mrv86

Mexico is in!

Congratulations @dcro
 
Rijeka should be ready for a Tequila party!

Danka Barteková started the new season with a new finals pb 58/60 and equalling her qualifications pb 121/125 and winning her first seasons competition the GP of Cyprus.
 
Well done Danka !
 
This is going to be one extremely challenging year for her with a try to repeat London 2012 on both fronts, win a medal in Tokyo 8 years after her bronze from the London games and trying to be reelected as IOC athletes commission member for the second term of office in a row.
 

Some more photos:
 

 

 

So, I left after a few days and this drama showed up
 
I'm sorry @bestmen feels that way, but rules are rules, and he cannot keep changing goal posts in order to keep Israel from competing in the contest
 
@Dnl You are welcomed to take part in this contest. I'm looking forward to hearing your entry when the time comes
 
And to @Olympian1010 I got your DM on Twitter and I'm sorry I didn't process it right away as I am battling a cold (which is NOT the Coronoavirus, okay, I'm fine)

Sorry to hear that. But not accepting an entry is not acceptable so to leave the contest and the forum is your choice, not anyone's else.

Not gonna celebrate, because this retirement just causes more chaos than it does good...
 
But gosh is that not the outcome that I thought might happen due to his unreliability.

Well, I wouldn't even be angry at all, if we would have had at least a prior vote before accepting his hosting candidacy, but everything was swept under the rug.
 
He got denied hosting rights before due to his behaviour and if you ask me, his behaviour did not change in the slightest. 
 
Such a thing would never slide if it was a candidacy from that controversial German user or the user from India that bought a ticket on the drama train after the previous contest, but bestmen was overlooked due to his skillset with media and animation.
 
He mocked not one, not two, but at least five or more contests during his participation period and had multiple instances of questionable behaviour regarding following the rules of this contest and even his own contest now. 
 
If there are more than 5 users that are skipping this contest that have been here with all of you since the very first one on the old forum, that means there was a huge problem that was not at all addressed. 
 
No Brazil, no Croatia, no Canada, no Great Britain, no Lithuania, no Slovenia. Some of the old users participating not that they want to, but to hold their participation record and that would have never happened with a different host or at least if things were handled differently. 

He's also heavily talking about rules, but is the only host that closed the registration to the members, but everyone that registered after that set deadline were allowed in, because they were offline previously 
 
He also spat a lot of nonsense of making the contest attractive to newcomers and then turned on Israel like that 

So you can dope and since it was only the first time, they'll let you walk away with this.
 
Shocking

So you can dope and since it was only the first time, they'll let you walk away with this.
 
Shocking

Is already there, take a look.

The article says that there is no formal protest, but not everyone is happy with the way Hoesch and Paige qualified. They were searching for a loophole in the system and found it as both hold American citizenship and are therefor eligible to compete for ASA. Hoesch and Paige had ONE WEEK of training together before traveling to the Oceania Qualification regatta. Of course, the German sailors are unhappy with it as the spot would have been reallocated to GER. Philip Autenrieth complains that he spend lots of money and effort over the course of last years  while Hoesch and Paige did not compete in any decent regatta.
 
That's the point with those continental spots... they offer loopholes for athletes with dual citizenship which are not good enough to qualify regularly. Mathilda Karlsson is another example. Yes, we have more colorful flags you can wave but I doubt that it really helps to evolve sports in those countries when basically foreign athletes accidentally having dual citizenship come and capture those spots.
I know that discussion about this issue is useless as most people have the opinion "The more exotic flags, the better - no matter how", but it is surely an ambivalent topic.

She should have a decent chance of bettering Pujals' 51st place from Rio.
 
If you're interested, it's possible to see her test at this link (starting right at 33:00). It's kind of funny the way she says: "This year we are trying to make it to Tokyo, so good luck to everyone else."

North American League, Stage 7 (Wellington, Florida)
Steffen Peters (Suppenkasper) - 83.495%
Olivia LaGoy-Weltz (Lonoir) - 79.365%
Agnete Kirk Thinggaard (Blue Hors Zatchmo) - 77.635%
 
Full results...
 
Very nice 7th place for Mexico. @mrv86

I'm not such a fan of Mexico's women's team. Their highest peak was before 2015... since then every player is just as "diva" and has an attitude like on the men's side, so I'm actually cheering for USA.
 
 

I'm not such a fan of Mexico's women's team. Their highest peak was before 2015... since then every player is just as "diva" and has an attitude like on the men's side, so I'm actually cheering for USA.
 
 

Argentina goes to Tokyo 

Filming a video tomorrow, not yet released 
 
 
Sidenote: One thing that I just thought about, is that you're not allowed to enter songs from Eurovision, but the contest is so early, that you could send a song and it could still qualify to Eurovision after the fact 

well of course I know him but I think you should not expect much from him. he was around the national team for a while because of his father, and never achieved anything.
 
but coming from the Iranian taekwondo school he won't be a weak competitor, but I highly doubt he can qualify for the Olympics from Europe.
 
btw with this rate, at 2025 half of the competitors at the World TKD Championships will be Iranian-born !

welcome to the Contest , your Intro is
and your Character

i'm already on it, but you're right it's a little too much. I'll start to upload the previews next week.
 
So far the following quotas are 100% sure:
 
 in men's team pursuit.
 in men's team sprint
 in women's team sprint
 
Even if they get disqualified at this year's worlds, they couldn't drop below 8th place.

i'm already on it, but you're right it's a little too much. I'll start to upload the previews next week.
 
So far the following quotas are 100% sure:
 
 in men's team pursuit.
 in men's team sprint
 in women's team sprint
 
Even if they get disqualified at this year's worlds, they couldn't drop below 8th place.

I found out about this recently. It's not about historical sport pictures but about Olympic mascot's history.
 
At 1980 Olympics besides Misha there was a mascot just for one sport - sailing.
 
It's a baby seal Vigry. Estonian SSR chamber of commerce did a contest because sailing competitions were in Tallinn and this mascot won.
 
Some information in English: source. Information in Russian.

Beatriz Ferrer-Salat fractured her pelvis in a riding accident. Tokyo participation is now under suspection.
 
http://www.eurodressage.com/2020/01/26/beatriz-ferrer-salat-fractures-pelvis-tokyo-goal-potentially-jeopardy