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Yeah, think Skjelbreid was the first in the line.  When I first started watching the Norwegian women were well behind the men.  Forsberg, Disl & Zubrilova were the stars.

non sono una coincidenza, anzi, hanno un nome: Cannella (lui ha sbagliato i rigori chiave, come Jorginho nel calcio)
l'errore sta nel farlo tirare ancora dopo gli errori multipli del passato
ma di certo non rappresentano il decadimento di una squadra che in pochi riescono a battere senza barare (vedi portiere ungherese sui rigori) o senza arbitraggi "politici"
 
dopo Parigi sarebbe stato il momento giusto per un ricambio, allenatore incluso
ma trovalo tu un allenatore migliore di Campagna per quel ruolo (ricorda cosa successe durante il suo intermezzo in Grecia)
 
non abbiamo nè il fisico (fondamentale al femminile) nè il talento individuale per stare con le squadre migliori
e probabilmente l'ambiente è tossico irrecuperabile (altrimenti non si spiegano i "problemi psicologici" che costano i tanti blackout durante le partite)
in casi simili, il primo problema è il reclutamento (ed è difficile pescare il jolly quando il tuo meglio è lo scarto del nuoto, che ormai fagocita le frequentatrici delle piscine) e non è colpa della federazione 

First of all in: Big Air, Slopestyle etc. are disciplines where judges decide the results 100% and this is bad. The average person, when they turn it on during the Olympics, has no idea why someone is 1st or 3rd, but when he turn on alpine snowboarding, he see who finished 1st and who 2nd.

On the other hand, why bother with snowboardcross, which only has 1 or 2 World Cup appearances in a single season before OG, due to a lack of sufficient route? For me, it's also a dead sport, just like Nordic combined has been for some time now, with many World Cup races being canceled. For today, I would prefer team competitions in alpine snowboarding to snowboardcross, if only because in this first there are regular World Cup competitions every 1-2 weeks, and not 1-2 for the entire season.

Alpine snowboard - 7 competitions this season for now, snowboardcross - 1, but the IOC wants to remove the first one from the Olympic program, not the second... Besides, snowboardcross has team competitions in the Olympic program, not alpine... Where's the logic in that?

I don't medal pick, per se... I assign probabilities/expected-values and total them up. So I don't have a gold medal estimate... but if you want one, divide those numbers by three and you'll be pretty close!
 
I imagine Norway, Italy and Netherlands and maybe Canada will probably skew a bit higher on golds, and US, Germany, and Sweden will skew a little lower... so maybe:

Norway - 14
US - 11
Germany - 11
Italy - 11
Canada - 10
Austria - 8
Netherlands - 8
Japan - 7
Sweden - 6
France.- 6
 
I was surprised seeing Italy come in that high, I was figuring 22-23, but I guess they've been do well on the World Cups. 

Looks like Polish biathlon fed decided to ignore their stupid rules and will send the same men to Ruhpolding! 

yes, they have a very good attendance (they also filled the Forum with 12.600+ spectators a couple of times, but normally they play at the Allianz Cloud, which hosts 5k people at max)
no idea if the project is going to be successful in long terms, I hope so (even if the whole Italian league now is in danger of lowering their level, as all the best players -Italians included- nowadays go to steal the Turkish money)

at that time we had a good league, with at least 5 or 6 very good teams (2 from Milan, Varese, Bolzano, Courmayeur-Aosta, Alleghe) and a few others not so bad, playing a championship together with Austria (the so-called Alpenliga) in the first part of the season and then the Italian-only phase (with playoffs)
 
there were players (foreign and Italians -Italo-Canadians, of course) with tons of NHL games played before coming here, raising the level of play and the prestige of the league
 
and there were both the Champions Cup and the Continental Cup, with the Italian teams doing quite well (in the top 5 for 3 straight years between 1992 and 1994, when the Devils Milan came 3rd, best placing ever)

Without taking anything away from her, it proves how low the level of women's speed is now. Hirscher, five years younger than her, couldn't even climb the podium in the men's event upon his return. 

Probably it is because he did win 24h LeMans.

A big upset in Poland even though I said winning Wimbledon won't be enough due to Iga's poor season overall.
 

The fact is, any country can simply refuse to build a certain stadium or track, depending on the popularity of the sport. The hosting nation has to make sacrifices if they are keen on hosting the Olympics. If no country is willing to build the necessary infrastructure, it will be difficult to find a suitable host.

It would make perfect sense for Germany to host the Olympics soon. Their infrastructure in general is pretty good.

Actually, we submitted a bid for the 2006 Olympics, which we eventually didn't really expand on. The 2022 Polish bid also included some events in Slovakia.

Yes, but this Canadian man is now injure and its status is uncertain. China is on second reserve places.

the point are the Olympic Games themselves, the highest, most important moment the entire world of sports has
 
that's more than enough to host, even if you completely waste any chance to improve the situation of the sports in the Country, which is only a plus, not the reason

Yes and now France doesn’t want to build a speed skating oval (even a temporary one).
 
Like to be clear, I have no problem with France winning a winter Olympic bid. I think Nice is a great city to anchor a Winter Olympic. My issue is that the bid that won 2030 was basically “ya we want to host the Winter Olympics and we’ll figure out stuff later”. To a degree every Olympic game is a work in progress but that one took it to the extreme.

Protestant Ethic, that's all.

Just checked the start list and Erlacher isn't on it

Exactly. The locker rooms are a matter of a few days, that's not a big deal. 

Valentina Margaglio wins the European Cup, excellent news for the ranking and the possibility of having a second quota

Hi @OlympicIRL  and all dear members in Totallympics. I lost my dear mother tonight. I don’t be able to post Sweden’s votes. @OlympicIRL already know this. We will see if I will be online on the final. How much I love TISC I have other things to focus on right now. Take care of you people. 

Giacomel has always had a great results at Antholz, so with this form, he can dominate there, and maybe Italy will finally have a hero, like France once had Fourcade, or more recently Marchand. I have dreamed of this all my life. And I think that we actually deserved it, that we have to spend so much money on host these current Olympics and only listen to some mockery from the journalist from the UK or the USA