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Totallympics Annual International Song Contest 2017 - Charter and Official Rulebook SECTION 1 - SONG CHOICE AND ELIGIBILITY: 1. (a) All songs must be ORIGINAL, NEW MATERIAL, released on or after January 1st, 2016. Exceptions will be made in the following circumstances: (i) A song released as a single no more than 6 months before the cut-off date (i.e. July 1st, 2015) may ONLY be chosen if that song was subsequently released on an album for the first time during the official period of eligibility. For example, a song which was released as a single on July 1st 2015 may be chosen if that song was later included in an album released on January 1st 2016 or thereafter. (ii) A song which is a copy of an original song may ONLY be chosen if both artists of the original song and the copy version are from the same nation AND if the original song was also released within the period of eligibility (on or after January 1st, 2016). 1. (b) All songs must be ORIGINAL to the nation for which they are competing. In other words, if a song is a copy or cover of an original song by an artist from another nation, then it is ONLY permitted to participate for the nation of the artist who produced the original version. If the artist of the cover version is from the same nation as the original artist, then the cover version must fulfill rule 1(a) in order to be eligible to participate. SECTION 2 - ARTIST CHOICE AND ELIGIBILITY: 2. (a) Artists chosen to represent a nation must be born in or be of the same nationality as the nation for which they are participating OR they must have more or equal association with that nation. 2. (b) In the case of bands, at least 50% of the band must be born in or be of the same nationality as the nation for which they are participating OR they should have more or equal association with that nation. 2. (c) For the purposes of the Totallympics International Song Contest, the same concept of nationality as that used by the IOC (International Olympic Committee) will be adopted. So, for example, artists from Scotland must represent Great Britain, artists from Faroe Islands must represent Denmark, etc. SECTION 3 - NATIONAL JURY VOTING: 3. (a) National juries may consist of a single jury member OR a multi-member jury made up of two or more users from that nation. 3. (b) National juries must send their votes in SECRET (via private message) to the host organising member(s) of the song contest as requested. 3. (c) Each jury member in a multi-member jury shall send their individual preferences in SECRET (via private message) to the host organising member(s). The votes from each of the members of the multi-member jury will be combined to form a single set of votes which will represent the overall voting preference of that national jury. In this way, the votes from each of the participating national juries, whether single or multi-member juries, will hold equal value or weight. 3. (d) National juries will use the following voting format: (i) Jury members will award points to their 12 favourite songs in ascending manner from points 1 through 12 (inclusive) with the first preference receiving a maximum score of 12 points, second preference receiving 11 points, third preference receiving 10 points, and so forth until the song of 12th preference which will receive a single point. - 1st preference -> 12 points - 2nd preference -> 11 points - 3rd preference -> 10 points - 4th preference -> 9 points - 5th preference -> 8 points - 6th preference -> 7 points - 7th preference -> 6 points - 8th preference -> 5 points - 9th preference -> 4 points - 10th preference -> 3 points - 11th preference -> 2 points - 12th preference -> 1 point (ii) In single member juries, these scores will subsequently represent the National Jury Vote of that nation. However, in multi-member juries, the votes of all the jury members from that nation will be combined to form a single set of points. The song which has received the most number of points from that national jury will be deemed to be the overall first preference choice of that jury and will receive the maximum score of 12 points; the song which has received the second highest number of points from that national jury will be deemed to be the overall second preference choice of that jury and will receive a score of 11 points, and so forth until the song which has received the 12th highest number of points which will receive a single point from that national jury. 3. (d) National juries must submit their votes by the official voting deadline as designated by the host organiser(s). National juries who fail to submit their votes within the required time frame will be disqualified from the contest. 3. (e) Any Nation which fails to participate in the voting process will be automatically disqualified from the contest. 3. (f) A random draw will take place in advance of the Grand Final to determine the order in which the National Juries will reveal their votes. This draw must be shown to be transparent and available to competing members should they wish to follow the result. The result of this draw must always be adhered to in order to preserve the random nature in which the voting will progress during the Grand Final. A National Jury may only request a "swap" in their designated voting position if, after the random draw, they have been assigned a voting slot outside of "reasonable hours". For the purpose of this contest, reasonable hours will be determined as anytime between 08:30-23:00 local time. During the "swap" process, the host organiser will first look to make swaps between National Juries who are eligible for swaps after the random draw. SECTION 4 - NATIONAL JURY TIE-BREAK PROCEDURES: 4. (a) In the event of a tie in the combined votes of multi-member juries, the following set of rules outlines how the tie-break will be resolved: (i) The song which has received points from the greatest number of jury members will be deemed the winner of the tie. For example, take the following scenario.... Songs A, B, and C each received a combined score of 10 points after the results of each national jury member were combined and calculated. Song A received a single score of 10 points from one jury member, Song B received scores of 7 points and 3 points from two separate jury members and Song C received scores of 5 points, 3 points and 2 points from 3 separate jury members. All three songs received a total of 10 points, however, Song C is deemed to be the winner of the tie because a greater number of jury members voted for that song (3 members in this case). (ii) If the songs remain deadlocked after 4 (a) (i), the song which received the highest value score from an individual jury member will be deemed the winner of the tie. For example, take the following scenario.... Song A and Song B each received a combined score of 14 points after the results of each national jury member were combined and calculated. Song A received scores of 8+6 points while Song B received scores of 7+7 points. Song A will be deemed the winner of that tie since that song received a score of higher value (8 points) from one of the national jury members. (iii) If the songs remain deadlocked after 4 (a) (i) and (ii), jury members from that national jury who did not award any votes to any of the songs involved in the tie-break will be asked to break the tie. This tie-break rule can only ever be used to break ties in juries of 3 members or more and ONLY if there is a jury member who did not vote for any of the songs involved in the tie-break. (iv) After the procedures 4 (a) (i), (ii) and (iii) have been carried out, all outstanding ties within the votes of a national jury shall be resolved by carrying out a single random draw. The nature of this random draw shall be as follows: The names of each national jury member will be entered into a draw. Each name will be drawn. The first jury member drawn will be awarded the right to break the unresolved tie of highest value. The second jury member drawn will be awarded the right to break the unresolved tie of the second highest value. For example, take the following scenario.... there are two members of National Jury X. After the votes of User A and User B are combined and calculated the following situation arises: COUNTRY (Total points) -> Combined value Country A (24 points) -> 12 points Country B (21 points) -> 11 or 10 points Country C (21 points) -> 11 or 10 points Country D (18 points) -> 9 points Country E (16 points) -> 8 points Country F (13 points) -> 7 or 6 points Country G (13 points) -> 7 or 6 points Country H (10 points) -> 5 points Country I (7 points) -> 4 or 3 points County J (7 points) -> 4 or 3 points Country K (4 points) -> 2 points Country L (1 point) -> 1 or 0 points County M (1 point) -> 1 or 0 points Those highlighted in red text are those ties which could not be resolved by 4 (a) (i), (ii) or (iii). As a result of the random draw, User A was drawn first, meaning that user will be given the right to break the unresolved tie of the highest value (the tie between Country B and C for 11 or 10 points). User B was drawn second meaning that user will be given the right to break the unresolved tie of the second highest value (the tie between Country F and G for 7 or 6 points). The order will then be reversed so that User B will be given the right to break the unresolved tie of the third highest value (the tie between Country I and J for 4 or 3 points). User A will finally be given to break the unresolved tie of the fourth highest value (the tie between Country L and M for 1 or 0 points. This procedure to break the unresolved ties will be used for national juries of any number with the first user drawn being given the right to break the unresolved tie of the highest value, the second user drawn being given the right to break the unresolved tie of the second highest value, third user the third highest tie, etc. reversing the order if need be when the order has completed one cycle. However, it should be noted that unresolved tie-breaks which require random draws will occur mostly in two-member juries since national juries with 3 or more members will likely resolve all ties through 4 (a) (i), (ii) or (iii). SECTION 5 - OVERALL SCOREBOARD TIE-BREAK PROCEDURES: 5. (a) In the event of a tie in the overall scoreboard between two or more nations, the following set of rules outlines how the tie-break will be resolved: (i) The nation which has received points from the greatest number of National Juries will be deemed the winner of the tie. (ii) If there is still a tie after 5 (a) (i), the nation which has received the greatest number of 12 points will be deemed the winner of the tie. (iii) If there is still a tie after 5 (a) (i), (ii), the nation which has received the greatest number of 11 points will be deemed the winner of the tie. If the tie remains deadlocked, the process will continue by counting the number of 10 points each nation received, 9 points, 8 points, and so on until the tie-break can be resolved. 5. (b) If there is still a tie in the overall scoreboard between two or more nations after 5 (a) (i), (ii) and (iii) have been implemented, those nations shall be deemed to have tied for position in the overall scoreboard. SECTION 6 - CONDUCT AND RESPONSIBILITY OF PARTICIPANTS: 6. (a) Participating users shall be respectful of the song choice of all nations once they fulfill all of the necessary eligibility requirements. 6. (b) Participating users must not reveal or give any indication as to their preferences or voting choices at any stage before the official announcement of the votes during the Grand Final. 6. (c) Participating users must not discuss private voting procedures with other members so as to ensure fairness is always in play and to ensure any suspense during the Grand Final is kept intact. 6. (d) Participating users must be respectful when posting and discussing with other members on the Totallympics International Song Contest Thread. 6. (e) If foul play is detected with respect to 6 (a), (b), (c) or (d) at any stage before, during or after the contest, the TISC organising committee reserves the right to place the participation or result of that nation under review. SECTION 7 - HOSTING DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: 7. (a) The host organisation must allow a minimum of 3 weeks from the opening date for the national selection and the deadline to submit an entry. This is to give users enough time to see the thread, consider song and artist choices and submit their entries. 7. (b) The host organisation must allow a minimum of 2 weeks for National Juries to submit their votes during the National Jury voting phase. This is to allow jury members enough time to consider each song carefully before casting their votes. 7. (c) The host organiser(s) must submit their votes in advance of receiving votes from other National Juries by private message. The votes of the host(s) should be sent by private message to a neutral party after the national selection window has passed and before the national jury voting phase begins. 7. (d) The host organiser(s) must abide by the same rules that govern the participation of users in the Totallympics International Song Contest as outlined in Section 6. SECTION 8 - FUTURE HOSTING RIGHTS: 8. (a) Upon completion of the relevant song contest, the winning nation will automatically be awarded the rights to host the subsequent Totallympics International Song Contest 1 year later. 8. (b) If the winning nation wishes to decline the hosting duties, a discussion will be raised in the relevant TISC thread to discuss hosting options and allowing users to put forward their bid to become the next hosts.

Totallympics Annual International Song Contest 2017 Totallympics Forum - 4 February 2017 - 30 April 2017 Official Site OFFICIAL SCHEDULE Untill Saturday 25th March 2017 - Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) From Sunday 26th March 2017 - British Summer Time (GMT +1) Saturday, 4th February 2017 12:00 - National Jury Registration Window Opens Sunday, 12th February 2017 00:00 - National Entries Selection Window Opens Monday, 6th March 2017 24:00 - National Jury Registration and National Entries Window Closed Tuesday, 7th March 2017 00:00 - Host Jury Voting Window Opens Thursday, 9th March 2017 24:00 - Host Jury Voting Window Closed Friday, 10th March 2017 00:00 - National Jury Voting Window Opens Saturday, 1st April 2017 24:00 - National Jury Voting Window Closed Sunday, 2nd April 2017 19:30 - Festival of Music begins Monday, 3rd April 2017 12:00 - Voting Order Draw 12:30 - Road to TISC 2016 Friday, 28th April 2017 18:00 - Opening Ceremony Saturday, 29th April 2017 10:30 - Grand Final Sunday, 30th April 2017 TBC - Closing Ceremony PARTICIPATING NATIONS (Youtube Playlist) NATIONS USERS ARTISTS SONGS Algeria bestmen Zaho Tant de choses Argentina konig, LDOG Maxi Trusso Taste of love Azerbaijan Il_qar Miri Yusif #SənləBiz Brazil titicow, vinipereira Alok + Bruno Martini ft. Zeeba Hear me now Bulgaria stefanbg (Federer91) Mey Would you be mine Canada intoronto The Weekend False Alarm Croatia dcro Antonela Doko Onaj Dan Czech Republic ahjfcshfghb Hodiny Stmivani Denmark Agger Kris Herman Nar man ikke kan ga hjem Finland Finnator123 JVG Hehkuu France Benolympique, Bohemia Amir Au coeur de moi Germany catgamer, OlympicsFan Wincent Weiss Musik Sein Great Britain uk12points Rag'n'Bone Man Human Greece Janakis Stavento ft. Melina Aslanidou Nero kai Xoma India Dolby Aamir Khan Dhaakad Indonesia Griff88 Rendy Pandugo I Don't Care Iran MHSN Mehdi Yeganeh Behet Ghol Midam Ireland OlympicIRL Two Door Cinema Club Bad Decisions Italy Gianlu33, Henry_Leon, Pablita, SteveParker Alessio Bernabei Noi Siamo Infinito Kazkhstan Ruslan Ninety One Kalay Karaisyn? Lithuania Werloc GJan Wild Malta Glen The Travellers Xemx u xita Mexico mrv86 Natalia Lafourcade ft. Los Macorinos Tu si sabes quererme Moldova Ionoutz24 Sunstroke Project Hey mamma Morocco #MA Bouchra Yallah Netherlands heywoodu Kensington Do I Ever New Zealand Wanderer Graham Candy Back into it Poland rybak Sylwia Grzeszczak Tatma dziewczyna Portugal kungshamra71 Branko & Mayra Andrade Reserva Pra Dios Romania africaboy Delia Ce are ea Russia VovanA JRBS Песня Про То, Как Гусь Нашёл Омлет Serbia DaniSRB, dareza Saša Kovačević Zamalo tvoj Slovakia hckosice Mária Čírová Unikát Slovenia justony, mihamiha Nina Pušlar To mi je všeč Tunisia amen09, tuniscof Myrath Endure the silence United States dezbee2008 Zedd, Aloe Blacc & Grey Candyman 35 44 FINAL RESULTS RUNNING ORDER ORDER NATION HOST TIME LOCAL TIME 1 Indonesia 10:30 16:30 2 Romania 10:45 12:45 3 Slovenia 11:00 12:00 4 Ireland 11:15 11:15 5 Russia 11:30 13:30 6 Croatia 11:45 12:45 7 Slovakia 12:00 13:00 8 Algeria 12:15 12:15 9 Lithuania 12:30 14:30 LUNCH 12:45-13:30 10 Malta 13:30 14:30 11 Iran 13:45 17:15 12 Moldova 14:00 16:00 13 Bulgaria 14:15 16:15 14 Kazakhstan 14:30 19:30 15 India 14:45 19:15 16 Denmark 15:00 16:00 17 Poland 15:15 16:15 18 Netherlands 15:30 16:30 19 Finland 15:45 17:45 BREATHER 16:00-16:30 20 Argentina 16:30 12:30 21 Great Britain 16:45 16:45 22 Morocco 17:00 17:00 23 Mexico 17:15 11:15 24 United States 17:30 12:30 25 Tunisia 17:45 17:45 26 Portugal 18:00 18:00 27 Canada 18:15 13:15 28 France 18:30 19:30 DINNER 18:45-19:45 29 Greece 19:45 21:45 30 New Zealand 20:00 07:00 31 Azerbaijan 20:15 23:15 32 Germany 20:30 21:30 33 Brazil 20:45 16:45 34 Serbia 21:00 22:00 35 Italy 21:15 22:15 Festival of Music User Country konig Ecuador Peru dcro St Vincent and the Grenadines Gianlu33 Mauritius Tahiti OlympicIRL Australia bestmen Iraq Palestine Agger Belgium Norway heywoodu Norfolk Islands mrv86 Colombia Puerto Rico dezbee2008 Guam Virgin Islands uk12points Mongolia Togo Ionoutz24 Cook Islands Papua New Guinea Benolympique Iceland Spain Griff88 Chinese Taipei Myanmar Wanderer Sudan amen09 Cameroon Jordan Rybak Cyprus Sweden

Just fulfilled a life long ambition to see a "British" long track speed skater competing in an actual competition!!

Skiers Marcoux and Farkasova storm to quadrouple gold Slalom races today closed the 2017 World Para Alpine Skiing Championships in tarvisio, Italy. Canada’s Mac Marcoux and Slovakia’s Henrieta Farkasova skied to victory in slalom on Tuesday (31 January), each claiming their fourth golds to close the 2017 World Para Alpine Skiing Championships in Tarvisio, Italy. Marcoux, guided by Jack Leitch, can now call himself champion in the men’s visually impaired after registering the two fastest runs. The 19-year-old has found the form of his career so far in Tarvisio, and continued his medal run despite the falling rain on the Di Prampero course. Spain’s Paralympic silver medallist Jon Santacana Maiztegui improved on his bronze medal from the last Worlds in 2015, taking second place with guide Miguel Galindo. Slovakia’s Vancouver 2010 Paralympic champion Jakub Krako and guide Branislav Brozman completed a podium triple from Tarvisio with bronze. Now a 12-time world champion, Farkasova and guide Natalia Subrtova saw off a challenge from Great Britain’s Millie Knight with guide Brett Wild in the women’s visually impaired. The Slovakian posted the leading time in the morning, giving herself a good buffer heading into the second run. Knight fought back in the afternoon, showing her growing confidence in taking on the world’s biggest names, but her quick finish was not quite enough and she left with silver. Germany’s Noemi Eva Ristau kicked off a medal rush for Germany with bronze, her first at this level with guide Gerkau Lucien. Ristau’s Paralympic champion teammate Andrea Rothfuss added gold to her country’s haul, once again overcoming France’s defending title holder Marie Bochet. Rothfuss was just 0.19 seconds behind the French 14-time world champion after the first run. But she came back fighting as she had done 24 hours before in the giant slalom, dipping over the line first by just 0.03 seconds. “I think slalom is the discipline I don’t like,” Rothfuss said. “I had to do a lot more training in slalom, because it’s the discipline I haven’t had a good performance in. I didn’t expect to reach the podium a second time and then in slalom. It’s incredible! On her road to the PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic Winter Games, which has received a huge boost this week, Rothfuss continued: “I had some good results here, that keeps me smiling all the time. I look forward to it. In the summer we will train a lot and hard for it and we’ll see what happens in PyeongChang.” Bochet claimed silver, an impressive 16th consecutive World Championships podium finish for the multiple Paralympic champion. Anna-Maria Rieder, another German to secure her first Worlds medal at the age of 16, was third. The men’s standing saw a sweep of the technical events for French teenager Arthur Bauchet. Continuing to make an impact on his rivals, the youngster looked delighted to add to his title from the giant slalom on Monday (30 January). Austria’s Thomas Grochar was second, leading New Zealand’s Adam Hall into bronze. The men’s and women’s sitting events were highlighted by triple wins for Germany’s Anna Schaffelhuber and the Netherlands’ Jeroen Kampschreur. In the women’s, Paralympic champion Schaffelhuber had a tussle with her teammate Anna-Lena Forster. Schaffelhuber posted the fastest time in the morning, but 2015 bronze medallist Forster fired a warning shot in her second run closing the gap to just 0.49 seconds overall. “I really looked forward to the slalom. I knew this would be a hot race, because Anna-Lena has been very, very strong in the slalom this year. I knew in the second run I really had to go fast, so I’m really happy to have won the gold medal today.” The top two on the podium, added to Rothfuss’ gold and Rieder’s bronze, made a great day for Germany. “I heard on the start that we’d won three medals and I said ‘that’s pretty cool’,” Schaffelhuber said. “That was really a motivation for me at the start. Because they won it and I knew I can do it too and I wanted to go fast.” Austrian world champion Claudia Loesch completed the top three with bronze and medalling in all five events. Kampschreur was on top of the world for the third time this week in the men’s sitting. In a dramatic conclusion to the race, the 17-year-old grabbed gold from the hands of Poland’s Igor Sikorski who was in line to win his first world title. However Kampschreur could not have skied better, weaving his way down the course with technique comparable to his more experienced competitors. Sikorski finished 0.37 seconds behind, leading another Dutch skier, Niels de Langen, into third. Full Results Here

Updated the results portal with all the World Championships speed events (Downhill, Super-G and Super Combined) here Apologies for the delay, the technical events results will be up later as well!

Tunisia will host at the end of this year, the thread for the spring contest will open within the next 2 weeks!

I would be SHOCKED if Slovakia failed to win a gold off the back of a season of very impressive performances so far. In the women's VI I reckon every race will be close between Knight and Farkasova (if they both finish), I can see Knight with the edge in the speed events and Farkasova in the technical. The men's VI is basically wide open in every event, so you could be 1st or 5th really easily! Hopefully Marek Kubacka can perform well in the technical races and maybe pick up a gold or two!

Six nations win gold in Downhill on Day 1 of the Para Alpine Skiing World Championships Six nations (Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain and USA) won gold in the six Downhill classifications in Tarvisio this morning. In the Women's Visually Impaired Great Britain's Millie Knight won gold, leading home multiple Paralympic champion Henrieta Farkasova from Slovakia, with Eleonor Sana from Belgium winning bronze. But this event was a bittersweet victory for the British team, as Kelly Gallagher suffered serious injuries during her Downhill training run, bringing an early end to her competition. In the women's standing class, ever dominant Marie Bochet won gold for France, with close rival Andrea Ruthfuss having to settle for silver. In a close North American battle for bronze, Canada's Alana Ramsay pipped USA's Stephanie Jallen, sparking a rivalry that is likely to continue in the races to come. Anna Schaffelhuber delivered yet again on the biggest stage, beating Austria's Claudia Loesch by 0.2 seconds to win gold for Germany. As is common in the seated events the Japanese were yet again a strong force, winning bronze through Momoka Muraoka, but she was still some 4 seconds adrift of the top two. In the men's visually impaired Canada's leading man Mac Marcoux continued his success at world championships by winning gold ahead of Yon Santacana of Spain and Miroslav Haraus of Slovakia, with less than a second separating the top 3 the men's visually impaired class will be hotly contested over the coming races. In the men's standing the largest field of all for the speed events was seen, with 18 finishers. However, topping the pile was Austria's Markus Salcher, who led from start to finish in this closely contested category. Canada's Kirk Schornstein won silver with Jeffrey Stuut winning bronze for the Netherlands. But with just 3 seconds separating the top 10 skiers the future races are likely to be very tight. Finally, Andrew Kurka of the USA made up for a spat of 4th place American finishes by winning gold in the sitting event, sending New Zealands Corey Peters and Japan's Akira Kano into silver and bronze medal position. At the end of Day 1 Canada lead the medals table, with 3 medals and 1 gold, with Austria and Germany close behind with both nations on 2 medals and 1 gold. Tomorrow the Super-G events will take place with broadly similar fields, many of the smaller nations and less experienced skiiers will join in the Slalom and Giant Slalom races early next week. Full Results Here Full replay of all races (original live stream)

Woooooo!! My first ever prediction contest medal, and it is an Olympic one, very happy!! Thank you @vinipereira for calculating the results!

Cross-Country Skiing Competition Details City PyeongChang Dates March 11th - March 18th, 2018 Venue Alpenisa Biathlon Centre Website Official Website There will be 20 events contested in Cross Country Skiing at the 2018 Winter Paralympic Games, 9 for men, 9 for women and 2 mixed relays. Competitions take place over 3 different races across 3 sport classifications for each gender and 2 mixed gender and mixed classification 4x2.5km relays. The races for women will be the Sprint Classic, 5km/7.5km Classic and 12.5km/15km Freestyle and for men will be the Sprint Classic, 7.5km/10km Classic and 15/20km Freestyle. The Mixed 4x2.5km Relay is contested by 4 athletes, including at least 1 woman, and the combined classification percentage of each team must be below 330%. The Open 4x2.5km Relay is contested by 2, 3 or 4 athletes and the combined classification percentage of each team must be below 370%. The 3 sport classifications are Visually Impaired (where athletes ski with guides), Standing (for skiers with a variety of leg and arm impairments but can stand) and Sitting (for skiers with trunk and leg impairments who race seated). 6 Athletes to watch in PyeongChang 2018: Carina Edlinger - Women's Visually Impaired Anna Milenina - Women's Standing Birgit Skarstein - Women's Sitting Zebastian Modin - Men's Visually Impaired Rushan Minnegulov - Men's Standing Ivan Golubkov - Men's Sitting

Great idea! But overall the pictograms are a bit unimaginative, could've been much better!

[hide] Preliminary Round January 14th - January 25th, 2017 16 Nations, 4 Groups, 1st and 2nd Nations from each Group will qualify for Quarterfinals Group A Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 January 14th 2017, h. 17:00, Stade de l'Amitié, Libreville Gabon 2 0 Guinea-Bissau January 14th 2017, h. 20:00, Stade de l'Amitié, Libreville Burkina Faso 1 1 Cameroon January 18th 2017, h. 17:00, Stade de l'Amitié, Libreville Gabon 3 2 Burkina Faso January 18th 2017, h. 20:00, Stade de l'Amitié, Libreville Cameroon 2 1 Guinea-Bissau January 22nd 2017, h. 20:00, Stade de l'Amitié, Libreville Cameroon 0 1 Gabon January 22nd 2017, h. 20:00, Stade de Franceville, Franceville Guinea-Bissau 0 1 Burkina Faso Group B Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 January 15th 2017, h. 17:00, Stade de Franceville, Franceville Algeria 3 1 Zimbabwe January 15th 2017, h. 20:00, Stade de Franceville, Franceville Tunisia 0 1 Senegal January 19th 2017, h. 17:00, Stade de Franceville, Franceville Algeria 2 0 Tunisia January 19th 2017, h. 20:00, Stade de Franceville, Franceville Senegal 3 0 Zimbabwe January 23rd 2017, h. 20:00, Stade de Franceville, Franceville Senegal 1 1 Algeria January 23rd 2017, h. 20:00, Stade de l'Amitié, Libreville Zimbabwe 1 2 Tunisia Group C Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 January 16th 2017, h. 17:00, Stade d'Oyem, Oyem Côte d'Ivoire 2 1 Togo January 16th 2017, h. 20:00, Stade d'Oyem, Oyem DR Congo 2 0 Morocco January 20th 2017, h. 17:00, Stade d'Oyem, Oyem Côte d'Ivoire 3 1 DR Congo January 20th 2017, h. 20:00, Stade d'Oyem, Oyem Morocco 2 0 Togo January 24th 2017, h. 20:00, Stade d'Oyem, Oyem Morocco 0 1 Côte d'Ivoire January 24th 2017, h. 20:00, Stade de Port-Gentil, Port-Gentil Togo 0 0 DR Congo Group D Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 January 17th 2017, h. 17:00, Stade de Port-Gentil, Port-Gentil Ghana 3 1 Uganda January 17th 2017, h. 20:00, Stade de Port-Gentil, Port-Gentil Mali 1 1 Egypt January 21st 2017, h. 17:00, Stade de Port-Gentil, Port-Gentil Ghana 2 0 Mali January 21st 2017, h. 20:00, Stade de Port-Gentil, Port-Gentil Egypt 2 1 Uganda January 25th 2017, h. 20:00, Stade de Port-Gentil, Port-Gentil Egypt 1 2 Ghana January 25th 2017, h. 20:00, Stade d'Oyem, Oyem Uganda 0 1 Mali [/hide]

Curling Teams for Winter Universiade 2017: Men's - Women's -

Biathlon Competition Details City PyeongChang Dates March 10th - March 16th, 2018 Venue Alpenisa Biathlon Centre Website Official Website There will be 18 events contested in Biathlon at the 2018 Winter Paralympic Games, 9 for men and 9 for women. Competitions take place over 3 different races across 3 sport classifications for each gender, with the races being held over 6km, 10km and 12.5km for women and 7.5km, 12.5km and 15km for men. The 3 sport classifications are Visually Impaired (where athletes ski with guides), Standing (for skiers with a variety of leg and arm impairments but can stand) and Sitting (for skiers with trunk and leg impairments who race seated). 6 Athletes to watch in PyeongChang 2018: Oksana Shyshkova - Women's Visually Impaired Ekaterina Rumyantseva - Women's Standing Oksana Masters - Women's Sitting Stanislav Chokhlaev - Men's Visually Impaired Benjamin Daviet - Men's Standing Eui Hyun Sin - Men's Sitting

But only 4 nations are allowed to compete for the medals (:kaz)! They should've allowed a few more nations into the medal winning group to give others like Hong Kong a bit of a chance!

You've got to love the determination of British Nordic Skiing teams!! Nearly as bad as our para biathletes who spend twice as long on the course as anyone's else, we do like to get our money's worth!!

GREAT BRITAIN Team Size prediction for Winter Olympic Games 2018 PyeongChang Ski Sports Alpine Skiing (3-4) - 2 basic quota, plus potentially 2 quota for athletes ranked in the Top 30 (Dave Ryding Slalom, Alexandra Tilley Slalom or Giant Slalom) Likely athletes to qualify: Dave Ryding, Alexandra Tilley, Jack Gower/Charlie Raposo (for 2nd male spot) and Charlotte Guest (for 2nd female spot) Cross Country Skiing (4-6) - 2 basic quota, plus 2 quota for being ranked in top 300 (Andrew Musgrave 41st Distance, Andrew Young 10th Sprint, Annika Taylor 147th Sprint). Potentially 2 Top 30 points list quota (Young 10th, Musgrave 41st (even higher with new 12.71 points score from most recent WC moving him 22nd). There is a question over whether the BOA will accept all these quota, considering Musgrave and Young will have single handedly won them all and Callum Smith is the only other British male ranked inside the top 1000. Likely athletes to qualify: Andrew Musgrave, Andrew Young, Callum Smith, Annika Taylor, Sarah Hale and James Clugnet (potential 4th male spot) Ski Jumping (0) - Never say never - but gone are the days of Eddie the Eagle!! Nordic Combined (0) Freestyle Skiing (6-9) - AERIALS: Llyod Wallace on qualification borderline SKI CROSS: Emily Sarsfield on qualification borderline HALFPIPE: Tough ask but Molly Summerhays, Rowan Cheshire and Madison Rowlands can all qualify, Muuray Buchan on the borderline on the mens side SLOPESTYLE: James Woods should qualify, Isabel Atkin and Katie Summerhays should qualify as well, Anna Vincenti possibly. Snowboarding (5-7) - SBX: Zoe Gillings-Brier should qualify SLOPESTYLE/BIG AIR: Jamie Nicholls, Billy Morgan, Rowan Coultas fo the men and Katie Omerod and Aimee Fuller for the women. HALFPIPE: Outside chance for Ayla Thidling to qualify. Biathlon (1-2) - Probably 1 in each gender! Skating Sports Speed Skating (0) - Nope Short Track Speed Skating (4-10) - Potential for both genders to qualify a relay team. If not, then for the women Elise Christie and Charlotte Gilmartin should qualify, maybe too soon for Kathryn Thompson and Jennifer Pickering both born in 1996/7. On the Men's side without a relay 2 or 3 quota is possible and will be between Richard Shoebridge, Joshua Cheetham, Jack Whelbourne and Farrell Treacy. Figure Skating (2-3) - Chance for Phillip Harris to qualify in men's singles, his scores have consistently improved this season. Penny Coomes and Nick Buckland haven't competed this season due to Penny's injury but hopefully they can qualify in the Ice Dance. Sleigh Sports Luge (0-1) - Now we are competing on the Nations Cup and have the same training facilities/coaches as the skeleton program so by 2022 we should have a strong team. Skeleton (3-5) - The woman can qualify 3 athletes with Lizzie Yarnold, Laura Deas and Donna Creighton/Ashleigh Pittaway-Fay, but 2 at worse. The men will be between 1 (Dom Parsons) and 2 if anyone else can join him high up in the rankings. Bobsleigh (8-11) - Should qualify 2x4-man, 1-2x2-man and 1x2-woman. Team Sports Curling (12) - All teams should qualify Ice Hockey (0) - Already out Total Optimistic Prediction - (70) Total Pessimistic Prediction - (48) Total Realistic Prediction - (59)

This idea is much better, trying to organise any game that needs 9 members from across the globe present at one time would be difficult

Thank god in Britain we have a law that the Olympic Games must be shown live on free to air TV!

Wow, great result!! British winter sport is having an amazing start to the season, Dave Ryding 6th in Slalom, medals in Snowboarding Big air, new World Record for Elise Christie in Short Track! everything is looking on track for 2018 to have the largest British team ever and be the most successful Winter Olympics as well!!

You've convinced me!! Random chance game is best and fairest way to pick the next host! Great to see so many users interested in hosting the contest - looks like the contest has a strong future!