Faramir

Just listening to Gattuso is enough to understand that he's a simpleton. Honor, pride, grit...but he is a coach, not a Spartan soldier. And he was surrounded by other idiots who confessed they had to buy their high school diploma. 1-0 up but down to 10 men and they are playing only counters with a lone forward with good pace (Kean, who almost scored the second) and Gattuso replaces him with a target man. Then 1-1, the team is forced to play more possession and the first thing he does is taking out a ball playing midfielder (who served a near assist just moments before) for Frattesi, who is only good in running into empty spaces to finish but always shy away from playing the ball.

But clueless Gattuso and useless Buffon still didn't, despite both assuring in the last months that they would for sure resign in case of failure.

Problem is, that the current funding system of Italian sports - since 2018- relies on football paying the lion's share through taxes (around 70% of the sum that is redistributed). So the rest is strong until it can draw money from football, which in turn makes football weaker and less able to generate money and then who knows.

"[Without that] we’re not going to be blessed with a wide base of people who are going to meet the classification and be physiologically the kind of specimen that would be required to be successful" It's so lovely when the higher-ups set their medal goals and speak of athletes as if they were lab rats.

Biggest changes in the number of top 8 if compared to 2022. Positive: +29 +28 +13 +12 +10 +10 +8 +8 +8 Negative: -8 -6 -5 -5

Final table: NOC points gold silver bronze 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th total 1 NOR Norway 446 18 12 11 11 9 15 5 6 87 2 USA United States 414 12 12 9 12 15 9 10 13 92 3 ITA Italy 361 10 6 14 9 14 10 9 6 78 4 GER Germany 310 8 10 8 14 3 6 10 8 67 5 FRA France 291 8 9 6 9 10 7 7 8 64 6 CAN Canada 265 5 7 9 3 14 9 9 6 62 7 SUI Switzerland 265 6 9 8 8 5 9 8 3 56 8 AUT Austria 233 5 8 5 5 9 4 12 10 58 9 JPN Japan 232 5 7 12 6 1 8 4 5 48 10 NED Netherlands 210 10 7 3 6 5 1 3 4 39 11 CHN China 197 5 4 6 5 7 5 8 9 49 12 SWE Sweden 178 8 6 4 4 4 1 4 1 32 13 KOR South Korea 103 3 4 3 2 2 2 2 5 23 14 GBR Great Britain 88 3 1 1 5 2 4 3 0 19 15 FIN Finland 86 0 1 5 3 3 4 4 2 22 16 AUS Australia 77 3 2 1 2 3 1 2 4 18 17 CZE Czechia 67 2 2 1 0 4 2 2 5 18 18 POL Poland 55 0 3 1 2 0 3 2 5 16 19 SLO Slovenia 42 2 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 8 20 LAT Latvia 37 0 1 1 3 2 0 0 1 8 21 NZL New Zealand 33 0 2 1 0 0 2 1 5 11 22 BEL Belgium 27 0 0 1 1 1 3 1 1 8 23 AIN 26 0 1 0 1 1 3 0 1 7 24 ESP Spain 24 1 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 4 25 KAZ Kazakhstan 20 1 0 0 0 0 1 3 3 8 26 BUL Bulgaria 19 0 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 4 27 EST Estonia 14 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 0 4 28 GEO Georgia 12 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 29 DEN Denmark 9 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 30 UKR Ukraine 9 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 4 31 BRA Brazil 8 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 32 HUN Hungary 8 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 3 33 SVK Slovakia 5 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 34 ROU Romania 4 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 35 LTU Lithuania 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 36 HKG Hong Kong 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 37 IRL Ireland 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1

And the exposure and chance of becoming elite in other sports Is limited on purpose (see the ridiculous criteria set by the Dutch NOC for sports they don't like, so you also have very few Olympians). Which is fair when the goal is to minimize the cost per medal ratio in the long term (better not investing in sports where results are more variable) but let's not sell this as "great innovations" that sets apart NED from other countries.

Yep, now we'll have a bunch of copravolley-like journalists coming out of the woods and writing articles or making contents about following the way of the superior Dutch system etc. Sigh.

It was Santos again. Americans have been a danger to everyone since the first day.

Here you go, Cardona was the best, lost all on the change, the last part Is completely useless because overtaking is impossible so he gets second place; luckily for him It was the semi but still.

Nonsense event. Much worse than the climbing combined event, the changes are the part which makes the difference. Might as well add changing ski suits as fast as possible to the alpine skiing program.

Did you watch It carefully?

Riguardando l'incidente anche dopo ore l'intervento è chiaramente premeditato visto che lo spazio per passare c'era. Sacrificare il tuo peggiore per fare fuori un grande avversario per l'oro, sapendo che non verrà avanzato, è una buona strategia se si hanno le spalle coperte. Così come lo è continuare a imbrogliare nel curling.

Here's a top 8 placements / points table (8 points for a gold, 7 for a silver,..., 1 for an 8th place). Screenshot because copy/pasting gives some horrible formatting

And that's also the first Italian medal ever in these freestyle thingies, including skiing and snowboarding.

McGrath waiting for a giant stoat to come out of the woods and end his agony.

Mah. Oltre a quelle menzionate ci sono anche le mass start di pattinaggio e visto le altre gare anche i 1500m, altre 2 gare individuali di short track, la team sprint di fondo, lo ski cross, lo sci alpinismo ha almeno 1 possibilità se non 2, il curling maschile è ancora in gioco, e qualche altro outsider. Sembra quasi che a qualcuno diano più soddisfazione i giorni senza medaglia per potersi lamentare

First ever Italian gold in biathlon. Long overdue.

it's official, so now we have: Lorello-Thorup Swings - Henriksen Semirunniy - Van de Bunt Bergsma - Ghiotto Jilek - Bloemen Eitrem - Lobineaud

Would they change the heats in case of a late substitution?

Io quando perdono gli olandesi, almeno così sta zitta la gente che pensa che sia meglio puntare tutto su 1-2 sport ed essere assenti nel 75% delle gare.

adesso sono 6 quindi giusti per copravolley e un trionfo per OAsport a soli 10 giorni dalla fine.

top 4 in 0.3 seconds wth

The 2 people who won 3 gold medals out of 3 events so far:

He is DSQ now.