brunamoura

Oh well, sorry, my zombie foot doesn't allow me 🤷🏻‍♀️👀😄

*Jokes aside, this is the kind of challenge that I would love to take part in 😯💪🏻

On 3/1/2023 at 9:14 AM, justony said:

As some of you already know, on Sunday I went to Planica. I am regular guest of Ski Flying for 25 years, so though I heard, how high they put prices and there is not a lot of home crowd, I decided to visit our treasure in heart of national park.

 

Luckily I am quite frequent Totallympian, and with that I had an honour to meet in person our star, future Olympian. I know I have already thank you, but once more, @brunamoura, thanks for those five minutes of your time and of course, though I would come to see competitions anyway, thank you for tickets.

 

Only thing I regret is we did not have time for a bit longer talk, because your story is fascinating, but did not wanna bother your pre race time.

 

So, @heywoodu, take good care of her, when she comes back home, and when you are next time around (maybe both), do send me a PM, and maybe will grab a coffee.

 

 

Thank you so much @justony😁

I am sorry time was a little too short for a longer talk, but it was really nice to meet you!

Hopefully coming seasons I will be racing in Slovenia again (I love the country!) and we will have time for a coffee and a lot more talking 😁

On 2/22/2023 at 12:38 PM, justony said:

Well done, also nobody say we are not good host, since Lucija Medja gave a win to Brazilian squad.  

She is very nice, by the way! 😁

On 2/18/2023 at 3:04 PM, justony said:

Great, I will try to visit Planica next Sunday, when there is most busy schedule with mixed team SJ, mixed NC and ofcourse CC Team Sprint. 

If I start in the Team Sprint, I may also get 1 or 2 free tickets, so I can give you one for this event. Sadly we get tickets only for the days we are going to compete. But about competing in the Team Sprint, I will decide latest after tomorrow

Would anyone here be interested on watching the 5km and Sprint races (perhaps also the Team Sprint)? Someone who lives here in Slovenia, for example?

I will get two tickets for free (still need to confirm if two per event which I will start or two in total for these events) and I would be glad to give it away

🇧🇷🇧🇷🥳🥳🥳🥳 thank you, Mexico 🇲🇽!!

Good morning to you all! 

Brazilian jury votes are coming right away

On 10/26/2022 at 5:38 PM, rybak said:

2 days (48 hours) left to vote: @brunamoura @titicow @vinipereira @Federer91 @intoronto @Wumo @thepharoah @Bohemia (I guess) @catgamer @Dragon @Quasit @Cinnamon Bun @Makedonas @Yannakis @maestro @Fly_like_a_don @Dnl @Gianlu33 (I guess) @Glen @mrv86 @Ionoutz24 @heywoodu @rybak (yes, I tagged myself ) @NikolaB @justony @amen09 @Illya @Olympian1010 (I guess) @Argenis Gonzalez @dophuquy

 

With this amount of remaining users to vote I'm afraid about another extension of deadline or massive amount of DSQ's  

Votes sent 🤗

Hey guys, may I join for Brazil?😊

49 minutes ago, FancyFenchel said:

German eurosport commentator talked about @brunamoura, her accident and sends get well wishes!

Is there a way to send a direct "thank you" to this commentator? Do you know his name?

3 minutes ago, mrv86 said:

Really hope she can test negative and be ready for the Olympics and achieve her goals.

 

Get well soon @brunamoura 

(Totallympics right now)

 

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Muito obrigada por todo suporte e carinho, @Laraja! 

Estou muito ansiosa por esse momento e imensamente grata por todo carinho que tenho recebido nessa caminhada e após a nomeação. Vamos que ainda há uma pequena batalha no caminho e essa é a última que preciso vencer antes de embarcar para os Jogos. Obrigada de coração! 

43 minutes ago, dcro said:

Looks like FIS read this and deported him out of Lebanon.

Seriously though, why travel all the way to Lebanon and then leave before the race program is over?

 

https://www.fis-ski.com/DB/general/results.html?sectorcode=CC&raceid=39569

Some serious shit is happening there... 🤫😬

1 hour ago, ahjfcshfghb said:

Awesome! How did you get it sorted in the end? Did the federation come through?

In the end it was all about Serbians decision to allow everyone to start not to make problems

1 minute ago, Grassmarket said:

No, but I guessing that a lot of money would be the foundation stone.

I don't have much, but I will pay what is needed to have a legal fight against CBDN if I am affect for their decisions.

8 minutes ago, dcro said:

How does that even work? Isn't Bruna registered independently (like Picin was in Finland/Lithuania)?

I am!!!

The problem is that the race director here said that CBDN did not send the entry form for our athletes and deadline was Sunday night because on Monday morning she would send everything to FIS. But, as I was here early Monday before she sends the entry, she allowed to sign for myself and this way I could compete. I swear I asked to sign for others, at least for Jaque as she was already on her way and as Duda and Mika were in Zakopane with Caio and it was not sure they would come, Jaque was priority because she was already in the plane to Serbia. But I was not allowed, I kept asking but I was told I could sign just for myself. I contact CBDN right away to try to get the forms on time before the race director closes it, but it was still pretty early in Brazil, so I got an answer when it was already too late. I called them to explain the situation and the guy said that he sent the entries on 4 January. But, the race director said she did not get anything and now it was too late. Now, everyone is blaming on me, saying that I should have registered everyone. But I tried! And now I was told that if nobody can compete, I can't either.

I am devastated... This can be deciding for the ticket and it's unfair if I lose the ticket in the last moment for a mistake that was not mine after all the effort to come her alone because the team's coach had decide he would no come for distance races as the other athlete needed sprint races. I had to choose between going to Zakopane with them or coming to Serbia alone. I even considered going to Zakopane just for the sprint race and then coming by flight for the races here in Zlatibor, but it would not work with times and I would depend on luck to make it on time for Serbia so as distance races were more important for me when balancing both, I decided to come to Serbia. And of course as soon as I made it to Serbia the head coach decided to do this crazy trip right after sprint in Zakopane and come on time for the races here. If it was his plan before I would have join them, but it was not (of course, distance races are advantage for me, not so much for them) and now they come with that "if nobody can start, also Bruna can't".

Point is that Duda just had a sprint good enough to overtake me in the ranking and now I need the distance races, but most likely I won't be allowed to start here anymore because of this decision, meaning she has a good advantage on me and my only chance will be if I make it to Switzerland in the weekend, having good races there (ah yeah, and going all the way alone again because I am not part of the team!).

We are going to have a great fight, I go through laws if I can not race or even if I race they do not count my points!

1 hour ago, dcro said:

Mind you, this sort of strategy has already been applied by other nations in the past.

 

Swedish NOC famously declined to send Majorov in the men's single skating for Pyeongchang, because he already competed in Sochi and was not top-8 material in 2018. They literally chose to have nobody instead of someone who could place 15th or so.

 

Meanwhile, they did send a weaker female skater because and only because it was to be her Olympic debut.

One strong point that really does not help Ceci is that the coach of the young girls has a huge involvement with FASA and one of her athletes going to the Olympics means that she can finally make her debut in the Olympics too (as a coach), which won't happen if Ceci goes. I like this coach, but seeing this happening for personal benefits, this is so unfair with Ceci that makes me 🤢

45 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Maria Cecilia Dominguez of Argentina got an amazing 110 points in Turkey today. Argentina has one female ticket and the deciding criteria was easy: the one with the best FIS points - all races count, including rollerskiing and 'obscure' races - goes to the Olympics. Alright, clear enough and with a second or so to spare in the last rollerskiing race in Brazil, Dominguez moved up to first:

 

 

So today's 110 improved her points to 124 or so. Hooooooowever.....now all of a sudden, criteria have changed: Dominguez has been told she will need to get the A criteria (under 100 points, near-impossible) in order to be sent by the Argentinian federation (FASA). If she doesn't, whoever is in second place will be sent to the Olympics (A criteria or not).

 

It's basically like saying "runner A, you need to run the marathon in 2:10 to qualify, but runner B, you can go as long as runner A doesn't get that time and you have a time of 3:00 or so". It's...insane.

I've seen plenty unfair situations with federations. But this one is on top of a ridiculous ranking. She is the only Argentinian paying full costs in the fight for the ticket. Zero support (and it's not like a season is cheap ☝🏻). THAT without mentioning that she was the only Argentinian trying to get an Olympic quota for her country in the previous World Championship. No one else wanted to go to Oberstdorf. She did it! Only Argentinian, without any support, and still good enough to stay under 300 points by 2 seconds or so and get a quota to have someone representing her country at the Olympics. And now, this bulshit from FASA all because this federation wants to send someone younger at any costs. If the youngest girls were better than her, fine! BUT THEY ARE NOT!

55 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Cool  

 

@brunamoura has a little niece (2 years old now I think?) with that name, although the spelling might be slightly different, I'm not sure. Nice name indeed!

Yep, "Iara" 😁 2 years old next month.

This meaning is exactly the reason why my brother and his girlfriend chose this name for her. They both love surf and they say Iara is their little mermaid (mermaid Iaiá)