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17 minutes ago, Biathlonfan said:

Isn't he still banned ?

A quick Google search says he was banned for 4 years and 3 months from February 28th, 2020, so assuming his ban ends at the end of May of this year. The qualification period runs until June 23rd so theoretically he could qualify but it is beyond unlikely to be honest.

10 hours ago, Dragon said:

Gunn is a 36 year old university lecturer. 

Mr.Bach won’t like that. It doesn’t meet the youth and urban agenda.

1 hour ago, Werloc said:

Historically the longest period for voting we ever had, but people & scrambling towards deadlines is just a law of nature  

Parkinson's Law..... work expands to fill the time allotted for its completion

Nice to see the flags making prominent appearances throughout the championship. Too bad those flags were hanging in the stands rather than being paraded around the track in celebration

McDonagh was 5-0 winner over   in the men’s 92kg+

28 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

I swear this is the first time I saw the flag so close to notice there is a bird in the coat of arms

It’s also one of the few national flags with the colour purple on it  

I have my final 15, just need to finalise the order now. I think it's pretty stable but there might be some shifts in position so will give it another listen or two before submitting my votes.

On 2/12/2024 at 2:20 PM, mattiekav119 said:

Rob Hendrick not selected for C1 Slalom for second consecutive games after again securing the spot at World Championships.

Is this official? Can you post a source for this, just want to update the qualification tracker

4 minutes ago, JoshMartini007 said:

The wording makes no sense since as you said, the second statement means athletes under the age of 30 would be allowed to compete in more than 2 Olympics, which is obviously not the intention by World Aquatics or else they wouldn't have written the first statement. It's almost a paradox.

 

I think they meant "and" instead of "or"

Yes, an "AND" statement would make much more sense. In that case it would be like my 2) scenario in my earlier post. No athletes who have already participated in 2 Olympics can claim a universality quota. And also those over the age of 30 are likewise not eligible. So for now without clarification it's not certain what way to interpret this

7 minutes ago, JoshMartini007 said:

The wording is a bit awkward.

 

It's written that athletes under the age of 30 can only compete in two Olympics through universality. It's then implied that over 30 year old athletes can compete in more Olympics.

 

It's a dumb rule in my opinion and hurts a small handful of athletes in their mid to late 20s who may be excluded during what may have been their peak Olympics

World Aquatics seems to imply the opposite in their website so it almost seems like they can compete in more than 2 Olympics if they are under the age of 30.

1 minute ago, JoshMartini007 said:

The wording is a bit awkward.

 

It's written that athletes under the age of 30 can only compete in two Olympics through universality. It's then implied that over 30 year old athletes can compete in more Olympics.

 

It's a dumb rule in my opinion and hurts a small handful of athletes in their mid to late 20s who may be excluded during what may have been their peak Olympics

Never ceases to amaze me how every Olympics you get these badly-worded qualification documents. It's really not that hard to specify the rules clearly, at least employ someone who can do a better job

14 hours ago, Topicmaster1010 said:

Now that both the 2023 and 2024 World Championships are over, it's a good time to look at which countries are eligible for universalities. Looking at the entry lists for both championships, we can compile a rough list of which countries are eligible.

 

The following NOC's are eligible for both a male and female universality quota (123 NOC's, 246 athletes):

 

 

So as of now, we are looking at 282 universality athletes from 159 NOC's

There is also the following rule concerning athletes entering through a Universality place:

"An athlete entering through Universality will be limited to a maximum of up to two Olympic Games in his/her career provided the athlete is not older than the age of thirty (30) as of 31st December 2024".

The wording is a bit unclear, does it mean that.....

1) an athlete entering via Universality can participate in more than 2 Olympic Games so long as they are not older than 30 years old at 31st December 2024?

2) Or does it mean that no athletes over 30 years of age can claim a universality quota AND no athlete can claim a universality quota if they have already participated at 2 Olympic Games?

Does anyone know how to interpret this rule?

If it's 2) then the following athletes/nations are ineligible for a universality quota:

Amel Melih (W)

Talita Te Flan (W)

Farida Osman (W)

Refiloe Chopho (W)

Jinq En Phee (W)

Nada Arakji (W)

JL Harding-Marlin (W)

Cherelle Thompson (W)

Ok I’ll count them as +2 quotas for each of the relays for now and we can revise them later when things become clearer 

I've a lot of updating to do on the qualification tracker! I am assuming I should go ahead and count the swim relay quotas for now and revise it if we don't qualify the requisite number of individual athletes to make up the relay squads. Would you all agree?

The women's medley relay squad already have 2 qualified athletes so they should be good anyway. I think the men's will be fine also but we might have to sweat it out to see if a couple of our guys will be high enough up the rankings to receive invitations in their individual events.

6 minutes ago, Topicmaster1010 said:

14:34.07 for  Wiffen. PB for him to win gold. Paris will be fun

I've been daring to believe Wiffen could do something big in Paris for a couple of years now but this is really beyond my wildest dreams. Hopefully he can replicate his performances here in Paris but I imagine the opposition will be even stiffer there. Still though, going to celebrate this remarkable achievement for what it is.... 2 gold medals is insane

Daniel Wiffen!!!!!  

1 minute ago, thepharoah said:

so this is the 1st medal ever for Ireland in Swimming ? 

First ever at the world championships yes  

Wiffen finished 4th in both 800m and 1500m last year. Hoping he can bring home another medal in the 1500m.

I love the concept of this. Just wish the design was bit more polished. A circular pieces of iron in the middle might have looked neater. But really nice idea all the same  

4 hours ago, heywoodu said:

10 minutes per jury, which is very generous, leads to 10 hours of voting windows. One hour break at halftime, for example two 15 minute breaks in both halves, and you've got a 12 hour Grand Final, easily in one day  

Ok, let’s do it! The sun will never set in the TISC Empire .

2 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Thanks! Imagine, one miraculous day all nations that ever participated are in the same contest (and of course South Korea enters), 60 songs to listen and rank  

60 juries voting during the Grand Final would take the whole weekend  

On 2/3/2024 at 9:32 AM, heywoodu said:

Assuming South Korea enters, how long ago would it be since we've had three (!) new nations?   @OlympicIRL

In the end South Korea didn't join us this time, but in answer to your question, TISC Open 2015 was the last time we had 3 debuting nations: Algeria, Moldova and Portugal joined the fold on that occasion.

Significantly though, Albania and Guatemala are our newest debutants since Israel joined back in TISC Annual 2020. It took 4 years to find a new debutant so it's great to have them here

IRELAND

Ireland has selected the band Picture This to be this year's representatives at TISC Annual 2024 with the song Get On My Love, a single from their 2023 album Parked Car Conversations. I hope you enjoy

Picture This - Get On My Love

58 minutes ago, Erigert said:

Ok then! I read somewhere that you could include remakes of old songs with the condition that the remake song should have been released during 2023. Anyway it's fine! I'm posting another song.

 

Sorry for the confusion. The rule is that if it is a copy then the original song must also have been released in 2023. This is only a rule for the Annual edition because we want brand new music. For example if a British artist produced a copy of Bohemian Rhapsody, it wouldn’t be eligible for Annual because the song isn’t original. Anyway thanks for understanding and looking forward to your first participation and hopefully the first of many. It’s a fun contest and hope you will get involved in all the fun discussion we have before and especially on the day of the final  

4 hours ago, Erigert said:

I confirm that! This is a remake of an old song released in June 2023. The original song didnt include both singers and differs a lot from this one.

 

 

Hi @Erigert, welcome to the contest, it is a pleasure to have Albania here for the first time

About the song, it must be a brand new (original) song. Since this song was released a few years ago, you will need to choose a different song. We have another contest later in the year (Open contest) where we can choose older songs and you may select this song when that contest is opened. However for this contest, the Annual edition, you must find a new song that was released since Jan 1 2023. I’m sorry about that. Is there another song from 2023 that you can choose?

3 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Oddly the song itself was released on 30 December 2022, just like it's 'album' (four songs), which seems to have a 2023 copyright (© 2023 Universal International Music B.V.). For what it's worth, it first appeared in the Dutch top-40 in week 6 of 2023, so somewhere in February:

 

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I'm not sure if it's the organizers who decide about these things, or the Committee, but I'll leave it in the hands of the authorities for now and meanwhile go on the hunt for a plan B. Obviously I'd be happy if it's allowed, but just as obviously I'll accept whichever ruling is made (especially since personally I would understand both allowing it and not allowing it)  

You can select the song, we have had similar instances in the past for other nations and it absolutely makes sense that this song should be allowed. There really wasn’t enough time for this song to have been selected for last year’s edition so in my mind it belongs in this year’s edition.

Its also the reason I added the loophole about the album to help get some of these types of songs qualified by a rule. For others we have always used a little discretion. The fact that this song charted in 2023 is another indicator it belongs in this edition