OlympicsFan

No, sadly not anymore and i also dont have the Eurosport player.

Thanks! First one doesnt work for a strange reason (Error loading player: No playable sources found), but at least its not geo restricted ... Second one says "Voor deze aflevering geldt een rechtenbeperking. Het is daarom niet toegestaan om vanaf uw geografische locatie naar deze aflevering te kijken" ... i assume that means that its geo blocked? And no, i wont use Hola or an other proxy ...

Anyone else interested in bringing the overall medal table back to life? I always loved this feature and its how i first learned about Totallympics (no other site i know had this feature). I could collect all the data, but someone else would probably have to put it into a table (dont have any experience with that part).

Crazy to see that Germany already has 17 gold medals in winter olympic sports ... with a realistic chance to get to 20 golds.

Anyone got a live stream (legal) for the world championships?

Crazy to see two german guys on the podium in ski cross, but no german girl ... I wonder what happened to Daniela Maier ... she was first in the world cup standings and shortly after she suddenly disappeared ...

Congrats to Finland, its always nice to see a host doing great. I just hope that Germany or Austria will soon get nordic world championships, because countries like Finland or Sweden only seem to care about cross-country skiing, which is really sad for all athletes competing in ski jumping in nordic combined. I am a bit surprised that Germany is still first in the medal table, but that should change in about 3 hours.

Typical american "luck" (i guess we all know the reason why they are always in incredible shape at the world championships) at the world championships, anyone here remembers Caitlin Gregg? Wouldnt be surprised to see them sweeping the medals, Diggins will probably grab a gold medal later on and they will somehow win at least silver in the team sprint. Laukannen's strong performance makes you wonder what Dahlmeier or Kaisa could have done here ... that also shows how weak the level of competition in womens cross-country skiing is.

You are right about taekwondo, i wanted to say that IOC should add some weight categories (because taekwondo seems to be an extremely developed sport), but than i thought: In taekwondo the weight is far less important than in boxing/wrestling/judo, so they probably dont need more weight categories ... I think taekwondo has the same rights as the other fighting sports, so there is really no reason to deny them the right to have as many weight categories as those other sports. About fencing: Yes, of course ... i think team events shouldnt have to "rotate", all 6 team events should constantly be part of the programme. Mens football should be cut, unless they remove the U23 rule. Womens football should stay in my opinion. I dont think that futsal is more popular than womens football, so i dont really see the benefit + i dont think that womens futsal is very developed?

Wow, second gold for Canada! On the mens side it wasnt too surprising, because the big nations dont really seem to care about this event, but on the womens side this is absolutely shocking, especially because the canadian girl was among the fastest on the course, so Canada might finally have a decent athlete on the womens side. The german girls are 3rd, 4th and 5th, not too bad, but a bit disappointing. Belarus also seems to have some strong talents, two of them are currently 6th and 7th, both with 2 misses, so they both could have won bronze with only 1 miss. Edit: Final result: Gold for Bankes from Canada (0) Silver for Schwaiger from Austria (1) (0:47.9 behind) Bronze for Weidel from Germany (1) (1:20.0 behind) Vogt from Germany in 4th (1), Laffont from France in 5th (0), Hettich from Germany in 6th (1), Sola from Belarus in 7th (2) and her teammate Blashko in 8th (2) Sola, Laffont, Voigt (the youngest of the top 8) and Bankes were all born in 1997, so they will probably compete again next year! Very promising bunch of talents, especially Bankes and Sola!

Second german athlete, second medal, not bad! Great to see that we have some good talents on the mens side. Hopefully the girls can win a medal too later on.

So which events will we have in Tokyo if this all works out? As a german fan i dont care about double trap or 50 m pistol being cut (we never won medals in those disciplines anyway) ... but i think Germany has always been good in 10 m rifle, so this is not a dream scenario either. Mixed events are complete nonsense in my opinion. Either the sport is developed enough on the womens side, so that women should have their own team events or the sport isnt developed enough on the womens side, which would mean that there are only very few nations that are competitive in a mixed team event. In my opinion the perfect olympic schedule would look like this: Summer: Diving: 3/10 m individual/synchronized (8 events) Swimming: 100/200 m free/breast/back/fly + 400/800 m free + 200/400 m IM + 4 x 100/200 free relay + Medley relay + 5 km open water (32 events) Water polo/Basketball/Field hockey/Football/Handball/Rugby/(Beach) Volleyball: Mens/womens team (14 events) Archery: Mens/womens individual/team (4 events) Athletics: 100/200/400/800/1500/5000 m + 100/400 m hurdles + 3000 m SC + Marathon + 20 km race walking + High/Long/Triple jump + Pole vault + Decathlon/Heptathlon + Javelin throw + Shot put + Hammer throw + Discus throw + 4 x 100/400 m relay (44 events) Boxing: Not more than 6 weight categories on the mens side (for example -52 kg, -60 kg, -69 kg, -80 kg, -91 kg, +91 kg) and not more than 4 weight categories on the womens side (-50 kg, -58 kg, -70 kg, +70 kg) (10 events) Canoeing slalom: Mens/womens C1/K1 (4 events) Canoeing sprint: Mens/womens k1 200/100 m, mens/womens k2 500 m, mens c1 500 m (7 events) BMX/Mountainbike/Triathlon/Golf/Trampoline: Mens/womens individual (10 events) Badminton/Tennis/Table tennis: Mens/womens individual/doubles (4 events) Cycling road: Mens/womens individual road race/time trial (4 events) Cycling track: Mens/womens Team sprint/pursuit/keirin/individual sprint + Some individual endurance event (10 events) Equestrian: Team/individual eventing/jumping + maybe individual/team dressage (4 events) Fencing: Mens/womens individual/team foil/sabre/epee (6 events) Artistic gymnastics: Mens/womens individual/team all-around + Mens pommel horse/rings/high bar/horizontal bar + Womens uneven bars/balance beam + Mens/womens vault/floor (14 events) Judo: 6 weight categories on both sides (12 events) Taekwondo: 4 weight categories on both sides are fine (8 events) Wrestling: In my opinion there are clearly too many weight categories in wrestling, i think 15 events would be enough (5 in mens freestyle, 4 in womens freestyle, 3 in mens greco-roman, 3 in womens greco-roman) (15 events) Rowing: No leightweight categories anymore (why are there leightweight categories in rowing, but not in canoeing?). Mens/womens single/double/quadruple sculls + Mens/womens pair/four/eight (12 events) Sailing: Mens/womens RS:X/Laser/470/49er (8 events) Shooting: Mens/womens trap/skeet/10 m air rifle/10 m air pistol/50 m pistol/50 m rifle 3 positions/rapid fire pistol (14 events) No weightlifting, synchronized swimming, rhythmic gymnastics, modern pentathlon, baseball, climbing, surfing, skateboard Winter: Alpine skiing: Mens/womens slalom/giant slalom/super g/downhill (8 events) Biathlon: Mens/womens sprint/pursuit/mass start/relay + maybe individual (8-10 events) Bob: Mens/womens individual/double (4 events) Cross-country: Mens womens sprint/relay/team sprint + Mens 15 km classic/free + Womens 10 km classic/free (10 events) Curling/Ice hockey: Mens/womens team (4 events) Figure skating: Mens/womens individual + Pairs + Ice dancing (4 events) Freestyle skiing: Mens/womens ski cross/slopestyle/halfpipe/moguls (8 events) Luge: Mens/womens single + maybe mens doubles (2-3 events) Nordic combined: Mens single/team sprint (2 events) Speed skating: Mens/womens 500/100/1500/5000 m (8 events) Skeleton: Mens/womens individual (2 events) Ski jumping: Mens/womens individual/team (4 events) Snowboarding: Mens/womens parallel slalom/halfpipe/slopestyle/cross (8 events) Short track: Mens/womens 500/1500 + maybe a relay (4-6 events)

Even as a german fan its kind of boring to watch her dominate everyone else, for the same reason most german people dont really care about nordic combined, bob or luge. I think Preuß and the young french girls have the best chance to challenge her in the next couple of years. If Carl decides to change to biathlon, things could also get pretty interesting. Maybe some of the swedish girls will also get there.

Yes, pages 12 to 13: http://www4.biathlonworld.com/media/files/rules_2014/IBU_Rules_2014_e_cap3.pdf

Gabi retiring is very good news for german biathlon. Kuzmina, Daria, Kaisa and Dorin also should be gone pretty soon and then Laura should dominate even more. As a non-german fan you have to hope that either Dahlmeier retires as well or that some new girl somehow manages to challenge her, otherwise this sport will become even more boring than on the mens side.

The start lists for today's races are absolutely shocking. Youth women 10 km individual: 1 girl from France and NO girl from Germany, but 2 girls from Turkey and 3 girls from Hungary. Youth men 15 km individual: 1 boy from France and 1 boy from Germany, but: 4 boys from Romania, 3 boys from Turkey, 4 boys from Lithuania, 2 boys from Moldova, 3 boys from Hungary, 3 from Bulgaria, 5 from Belarus, 4 from Estonia, 4 from Kazakhstan and 3 from Belgium. This is absolutely ridiculous, the big nations (or at least Germany and France) really dont seem to care about this event.

[hide] Event and Date Gold Medal Winner Silver Medal Winner Bronze Medal Winner Athletes CROSS-COUNTRY Women's Sprint Day 1, February 23rd, 2017 Nilsson Falla Weng Marit Bjørgen Maiken Caspersen Falla Ingvild Flugstad Østberg Heidi Weng Natalya Matveyeva Anamarija Lampič Hanna Falk Stina Nilsson Jessica Diggins Kikkan Randall Any Other CROSS-COUNTRY Men's Sprint Day 1, February 23rd, 2017 Ustiugov Klaebo Pellegrino Alex Harvey Federico Pellegrino Emil Iversen Johannes Høsflot Klæbo Finn Hågen Krogh Petter Northug Sindre Bjørnestad Skar Sergey Ustiugov Someone from Sweden Simeon Hamilton Any Other NORDIC COMBINED Individual Normal Hill / 10 km Day 2, February 24th, 2017 Frenzel Rydzek Any other Bernhard Gruber Someone from France Eric Frenzel Fabian Rießle Johannes Rydzek Someone from Italy Akito Watabe Jørgen Graabak Magnus Moan Any Other SKI JUMPING Women's Individual Normal HiIl Day 2, February 24th, 2017 Takanashi Ito Lundby Daniela Iraschko-Stolz Jacqueline Seifriedsberger Katharina Althaus Carina Vogt Yuki Ito Sara Takanashi Maren Lundby Irina Avvakumova Ema Klinec Sarah Hendrickson Any Other CROSS-COUNTRY Women's 15 km Skiathlon Day 3, February 25th, 2017 Someone from Norway Someone from Norway Someone from Norway Krista Pärmäkoski Someone from Norway Justyna Kowalczyk Charlotte Kalla Stina Nilsson Jessica Diggins Elizabeth Stephen Any Other CROSS-COUNTRY Men's 30 km Skiathlon Day 3, February 25th, 2017 Sundby Harvey Ustiugov Alex Harvey Matti Heikkinen Martin Johnsrud Sundby Finn Hågen Krogh Sjur Røthe Sergey Ustiugov Calle Halfvarsson Marcus Hellner Dario Cologna Any Other SKI JUMPING Men's Individual Normal Hill Day 3, February 25th, 2017 Stoch Wellinger Kraft Michael Hayböck Stefan Kraft Andreas Wellinger Daniel-André Tande Maciej Kot Kamil Stoch Domen Prevc Peter Prevc Any Other CROSS-COUNTRY Women's Team Sprint Day 4, February 26th, 2017 Norway Sweden USA Finland Germany Norway Poland Russia Slovenia Sweden United States Any Other CROSS-COUNTRY Men's Team Sprint Day 4, February 26th, 2017 Norway Russia France Canada Finland France Germany Italy Kazakhstan Norway Russia Sweden United States Any Other NORDIC COMBINED Team Normall Hill / 4 x 5 km Day 4, February 26th, 2017 Germany Austria Norway Austria Czech Republic France Germany Italy Norway United States Any Other SKI JUMPING Mixed Team Normal Hill Day 4, February 26th, 2017 Germany Austria Slovenia Austria Germany Japan Norway Poland Slovenia Any Other CROSS-COUNTRY Women's 10 km Classical Day 5, February 28th, 2017 Björgen Weng Kalla Kerttu Niskanen Krista Pärmäkoski Marit Bjørgen Ingvild Flugstad Østberg Heidi Weng Justyna Kowalczyk Charlotte Kalla Stina Nilsson Someone from USA Any Other NORDIC COMBINED Individual Large Hill / 10 km Day 6, March 1st, 2017 Frenzel Rydzek Someone from Austria Someone from Austria Eero Hirvonen Eric Frenzel Fabian Rießle Johannes Rydzek Akito Watabe Jørgen Graabak Magnus Moan Tim Hug Any Other CROSS-COUNTRY Men's 15 km Classical Day 6, March 1st, 2017 Sundby Niskanen Any other Matti Heikkinen Iivo Niskanen Alexey Poltoranin Anders Gløersen Martin Johnsrud Sundby Didrik Tønseth Sergey Ustiugov Marcus Hellner Johan Olsson Any Other CROSS-COUNTRY Women's 4 x 5 km Relay Day 7, March 2nd, 2017 Norway Sweden USA Finland Germany Norway Sweden United States Any Other SKI JUMPING Men's Individual Large HiIl Day 7, March 2nd, 2017 Stoch Kraft Wellinger Michael Hayböck Stefan Kraft Andreas Wellinger Daniel-André Tande Maciej Kot Kamil Stoch Domen Prevc Peter Prevc Any Other CROSS-COUNTRY Men's 4 x 10 km Relay Day 8, March 3rd, 2017 Norway Russia Sweden Canada Finland France Germany Italy Norway Russia Sweden Switzerland Any Other NORDIC COMBINED Team Sprint Large Hill / 2 x 7,5 km Day 8, March 3rd, 2017 Germany Austria Norway Austria Czech Republic France Germany Italy Norway Any Other CROSS-COUNTRY Women's 30 km Freestyle Day 9, March 4th, 2017 Björgen Weng Östberg Krista Pärmäkoski Marit Bjørgen Ingvild Flugstad Østberg Heidi Weng Charlotte Kalla Stina Nilsson Jessica Diggins Elizabeth Stephen Any Other SKI JUMPING Men's Team Large Hill Day 9, March 4th, 2017 Poland Austria Germany Austria Germany Japan Norway Poland Slovenia Any Other CROSS-COUNTRY Men's 50 km Freestyle Day 10, March 5th, 2017 Someone from Norway Ustiugov Harvey Alex Harvey Matti Heikkinen Maurice Manificat Someone from Norway Alexander Legkov Sergey Ustiugov Calle Halfvarsson Marcus Hellner Johan Olsson Dario Cologna Any Other [/hide]

1) Do you happen to know how many nations we had last year in this contest? 2) What is your take on one user entering the contest for multiple nations (assuming that no one else is willing to represent them)?

True, one of them should start one week earlier, but take it lightly, nordic skiing world championships and biathlon junior world championships will start tuesday.

The russian guys had no clue what to do on this track (hopefully it will be the same next year ), sadly Loch didnt even get that far ...

Thats what you get when Rebensburg (partly due to injury) doesnt perform at her best and when Dopfer is out due to injury. In the end Germany will never be on the same level as Austria or Switzerland, Germany will always be between 0 and 3 medals and only 3 athletes (Rebensburg: Super G + Giant Slalom, Neureuther/Dopfer: Giant Slalom + Slalom) have a realistic chance for a medal, in 2015 it worked out perfectly and this time it didnt. From a german perspective we have to hope that Dopfer and Rebenburg will come back strong + maybe Sander or Luitz will make the next step. Germany, Italy and Norway should be the most disappointed nations here + USA (no medal on the mens side, only bronze for Vonn) and France (no medal on the mens side), Austria and Switzerland on the other hand should be very happy. The way the german alpine skiing team developed the last couple of years is worrying, but german officials probably wont care too much, considering that Germany has already won 10 gold medals and 16 medals in total at world championships this year + the chance for at least 5/14 more gold medals/medals in total.

Here are some of my early favorites for the german entry for this year's song contest:

Thank you very much, i love Robyn and the "Girls" scene where i first heard this song!

I think i will pick either a german-language song this time or a song without any language at all ...