Maxim Fastovsky

She's going for 6 golds in Tokyo, it's hard to root for USA Gymnastics due to the Nassar scandal, but i sure hope she (and Mikulak who so deserves it) have huge games in tokyo
 

Why is it impossible to find any information for Continental Cups? FIVB part is still showing 2012, cev does have some info, but everyone else, no idea, it's ridiculous!
 

Why is it impossible to find any information for Continental Cups? FIVB part is still showing 2012, cev does have some info, but everyone else, no idea, it's ridiculous!
 

ESPN will offer major coverage (maybe even full?) of the games!!! I’m so excited that they’re finally taking this event seriously. I can’t wait to watch with my fellow American fans @bmo @dezbee2008 @catgamer @Rdbc @Maxim Fastovsky

Israel for obvious reasons

#SLC2026
#United26
#LA2028
 

In 3 months they might stay only with Milan, i wonder if they will try to quickly award it at that point before they drop out as well.
 
Robert Livingstone from Gamesbid assumes that once all 3 drop out the IOC will go to Salt Lake City and beg them to hold it there, and along the way give another good deal to L.A (because they have exclusive sponsorship until 2028)   If that happens USA puts monopoly on big events with Winter Olympics, World cup and Summer olympics in 2 years span     
 
I love to be an American

In 3 months they might stay only with Milan, i wonder if they will try to quickly award it at that point before they drop out as well.
 
Robert Livingstone from Gamesbid assumes that once all 3 drop out the IOC will go to Salt Lake City and beg them to hold it there, and along the way give another good deal to L.A (because they have exclusive sponsorship until 2028)   If that happens USA puts monopoly on big events with Winter Olympics, World cup and Summer olympics in 2 years span     
 
I love to be an American

Not if you live in LA 

Not if you live in LA 

Not if you live in LA 

damn damn damn damn damn, World cup starts with Spain, Brazil, Argentina and Germany all not winning, thats insane, maybe this year we will see a new winner, Belgium comes to mind.
 
I will be in Mexico for the second semi final and the final, so i'm kinda hoping for a cinderella run for el-tri, just to see the insanity on the streets of cancun

NFL Coming back with 2 great teams (Chargers season ticket holder right here), new Soccer stadium, Lakers on the rise again, World Cup, OLYMPICS (with plenty of events coming up as tests) , I LOVE L.A
 
But i do agree that things have to be done together, not just one city, kinda like what stockholm 2026 doing with sigulda, to not build a sledding track, it will be harder on fans, but easier on economy

I'm sorry but no, more billions of dollars in spending, more white elephant stadiums, more controversy, would they put the money in? Sure, but why? you don't have enough unused stadiums from South Africa? you will have plenty from russia, qatar.
 
World Cup (and olympics) should be in places with proven sports culture, so yes, smaller countries will be blacklisted but it will curb spending that can shut that smaller country down.
 
FIFA (and IOC) should have a list of approved locations where their travelling carnival can go to (you wont get white elephants in England, Spain, Germany, France, Italy, Brazil)
 
This insane spending on events need to stop just to show who's bigger
 
 
I see you are from L.A like me (where from btw?) We are very fortunate to live in a place with amazing sports infrastructure that no other place really have, let's enjoy what we have and bask in the glory of the upcoming sport goodness coming to USA

After driving this route million times it's hotter then hell.   And very windy with the wind blowing desert sand all over you 

Some update on Golf, Courtsey of NBC
 
http://olympics.nbcsports.com/2018/03/19/olympic-golf-qualifying-2020-tokyo/

This was my first time watching the Winter Olympics from start to finish (I was only 13 during last Winter Olympics)
 
I really really enjoyed 
- Mixed Doubles Curling
- Short Track Speed Skating 
- Alpine Skiing 
 
Some great memories I had were
- Anastasia (Russian mixed doubles curling women) yelling "SVEEEEEP" 
- Red Gerard winning our first gold
- Gold Medal for Men USA Curling & Women Ice Hockey
- Lindsey Vonn last Olympics  
 
I'm extremely excited for Beijing 2022! 

Plans for 2018-2020 USA National Thread 
I notice that this National Thread is quite dead during the non Olympic months so I've created a system of posts that I will be posting from now until 2020. There will be three main different posts Week in Summer, Week in Winter, and Trek to Tokyo.
 
Week in Summer: The Week in Summer posts will be all different USA Summer Olympic sport news that don't have a direct correlation to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics such as FINA World Diving Series or events like that.
Week in Winter: These posts will be all different USA Winter Olympic sport news that don't have a direct correlation to the Beijing 2022 Olympics such as Curling World Championship or Alpine Skiing World Cup. 
NOTE: DUE TO SO MANY WINTER & SUMMER SPORTS THESE POSTS WILL BE AT THE END OF EACH WEEK RECAPPING THE WEEK!
 
Trek to Tokyo: These posts are all about USA qualifying for the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics. The posts will come as matches happen for qualifying. 
 
NOTE: I know this will be a lot to handle but I've been working on a spreadsheet that helps me a ton, I think the only time I won't be able to post these is if I'm away from a computer (which is not much).  As we get closer to the Summer Olympics there will be more and more posts on Trek to Tokyo and probably less on Week in Summer. I've not yet finished my spread sheet for all the sports yet (I'm working on the summer sports first) so It might take a week or two before the Week in Summer & Week in Winter posts start up!

We can summarize the Olympics by now 9 Gold.  23 Total (well unless Diggins does something)    and while there were many amazing surprises like Cross Country, womens Hockey or curling Golds,    also some dissapointments come to mind.  Another Skating Failure.  Shiffrin in Slalom is another.   No Cross medals, no golds in ski slopestyle, no medals in moguls or aerials.  Overall because of diggins, shuster or womens Hockey i cannot say im overall dissapointed.  But i was hoping for a better medal count.  

I think many players would've agreed to it for this year, i remember Ovechkin saying he is planning to play anyway, it's about country pride, and i'm sorry, the 8 team World Cup of Hockey is not an alternative! 

I think many players would've agreed to it for this year, i remember Ovechkin saying he is planning to play anyway, it's about country pride, and i'm sorry, the 8 team World Cup of Hockey is not an alternative! 

Shaun. WHITE!!!!!!!!  

oh no doubt, it's more impressive that she was able to do such a great run when everyone else failed

oh no doubt, it's more impressive that she was able to do such a great run when everyone else failed

As much as i'm happy with the american gold, i feel that this medal is tainted, i mean yea her first run was awesome and she deserves the score, however best competitors were suppose to have 5 runs, not 2, or wait in the final for 26 other people to go before your second run, or not face such bad winds