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For those interested, a colleague and friend of our Olympic Totallympian has started a crowd funding action to help her get to the Olympics in 2026, which resulted in an interview with one of the larger newspapers, a fairly large semi-regional TV/online news channel, and a few other things The story and a link with a bit more background can be found in this post:

Well, they never gave a shit when stuff gets blown up in some middle east country so it would be consistent.

Canada bans foreigners from buying houses for two years Imagine if this happened in Poland, we would be blasted as xenophobes & racists but I doubt anyone uses the same comments for Trudeau's family empire https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64082923

Prediction Contests Are Just-For-Fun Games You don't need to be an expert to take part in a Prediction Contest. If a mistake penalizes you, always keep in mind that everyone is in good faith. Competition Details City Multiple Cities Start Date January 11th, 2023 End Date January 29th, 2023 Participants 34 Gold maestro Silver africaboy Bronze neveritt84 Instructions In order to post your predictions, you have to do the following: Select with your mouse specified content of the Post named Prediction Contest Design Copy the selected content Go to Reply Box at the end of the Page, click on "Reply to this topic" Paste the copied content ( When information "You have pasted content with formatting" appears at the end of the Reply Box, ignore it, it will disappear eventually. DO NOT click on "Remove formatting" under any circumstances) Once you have specified content in new Post, start making your predictions according to the Rules To post your predictions, click on "Submit Reply" button Rules For this Prediction Contest you are predicting point difference for each match. To do that, you have to write in empty Cell a number - point difference for each match. If your prediction is that Nation 1 is going to win, you should type point difference in appropriate Cell of T1 Column. If your prediction is that Nation 2 is going to win, then type point difference in appropriate Cell of T2 Column. In case you think the match is going to end with a tie (draw), type 0 in any of the corresponding Cells. There cannot be 0 as point difference in the Quarterfinals, Semfinals and Medal Matches and result after overtime/penalties will be counted as final result. Example Group A Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 12th 2023, h. 18:00 Chile 8 Iran Scoring System: Basic number of points is 10 If you predict right winner for a match or a draw, you will get 10 points regardless of the goal difference. If your prediction is perfect (correct winner + correct goal difference or a draw) you will earn 10+10 = 20 points. Depending on difference between your prediction and actual result, earned points will differ. Example Group A Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 12th 2023, h. 18:00 Chile 8 Iran If Chile wins by 8, you will earn 20 points [10 pts for correct winner + 10 pts for point difference] If Chile wins by 3, you will earn 15 points [10 pts for correct winner + 5 pts for point difference] If Chile wins by 19, you will earn 10 points [10 pts for correct winner + 0 pts for point difference] If Iran wins by 1, you will earn 1 point [0 pts for correct winner + 1 pts for point difference] If Iran wins by 2 or more, you will earn 0 points [0 pts for correct winner + 0 pts for point difference] Top 3 Prediction points will be awarded as follow: Correct Predicted 1st Place will be awarded 10 points Correct Predicted 2nd Place will be awarded 7,5 points Correct Predicted 3rd Place will be awarded 5 points Corrected Predicted Nation in Top 3, but wrong place will be awarded 2 points TB Rules If two or more contestants have the same number of points at the end, Tie-Break rule will be applied to break the tie. Number or perfect predictions throughout the contest will be compared for the involved contestants. If they are still tied, number of second best scores will be compared, then number of third best results and so on. Example Contestant 1: 3x20, 2x19, 2x18, 2x17 Contestant 2: 3x20, 2x19, 2x18, 1x17 Contestant 1 will be placed ahead of Contestant 2. Contestant with most points wins the competition. The Ranking is determined by the Sum of Points the Contestant scores in all predicted Matches and Top 3 Predictions. You can enter the Contest whenever you want. The moment you post your predictions is the moment when you are entering the Contest and your points will be calculated for all the matches you predicted AND which haven't started. In order to earn points from the start, you should post your predictions before the start of the first match of the Championship - January 11th, h. 21:00 (GMT +1). You can EDIT your predictions whenever you want until the start of the first match of the Prediction Design Post. Once competition starts, you are not allowed to edit your post and any further changes will be ignored. On contestant's request, edited predictions will be accepted, but contestant will earn 0 points for finished matches and the matches that have started. Moment at the latest editing will be considered as the entry moment, in other words. If you want to comment on this Prediction Contest, please use the Prediction Contests - Discussion Thread. If you have problem with the format, you can post your predictions in simplified format. Also, if the forum is down, or you cannot access the forum for any reason, you can send your predictions on e-mail: totallympics.predictions@gmail.com. Make sure your predictions are understandable. For instance, 8 CHI-IRI means Chile beats Iran by 8. CHI 8 IRI means nothing. And please, write your Totallympics username so the contest manager can know who actually sent predictions. Every contestant MUST HIDE own predictions. To do that, you have only to delete the space between the bracket "[" and the text "hide" in "[ hide]" at the beginning of prediction post. Do the same with "[ /hide]" at the end of prediction post too. The hidden content will appear to other users as follows: You cannot see this If you have any other questions concerning this prediction contest, problems with format, editing etc... please, contact the contest manager via Personal Message.

Honest question.

Also, just noticed a mistake in the men’s street skateboarding poll. Ryan Decenzo is Canadian not American.

TEAM KOREA Pitchers Go Woo-suk (LG Twins, KBO ) Gwak Been (Doosan Bears, KBO ) Jeong Cheol-won (Doosan Bears, KBO ) Jung Woo-yung (LG Twins, KBO ) Kim Taek-hyeong (SSG Landers, KBO ) Kim Won-jung (Lotte Giants, KBO ) Ko Young-pyo (KT Wiz, KBO ) Koo Chang-mo (NC Dinos, KBO ) Lee Eui-lee (KIA Tigers, KBO ) Lee Yong-chan (NC Dinos, KBO ) Park Se-woong (Lotte Giants, KBO ) So Hyeong-jun (KT Wiz, KBO ) Yang Hyeon-jong (KIA Tigers, KBO ) Won Tae-in (Samsung Lions, KBO ) Catchers Lee Ji-young (Kiwoom Heores, KBO ) Yang Eui-ji (Doosan Bears, KBO ) Infielders Choi Ji-man (Pittsburgh Pirates, MLB ) Choi Joo-hwan (SSG Landers, KBO ) Tommy Edman (St. Louis Cardinals, MLB ) Kim Ha-seong (San Diego Padres, MLB ) Kim Hye-seong (Kiwoom Heores, KBO ) Kang Baek-ho (KT Wiz, KBO ) Oh Ji-hwan (LG Twins, KBO ) Park Byung-ho (KT Wiz, KBO ) Outfielders Kim Hyun-soo (LG Twins, KBO ) Lee Jung-hoo (Kiwoom Heores, KBO ) Na Sung-bum (KIA Tigers, KBO ) Park Hae-min (LG Twins, KBO ) Park Kun-woo (NC Dinos, KBO )

Stage 18 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen (GER) Men´s Slalom: 1. Henrik Kristoffersen 1:48.37 2. Manuel Feller 1:49.59 3. Clement Noel 1:49.83 Full Final Results HERE

Stage 17 in Zagreb (CRO) Women´s Slalom: 1. Mikaela Shiffrin 1:36.42 2. Petra Vlhova 1:37.18 3. Anna Swenn-Larsson 1:37.63 Full Final Results HERE Petra Vlhová 63rd careers WC Podium, 20th Silver (26-20-17), Season 2022/23 WC 6th Podium, 2nd Silver (0-2-4) 39th Careers WC Slalom Podium, 13th Silver (17-13-9), Season 2022/23 WC Slalom 4th Podium, 1st Silver (0-1-3)

One wonders why don't they just hold more races in North America... This is pathetic and really just unsustainable at this point.

Perth Master is about to starts, team Mouat and team Retornaz are in. Livestreaming: https://www.perthmasters.com/

it depends on which event I want to follow, however those I use more than others are SVT Sweden, NOS Netherlands, RTVE Play (Spain). then the Swiss TV, ARD/ZDF (Germany) and BBC/ITV (GBR) are always useful as well, but personally I have those channels on satellite TV, so I rarely use them online.

Eurosport Player for a few more days, and sometimes Viaplay when I can't watch on TV or computer But both are just to watch stuff, other than that...nothing.

if you mean apps with results, rankings and news, well, I don't use any...I rather go with normal websites. if you mean apps to watch sport events on TV comfortably lying on the couch, well the list is quite long (normally, I'm using android TV apps and apple tv apps). I have almost every OTT service you can imagine: MLB.tv (baseball), ESPN Player (NHL hockey, NCAA sports), NFL GamePass, NBA League Pass, Discovery Plus and of course all those free apps where I can find some sport events I'm interested in (from Youtube to the Olympic Channel to most National TV apps -thanks to a good VPN, obviously). and sometimes I add a few more when it comes to the climax of certain competitions (namely, the Korean and Japanese IPTV service to watch their baseball champs playoffs). not to mention, 2 or 3 satellite TV subs, too. I'm a bit sick, I must admit...

not completely out of order, but I'd would be surprised if it actually happens. I'm not even sure she's going to be among our 3 starters in that event. p.s. if France don't make the podium (maybe even the gold medal) in men's Street Skateboarding I'd be really shocked.

You said YES. i think YES but if it is me to decide i would say NO in today’s circumstances i wonder what would have to happen that would make me change my mind before June 2024

Thanks! next poll in this series will be here this week. We will start day 2 in Paris and this one will be all about swimming! We are waiting for your votes 😉👍

I seemed to have missed the poll, so let me do my predictions down below: Women’s Judo -48kg: Gold- Natsumi Tsunoda , Silver- Assunta Scutto , Bronze- Shirine Boulki , Bronze- Julia Figueroa Men’s Judo -60kg: Gold- Naohisa Takato , Silver- Yeldos Smetov , Bronze- Yang Yung Wei , Bronze- Giorgi Sardalashvili Men’s Fencing Sabre Individual: Gold- Aron Szilagyi , Silver- Maxine Pianfetti , Bronze- Luigi Samele Women’s Fencing Epeé Individual: Gold- Rossella Fiamingo , Silver- Katrina Lehis , Bronze- Marie-Florence Candassamy (Another Hungary/Italy/France fencing podium, how unrealistic ) Probably would have Choi In-Jeong/Song Se-ra in the mix as well. Men’s Street Skateboarding: Gold-Nyjah Houston , Silver- Gustavo Ribeiro , Bronze- Kelvin Hoefler

2023 United Cup - Group A: Greece 4 - 1 Belgium Alison van Uytvanck BEL d. Despina Papamichail GRE 7-5 2-6 6-3 Stefanos Tsitsipas GRE d. David Goffin BEL 6-3 6-2 Maria Sakkari GRE d. Elise Mertens BEL 6-1 7-5 Stefanos Sakellaridis GRE d. Zizou Bergs BEL 5-7 6-1 6-3 Sakkari/Tsitsipas GRE d. Flipkens/Geerts BEL 6-3 6-2

I’m watching the sport year 2022 in SVT. OMG! Right now I’m very disappointed that the best team in the world isn’t allowed to participate in these awards. Yes I’m talking about Team Sweden Equestrian Show Jumping. They are so good.

Actually number of athletes banned by World Athletics at this exact moment

MacNeil is the favourite at this point but her win in Tokyo wasn't exactly dominant.

Exactly when will be Midnight this New Year, it will be 30 years that Czechoslovakia ceased to exist and 2 new independent countries were created. I found this vintage video from BBC and CNN news from the 1. January 1993 btw, I also learned today, that the very first sport person representing independent Slovakia was Michal Lepko jumping in Garmisch-Partenkirchen 4 Hills Tournament in 1st round the 1st January 1993 the 1st day of Slovakia (what about that) he and Martin Švagerko who jumped just after him, both represented former Czechoslovakia in Oberstdorf 3 days ago and then they were our first athletes who had the flag of Slovakia near to their name in a competition Later in the evening in the Ice Hockey World Juniors a new team under neutral flag named Team Czech Republic and Slovakia beat Japan 14-2. Two days before the team had still its flag and anthem ! One of the biggest WTF in world sport history A team which started the Tournament on Boxing Day as Czechoslovakia ended the Tourney winning Bronze for a non-existing country anymore ... This world is crazy

This is not what you think - they should or they should not. This is about what you think is gonna happen, what IOC and Macron do about it? Very very interested in the outcome of this poll.

100% gold medal in handall? Both teams will certainly be contenders, but not necessarily favourites

Just wait until the Dear Leader hears about this. He will "express grave concern" about the "gender diversity, youthfulness and urbanity" of the IBA and then appoint a 12-year-old refugee to be President

21 DNF in the 1st Run ...

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