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I've been busy, but the hope is to go ahead with the grand final on Saturday. I'll confirm the times soon.

Israel is the like the boy who cried wolf. Provoking the Palestinians with their policies and then crying wolf when they are attacked. There would be no Hamas if Israel was remotely interested in peace and providing the Palestinian population with just the basics. They claim they do, but people see through the bs. I'm not condoning Hamas by any stretch here, just pointing out Israel is the root cause of the issues here. Why can't we all just live in peace? Seriously.

European Championships time again! Starting as soon as Saturday. As well as World Curling's pay per view, there's lots of coverage on Eurosport/ Discovery Plus and probably the BBC will have semis and finals also. Here's a preview and teams in action in the A Division Le Gruyère AOP European Curling Championships 2023 set for action in Scotland - World Curling Federation

Live on YT as usual. IBSF Bobsleigh & Skeleton - YouTube

All live on YT in almost all territories except Germany & Latvia I think. IBSF Bobsleigh & Skeleton - YouTube

Men's and Women's races on Friday on the Olympic Track in China. There have been some minor changes to the system of automatic quota places for the successful nations. Yanqing Olympic Sliding Center celebrates its debut as a World Cup track (ibsf.org)

@rafalgorka edited my previous post a couple of hours ago with the women’s 54kg boxing bronze medalists, and made a change to men’s golf, just letting you know

Season opener coming up on the Olympic track in China starting with the two-man race on the early session of Friday, then 4 man races at the weekend.. Long way to travel for the low-budget women's teams who stay in Europe or North America for training, so we will be getting one 2-man race and two 4-man races, with the extra women's days to be made up later once we get onto the European circuit. Yanqing Olympic Sliding Center celebrates its debut as a World Cup track (ibsf.org)

Day 10 (August 5, 2024) Artistic Gymnastics- Men’s Parallel Bars Gold- Zhou Jingyuan Silver- Lukas Dauser Bronze- Carlos Yulo Artistic Gymnastics- Women’s Floor Gold- Simone Biles Silver- Jessica Gadirova Bronze- Jordan Chiles Artistic Gymnastics- Women’s Balance Beam Gold- Simone Biles Silver- Urara Ashikawa Bronze- Rebecca Andrade Artistic Gymnastics- Men’s Horizontal Bar Gold- Daiki Hashimoto Silver- Felix Dolci Bronze- Tin Srbić Athletics- Men’s Pole Vault Gold- Mondo Duplantis (obviously) Silver- Ernest Obiena Bronze- KC Lightfoot Athletics- Women’s Discus Throw Gold- Valerie Allman Silver- Sandra Perkovic Bronze- Feng Bin Disappointing 6th for reigning World Champion Laulauga Tausaga, but not totally unexpected given her recent form. Jorinde Van Klinken replicates her 4th from Worlds. Athletics- Women’s 5,000m Gold- Gudaf Tsegay Silver- Faith Kipyegon Bronze- Beatrice Chebet My predictions are so incredibly boring, so decided to pick Tsegay instead of Kipyegon First (of many) gold for Ethiopia at Paris! Athletics- Women’s 800m Gold- Mary Moraa Silver- Athing Mu Bronze- Keely Hodgkinson First gold for Kenya at Paris! Moraa and Mu both clock times under 1:54.70. Badminton- Men’s Singles Gold- Li Shifeng Silver- Viktor Axelsen Bronze- Kunvalut Vitidsarn First medal for Thailand. Badminton- Women’s Singles Gold- An Se-Young Silver- Akane Yamaguchi Bronze- Chen Yufei 3x3 Basketball- Men’s Tournament Gold- Serbia Silver- United States Bronze- Belgium 4th for Latvia. 3x3 Basketball- Women’s Tournament Gold- Canada Silver- France Bronze- United States Canoe Slalom- Men’s Kayak Cross Gold- Joseph Clarke Silver- Mario Leitner Bronze- Martin Dougoud Canoe Slalom- Women’s Kayak Cross Gold- Jessica Fox Silver- Eva Terčelj Bronze- Viktoriia Us No British or German athletes on the podium, and same for Stefanie Horn. Shooting- Men’s 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Gold- Clement Bessaguet Silver- Li Yuehong Bronze- Christian Reitz Shooting- Mixed Team Skeet Gold- Diana Bacossi/Gabriele Rossetti Silver- Amber Ruter/Ben Llewellin Bronze- Efthimios Mitas/Emmanouela Katzouraki Track Cycling- Women’s Team Sprint Gold- Germany (Pauline Grabosch/Emma Hinze/Lea Friedrich) Silver- Great Britain (Lauren Bell/Sophie Capewell/Emma Finucane) Bronze- China (Bao Shanju/Guo Yufang/Yuan Liying) Triathlon- Mixed Team Relay Gold- France Silver- Great Britain Bronze- Germany Medal Table After Day 10 25-22-30– 77 24-10-15– 49 12-12-9– 33 10-14-11– 35 10-12-14– 36 10-9-11– 30 10-5-6– 21 9-7-7– 23 9-3-5– 17 7-8-8– 23 5-8-7– 20 5-2-2– 9 4-4-5– 13 4-2-3– 9 3-3-1– 7 3-2-1– 6 3-2-1– 6 3-1-1– 5 2-5-3– 10 2-3-3– 8 2-3-2– 7 2-2-1– 5 2-1-4– 7 2-0-2– 4 1-3-4– 8 1-3-2– 6 1-3-1– 5 1-2-4– 7 1-1-2– 4 1-1-1– 3 1-1-1– 3 1-1-0– 2 1-0-1– 2 1-0-1– 2 1-0-1– 2 1-0-0– 1 1-0-0– 1 1-0-0– 1 1-0-0– 1 0-2-4– 6 0-2-3– 5 0-2-1– 3 0-2-1– 3 0-1-3– 4 0-1-2– 3 0-1-2– 3 0-1-2– 3 0-1-1– 2 0-1-1– 2 0-1-1– 2 0-1-1– 2 0-1-1– 2 0-1-0– 1 0-1-0– 1 0-1-0– 1 0-1-0– 1 0-1-0– 1 0-1-0– 1 0-1-0– 1 0-0-3– 3 0-0-3– 3 0-0-2– 2 0-0-2– 2 0-0-1– 1 0-0-1– 1 0-0-1– 1 0-0-1– 1 0-0-1– 1 0-0-1– 1 0-0-1– 1 0-0-1– 1 0-0-1– 1 @rafalgorka some news. Sinkovic brothers are switching back to men’s pairs for Paris. May change up your predictions.

Women Eduarda Santos Lisboa/Ana Patricia Ramos (13,145 pts) Taryn Kloth/Kristen Nuss (11,232 pts) Kelly Cheng/Sara Hughes (10,848 pts) Melissa Humana-Parades/Brandie Wilkerson (10,346 pts) Taliqua Clancy/Mairiafe Artacho Del Solar (10,168 pts) Tanja Hüberli/Nina Brunner (9,508 pts) Barbara Seixas/Carol Salgado (9,140 pts) Katja Stam/Raisa Schoon (8,976 pts) Svenja Muller/Cinja Tillmann (8,186 pts) Marta Menegatti/Valentina Gottardi (8,116 pts) Chen Xue/Xia Xingyi (8,048 pts) Anastasia Samoilova/Tina Graudina (7,047 pts) Lara Ludwig/Luisa Lippmann (6,780 pts) Esme Böbner/Zoe Vergé Depre (6,760 pts) Taravadee Naraphornrapat/Worapeerachayakorn Kongphopsarutawadee (5,940 pts) Daniela Alvarez/Tania Moreno (5,920 pts) Lezanna Placette/Alexia Richard (5,912 pts) Monika Paulikiene/Aine Raupelyte (5,660 pts) Might’ve missed a team here, feel free to correct me if needed.

Doing a simulation for Paris qualification, by taking the top 70 teams per gender, and adding their average points per event until they reach the mandatory 12 events (if they haven’t already). Here’s the seventeen men’s teams that would be qualified as of today: Men Anders Mol/Christian Sørum (12,613 pts) Ondrej Perusic/David Schweiner (12,518 pts) David Ahman/Jonathan Hellvig (11,580 pts) Miles Partain/Andy Benesh (10,348 pts) Michal Bryl/Bartosz Łosiak (10,080 pts) Nils Ehlers/Clemens Wickler (9,288 pts) Stefan Boermans/Yorick De Groot (8,880 pts) Ahmed Tijan/Cherif Younousse (8,520 pts) Alexander Brouwer/Robert Meeuwsen (8,352 pts) Adrian Carambula/Alex Ranghieri (8,304 pts) Pedro Solberg/Guto Carvalhaes (7,920 pts) Paolo Nicolai/Samuele Cottafava (7,740 pts) George Wanderley/Andre Stein (7,640 pts) Pablo Herrera/Adrian Gavira (7,300 pts) Chaim Schalk/Tri Bourne (7,047 pts) Noslen Diaz/Jorge Alayo (6,720 pts) Thomas Hodges/Zachary Schubert (6,680 pts)

Olympic Rankings updated as of November 14th, 2023

You sure ? because I hear complete different things whenever I turn on my TV and watch western leaders speeches. for my own mental health I prefer to stay away from all kind of war related news, it's just hard to watch children suffer like that everyday. but it's also impossible to stay away and call yourself human. Western countries are always proud of being 100% democratic. I believe that but that also means the guy in charge speak for the entire population of that specific country. (unless you tell me this democracy is a joke which I don't want to believe) so I think you are probably wrong. the majority loves it and probably even orders popcorn to watch this bloodshed everyday on TV. You speak about the whole thing like Palestinians were living in a Paradise and all of a sudden some of them decided to kill some "Jews" to have fun. their lives were terrible already, they had been treated like animals for so many years. when you treat people like animals, they will react like animals. of course nothing justifies killing children. but they were like some animals out of a 50 years old cage. I don't like Hamas for my own reasons and that doesn't surprise me if the majority of people in Gaza doesn't support them (or better I should say didn't support them) but Hamas is not the root of the problems Hamas didn't exist in first place. maybe you should check why it's even created. and there will be another Hamas even if this one completely gets destroyed. they went to Lebanon and massacred people in 1982 (or let them be massacred by their friends) and another group (far more dangerous) emerged. I can guess the same will happen in Gaza unless the ultimate solution happens (which is only the two states idea) like most places in the world, even in Palestine most people just want to live in peace and have a normal life, but they didn't have a normal life. this current situation can't stay forever. @thepharoah I seriously suggest you to use this ignore button , I used that on so many so-called users here and that makes your life much easier. that's the only way I could stay in this forum.

Back to square one. 1. DIVING - W Synchro 3m Springboard 1. China Q 2. United States 3. Great Britain Q 4. Italy Q 5. Mexico 6. Canada 7. Australia 8. France Q 2. FENCING - W Epee Ind 1. Marie-Florence Candassamy FRA 2. Vivian Kong HKG 3. Alberta Santuccio ITA 4. Alexandra Louis Marie FRA 5. Sun Yiwen CHN Anna Kun HUN Nathalie Moellhausen BRA Alexandra Ndolo KEN 3. FENCING - M Sabre Ind 1. Sandro Bazadze GEO 2. Eli Dershwitz USA 3. Aron Szilagyi HUN 4. Bolade Apithy FRA 5. Ziad El-Sissy EGY Kento Yoshida JPN Luca Curatoli ITA Ali Pakdaman IRI 4. JUDO - W -48kg 1. Natsumi Tsunoda JPN 2. Assunta Scutto ITA 3. Shirine Boukli FRA 3. Milica Nikolic SRB 5. Catalina Costa POR 5. Abiba Abuzhakynova KAZ 7. Katharina Menz GER 7. Marusa Stangar SLO 5. JUDO - M -60kg 1. Ryuju Nagayama JPN 2. Francisco Garrigos ESP 3. Dilshodbek Baratov UZB 3. Balabay Aghayev AZE 5. Lee Ha-Rim KOR 5. Enkhtaivan Ariunbold MGL 7. Giorgi Sardalashvili GEO 7. Dilshot Khalmatov UKR 6. ROAD CYCLING - M Ind Time Trial 1. Remco Evenepoel BEL 2. Filippo Ganna ITA +1 3. Josh Tarling GBR +1 4. Stefan Kung SUI 5. Wout van Aert BEL 6. Stefan Bissegger SUI 7. Nelson Oliveira POR 8. Rohan Dennis AUS Update in my predictions: Tadej Pogacar SLO was 2nd here previously but I think he will not participate in this event, rest a bit after Tour de France and focus on the road race next weekend. 7. ROAD CYCLING - W Ind Time Trial 1. Chloe Dygert USA 2. Demi Vollering NED 3. Grace Brown AUS 4. Marlen Reusser SUI 5. Christina Schweinberger AUT 6. Ellen van Dijk NED 7. Anna Henderson GBR 8. Juliette Labous FRA 8. RUGBY SEVENS - M Tournament 1. Fiji Q 2. New Zealand Q 3. Argentina Q 4. Ireland Q 5. France Q Australia Q Samoa Q South Africa 9. SHOOTING - Mixed Team 10m Air Rifle 1. China 2. India 3. Iran 4. France 5. Poland 6. China 2 7. Korea Rep. 8. Germany 10. SKATEBOARDING - M Street 1. Aurelien Giraud FRA 2. Nyjah Huston USA 3. Gustavo Ribeiro POR 4. Sora Shirai JPN 5. Vincent Milou FRA 6. Kelvin Hoefler BRA 7. Jagger Eaton USA 8. Mattias Dell Olio ARG 11. SWIMMING - M 400m Free 1. Ahmed Hafnaoui TUN 2. Samuel Short AUS 3. Lukas Martens GER 4. Elijah Winnington AUS 5. Kim Woo-Min KOR 6. Antonio Djakovic SUI 7. Felix Auboeck AUT 8. Petar Mitsin BUL 12. SWIMMING - W 400m Free 1. Ariarne Titmus AUS 2. Summer McIntosh CAN 3. Katie Ledecky USA 4. Erika Fairweather NZL 5. Bingjie Li CHN 6. Bella Smith USA 7. Lani Pallister AUS 8. Isabel Gose GER 13. SWIMMING - W 4x100m Free Relay 1. Australia Q 2. United States Q 3. China Q 4. Canada 5. Netherlands 6. Great Britain 7. Sweden 8. Japan 14. SWIMMING - M 4x100m Free Relay 1. Australia Q 2. Italy Q 3. Great Britain 4. China 5. Canada 6. Korea Rep. 7. Brazil 8. Japan Unites States Q - DSQ in heats

That's unbelievable. Losonczi clearly pinned the guy and "won" the gold medal. the center ref called it but the other refs decided to not see the obvious! that's what the UWW should investigate and ban that mat chairman. per UWW rules you can't challenge a fall. Hungarian coach couldn't do anything about it. Losonczi lost and per UWW rules nothing can change that. but all of a sudden they came up with something very new! this never happened before. changing the result 2 months after the match?! are they going to "fix" the result in all other matches where bad or mostly corrupt officiating changed the outcome of the match? two wrongs don't make a right

Didn't even known that wheelchair volleyball is a sport. Do you mean sitting volleyball (they sit on the court)?

Wooow from Australia

Should the Commonwealth Games Federation and find a host for 2026, will be eligible to send delegations for the first time.

Damn, the football part of that video is chilling, in the most positive possible meaning (as in, giving chills) That atmosphere is magical, it kind of reminds me of the athletics youth (junior?) world championships in Nairobi a few years ago where the entire stadium was shaking on it's foundations almost every day I believe the Tour of Burkina Faso has similar kinds of enthousiasm levels as you see in the video (probably spread from Rwanda which is the most insanely awesome country in the world for cycling atmosphere) I hope they can play their home matches at home again soon.

Yep u are right.. we are lagging in quality coaching & training. For example kor fed hav only 2k registered archer while ind have 10k ..but in future i m sure about 15-20 medal mark .. shooting rifle /pistol future is Great here & we can go tow to tow with 🇨🇳 around 5-6 medals .. Other than shooting Athletics field events, women’s wrestling, women’s boxing, archery are the sports where ind can become strong medal contender ..

World Rankings updated as of November 15th, 2023

I'd guess capacity, quality of pitch or maybe some details that aren't so visible to spectators like changing rooms, access security, VIP areas and such.

A quite bizarre stuff will occur in the next couple of days in 7 different countries will play there in the next week their "home" qualification games, quite funny is that Morocco is not even one of them As their first opponent withdrew from the competition and Morocco will thus not play. In other hand and will all play this week "at home" in Morocco

I just wanted to point out that your comments are almost unreadable. You are allowed to use full stops. Maybe sober up, educate yourself and then try again.

and if Israel didn't succeed in getting rid of hamas from 80s , do u think armless poor Palestinian people can get rid of them , plz have some logic , it's fine for me to say oh i don't care i don't blame anyone for this , but at least show some sympathy it's very easy task for u as a human being

Israel bans Egypt from taking patients from Gaza to be cured in Egypt , they don't want them to be cured after being bombed , genocide with all the word means

Is that individual or team dressage, Josh?

What an absurd take. Hamas attacked israelis citizens (they weren't even brave enough to attack the military) and then tried to play the victim card when Israel retaliated. There would be no Hamas if Iran and Qatar wouldn't fund them to use them as a proxy to attack Israel (so that they don't have to sacrifice their own people). You clearly don't know anything if you think that Hamas or the powers behind them are interested in peace. Is the reason for Hezbollah attacking Israel also that Israel somehow suppresses people in Lebanon or Iran? Terrorists will always find a reason to start conflicts. Hamas would lose all its power if they would allow peace. Western countries have provided more than enough help to the Gaza strip, but many/most of it is used by Hamas and not to help the population. Hamas doesn't even deny that taking care of the population isn't a priority for them and obviously they are interested in keeping the population as poor and desperate as possible. Hamas never denied that their goal is to eradicate Israel, maybe people should just understand that people like them (or Putin) mean what they say. If you want peace you have to ask the palestinian population to help with the fight against Hamas and you also have to ask Qatar and Iran to defund Hamas.

And here's your link for the not-FTA races from Gallivare Längdskidor: Gällivare | SVT Play

Like the biathlon last weekend, we get a double bill of National Races this weekend. And, strange to relate, both Norway and Sweden are following pretty much the same racing programme. Friday - Classic Sprints Saturday - 10km Classic ITT Sunday - 10km Freestyle ITT Here's your link for the FTA races from Beitostolen. Langrenn – NRK TV

wow. didn't know. that's a gamechanger.

This dance of death becomes a trend

Full team: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/na7y6gxh8133nmqr8p524/SA23-Canadian-Parapan-Am-Team.xlsx?rlkey=8gbiqasbvhspom281pl3dwr54&dl=0

Mon 05.08 Day 10 166. ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS - M Parallel Bars 1. Zou Jingyuan CHN 2. Lukas Dauser GER 3. Kazuma Kaya JPN Brilliant competition between top two and all the gymnastics world keeps saying it'a pity two gold medals can't be given. 167. ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS - W Floor (but notice: there is probably W Beam on day 10 as well) 1. Simone Biles USA 2. Rebeca Andrade BRA 3. Alice D'Amato ITA 5th gold for Biles, 5th silver for Andrade. Is it possible in the real world? I think I need to check my women's gymnastics predictions again. 168. ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS - M Horizontal Bar 1. Daiki Hashimoto JPN 2. Zhang Boheng CHN 3. Milad Kalimi KAZ Hashimoto gets revenge for Ind AA here. 169. ATHLETICS - M Pole Vault 1. Armand Duplantis SWE 2. Ernest John Obiena PHI 3. Thibaut Collet FRA Duplantis with WR by 0,01 cm. First French medal in athletics. 170. ATHLETICS - W Discus Throw 1. Valarie Allman USA 2. Bin Feng CHN 3. Laulauga Tausaga USA Gold for Tokyo olympic champ. 171. ATHLETICS - W 5000m 1. Faith Kipyegon KEN 2. Gudaf Tsegay ETH 3. Sifan Hassan NED Kipyegon, who else? Easy win for her. 172. ATHLETICS - W 800m 1. Athing Mu USA 2. Keely Hodgkinson GBR 3. Mary Moraa KEN Hodgkinson leads at 780m. But gold for USA. 173. BADMINTON - W Singles 1. An Se-young KOR 2. Chen Yufei CHN 3. Carolina Marin ESP Se-young vs Marin semi is just awesome. 174. BADMINTON - M Singles 1. Li Shifeng CHN 2. Kodai Naraoka JPN 3. Kunlavut Vitidsam THA Gold for Asian Games champ. 175. BASKETBALL 3x3 - M Tournament 1. Serbia 2. United States 3. Latvia US trying hard for 2023 World Cup revenge but fails just short. 176. BASKETBALL 3x3 - W Tournament 1. United States 2. China 3. France One of these USA vs CHN intensive battles. 177. CANOE SLALOM - M Kayak Cross 1. Martin Dougoud SUI 2. David Llorente ESP 3. Joseph Clarke GBR First Swiss gold in Paris. 178. CANOE SLALOM - W Kayak Cross 1. Kimberley Woods GBR 2. Eva Tercelj SLO 3. Maialen Chourraut ESP Win for 2023 word champ. 179. SHOOTING - M 25m Rapid Fire Pistol 1. Li Yuehong CHN 2. Clement Bessaguet FRA 3. Christian Reitz GER Great competitions, awesome scores by top athletes. 180. SHOOTING - Mixed Team Skeet 1. Italy 2. United States 3. Egypt First medal for Egypt in Paris. 181. TRACK CYCLING - W Team Sprint 1. Germany 2. China 3. Great Britain Poland 6th. 182. TRIATHLON - Mixed Team Relay 1. France 2. Great Britain 3. Germany USA 4th.

I don't know honestly , CAF is weird many times with some decisions

Will still be on the PPV I think.

Jannik Sinner ends Novak 19 match winning streak in Atp Finals