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Some could not open the home page because it was "cached" by its browser, some other could open the forum from once device and not from others. Today should be fine for everyone anyway.

For those who still have problems, try to update the home page with F5 (or update button) multiple times until it will be fixed.

If you still have problems with the home page, update the page with F5 multiple times, it should be ok.

Yeah, that was a general problem. The website exceeded the maximum storage space so I had to upgrade it to the following space Backups are extremely heavy because I want to avoid what happened in 2016, when we lost everything and we had to start the forum from scratch.

We have talked about that few weeks ago in this thread. Now with you, @Dennis and @heywoodu you are enough members to start making the thread active. Of course the most difficoult period is the first one, once the thread will be active everything will come by itself. This will also help other Dutch users to join the forum and I am sure more users will join the National Thread once it will get active

The following 4 Prediction Contests from Rio 2016 have been officially cancelled: Basketball at the Summer Olympic Games 2016 Handball at the Summer Olympic Games 2016 Swimming at the Summer Olympic Games 2016 Miscellaneous Events 1 at the Summer Olympic Games 2016 Apologies to all the users who took part in the contest, but too much time has passed and it is better to focus on the next Prediction Contests rather than using the time to work on 2 years ago Prediction Contests, trying to keep up the wonderful job Wanderer did during the PyeongChang Olympics. The only Prediction Contest which is still pending is now Men's AfroBasket 2017, which @tuniscof should take care of in the next weeks. The next Prediction Contest will be the Men's Ice Hockey IIHF World Championship 2018 starting on May 4th.

Che titolo preferite per il thread ? Strada per Tokyo 2020 Verso Tokyo 2020 Strada verso Tokyo 2020 O se avete altre proposte, proponete pure

"Love" has never been a reaction, it was the previous name of what now is called "Like", and there is now the up arrow instead of the heart.

All the sports have now a dedicated thread, so please start posting in those threads from now on when you are talking about a single sport. All the posts have been moved.

Not sure yet, we will find a format in the next months.

Table added in the first post

Any prediction when the Tokyo 2020 Sports Pictograms will be released ? Rio 2016 Pictograms were released in August 2013 London 2012 Pictograms were released in October 2009 Beijing 2008 Pictograms were released in August 2006 Athens 2004 Pictograms were released in September 2002

Then again, why in case of a tie one of the two options should prevail ? What if one of the users disappear and the majority would change ? Or if another one join ? You really want to loose time to ask from time to time to users what title they would prefer ? I am sure if we had to vote now some users would complain even about the "National Thread" title itself, the same title they are now defending. Why National Thread and not national thread ? Or National thread ? Why not national Thread ? No I prefer Nat. Thread. Or maybe better just remove Thread word, just "Netherlands National", because I hate "Thread" word. Of course I am bringing this to the extreme but it is just to show you it is not that easy, especially when you have to take decisions knowing some users will be against them whatever they are

I will try to explain you why I want things like this to be standardized. 1) A Nation with two or more users, the user who opened the thread doesn't want the "Road to Tokyo 2020" part, the other user(s) are slaves of dictator Sindo and want the "Road to Tokyo 2020" part. What to do ? solution a) Give priority to the user who opened the thread (but why? Impossible to know) solution b) Give priority to the majority of users (and what if it's tied? We delete the National Thread at all?) 2) A Nation with two or more users, the user who opened the thread is a slave of the dictator Sindo and wants to add the "Road to Tokyo 2020" part, the other user(s) would commit a suicide if they see a "Road to Tokyo 2020" part. What to do ? solution a) Give priority to the user who opened the thread (but why? Impossible to know) solution b) Give priority to the majority of users (and what if it's tied? We delete the National Thread at all?) 3) A nation with two or more users have all the users slave of dictator Sindo and they all want to add the "Road to Tokyo 2020" part, but the user who opened the National Thread is not active anymore. What to do ? solution a) Change the title solution b) Don't change the title because the user could come back and could get mad someone dared to change the title to his National THread 4) A National thread of a nation of one of the admins (so by definition a slave of dictator Sindo). But another user opened the thread and he would commit a suicidie if he sees a "Road to Tokyo 2020" part. What to do ? solution a) Give priority to the user who opened the thread (but why? Impossible to know) solution b) Give priority to the admin (dictator Sindo I hate you!) 5) A National thread of a nation of one of the admins (so by definition a slave of dictator Sindo), he also opened the thread but all the other users of his nation would commit a suicidie if he sees a "Road to Tokyo 2020" part. What to do ? solution a) Give priority to the admin solution b) Give priority to the majority of users I made just 5 random examples but I would be able to make 100 of them changing all the combination of situations and numbers. Your answer is usually like "just let users do whatever they want", but as you see in my examples, sometimes that is not possible, some users will obtain what they want and some won't (and we are just talking about 3 words in a title, don't forget). If my time was unlimited, the best solution would be to write a rule book so that every situation would have its solution to decide what the title should be, but I am sure you all agree that it would be a crazy loss of time to do that just to add 3 words in a thread's title. And this is exactly why I try to standardize as much as possible, to save time. I already lost too much time writing this message explaining the reason why I think all national threads should have the same title, for sure more time than I would have needed to just change the titles of all threads. But I hope this helps you to understand what I am saying.

I agree when you are the only user from your nation is difficoult, I think the best way would be to wait another user of your nation to join the forum and then coordinate with him/her how to make the National Thread more active. But if you think about it everything has to start from somewhere, I was also the only member of the whole forum when I opened it the first time 7 years ago But this is something not related to the title of the thread, I don't think if users read "Road to Tokyo 2020" they get scared and stop posting or would get mad if they find inside posts not Tokyo 2020 related

National Threads are for discussion only now, I actually try to dissuade users from copying and pasting results because this kills the discussion. But there is total freedom inside national threads, every user can do what he wants in the format he wants and post in the language he wants. It was not like that in the old forum and nobody was complaining, now if I want users to add 3 words in the title a revolution arise, well that's called popularity

I am absolutely against two different national threads. There would be too many national threads and sometimes users would not even know in which of them to post. National threads became necessary when some communities started to become big, having around 10 users from the same nation is very nice but it could make the threads too "crowded" about comments of users from the same nation discussing between themselves and their nation's athletes. But they also work the other way around: an active National Thread bring more users here and that's one of the main reasons Serbia and India are the most represented nations here. And the bigger the National Thread get, more easy will be other users from that nation will register to join the discussion.

So how would you deal with the situation if tomorrow a dutch user will register to discuss about dutch qualifications to Tokyo ? What if an user wants one title and another user another one? This is the reason why I want titles to be standardized.

I don't understand, what would be the choice ? Road to 2021 World Games if you just want to post about non-olympic sports ?

You can use any other expression, like "towards to Tokyo 2020" or "Aim Tokyo 2020" or whatever, I guess every language has an expression which is used for the pre-Olympic period in the road to the next olympic games.

National Thread News In the past few weeks, I have thought about the best way to deal with National Threads, there were some options on the table but at the end I have decided to keep all the National Threads open and running, without having new National Threads for each Olympic cycle. Anyway, we will change the title of the thread in each new Olympic cycle, writing "Road to X", where "X" is the next Olympic Games, and this part will be in the national language of that National Thread (it can be translated in a bit different way if the literal translation of "Road to" makes no sense in your language, anyway that is the meaning). Example 1: United States National Thread | Road to Tokyo 2020 Example 2: Italy National Thread | Strada per Tokyo 2020 This will help people to understand they can also write in their national language in the National Thread, and as always let me remind you that National Threads are important if you want more users from your nation to join in the long term. We have some communities well represented here but with an inactive National Thread and I hope this can change in the long term future. Now, users who opened their National Thread can edit the first post and add the "Road to Tokyo 2020" part in their national language. If you are not the user who opened yout National Thread (so you can not edit the first post), then contact me in private and give me the translation in your language and I will add that part in the title. Thank you!

Yeah, let's wait for the qualifying systems to be published so that also the maximum number of athletes per NOC in each sport will be known.

As for the Curling Mixed Doubles match, they are currently having a problem with the video but it should be fixed in the next hours/days so it should be available soon at this link https://www.olympicchannel.com/en/playback/can-v-kor-round-robin-mixed-doubles-curling-pyeongchang-2018-replays/

You will find everything in the results thread

List is updated, many sports are still free I have thought about Boxing and Fencing for @phelps, Canoeing-Slalom for @hckosice, Canoeing-Spring for @dareza, Football for @vlad, Gymnastics-Artistic for @thiago_simoes, Judo for @George_D, Modern Pentathlon for @Vojthas, Shooting for @Dolby, Tennis for @Wanderer, Water Polo for @DaniSRB, Wrestling for @MHSN ?