Sindo

Happy New Year everyone! Hoping in 2025 most users will back here and we will return to standards before Paris 2024.

and it look I was a good boy this year since Santa left this under the tree for me Collection from Seoul 1988 completed
 
 

How many days until the light bulbs?

THE LIGHT BULBS ARE ON!!! THE LIGHT BULBS ARE ON!!!

With the 2024 Bolivarian Games done and dusted, I thought it'd be a good time to look at next year's slate of international multi-sport games. Here's what I have written down on my personal schedule:
 
January 13 January 23 Winter University Games February 6 February 17 Invictus Games February 7 February 14 Asian Winter Games February 9 February 16 Winter EYOF March 23 March 30 CISM Winter World Games May 17 May 30 World Masters Games May 26 May 31 Games of Small States of Europe June 27 July 6 World Police and Fire Games June 29 July 9 Pacific Mini Games July 12 July 18 Island Games July 16 July 27 Summer University Games July 20 July 26 Summer EYOF August 7 August 17 The World Games August 9 August 23 Junior Pan American Games October 18 October 30 Central American Games November 15 November 26 Summer Deaflympics December 9 December 20 SEA Games TBC TBC Islamic Solidarity Games TBC TBC Asian Youth Games  
I'm not sure about the status of the Caribbean Games and Central American and Caribbean Beach Games, so those might eventually find a spot on the calendar as well (I just haven't seen anything confirmed yet.)

Official Competition Schedule has been released: https://milanocortina2026.olympics.com/en/competition-schedule

Official Competition Schedule has been released: https://milanocortina2026.olympics.com/en/competition-schedule

Official Competition Schedule has been released: https://milanocortina2026.olympics.com/en/competition-schedule

Official Competition Schedule has been released: https://milanocortina2026.olympics.com/en/competition-schedule

Official Competition Schedule has been released: https://milanocortina2026.olympics.com/en/competition-schedule

Official Competition Schedule has been released: https://milanocortina2026.olympics.com/en/competition-schedule

Official Competition Schedule has been released: https://milanocortina2026.olympics.com/en/competition-schedule

Handy guide for the perplexed.
 

And now ladies and gentlemen, please stand for the final time for the national anthem. 
 
 
So that's it for another year
 
A big thanks to @OlympicIRL and @Sindo for helping me set everything up and enduring my constant pestering. 
 
Same goes for @heywoodu @Wanderer and @Topicmaster1010 for updating the scoreboard throughout the day. 
 
And once again congrats to @Erigert @Belle and @Hipooo for getting top 3 as well as everyone who voted for Maximo Park. 
 
I hope you enjoyed yourselves despite the mistakes and I'll see you all next year in . 

Haven’t done an update on my dad since mid July, so thought I’d share.  
 
He ended up getting out of the hospital a couple days before the Olympics, and has generally been getting better the past couple of months. 
 
Unfortunately, the past couple of days he’s been really sick, and was vomiting for much of yesterday. He was taken to the hospital last night, and is expected to be there for at least a couple of days. 
 
Just sucks to see him struggling this much, hoping for as speedy of a recovery as possible 

For me this era is still running till Djokovic will retire too. I can't separate Federer, Nadal and Nole (and maybe Murray) in different periods of times. I grew up seing these monsters competing so many years at the highest level and I can't separate them. 

Today is the first time I'm on Totallympics since the end of the Paris 2024 games. Or better yet, since the beginning of the Paris 2024 games.
 
I was working and therefore it was a bit impossible for me to follow things here as I was busy around 12h a day and the other hours I was trying to meeting friends and have some fun in Paris.
 
The experience was amazing. I would basically every morning go to a café and prepare myself for the day aheard.  trying to go to different cafés was a bit hard after week 2. At evening I would go to some bar or bistro to meet friends and watch more events. Most of French and Parisiens were complaining about the Olympics (as they always do) but after the first few days (Opening Ceremony, Dupont, Marchand, etc) they were already head over heels and it was fun to witness that for the 3rd time in a row.
 
It was amazing to meet @Sindoand @Jan Linhaand also chat with some other users during those days. And it will be nice to rewatch or properly watch many of the events and perhaps check what you all were discussing "in real time".

Now that the Olympics are over for one week and we are all more or less back to our normal life, it's time for some reviews of our Olympic experience.
 
I think this has been the only meeting we were able to organize. We created a Whatsapp group with the best intention, but I think all of us had the same issue: lack of time Olympic days should last at least 40 hours to be able to do everything we would like to do. I was in Paris for work and some days I really had long office hours, so I was not as free as some other users who was in Paris.
 
In general, for me it was a nice experience. I have enjoyed the athmosphere and I think the venues were really amazing. I have also liked the transportation system, it was really easy to move between different venues across the city. Some of the memories of the last month will last a lifetime.
 
I was able to attend Athletics, Swimming, Tennis, Beach Volleyball, Fencing and 3x3 Basketball. And I was able to meet for dinner @Jan Linha and @Pasolini
 
For all other users who were in Paris, I am sorry for not being able to meet you. @OlympicIRL @canadafan2024 @vinipereira @RussB @Adriano @Agger @gucardn @Matej @stefanbg.
 
If you would like to share your memories, comments and pictures, I am sure it would be interesting for me and other users!

The very first Totallympics meeting has happened yesterday night
 
@Pasolini (in the right), @Jan Linha (in the left) and @Sindo (in the middle) at an Algerian restaurant yesterday in Paris
 
 
 
 

Looks like, for now  It's odd though, this morning I checked several different threads and it was 3 all the time. Anyhow, it seems to be normal now, basically  

So you see the politics thread with only 3 posts? I guess it's because 7 posts are from bestmen Are the other threads normal?

So you see the politics thread with only 3 posts? I guess it's because 7 posts are from bestmen Are the other threads normal?

All the 2024/2025 winter sport season events have been added to our calendar. If you spot any missing event please feel free to report it!

All the 2024/2025 winter sport season events have been added to our calendar. If you spot any missing event please feel free to report it!

Results can be found here: https://www.worldskate.org/results/category/1388-world-skate-games-2024.html