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So the qualification period for the 17 quotas based on the Olympic Ranking List starts this month and ends 10th of June 2024. Based on the FIVB world ranking as of right now, before any events have taken place, the following 17 pairs/countries would qualify per gender (max 2 per nationality): Men: 1. Mol/Sorum 2. Brouwer/Meeuwsen 2. Cherif/Ahmed 4. George/Andre 5. Bryl/Losiak 6. Perusic/Schweiner 6. Nicolai/Cottafava 8. Renato/Vitor Felipe 9. Grimalt/Grimalt 10. Ahman/Hellvig 11. McHugh/Burnett 12. Seidl/Waller 13. Berntsen/Mol 14. Pristauz/Ermacora 15. Krou/Grauthier-Rat 16. Herrera/Gavira 17. Carambula/Rossi Women: 1. Duda/Ana Patricia 2. Barbara/Carol 3. Stam/Schoon 4. Clancy/Mariafe 5. Anastasija/Tina 6. Hüberli/Brunner 7. Tillmann/Müller 8. Nuss/Kloth 9. Cannon/Sponcil 10. Borger/Sude 11. Brandie/Bukovec 12. Stockman/Kraft 13. Andressa/Vitoria 14. Taiana Lima/Hegeile 15. Worapeerachayakorn/Naraphornrapat 16. Ishii/Mizoe 17. Ittlinger/Schneider 18. Pavan/Melissa 19. Xia/Lin 20. Talita/Rebecca 21. Schulz/Laboureur 21. Heidrich/Vergé-Dépré 23. Hermannova/Stochlova First tournament that counts for the ranking is the Beach Pro Tour finals in Doha 26-29 January.

Detailed Paris 2024 Athletics schedule published by World Athletics

The year in sports brought us a lot of joy, tears and excitement, not only for the athletes competing, but for Totallympics members around the world. As we say goodbye to the returning edition of our annual awards, here's hope that 2023 can also be a memorable year for all sports fans. For now, we'll remember the moments that united us in 2022, presenting the theme song for this edition: TISC winner "Superheroes", by Irish band The Script. Thank you all! Have a great year and until the next Totallympics Awards!

TISC XIX - TISC Open 2022 (Czech Republic) Totallympics (Open) International Song Contest 2022 Venue: ČPP Arena, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic  PARTICIPATING NATIONS 41  *Click on the Flag to listen to that Nation's TISC Open 2022 entry Argentina Brazil Bulgaria Canada Chile China Croatia Czech Republic Denmark Egypt France Germany Great Britain Greece Hungary India Indonesia Ireland Israel Italy Kazakhstan Lithuania Malta Mexico Moldova Netherlands New Zealand Poland Portugal Romania Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Tunisia Turkey Ukraine United States Venezuela Vietnam Grand Final: Sunday November 6th, 2022 final standing 1 France 176 22 Malta 69 2 Sweden 149 23 Canada 69 3 Netherlands 143 24 Czech Republic 68 4 Germany 132 25 Great Britain 67 5 Greece 124 26 Romania 63 6 Spain 121 27 Chile 63 7 China 114 28 Slovakia 60 8 United States 113 29 Italy 60 9 India 110 30 Turkey 59 10 Croatia 103 31 Indonesia 56 11 Ireland 100 32 Argentina 55 12 Poland 89 33 New Zealand 52 13 Brazil 81 34 Portugal 51 14 Kazakhstan 79 35 Tunisia 51 15 Lithuania 78 36 Serbia 47 16 Denmark 78 37 Slovenia 39 17 Israel 77 38 Moldova 36 18 Mexico 74 39 Venezuela 36 19 Vietnam 72 40 Egypt 35 20 Ukraine 72 41 Bulgaria 6 21 Hungary 71 TISC Open 2022 Winner Marina Kaye - Homeless

Sigualda saw a very, very rare occurrence of a sled flying off course this weekend. Luckily nobody got injured.

2023 Beach Pro Tour Finals- From January 26-29, 2023 | Doha, Qatar: Men’s Tournament: 1. Cherif/Ahmed 2. Mol/Sørum 3. Brouwer/Meeuwsen 4. Andre/George 5. Bryl/Losiak 6. Nicolai/Cottafava 7. Perusic/Schweiner 8. Grimalt/Grimalt 9. Renato/Vitor Felipe 10. Carambula/Rangheri Women’s Tournament: 1. Duda/Ana Patricia 2. Barbora/Carol 3. Stam/Schoon 4. Clancy/Mariafe 5. Samoilova/Graudina 6. Hüberli/Brunner 7. Tillmann/Müller 8. Kloth/Nuss 9. Cheng/Hughes 10. Pavan/Bukovec

If you need a reason to get excited for these games, is scheduled to make their debut with cross country skier Link: https://medium.com/beacon-of-olympia/haitian-skiing-to-countrys-debut-at-winter-universiade-aa29a77075d8

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

I said you, You got the best job on earth

Slovakia women's team training @hckošice

Absolutely,do not mean any disrespect with my response,i'm just still passionate for this sport tough,even if the passion isn't as big as it was a few years ago,and i now hate the governing body of it.

Well that's fine, nothing wrong with agreeing to disagree Mostly let's just hope all the mentioned sports stay on and we don't need this entire discussion of 'should X or Y go out?' at all.

Thanks to the organizers and congratulations to the winners, this was a lot of fun Also, the video was phenomenal

Just wait until you hear about the fencing, swimming, laser shooting, obstacle course component their adding to it

That Mixed 35km Race Walk event instead of the 50km is still an unjustified crime from IAAF WA

Wait a second. Was the Belgian guy pointing his own rifle at himself ? How they were not DSQ ? I thought this sport had some very strict safety rules applied before

Thank you so much for bringing back Vinnies.

Inizia con il botto la stagione della atletica indoor ad Ancona, con Furnali che riesce a saltare 7,73m al debutto. Prestazione veramente importante vista la sua età, che lo porta a solamente 2cm dal record italiano di categoria U20. A Padova ottimo risultato del 16enne Mattia Beda, che riesce a saltare 5.00m nell'alta, nuovo personale. Speriamo si riesca a coltivare questo piccolo talentino... Deludente, come al solito, seppur con le dovute considerazioni visto che si tratta del peso, Osakue che perde da una giovanissima Verteramo in un meeting minore indoor di un livello veramente basso (14,21 e 14,46 le due misure)

2023 Canadian Track Cycling Championships | Milton, Ontario: January 6-8, 2023: Day 3 Results- Women’s Keirin: Gold- Lauriane Genest, Silver- Sarah Orban, Bronze- Diane Snobelen (Of note, Kelsey Mitchell chose not to compete in this event, otherwise she probably would’ve been on the podium) Men’s Keirin: Gold- James Hedgcock, Silver- Tyler Rorke, Bronze- Nick Wammes Women’s Pursuit: Gold- Ariane Bonhomme, Silver- Fiona Majendie, Bronze- Ruby West Men’s Pursuit: Gold- Michael Foley, Silver- Dylan Bibic, Bronze- Carson Mattern Men’s Madison: Gold- Dylan Bibic/Mathias Guillemette, Silver- Chris Burnst/Evan Burtnik, Bronze- Philippe Jacob/Tristan Jussaume Women’s Madison: Gold- Ariane Bonhomme/Lily Plante, Silver- Erin Attwell/Devaney Collier, Bronze- Kiara Lylyk/Kaitlyn Rauwerda Full Results Here

No pair from the United States in the men's.

Finland defeated Canada just a few days ago 4-3, but loses 8-0 ??? Makes 0 sense too me

Hossein Vafaei beat Mark Selby 6-2 in the first round of Masters. I wonder if he's any popular back home given his rise up the snooker ranks in the last 18-24 months? @MHSN

ASB Classic (Auckland ) Results Singles Winner Coco Gauff Runner-Up Rebeka Masarova Semifinalists Danka Kovinic Ysaline Bonaventure Doubles Winner Miyu Kato / Aldila Sutjiadi Runner-Up Leylah Fernandez / Bethanie Mattek-Sands Semifinalists Viktoria Kuzmova / Arantxa Rus Latisha Chan / Alexa Guarachi

Some special thanks to @Sindo for supporting the return of the awards, even when I thought it wouldn't be successful. To the members who helped me with projects for the awards: @Dragon @Games and Rings @intoronto @JoshMartini007 @Mkbw50 @Olympian1010 @Vojthas. And of course to all the 38 of you who voted (list here) or followed the awards As I followed the same format of the previous editions (which were almost a decade before), I'm aware that some things need to change. Hopefully, by the end of this year we'll have more time to discuss all the suggestions made here in order to improve our awards.

I wonder who (but deserved of course, I don't follow ice hockey enough to really know, but from what I'm reading he is truly a remarkable athlete!)

Yay! France winning with a penalty loop is rare Great day for Switzerland, 3rd place in the single mixed and now 4th in the mixed relay, congrats to them

Great day for !

Switzerland on the podium

88th Przegląd Sportowy Plebiscite for Sports Personality of the Year: Iga Świątek (tennis) Bartosz Zmarzlik (speedway) Robert Lewandowski (association football) Kamil Semeniuk (volleyball) Dawid Kubacki (ski jumping) Mateusz Ponitka (basketball) Adrian Meronk (golf) Katarzyna Wasick (swimming) Paweł Fajdek (athletics) Fabian Barański, Mirosław Ziętarski, Mateusz Biskup, Dominik Czaja (rowing) Coach of the Year: Tomasz Wiktorowski (tennis) Team of the Year: Men's volleyball national team