Josh

Commentators have just mentioned the body language between Zheng and Pietrangelo, Pietrangelo seems frusterated with Zheng…

Steal of 3 for after a bad decision making play by Zheng, and that’s game over Horrific collapse from after starting 3-0 up…

and tied 3-3 at the break

Yep, down 3-0 to after 2 ends Still lots of time for them to turn it around though.

Hey, I recognize Klaudius Harsch

I’ve been watching tennis all day long, glad to finally get my first action of these WWUG in Go Zheng/Pietrangelo!

Gold at the Women’s U18 World Championships!

Junior World Championships | Almaty, Kazakstan Men’s Aerials 1. Dinmukhammed Raimkulov (104.52) 2. Yang Yuheng (101.79) 3. Yang Zhicheng (94.82) Women’s Aerials 1. Shen Haohao (83.16) 2. Wang Quxian (80.95) 3. Wang Xue (77.80) Mixed Team Aerials 1. China 2 (Wang Qixian, Gu Jiubo, Geng Hu) (276.21) 2. China 1 (Feng Junxi, Yang Zhicheng, Yang Yuheng) (256.34) 3. Canada (Victoria Cote, Elliot Primeau, Elliot Beauregard) (230.72) Full Results

WTA 500 Adelaide International | Adelaide, Australia Women’s Singles Champion- Madison Keys Runner Up- Jessica Pegula Semifinalists- (RUS) Liudmila Samsonova / Yulia Putinseva Women’s Doubles Champions- (RUS) Guo Hanyu/Alexandrova Panova Runner Ups- Beatriz Haddad-Maia/Laura Siegemund Semifinalists- (RUS) Anna Danilina/Irina Khromacheva / Katerina Siniakova/Ellen Perez Full Results

Misread the question, it would be Bolt in 2012…

FAA defeats Korda in the final and is the ATP 250 Adelaide International champion

Auger-Aliassime starts his season off with a title at the Adelaide International! His first on outdoor-hard courts Long time coming! Hope he can carry on that momentum into Australian Open!

WTA 500 Brisbane International | Brisbane, Australia Women’s Singles Champion- (BLR) Aryna Sabalenka Runner Up- (RUS) Polina Kudermetova Semifinalists- (RUS) Mirra Andreeva / Anhelina Kalinina Women’s Doubles Champions- (RUS) Diana Shnaider/Mirra Andreeva Runner Ups- (RUS) Priscilla Hon/Anna Kalinskaya Semifinalists- Timea Babos/Nicole Melichar-Martinez/ Shuko Aoyama/Erin Hozumi Full Results

For the next 12 or so hours we have Canucks-Hurricanes at 4pm, Pegula-Keys at the at Adelaide International 9:30pm, FAA-Korda at the Adelaide International at 11:30pm, Speed Skating ISU World Championships Day 2 at 1:50am and FIS PGS WC Scuol at 4:00am.

Toronto Sceptres took on Montreal Victorie in Vancouver for the PWHL Takeover Tour, Marie Philip-Poulin’s first time back since the 2010 Olympics, and scored two goals including this ridiculous superman style goal

Yep that would be me then

Draws are now out: https://ausopen.com/draws As usual, some intriguing first round matchups. ‪Osaka/Garcia and Gauff/Kenin are the main ones that stand out on the women’s side, while for the men it’s Hurkacz/Griekspoor, Dimitrov/Fognini and Monfils/Mpetshi Perricard, but there’s so many quality matchups that it’s tough to only pick a couple. I’m interested to see who Fonseca draws as a Q, that’ll be a matchup players want to avoid.

Big Air WC Klagenfurt | Klagenfurt, Austria Men Gold- Taiga Hasegawa (179.75) Silver- Ian Matteoli (175.25) Bronze- Oyvind Kirkhuis (172.00) Women Gold- Mia Brookes (184.25) Silver- Mari Fukada (182.25) Bronze- Momo Suzuki (166.75) Full Results

Parallel Slalom WC Davos | Davos, Switzerland Men Gold- Arvid Auner Silver- Dario Caviezel Bronze- Fabian Obmann Women Gold- Miki Tsubaki Silver- Michelle Dekker Bronze- Flurina Neva Baetschi Tsubaki on a tear to start the season with 6, yes 6, podiums in her first 7 races (and she was 4th in the non-podium one) Flurina Neva Baetschi also with her first career WC podium in front of her home crowd! What a time to do it! Full Results

Big Air WC Klagenfurt | Klagenfurt, Austria Women Gold- Luca Harrington (182.60) Silver- Timothe Sivignon (180.40) Bronze- Matej Svancer (175.40) Women Gold- Liu Mengting (170.60) Gold- Flora Tabanelli (170.20) Bronze- Muriel Mohr (166.20) Interesting to see how quickly Mohr and Tabanelli are progressing through to the senior ranks, they’ve now been on a couple of podiums so far this season. Full Results Side note: Sorry guys for the lack of updates, this has been a really busy time of my life and I didn’t have time to be updating stuff on Totallympics. Since there’s a lot for me to catch up on, I’ll probably do it all over the next couple of days.

I forgot this was going on, as long as I find a place for streaming I’ll definitely be watching

Junior World Championships | Almaty, Kazakstan Men’s Moguls 1. Osuka Nahakara (77.23) 2. Leo Crozet (74.58) 3. Lee Yoonseong (72.79) Men’s Dual Moguls 1. Matyas Kroupa 2. Leo Crozet 3. Noe Lamellie Women’s Moguls 1. Yuma Takaguchi (72.49) 2. Anastassiya Gorodko (70.79) 3. Kurea Mise (66.63) Women’s Dual Moguls 1. Anastassiya Gorodko 2. Reese Chapdelaine 3. Abby McLarnon I’m assuming didn’t send a squad? Full Results

Still deciding, but NHL, NFL, NBA, club volleyball (as usual), Gim-Kim in some Korean Curling event, GSOC WFG Masters, Women’s U18 World Championships, and the Australian Open for sure, Junior FIS World Championships, BWF Malaysia Masters, big air/slopestyle freestyle skiing and snowboarding/alpine snowboarding, other winter sports (Luge/bobsleigh/skeleton/alpine skiing), Speed Skating European Championships Water Polo WC and Men’s Handball World Championships I’ll be following along with scores.

For my predictions I’m assessing a number of factors into it. For example in the comeback category, I prioritize injuries/life or career threatening stuff over breaks. World Championships, World Cups (and similar stuff for sports that don’t have those) also factor into it. BEST MALE ATHLETE for sportsmen in Olympic sports #1: Leon Marchand #2: Armand Duplantis (3 WR’s in a year…) #3: Tadej Pogacar Odermatt not being nominated is unexpected. BEST FEMALE ATHLETE for sportswomen in Olympic sports #1: Summer McIntosh #2: Sifan Hassan #3: Lisa Carrington BEST NON-OLYMPIC ATHLETE for athletes in Non-Olympic sports and disciplines #1: Shohei Ohtani #2: Patrick Mahomes #3: Max Verstappen BEST PARALYMPIC ATHLETE for athletes with a disability #1: Catherine DeBrunner #2: Jiang Yuyan #3: Stefano Raimondi BEST YOUTH ATHLETE for athletes up to 18 years old (born after January 1st, 2006) (including Olympic, Non-Olympic and Paralympic sports) #1: Summer McIntosh (again) #2: Lamine Yamal #3: Darja Varfolomeev BEST MEN'S TEAM for national men's teams or groups (including Olympic, Non-Olympic and Paralympic sports) #1: basketball team #2: waterpolo team #3: volleyball team BEST WOMEN'S TEAM for national women's teams or groups (including Olympic, Non-Olympic and Paralympic sports) #1: volleyball team #2: handball team #3: field hockey team If I’m gonna be completely honest, after #1 and #2, I had a hard time choosing one because all four teams had their struggles… BEST DOUBLES/PAIR OR MIXED TEAM for doubles and pairs or mixed teams and groups (including Olympic, Non-Olympic and Paralympic sports) #1: Caterina Banti/Tito Ruggeri #2: David Åhman/Jonatan Hellvig #3: Paul O’Donovan/Fintan McCarthy I had to let out a laugh when I saw that Duda/AP were nominated, because even though they won gold they were not on the same page at all through most of the season and went months on the Beach Pro Tour between May and July without a single medal BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR for the most improved athlete (aged 19 or over) or national team (including Olympic, Non-Olympic and Paralympic sports) #1: Adriana Ruano #2: Jasmine Paolini #3: Shinnosuke Oka Again, some of the nominations are confusing to me. Vaast is surfing at his home break in Tahiti and like a lot of sports that advantage is big, Lafond had a best jump of 14.90m in 2023 and Alfred was a medal contender in 2023 as well. I would put Joan-Benjamin Gaba up there, he came into the Olympics completely out of the medal mix and he won silver and beat Hifumi by ippon in the mixed team final COMEBACK OF THE YEAR for athletes or national teams who made a comeback performance in 2024 (including Olympic, Non-Olympic and Paralympic sports) #1: Sunisa Lee #2: Paula Badosa #3: Kristof Milak SPORT MOMENT OF THE YEAR for any sport moment from 2024 #1: Djokovic finally winning an Olympic gold medal in men’s singles tennis (and none of the other choices come close for me, honestly) #2: Letsile Tebogo’s gold in the men’s 200m, first ever gold for Botswana and he also beats evil Lyles in the process #3: Armand Duplantis’ gold and WR in men’s pole vault I wasn’t a fan the opening ceremony, and I thought the general consensus was that most people on here didn’t like it either, so I’m not sure on how it got nominated but… Also thought there would be at least one non-Olympic nomination, but I guess not. OLYMPIC SPIRIT AWARD for athletes or teams related to the 2024 Summer Olympics or Paralympics who exemplify the spirit of sportsmanship in the Games or showed great determination in overcoming obstacles #1: Kinzang Lhamo crossing the marathon finish line #2: Fariba Hashimi fulfilling her Olympic dream, having to hide her practices from her parents and the Taliban for doing a “boys’ activity” #3: Same thing for Manizha Talash, I can’t imagine how hard that must be for them… Honestly, this was a tough category. Besides Skotheim, who I very clearly think is last… I feel like it could go in any order.