Bohemia

Tino Rossi - Petit Papa Noël
 

 
La Compagnie Créole - Bons baisers de Fort-de-France
 

 
 

May I introduce you to this gem?
 
Totally instrumental, but it's a huge part of my Christmas festivities. Despite the name, Trans-Siberian Orchestra is from Tampa, FL
 
 
 

Two pages of bitching about  biathlon and Giacomel will get a win 

So the voting draw has been completed. Here is the provisional voting order. Once a voting schedule for the Grand Final has been created we will look to see if there is any nation eligible to request a swap.
 
Denmark will be opening the voting followed by their Scandinavian neighbour Sweden.
will close the voting on the Grand Final day
 
 
 
TISC Annual 2025 - Provisional Voting Order
 
1 Denmark 18 Israel 2 Sweden 19 Serbia 3 Slovakia 20 Romania 4 Indonesia 21 Brazil 5 Great Britain 22 Poland 6 Italy 23 Mexico 7 Spain 24 Netherlands 8 Kazakhstan 25 China 9 Ukraine 26 Slovenia 10 Bulgaria 27 Turkey 11 Germany 28 Albania 12 United States 29 Malta 13 France 30 Ireland 14 India 31 Argentina 15 Tunisia 32 Lithuania 16 Portugal 33 Guatemala 17 Greece 34 Canada  

13th place for  Jan Guńka! 

Today.
 
Our girls
 
Huge Respect and big thanks 

Jan Guńka ended pursuit on 17th place with 0-0-1-0, his new pesonal best, it's also the best result for  male biathlete since 2nd place of Tomasz Sikora in Fort Kent back in February 2011.

JTB and TB announce retirement and everyone outside Norge pop open the champagne and say "finally". Then Norge enter Botn and Uldal, who are the next incarnation of JTB and Taraj Boe 

Wright blows it 8/8 fast and heading for a big lead.....then 0/2.  

And what's interesting is that this is a completely different top 6 from the individual, no one has been in the top 6 in both races, which must not happen that frequently!

FRANCE  
 
Santa - Recommence-moi
 

 
And here's the song without the music video's noises :
 

 

We should be able to post the French entry before the end of the day

I see where you're going with that one :D

Yes

Electronic music was made by an actual person who spent time on it.

Electronic music was made by an actual person who spent time on it.

Glad to see TISC is back!  is in as always  
Now I need to start looking for a song

Ok so I have given it some thought this week and I am willing to try to organise a contest. It is getting quite late in the year so the Grand Final might have to wait until after Christmas and New Year but let’s see how things go.
 
I will probably make it a more stripped down version to make it more manageable to organise but I think having the contest at all is more important.
 
Also I think I’d rather make this the Annual edition since we did not have an Annual contest this year and I think it would be nice to keep that tradition alive. The Open Contest allows us to pick songs from almost any period so there will always be a chance to showcase those songs any year. But for Annuals, it has to be songs released in the last 12 months and those songs haven’t had a contest since the 2024 Annual so I think it’s better to host the 2025 Annual now and then figure out where things go from there.

Hi everyone,
 
I’m currently traveling in Malaysia but will return next week. As I stated to Sindo recently, I had some mixed feelings about TISC lately. In the last few editions it saw interest go down considerably and I guess with that, it impacted my motivation as it does take a lot of effort and dedication to keep it running.
 
But of course you all know I love TISC and I have poured a lot of time and energy into it over the years. So I may be prepared to organise it myself later this year. I’ll wait until I am home next week before letting you know.
 
Thanks to all those who have continued to stay engaged over the years, I appreciate the support.

Awful, horrible world championship  

49.62 for  Maxime Grousset in the men’s 100m butterfly! Second fastest performer in history 
 
49.83 NR also for  Noe Ponti, eighth fastest!

WTF
 
Laura Dahlmeier has had a mountaineering accident in Pakistan, and has not been reached yet by emergency services. A helicopter has flown over the area though and determined she is 'at least seriously injured', adding that they didn't see signs of life....
 
https://www.bild.de/sport/medienberichte-ex-biathletin-laura-dahlmeier-in-pakistan-schwer-verunglueckt-6888bc1e893b255c80db057a

Evgeny Ustyugov has had all his results from January 2010 to the end of the 2013/14 season disqualified due to doping.
 
A few Olympic medals are expected to change hand as a result:

Vancouver 2010 Mass Start:
Gold: Martin Fourcade
Silver: Pavol Hurajt
Bronze:  Christoph Sumann

Vancouver 2010 men's relay:
Bronze:
 
This also confirms the previous disquaification of the Russian relay team from the Sochi Olympics.
 
https://www.biathlonworld.com/news/ustyugovs-olympic-results-disqualified/2p7jJvmw932nmrfuip2Cxl
 
Amazing that Martin Fourcade can't stop winning Olympic gold medals even in retirement xD
 
Crazy how long this case has been going on, but glad it has been resolved.

Together with other friends of Volt, we launched a referendum in Italy to allow egalitarian marriage for same-sex couples in Italy. We expected very few signatures, instead we are at 70k signatures in a few days. We have three months to collect half a million signatures and get the referendum to the ballot box, but wow.