OlympicIRL

As we approach the 25 weeks to go milestone until 2018 Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang, it's time to open our official countdown thread here on Totallympics. Members can post here on the thread day-by-day to help build the excitement in the coming weeks as we countdown to the big event. This thread can be used to mark any milestones on the way, such as the opening of the Olympic village, tracking the arrival of delegations, the raising of our national flags in the Olympic village, news and details about the Opening Ceremony and so on. To help us countdown the days ahead, I have created an Olympic Countdown Clock depicting the 2018 Winter Olympic logo alongside the Olympic rings. The clock consists of various elements to help us mark off milestones along the way as we edge closer and closer to the Opening Ceremony on the 9th February. Firstly, the logo itself is divided into 2 elements.... the first part consisting numbers 1-24 representing the number of weeks until the official start of the 2018 Winter Olympic Games. As each week passes, another coloured "block" will be added to the logo until it begins to take on it's familiar appearance. The second element consisting of the an alpha-numeric system will represent various other milestones to watch out for along the way that signify the the Games are getting closer. I will draw up a list of ideas for these milestones and I am calling on you to help with suggesting ideas for this (I am not very knowledgeable in Winter Sports). Ideas currently include: Key: a1 6 months to go a2 3 months to go a3 1 month to go b1 150 days to go b2 100 days to go b3 75 days to go c1 Four Hills Tournament begins c2 Hahnenkamm Race begins c3 Winter X Games begin d1 tickets go on sale d2 2018 Olympic year arrives (Jan 1st) d3 2018 Olympic Prediction Contests Open on Totallympics e1 lighting of Olympic flame in Olympia, Greece e2 Olympic flame arrives in Incheon e3 Olympic flame arrives in Gangwon province x Olympic cauldron is lit Finally, below the official logo is a depiction that becomes active on the "50 days to go" milestone, consisting of the numbers 1-50, representing the 5 Olympic rings. As each day passes, another piece of the Olympic ring is shaded in colour until the 1 day to go milestone, after which the 5 coloured rings will be depicted in their complete form. The Countdown Clock will not be complete until the Olympic cauldron is officially lit inside the Olympic stadium on the night of the Opening Ceremony. Upon completion, the Countdown Clock should look like this...... 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 PyeongChang 2018 ------------------50--------------------------------------25--------------------------------------02----- --------49-----------------48------------------27-----------------24-------------------04----------------01- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --47----------------------------46-------29-----------------------------22-------06----------------------------03 --------------------------------------36--------------------------------------16------------------------------- --45-----------------------38--43-------30--33-------------------18--21-------08--13------------------------05 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------44-----------40---41------------------28--31-------20--23-------------------10--11-----------07--- ------------------42--------------------------------------26--------------------------------------09------------- ----------------------39-----------------------------32-------19----------------------------12----------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------37-----------------34-------------------17----------------14------------- --------------------------------------35--------------------------------------15--------------- So without further ado, let the countdown to the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic Games begin

8th place for Robert..... thank you for a great career!! End of an era

400m runner Chris Brown finished 4th in the world championships 2005, 2007 and the Olympics in 2008, then 5th in the world in 2009..... very tough streak.

Glavan becoming the new Robert Heffernan..... 3 times 4th place in a row in global championships now! Heartbreaking for him.

Diniz doesn't look at all like he just completed a 50km in one of the fastest ever times..... he could go for another 50k it seems

Heffernan up to 7th now

Heffernan up to 9th place in his final race..... nice end to a great career

Yes, I remember this

He would have lapped everyone about 4-5 times at least

Diniz could lap everyone here

Should have just shown a clip of Birtukan Fente from the steeplecahse heats.....

Good morning

"A significantly naughty thing to do"

It's all the same to me

Ahh, but you still planned for and recorded to watch "as live" later so that's acceptable

We have an emoji for that

Your parents you mean?

Maybe he is getting up only for the 20km event

Where is @Gianlu33?? He must have overslept

Me too, although then we will hear more negative walk stories and how it should be scrapped. But yeah, let them all be disqualified this time for the craic

And this is not 90s Wimbledon

Only 6 women left now

The man who likes to talk in sentences backwards.... "he is a sub-10 second runner, is the Jamaican" for example

The British Eurosport commentator Tim Hutchings was bemoaning the fact that more women have not taken on the mantle of going for the 50km walk as if it is their fault..... maybe if they hadn't just shoe-horned it in as an event a couple of weeks before the competition, more woman would have taken it on Tim!

And Brendan Boyce has withdrawn with a grade 1 hamstring tear...... Why, why, why