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NBC’s story on Bruna : https://olympics.nbcsports.com/2023/02/23/bruna-moura-cross-country-skiing-brazil/
 
The one and only @heywoodu also gets a mention, which means two Totallypians have now been featured by NBC 

So much looking forward to race!!!
 
And... It seems like finding someone to prepare my skis won't be a problem as this time FIS will provide a "neutral support" for small teams with specialized staff preparing our skis 😱😍 *(just heard it from Jaque)
 
Vamos!!! 🚀🚀

Good performance from our young guns today. Sadly the one who should have been the best (Jakov Fak) doesn't even make the pursuit. Like Anamarija, Polona and a few others he was ill and has said in the post race interview that in the second lap he started hurting. He knew that he wasn't going to make a good time. On a positive side, Anamarija has confirmed that she will be starting tomorrow so there's that. Dunno what she can do, being so far down, but it seems like she will use it as practice, as she said her only goal is to not be caught by Denise. 
 
We have a good young core. Here's hoping Ricco Gross stays for the whole olympic cycle and they keep improving together. They've already made a huge progress this season, and that's with Ricco not knowing the team at all before the start. It should only get better from here. 
 
As for the race itself. It was interesting seeing them race in such conditions. Our commentators said it was on the edge of regularity. I think we all expected way more missed shots, thus giving a chance to someone with a higher bib if the conditions would get better. As usual it didn't happen. JTB was also super lucky today. I think he hit at least 4 or 5 shots on the edge. Every one of them could have gone wide. Especially in the standing. Overall 5 NOR flags in top 6. One for the ages. Clearly they're doing something right. 

Ah yes, the Law & Justice ministers getting some love from 'democratic' entries all of the sudden
 
I've said this before, Poland will NOT boycott the 2024 SOG even if Russia/Belarus athletes compete as neutrals. This is a weak bluff with jack high. Everyone here knows it and no Polish politician will die on this hill when the chips are down. The intense backlash over the 1984 boycott that ultimately led to nothing is still very much alive in Polish memory.

NOC will not boycott the games in any case, also is open for discussion to allow individual athletes competing as neutral athletes without any flag, without any nation´s colors, without any symols or anthem (literally without any. It means no more Chaikovsky, Katusha, Dj Bobo or Lambada. If they win gold play them the Olympic anthem or nothing)
 
+ obviously multiple doping tests for each participant and if the war will still continue at that time, we intend to push for something like a public statement/signature against the war to be required by IOC for each participant before allowing them to compete.
 
Once again, we are not speaking about RUS/BLR participation in Paris & Cortina, but about possible start of individual independent athletes under strict conditions. No teams obviously (especially in Cortina  ).
 
 
Official statement of our NOC. (Translated through Google translate, because it is quite long and I have other things to do...and I am not sure anyone is even interested by views and statement of the super mighty Slovakia )
 
 
 
 

We'll see how serious these threats of a boycott are.  There's a lot of time before things start to get serious in the ramp up to Paris 2024.  I can promise you that for any notions about the United States boycotting, the USOPC will stand pretty firm that they plan on sending athletes to Paris.  However they have to message that to avoid making it seem like they're supportive of the IOC's decision

For all the times that the IOC has claimed to advocate for human rights (and then not advocate for human rights when they claim they can't actually change the world), the course of the war probably will not be affected by whether or not there are Russian athletes competing in Paris.  That said, there is definitely an argument that their presence there will be used as a propaganda tool to support the war.  So I can fully understand why there's no good solution here

My view hasn't changed on this. Once you cross a bridge, you won't back down until things have settled. The debate on Russia and Belarus should have ended the moment IOC announced the ban. If they make exceptions now it would make it seem that the West is weak and the Russians are winning. The fact of the matter is that you can't separate the Russian athletes from their state, it's impossible. Just like you can't separate Hungarian athletes from the Orbán system. Russian athletes are all collectively part of the nationalistic state and get money from it. If they despise the state, seek refugee status in the West or anywhere in the world where you can hide from Putin. The antiwar sentiment of any Russian athlete means absolutely nothing if they are still sponsored by the Russian state. 

In other words: I have nothing against Russian and Belarussian athletes competing in Paris2024 if they don't support the war... as long as they would like to compete for us. 

Here's a solution: allow Russian and Belorussian athletes to change their nationality and complete under the flag of any other nation without the current strict nation changing rules. With the added notion that they can't easily go back to being Russian athletes once the ban on their country is over. If they don't agree with the action of their country, allow them to leave their country for good, in an easy way that they can compete in 2024. No neutrality bullshit where Russia can spin it in a way that they are still Russian. They won't be Russian if you see a flag of some other nation next to their name. This would be a much bigger humiliation than the ban or the neutrality, seeing their best talent flee their country and leaving their failed state behind. 

tbh, I always dreamed of a coverage like we had in Tokyo...
 
OK, Discovery messed up quite a few things, but having all the streams (in good quality, even if I missed the 4K a lot) of all the events live and on demand was priceless.
 
for the first time ever, I could really choose what to watch and when...I only hope that next time round they will keep the Olympic streams available on the apps for connected devices a bit longer, so to easily get all the things I had to skip in the 2 Olympic weeks because of the lack of time.
 
and OK, it's behind a paywall, but it's an extremely cheap wall, that 99% of people can easily afford without any regret.
 
therefore I'm more than happy of this new deal between WB-D and the IOC.

not gonna happen...I'm (relatively) sure Pizzolato isn't to be caught with his Tokyo samples (not going to bet on him overall, as you wrote, with weightlifters you never know).
 
Italy has recorded only 1 single positive test among their medallists in all the Olympic history (the poor Rebellin in 2008)...we have a pretty good organization to avoid any embarassment on the big stage (while the rest of the 4-year span is just another thing, unfortunately). 

Dawid Tomala visited my kid’s school today. And I have an autograph of the last 50km race walk champion. Ha! 😉👍

This has snuck up on me unawares - European Championships from Ostersund start tonight!  
 
Here's the televised schedule - all games on the World Curling PPV setup, semis and finals on ES & the Olympic Channel.
 
Le Gruyère AOP European Curling Championships 2022 broadcast schedule - World Curling Federation

cyclist Sonny Colbrelli officially announced his retirement due to his heart condition.

Because in those countries more densely populated urban areas, which tend to be more pro left, take longer to count than more sparsely populated rural areas which lean right.
 
The reverse tends to be true in the UK where we both vote. Other than in very one-sided elections either way the left often builds up a lead in seats as the urban votes are counted more quickly. This is because these constituencies tend to have slightly lower turnout and be geographically smaller and therefore votes arrive at the counting centres more quickly. And then as the night goes on 'magically' the right begins to catch up and often overtake the left as votes counts are completed in more rural areas. Even within individual constituencies (especially marginals) this phenoma occurs - I speak as someone who has attended many counts in different capacities - but most people aren't aware of it because they only see the final results for each seat.
 
I'm not sure how serious you are but similar comments from politicians in many long established democracies frighten me as they are well aware of these factors but try to manipulate them to undermine the credibility of what are almost always free and fair elections. I don't normally comment on politics on this site but I've never feared for democracy more than I do at the moment as a result of the behaviour of populist politicians in attacking democratic institutions in their countries and their refusal to accept the result of elections that do not go their way.

New look is pretty nice.

actually, I've read and heard Grenada's name a lot of times on tv and newspaper when they talk of "those Nations" where you should go to hide your money (AKA tax haven)...

so losing to Iran wasn't that bad for Argentina after all
 

I cant believe this victory..........

This does not at all seem controversial, but incredibly well focused on the main things: the sports and the athletes.
 
Too bad the 'general public' will be against this, because they don't usually watch for the sports and the athletes, but to cheer for athletes they have never heard of or who might even be known as people who do shitty stuff (cheating, agression, etc), but who happen to have the same nationality in their passport as them.
 
The fans of sports and athletes - who would likely be in favour of more focus on sports and athletes, and smaller focus on the numbers behind a flag - are a large minority, sadly  

Hi everybody,
 
First time poster, long time lurker on this forum.  I attach a hour-by-hour all-sports schedule for 2024 that I have prepared (rounded to the nearest quarter-hour).  Lots of changes and clarifications to come, of course, many of which have been subjects in this topic.  Hope you find this useful.  Start planning your viewing now!
 
Corrections and updates welcome!
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2024_olympics_schedule.pdf

Happy Independence Day to all my fellow Indians 
 
It's the 75th Independence Day of our country making it a very special occasion.
 
Here are the pictures of celebration across the country .
 
 
 

800m Women:
Round 1 02.08
Repechage 03.08
Semi Final 04.08
Final 05.08
 
4 times 800m in 4 days, really?

This will be a very silly random post, but it hasn't crossed my mind until now how great the simplistic design of the Paris 2024 emblem is. I wanted to create a header for the Hungarian Totallympics club very quickly and I realized that the Paris 2024 emblem would look great in our national colors. Red for the "hair", green for the "mouth", and the white is the flame. And boom, for something that only took a couple of seconds, it looks pretty good.  The Paris 2024 logo really is one of the best ever.