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The curling teams are: Mens - Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Russia, Slovenia and Turkey Womens - Italy, Norway, Poland, Russia and Turkey

Plan to turn GB into snowsport superpower Britain aims to be one of the World's top 5 dominant powers in snowsports by 2030 Well that's the plan revealed today by British Ski Snowboard and the team behind making it a reality is some of the same team behind the success of British Cycling and Team Sky. The UK’s national governing body has marked out a clear strategy working towards Great Britain challenging for world class and Olympic medals, not only in the Park and Pipe disciplines where they are already one of the leading nations, but in all skiing and snowboarding disciplines. The first phase of the vision will involve following in the footsteps of GB Park and Pipe and putting in place a world-class coaching structure for each Olympic discipline. With these coaches, British Ski and Snowboard will develop the longer term strategic plans geared towards medal success. The plans will be based around identifying, supporting and retaining the best British snowsport talent and engaging them in sustainable, funded, high performance programmes aimed towards podium success at major international competitions and the Olympic Games. Raising funds to bring this vision to reality will also be a key part of the strategy, with British Ski and Snowboard approaching fundraising in a number of unique ways. At the start of the season, the innovative British Snowsports Fund was launched. The Fund asks the UK’s recreational skiers and snowboarders to make a small donation to the country’s future Winter Olympians when they make a purchase with one of our confirmed industry partners. The scheme currently has 25 partners, including major travel companies and retailers. The British Snowsports Fund was launched alongside a new grant-making charity, the British Ski and Snowboard National Foundation, which will support young talented skiers and snowboarders as well as efforts to increase grassroots participation in the sports. With British athletes already clinching five World Cup podiums, two X Games medals, and an Air + Style podium, 2016-17 has already proved a fruitful season for British Ski and Snowboard, particularly for the GB Park and Pipe team. And with the Alpine World Ski Championships already in full swing, and the Freestyle, Snowboard and Nordic World Championships on the horizon, there is still room for even more British snowsports success this season. That means investment and performance programs will be set up in events Britain hasn't ever had a serious chance of a medal in like Ski Jumping, Alpine Snowboard, Moguls and Aerials. The new plan aims to deliver progress over the coming decade and take Britain from a nation that needed 90 years to win its first Olympic medal on the snow and make it one capable of claiming up to 12 in a single go.

Great to have India involved! Always such brilliant songs that are sadly underscored, hopefully that can change this time! @Prashanth Will you be the second Indian jury member?

Welcome on board! The more the merrier!

Snowboarding Competition Details City PyeongChang Dates March 12th - March 16th, 2018 Venue Jeongseon Alpine Centre Website Official Website There will be 10 events contested in Snowboarding at the 2018 Winter Paralympic Games, 6 for men and 4 for women. Competitions take place in 2 different races across 3 sport classifications for each men and 2 for women, with the races being Banked Slalom and head-to-head Snowboard Cross. The 2 sport classifications for men and women are Lower Limb 1 (athletes with lower limb disabilites impacting one leg) and Lower Limb 2 (athletes with lower limb disabilites impacting both legs). There is an additional classification for men of Upper Limb (athletes with disabilites in their upper bodies affecting their balance). 5 Athletes to watch in PyeongChang 2018: Brenna Huckaby - Women's Lower Limb 1 Joany Badenhorst - Women's Lower Limb 2 Mike Schultz - Men's Lower Limb 1 Gurimu Narita - Men's Lower Limb 2 Maxime Montaggioni - Men's Upper Limb

Netherlands end top as Banked Slalom finals close the World Chapionships in Canada Banked Slalom races in the 5 Paralympic classifications closed the 2017 World Para Snowboard Championships in Big White, Canada France’s Maxime Montaggioni pulled the biggest upset, while the Netherlands added two more titles on Tuesday (7 February), the final day of competition at the 2017 World Para Snowboard Championships in Big White, Canada. Banked slalom races took place, with Montaggioni (1:10.65) knocking off the US favourite Mike Minor (1:10.94) with his third – and final – run for his first ever world title in the men’s SB-UL category. The 27-year-old screamed in celebration once he heard Minor’s time in the third run. “I saw that Minor was so fast, so in my second run I tried to do better. It did, but it was not enough. And the last run I said I have nothing to lose and to just go down as fast as I can,” said Montaggioni, who had lost to Minor in the snowboard-cross big final on Saturday (4 February). “In this moment, I’m just happy. I’m smiling a lot,” he said. “I just want to go with my team to celebrate this incredible feeling.” Minor, last season’s banked slalom World Cup winner, had gone undefeated all season until Tuesday; he added the silver to the gold medal he won from Saturday’s snowboard-cross. Great Britain’s Ben Moore, silver medallist from 2015, completed the podium. The men’s SB-LL2 also came down to the last run, with a matter of split-seconds separating the medallists. Finland’s Matti Suur-Hamari’s time of 1:07.82 sealed the deal and completed a golden World Championships. Great Britain’s Owen Pick (1:08.23) momentarily held the lead until Suur-Hamari bumped him to the silver medal. Japan’s Gurimu Narita (1:08.40) proved his wins from the NorAm and World Cups in January were no fluke. The former track-and-field athlete took home bronze to continue a remarkable season debut. “I was surprised that I came out with the gold medal because it was such a tight race,” Suur-Hamari said. “The guys were putting good times and the course was freaking long.” The Dutch continued to flex their strengths, as Bibian Mentel-Spee and Chris Vos went two-for-two at Big White 2017. In second place after her first run, Mentel-Spee summoned speed in her next to retain her world title in the women’s SB-LL2. Her compatriot Lisa Bunschoten secured her second silver in Big White, and some redemption after missing the banked slalom podium from the 2015 World Championships in La Molina, Spain. Australia’s reigning silver medallist Joany Badenhorst completed the podium. “I’m so happy that it worked out,” Mentel-Spee said. “After my first run I got really really scared. Lisa was a half-second before me, and I was like ‘Wow I really need to step up my game’ because she was really fast. So I did in the second run, luckily I took some time off my first run; I was really stoked about that.” Vos’ first-run time in the men’s SB-LL1 was untouched, as the 18-year-old can now call himself a four-time world champion. After missing the podium in Saturday’s snowboard-cross race, the USA’s Mike Schultz did not leave empty handed as he locked the silver medal. Austria’s Reinhold Schett held onto third place by .70 seconds, completing a successful Worlds debut that saw him take silver in snowboard-cross. “I came here to defend my gold medal, but I knew the guys were really charging,” Vos said. “The border-cross was really tight but the banked slalom is more my race, there is more carving. But yeah, it happened twice again, and I am really excited.” After taking last season off due to pregnancy, the USA’s Brenna Huckaby was another snowboarder to go undefeated in Big White. The 21-year-old upgraded her silver from La Molina 2015, dethroning France’s reigning world champion Cecile Hernandez-Cervellon in the women’s SB-LL1. The race for bronze was tight, and the USA’s Amy Purdy was able to squeeze onto the podium with her second run. “I did not land a single training run [on Monday] so I came in with low expectations,” Huckaby said. “Coming from such a high from snowboard-cross into banked slalom, I just told myself place doesn’t matter. I got what I came here for and I just wanted to love snowboarding again and that is exactly what I did. So there was no pressure.” France was the only nation to win a Paralympic quota, as the other event winners had previously won quotas in Snowboard-Cross. These 4 unused quota will be added to the Bipartite allocation, which is now 23 men and 13 women. The next stage of qualification is the World Rankings after the 2016/17 Season, which will continue with World Cup events in La Molina (13-18 Feb) and PyeongChang (8-13 Mar), and the European Cup Final in Rogla (17-21 Mar). There will be 2 other WPSB events where athletes can gain points in United States (Copper Mountain) and Canada (Tremblant) in late March and early April. Paralympic Games 2018 Quota: Women's BSL LL1: Reallocated to Bipartite Women's BSL LL2: Reallocated to Bipartite Men's BSL UL: France Men's BSL LL1: Reallocated to Bipartite Men's BSL LL2: Reallocated to Bipartite Full Results Here

Welcome! I never knew that we had the oldest alliance in the world, I wonder if the world's oldest alliance will play out in the TISC voting!

Welcome to the contest! Hoepfully we can find another Nordic nation to join you!

Of course! Italy is also now the nation with the most members in this contest, I wonder if it will stay that way or will Serbia catch you up?

That would be good to see all of them, but something tells me thats not going to happen! Reaching 35 nations (the most on the new forum) would be an achievement, so that's what I'll aim for!

[hide] Event and Date Gold Medal Winner Silver Medal Winner Bronze Medal Winner Athletes 2 x 6 km + 2 x 7,5 km Mixed Relay Day 1, February 9th, 2017 France Germany Norway Austria Czech Republic France Germany Norway Russia Any Other Women's 7,5 km Sprint Day 2, February 10th, 2017 Laura Dahlmeier Someone from France Kaisa Mäkäräinen Gabriela Koukalova Kaisa Mäkäräinen Someone from France Laura Dahlmeier Dorothea Wierer Anastasiya Kuzmina Any Other Men's 10 km Sprint Day 3, February 11th, 2017 Martin Fourcade Johannes Thingnes Boe Emil Hegle Svendsen Julian Eberhard Martin Fourcade Simon Schempp Johannes Thingnes Boe Emil Hegle Svendsen Anton Shipulin Any Other Women's 10 km Pursuit Day 4, February 12th, 2017 Laura Dahlmeier Gabriela Koukalova Marie Dorin Habert Gabriela Koukalova Kaisa Mäkäräinen Anaïs Chevalier Marie Dorin Habert Laura Dahlmeier Dorothea Wierer Any Other Men's 12,5 km Pursuit Day 4, February 12th, 2017 Martin Fourcade Anton Shipulin Someone from Norway Martin Fourcade Someone from Germany Someone from Norway Anton Shipulin Jakov Fak Any Other Women's 15 km Individual Day 5, February 15th, 2017 Gabriela Koukalova Someone from France Kaisa Mäkäräinen Gabriela Koukalova Kaisa Mäkäräinen Someone from France Laura Dahlmeier Dorothea Wierer Tiril Eckhoff Any Other Men's 20 km Individual Day 6, February 16th, 2017 Martin Fourcade Someone from Norway Anton Shipulin Dominik Landertinger Martin Fourcade Erik Lesser Simon Schempp Someone from Norway Anton Shipulin Any Other Women's 4 x 6 km Relay Day 7, February 17th, 2017 France Germany Ukraine Czech Republic France Germany :ITA Italy :NOR Norway :UKR Ukraine :WHT Any Other Men's 4 x 7,5 km Relay Day 8, February 18th, 2017 :NOR Norway :FRA France :RUS Russia :AUT Austria :FRA France :GER Germany :NOR Norway :RUS Russia :UKR Ukraine :WHT Any Other Women's 12,5 km Mass Start Day 9, February 19th, 2017 :FRA Marie Dorin Habert :BLR Darya Domracheva :WHT Any Other :BLR Darya Domracheva :CZE Gabriela Koukalova :FIN Kaisa Mäkäräinen :FRA Marie Dorin Habert :GER Someone from Germany :ITA Dorothea Wierer :WHT Any Other Men's 15 km Mass Start Day 9, February 19th, 2017 :FRA Martin Fourcade :WHT Any Other :NOR Someone from Norway :CZEOndrej Moravec :FRA Martin Fourcade :GER Someone from Germany :NOR Someone from Norway :RUS Anton Shipulin :WHT Any Other [/hide]

Thank you! Getting a bit ahead of myself, hopefully we can reach 43 users by the end!!

Have a little faith! I'm hoping for at least 35 countries and I have a little plan up my sleeve to make that happen....

Looks like there will be at least 26 nations with medals as Norway won bronze in Curling and GB and Canada will win at least a silver tomorrow in the curling finals! That's up 2 on last time, but not as high as the 32 in 2013!!

Great to have you on board and our first multi-user nation!

Welcome to the contest everyone!! We've now got previous and future hosts, another continent and some familiar faces joining the party!

Ice Hockey Competition Details City PyeongChang Dates March 10th - March 18th, 2018 Venue Gangneung Hockey Centre Website Official Website There will be 1 event contested in Ice Hockey at the 2018 Winter Paralympic Games, a mixed-gender 8 team tournament. All competing athletes have impairments affecting the lower parts of their bodies, thus requiring them to play setaed. Canada enter the competition as the current world champions having defeated United States in 2017. However the bronze medallists from 2017, South Korea, may be boosted by the home crowd to challenge for the gold. Teams qualified for PyeongChang 2018: Canada Czech Republic Italy Japan Norway South Korea Sweden United States

United States and Netherlands top as Paralympic Games quotas are won in Canada Snowboard Cross races in the 5 Paralympic classifications opened the 2017 World Para Snowboard Championships in Big White, Canada Netherlands and the United States came out as the dominant forces in Para-Snowboard after the Snowboard Cross events, both nations won 2 gold medals (thus securing 2 Paralympic Games quotas each). In the Women's Lower Limb 1 (LL1) Brenna Huckaby from USA won gold in the big final, beating close rival cecile Hernandez-Cervellon of France. Meanwhile in the small final Nicole Roundy won an all North American battle to win the second medal for the USA, beating Canada's Michelle Salt. However, the field was relatively small compared to some competitions this year, with just 6 entries (1 of which did not start). In the Women's Lower Limb 2 (LL2) the dominance of Bibian Mentel-Spee was on superb display, winning an all Dutch big final against compatriot Lisa Bunschoten. In fact the Netherlands almost completed a clean sweep, but they were denied by Joany Badenhorst of Australia. In the Men's Upper Limb (UL) a new addition to the Paralympic program in 2018, USAs Michael Minor the in-form snowboarder of the 2016-17 season so far won gold, beating Maxime Montaggioni of France, and securing another Paralympic quota for the USA. In the small final Jacopo Luchini of Italy beat Britain's rising star James Barnes-Miller to bronze, ensurig the Italians, who used to dominate this event, were repsented on the medals podium. In the Men's Lower Limb 1 (LL1) the male equivalent to Bibian Mentel-Spee, Chris Vos, won gold, against Reinhold Schett of Austria. The American's who were largely expected to challenge Vos had to settle for a small final race, where Mark Mann came out on top. Finally, the only nation to break the Dutch-American domination was Finland in the Men's Lower Limb 2 (LL2) as Matti Suur-Hamari, beat Evan Strong of the USA to gold, with Michael Shea of USA picking up bronze. Gaining Finland a valuable Paralympic quota place. Paralympic Games 2018 Quota: Women's SBX LL1: United States Women's SBX LL2: Netherlands Men's SBX UL: United States Men's SBX LL1: Netherlands Men's SBX LL2: Finland Full Results Here

The winter Universiade medal table really confuses me! Every year Russia races ahead in the medals table on the first few days, but then only seems able to add one or two gold medals every day after that Russia must have some amazing preparations because they're dominance would disappear if the medal count stated from day 3!

Welcome to the contest! @africaboy I've got high hopes now, maybe this could be Romania's year!

Welcome! Wouldn't be a contest without last years host!

Glad to have our friends from over the Atlantic with us and the 3rd continent!!

We look forward to having you, and your wonderful gifs!

Welcome!! It wouldn't be a contest without Ireland, the dominant force of TISC!

Welcome to the contest Croatia and congratulations for being the first! Not a bad birthday present I guess, maybe a Croatian victory could top it off!!