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Happy birthday @hckošice and @SteveParker. Hope you both had a good one

TISC XX - TISC Annual 2023 (Spain) Totallympics (Annual) International Song Contest 2023 Venue: Estadio de La Cartuja, Sevilla, Spain  PARTICIPATING NATIONS 38  *Click on the Flag to listen to that Nation's TISC Annual 2023 entry Argentina Brazil Bulgaria Chile China Croatia Czech Republic Denmark France Finland Germany Great Britain Greece Hungary India Indonesia Ireland Israel Italy Kazakhstan Lithuania Malta Mexico Moldova Netherlands New Zealand Norway Poland Portugal Romania Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Tunisia Ukraine United States Grand Final: Saturday March 18th, 2023 GRAND FINAL SCOREBOARD 1 ITALY 199 20 CZECH REPUBLIC 61 2 FINLAND 166 21 CROATIA 61 3 GERMANY 158 22 BRAZIL 59 4 NETHERLANDS 151 23 MOLDOVA 57 5 USA 130 24 HUNGARY 57 6 DENMARK 127 25 CHILE 57 7 FRANCE 118 26 ROMANIA 57 8 NORWAY 111 27 INDONESIA 52 9 SERBIA 103 28 ARGENTINA 52 10 UKRAINE 99 29 LITHUANIA 51 11 SPAIN 91 30 CHINA 51 12 SLOVAKIA 89 31 MALTA 50 13 MEXICO 89 32 SWEDEN 49 14 IRELAND 83 33 GREECE 49 15 SLOVENIA 83 34 KAZAKHSTAN 43 16 PORTUGAL 75 35 NEW ZEALAND 35 17 GREAT BRITAIN 73 36 BULGARIA 21 18 POLAND 70 37 TUNISIA 13 19 INDIA 63 38 ISRAEL 11 TISC Annual 2023 Winner La Rappresentante di Lista - Ciao Ciao

Family Guy certainly does its best to dispel those stereotypes

I'm pretty sure @hckošice and Séamus got drunk and trashed a venue in Richmond last time so it still remains to be seen if we will be allowed back into the country

TISC Returns to the USA! It is my great pleasure to formally announce the United States as the host of TISC Open 2023! . @Olympian1010 was the sole bid this time and it means TISC will return to the USA for a second time, 5 years after they first hosted TISC Open 2018. We are all excited to see what America has in store for us and we wish our hosts the very best of luck on their organisation of what will surely be another great contest!

Just 95 minutes left before it becomes official and then you can start submitting your VISA application

Just 2 days left to register your bid for TISC Open 2023!

TISC Open 2023 Bidding Process: We are officially open to receiving bids to host the upcoming Totallympics Open International Song Contest 2023. TISC Open 2023 winners France, along with runners-up Sweden and 3rd-placed Netherlands have all declined the hosting rights meaning we will go to an open-bid process to find our next TISC host. Bidding will remain open until Friday 15th, September, 23:00 GMT so anyone interested please post on thread before then. If we receive multiple bids, a draw will take place to decide who the next host will be. The official draw will take place on Saturday, 16th September 15:00 GMT. Thanks to @Olympian1010 for putting his hat into the ring TISC Open 2023 Host Candidates: United States Details of the bidding process can be found here:

Thank you everyone for all the well wishes, I am blown away by your kindness. I am glad to be back again too . As for TISC, it looks like we need to open up for bids so if you're interested throw your hat into the ring! @Olympian1010 I didn't miss that you have already said you would like to bid If there is anyone else who would like to bid please write here in this thread. If we get multiple bids, we can do a draw this Friday 15th September. Hopefully that gives people enough time to notice the thread and then give the new host enough time to prepare to host the contest. I'll post some details later about the bidding process.

Hi everyone, I’m so sorry for all your worry. I just had a few things going on offline but everything is ok. I’ll catch up with everything later today and I have not forgotten TISC. Thanks again for your concern, I feel embarrassed now.

Thanks for all your efforts @Laraja on updating the Olympic rankings, appreciate your hard work

There will be a full programme swim-off between and for the 16th place to see who advances to the semis.

For those saying they’d like to get rid of football in favour of beach soccer, I only agree with removing men’s football. Women’s football has a valid spot at the Olympics for me and would like to see it stay.

Both our medley relay teams finished in 13th place. Hopefully it might be enough to qualify for the Olympics but it will be tight. Also I’m hoping today is the day Ireland wins its first ever medal at the Aquatics World Championships

The only issues I would have with cricket (T20) coming into the Games are if the number of teams is 4-5.... needs to be at least 8 to an be acceptable competition for me and also if it takes away quotas at the expense of other sports which it would unless they do a radical u-turn on the athlete quota. I don't watch cricket, it's never appealed to me, though the T20 and ODI 50-over formats are much more interesting than Test cricket for me (I have never watched a single Test match).

Daniel Wiffen achieved the OQT in the men’s 1500m freestyle, advancing as 2nd fastest qualifier for the final in 14:43.50 mins.

RIP Sinéad

Sinéad O’Connor has died

Not the results they had hoped for but a great achievement for our girls to qualify for a first World Cup.

Daniel Wiffen becomes the 43rd member of Team Ireland, making the OQT in the men's 800m freestyle. Here is a summary of the Paris 2024 Olympic team as it stands: IRELAND 43 Total Athletes 17 Men 20 Women 20 Total Events 5 Total Sports List of Team Ireland Qualifiers

While I agree it was unlikely she going to be on the podium and 5th place is actually a great result, I wouldn’t say based on her semi final performance she had no chance. But again 5th is actually a great result for her and improves on her 8th place in Tokyo.

Exciting for Irish swimming to finally have contenders on the world stage. Mona McSharry goes in the women’s 100m breaststroke final later today as the 4th fastest qualifier. A medal may just be out of reach but she is in the hunt. Daniel Wiffen into the men’s 800m final as 4th fastest in a new Irish record. His best event is still to come as well, the 1500m freestyle. Not to mention Ellen Walshe placing 9th overall in the women’s 200m IM and just missing the final but setting a new Irish record in the process. Dare we hope for a medal at these championships? Here’s hoping!

Daniel Wiffen has achieved the OQT as expected in the men’s 800m. He set a new Irish record of 7:43.81 mins to qualify as 4th fastest for the final.

Great news, hopefully it pays off for her!

Mona McSharry becomes the 42nd qualified athlete for Paris 2024. She set a new PB and Irish record of 1:05.55 mins this morning to go through as 2nd fastest qualifier for this evening’s semis of the women’s 100m breaststroke. What a swim!