OlympicIRL

It's time for another update guys! Our men's rugby team will join the women at the Paris Olympics next year. Great day for us!

Yes me made it!!! This makes me so happy because I have tickets for men's rugby at next year's Olympics on 25th July and 27th July so it's amazing I will get to cheer on Ireland!

Bittersweet moment for Irish athlete Sarah Lavin who will be the Irish flagbearer for the European Games. Her boyfriend and international rally driver Craig Breen was killed just 2 months ago. Heartbreaking for her, I wish her all the best https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/othersport/arid-41163361.html

@hckošice frantically reading the Dick Dastardly guide on how to catch pigeons

Ok, I have gone ahead and opened a poll with a few questions. You can find it here:

Hi everyone! This year we marked the 20th edition of the Totallympics International Song Contest, meaning our beloved TISC has now been with us for 10 years! To mark the occasion we have a few polls to help celebrate the success and longevity of the contest. If you can, please provide some comments in the thread after you submit your responses and to help you remember what your favourite edition was, you can use the Totallympics History thread to re-visit the previous contests. If there's any other questions or polls you would like or have any other suggestions, feel free to make them in this thread! Have fun voting!

No worries, just trying to gauge interest

I'll ask one more time as we didn't get any response so far. Let us know your thoughts if you are interested in a poll on all the previous TISC winners. If enough people are interested we can make one/ If not we can leave it until another time in the future.

Perhaps the next world super-power allegiance

Not the only one. I’ll let you guess which other country also drives on the left

A sport where it’s cool not to be a sprint specialist

They are using the same criteria as before meaning any nation with an average of 8 or fewer individual athletes at the 2 previous Games are eligible for those Tripartite Universality places. 93 nations are eligible this time. The International Judo Federation has the official Olympic document published on their website: Paris Olympic Games 2024 Annex 2 List of Eligible NOCs for Universality Places - 24.11.2022 - ENG

Wow, quite the upset! I have seen Moya race a few times so I knew he is decent but still, that is a surprise to beat Grethen. Nice story

Kipyegon's final 800m was 1:59.8x... amazing run!

Yes let's gauge the interest first or see if anyone has any suggestions.

Sure, I'm open to suggestions. Would it just be a simple poll like "Who is your favourite winner?" or "Who is your favourite runner-up?" and would it be a public poll? I had been thinking about making a poll in future for each nation asking "What is your favourite Hungarian TISC entry of all-time?" and so on but I didn't know whether to do that or leave it until future in case we ever organise some kind of event like we did back in 2012-2013 for "The Best Eurovision Song of All-Time". For those who weren't around for it, that contest basically featured every single entry in history and it was divided into heats. All the winners went straight to the semis. The heats featured all the non-winners divided by decade, so there was a certain number of qualifiers from each decade that advanced to the semis. But like I say, I imagined that to be a future project when more history had passed and such.

Just a little correction, should be 13 females and 1 male instead of 13 males and 1 female.

There are only tickets starting from €690....

Good luck, I hope you can manage to get something I’ve decided to just stick with what I got in the first round of ticket sales. I’m still only planning on being there for the first few days so I was specifically looking into women’s handball in the days before the opening ceremony and swimming finals. But the handball wasn’t available and only the expensive swimming tickets were still available so I am happy to stick with my current roster. For the Opening Ceremony I’ll probably watch it on TV rather than attend, maybe have a little celebration in my room

Yes Rowing is still available. I was replying directly to @canadafan2024 who had asked specifically about dates 27/07 - 29/07 and for prices under €150. Here is what rowing is available:

Here is what is still available as of now:

Johnny Logan did technically win 3 times since he was the writer of the 1992 winning song.

And he did it . Amazing ride by Healy, that was impressive!

It’s weird but I am actually hoping GB can win it because it will make Ireland’s route for the Olympics much easier. Of course if they lose Ireland has a chance of the automatic qualification spot here but if they lose out to Fiji it means the route to the Olympics are harder.

Ben Healy on his way to a first Grand Tour stage victory