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Ticket pre-sales for WCh 2023 have officially started. It looks like the tickets for the morning sessions are cheap (3000 HUF), tickets for the evening sessions cost 23000 HUF, 18000 HUF, 13000 HUF and 9000 HUF. A pass for all the sessions costs around 100000 HUF. https://www.cts.eventim.hu/en/artist/wa23/?affiliate=WA2

[hide] Knockout Stage December 3rd - December 18th, 2022 16 Nations, The Winners of each Round of 16-Matches will qualify for the Quarterfinals. Round of 16 - From Group E to H Date & Time (GMT +3) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 December 5th 2022, h. 18:00 Japan 1 2 Croatia December 5th 2022, h. 22:00 Brazil 3 0 South Korea December 6th 2022, h. 18:00 Morocco 1 2 Spain December 6th 2022, h. 22:00 Portugal 1 0 Switzerland [/hide]

[hide] Knockout Stage December 3rd - December 18th, 2022 16 Nations, The Winners of each Round of 16-Matches will qualify for the Quarterfinals. Round of 16 - From Group A to D Date & Time (GMT +3) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 December 3rd 2022, h. 18:00 Netherlands 1 1 United States December 3rd 2022, h. 22:00 Argentina 3 0 Australia December 4th 2022, h. 18:00 France 3 0 Poland December 4th 2022, h. 22:00 England 2 1 Senegal [/hide]

Very disappointing match from Ecuador. Their worst performance at this WC.

Oh man, $54 for the finals... I mean, that's not that expensive, a ticket of a Hungarian international football match costs the same, and I will pay it, but will 30.000 Hungarians pay that kind of money per evening? I doubt it, Hungarians don't care that much about athletics.

Itt a cikk a jegyeladásról: https://www.worldathletics.org/hu/competitions/world-athletics-championships/budapest23/world-athletics-championships-tickets-to-go-on-sale-on-12-december Aki regisztrál az oldalra, az már december 9-től vehet jegyeket. Úgy tűnik az esti döntőkre egy jegy 54 USD lesz, amik kb. 22 ezer forint.

I got an email from World Athletics which says that subscribers to "The Inside Track" will receive a code to purchase tickets for the 2023 World Championships from 10h00 CET on 9 December until 23h59 on 11 December. The general sale will start on December 12. Edit: https://www.worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-championships/budapest23/world-athletics-championships-tickets-to-go-on-sale-on-12-december

@varnoldr Kaptam egy emailt a nemzetközi szövetségtől. December 12-én indul a jegyárusítás, előtte 9. és 11. között lesz előzetes árusítás.

First gold medal ever at the Taekwondo WCh. Too bad that this isn't an Olympic weight class, Omar will have to switch to 58kg again.

Megszületett a taekwondo történetének első magyar világbajnoki aranyérme, Salim Omar Gergely az 54kg-osok között szerezte. Ez a súlycsoport nincs az Olimpián, ott az 58kg-os mezőnyben kell majd ismételten indulnia, amiben Tokióban 5. helyen végzett.

We haven't had a great result since 2012, it's been 10 years. We didn't have high expectations, finishing above Slovenia and Croatia is as low of a bar as you can get, especially considering that the latter only beat us in the entire tournament. This level of handball is unacceptable from a nation that has spent an enormous amount of money on this sport, probably more than any other nation did in the past decade. And yet here we are, the 11th place is the second worst result ever for us. With the exception of Klujber we don't have world class players and without those there's no way that we will ever be as strong as we were in the 2000s.

I have never seen so many negative reactions to our women's handball team in Hungary that I see now. For example, one of the former coaches (Mocsai) called the 11th place a disaster and one of the biggest names in Hungarian sport journalism declared it a complete failure of Hungarian handball and said that we aren't playing "modern handball" and the gap between us and the Northern countries will only grow in the future as no one is taking steps for reforms. It's good to see that the blind optimism is officially gone, respected experts are painting a bleak future for Hungarian handball if this continues.

I guess our group was stronger. Great day for the Northern countries.

Wow, Denmark won against Norway! Which means that if France wins against Norway in the semi, the winner of v will qualify for Paris2024. Either way, big chance for both Denmark and Montenegro to reach the final of a major international tournament. It would be Denmark's first final since Euro 2004! And it would be Montenegro's first final since Euro 2012.

Anyway, we officially have the Final 4 teams, we anticlimactically decided last spot by beating Slovenia. v v As it was expected after the preliminary round.

That stupid loss against Crotia... we could have been in the Top8 even with this weak team. Instead it's an 11th place behind and ... if this will cost us an OQT spot in the end, I will be very angry.

A magyar kézilabda talán legelkeserítőbb évén vagyunk túl. 15. hely hazai pályán a férfiaktól és most 12. hely a női válogatottól az olimpiai selejtezős Eb-n. Ha ez így fog folytatódni, akkor Rió után Párizsban se lesz magyar kézilabda válogatott az Olimpián.

Well, that's the end of that, deserved 12th place. We will live or die at next year's Worlds, the girls will have to improve a LOT to reach the Top8 there.

Obviously there are two nations that are very much underperforming on that ranking compared to where they usually are. was the leading nation for years before their ban, this is one of the Olympic sports where their ban heavily affects the rankings and the Olympic qualification. The other big underperformer is who were constantly in the Top8 before COVID. I am guessing that they will increase their points now that the Olympic qualification will soon start. The nation that improved the most is , they used Tokyo2020 to gain a lot of WR points and even after those Olympic points expired they didn't lose any ground. They pretty much took China's place as the second strongest Asian nation.

The combined team world ranking after the latest world cup events, which might be the best representation of which nations are the strongest at the moment. The colors in the sum column indicate the Top8, in the other columns it indicates the supposed Olympic qualification spots if they were handed out based on the current world rankings. Sum ME WE MF WF MS WS 1945 293 320 412 412 208 300 1866 376 298 296 312 220 364 1726 302 370 196 198 352 308 1533 161 249 362 344 198 219 1429 245 143 266 316 165 294 1393 280 175 159 167 314 298 1135 172 181 164 216 218 184 1078 125 270 218 217 66 182 972 234 199 155 160 114 110 947 151 88 140 195 128 245 943 98 103 146 250 159 187 925 174 196 76 194 131 154 906 175 164 226 88 181 72 812 78 179 223 139 117 76 521 58 70 143 91 79 80 488 54 70 116 116 60 72 480 104 24 113 132 107 438 242 188 8 434 32 64 80 148 40 70 402 132 36 42 56 92 44 390 67 50 98 153 22 388 156 8 76 148 382 179 129 74 377 100 71 102 44 30 30 373 188 60 32 25 32 36 ... 261 32 229 ... 229 8 16 189 16

I was thinking of doing a World Cup medal table because I never see that on the FIE site or anywhere else. I might do one later with a larger table, listing all the disciplines, but for now here's a really simplified version after 10 World Cup events out of the scheduled 76. 2-5-0 2-1-6 1-1-2 1-0-1 1-0-1 1-0-0 1-0-0 1-0-0 0-1-0 0-1-0 0-1-0 0-0-1 0-0-1 0-0-1 0-0-1 0-0-1

Well, I can't complain much, 4 out of our 5 teams went into the Top8. And hopefully 2 teams will make it to the Top4, our men's sabre team will have to defeat Iran for that.

Nice start to our season, first ever World Cup win for Andrásfi in men's epee. Koch was also in the Top8. Thankfully Siklósi isn't alone anymore with great results in the next generation of Hungarian male fencers. Our future looks bright in men's epee.

What's so strange about this is that this is very clearly your best chance to win since 2006, maybe even since 2002. If any nations should be hyped about this World Cup, it's and .

The cities in Hungary can barely put enough money together to have their annual Christmas markets and decorations on the streets. So you can probably guess that there won't be any kind of spectator zones for the World Cup. We might experience food shortages during Advent and a significant drop in the quality of life for the first time in many years, so this might be the worst possible time for a World Cup. This will be the World Cup known for "watching footballers play in a rich desert country while we freeze in our homes and have the most depressing Christmas ever".