Sindo

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Well now's time for a little summary of my experience attending Stop 1.
 
Overall it was a nice experience, my first time visiting that venue in particular. It brought me some memories from my time at 2011 PanAm Games, seeing athletes from many countries. Now the venue is kind of dated, and it really needs some serious maintenance. For me it was unacceptable that the restrooms for the general public were in poor conditions, and also some sections need a fresh layer of paint, not to mention the heavy layer of dust in the ceiling. Thank God no debris fall in to the pool or on the spectators, but you may see a couple of pigeons continually flying around the swimming complex, even disrupting Mark Hrytsenko's last dive in 10m platform, before being sent away by Ruslan Ternovoi.
 
there was a pretty large number of Chinese fans on Saturday that came to support their team with flags & banners; however, their overall conduct was very poor, most of them crossing into the "top section" denying people who paid those tickets their rightful seats, ignoring and even shoving the few security elements at the venue and disrupting the general silence by replaying videos with loud sound or standing to take pictures while the divers were competing. Not that the Mexican fans were better; at times they were very disrespectful, particularly with divers preceding local competitors, since the cheered very loudly, ignoring the results (whether bad or good) of the former.
 
Among my personal highlights was the fact I had the opportunity to meet the Cuevas twins, who won a silver in 3m synchro and with only 14 are considered our next big stars in this sport, and also two time Olympic medalist in 10m synchro Alejandra Orozco, who was very active during the event, often oversawing and helping in any way needed, not to mention very kind and attentive to anyone asking for a photo. Also in attendance was Olympic figure skater Donovan Carrillo, whom I also asked for a photo.
 
I had an opportunity to see Maddison Keeney at the small cafeteria after winning a bronze in 3m synchro; she was very polite and gracious, accepting to take photos even when she needed to take a break and finish her sandwich; that same day I ran into Moritz Wesemann on my way back to my seat after getting a beer, and on the last day I almost bumped into Jack Laugher (he was going "incognito" mode while trying to decide what to grab from the food carts outside the main building).
 
So in general, I had a pleasant experience and would love to attend another event in the future. To top it off, there was a brief take of me during Sunday's men's 3m finals on WA stories, which of course I've already downloaded for keeps. I hope to find some time to upload some of the pictures I took; not the ones with me & above mentioned athletes since I'm not to photogenic, but of the few photos of the competition and the practice time that I find are worthy. 

I am back from my travels in Asia and I am glad to see the contest has found a new host in @Wanderer. I will try to be more active on the forum than I have been in the past few months and hopefully can help out if needed.

Maybe you need to clear the cookies and cache on your desktop browser. I think i also had some trouble accessing the site a few years back on my laptop, but when i cleared the data everything was fine.

I'm in tears, finally I have access after months. For some reason I can only enter the site from my phone. Surely it must be a problem with my home internet connection. 

Totallympics wont and cant die. 14 years old tradition, with established users, Sindo wont give up, i'm sure.
Same drop in posts happened after London, after Rio, after Tokyo.
Nothing to worry about.
Totallympics is strong as it ever was.

Don't be so negative We have always had a drop of interest in the post-Olympic year. I'm sure things will get better next year with the Winter Olympics and the start of 2028 Olympics qualifications.
 
As for TISC and Prediction Contests, this is the risk when something relies too much on one single person, but we can't force them to keep doing that forever, especially because it's a hobby for them and not a job.
 
I think a low profile TISC is possible even without @OlympicIRL's help, let me know if you need some help with that!

Don't be so negative We have always had a drop of interest in the post-Olympic year. I'm sure things will get better next year with the Winter Olympics and the start of 2028 Olympics qualifications.
 
As for TISC and Prediction Contests, this is the risk when something relies too much on one single person, but we can't force them to keep doing that forever, especially because it's a hobby for them and not a job.
 
I think a low profile TISC is possible even without @OlympicIRL's help, let me know if you need some help with that!

Don't be so negative We have always had a drop of interest in the post-Olympic year. I'm sure things will get better next year with the Winter Olympics and the start of 2028 Olympics qualifications.
 
As for TISC and Prediction Contests, this is the risk when something relies too much on one single person, but we can't force them to keep doing that forever, especially because it's a hobby for them and not a job.
 
I think a low profile TISC is possible even without @OlympicIRL's help, let me know if you need some help with that!

As some of you pointed out, there are some alternatives to one person hosting in a "real" venue.
 
Before @Cobi volunteered, I was thinking maybe we could use his template to collect the votes in a spreadsheet hosted in the cloud.
Then 2-3 could verify validate the forms are complete (including reserves), and said persons (or another volunteers) could also help with trnasforming the votes into templates/scoreboards.
 
I myself could research if there's a somewhat easy form to make/transform the info into GIF or dinamic templates; in any case I also volunteer to help.
 
As @Sindo said, we should look for the bright part. Maybe this could be the start of a new stage for TISC.

Like Sindo said, post Olympic year is always tough as nothing really happens so there's no real motivation for people to be on the forum so the lack of action should probably be expected. 
 
Regarding the prediction contests, if people are OK with it I don't mind stepping up and hosting them in Wumo's absence. I might need some help with the table templates and all that technical stuff but other than that I should be all good. 

It's much better now 

Notifications loaded instantly for me right now

Hey Totalympians 
 
Sorry for the long wait and no reply to your questions about prediction contests. 
 
The reason for the silence from my side has to due with the fact that me and my wife got our daughter in the beginning of December, so my time has been limited to other activities in the recent period. 
 
Due to this big change in me and my wife's life, I will not be able to do Prediction contests for a while. So I will step down as prediction contest manager and I hope one or more of you will take my place and continue doing prediction contests on the forum. 
 
Otherwise, I can recommend what @rafalgorka is doing with Prediction polls as a good alternative. 
 
I hope you all will understand my decision for stepping down as I do want to focus most of my time on my family in this new chapter of our life. 
 
Kind regards, 
Wumo

it's a mistake, the first qualifying match is scheduled for June 5th, 2025 (Kazakhstan vs Andorra)
 
https://www.uefa.com/under21/news/0296-1cfde311b7fc-6525cdc07f5b-1000--2025-27-under-21-euro-qualifying-groups-matches-start-5-june/

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