FancyFenchel

Yeah, I recall the ski jumping and aerials under the lights in 2006. Italy is a country where they have that mid-day siesta period so they would be more destined to hosting more events at nights.
 
Hosting night events at SLC would be terrible for European audiences, I suspect in 2030 they will only host some US-strong freestyle events to ignore the European demands. But events like ski jumping will be held in local daylight to please the European market IMO.

As they should. I bet biathletes are sick and tired of having to race two straight Olympics in unheard of conditions because some "fans" are too lazy to wake up at 7 am or something.

Totally agree💪💪💪👍👍👍

And you are 100% right,
but getting all the news is one thing. And collecting old olympic newspapers is another thing,
I have sth like +100 kg of olympic newspapers in my olympic library ;-) Some of them back from 1960s. Polish papers like Przegląd Sportowy, and international like: Sport Bild, La Gazzetta Dello Sport, Sports Ilustrated, Marca, some Russian, some Czech... really cool stuff.

How much free storage does Totallympics have? @Sindo

I just read Totallympics to get all the news.

It's a shame really.
All the most important videos (full replays of the iconic moments of Olympics Games) should be available, easy to access, on some kind of IOC website.
You can laugh at me but for me these videos are like UNESCO World Heritage or sth.

So after a few years the only publicly available footage of each edition will be 2-minutes highlights videos?

Hey everyone,
 
Sadly, i have some bad news regarding the replay videos for both Pyeongchang 2018 and Tokyo 2020,
 
I sent the IOC an email about some heats of the rowing missing from their replays and highlights feature including a canoe sprint video,
 
They replied back and told me that once the Beijing winter olympics begins, they will slowly be removing older replay videos to make room for beijing 2022 replays,
 
So we will soon no longer be able to relive the entire competitions from both tokyo 2020 and pyeongchang 2018 anytime we want
 
Sorry i have to deliver the news 
 
😔😭

Oh shit. So, in summary, from just this 'case':
 
Ilves was positive. Riiber was a close contact of Ilves in the plane, just like Andersen and Bjoernstad. JT Boe and Tandrevold were sitting close to Riiber in the plane and Johanne Killi, Anne Odine Stroem and Jorgen Graabak are now all defined as close contacts as well. Fuck.

OMG  Jarl Magnus Riiber (Nordic combined) has tested positive… 
https://www.vg.no/sport/i/WjXBOr/jarl-magnus-riiber-har-testet-positivt-for-corona

Full results - there’s a second Q chance on Sunday for the rest.  But the top 5 looked way better than the rest, in the expert opinion of someone watching Moguls Qualifactions for the first time ever.
 
 
https://olympics.com/beijing-2022/olympic-games/en/results/freestyle-skiing/results-women-s-moguls-qual-000100-.htm

Kai Owens  is a DNS in the Moguls after a training crash on Monday.  
 
Don’t know if that means she misses out altogether.

make their debut - Sabrina Cass 20th in the Moguls.

J. Boe + L.Tandrevold   had close contact to someone possitive.
 
https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/biathlon-norways-boe-identified-close-contact-covid-case-2022-02-03/

Natalia Maliszewska have one negative test, one more to be released from quarantine.

So, bit of an update:
 
Bruna had surgery on both her left arm and left foot today, which took roughly 2,5 hours. Apart from a minor complication regarding her CO2 levels, which they got under control, it seems as though it all went well. Most likely she will be allowed to leave on Wednesday, which probably means she'll be transported home and arrive here on Thursday somewhere at the end of the day. Someone from the Brazilian federation will be with her from tomorrow on and probably travel in the ambulance transport with her as well, something we are very grateful for (due to a quarantaine situation at home, we simply can't go there at the moment).
 
Once she is here, the long, long road to recovery will start. That's probably going to be a matter of months, at least, but yeah...we've got time.

I'm ready for this one!.. 

I really like the snow on the graphics

Ester Ledecká another Gold double-double
 
 

1000 euros for billiards isn’t going to buy even a single table.  Maybe enough to renew the baize at the Parliament building.

There are so many covid cases among Polish athletes, specially speed skating and short track. It makes me so angry. Obviously noone knows where they have caught it. But I just don't understand why Polish NOC didn't skip the official ceremony in their headquarters in Warsaw before they all were heading to board the plane to Beijing. That was unnecessary risk, so many people gathered together in one crowded place. They should have cancelled such an event this year. Very bad decision to hold it.
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Yep. And even if this didn't come from organization, countries were definitely free to send their athletes that early...
 
I truly don't understand for example snowboard cross or ski jumping still having a World Cup not even one week before the opening ceremony.

I barely heard any other story in the first days
 
It did go down quickly at some point, yes. Hopefully that'll be the case here, but the thing is this variant is way, way, way easier to spread. Which doesn't necessarily make it dangerous from a health perspective, but makes it a disaster from a sports perspective when we're still all in "positive = out" mode.

Shaoang Liu officially got the green light to compete. he will travel to Beijing on Wednesday.