OlympicsFan

Why do you feel the need to make absurd statements like that? a) Of the countries I mentioned Turkey (2020), Italy (2004), Canada (2008) and Spain (2012, 2016, 2020) all handed in bids that got a lot of votes (which is pretty much the definition of handing in a „legitimate“ bid). Germany (2000) and Russia (2012) also bid at one point. b) How can you judge which countries would have handed in „legitimate“ bids, when those countries weren’t even given the chance to hand in a bid?

Yes, I meant Olympic events. I think before the start of the event, 2 medals seemed like their best case scenario and this was basically their only gold medal chance.

Here is a list of countries that have a bigger population than Australia and won’t have hosted summer Olympics between 2000 and 2032: Spain, Italy, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, South Korea, Russia, Canada, India, Mexico, Turkey Do you really think that Australia should host summer Olympics twice during that period while all the aforementioned countries didn’t even host them once combined? Of course you could argue that some hosted Winter Olympics recently, but I am not sure why you should throw those two things together.

I never said that they shouldn’t host, but that they shouldn’t host again so soon. The Olympics are a global event and Never were only about Sport (otherwise I doubt that we for example would have had olympics in Sochi), so if a country with 25 million people hosts them twice in 32 years while a country with 1.5 billion people has hosted them only once, it doesn’t really represent the weight of those nations. 25 million people get to enjoy the Olympics twice in 32 years in their home country, while India and China combined (3 billion people) have only hosted the Olympics once combined. It is also difficult to say that they only host it because no one else wants to, when in fact other nations wanted to host but got excluded before even being able to bid.

Area doesn’t matter, GDP and population size do.

Insane start for Slovenia. They might have already exceeded their expectations.

Some interesting stat i read today (maybe someone is interested): The last 4 german male gold medalists at junior world championships were: Tom Barth (sprint 2011) Johannes Kühn (pursuit 2011) Max Barchwitz (individual 2020) Danilo Riethmüller (pursuit 2020) I was quite surprised when I read this, I would have thought that Germany had many more individual world champions during that time (Russia won 10 golds during that time and Norway won 7). Will be interesting to see how Barchwitz and especially Riethmüller will develop.

I wasn’t talking about sporting relevance (which you would have known if you would have bothered to ask instead of making assumptions). I was referring to political relevance/population size. Countries like Austria or Switzerland are also regularly doing great at Winter Olympics, but that doesn’t mean that they should host Olympics twice in such a short period. The Netherlands are a comparable country, but no one would think that they should host the Olympics two times out of nine editions.

Crazy that this horrible comment got two upvotes ... at least it is a good reminder of who not to take seriously. a) Germany hosted the Olympics before (Berlin and Munich) b) You have no idea which countries I consider relevant c) Germany is actually planning to bid for the Olympics in 2032 and has bid for Olympics between 2000 and now

I hope that Brisbane won’t be the host. The city isn’t glamorous at all and Australia already hosted the Olympics in 2000, a tiny and pretty irrelevant country shouldn’t host the Summer Olympics twice in such a short period. Not sure what other candidates we have, but it’s difficult for me to believe that there wouldn’t be a better option. Also I don’t like the idea of 3 olympics in a row just being handed out without any real bidding process.

I really would have liked to see a bet contest for the Nordic skiing world championships. This was always my favorite kind of prediction contest. Hopefully we will have something like that for the next Olympics.

I guess that depends on your understanding of what it means to know who someone was, but I think far more than 5 % of people could tell you what field of research she was in and when she lived. I think till this day she is only one of 2 or 3 people who won more than one Nobel prize and at that time that was pretty unthinkable, especially for a woman.

I think even they aren’t delusional enough to think that he can take the gold from Murray.

It indeed was very exciting and surprising to see him having a miracle turnaround after his life-threatening injury mid-tournament.

Too bad this guy seems to have inherited all of Fourcade‘s antics, makes it hard to cheer for him. Hopefully he will grow up soon and stop being a diva.

Agreed, a proven doper stealing a medal from clean athletes would be wonderful to see ... You certainly have a very unconventional understanding of the law and „justice“.

Really curious case. Not surprising that his competitors had that opinion. Also funny to see that people think that an Italian judge declaring him innocent is some kind of proof for his innocence. Someone who knowingly doped before shouldn’t be allowed to compete again and it is beyond me how anyone who loves sport can be happy about the prospect of him competing again.

You could just use the results from the 2020 world championships.

Doesn’t matter. The result is the same (Norway dominates). Norway used to be far less dominant in cross-country and back then it took less to make their cross-country team and those who weren’t good enough to make it weren’t good enough to dominate biathlon. 10 or 15 years ago Germany was probably the best nation in men’s cross-country. Russia might come back, especially if people start to care less about their doping again, but Germany won’t. Like I said before: I absolutely expect the same nations to dominate as in cross-country. Norway/Sweden/Russia have by far the best depth in cross-country, so their B talents will go into biathlon and will dominate there. I just hope that IBU will realize that it is bad for their product and that they will change some things.

I think doping is far less effective in alpine skiing, so It is ok to give him credit.

Pertl (Austrian „no-Name“) winning gold would have been a perfect end, too bad. At least one of their „no-names“ won gold in biathlon.

Norwegians are crazy. Usually they dominate the speed events and when all of their guys get injured, they just decide to be awesome in slalom.

Crazy to think that Vlhova would make guys like Noel or Schwarz look like kids. You certainly don’t want to meet her in a dark alley late at night.

Oh no ... Kristoffersen clearly beat Rodes, the course obviously is getting faster with time, very unfair.

Rodes is 46th in the slalom World Cup (3rd best Croatian), he reached the second run once this season and finished 23rd, so he wouldn’t be a random medalist.