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Sardana A sardana is a traditional folk dance originating from Catalonia, a region in northeastern Spain. It is typically performed in a circle, with dancers linking arms and performing coordinated steps in time with the music. Sardanas are typically performed to the accompaniment of a cobla, a type of Catalan wind orchestra, and are often accompanied by singing. The sardana is considered an important part of Catalan cultural heritage and is a symbol of national identity. It is typically performed at celebrations and festivals, and is considered a joyful and celebratory dance that brings people together.

Clearly the team sprint is the best event in speed skating and it should be added to the Olympics immediately :P

Women’s 3000m Final Results: Gold- Ragne Wiklund Silver- Irene Schouten Bronze- Martina Sáblíková Full Results Here

Team sport qualifications Baseball: + Highest ranked Central Amer. nation at date TBD Basketball (M): Basketball (W): +1 TBD Basketball 3x3 (M): Basketball 3x3 (W): Hockey (M): Hockey (W): Netball: Water Polo (M): Water Polo (W): +1 TBD

At last, the straight up / battle the world has been waiting for! Loses, so has to change their name to the Japanese spelling.

Honestly, big part of us says that the level of chosen songs is great and hard to separate in our voting every year.... but situation of voting in TAISC 2023 is the toughest I would have ever imagined Is it only my feelings? So, great choise of songs, literally!

We've got some updates on qualification system documents (some of them probably just dates updated): All FINA (Artistic Swimming, Diving, Swimming, Open Water, Water Polo), BMX racing, BMX freestyle, Athletics, Basketball 3x3, Rugby 7s (change in North America dates with host given), Triathlon and Track Cycling. If you find other changes/differences with what we've known so far, please, write.

@Olympian1010 will also be out for due to injury (and the fact he hasn’t played baseball in a decade )

Silver for Esteve Altimiras in the non-asthmatic category.

Updated Kata M: Kata W: If I am not mistaken, first qualified athlete.

Where to watch the semis - looks like both sheets are covered. https://olympics.com/en/sport-events/2023-wjc-curling-world-junior-championships-fussen/

Draw Pots: Pot 1: 🇵🇭 Philippines (Co-Host) 🇪🇸 Spain 🇺🇸 United States 🇦🇺 Australia Pot 2: 🇫🇷 France 🇷🇸 Serbia 🇸🇮 Slovenia 🇱🇹 Lithuania Pot 3: 🇯🇵 Japan (Co-Host) 🇬🇷 Greece 🇮🇹 Italy 🇩🇪 Germany Pot 4: 🇧🇷 Brazil 🇨🇦 Canada 🇻🇪 Venezuela 🇲🇪 Montenegro Pot 5: 🇵🇷 Puerto Rico 🇮🇷 Iran 🇫🇮 Finland 🇩🇴 Dominican Republic Pot 6: 🇳🇿 New Zealand 🇨🇳 China 🇱🇻 Latvia* 🇲🇽 Mexico Pot 7: 🇬🇪 Georgia* 🇯🇴 Jordan 🇦🇴 Angola 🇱🇧 Lebanon Pot 8: 🇨🇮 Cote d'Ivoire 🇪🇬 Egypt 🇸🇸 South Sudan* 🇨🇻 Cape Verde*

Men’s Team Sprint Final Results: - Christopher Fiola, Laurent Dubreuil, Antoine Gélinas-Beaulieu - Merijn Scheperkamp, Hein Otterspeer, Wesly Dijs - Bjørn Magnussen, Henrik Fagerli Rukke, Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen

Women’s Team Sprint Final Results: Gold - Brooklyn McDougall, Carolina Hiller, Ivanie Blondin Silver - McKenzie Browne, Erin Jackson, Kimi Goetz Bronze - Zhang Lina, Jin Jingzhu, Li Qishi

Men’s 5000m Final Results: Gold- Patrick Roest Silver- Davide Ghiotto Bronze- Bart Swings Full Results Here

Horvat wins 800m Heat 2. Gajanova in 2nd place and makes the SF @hckošice

Online chess is legitimately the most popular esports on that list xD

1-2-3-4 again. Yawn. Doherty 18th @RobtheAggie and Zakhna 19th with some noticeable results. PB for Kresimir Crnkovic in 31st.

Wow having to log in to see the live results is a new low in terrible viewer experience...

Good news is that the field event livestreams are not geo-blocked even if the main stream is. https://allathletics.tv/live?id=6309372548112

canadafan2024, the football match that you take will be the 1st match of the French Team.

Women's 4x5km Team Relay Final Results Norway Tiril Udnes Weng Astrid Oeyre Slind Ingvild Flugstad Oestberg Anne Kjersti Kalvaa 50:33.3 Germany Laura Gimmler Katharina Hennig Pia Fink Victoria Carl 50:53.8 Sweden Emma Ribom Ebba Andersson Frida Karlsson Maja Dahlqvist 51:02.0 Full Final Result HERE

Let me know if you want any more specific info on a sport once I'm in at 9am my time

I'll do my best to screenshot or report when my time slot opens tomorrow

Results are in from Quilotta. Only the winner - Zabala -got the MER. February has been more than excellent for Ecuador.

Topicmaster1010's 2023 WBC Power Rankings: Part 2 This part was by far the hardest to rank. All 6 teams are really close to each other in my opinion. Each writeup is a bit long so I put the deeper analysis parts in spoilers. Tier 4: Can Advance to the 2nd Round, Can't Win it All 15. Panama WBC History: 2006 - 14th, 2009 - 15th 2023 Schedule: 3/8 - @ Taiwan, 3/9 - @ Netherlands, 3/10 - vs. Cuba, 3/11 - @ Italy, 3/12 - Off Notable Absences: Edmundo Sosa, Johan Camargo, Ivan Herrera, Daniel Espino Players to Watch: Christian Bethancourt, Jaime Barria, Jose Ramos, Javy Guerra If there is one non-automatic qualifier that has a shot to advance to the quarterfinals, it would be Panama. The Central American country is returning to the big stage for the first time since 2009. Even though they haven't had any success in past tournaments, there's reason for optimism this time around. The country has produced one of the greatest pitchers of all time in Mariano Rivera and now the generation that watched him growing gets to take center stage here. 14. Israel WBC History: 2017 - 6th 2023 Schedule: 3/11 - Off, 3/12 - vs. Nicaragua, 3/13 - @ Puerto Rico, 3/14 - @ Dominican Republic, 3/15 - vs. Venezuela Notable Absences: Jake Bird, Harrison Bader, Kevin Pillar, Alex Bregman Players to Watch: Joc Pederson, Matt Mervis, Dean Kremer, Richard Bleier This might be a controversial ranking. Israel was the Cinderella for during the 2017 WBC. With no expectations set on them, they won their pool and beat Cuba in the 2nd round before losing to eventual semifinalists, Japan and the Netherlands. As you can see by this ranking, I do not expect another Cinderella story this time around. 13. Taiwan WBC History: 2006 - 12th, 2009 - 14th, 2013 - 8th, 2017 - 14th 2023 Schedule: 3/8 - vs. Panama, 3/9 - Off, 3/10 - vs. Italy, 3/11 - vs. Netherlands, 3/12 - @ Cuba Notable Absences: Chang Yi, Tseng Jen-Ho Players to Watch: Yu Chang, Sung Chia-Hao, Lin Li, Giljegiljaw Kungkuan The 2017 WBC was a tournament to forget for Taiwan. Problems in their baseball federation forced one of their local club teams to boycott the tournament and left them without many of their top players. As a result, they went winless in 3 games. There is reason for more optimism this time. They have assembled arguably the most balanced team in their history and they are coming off a series of exhibition games in which they went 8-0. 12. Kingdom of the Netherlands WBC History: 2006 - 11th, 2009 - 7th, 2013 - 4th, 2017 - 4th 2023 Schedule: 3/8 - vs. Cuba, 3/9 - vs. Panama, 3/10 - Off, 3/11 - @ Taiwan, 3/12 - @ Italy Notable Absences: Ozzie Albies, Ceddane Rafaela, Sem Robberse Players to Watch: Xander Bogaerts, Jurickson Profar, Wladimir Balentien And this is probably going to be my most controversial ranking. If you've been watching the last two editions, you're probably wondering how I could put a team that's made back to back semifinals this low in the power rankings. There's a few reasons: 1. A very weak pitching group, 2. An aging offense, 3. Poor results in exhibition games against Korean teams (that included their MLB players). 11. Italy WBC History: 2006 - 10th, 2009 - 10th, 2013 - 7th, 2017 - 12th 2023 Schedule: 3/8 - Off, 3/9 - @ Cuba, 3/10 - @ Taiwan, 3/11 - vs. Panama, 3/12 - vs. Netherlands Notable Absences: Brandon Nimmo, Trey Mancini, Jordan Romano, other Americans of Italian ancestry Players to Watch: Vinnie Pasquantino, Sal Frelick, David Fletcher, Andre Pallante, Matt Harvey For the first time since the tournament's inception, Italy will be heading to Asian soil to play their pool. Many people wondered whether or not that would less commitments and a weaker team than usual but despite a few notable absences, they will still field a very good team and be expected to be compete for a spot in the quarterfinals. 10. Canada WBC History: 2006 - 9th, 2009 - 13th, 2013 - 12th, 2017 - 15th 2023 Schedule: 3/11 - Off, 3/12 - vs. Great Britain, 3/13 - @ United States, 3/14 - @ Colombia, 3/12 - vs. Mexico Notable Absences: Joey Votto, Josh Naylor, Jameson Taillon, James Paxton, Rowan Wick, Charles Leblanc, Zach Pop, Nick Pivetta Players to Watch: Freddie Freeman, Cal Quantrill, Bo Naylor, Edouard Julien, Tyler O'Neill Am I biased and ranking Canada too high here? Possibly. However, I believe their depth is roughly equal as the teams below them and they have the better top end talent. 2017 was a tournament to forget for Canada. Many players were not able to participate and as a result, they were forced to call many players out of retirement to play major roles on the team including a 39 year-old Ryan Dempster (who was asked to make two starts) and a 41 year old Eric Gagne. This time, while they still have a lot of players not playing, the depth has improved this year with many great players and exciting young players to watch.

No, he did talk about it earlier & she herself made the same joke.

@hckošiceApparently Martin Mesik wants to kick out the ski jumping fed boss over not selecting any Slovakians for the Planica WCh and lying about consulting with him about it. Mesik will inquiry with the Ministry of Sport https://www.skijumping.pl/wiadomosci/33272/klamstwa-i-zgrzyty-mistrzostwa-w-planicy-bez-slowakow/

I'm starting my 4-day listening session tonight. My votes will come in by Sunday evening.

Central American/Caribbean Karate qualifiers Kumite Women 50kg: 55kg: 61kg: :TBD 68kg: TBD +68kg: TBD Kumite men 60kg: 67kg: TBD 75kg: 84kg: TBD +84kg: TBD Not 100% on this, going of results here: https://www.sportdata.org/karate/set-online/veranstaltung_info_main.php?active_menu=calendar&vernr=6985&ver_info_action=catauslist#a_eventheadend some categories have 2 brackets so who knows

No way!!!! I was hoping that one of our girls could bring home a medal here but I never expected this. This is incredible! Really hope this helps bring in some more funding

@Sindo There is a change of host for the Shooting ESC Shotgun European Championships 2023. New host and dates are Osijek - Sep. 8-27 https://esc-shooting.org/news/read/2023-european-championship-shotgun-will-be-held-in-osijek-785 https://esc-shooting.org/calendar/view/571-european-championship-shotgun Also a host for Breaking WDSF African Championships 2023 has officially been confirmed by WDSF + changed dates for the event: Rabat - May 12-13 https://www.worlddancesport.org/Calendar/Competition/Upcoming#format=Calendar&TypeFilter=242,241,230,239,217,218,220,233,246,245,244,247,208,243&disciplineFilter=104&ageGroupFilter=180,216,212,186,179,215,190,185,177,178,211,217,184,181,194,182,183,196,205,206,218,219,213,187,175,176,209,210,214&countryFilter=-1&nameFilter=&kindFilter=Competition&month=0&year=2023

Start Lists for Tomorrow are out... Women's 3000m https://live.isuresults.eu/events/2023_NED_0002/competition/1/start-list Men's 5000m https://live.isuresults.eu/events/2023_NED_0002/competition/2/start-list not a good draw for Ghiotto...Eitrem doesn't fit him well in the same pairing. and guess what? Roest goes after his 2 main rivals, knowing therefore their clockings... for what it matters, Tomorrow there will be also the Team Sprint races. here the Start Lists: Women's Team Sprint https://live.isuresults.eu/events/2023_NED_0002/competition/3/start-list Men's Team Sprint https://live.isuresults.eu/events/2023_NED_0002/competition/4/start-list

By God Watson, Canada can fly! First ever medal at WC, men or women. Imagine, that random Olympic medal being the turning point for these and upcoming successes.

Just a crazy achievement by Loutitt. This sport gets no support and no coverage in Canada. This team is really doing it on their own, that they could produce a world champion is insane.

She's DOOOOONEEEEE ITTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Alexandria Loutitt is World Champion!!!

Panam Sports confirmed the addition of team kyorugui to the taekwondo event program today.

No, it has to be 16 or under jumping (fence) penalties. Technically you are allowed to collect tons of time faults on top of that.

As some of you already know, on Sunday I went to Planica. I am regular guest of Ski Flying for 25 years, so though I heard, how high they put prices and there is not a lot of home crowd, I decided to visit our treasure in heart of national park. Luckily I am quite frequent Totallympian, and with that I had an honour to meet in person our star, future Olympian. I know I have already thank you, but once more, @brunamoura, thanks for those five minutes of your time and of course, though I would come to see competitions anyway, thank you for tickets. Only thing I regret is we did not have time for a bit longer talk, because your story is fascinating, but did not wanna bother your pre race time. So, @heywoodu, take good care of her, when she comes back home, and when you are next time around (maybe both), do send me a PM, and maybe will grab a coffee.

@Sindo Some more direct qualification events with confirmed/scheduled dates and venues for 2023. Slalom Canoening at the European Games Jun. 29 - Jul. 02 2023 Krakow Men's Rugby Sevens RAR Africa Olympic Qualification Tournament Sep. 16-17 2023 Harare Sailing Formula Kite European Championships Sep. 16-24 2023 Portsmouth Women's Handball CAHB African Qualification Event Oct. 10-12 2023 TBC Sailing 49er, 49erFX, and Nacra 17 European Championships Oct. 10-15 2023 Vilamoura Asian Canoe Slalom Championships Oct. 27-29 2023 Tokyo Sailing at the Pan American Games (all classes except 470) Oct. 28 - Nov. 05 2023 Santiago/ Algarrobo Shooting Oceania Shooting Championships Oct. 30 - Nov. 6 2023 Brisbane Asian Archery Championships Nov. 4-12 2023 Bangkok Men's Rugby Sevens RAN North America Olympic Qualification Tournament Nov. 10-12 2023 TBC Women's Rugby Sevens RAN North America Olympic Qualification Tournament Nov. 10-12 2023 TBC Sailing South American 470 Championships Nov. 18-24 2023 Porto Alegre Asian Sailing Continental Regatta (all except Windsurfing and Kite) Dec. 10-21 2023 Chon Buri Sailing Oceania Qualification Sail Sydney Dec. 11-17 2023 Sydney

Team for the 7th WC Stage composed of 7 biathletes is heading to the West Coast including 2 already retired athletes, yes Tomáš Hasilla retired last summer will return to competition this weekend to try help Slovakia keep its fantastic 24th place in the Nations Cup and be allowed to enter at least 2 men next season. talk about goal for a 80% mountaineous country Team for Stage 7 - New City on the Morava M Michal Šima Matej Kazár Tomáš Hasilla W Paulína Bátovská-Fialková Ivona Fialková Mária Remeňová Zuzana Remeňová

So now that´s a pretty disturbing picture. Thomas Bach shows Petra Vlhová where to sign No, joking obviously, our Olympic champion visited today the IOC to donate her skis and helmet from Beijing to the Olympic museum

Speed Skating Prediction Design - Combined Speed Skating ISU World Single Distances Championships 2023 and Short Track Speed Skating ISU World Championships Prediction Contest is now open Deadline is March 2nd, 18:20 (GMT +1)

Like who's going to believe in European Parliament having any integrity as they're embroiled in a massive corrpution scandal right now? Or is Eva Kaili & friends swept under the carpet already?

Let i've said before, no real boycott will happen at the end and it's just smoke and lightning from a few countries to see, if their bluff will work. US and Canada will not boycott in anyway and France is the worst host for this idea, as they are a valuable strategic partner in bigger, non-sports, departments. Do people actually believe there won't be any backstage strings being pulled, so that the French Games aren't ruined? The 3 Baltic states are the only ones i see, that could potentially stick it to the end, as it won't be a significant loss for them (or the Games), if they missed out. Mayyyyybe 1-2 of the Scandinavian ones, but i can't see how Macron wouldn't sway them. Poland is barking the loudest, but i would be gobsmacked, if they actually boycotted. Their politicians are just using what is popular today and then will promptly make up an excuse, when time comes.

Much ado anbout nothing so far. I'll be amazed if anyone actually boycotts Paris 2024 but it's long away enough that a lot of countries think they can bluff IOC with a weak hand. Watch that tactics ho nowhere the closer we get to 2024. NBC didn't pay billions of dollars for TV rights to have no US athletes involved either

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Is there any RunRan webpage somewhere??? Would be nice. 😉👍