Roamingrover86

Haven’t done an update on my dad since mid July, so thought I’d share.  
 
He ended up getting out of the hospital a couple days before the Olympics, and has generally been getting better the past couple of months. 
 
Unfortunately, the past couple of days he’s been really sick, and was vomiting for much of yesterday. He was taken to the hospital last night, and is expected to be there for at least a couple of days. 
 
Just sucks to see him struggling this much, hoping for as speedy of a recovery as possible 

This is what I dont get. If criquet is going to be held 4.000 KM away from the Olympic Village, why reduce the tournament into a 6 team event? 
 
I get the reduced quotas for LA, but having a 10 team event in New York should be no problem. They should take advantage of having multiple host cities to manage athletes numbers better. Same thing for Softball, that is going to be host in another big city far away from LA....

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something interesting for you guys
 
this guy who won a gold medal yesterday and will probably win another one in next few days
https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024-paralympics/athlete/serkan-yildirim_2000715
 
is in fact the same person as this guy
https://worldathletics.org/athletes/islamic-republic-of-iran/sajjad-hashemiahangari-14422407
 
and he is not blind,  he is a national record holder in Iran in 400m and 2012 Olympian
 
I'm no doctor but I highly doubt he is qualified to participate in Paralympics in T12 class. he probably has a better eyesight than some of us here.
 
there are other Iranians in Paralympics, paid to compete for Turkiye but only this one completely changed his name, guess why ? probably to not get identified.  didn't work well.
 

Slovan Bratislava just made it to the Champions League.
 
Becoming only the 4th club in history to progress to the main round after nowadays non-existant 1.FC Košice in 1997/98 (lost all 6 group games), nowadays 2nd division Artmedia Petržalka (Bratislava largest suburb) in 2005/06 (the only team to win a group match in Porto and reached also 3 draws in that group against FC Porto at home and in both games against Glasgow Rangers) and MŠK Žilina in 2010/11 (lost all 6 group matches)

4th
 

 
 

 
 

Looked up a press article about the olympic prizes in this otherwise God forsaken country:
Turns out the prize for gold medal this year is 140.000 euro, for the silver about 100.000 euro and the bronze about 82.000 euro. Even the 8th place is worth 8000 euro.
In total about 6.25 million € was paid out as olympic remuneration.
The "highest grossing" athlete was Tamara Csipes (canoeing) with 280.000 € in total.
In addition to the lump sum prizes the medallists are entitled to a lifetime monthly payment from age 35. Currently this payment is 1450 euro monthly for a gold medallist.
(The article states the amounts in the monopoly money otherwise known as forint, it was converted to euro at the exchange rate valid as of today)

A little late, but  NOC just announced the prizes our medalist will get
Adriana Ruano Gold  about US$387,000
Jean Pierre Brol Bronze about US$161,000
 
in addition the coach for gold medal will get US$96,000 and for bronze US$40,000
 

Bakhodir Jalolov  (Amateur Boxing) 
PR Sreejesh  ( Field Hockey) 
Taha Akgul  (FS Wrestling) 
Aiaal Lazarev  ( FS Wrestling) 

As always, after the Olympics there’s a whole batch of retirements. 
 
 Mijain Lopez (wrestling)
 
 Maggie MacNeil (swimming)
 
 Natalie Achonwa (basketball)
 
 Vinesh Phogat (wrestling)
 
 Nino Salukvadze (shooting)
 
 Andy Murray (tennis)
 
 Portia Woodman-Wickliffe (rugby sevens)
 
 Tatjana Smith (swimming)
 
 Carissa Moore (surfing)
 
 Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (athletics)
 
 Ma Long (table tennis)
 
 Vivian Kong (fencing)
 
 Emma McKeon (swimming)
 
 Angelique Kerber (tennis)
 
 Perry Baker (rugby sevens)
 
 Timo Boll (table tennis)
 
 Kellie Harrington (boxing)
 
 Mikkel Hansen (handball)

Men
Women
Total
 
Gold
Silver
Bronze
Gold
Silver
Bronze
Gold
Silver
Bronze
Asian Games 2022
3
0
1
4
2
3
7
2
4
European games 2023
1
2
2
1
2
0
2
4
2
2024 World Qualifier 1
2
1
4
0
1
4
2
2
8
2024 World Qualifier 2
1
3
3
0
0
3
1
3
6
African Qualifier 2023
0
0
0
1
0
0
1
0
0
Pan Am Games 2023
0
1
3
0
1
1
0
2
4
Pacific Games 2023
0
0
1
0
0
1
0
0
2
Just a quick comparison of where the medalists qualified from as I was interested myself 

These are Chula (brown, 8 and half yo) and Nikki (black, almos 4 yo) both rescued from the streets
 

My boy , Bandito . He loves going to the beach . He is 3 years old 
 
 

My boy , Bandito . He loves going to the beach . He is 3 years old 
 
 

My boy , Bandito . He loves going to the beach . He is 3 years old 
 
 

Absolutely gorgeous. 

My boy , Bandito . He loves going to the beach . He is 3 years old 
 
 

My boy , Bandito . He loves going to the beach . He is 3 years old 
 
 

My boy , Bandito . He loves going to the beach . He is 3 years old 
 
 

My boy , Bandito . He loves going to the beach . He is 3 years old 
 
 

I Vote : No

Finally, another fellow dog owner 

My boy , Bandito . He loves going to the beach . He is 3 years old 
 
 

My wife's lovely Russian Blue, Mici 
 

 

Olof and Elsa