats are already here as well.

The whole Russian team seems unlikely to make it to the US due to their vaccination status (Sputnik V). That would be outright stupid by whichever Russian authorities decided to give international athletes a vaccine which is not as widely recognized as others... Once again, it seems that Russian athletes are screwed by their own authorities