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4th for Resnick . I now completely sympathize with @hckosice

Event Previews Day 3
Alpine Skiing: https://games24.totallympics.com/?p=1402
Biathlon: https://games24.totallympics.com/?p=1397
Figure Skating: https://games24.totallympics.com/?p=1405
Speed Skating: https://games24.totallympics.com/?p=1399

Daily podcast: https://anchor.fm/twu/episodes/Bonjour-Lausanne-Day-2-ea4fi6

Best In Photos - Day 2: https://games24.totallympics.com/?p=1365

I present this awesome entry for best biathlon skinsuit:

Big shout out to @Olympian1010 and @Vojthas for making great podcasts. I love listening to them right before I go to bed. It is a perfect wrap up of the day’s action. I love the work you guys put in. Great job as always!!!

Big shout out to @Olympian1010 and @Vojthas for making great podcasts. I love listening to them right before I go to bed. It is a perfect wrap up of the day’s action. I love the work you guys put in. Great job as always!!!

Well it’s no secret that youth sports suck in the US, but I think it’s more that we send athletes we want to develop, and not athletes that are already chasing Olympic qualification or World Cup level competition.
 
I really hope Macuga’s okay. It didn’t look good at all.

I saw the photos on your website. Looks terrible.
 
I feel like we can do a lot better in YOG, but we just don’t try. I don’t think we send our best athletes or maybe our youth development programs just suck.

I’m a bit worried about Macuga @bmo. Have you seen the photos from her crash?
 
Also just realized where there was 15, instead 16, skaters in the men’s single. Our second skater dropped out of the games .
 
These games are looking terrible for the US. Thank the IOC for the Free Ski and Snowboard events.

Team
 
Day 1 Results
 

Rebeka Jančová as the very first SVK athlete competing at this games, finished 8th in the W Super-G, the first top 10 of Slovak team at Lausanne,
the other highly mentionable performance of the day was Patrik Melicher who scored 3 goals and added 2 assists in his Team Grey win 9:8 over the Team Blue of the M mixed NOC´s 3x3 Ice Hockey Tournament, among the girls worth to mention Barbora Kapičáková who scored 2 goals, which was in fact the half of the complete amount of the goals of her team.
     

Yup.

YES! Very proud of our Pair! What a performance, for their international debut!

And hopefully staying in the way of your opponent is not another thing in junior curling...
 

YOG TEAM  Day 1 preview:
 
 
ALPINE SKIING: There are two medals to be handed out at Les Diablerets tomorrow morning. The Men’s Super G & Women’s Super G will be contested. They will double up as the alpine combined super G event as well. The athletes will only get one run to go for the gold. 
 
The Women’s Super G has three Americans: Lauren Macuga, Emma Resnick and Nicola Rountree-Williams. Macuga will go 8th in the starting order (around 4:25am ET). Rountree-Williams will take on the course at about 4:35am ET (16th in starting order). Resnick will go near the end (57th). She will hit the slopes around 5:20am ET. There are a total of 62 athletes going for the gold.
 
The Men’s Super G will start about 2 hours after the conclusion of the Women’s Super G. Team USA will have 3 athletes taking on the course. Daniel Gillis will head down the hill at around 7:40am ET (9th in starting order). Trent Pennington will be the 21st athlete down the hill at around 7:55am ET. Maxx Parys will be the last American to go (60th on the start list) at around 8:55am ET. They are a grand total of 63 athletes in the Men’s Super G.
 
 
CURLING: Team USA will start round robin action in Mixed Teams Curling. They were drawn into Group D with the Czech Republic, Italy, Japan, Latvia and Sweden. The top two teams will advance to the Quarterfinals after round robin play.
 
Team USA will take on Italy to kick off the tournament. The U.S. team consists of two males and two females. Ethan Hebert and Charlie Thompson are the men and Kaitlin Murphy and Alina Tschumakow are the women. This opening match begins at 4:00am ET & should conclude within 2 hours.
 
 
FIGURE SKATING: The Pairs short program & Men’s Singles short program will be the two events on the docket for day 1. One Pair and one Men’s Singles athlete will compete. After the short program, the athletes will compete in the free skate on day 3.
 
Catherine Fleming and Jedidiah Isbell will be the pair competing for team USA. They are 2nd on the start list out of the 8 pairs taking to the ice. They approximate start time is at 7:44am ET.
 
The Men’s Singles short program will commence later in the evening in Lausanne. Liam Kapeikis will be the lone American in this event. He is 2nd on the start list out of 15 athletes. His performance will start at around 10:14am ET.
 
 
SKI MOUNTAINEERING: A new sport is on the block for these YOG. Ski Mountaineering has 2 gold medals to be handed out on  day 1. The events are Men’s Individual & Women’s Individual. 
 
The Women’s race will start the day. A total of 24 athletes will endure the tough course. Grace Staberg (bib 6) and Samantha Paisley (bib 12) are the two Americans in this race. The race will begin at 4:30am ET & should end around 6:00am ET.
 
The Men’s race will start right after the Women’s race. George Beck (bib 16) and Jeremiah Vaille (bib 23) will be the two Americans in the 24 athlete field. The race should begin at approximately 6:30am ET & will conclude at around 8:00am.
 
 
 
So to recap, here is a quick viewing guide for Team USA on day 1 (all times ET).
4:00am-6:00am- Curling Mixed Teams (Team USA vs Italy)
4:25am- Women’s Super G (Lauren Macuga)
4:30am-6:00am- Ski Mountaineering Women’s race (Samantha Paisley & Grace Staberg)
4:35am- Women’s Super G (Nicola Rountree-Williams)
5:20am- Women’s Super G (Emma Resnick)
6:30am-8:00am- Ski Mountaineering Men’s race (George Beck & Jeremiah Vaille)
7:40am- Men’s Super G (Daniel Gillis)
7:44am- Pairs Short Program (Catherine Fleming & Jedidiah Isbell)
7:55am- Men’s Super G (Trent Pennington)
8:55am- Men’s Super G (Maxx Parys)
10:14am- Men’s Singles Short Program (Liam Kapeikis)

I’d imagine @RobtheAggie would be proud 

5 minutes to go! I’ll be covering the ceremony for the blog, so I won’t be on here, but enjoy it everyone!

Official release from NBC..
 
NBC OLYMPICS PRESENTS EXCLUSIVE COVERAGE OF 2020 YOUTH OLYMPIC GAMES FROM LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND
 
Date Time (ET) Event Thurs., January 9 8 p.m. Opening Ceremony Fri., January 10 8 p.m. Day 1 Sat., January 11 8 p.m. Day 2 Sun., January 12 8 p.m. Day 3 Mon., January 13 8 p.m. Day 4 Tues., January 14 8 p.m. Day 5 Wed., January 15 8 p.m. Day 6 Thurs., January 16 8 p.m. Day 7 Fri., January 17 8 p.m. Day 8 Sat., January 18 8 p.m. Day 9 Sun., January 19 8 p.m. Day 10 Mon., January 20 8 p.m. Day 11 Tues., January 21 8 p.m. Day 12 Wed., January 22 5 p.m. Day 13 Wed., January 22 10 p.m. Closing Ceremony  
All coverage is same day delay.  Each night's block 3 hours long, save for the ceremonies

Thank you for the info!! Can’t wait the games to begin. We are under 24 hours until the opening ceremony 

I’m going to say this now (and then probably repeat it tomorrow as well); If there’s any information you want/need myself and @Vojthas will be around to help. We’ll be running an ITG-style Updating Blog. It has a live chat feature, so you can reach out to us if needed. You can also just tag us on the forum here.

Totallympics Live Trivia Ranking
 
After Game 2
1. @Olympian1010 14/20
2. @Wumo 12/20
3. @Griff88 11/20
4. @Vojthas 10/20
5. @Dunadan 9/20
 
Note: If I missed anyone let me know 
 
Wow, what close competition for the silver and bronze medals. This game is pretty much still anyone’s to win. Make sure that you make all the live times. Also, congratulations to @Vojthas for winning today’s game.

AFC Wild Card games:
 
Houston Texans 22 Buffalo Bills 19 (after overtime). Josh Allen is light years removed from winning a playoff game. Bills controlled the game for 40 minutes but scored only 16 points and blew a 16-0 lead. DeShaun Watson produced a Eli Manning sack-avoding move to set up the GW-field goal in overtime.
 
New England Patriots 13 Tennessee Titans 20. The Evil Empire appears to be done. This could have been Tom Brady's last game in New England.

Sounds like Japan is getting ready to give us an awesome ceremony 
https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1088675/tokyo-2020-opening-ceremony-mario

I just read on the news that Iran will send 6 athletes (3 boys 3 girls) to the YOG,  it will be the biggest delegation ever for Iran in any kind of Winter Olympics
 
and in the article I read, the journalist asked about what's the point of participation in Winter sports when Iran didn't improve even an inch after decades of just participating ?! and I'm kind of agree with that. while most of winter sports don't even exist here but at least Alpine, Cross-country and snowboard have a long history here. specially Alpine skiing.
 
most countries never have snow so they have valid reasons to never achieve anything in winter sports but that's not the case here, the thing is nobody cares about winter sports so why bother to participate ?
 
but still I wish the best of luck for those 6 young athletes. hopefully they won't finish last here

Since 2020 is a couple days away, and the Olympics just around the corner, I'd like to start getting the thread ready for the Olympics. I was wondering if anyone had any ideas of what different types of posts should be made here. I'm finally into the swing of college so I'm hoping I'll be able to be very active this upcoming year and beyond!