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In an interview with SVT, Markus Waldner said the World Cup Final in Cortina will held in front of empty stands, as no fans will be allowed due to the fear of COVID-19. https://www.svt.se/sport/alpint/alpina-varldscupfinalen-i-cortina-planeras-kora-infor-tomma-laktare

@dcro The Indian Jury has changed its entry: https://totallympics.com/index.php?/topic/2292-totallympics-annual-international-song-contest-2020/&do=findComment&comment=276077

Statement from ISU on the World Short Track Speed Skating Championships 2020: "...In view of the planned ISU World Short Track Speed Skating Championships in Seoul/South Korea on March 13-15, 2020, the ISU was especially monitoring the situation in the Seoul area. The ISU was informed through the Korea Skating Union that the competent authorities of the city of Seoul ordered the closing of the Mokdong Ice Rink and the cancellation of all planned competitions. The ISU therefore is unable to hold the ISU World Short Track Speed Skating Championships 2020 at the above-mentioned planned date... Taking into account the uncertain world-wide development of the coronavirus, the limited and uncertain available time slots during the coming weeks and the logistical challenges of potential organizers and participating teams, a postponement and/or relocation of the Championships would be difficult to achieve. Nevertheless, a postponement and/or relocation of this Championships might be considered if the circumstances would allow so in due time. Before taking a final decision, the ISU will remain in close contact with the Korea Skating Union and ISU Members". https://www.isu.org/isu-news/news/145-news/13057-isu-statement-coronavirus-isu-world-short-track-speed-skating-championships-2020-seoul?templateParam=15

The start lists for tomorrow's races are out: https://www.uci.org/track/events/uci-track-cycling-world-championships-presented-by-tissot As prediction contest manager, I would advise those who participate in the prediction contest to take a close look at the start list for women's scratch.

Announcement: It has been announced the ITTF Table Tennis World Team Championships has been postponed to June 21-28 due to COVID-19. Therefore it will no longer be an option for the prediction contest of March.

Big update this week! I hope I haven't missed some athletes... Update - Week 8 - February 17 to February 23 - 2020 Men's Pole Vault +1 https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/belgium/ben-broeders-277533 Men's Long Jump +2 https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/cuba/lester-alcides-lescay-gay-314187 https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/cuba/maykel-masso-296819 Men's Triple Jump +1 https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/azerbaijan/nazim-babayev-285246 Men's Hammer Throw +1 https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/turkey/esref-apak-171054 Men's Marathon +2 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/sweden/mustafa-mohamed-132785 https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/sweden/ebba-tulu-chala-014628815 https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/estonia/tiidrek-nurme-205757 https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/new-zealand/malcolm-hicks-262368 https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/great-britain-ni/jonathan-mellor-267499 https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/brazil/paulo-roberto-de-almeida-paula-256374 https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/ireland/kevin-seaward-188317 https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/germany/hendrik-pfeiffer-272807 https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/denmark/thijs-nijhuis-255956 Women's 5000m +1 https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/japan/hitomi-niiya-198871 Women's High Jump +1 https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/italy/elena-vallortigara-224620 Women's Shot Put +1 https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/canada/sarah-mitton-322699 Women's Marathon +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/uganda/juliet-chekwel-262632 https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/peru/gladys-tejeda-259297 https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/germany/anja-scherl-299113 https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/argentina/marcela-cristina-gomes-384095 https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/sweden/hanna-lindholm-294282 https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/spain/marta-galimany-308594 Qualified Quotas Overview Men (Total Quota: 490) Women (Total Quota: 475)

Overall Standing of BMG after WCH Mass Starts (34/48 races) is available here

Standing after WCH Mass Starts (34/48 races) Place Manager Overall Points Transfers Used and Points 1 Dunadan 9324 Transfers: 6 Points: -93,5 2 Henry_Leon 8992,5 Transfers: 8 Points: -96 3 toulousain 8985,5 Transfers: 8 Points: -71 4 brunamoura 8905 Transfers: 5 Points: -332 5 heywoodu 8725,5 Transfers: 4 Points: +50,5 6 hckosice 8716 Transfers: 6 Points: +71,5 7 Federer91 8704,5 Transfers: 4 Points: -357 8 Vojthas 8535 Transfers: 6 Points: -154 9 africaboy 8341,5 0 10 Kirkpatrick 8257 Transfers: 5 Points: -100,5 11 Monzanator 7768 Transfers: 3 Points: +8,5 12 IoNuTzZ 7299,5 Transfers: 4 Points: -726,5 13 Agger 7291,5 0 14 RobtheAggie 6832 Transfers: 4 Points: -588 15 Olympian1010 6716,5 Transfers: 1 Points: +119 16 Ufilov 6395 Transfers: 2 Points: -98 Updated Biathletes Points: BMG Biathlete Points .xlsx Notice! Managers' Overall Points includes points lost or earned from transfers

Provisional Standing after Day 5 available here

Provisional Standing after Day 5 Rank User Nation Total 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 #PP #4 #3 #2 1 Dolby 37 9 10 8 4 6 6 2 3 2 Monzanator 36 8 12 6 4 6 4 3 3 3 Speedy 35 6 10 9 4 6 6 1 1 4 George_D 32 6 10 8 4 4 5 1 2 5 Agger 31 4 15 2 4 6 1 2 2 3 6 PakoNatxo 31 4 10 8 4 5 5 1 1 7 dcro 30 10 13 2 1 4 1 4 2 1 8 vlad 30 5 7 8 4 6 5 1 2 9 Pablita 30 8 8 5 4 5 5 2 10 Henry_Leon 30 9 10 2 4 5 4 2 2 11 IoNuTzZ 29 6 7 7 4 5 3 2 12 heywoodu 29 10 5 5 3 6 3 4 13 Ufilov 28 8 6 5 4 5 5 1 14 ritesh 28 8 3 11 2 4 4 3 1 15 toulousain 26 7 5 4 4 6 4 1 2 16 ady48 26 8 8 3 1 6 2 1 3 17 Vojthas 25 9 3 4 4 5 4 1 18 Federer91 25 7 9 1 4 4 3 2 2 19 G. G. Cattaneo 23 1 7 4 4 7 4 1 20 Dnl 23 3 8 7 1 4 3 2 21 Gianlu33 22 4 8 5 1 4 3 1 22 hckosice 21 4 6 6 1 4 2 23 SteveParker 20 7 4 5 0 4 2 1 2 24 africaboy 19 5 6 3 1 4 1 1 1 25 Wanderer 18 2 7 6 2 1 2 1 1 26 tuniscof 17 4 3 5 1 4 2 1 27 Herberth10 16 3 7 1 1 4 2 2 28 szy123 16 4 4 7 0 1 1 2 29 anuj 15 1 6 5 2 1 2 1 30 rybak 14 2 2 5 4 1 2 31 JOSESEIJO 4 4 1 01: February 14th - Doubles' Sprint Luge, Women's Sprint Luge, Men's Sprint Luge 02: February 15th - Doubles Luge, Women's Singles Luge 03: February 16th - Men's Singles Luge, Team Relay Luge 04: February 22nd - 2-Women Bobsleigh 05: February 23rd - 2-Men Bobsleigh 06: February 28th - Men's Skeleton 07: February 29th - Women's Skeleton 08: March 1st - 4-Men Bobsleigh, Mixed Team Event Mistakes are always possible. PM me if you notice any.

Final Standing available here Vojthas G. G. Cattaneo dcro I'm here to conclude this prediction contest because @Vojthas doesn't like to brag about his own prediction skills. Poland was close to win a medal on the last day in women's mass start, but had to settle with a 4th place. Fortunately for them, Totallympics' stone-throwing Pole, @Vojthas secured him and Poland a gold medal in this prediction contest. He didn't had the best start of the contest, but showed great progress and now he stands on top of the podium. Big congrats to my co-prediction contest manager, @Vojthas! @Giovanni Gianni Cattaneo was the man to catch on the last day. Unfortunately for him, one did. However, to my knowledge, @Giovanni Gianni Cattaneo gets his first Totallympics Prediction Contest medal. Solid predictions in most of the days are enough to secure him a silver medal. A huge congratulation, @Giovanni Gianni Cattaneo. Well done! Croatia and @dcro are back on the Totallympics Prediction Contest podium. Croatia is no big biathlon nation, so it's great they have a solid biathlon predictior. @dcro had a couple of off-days, but otherwise, he was consistently in the top throughout the contest. First medal of the year and likely not the last one for the Croat born in the great year of 1995. Congrats, @dcro! Also shout-outs to @toulousain, who continues his great start of the season, @heywoodu, who may or may not win a medal this year, @SteveParker, who brings home a good amount of points for Italy in the team standing, and @Werloc, who will not repeat his 900,0 point average from last season. Lastly, thanks to all who participated! This was the first of three prediction contests in February. The luge, bobsleigh & skeleton contest is in full swing and the track cycling world championships prediction contest will start this Wednesday, so remember to submit your predictions before the deadline. And as prediction contest manager, I will do some shameless promotion for the prediction contest selection poll for March. https://totallympics.com/index.php?/topic/2283-prediction-contests-poll-contest-selection-for-march/. Deadline is February 29th 23:59. Remember to vote or else I know a stone-throwing Pole who might visit you. That's all from me, your, at time borderline crazy-ass, prediction contest manager, Wumo.

Provisional Standing after Day 4 available here

Provisional Standing after Day 4 Rank User Nation Total 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 #PP #4 #3 #2 1 Dolby 31 9 10 8 4 5 2 2 2 Monzanator 30 8 12 6 4 3 3 2 3 Speedy 29 6 10 9 4 5 1 4 George_D 28 6 10 8 4 4 1 2 5 dcro 26 10 13 2 1 1 3 2 1 6 PakoNatxo 26 4 10 8 4 4 1 1 7 Agger 25 4 15 2 4 1 1 2 2 8 Pablita 25 8 8 5 4 4 2 9 Henry_Leon 25 9 10 2 4 3 2 2 10 vlad 24 5 7 8 4 4 1 1 11 ritesh 24 8 3 11 2 3 3 1 12 IoNuTzZ 24 6 7 7 4 2 2 13 Ufilov 23 8 6 5 4 4 1 14 heywoodu 23 10 5 5 3 2 3 15 Federer91 21 7 9 1 4 2 2 2 16 toulousain 20 7 5 4 4 3 1 1 17 Vojthas 20 9 3 4 4 3 1 18 ady48 20 8 8 3 1 1 1 2 19 Dnl 19 3 8 7 1 2 2 20 Gianlu33 18 4 8 5 1 2 1 21 Wanderer 17 2 7 6 2 2 1 1 22 hckosice 17 4 6 6 1 1 23 G. G. Cattaneo 16 1 7 4 4 3 1 24 SteveParker 16 7 4 5 0 1 1 2 25 szy123 15 4 4 7 0 1 2 26 africaboy 15 5 6 3 1 1 1 27 anuj 14 1 6 5 2 2 1 28 rybak 13 2 2 5 4 2 29 tuniscof 13 4 3 5 1 1 1 30 Herberth10 12 3 7 1 1 1 2 01: February 14th - Doubles' Sprint Luge, Women's Sprint Luge, Men's Sprint Luge 02: February 15th - Doubles Luge, Women's Singles Luge 03: February 16th - Men's Singles Luge, Team Relay Luge 04: February 22nd - 2-Women Bobsleigh 05: February 23rd - 2-Men Bobsleigh 06: February 28th - Men's Skeleton 07: February 29th - Women's Skeleton 08: March 1st - 4-Men Bobsleigh, Mixed Team Event Mistakes are always possible. PM me if you notice any.

Track Cycling UCI World Championships 2020 Prediction Contest is now open

You MUST hide your post. To do that, you have only to delete the space between the bracket "[" and the text "hide" in "[ hide]" at the beginning of the prediction post. Do the same at the end of prediction post with "[ /hide]". PREDICTION DESIGN - START COPYING HERE ---> [ hide] Event & Date Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Women's Scratch Day 1 February 26th, 2020 Amber Joseph Jolien D'Hoore Franziska Brausse Elinor Barker Martina Fidanza Olivija Baleisyte Kirsten Wild Anita Yvonne Stenberg Lucja Pietrzak Maria Martins Anastasia Chulkova Alzbeta Bacikova Ana Usabiaga Balerdi Jennifer Valente Any Other Athlete Women's Team Sprint Day 1 February 26th, 2020 Australia Canada China Colombia Germany Italy Lithuania Mexico Netherlands New Zealand Poland Russia Any Other Nation Men's Team Sprint Day 1 February 26th, 2020 Australia Belarus China France Germany Great Britain Japan Netherlands New Zealand Poland Russia Spain Any Other Nation Men's Team Pursuit Day 2 February 27th, 2020 Australia Canada Denmark France Germany Great Britain Italy Japan New Zealand Russia Switzerland Any Other Nation Men's Scratch Day 2 February 27th, 2020 Sam Welsford Yauheni Karaliok Liang Guo Maximilian Beyer Matthew Walls Christos Volikakis Michele Scartezzini Roy Eefting Tom Sexton Sebastian Mora Vedri Roman Gladysh Eric Young Any Other Athlete Men's Keirin Day 2 February 27th, 2020 Kevin Quintero Chavarro Sebastian Vigier Maximilian Levy Stefan Botticher Joachim Eilers Any Athlete from Great Britain Yudai Nitta Yuta Wakimoto Mohd Azizulhasni Awang Matthijs Buchli Harrie Levreysen Any Athlete from New Zealand Denis Dmitriev Shane Alan Perkins Any Other Athlete Women's Team Pursuit Day 2 February 27th, 2020 Australia Belgium Canada France Germany Great Britain Ireland Italy New Zealand United States Any Other Nation Men's Points Race Day 3 February 28th, 2020 Raman Ramanau Kenny De Ketele Bryan Coquard Moritz Malcharek Ethan Hayter Mark Stewart Christos Volikakis Mark Downey Any Athlete from Italy Roy Eefting Any Athlete from Poland Sebastian Modra Vedri Any Other Athlete Men's Time Trial Day 3 February 28th, 2020 Any Athlete from Australia Tomas Babek Michael D'Almeida Quentin Lafargue Maximilian Dornbach Eric Engler Francesco Lamon Theo Bos Sam Ligtlee Nicholas Kergozou Any Other Athlete Men's Individual Pursuit Day 3 February 28th, 2020 Mikhail Shemetau Rune Herregodts Corentin Ermenault Felix Gross Dominic Weinstein Kian Emadi Filippo Ganna Davide Plebani Any Other Athlete from Italy Alexander Evtushenko Stefan Bissegger Any Other Swiss Athlete Ashton Lamble Any Other Athlete Women's Sprint Day 3 February 28th, 2020 Stephanie Morton Kelsey Mitchell Mathilde Gros Lea Sophie Friedrich Emma Hinze Katy Marchant Wai Sze Lee Any Dutch Athlete Daria Shmeleva Anastasiia Voinova Olena Starikova Any Other Athlete Women's Omnium Day 3 February 28th, 2020 Annette Edmonson Any Athlete from Belgium Allison Beveridge Amalie Didriksen Clara Copponi Laura Kenny Letizia Paternoster Yumi Kajihara Kirsten Wild Any Athlete from New Zealand Daria Pikulik Jennifer Valente Any Other Athlete Women's Time Trial Day 4 February 29th, 2020 Kaarle McCulloch Lea Sophie Friedrich Any Athlete from Great Britain Miriam Vece Jessica Salazar Valles Kyra Lamberink Any Athlete from New Zealand Urszula Los Daria Shmeleva Anastasiia Voinova Tania Calvo Barbero Olena Starikova Any Other Athlete Women's Madison Day 4 February 29th, 2020 Australia Belgium Denmark France Great Britain Ireland Italy Netherlands New Zealand Poland United States Any Other Nation Women's Individual Pursuit Day 4 February 29th, 2020 Ashlee Ankudinoff Annie Foreman-Mackey Georgia Simmerling Franziska Brausse Lisa Brennauer Lisa Klein Any Athlete from Great Britain Silvia Valsecchi Any Other Athlete from Italy Kirstie James Any Other Athlete from N. Z. Any Other Athlete Men's Omnium Day 4 February 29th, 2020 Cameron Meyer Lasse Norman Hansen Benjamin Thomas Roger Kluge Any Athlete from Great Britain Christos Volikakis Elia Viviani Eiya Hashimoto Jan Willem van Schip Campbell Stewart Aaron Gate Any Other Athlete Women's Points Race Day 5 March 1st, 2020 Alexandra Manly Tatsiana Sharakova Trine Schmidt Coralie Demay Neah Evans Any Athlete from Hong Kong Maria Giulia Confalonieri Kirsten Wild Any Athlete from Russia Hanna Solevey Jennifer Valente Any Other Athlete Men's Sprint Day 5 March 1st, 2020 Nathan Hart Sebastian Vieger Any Other Athlete from France Any Athlete from Great Britain Tomohiro Fukaya Yubai Nitta Matthijs Buchli Jeffrey Hoogland Harrie Levreysen Sam Webster Mateusz Rudyk Denis Dmitriev Jair Thon En Fa Any Other Athlete Men's Madison Day 5 March 1st, 2020 Australia Belgium Denmark France Germany Great Britain Italy Netherlands New Zealand Spain Switzerland United States Any Other Nation Women's Keirin Day 5 March 1st, 2020 Stephanie Morton Nicky Degrendele Lauriane Genest Mathilde Gros Lea Sophie Friedrich Emma Hinze Katy Marchant Wai Sze Lee Yuka Kobayashi Hyejin Lee Simona Krupeckaite Any Dutch Athlete Any Athlete from Russia Liubov Basova Any Other Athlete [ /hide] ---> PREDICTION DESIGN - STOP COPYING HERE

Yulimer Rojas has set a new indoor WR in women's triple jump with a jump of 15.43m in Madrid tonight. She beats Tatyana Lebedeva's former record of 15.36m. .https://www.worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-indoor-tour/news/indoor-tour-madrid-2020-world-record-triple-j This a new PR for Rojas and her jump of 15.43m is only 7 centimeters from Inessa Kravests WR.

Hey folks Could someone help @Wanderer with entry lists for the track cycling WCHs prediction contest? Write a PM to him if you want to help.

DANISH ENTRY The Danish jury is glad to announce the young music duo, Barselona, will represent Denmark in TAISC 2020 with the song, "Bankende Hjerter". "Bankende Hjerter" , "Beating Hearts" in English, is a tribute to friendship - to those who are there to help when life hits you hard, as the duo have described themselves. Barselona - "Bankende Hjerter"

Overall Standing of BMG after WCH Men's Individual (32/48 races) is available here

Standing after WCH Men's Individual (32/48 races) Place Manager Overall Points Transfers Used and Points 1 Dunadan 8722 Transfers: 6 Points: -93,5 2 Henry_Leon 8362,5 Transfers: 8 Points: -96 3 toulousain 8349,5 Transfers: 8 Points: -71 4 brunamoura 8334 Transfers: 5 Points: -332 5 hckosice 8231 Transfers: 6 Points: +71,5 6 heywoodu 8190,5 Transfers: 4 Points: +50,5 7 Federer91 8104,5 Transfers: 4 Points: -357 8 Vojthas 7927 Transfers: 6 Points: -154 9 africaboy 7827,5 0 10 Kirkpatrick 7682 Transfers: 5 Points: -100,5 11 Monzanator 7251 Transfers: 3 Points: +8,5 12 Agger 6857,5 0 13 IoNuTzZ 6762,5 Transfers: 4 Points: -726,5 14 RobtheAggie 6338 Transfers: 4 Points: -588 15 Olympian1010 6264,5 Transfers: 1 Points: +119 16 Ufilov 5911 Transfers: 2 Points: -98 Updated Biathletes Points: BMG Biathlete Points .xlsx Notice! Managers' Overall Points includes points lost or earned from transfers

Overall Standing of BMG after WCH Women's Individual (31/48 races) is available here

Standing after WCH Women's Individual (31/48 races) Place Manager Overall Points Transfers Used and Points 1 Dunadan 8366 Transfers: 6 Points: -93,5 2 Henry_Leon 8036,5 Transfers: 8 Points: -96 3 toulousain 8018,5 Transfers: 8 Points: -71 4 brunamoura 8005 Transfers: 5 Points: -332 5 hckosice 7934 Transfers: 6 Points: +71,5 6 heywoodu 7853,5 Transfers: 4 Points: +50,5 7 Federer91 7746,5 Transfers: 4 Points: -357 8 Vojthas 7608 Transfers: 6 Points: -154 9 africaboy 7518,5 0 10 Kirkpatrick 7355 Transfers: 5 Points: -100,5 11 Monzanator 7021 Transfers: 3 Points: +8,5 12 Agger 6555,5 0 13 IoNuTzZ 6409,5 Transfers: 4 Points: -726,5 14 Olympian1010 6039,5 Transfers: 1 Points: +119 15 RobtheAggie 5994 Transfers: 4 Points: -588 16 Ufilov 5623 Transfers: 2 Points: -98 Updated Biathletes Points: BMG Biathlete Points .xlsx Notice! Managers' Overall Points includes points lost or earned from transfers

Well, not really a sentence you want to read before going to bed. I'm not sure how this will affect my sleep to be honest?

Me reading this thread: I wonder how we came from everybody was in favour of having more Individuals, to some saying "your generation has destroyed all traditions in winter sports" or "your generation's greatest contribution was doped athletes"? The internet is indeed a fascinating place...

She did achieve the Olympic standard, but three Germans have already qualified in women's discus, Claudine Vita, Nadine Muller and Kristin Pudenz, so Germany has filled its quota. I only include athletes from nations who haven't yet filled its quota on a distance or in a discipline. Otherwise, I would have hundreds of Kenyans and Ethiopians in marathon.