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5 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Gabriela Soukalova has married Petr Koukal and will change her name from Soukalova to Koukalova  

Haha that's pretty awesome

18 hours ago, heywoodu said:

You support them  

 

Anything you want really, you can follow their Olympic qualifying, post any news you find or come across , maybe take a look at local media even  

On a Dutch forum where this idea comes from, someone is contacting the Swaziland Olympic Committee for example (unfortunately they're not responding yet), but those are all kinds of things you can do

 

And during the Olympics of course you'll keep us posted on the awesome results of the Micronesian heroes 

I promise you you will be informed of the results of every Micronesian athlete there is.

(Probably like 2 of them lol)

Just now, hckosice said:

 

Seriously every time Kazakhstan does well I'm quoting Borat.

2 hours ago, dcro said:

Here is the list of Tripartite nations that competed at various qualification tournaments.

 

Africa -
America -

Asia -  

Europe -

Oceania -

 

GO MICRONESIA

I've picked them as my 'small exotic nation' though my heart lies with Nauru I will be the biggest fan of Micronesia this world has ever seen!!!!

Just now, hckosice said:

Scores after 1st Period

 

A

Kazakhstan - Russia  3-3  (3-3, -, -)

06:43 Yevgeni DADONOV 0-1

08:04 Dustin BOYD 1-1

09:02 Roman STARCHENKO 2-1

09:21 Roman LYUBIMOV 2-2

11:11 Sergei MOZYAKIN 2-3

19:43 Yevgeni RYMAREV 3-3

 

B

Hungary - Canada  1-2 (1-2, -, -)

05:54 Mark SCHEIFELE 0-1

10:04 Corey PERRY  0-2

18:14 Istvan BARTALIS 1-2

I keep saying it. But Kazakhstan is just doing so amazingly. And most of the time it's not even the naturalized Canadians.

Kazakhstan Kazakhstan you very nice place from plains of Tarashek to northern fence of Jewtown

I would have taken Nauru  But I'll take Micronesia, then. What exactly do I do after I've picked?

14 hours ago, hckosice said:

“Canakhstan” stuns Swiss

Dawes goals in shootout the difference

Kazakhstan's Roman Savchenko #2 celebrates a second period goal against Switzerland with Dustin Boyd #41, Alexander Lipin #46 and Brandon Bochenski #27 during preliminary round action at the 2016 IIHF Ice Hockey Championship.

 

 

Nigel Dawes scored twice in the shootout to give Kazakhstan a stunning 3-2 win over Switzerland to start the World Championship for both teams.

 

Dawes scored in the round-robin portion with a great deke to his right and then in the sudden-death with an equally great deke left to give Kazakhstan three goals to Switzerland's two in the penalty-shot shootout. It was the first win for the Kazakhs in WM history against the Swiss after three losses.

 

"It's an historic moment for us," goaltender Vitali Kolesnik said jubilantly after the game.

 

Ironically, Dawes missed a penalty shot in the first period as well.

 

"I was a little frustrated with my penalty shot in regulation," Dawes admitted. "I kinda rushed it, and I wanted to be more patient in the shootout. He's a big goalie; he takes up a lot of the net, so I wanted to get him moving, and I did that. It was good to kinda redeem myself."

 

The win spoiled the first game at the World Championship for incoming Swiss coach and former national Patrick Fischer, but the result was a great start for the North American-born forward line of Kazakhstan made up of Canadians Dawes and Dustin Boyd, and American Brandon Bochenski.

 

The first four players of the shootout all scored and the last two missed, and in the first round of the sudden death Dawes scored again. Goalie Vitali Kolesnik didn't even have to make a save for the win as Lino Martschini, who also scored in the round robin, lost control of the puck and didn't even get a shot.

 

The Kazakhs got the first great chance of the game midway through the opening period. Dawes was hooked from behind on a clear break and awarded a penalty shot, but he blasted a shot wide with the free shot to keep the game scoreless.

 

A few minutes later the Swiss scored two quick goals, but only the second counted. Sven Andrighetto ripped a shot over the glove of Vitali Kolesnik at 14:21, but video review showed a teammate in the crease, nullifying the score.

 

Undaunted, the Swiss continued to press, and 35 seconds later they were awarded with a goal that stood. Raphael Diaz took the puck around the Kazakh net and tried to stuff it in the far side. Kolesnik made the stop, but the puck came right to Samuel Walser who eluded a check from Ilya Lobanov to swat the puck in.

 

The second period was as entertaining a period of hockey as you are about to see early in a big tournament. Kolesnik was the early star, making several big saves to keep it a 1-0 game, notably on a Swiss power play.

 

Then, at 10:57, Roman Savchenko tied the game on a goal as bizarre as Vladimir Koat’s against Tommy Salo at the 2002 Olympics. Playing short-handed, the Kazakhs intercepted the puck at their blue line. Savchenko rifled a long shot down the ice that floated like a knuckleball, eluding Reto Berra some 120’ away.

 

Berra made up for the gaffe a little later, robbing Vadim Krasnoslobodtsev from in close with a right-pad save. 

 

The Kazakhs stunned Switzerland by taking the lead at 10:30 of the final period during a four-minute power play after a Felicien de Bois high-sticking call. On a nice give-and-go from in close, Yevgeni Rymarev fed captain Roman Starchenko in front, and Starchenko snapped a quick shot over Berra's glove.

 

Less than two minutes later, though, the Swiss tied the game on a man advantage of their own when Denis Hollenstein poked his own rebound past Kolesnik from a bad angle. It was not the kind of goal to give up at such a critical moment of the game.

 

That set the stage for overtime and Dawes's heroics in the shootout.

 

Both teams are right back at it tomorrow. The Kazakhs play Russia in the early game while Switzerland plays Norway in the afternoon.

 

Kazakhstan, greatest country in the world. 

All other countries are run by little girls.

I don't see a problem with all the cases where the athlete has at least some connection to the country. What I'm against is countries systematically buying up athletes from others. It's just corruption, plain and simple.

Hanzlickova

Our dream is finish...

There is no sweeter victory than against Russia on their home ice.

On 5/4/2016 at 02:36, hckosice said:

 

the stupidest movie I´ve seen in my life

Stupid, maybe, but I couldn't stop laughing 

They actually played that song one time to a Kazakhstani shooter who won a tournament in Dubai instead of the national anthem.

10 hours ago, hckosice said:

ROAD TO

IIHF MEN´S ICE HOCKEY WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2016

 

FRIENDLY MATCHES

 

Kazakhstan  6 - 3  France    

(Score by Period: 2-2, 2-1, 2-0)

3rd May 2016, h. 17:00 (GMT +2)

 

Finland  (OT)3 - 2  United States    

(Score by Period: 1-1, 1-1, 0-0, OT: 1-0)

3rd May 2016, h. 18:30 (GMT +3)

 

Czech Republic  0 - 3  Canada    

(Score by Period: 0-2, 0-0, 0-1)

3rd May 2016, h. 18:10 (GMT +2)

 

Switzerland  (OT) 4 - 3  Germany    

(Score by Period: 0-2, 2-1, 1-0, OT: 1-0)

3rd May 2016, h. 19:45 (GMT +2)

Kazakhstan, greatest country in the world

All other countries are run by little girls.

End Copying Here

1 hour ago, hckosice said:

100% agree

 

 

Aaand they've won, so they're probably staying in the division... With imported players scoring practically all goals. Call me a cynic but I hope they go down hard at the Olympics. We don't need another Azerbaijan or Qatar on the sports scene.

It's insane that the IIHF and other sports federations have such lax rules on this. International sport's virtue above ckub sport is supposed to be the lack of money and trading players involved... I mean if you have a good reason or at least some connections to the country then it's fine but this is just buying up foreign players like a club would do.

South Korea should not be allowed to just import Canadian players who have no connection to the country like that. For that reason I root against them until they stop that practice. 

Oh well. We tried. It's not like wrestling is a big sport anyway. I thought Hanzlickova or Vala could make it though 

On 4/1/2016 at 1:20 PM, Near said:

Anna Frolina and Alexander Starodubets, two Russian born biathletes, have become naturalized South Korean citizens in hopes of competing in Pyeongchang.

Of course there will be people abusing the system.

Georgia-Amazing! Wonder what happened to Mongolia, Greece and Ireland, though. Anyway North Korea's going down, I'm sure of it.

11 hours ago, heywoodu said:

True...especially about the list for qualifying points. I mean, how many points you get is determined, amongst others, by the number of points of the other competitors in the race, but it's like this list of points is "secret"..

 

To take my Brazilians as example once more: in order to know whether or not they're on track to reach the individual requirements to qualify for WCh/Olympics, I have to manually keep track of their IBU points for every competition and manually work out the averages and then hope I did it right and IBU doesn't suddenly come up with a much higher number.

Oh IBU  You're better than this..

Speaking of which. I'd love to sponsor them. Except I don't have money or a company. So I guess pass on to them that they have my support? (Come on Pyongchang! ! !)

23 hours ago, Pavlo said:

technically it`s 2

Haha. We have to take what we can get. 

12 hours ago, heywoodu said:

I very strongly disagree that the required points must be lower (ie the standards must be stricter), I very much like it to see athletes we don't normally see in World Cups

 

Thanks for the explanation, I hadn't thought about the Nations Cup yet. 

I don't disagree with you on that at all. In fact I prefer it when each nation can send 4 athletes. But the wildcard system did confuse me in how it's allocated- again the IBU is not transparent in its lists for qualifying points or how it determines these things.

13 hours ago, hckosice said:

 

Slovak entry hope the guy will not drown...

Hahahahahahhaha 

It isn't great... But at least we have one quota 

On 3/13/2016 at 3:45 AM, heywoodu said:

Does anyone know why Belgium could compete in the men's relay yesterday? Is it because Michael Rösch got a sub-150 points and qualified or are there more additional rules?

I believe it's because Belgium, having been ranked above 30th in the Nations cup last year, were eligible to start 2 and register 4 athletes. The World Champs level for qualifying points must be much lower (we saw Turkey and Greece, for example) so they managed to find 4 athletes who qualified, probably by virtue of last year's results or this year's IBU cups. The wildcard allocation for the championships really confused me though. China did pretty well in the early IBU Cups, yet they get no spots. Turkey, however, gets two. 

Anastasiya Kuzmina is coming back! Tomorrow in IBU Cup sprint race!