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I am surprised that she never carried it before ... She is the only possible choice to be honest. A legend of (german) winter sport, no one else in the german team comes even remotely close to her accomplishments. I think Felix Neureuther could have been the only one to "challenge" her.

Very interesting to hear something like that from you. Probably just trying to get a reaction, since you can't seriously expect that anyone takes you seriously on that one ... so here you got it.

My favorite song by sweden's most important artist:

Really? You obviously didn't really follow men's handball ... He coached Germany at the 2016 european championships and at the olympics the same year. Now he coaches the japanese team ...

Handball world cup? Dont think that either team will even make it to the semifinal. Unless the german federation fires Prokop i would even bet a large amount of money on it. This result makes me realize again what a huge loss Sigurdsson was, the same is true for Mulders in womens hockey, but what can you do? The best go where the money is ...

Hopefully not posted before ...

I got a little satisfaction when i saw that the rules were applied correctly, leading to a draw between Germany and Slovenia, but to each his own. "Wer denkt, ist nicht wütend" Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno

Federer winning another slam would be boring, but Cilic winning his 2nd would be worse. The thought of Cilic having more slams than Del Potro, Ferrero, Chang, Noah or Moya and the same number of slams as Stan Smith, Bruguera, Hewitt, Rafter, Safin or Kafelnikov is shocking. He would also be only 1 slam behind Guga Kuerten and especially Arthur Ashe! Federer is a man who knows how important those legends are, so he wont let that happen ... although the thought of Chung playing a slam final is very appealing too.

Halep facing Wozniacki in the final is probably the only way that one of them will ever win a slam, but who knows ... On paper it looks as if one of them is safe to win, but crazier things have happened. Kerber playing her 500th match this month clearly got to her, looked like a zombie out there. Halep not winning it in 2 says a lot about her mentality.

Thanks, so possibly Germany will reject one quota in womens PGS and one quota in mens PGS.

Heard this song in the radio recently and really liked it, you should give it a try, it is not your "usual" rap music.

German athletes so far: So far 43 german athletes have been nominated: 25 men's ice hockey 8 figure skating (Bruno Massot, Aljona Savchenko, Ruben Blommaert, Annika Hocke (Pair skating), Kavita Lorenz, Joti Polizoakis (Ice dance), Paul Fentz (mens individual), Nicole Schott (womens individual)) 10 luge (Toni Eggert, Sascha Benecken, Tobias Arlt, Tobias Wendl (mens doubles), Felix Loch, Johannes Ludwig, Andi Langenhan (mens singles), Natalie Geisenberger, Tatjana Hüfner, Dajana Eitberger (womens single)) It is expected that the german team will be as big as 150 athletes.

How many quotas does Germany have? Apparently so far 11 athletes have been nominated (Ramona Hofmeister, Selina Jörg, Carolin Langenhorst, Patrick Bussler, Stefan Baumeister (PGS), Paul Berg, Martin Nörl, Konstantin Schad, Jana Fischer (Cross), Silvia Mittermüller, Johannes Höpfl (Freestyle)), but two more athletes (Anke Wöhrer and Alexander Bergmann (PGS)) haven't been nominated so far, because they didn't reach the national qualification criteria.

Not being able to predict on day 1 really fucked my chances ... At this point i hope that someone ends up with at least 40-45 points more than me, otherwise i will have to find a way to punish Sindo for what he did to me ...

[hide] Men's Singles Quarterfinals Part 2 Australian Eastern Daylight Time (GMT +11) Date and Venue Athlete 1 T1 T2 Athlete 2 January 24th 2018, h. 14:30, Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne Tennys Sandgren 1 3 Hyeon Chung January 24th 2018, h. 19:00, Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne [19] Tomas Berdych 1 3 Roger Federer [2] Women's Singles Quarterfinals Part 2 Australian Eastern Daylight Time (GMT +11) Date and Venue Athlete 1 T1 T2 Athlete 2 January 24th 2018, h. 13:00, Margaret Court Arena, Melbourne [21] Angelique Kerber 2 1 Madison Keys [17] January 24th 2018, h. 20:30, Margaret Court Arena, Melbourne [1] Simona Halep 2 1 Karolina Pliskova [6] Men's Singles Quarterfinals Part 1 Australian Eastern Daylight Time (GMT +11) Date and Venue Athlete 1 T1 T2 Athlete 2 January 23rd 2018, h. 11:00, Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne [3] Grigor Dimitrov 3 1 Kyle Edmund January 23rd 2018, h. 19:00, Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne [1] Rafael Nadal 3 1 Marin Cilic [6] Women's Singles Quarterfinals Part 1 Australian Eastern Daylight Time (GMT +11) Date and Venue Athlete 1 T1 T2 Athlete 2 January 23rd 2018, h. 11:00, Margaret Court Arena, Melbourne Elise Mertens 0 2 Elina Svitolina [4] January 23rd 2018, h. 13:00, Margaret Court Arena, Melbourne Carla Suarez Navarro 0 2 Caroline Wozniacki [2] [/hide]

It isnt even about not wanting to send someone who never cam close to top 20, its just not possible. To qualify for the olympics you have to finish top 15 twice or top 8 once, so someone who never cam close to top 20 couldnt be nominated by german skiing federation, because then german NOC would decline, otherwise hell would break lose and everyone would sue them for making an exception. Of course we could talk about whether finishing top 15 twice in nordic combined for example is as difficult as finishing top 15 twice in cross-country skiing for example.

Ok, then i misunderstood you, when you said that he had to drive to Atlanta because otherwise the record wouldnt have counted. We still dont know whether it counts or not, so we cant say at the moment whether its a new world record or not.

I know how down i am every time Kuzmina wins something, must feel really bad to feel like that whenever a certain country wins something, especially if that country wins so much.

Is it already ratified? Hopefully not, it would be a joke, but considering that this is an american athlete and its only some non-olympic indoor event, i wouldnt be too surprised honestly ... 1) If it takes hours after the competition for him to take the test, the result is already pretty meaningless. 2) Was a NADA/WADA official with him all the time, otherwise there is no way that this can be ratified.

He claims to be 2Pac's son, do you think that he has inherited his talent?

I would like to organize one, but its probably too late for 2017, so maybe at the end of this year. Something like: Best female/male individual athlete, best team, best moment, biggest surprise, rising star male/female, best comeback, best event (best host/best organized event) and something like honorary awards for retired athletes. Maybe we could also do something in reverse: "Who is gonna be the rising star in 2018" or "Who is gonna be the best female athlete in 2018"

I always liked the totallympics awards, sadly there werent any for 2017 ...

If slovenian team decides to retreat, Germany could still reach the next round with 4 points. Let's go Slovenia!

The decision was within the rules, but it says a lot that all those insults in this thread still werent deleted and it also says a lot about the self-control of certain people, but thats also nothing new. A win for slovenia would have been ok, the german players were too arrogant and Lemke was clearly missing. Hopefully this will be a lesson for the german team, but if you cant beat a team like slovenia, you probably dont deserve to make the semifinal.