Vektor

We can expect a LOT of withdrawals at Tokyo because of positive tests: https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1107190/athletes-to-be-tested-daily-covid-tokyo All athletes will be tested daily, I think we all know what this means. Positive test or close contact with someone who produced a positive test means WD until they produce a negative test.

There isn't much difference between the nations of the Games and sport clubs, you need to accept that. I see nothing wrong with that some athletes win for the nations that invested money and resources in them to win Olympic medals, and not for the country where they were born. For example, Natasa Janics might have won medals as a Serbian, but she choose to compete for us because we provided everything she needed to train for the Games and we helped her to win those gold medals. This is just how the globalized world works.

Maybe the triathlon event? I haven't watched an event like that yet, but I kinda like the idea of a triathlon relay.

She just has the best luck of any actor in terms of awards, and she got cast in great movies. I mean, is there any other actress who had lead roles in 3 movies that either won Best Picture or were the runner-up to the Best Picture winner? She might be the first actress who achieved this in the entire history of the Oscars. Best Picture winners or runner-ups in the last 30 years that had a leading actress nominated: 1991 - The Silence of the Lambs - Jodie Foster 1993 - The Piano - Holly Hunter 1996 - The English Patient - Kristin Scott Thomas 1996 - Fargo - Frances McDormand 1997 - Titanic - Kate Winslet 1998 - Shakespeare in Love - Gwyneth Paltrow 1999 - American Beauty - Annette Bening 2002 - Chicago - Renée Zellweger 2004 - Million Dollar Baby - Hillary Swank 2013 - Gravity - Sandra Bullock 2016 - La La Land - Emma Stone 2017 - The Shape of Water - Sally Hawkins 2017 - Three Billboards - Frances McDormand 2018 - Roma - Yalitza Aparicio 2020 - Nomadland - Frances McDormand She was already the only actress who had two movies close to winning Best Picture in the last 30 years, and now she has 3 movies, while the other big names struggle to get cast in one, as the Oscars favors movies with male leads. Actresses like Meryl Streep or Viola Davis would probably have more Oscars if they would pick movies as "efficiently" as McDormand does.

Man, I really hope Eurovision and then EURO2020 will prove that we have finally moved on from depressing events that are completely unable to capture "the magic" of their pre-COVID version, because the Oscars wasn't that. I know the bar isn't high for the Oscars as a variety show, but that was still terrible in every way possible. Not a good sign for the Olympic Opening Ceremony (and maybe even for the Games themselves) if Eurovision will also be similarly depressing.

Well, if bowls is really that popular and if the nations can agree on a format, I would see no issues with it as an Olympic sport. Sadly IOC is more interested in adding X Games sports.

Now that you mention this, netball for Brisbane 2032 isn't an outlandish idea if Japan and the US can get baseball for their Games.

If I have to pick one, I would go with bowls. It's kinda like the Summer Games version of curling and I have fond memories of watching it on Eurosport in the late 2000s. For me it was a fun game/sport to spectate, which makes sense because curling is one of my favorite winter sports to watch. But does anyone outside of play bowls?

I went with us in the men's because why not, I feel like anything can happen, Serbia doesn't seem like an undeniable favorite anymore. We can expect a lot of close matches between the top teams. In the women's nobody should bet against the US. And please, not another 4th place for us.

I have reached the Hungarian Olympic doping scandals of Athens in the highlights that I am uploading, and I am so glad that as a kid I was on a vacation with my parents when this went down. It might have altered how much I care about the Games if as a kid I saw Hungarian athletes win two gold medals in athletics and then all the chaos that followed these finals. We lost three medals, two gold in athletics and one silver in weightlifting, and while Hungarian athletics recovered from it, Hungarian weightlifting pretty much died in Athens (3 Hungarian weightlifters had positive doping tests). In an instant we went from being a nation that qualifies many weightlifters and wins at least one medal at each Games to a nation that barely qualifies one weightlifter and has no chance of medals. By 2008 and Beijing it became clear that we just lost one of our strong disciplines and the damage done by the scandals was permanent.

Hungary still has the highest daily deaths per capita but the country couldn't take it anymore and at 35% vaccination the restaurants opened up for outdoor service and "everyone" went outside. Pictures here: https://hvg.hu/kkv/20210424_Nyitnak_a_teraszok_eled_a_varos__galeria Feels a bit strange when a lot of people are still dying, but Orbán had to open things up as he needs to gain popularity. He posted a picture of him drinking a beer outside at a restaurant, it will probably be one of the most iconic pictures of Hungary's COVID crisis. It can be an important step for Orbán's reelection next year, he's sending the message that he defeated the COVID crisis, next will be the EURO2020 matches with a full stadium in Budapest.

There's nothing ridiculous about the team competitions, they have a long history and they actually make sense as separate events, unlike most team competitions in individual sports. The issue is with the qualification system. Because as it stands, the team events are waaay more important for the Olympic qualification, 144 out of the 212 quotas come from the team qualifiers. There should be a new system where half of the quotas come from the team qualifiers and the other half from the individual qualifiers.

What I would prefer is to have separate qualification for the individual and team events, meaning that no one would qualify for the individual event just because they are a member of a qualified team. But that would never happen as it would potentially raise the number of athlete quotas. Or maybe give only two quotas for the nations that qualified for the team event, and then give them the opportunity to win a 3rd individual quota.

Amazing, Kiss is in the final at his last international competition.

An expected v final for the women's epée quota.

What a mess, no live feed or live scoring from the podium matches...

Kun is out, for the first time ever Hungary failed to qualify a fencer in women's epée.

The real competition starts now for the women's epée quota with the round of 16: v v v v v v v v

Yeah, the site says that the Top5 per group advances.

Well, it looks like both the streaming and live scoring isn't working properly... We are only getting live scores from one piste and the streams are all dead.

The European qualifiers are about to start with women's epée, there are 23 fencers in that event, and 7 of them are in the Top100 on the world ranking: 10. Kryvytska 25. Ndolo 40. Rottler-Fautsch 48. Moeschlin 60. Kun 70. Botvinnik 73. Sica

Speaking of that, I just uploaded my first vivid memory of the Summer Games yesterday, the women's epée finals in Athens: https://ok.ru/video/2106717833822 I remembered being very stressed out by it as child, but I didn't exactly know why before watching all of it again. Now I know, even as an adult I would have been exhausted by the end of it because we didn't just have two fencers in the semi-finals, but both semi-finals ended up with 15-14. I think this is also the last time two Hungarians were in the Top4 in the same individual Olympic event.

It's good to see that the COVID break wasn't detrimental for Tamás Lőrincz, he's in the final. He really is our best chance for the Olympic gold in wrestling this year, and this might be his last chance to finally win it.

It's official, Tchaikovsky's music will be played instead of the Russian anthem at the Summer Games, and other international events. Can they also play Hungarian Rhapsody for us, please?

Now I have seen everything, Marianna Sastin qualified for the final and she didn't have to wrestle for it, all of her opponents withdrew. And this happened in an Olympic weight class (women's 62kg). This is the leading news on the #1 Hungarian sport news site because of how bizarre it is.