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South Korea's Moon Dae-Sung, who beat Nikolaidis in the final at the 2004 Olympics, traveled to Thessaloniki, Greece to visit Nikolaidis' grave. He told reporters that he had a very strong relationship with Nikolaidis, and that he was sorry that it took him so long to visit his grave. I think this is a really beautiful story and it shows the Olympic spirit. Video here (in English) https://www.gazzetta.gr/tae-kbon-nto/2186421/alexandros-nikolaidis-ston-tafo-toy-o-koreatis-poy-antimetopise-ston-teliko

Good evening, afternoon and morning! On another forum, someone opened a thread with a game which seemed like fun, and even more so on a forum like Totallympics, with enthousiasts from all over the world and a wide variety of sports: Guess the Record! The rules are rather simple: 1. Someone posts a sports-related record. This may be an officially recognized world record, it may be the highest number of wins in some sport, the fastest ever goal, you get the point. 2. Others try to figure out which record it is. It doesn't have to include the owner of the record, but of course it would be fun if you know those things as well. Main thing is that you get correct which record it is. 3. The user who gets it correct first (as judged by the person who posted the record) gets a point, and can post a different record as described in point 1, preferably also updating the score table. If it takes several hours for the 'winner' to post a new record, someone else can step in and post one. Obviously the point is to not search for it online. If you search for the record, we will most likely never know, but you will have to live with the guilt of being a cheater. The person who posted the record is free to post some hints if it takes too long, at his or her own discretion. Game on! And to get it going, I'll start with a simple one: 9,58 seconds

Different countries do different things. The old Communist countries usually take FISU very seriously & send strong teams. Here in we have one recognised Sports University, and others which have specific programmes which produce lots of international athletes, like obviously Oxford & Cambridge in Rowing or Stirling in Swimming. Otherwise our young Olympic-track athletes are kept on the circuit where they are earning international points for FIS, ISU etc. Probably the only athletes here who really have serious ambitions for the future will be the two Curling teams, because there aren't that many serious international Curling competitions out there. But it's still fun, because all sport is good when it is between athletes on the same level. Doesn't have to involve Messi & Benzema to be exciting.

No, he’s at Roos House. @Sindo can represent us at v.

Hard to do any quiz in a Olympic forum Yep, absolutely. Sparta Sarpsborg - Storhamar Game 5 of National championship Quarterfinal is the longest Official Ice hockey game. The wining goal came in the 17th minute and 14th second of the 8th 20 minutes Overtime The match started at 18:00 and ended at 2:32 the next morning

Detailed Paris 2024 Athletics schedule published by World Athletics

As we've reached the end of the competitive categories, now it's time for the Totallympics' Stars Award, which celebrates our own members. Voted by their peers, these users made some important contributions, having a strong presence in our forum. Here, they are nominated for many different reasons, such as: organization of prediction contests, work on results section, writing for Totallympics News, TISC hosting duties, and discussions or sports info in our threads. All members are valuable for making Totallympics the best sports forum on the internet. We salute you all, including those not listed. This year, the Totallympics' Stars Award honorees are: @dcro @Hipooo @phelps @Dragon @MHSN @rafalgorka @frantic13poland @Mkbw50 @Vektor @hckošice @Olympian1010 @Vojthas @heywoodu @OlympicIRL @Wumo

No, you’re not. thank you for your votes and for this link to the italian webpage with swimming ranking lists you posted here some time ago. I didn’t know this one before and it’s extremely useful for me. Thanks!

French defense took over in the last 10 mins, but I think Poland played quite well and definitely they're not chanceless vs and . might be a different story, however.

I’m now playing a round of spot the @Sindo. Let’s see if I can win a prize It appears @Sindo relayed @hckošice request as they’ve added a game clock to the graphics

It is a record. It does NOT come from the sport of cycling. A solid guess though.

https://actu.fr/ile-de-france/vincennes_94080/une-ville-du-val-de-marne-va-accueillir-une-epreuve-des-jeux-olympique-en-2024_56499622.html The city of Vincennes, in the east of Paris, will be on the path of the Cycling Road Time Trial.

É incrível como vira ano e o handebol continua a mesma coisa de sempre, às vezes piora como agora. Muito talento desperdiçado. Sobre o mundial, vamos ver, né? Antes de tudo, amistoso é amistoso.

Oh duh, I entirely overlooked the one that says 'LIVE' in a bright-red box

Nope, that’s actually significantly longer than the record I posted.

I actually can appreciate this tournament more if it’s just a bunch of university level players getting an international experience they otherwise wouldn’t without this tournament. I think those are the players this event should be for in some ways (developmental for younger athletes or last hurray for older athletes unlikely to compete at a higher level).

Oh well, that's often the level of university sports in general, apart from those 3-4 countries that take it somewhat seriously (and the main one isn't even there of course)

I guess all the decent players of that age are on pro contracts & thus ineligible. Even in only a few University teams in any sport are heading to international kevel.

I doubt it This is just like a bunch of hobby lads skating around, I see this is like me younger playing with friends and died after 10 minutes Absolute amateur level

Denis Bakala played at World Juniors a couple of years ago for us but in the bottom defensive pairs

however they should add at least the clock

Tens of people in attendance for this Wednesday afternoon ice hockey preliminary match

Ooh, based on @hckošice's comments every now and then, SVK vs HUN must be a nice friendly match

Is that by any chance the duration of the longest ever ice hockey match? I think I remember there was a crazy game in Norway 2-3 years ago (?) with OT after OT after OT I think it broke the record of a KHL match not long before that, but I'm not entirely sure. And maybe I am totally wrong, but ice hockey is definitely the first sport I'm going to think about when you ask it

Great idea. Easy one obviously, I remember watching it and it was amazing. Bolt in Berlin WCh 2009 WR in M 100m However imagine that this can be the Pole Vault WR in some 250 years

Hey LDOG, I'm sorry I first reply know to your comment now. I wanted to try out this system for this prediction contest. I'm aware that the goals per games are higher than in Football. It could be that this system would end up in very few perfect predict scores. Less than 4-5 for the best predictors. If that end up being the case, then the system would have obviously been to harsh and involving too much randomness than fair. It was from my side an attempt/try out to see if this system could fit in a Field Hockey prediction contest. If the perfect scores end up being very few, then this attempt has proven to be a wrong choice from my side.

Yes my friend, The maximum number of teams participating in the World Winter Games in team sports is: 10 in curling (both genders), 12 in men's ice hockey and 8 in women's (it should be noted that this number was never reached,the highest number was 7 in 2015 and 2017) and in some cases it is normal to use the ranking of the base categories or else the results of the editions previous.On this year Summer Games.FISU had to make another draw on the collective events,as originally Canada,Australia,UK and New Zealand withdrawn for the Chengdu Games,but they maybe turn back of this decison.

The small countries with half decent 400m runners, one of which I live in, will probably have to concentrate on the mixed. very odd scheduling though

Rupholding is providing us with the best biathlon experience of the season

TV feed doesn't work too. Apparently it's a black out..

A quite rare situation in Adelaide this week. In the final qualifying round, Kwon Soon-woo lost to Tomas Machac. However, he got in the main draw as a lucky loser and was drawn against... Machac in the first round. This time he won and qualified to the second round, where he defeated no2 seed Pablo Carreno Busta earlier today.

I thought that it was impossible to make it worse than the last couple of Winter Games in terms of scheduling... but here we have an absolute sh*t personally, having Fencing and Swimming finals at the same time in the first week is a disaster, then we have to add Athletics in the weekend in the middle. finally, in the second week, we have Wrestling, Taekwondo, Weightlifting, Athletics medal sessions and most of the team sports playoffs matches running at the same time in the 7.30/11 p.m. slot. c'mon, man! p.s. and also the Athletics schedule is just...crazy... how can you run 4 times the 800m in 4 days always at their best? and pretend that the athletes don't give themselves some kind of chemical help just to try and face that challenge?

Debutants beat by 15 runs in 1st practice game. They face in the final practice game before the world cup starts @Griff88

Voting in this one ends soon.

Thank you @vinipereira! That was great thread!!!

2023 Australian Open: Women's Singles Qualifying: Round 1: Despina Papamichail GRE d. (10) Reka Luca Jani HUN 6-1 6-0 Round 1: (18) Marina Bassols Ribera ESP d. Valentini Grammatikopoulou GRE 6-2 6-1 Round 2: Despina Papamichail GRE vs. Olga Danilovic SRB

Stage 21 in Flachau (AUT) Women´s Slalom: 1. Petra Vlhova 1:51.95 2. Mikaela Shiffrin 1:52.38 3. Lena Duerr 1:52.80 Full Final Results HERE Petra Vlhová 65th careers WC Podium, 27th Win (27-20-18), Season 2022/23 WC 8th Podium, 1st Win (1-2-5) 40th Careers WC Slalom Podium , 18th Win (18-13-9), Season 2022/23 WC Slalom 5th Podium, 1st Win (1-1-3)

Carlos Correa has signed with the twins. Pending physical of course

2023 Beach Pro Tour Elite16- From February 1-5, 2023 | Doha, Qatar : (For qualifiers, four spots are available in the main draw, just win two in a row and you’re in) Women’s Tournament Reserves: 1. Hasegawa/Sakaguchi 2. Klinger/Klinger 3. Matsumoto/Matsumoto 4. Makhno/Makhno 5. Lunina/Lazarenko 6. Simo/Rodriguez 7. Murakami/Fujii 8. Paulikiene/Raupelyte 9. Dave/Ashush 10. Grudzinskaite/Grudzinskaite 11. Dumbauskaite/Krizanauskaite Women’s Tournament Qualifiers (This field is loaded with talent, holy crap): 1. Cannon/Sponcil 2. Talita/Thamela 3. Nuss/Kloth 4. Andressa/Vitoria 5. Schneider/Sude 6. Menegatti/Gottardi 7. Borger/Ittlinger 8. Taiana Lima/Hegeile 9. Ishii/Mizoe 10. Placette/Richard 11. Stockman/Kraft 12. Álvarez/Moreno 13. Böbner/Vergé-Dépré 14. Carro/Lobato 15. Rivas Zapata/Villablanca 16. Helland-Hansen/Olimstad Women’s Tournament Main Draw: 1. Duda/Ana Patricia 2. Cheng/Hughes 3. Müller/Tillmann 4. Barbora/Carol 5. Clancy/Mariafe 6. Pavan/Bukovec 7. Humana-Parades/Wilkerson 8. Flint/Scoles 9. Samoilova/Graudina 10. Stam/Schoon 11. Hüberli/Brunner 12. Hermanová/Stochlova My question here is, when will be the return of Klineman/Ross?

2023 Beach Pro Tour Elite16- From February 1-5, 2023 | Doha, Qatar : (For qualifiers, four spots are available in the main draw, just win two in a row and you’re in) Men’s Tournament Reserves: 1. Huseyin Mermer/Urlu 2. Dumek/Sedlak 3. Friend/Brewster 4. MacNeil/Russell 5. Klasnic/Kolaric 6. Plavins/Samoilovs 7. Hajós/Attila Stréli 8. Lorenz/Reinhardt 9. Jawo/Njie Men’s Tournament Qualifiers: 1. Carambula/Rangheri 2. Seidel/Waller 3. Lupo/Rossi 4. McHugh/Burnett 5. Crabb/Brunner 6. Herrera/Gavira 7. Vinicius/Saymon 8. Ermacora/Pristauz 9. Krattinger/Breer 10. Samoilovs/Smedins 11. Carracher/Nicolaidis 12. Heidrich/Dillier 13. Bassereau/Lyneel 14. Webber/Cory 15. Aravena/Droguett 16. Al Jalaboubi/Alhashmi Men’s Tournament Main Draw: 1. Mol/Sørum 2. Renato/Vitor Felipe 3. Brouwer/Meeuwsen 4. Andre/George 5. Grimalt/Grimalt 6. Bryl/Losiak 7. Åhman/Hellvig 8. Perusic/Schweiner 9. Ahmed/Cherif 10. Nicolai/Cottafava 11. Ehlers/Wickler 12. Nassim/Mahmoud Berntsen/Mol? Nõlvak/Tiisaar? Where are Varenhorst/Van De Velde, Boermans/Immers and Luini/Penniga? Bourne/Schalk? A lot of top teams missing from this event on the men’s side. Edit: as @hoversaBR has kindly pointed out to me, Alison/Guto have split, and therefore the teams headed into the next Olympic qualification cycle are Alison/Alvaro & Guto/Leo.

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

Tata Open (Pune ) Results Singles Winner Tallon Griekspoor Runner-Up Benjamin Bonzi Semifinalists Aslan Karatsev Botic van de Zandschulp Doubles Winner Sander Gille / Joran Vliegen Runner-Up N.Sriram Balaji / Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan Semifinalists Rajeev Ram / Joe Salisbury Julian Cash / Henry Patten

Adelaide International 1 Results Singles Winner Novak Djokovic Runner-Up Sebastian Korda Semifinalists Daniil Medvedev Yoshihito Nishioka Doubles Winner Lloyd Glasspool / Harri Heliovaara Runner-Up Jamie Murray / Michael Venus Semifinalists Mackenzie McDonald / Marcelo Melo Tomislav Brkic / Gonzalo Escobar

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.

really is copying the U.S. homework at this point