FancyFenchel

Norway will never boycott Winter Olympic Games. You are totally delusional.

Currently having to watch the cross-country with Dutch commentary,  

Love seeing lots of snow for the WC opener.  Different than the Wisla and Klingenthal openers we had in the last couple of seasons.

Qualifying in Nizny Tagil has started. Fatih Arda Ipcioglu has qualified as the first Turkish ski jumper to the main competition. He's been trying to do this since 2017 and spend majority of last few seasons on the Continental Cup.

https://www.youtube.com/user/bobskeletv

On the IBSF youtube channel.

Where to watch the WC races?

European Champs, both Men’s & Women’s starting in Lillehammer on Saturday. Lots of matches available on streaming, more than ever before probably.  Here’s the schedule.
 
https://worldcurling.org/2021/11/ecc2021-broadcast/
 
Streaming won’t be on YouTube, though - World Curling has a new channel.  It’s not a free service, but it’s based on paying microcredits per game.  Also lots of games on ES as usual.
 
https://the.recast.app/user/5pYk0?referrer=5pYk0

Sweden 
 
Linn Svahn is injured and she will miss Beijing 2022. 
 
https://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/a/oW1vmm/klart-linn-svahn-missar-os-i-peking

There are 650 pentathletes to be found?
 

Sounds like there is division in the heart of the UIPM and the different factions are using leaks to the media to conspire against each other.  
 
My solution. Go to the IOC and beg it to make MP an early Olympic-schedule sport rather than being stuck at the end.  That way the two long and not-terribly-commercial fencing rounds can take place on day -2 & day -1 when only obsessives like ourselves are watching.  The more exciting and understandable medal finals then take place on Day 1 & Day 2 in a time-slot when no other medals are being decided and when general public enthusiasm for obscure Olympic sports is at its peak.  Rather than insisting on the very debatable "privilege" of running the events on days 14 & 15 when everyone is tired & jaded, and global media interest has swung to the semi-finals and finals of the big mass-appeal team sports. 
 
 

Former cyclist Chris Anker Sørensen died after an accident with a car 
That one hurts to a lot of fans!

Not meaning to offend anyone, but EST-LAT and FIN-MAC isn't the most glamorous opening you could (or want) to have for your most prized tournament (cough CEV cough).  Football can pull off this system, but volleyball.... not so much. 

Hi All

I’ve been dipping in and out of this forum as a guest for a while so thought it was about time I signed up. I’m always a big fan of the Olympics when it comes round and already looking forward to being part of the journey to Beijing 2022 and beyond.  

As long as the focus is mostly on adding women's events and not replacing men's events, but I fear for that.

I would love to see one of my favourite childhood videogames turning into a olympic sport 
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Sfn33qZHJQ

from what I read in social media, it seems Taliban took full control of Herat, the third largest city of Afghanistan and they are going to capture Kandahar (the 2nd city) in next few hours or days. Kabul will fall in few weeks, it won't even last till the end of 2021. those corrupt politicians will fly to some western countries and poor people will remain to deal with these monsters. I bet Mr Ashraf Ghani already has his plane ready to fly
 
personally I know more about Herat because that's close to our border and people there have more or less the same culture. so it's just heartbreaking to read such news. reading people's reaction in social media almost makes me cry   what's more disappointing is that the whole world doesn't care. this was easily preventable. 
 
so I guess we won't see Afghanistan at the Olympics anymore. but but but the generous Tommy Bach and his friends will invite few shitty random athletes from Europe with Afghan heritage for the next refugee team to give """hope""" and happiness to all refugees around the world. problem solved.

Slightly off-topic, but it's a good of a thread like any. 
 
It's like a totally different place here today (not the forum, but the country here ) Remember 2 weeks ago, when i left the office and said, that only 1-2 of my colleagues were semi excited/interested in the Olympics. Well, i go to work today and people were buzzing. Now they know names, know events, they talk "Did you watch this, did you saw that". It's like i was in the Twilight zone 
 
Also it was mentioned that record number of young people were talking about it on the social media these past few days, with the unofficial title being "So, this is what having success in sport feels like. We don't have to rely only on our parents and grandparents stories."
 
And i actually saw people defending our athletes, that didn't do that good. Because all of our medals were won by women, there are funny comments like "When is the Olympics for men starting?", "Have the men been left in the kitchen?" etc. And our past few delegations were usually labeled as tourists, going on a free vacation. Just like a week before Tokyo again. Now, all of a sudden, there are hardly any tourists and the ones that say that are countered with "They did their best" and "Even competing is a big success". Things are very bizarre   

That was intense tournament. And surprising medallist. Does anybody predicted gold for France and bronze for Argentina? 
 
 
Ngapeth is MVP. Pretty obvious after he played alone against ROC.
 
 
Poland is set as 5th - the best of the (quarterfinal)-losers.  
 
https://en.volleyballworld.com/volleyball/competitions/olympics-2020/standings/men/#round-f
 
 
 
Hmm… interesting.  At previous Olympics all QF losers were placed tied as 5th – this time they differentiated between the teams. I assume that they take points scored in group and quarterfinals matches as ranking, but nowhere on FIVB page could I found any information about the procedure.     
 
 

Oh, no... I hope that they will change the system.This system is really unfair, especially for European teams. It would be good if they held a qualifying tournament with the participation of only European teams. How do they understand which are the 3 best teams from Europe in this tournament, if they did not play among themselves? Well, this system worked when Sweden, England and the Netherlands defeated Germany, Norway and Italy, respectively. But when the USA defeated France and reached the semifinals, it does not mean that France could not have defeated England.It would be better if France and England played a match after the tournament, where they would reveal who will play at the Olympics.I hope they will take measures regarding the qualification of European teams

For sure it will still not bother me or effect my love for the games, but those tons of changes from one edition to the other, is doing more harm then good IMO, just think about kids that started weightlifting only to find out it’s going out from the games, some of the sports like Baseball Football and tennis could provide exposure and money without the Olympics but some of those sports are truly depends on them, 

Wow! What a session that was last night! Just got a chance to watch it, and it did not disappoint 
 
TJ WR for Rojas , OR for Camacho-Quinn , surprise 100m gold for , and a shared gold HJ gold for
 
I read through the debate about the shared gold medal in High Jump, and here’s my thoughts on the matter. I like the idea of a shared gold medal here. Both athletes had an opportunity to clear 2.39m in order to take the gold outright; neither was able to. Both also put forth and full and honest effort throughout the competition. They had been equally matched all night, and so I think it’s justified/right that they both a receive a gold medal since they both had the highest jump. If they had gone to tiebreaker and one of them managed to clear 2.39m then that’s an acceptable outcome as well. However, should have to have gone down to 2.37m to decide a winner, that would mean that someone who had the highest jump in the high jump doesn’t win the gold medal, and that doesn’t seem like a justifiable or correct outcome.

My schedule for tomorrow:
 
8:00 Wake up and breakfast
8:15 Watch Olympic Games
24:00 Go to bed
 
:D

I feel very tired all the time because I am not sleeping much at night because of the Olympics, I can't wait for the weekend to come because I will be able to catch up on sleep during the days. It's really tiring especially because I was working this week.
 
Also I am not working next week so I will enjoy my holidays and Olympic break.

USA in final mixed relay... This is joke, American should be banned from Olympics, the bigger cheaters than Russia