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And another centenarian - oldest living Tour de France stage winner Emile Idée, who got one in 1949.  Back in the day when you either opened a bike shop or a bar after retirement.
 
Emile Idée, oldest surviving Tour de France stage winner, dies at 104

Jan Zachara (96) The oldest living Slovak olympic champion. Helsinki 52 Boxing.
 
RIP
 

BDE
Ágnes Keleti Z”L who considered the greatest influence on Israeli artistic gymnastics the 2nd most decorated Olympic Jewish athlete, and I guess our Hungarian friends will have more to add on her, unfortunately passed away at the Age of 103 close to her 104th birthday.

Tuesday December 31st, 2024
 
Preliminary Round
Last Day Results
 
Group A
Eastern Standard Time (GMT -5)   Finland   3 - 0  Latvia
Period-by-Period: 1-0, 1-0, 1-0
December 31st 2024, h. 14:30, Canadian Tire Centre, Ottawa  
Canada   1 - 4  United States
Period-by-Period: 0-1, 0-0, 1-3
December 31st 2024, h. 20:00, Canadian Tire Centre, Ottawa                          Group A Final Standing     
Nation P W(OTW) L(OTL) GF GA +/- Pt. United States 4 3(0) 1(1) 22 10 +12 10 Finland 4 3(1) 1(0) 10 8 +2 8 Canada 4 2(0) 2(1) 10 7 +3 7 Latvia 4 2(2) 2(0) 8 13 -5 4 Germany 4 0(0) 4(1) 8 20 -12 1  
Group B Eastern Standard Time (GMT -5)  
Kazakhstan   1 - 3  Switzerland
Period-by-Period: 1-1, 0-1, 0-1
December 31st 2024, h. 12:00, TD Place, Ottawa  
Sweden   4 - 2  Czechia
Period-by-Period: 0-0, 4-1, 0-1
December 31st 2024, h. 17:00, TD Place, Ottawa a Group B Final Standing a Nation P W(OTW) L(OTL) GF GA +/- Pt. Sweden 4 4(0) 0(0) 24 10 +14 12 Czechia 4 3(0) 1(0) 25 9 +16 9 Slovakia 4 2(1) 2(0) 11 14 -3 5 Switzerland 4 1(0) 3(0) 10 15 -5 3 Kazakhstan 4 0(0) 4(1) 8 30 -22 1  
Nations Qualified for the Quarterfinals
 
Canada Czechia Finland Latvia Slovakia Sweden Switzerland United States  
Nations Qualified for the Relegation Round
 
Germany Kazakhstan

I'm all in! 

This is just in one word ... UNBELIEVABLE !
 
Wow Latvia wow ! The sporting upset of the year. no more, no less. Respect
 

 
 

apparently our NOC rejected the winter sport federation request to send a bigger delegation.
 
they published a list of just 14 athletes. 8 in CC skiing, 2 in Alpine and 4 in SkiMo. equal number of male and female athletes in each sport.

Mayra Aguiar (Judo), 3-time Olympic bronze medalist, 3-time world champion.
 

 

India has proposed Kabbadi to be added to the Games if they win the bid for 2036
Also proposed is competitive Yoga and Kho kho https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kho_kho

Well, we definitely know who should not be elected for President. More so I want him to stand in front of the people and they collectively laugh in his face. 

Sophie Hediger, a 2022 Olympian in snowboardcross, has died in an avalanch.

Final Standing   Nation P W(OTW) L(OTL) GF GA +/- Pt. Denmark 5 4(0) 1(1) 17 12 +5 13 Austria 5 4(0) 1(0) 16 10 +6 12 Norway 5 3(0) 2(0) 13 8 +5 9 Slovenia 5 2(0) 3(0) 18 16 +2 6 France 5 2(1) 3(0) 15 20 -5 5 Hungary 5 0(0) 5(0) 7 20 -13 0  
The following Nations have qualified for the Men's Ice Hockey IIHF Under 20 World Championship 2026
Denmark  
The following Nations have qualified for the Men's Ice Hockey IIHF Under 20 Division I Group A World Championship 2026
Austria France Norway Slovenia  
The following Nation has been relegated to the Men's Ice Hockey IIHF Under 20 Division I Group B World Championship 2026
Hungary

Final Standing   Nation P W(OTW) L(OTL) GF GA +/- Pt. Thailand 3 3(0) 0(0) 19 5 +14 9 Kyrgyzstan 3 2(0) 1(0) 14 9 +5 6 South Africa 3 1(1) 0(0) 11 21 -10 2 Luxembourg 3 0(0) 1(1) 9 18 -9 1 The following Nation have qualified for the Men's Ice Hockey IIHF Under 20 Division III Group A World Championship 2026
Thailand  
The following Nations have qualified for the Men's Ice Hockey IIHF Under 20 Division III Group B World Championship 2026
Kyrgyzstan Luxembourg South Africa

João Lucas Reis (Tennis) has become the first active male pro player to come out publicly.
 

work in progress...  Islam Dudaev / Chermen Valiev (both Wrestling, Freestyle)
 Djamel Sedjati (Athletics)
 Josè Torres Gil, BMX Freestyle (Lautaro Martinez, but IMHO Soccer shouldn't be included in this poll)
 Jessica Fox (Slalom Canoeing)
 Duda & Ana Patricia (Beach Volleyball)
 Karlos Nasar (Weightlifting)
 Summer McIntosh, Swimming (Freddie Freeman, Baseball, personal bias )
 Pan Zhanle (Swimming)




 Leon Marchand (Swimming)
Lasha Talakhadze (Weightlifting)
 Lukas Märtens (Swimming)
 Alex Yee (Triathlon)
 Militiadis Tentoglu (Athletics)
 Adriana Ruano (Shotgun Shooting)
 Vivian Kong Man Wai (Fencing)
 Kristòf Milàk (Swimming)
 Jasprit Bumrah (Cricket)
 Rizki Juniansyah (Weightlifting)
 Arian Salimi (Taekwondo)
 David Wiffen (Swimming)
 Tom Reuveny (Sailing)
 Ruggero Tita & Caterina Banti (Sailing)
 Shoei Ohtani (Baseball)
 Kim Woo-Jin (Archery)




 Harrie Lavreysen
 Lisa Carrington (Sprint Canoeing), mention of Honor for Ellesse Andrews (Track Cycling)
 Johannes H. Klaebo (Cross-Country skiing)


 Iuri Leitão & Rui Oliveira (Track Cycling)
 David Popovici
 Sergey Bobrovsky (Hockey)


 Tadej Pogacar (Road Cycling)
 Tatjana Smith (Swimming)
 Rodri (Carlos Alcaraz, Tennis...always because Soccer...)
 Armand Duplantis (Athletics)
 Marco Odermatt (Alpine Skiing)

 Yaroslava Mahuchikh (Athletics)
 Taylor Swift (Jason Kelce)   (Showbusiness)

 

Thanks  at @Cinnamon Bun- @Federer91 - @NikolaB for voted    in fourth session
 
Final rank for is 27th
 
Congratulations at   @Hipooo 
 
 
These are the votes of our  jury members:
ITA pts tot pts Henry SteveP Pablita 12 Sweden 36 12 12 12 11 Argentina  25 8 10 7 10 Greece 22 11   11 9 Canada 17 9 8   8 Guatemala 16   6 10 7 Ireland  16 7 9   6 Mexico 15 10 5   5 Chile 14 1 7 6 4 Czech Republic 14 3 11   3 Lituania 13 5   8 2 Bulgaria 10 6 4   1 Tunisia 9     9   India 5   1 4   China 5     5   Spain  4 4       Serbia 3   3     Slovenia 3   2 1   Indonesia 3     3   Malta 2 2       Turchia 2     2  

Well... I'm late, as always, but unfortunately I couldn't follow live and I've just finished catching up with the thread. 
 
Congratulations to our winner @Hipooo and to @Belle and @Erigert on their medals. 
 
Well done to our host @Cinnamon Bun, who put up a huge effort managing the contest.
 
Thank you to everyone who voted for our song and helped us achieve this 5th place. I saw we were very close to a podium finish, but this is still a great result.
 
Congratulations to @Makedonas on the very successful song choice.
 
I'll now share my ballot. 
 
 1st   12 pts   Romania  2nd   11 pts   Bulgaria  3rd   10 pts   Sweden  4th   9 pts   Mexico  5th   8 pts   Brazil  6th   7 pts   Indonesia  7th   6 pts   China  8th   5 pts   France  9th   4 pts   Denmark  10th   3 pts   Spain  11th   2 pts   Italy  12th   1 pts   Albania    Res1   Ireland  Res2   India  Res3   Hungary  
I'm looking forward to seeing you all in the next contest!

Today I unpacked some of the boxes in which we have put my way too many books to move to our house, and I came across these beauty's I hadn't seen for a while
 
 
Absolutely recommended, tough to get for a decent price, but they are such an interesting read with lots of very interesting little stories! Still looking for at least 1900, 1904 and 1906, but not really in the right moment to spend money on that now, so the wait goes on  

UWW's new rules for change of nationality
 
this doesn't look great for likes of Bahrain, Albania, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Serbia and few more. 
 
still it won't make a huge huge impact for the next Olympic cycle because each NOC still can use 2 mercenaries per style in each tournament but after 2028 it will be reduced to just 1. 
 
some of those countries already have 3 or 4 (or more) Russian mercenaries per style. from now on they have to pick 2 of them for each tournament.

I assumed the new rule applies to previous mercenaries too
.
https://cdn.uww.org/2024-11/change_of_nationality_regulation_eng_oct2024_final.pdf

also you can't wrestle for another country without a passport. (UWW allowed that for some years) current non-national wrestlers can continue like that until the end of 2026 though.
 
it could be better but in general I'm OK with new rules. good job by UWW. 

I'm all in favor of this and it was about time. Wrestling has become table tennis 2.0 and in some cases even worse. In European Championships from 20 wrestlers in a weight you were seeing 7-8 foreigners. Yes, it's mostly Russians, but there are also Ukrainians, Georgians, Cubans being naturalized. 
 
I've said it numerous times, that i don't approve the tactic our federation started of naturalizing people left and right. Which actually wasn't paying off that much, until the Olympics. If it leads to worse results, than it's just a wakeup call for the destruction of our wrestling system (which has been evident for 15 years).

World Cup podium for Nicole Rocha in Pyeongchang  
 
Start order made a massive difference, to be fair, even more so in the second run, but still  

¡Buenos días desde Mexico!
On behalf of the Mexican delegation  I would like to thank our hosts for organizing
another fun TISC Grand Final Day and we wish good luck to all the participants.
Without further ado, these are the results of the votes of the Mexican National Jury....
 
 
 
 Mexico 
 
 Greece 10   Guatemala 9   Argentina 8   New Zealand  7   Lithuania 6   Great Britain 5   China 4   Denmark 3   Poland 2   Netherlands 1   

Pictograms out
 

Greetings from Bulgaria! On behalf of the Bulgarian delegation I would like to thank our hosts for organizing another fun TISC Grand Final Day and we wish good luck to all the participants.
Without further ado, these are the results of the votes of the Bulgarian National Jury....
 
 
 
 Bulgaria 
 
 
 Brazil 10   Poland 9   Ireland 8   Argentina 7   Mexico 6   Greece 5   China 4   Spain 3   Italy 2  Slovenia  1   

Greetings from Lithuania! On behalf of the Lithuanian delegation I would like to thank our hosts for organizing another fun TISC Grand Final Day and we wish good luck to all the participants.
Without further ado, these are the results of the votes of the Lithuanian National Jury....
 
 
 
 Lithuania 
 
 
 China 10   France 9   Denmark 8   Hungary 7   Bulgaria 6   Mexico 5   Argentina 4   Chile 3   Great Britain 2 
 Ireland 1