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I'm just glad a Mexican athlete will earn a medal in women's mixed team 3x3 hockey. 
 
That would probably make her the first athlete from a Latin American NOC to earn a medal in a Winter Olympic Games 
 
 

Congratulations Canada 

Canada came back from two sets down to win against Cuba.

@hckosice

New winter Olympic sport?
 
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/travel/activities-and-interests/the-absolutely-positively-insane-sport-of-icecanoeing/article28947992/

https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1089018/panam-sports-esports-santiago-2023
 
Goodbye

no, she's currently 58th in the OQR...no chance for her to climb up so many positions in the standings...
 
her only shot at the Olympics is the global tournament in Paris next May, as it's a 1-day shot with 3 spots up for grabs for all who doesn't make it through the OQR (or the continental/host Nation places)...
basically, it's a true world championship, where the 3 medallists book their ticket to Tokyo 2020...

Karate1 Serie A, Stage #1 (Santiago, CHI)
 
 
today's action recap...
 
 
women's Individual Kata
Gold Medal match: Viviana Bottaro vs Dilara Eltemur
Bronze Medal match #1: Sakura Kokumai vs rosa Almarza
Bronze Medal match #2: Sanae Agalmam vs Ayse Yilmaz
 

women's Individual Kumite, -68kg
Gold Medal match: Irina Zaretska vs Silvia Semeraro
Bronze Medal match #1: Feryal Abdelaziz vs Halyna Melnyk
Bronze Medal match #2: Miroslava Kopunova vs Gong Li

women's Individual Kumite, +68kg
Gold Medal match: Cao Hanqi vs Hamideh Abbasali
Bronze Medal match #1: Sofya Berultseva vs Meltem Hocaoglu Akyol
Bronze Medal match #2: Sachiko Paulina Ramos Akita vs Laura Palacio Gonzalez
 

men's Individual Kumite, -60kg
Gold Medal match: Kaisar Alpysbay vs Douglas Brose
Bronze Medal match #1: Oussama Edari vs Dany Cabello
Bronze Medal match #2: Darkhan Assadilov vs Yerkinbek Baitureyev

men's Individual Kumite, -67kg
Gold Medal match: Alì Elsawy vs Burak Uygur
Bronze Medal match #1: Didar Amirali vs Andres Madera Delgado
Bronze Medal match #2: Assylbek Muratov vs Christian Wever

men's Individual Kumite, -75kg
Gold Medal match: Bahman Askari vs Breno Teixeira
Bronze Medal match #1: Thomas Scott vs Erman Eltemur
Bronze Medal match #2:  Yermek Ainazarov vs Yassine Sekouri
 

When they gather all their best players and train a little they are better than Chile. 
 
Chile scheduled this match on the first day on purpose because they thought they would arrive unprepared like always, but this time they played several friendlies with Cuba. 
 
 

Martha Del Valle easily confirmed her MER after scoring 68%+ in Wellington. Path is now wide opened for the selection.

Came across a little something...
https://www.lausanne2020.sport/results/nh

... what they really are.

Ajan is the main reason for corruption  this is a common knowledge in Weightlifting community . people don't talk about it because almost all national WL federations made deals with him. he sold lots of World/Olympic medals to different countries.
 
that ARD report sounds correct to me. it fits with what i knew about IWF and Ajan himself. I give you guys some examples regarding Iranian WLers. these 3 examples are 100% confirmed for me, there are more stories though.
 
back in 2000 Olympics, 1999 World Champion and top favorite for the gold Shahin Nassirinia came to the stage, injured his arm in his first snatch attempt and left the competition. at the time it was just bad luck but later his teammates (and later himself) admitted that was fake, he was told by IWF to pull out, because IWF has "proofs" against the Iranian team (and specially Nassirinia) and will disqualify the whole team if he doesn't pull out ! it turned out IWF wanted their boy Pyrros Dymas to win his 3rd Olympic gold medal. Nassirinia never officially got suspended or even accused of doping. and Iran won two gold medals in the next days. (mostly because Nassirinia followed the order and let Dymas take that gold medal)
 
and in 2006, the whole Iranian team tested positive for doping except just one guy, Hossein Rezazadeh, he was double Olympic Champion and face of World Weightlifting at the time. simply the best weightlifter in the world at the time. IWF didn't want him to get caught. I heard from some of his teammates that someone else gave urine samples instead of him. obviously they were using the same drugs (thanks to the Bulgarian coach)
 
and one more example, back in 2009 in South Korea, the host nation didn't win a gold medal in men's weightlifting until the last day, they wanted that gold but there was an Iranian guy Saeid Alihosseini who had broken the WR in training and everybody knew he will win the gold. 2 days before the competition he was told to fake an injury during the training and leave South Korea because IWF found some evidences about his doping and if he leaves he won't get suspended. he did but still they suspended him. and that Korean guy who the gold medal. ironically that guy An Yong-Kwon never won any title (even continental) beside that gold medal !

Maybe not the most beautiful female names, but my favorite sequence of them: Sandra "Maria Magdalena"

Happy New Year everyone 
 
May 2020 be a great year for each of you and Totallympics.

Just no.

Happy New Year everyone 
 
May 2020 be a great year for each of you and Totallympics.

Happy New Year everyone 
 
May 2020 be a great year for each of you and Totallympics.

welcome to the contest , your intro is
 
and your Character

for the first time of the contest history , Netherland is the first to join
welcome to the contest , your intro is
and your character
 
you will put your intro before your song on the same post

Here’s our first official episode of TWU (Totallympics Weekly Update): https://anchor.fm/twu/episodes/TWU-2-Ending-Out-The-Year-With-Our-Best-Episode-Yet-e9t9tj
 
@Vojthas and myself really enjoyed this one, so please give it a listen whenever you get the chance (on your way to work, in morning, before bed, when you’re bored, when there aren’t enough sports on, etc.) 
 
Again, we’d love any feedback you could give us. Also, any suggestions for what we should cover next week. Plus, any ideas for segments or episodes (or of you’d like to come on for an episode and talk with us about something).
 
Lastly, @Vojthas, @Dragon, and I cannot thank you enough for supporting us this year. Admittedly, it’s been a rocky start. However, with your support we’ve been able to build up an awesome website, and a great audio service. I’d also give thanks to @OlympicIRL and @mrv86 for their early contributions to Totallympics Media (and your both welcome back anytime ). Some more thanks are in order to users like @heywoodu @dcro @ChandlerMne @ahjfcshfghb @intoronto @Wumo @zob79 @TomJa @bmo @ofan @Griff88 @JoshMartini007 (and anyone else who I just unfortunately forgot) who give us constant feedback, consist support, and our the main reason we’ve made it this far. Of course, the man himself, @Sindo was deserves a massive, massive thanks for helping us accomplish all of this; without his work, none of us would have meant, we would have never had our own website, and we’d never have had a place to belong. 2019, was a fantastic, maddening, awesome, thrilling, joyously crazy, and thrill ride of a year. For all of us at Totallympics Media: Thank You all for your support and passion. We hope you have a wonderful, blessed, and sport-filled 2020.

There is nobody left in Group A, so it would go to the next best overall - Italy. Next in line are Slovakia and Estonia.
 
Seems like these 14 points that Miloserdova has on Bugan could prove to be very unfortunate for Slovakia...

This article pretty much sums up how we ended up with Trump, and why this country is so broke 
 

I would call this rather as boycott than childish behaviour. Many of users doesn't wanted see bestmen as host of the TISC, as he showed many times his childish behaviour before, during and after contest, such people doesn't deserve host such big event like TISC is....

Here’s a recap of the bronze medal race:
 
attempt 1:  start gate failure
attempt 2:  start gate failure
attempt 3:  start gate failure
 ruled winner by  DSQ (even though Mexico had proved they could start properly on attempt 2 when Brazil couldn’t)
 
Gold Medal Race also had 2 start gate failures. Team Pursuit, and women’s races were also plagued by start gate failures. The volunteers had no fucking idea what they were doing, and it was obviously the federation had not trained them to use the equipment. In fact, members of the Peruvian federation seemed confused about the start gate as well.