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Yea ofc...my point being everyone has different tastes and this means one person's fave song might be absolute sh*t to others.

Sorry (no offence intended) but your taste in music is bad (in my opinion)... I thought the Lithuanian song for this edition was the worst song entered from all the songs I have listened for all iterations of this contest.

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These should be the field hockey teams: Men Australia India England New Zealand Canada Malaysia Pakistan South Africa Scotland Wales Women England Australia New Zealand India South Africa Scotland Canada Malaysia Wales Ghana Congrats to Ghana for qualifying for the first time ever!

Some of the athletes were in 2 categories (for ex. Nauru in 56 and 62kg) and it will be up to them to decide which category to compete in.

" The Organising Committee, POCOG, has a bigger focus on gender equality and has decided the Women’s Curling and Cross Country events will be decided on the final day of competition. Previously, the Men’s events held sway on the final day of both the Winter and Summer Games." http://pyeongchang2018.olympics.com.au/news/women-in-prime-time-in-pyeongchang-in-2018

All in the name of gender equality.

I think 2-6 is realistic for Italy. Your predictions are really optimistic.

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It certainly is.

qualified in the men's tournament.

http://www.judoinside.com/news/1942/Christa_Deguchi_choses_for_Canada_aiming_for_Tokyo_Olympics

Its coming straight from the source... wtf?

Behind the scenes scoop here: Toronto (yes you read that correctly) is investigating a bid right now.

Some interesting info: The PC2018 organizing committee has an internal list of countries that have confirmed participation (granted not all will qualify). These ones are on the list (even though they are not in any of the above): Guatemala American Samoa Haiti (I forgot this one on my list above) I wonder what the first two will compete in ? This might be just declaring interest in competing... but their names are in the planning this late. Interesting. Also not on the list are: Puerto Rico Algeria So I doubt they will compete in 2018, similar to how they refused in 2014. Also not on the list are: Dominican Republic Egypt Jordan Vietnam Indonesia (Might be because they started the process late).

Gord Downie the lead singer of The Tragically Hip has died from Brain Cancer

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Wow there is one song that absolutely sucks but all the other ones are okay-good!

84 nations have qualified for PyeongChang 2018. I have not included the Cayman Islands as they won't compete and included Ecuador who will make their debut. The following should qualify (all have athletes meeting part of the standard/good enough to qualify): India (cross-country skiing) Philippines (alpine skiing) Hong Kong (alpine skiing) Moldova (cross-country skiing) Venezuela (alpine skiing) Chinese Taipei (speed skating). = 90 Nations The following have athletes just outside qualification, I rate their chances as good. Nigeria (women's bobsled) Jamaica (bobsled) =92 nations The following have athletes just outside qualification, I rate their chances as not that great Algeria (alpine skiing/snowboard) Barbados (freestyle skiing) Costa Rica (freestyle skiing) Nepal (cross country skiing, their athlete needs really good results to have any chance). Paraguay (freestyle skiing) Senegal (alpine skiing) Trinidad and Tobago (cross country skiing, their athlete needs really good results to have any chance). =99 nations Almost no chance to qualify, but have athlete(s) competing to qualify: Afghanistan Dominican Republic (hard to comment, as this athlete has yet to compete). Egypt Indonesia Jordan Sri Lanka Vietnam Tonga Ghana Uganda Tajikistan =110 nations Almost no chance to qualify, but have athlete(s) competing to qualify, but have a small glimmer of hope through reallocation in figure skating: Singapore (their female skater is two spots out of reallocation, and if this were 2010 she would qualify as there were 2 reallocations back then). =111 nations

What in the actual f/k is this

Back from the 2017 Invictus Games, which are really inspiring! @heywoodu The Dutch team was by far the loudest team in the stands for any sport I was at.

To avoid athletes from doing extremely bad. THere have been cases of athletes getting lost during a race and lapped as well.

"Hallelujah" is a song written by Canadian singer Leonard Cohen, originally released on his album Various Positions (1984). k.d. lang is also Canadian...

CANADA Since this is an Olympics forum... I thought Canada's entry should be Olympic related. k.d. lang's rendition of Hallelujah at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver was my ceremony highlight of any Olympics I have seen. k.d. lang - Hallelujah

Canada named its 2018 Commonwealth Games team https://swimming.ca/en/news/2017/09/26/swimming-canada-nominates-26-athletes-canadas-2018-commonwealth-games-team/ Some puzzling decisions such as using 4 less spots than allocated to swimming. Also some names are missing like Pickerm. Overall very young team.