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@dcro So the quota will be decided today? The 3 best scores count out of the 4 teammates?

Literally zero articles about this event in Hungary, nobody cares that we got a chance to qualify for this event for the first time ever, despite the fact that we are hosting the qualifier.

Also, @Sindo, maybe we need a new thread for the "Individual European Championships" as that will now be in Plovdiv? It will be held between June 16 and 18. Here's the official announcement of this new event: https://www.eurofencing.info/news/zonal-individual-championship-in-plovdiv-bulgaria-n488269.htm

We are going with almost the full team to the European Zonal Qualifier in Plovdiv. Áron Szilágyi is the only big name Hungarian fencer who won't be there because he has some smaller injury and he doesn't need those WR points to qualify to the Games as the men's sabre team should easily get the team quota.

I think EBU has the broadcasting rights, which means that the Games should be free to air in the EU. I am not entirely sure how EBU will live stream it. I think everything should be live on https://www.eurovisionsports.tv/ , but for now I don't see anything there, so we will see...

Yikes. This might be the smallest field for an European qualifier in an Olympic team event.

Um, this might be a stupid question, but are these the only teams competing for the quota?

2022/23 World Cup season medal ranking 16-24-25 14-10-27 10-7-10 10-3-10 7-6-7 3-4-1 3-2-12 3-1-4 2-0-2 2-0-1 1-4-2 1-3-1 1-2-4 1-1-4 1-1-1 1-0-2 1-0-2 1-0-0 0-2-4 0-1-1 0-1-1 0-1-1 0-1-0 0-1-0 0-1-0 0-1-0 0-1-0 0-0-2 0-0-1 0-0-1

Hihetetlen, itt a következő világbajnoki arany taekwondoban. Márton Luana világbajnok 17 évesen egy olimpiai számban. A magyar taekwondo szinte a semmiből felkerült a térképre pár év alatt.

@phelps Uh, I need an explanation because Luana Márton became a World Champion at the age of 17 in an Olympic weight class. What. The. Fuck. This came out of nowhere. First ever Hungarian gold in a women's events at the Taekwondo Worlds. And we just had our first ever gold last year thanks to Omar Salim. Crazy stuff happening in Hungarian taekwondo, we didn't even have a single Olympic quota for 20 years and now we are winning gold medals at the WCh.

Yeah, just public polls, because it's easier to do it that way. But maybe we will get some other suggestions in this thread.

Hey @OlympicIRL, I was just thinking, in honor of the 10th anniversary, maybe we could have a poll on which TISC winning song is everyone's favorite? And maybe also have a poll on the TISC runner-ups? I mean, it's not much, but it would give an opportunity to revisit the winners and the runner-ups for the 10th anniversary.

One vaguely anti-system song and a couple of anti-system comments from Carson Coma were enough for Orbán's cronies to cancel a Carson Coma concert. As a line in their new songs says, "Will you censor that Or**** [Orbán Viktor]?" Yes, apparently the Fidesz idiots are this insecure at a time when the youth is fed up with Orbán's bullshit in this country.

Well, that's that It was nice while it lasted, time to go back to the lower divisions.

v final in men's epee Well, this is definitely an interesting start for the Olympic qualification...

If we won't qualify anyone in men's foil I will be very disappointed. We haven't had this kind of results in men's foil in a looong time.

Another disappointment for us in the team events. We really need to turn this around at the Euro and the Worlds because so far only men's sabre looks truly good. The men's epee SFs are... v v

goes into the Top4 against , another huge upset. And we are losing against .... Not the most ideal Olympic qualification for us so far in fencing, to say the least.

Men's Epee will be the most chaotic Olympic qualification as usual. (#2 on the WR) is out in the R16, they were defeated by (WR #16) is also out in the R16, against (#7 on the WR) is also out in the R16 against (WR #23) (#8 on the WR) is also out in the R16, against (WR #24) or will be in the Top4 The QFs: v v v v Huge opportunity for us to reach the final at a World Cup event, we have to beat and then or

Loss against for us in the women's epee R16.... The start of the Olympic qualification isn't going well for us.

Okay, this is getting real. It's time for the European federations to stand up and fight because this is beyond ridiculous. FIE is killing fencing.

This isn't official yet, but it seems... Olympic bronze medalist Tamás Kenderesi is suspended. He will appeal, this is far from over. But I think it's safe to say that his career is over. He's now behind Richárd Márton in men's 200m butterfly, which means that he isn't in the HUN Top2 in his main event, and now he definitely won't be able to compete with the younger Hungarian swimmers.

Not to start anything here, but this is one of the reasons why I think Orbán turned out to be right on one thing: migration. I sure as shit don't want Erdogan supporters in my country en masse who might turn radical in the long run. Or any other right-wing/far-right loving minority. We got enough problems as it is, this is at least something we don't have deal with, it will be an issue for Western Europe, but not for us. The Turkish people living in Western Europe are the perfect example on how living in Western Europe won't magically turn you into a liberal, especially if you have a different ethnicity and religion.

Erdogan is clearly winning this now. I am honestly not that sad about it considering how much the opposition spread misinformation about the election results last night. This is not the way to convince anyone that you are more democratic than Erdogan, regardless of how authoritarian he is. Anyway, this should be the final wake up call for the West, same as what happened last year in Hungary despite some promising polling. Leaders like Erdogan and Orbán will NEVER be defeated in an election. They will either be defeated internally or more likely by their own body once they get old. Erdogan and Orbán are here to stay for God knows how many years (Orbán probably for more years as he's only 60 years old).

Apparently KK is leading by a sizable margin, but he won't be able to win in the first round. Still, if this is true, the first round looks much better for the opposition than what most sites are reporting. I don't really know what to believe, this is a clusterfuck of epic proportions.