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The Morocco team appearing in men’s team of the year shortlist is the most bizarre for me. I appreciate what they did was a first for an African team and they played brilliantly at the World Cup but they finished 4th, and yet they made the best team of the year shortlist….

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Word is Enzo Fernandez will move to Chelsea for 120+ million Euro. @konig@LDOG

I believe they announced earlier that all 4 events will be a part of the relay. I always found them rather dull, but with 4 legs it will become even more predictable, and frankly, unwatchable.

1) it was a pure guess, but I think I got it right this time. 2) it's a public forum, everybody is here to express their opinion and in this case, I've not been asked to stop speaking for him by the author of the post himself, which would be the only thing stopping me from commenting other people's words. 3) + 5) as I wrote, I'm not here to explain the whole question and I'm not going to do any reserch for anybody. If you're interested in the argument, I'm pretty sure you can find all the useful infos by yourself. 4) you wrote about the usage of human feces...my limited mind didn't go beyond that kind of use in that situation (which is already practiced) and I took it as the only option. Sorry if I misinterpreted your idea...a few more examples would have made things more clear, though.

Either way, I hope you can vote now in second stage

Probably the main reason they were voted. Not because the final position, but the historical result.

I know, it was merely a joke, though with Čeh and especially LD77 we have quite good chances in years to come. 😉

I have submitted my votes. Looking forward to the awards ceremony

How in the hell did Sweden win? Sweden is in the semifinals.

Please do not tell me any other context in which it might be a resource.

It's not that easy in some cases because people often vote just for the athlete (without further explanation), and sometimes they explain the reasoning behind the vote (also citing different things, for the same athlete). But in general, based on what people said: Mixed Team: unexpected medal in Ski Jumping, the first ever for the nation in this sport. Iivo Niskanen: waited to congratulate the last-place skier. Sofia Goggia: injured, won a silver medal. Kai Verbij: sacrificed his medal chances, preventing a crash with his opponent. Brittany Bowe: gave up spot for teammate Erin Jackson, who ended up winning gold. Lindsey Jacobellis: won gold after many failed attempts.

I do believe it was because of this

Rebeka Koha (2 bronze medals in WCh) returned as Rebeka Salsabil Ibrahima by winning Qatar Cup and West Asian Championships. Full sotry: https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1132081/rebeka-back

Beautiful presentation @vinipereira!

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Lionel Messi FOOTBALL Johannes Thingnes Bø BIATHLON David Popovici SWIMMING Armand Duplantis ATHLETICS Nils van der Poel SPEED SKATING Marco Odermatt ALPINE SKIING

Annemiek van Vleuten ROAD CYCLING Irene Schouten SPEED SKATING Therese Johaug CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING Iga Świątek TENNIS Katie Ledecky SWIMMING Sydney McLaughlin SWIMMING

Canada ICE HOCKEY England FOOTBALL Great Britain CURLING New Zealand RUGBY UNION Serbia VOLLEYBALL United States BASKETBALL

Argentina FOOTBALL Finland ICE HOCKEY Italy VOLLEYBALL Morocco FOOTBALL Spain WATER POLO Sweden CURLING

Brian McKeever CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING Stefano Raimondi SWIMMING Diede de Groot WHEELCHAIR TENNIS Jesper Pedersen ALPINE SKIING Marcel Hug ATHLETICS Oksana Masters BIATHLON • CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING • ROAD CYCLING

Johana Viveros INLINE SPEED SKATING Ali Farag SQUASH Ronnie O'Sullivan SNOOKER Francesco Bagnaia MOTORCYCLE RACING Max Verstappen AUTO RACING Sandra Sánchez KARATE

Sui Wenjing • Han Cong FIGURE SKATING Barbora Krejčíková • Kateřina Siniaková TENNIS Gabriella Papadakis • Guillaume Cizeron FIGURE SKATING Francesco Friedrich • Thorsten Margis BOBSLEIGH Fintan McCarthy • Paul O'Donovan ROWING Stefania Constantini • Amos Mosaner CURLING

Mollie O'Callaghan SWIMMING Summer McIntosh SWIMMING Su Yiming SNOWBOARD David Popovici SWIMMING Juraj Slafkovský ICE HOCKEY Erriyon Knighton ATHLETICS

Alison dos Santos ATHLETICS Jonas Vingegaard ROAD CYCLING Léon Marchand SWIMMING Morocco Men's Team FOOTBALL Tobi Amusan ATHLETICS Carlos Alcaraz TENNIS

Canada Mixed Team SKI JUMPING Iivo Niskanen CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING Sofia Goggia ALPINE SKIING Kai Verbij SPEED SKATING Brittany Bowe SPEED SKATING Lindsey Jacobellis SNOWBOARD

Welcome to the nominations announcement for the 2022 Totallympics Awards, a celebration of the year in sports. Throughout the next hour, we will unveil the nominees for the 11 categories voted by Totallympics members, as well as remember some of the moments that made 2022 a great year for sports!

I'd also support the three categories. It's already hard enough to choose between men's teams and women's teams that win similarly important events, it would be terribly hard to choose with a single category.

Thank you for the kind recognition. Totallympics continues to be a place that keeps the Olympic flame and love for Olympic sports alive. As the IOC is increasingly controversial and athletics and other sports seem more and more squeezed, we keep the love and interest up and everyone can contribute, whether they've been a member for years or days

my pick is: 3 categories (it would make it easier to put the appropriate team in the appropriate category, with no margin for interpretation nor misunderstanding).

Happy new Year to all the Totallympians and all the people around the World celebrating it right now!

Happy New Year, EVERYONE! i wish you all to be healthy and safe and i wish you all plenty of entertaining competition in the sports or events you enjoy the most! Let’s see what 23 brings to us all! Ready, steady, go!!! 😉

Happy New Year!!!

Well, where to begin… The forum stayed online another year thanks to @Sindo. It got a facelift thanks to the content generated by @Matej@JoshMartini007@Vojthas @Mkbw50 and others. Our results section grew thanks to the major contribution of @frantic13poland, among others. We celebrated another two editions of TISC under the guidance of @OlympicIRL, with wonderful hosts @Vektor @Hipooo. Our competitive circuit of prediction contests was once again successfully overseen by @Wumo, and our end of year awards revived by @vinipereira. Finally, the moderation team kept things (mostly) civil in the threads for another year against all odds. Hats off all It finally felt like international sports returned to a semi-normal state this year. We celebrated another Olympics, World Cup, and numerous other events together. Unfortunately, it was also a year marked by conflict. Conflict between nations; between internal domestic forces; between users. It was certainly a year of highs and lows; from top athletes missing the Olympics due to Covid and other injuries, to Messi finally leading Argentina to a World Cup victory. Some of us spent time recovering from injuries and illness, while others celebrated bringing a new life into the world. Through it all, and not to lean too hard on the favorite cliche of the international sports community, we were united by sport. Whether we were captivated or devastated, entertained or bored, overjoyed by victory or ostensibly angered by loss; users alike were connected by sport. We screamed, laughed, argued, celebrated, and debated like one large dysfunctional family; a brotherhood of international sports fans. I can say, without a shred of doubt, that my year was inextricably improved by the time I spent on this forum. If time is money, then joining the forum just over four years ago was one of my more sound investments. I’d like to thank all of you for your contributions to this forum. We’ve collectively grown such a wonderful, even if occasionally frustrating, community. Additionally, many of you have been so incredibly supportive of my career as an international sports journalist. I can’t thank you enough for your support. I can only hope to repay you with more excellent content in the year to come. So with that sentiment, let’s remember fondly the year we’re leaving behind, and greet the future with great enthusiasm. We’re now mere minutes away from the last Totallympics time zone joining everyone else in the New Year, so break out the confetti, libations, firecrackers, boomsticks, and cursed vuvuzelas. It’s time for one last celebration in 2022!

If I’m not mistaken, I’m now the last Totallympian living in 2022. Wholesome remarks incoming…

Happy New Year!

NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCEMENT Sunday, January 1st, 18:00 (UTC+0)

Happy New Year!! I wish everyone a good year.

Happy New Year! And it's one for the books for us here. With this day we both welcome Euro as our new currency and we enter the Schengen zone of free passage. Crazy.

Happy and prosperous 2023 to all of you.

That was my initial thought, but there wasn't much time to do something like this. Next year I will open the thread sooner so we can do shortlists.

Also, something to consider for next year if we do this again… I think it would be better to create a user generated shortlist for each category (ie, users can suggest a few 2-3 unique candidates for each category), and then hold a preliminary vote with all those candidates listed, with the top 5/6 candidates moving on to the main round of voting for each award. There’s some athletes/teams/moments other users have suggested that I didn’t even think of or consider that I wish had when reading through the thread. There’s just so much to consider and evaluate for individual users in the first round at present.

https://cowzdrowiu.pl/aktualnosci/post/ukrainiec-odzyskal-wzrok-po-30-latach-dzieki-polskim-lekarzom 55-year-old Ukrainian Paralympian Serhii Sydorenko regained his sight 30 years after the accident thanks to surgery in Poland Sydney and Beijing medalist in judo.

Ranking of 4th places will be here soon ;-) (I will try to count them just to check how many of them goes to Canada ;-)

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wow,no words

16 yo boxer Vasileios Topalos died today, he was a member of Greek junior national teams

It was just announced that Urša Bogataj has ended her season. She already was on the fence last year after the OG if she wanted to continue and decided to go until Planica 2023. So this likely means she will end her career at 27. This also doesn't bode well for our hopes of a medal in Planica. Last season we were on top, this year we will be lucky if we get one medal in the end...