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Aerials WC Beidahu | Beidahu, China 
 
Women
Gold-  Xu Mengtao (114.19)
Silver-  Chen Meiting (109.04)
Bronze-  Danielle Scott (89.18)
 
Men
Gold-  Li Tianma (130.56)
Silver-  Qi Guangpu (119.00)
Bronze-  Christopher Lillis (115.93)
 
Mixed Team
Gold-  China 1 (345.26) 
Silver-  United States 1 (317.05)
Bronze-  China 2 (316.72) 
 
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Dual Moguls WC Beidahu | Beidahu, China 
 
Women
Gold-  Jaelin Kauf 
Silver-  Perrine Laffont
Bronze-  Tess Johnson
 
Men
Gold-  Severi Vierela
Silver-  Ikuma Horishima
Bronze-  Julien Viel
 
Vierela with his first WC victory!
 
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Moguls WC Beidahu | Beidahu, China 
 
Women
Gold-  Jaelin Kauf (82.19)
Silver-  Perrine Laffont (79.23)
Bronze-  Olivia Giacco (78.43)
 
Men
Gold-  Ikuma Horishima (86.57)
Silver-  Mikael Kingsbury (85.91)
Bronze-  Filip Gravenfors (83.79)
 
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Slopestyle WC Stoneham | Stoneham, Canada 
 
Women
Gold-  Flora Tabanelli (80.41)
Silver-  Yang Ruyi (75.28)
Bronze-  Rell Harwood (74.11)
 
Men
Gold-  Matej Svancer (89.43)
Silver-  Luca Harrington (87.54)
Bronze-  Ben Barclay (87.00)
 
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Halfpipe WC Calgary | Calgary, Canada
 
Women
Gold-  Li Fanghui (90.50)
Silver-  Zoe Atkin (87.75)
Bronze-  Rachael Karker (87.00)
 
Men
Gold-  Finley Melville Ives (92.75)
Silver-  Nick Goepper (92.25)
Bronze-  Alex Ferreira (91.75)
 
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Ski Cross WC Val Di Fassa | Val Di Fassa, Italy 
 
Women
Gold-  Jole Galli
Silver-  Marielle Berger Sabbatel
Bronze-  Fanny Smith
 
Men
Gold-  Reece Howden
Silver-  Simone Deromedis
Bronze-  Ryan Regez
 
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Congrats @Wumo for your baby  I predict your daughter will be a good Totallympics user in the future, as her father is And thanks for all the prediction contests you did here

Congrats @Wumo 

Congratulations on your baby @Wumo !!! All the best wishes for you and your family !!!

Hey Totalympians 
 
Sorry for the long wait and no reply to your questions about prediction contests. 
 
The reason for the silence from my side has to due with the fact that me and my wife got our daughter in the beginning of December, so my time has been limited to other activities in the recent period. 
 
Due to this big change in me and my wife's life, I will not be able to do Prediction contests for a while. So I will step down as prediction contest manager and I hope one or more of you will take my place and continue doing prediction contests on the forum. 
 
Otherwise, I can recommend what @rafalgorka is doing with Prediction polls as a good alternative. 
 
I hope you all will understand my decision for stepping down as I do want to focus most of my time on my family in this new chapter of our life. 
 
Kind regards, 
Wumo

Η Γεωργία Δαμασιώτη πήρε την 15η θέση στα 100μ. πεταλούδα με 57.12, που είναι νέο πανελλήνιο ρεκόρ. Στην ίδια θέση βρέθηκε και η Άρτεμις Βασιλάκη στα 1500μ. ελεύθερο, πετυχαίνοντας επίσης πανελλήνιο ρεκόρ με 16:01.96.
 
Αύριο στις 10:35 και στις 10:41 αντίστοιχα, θα κολυμπήσουν ο Δανιήλ Γιουρτζίδης και ο Απόστολος Παπαστάμος στα 400μ. μικτή. Στις 11:07, η Νόρα Δράκου θα αγωνιστεί στα 50μ. ελεύθερο. Στις 11:47, η Μαρίλεια Δρασίδου θα κολυμπήσει στα 50μ. πρόσθιο, ενώ στο ίδιο αγώνισμα στις 12:04, θα αγωνιστεί ο Γιώργος Ασπουγαλής. 
 
Στις 19:54, ο Δημήτρης Μάρκος θα κολυμπήσει στα 800μ. ελεύθερο.

Ο Απόστολος Παπαστάμος πήρε την 7η θέση στα 400μ. μικτή με 4:04.26. Στα προκριματικά ήταν λίγο πιο γρήγορος, κάνοντας 4:04.24. Στο ίδιο αγώνισμα ο Δανιήλ Γιουρτζίδης ήταν 28ος με 4:14.07.
 
Στα 50μ. πρόσθιο, η Μαρίλεια Δρασίδου ήταν 40η με 31.11 και ο Γιώργος Ασπουγαλής 41ος με 27.21.
 
Η Νόρα Δράκου πέτυχε πανελλήνιο ρεκόρ στα 50μ. ελεύθερο με 24.58 και πήρε την 27η θέση.
 
Ο Δημήτρης Μάρκος ήταν 11ος στα 800μ. ελεύθερο με 7:37.32.
 
Αύριο στις 10:32 και στις 10:41 αντίστοιχα, ο Κωνσταντίνος Εγγλεζάκης και ο Δημήτρης Μάρκος θα αγωνιστούν στα 200μ. ελεύθερο, ενώ στις 11:19, ο Απόστολος Σίσκος θα κολυμπήσει στα 200μ. ύπτιο. 

Η Γεωργία Δαμασιώτη πέτυχε νέο πανελλήνιο ρεκόρ στα 200μ. πεταλούδα με 2:05.90 και πήρε την 9η θέση μένοντας για λίγο εκτός τελικού. Στο αγώνισμα των ανδρών, ο Απόστολος Σίσκος ήταν 21ος με 1:53.90. 
 
Πανελλήνιο ρεκόρ έκανε και η Νόρα Δράκου στα 50μ. ύπτιο με 27.14, που της έδωσε την 23η θέση. Στο ίδιο αγώνισμα, ο Βαγγέλης Μακρυγιάννης πήρε την 33η θέση με 23.95.
 
Ο Δανιήλ Γιουρτζίδης ήταν 24ος στα 100μ. μικτή με 54.87 και ο Δημήτρης Μάρκος 15ος στα 400μ. ελεύθερο με 3:41.95.
 
Αύριο στις 11:07, η Γεωργία Δαμασιώτη θα αγωνιστεί στα 100μ. πεταλούδα και στις 11:57 η Άρτεμις Βασιλάκη θα κολυμπήσει στα 1500μ. ελεύθερο. 

Η Άρτεμις Βασιλάκη πήρε τη 16η θέση στα 800μ. ελεύθερο και πέτυχε πανελλήνιο ρεκόρ με 8:27.23.
 
Ο Γιώργος Ασπουγαλής ήταν 40ος στα 100μ. πρόσθιο με 59.46. Ο Κωνσταντίνος Εγγλεζάκης πήρε την 42η θέση στα 100μ. ελεύθερο με 48.44, ενώ στο ίδιο αγώνισμα την ίδια θέση κατέλαβε η Μαρίλεια Δρασίδου με 55.29. Όλοι τους σημείωσαν ατομικά ρεκόρ.
 
Αύριο στις 10:13 και στις 10:24 αντίστοιχα, θα αγωνιστούν η Νόρα Δράκου και ο Βαγγέλης Μακρυγιάννης στα 50μ. ύπτιο. Λίγο αργότερα, στις 10:36 και στις 11:03 αντίστοιχα, η Γεωργία Δαμασιώτη και ο Απόστολος Σίσκος θα κολυμπήσουν στα 200μ. πεταλούδα. Στις 11:26, ο Δανιήλ Γιουρτζίδης θα αγωνιστεί στα 100μ. μικτή και στις 11:52, ο Δημήτρης Μάρκος θα κολυμπήσει στα 400μ. ελεύθερο. 

Σήμερα ξεκίνησε το παγκόσμιο πρωτάθλημα 25αρας στη Βουδαπέστη. Συμμετέχουν οι παρακάτω 7 κολυμβητές και 4 κολυμβήτριες.
 
Γιώργος Ασπουγαλής
Άρτεμις Βασιλάκη
Δανιήλ Γιουρτζίδης
Γεωργία Δαμασιώτη
Νόρα Δράκου
Μαρίλεια Δρασίδου
Κωνσταντίνος Εγγλεζάκης
Βαγγέλης Μακρυγιάννης
Δημήτρης Μάρκος
Απόστολος Παπαστάμος
Απόστολος Σίσκος
 
Σήμερα, ο Απόστολος Παπαστάμος ήταν 21ος στα 200μ. μικτή με 1:55.90 και ο Βαγγέλης Μακρυγιάννης 33ος στα 100μ. ύπτιο με 52.04. Οι χρόνοι τους είναι ατομικά ρεκόρ.
 
Αύριο στις 10:10 και στις 10:39 αντίστοιχα, θα αγωνιστούν η Μαρίλεια Δρασίδου και ο Κωνσταντίνος Εγγλεζάκης στα 100μ. ελεύθερο. Στις 11:21, ο Γιώργος Ασπουγαλής θα κολυμπήσει στα 100μ. πρόσθιο, ενώ στις 11:46, η Άρτεμις Βασιλάκη θα αγωνιστεί στα 800μ. ελεύθερο.       
 
Σε όλες τις ημέρες των αγώνων, οι προκριματικοί αρχίζουν στις 10:00 και οι τελικοί στις 18:30.

New basic quotas:
 
Women:
 
   

With the most amazing looks of disbelief I have ever seen at the finish and even now, like half an hour later  
 
I love these kind of surprises, that's what sports is about for me.

And she gets a Silver

Yes. I was going to post the list of countries that got a basic quota after the championships were over but I can just keep editing this post as I doubt that there'll be many more countries that earn the basic quota.
 
The following NOC's have earned the basic quota (1 athlete) for the respective gender:
 
Men:
 

 
Women:
 

But only a bronze in the under-23 sprints!
silver to Andorra. 2 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronser for Sweden!

55th place for  Duda in today's U23 sprint qualifying. That's 11 points for Brazil in the ranking, alright, but more importantly for us: 11 points that @brunamouracan definitely make up in Trondheim.
 
Make up, you say? Yeah, here is the double situation: we want Brazil to get in the top-30 and have a second ticket, obviously, since it increases everyone's chance, including Bruna's. However, if Brazil has two tickets, the federation has decided that the first one will go to whoever gets the most points for the nations ranking. Duda is the only junior/U23 athlete who is in the fight for the Olympics, and therefore she obviously has a massive advantage simply because of her age - she can start in the U23 world championships, after all. She'll have the sprint, interval and mass start races to score points, plus the mixed relay.
 
That is quite a big points haul that is hard to overtake, considering she will of course also compete in Trondheim. The good thing about Trondheim is that, at least according to the federation's own rules, Duda is out of the team sprint, and so Bruna can make up quite a bit of points there. Finish way ahead of her in the sprint and the 10k as well, and the Schilpario points can be made up.
 
In other words, mixed feelings: we need Duda to do well in Schilpario, because of Brazil getting in the top-30, but we also need her not to do that well, or else a potential second ticket will simply be hers by virtue of being young enough to compete in the U23 world championships.
 
By the way, if Brazil ends up with 1 ticket, it will depend entirely on their internal rankings, which Bruna is leading with a large margin at the moment.

Cross-Country Skiing NOC Quota Standings as of February 2nd
 
These are the quotas that get allocated to NOCs after the basic quota (1 male + 1 female) is allocated to NOC's who have athletes that have the required amount of points. These standings are NOT the same as the World Cup Nations Cup. The Nations cup only gives points to the top 30 athletes in a race while the Olympic rankings give points to every athlete which partakes in a race and also includes World Championships and World Junior Championships results. I attempted to calculate the standings using this document as I don't believe the list has been made public yet.
 
4 quotas
3 quotas
2 quotas
1 quota
 
Men
 
Rank NOC Points 1 Norway 13185 2 Sweden 9254 3 France 8930 4 Finland 7746 5 United States 7291 6 Italy 6442 7 Germany 6336 8 Switzerland 6145 9 Czechia 4144 10 Canada 4037 11 Austria 4035 12 Great Britain 3434 13 Slovenia 3164 14 Estonia 3007 15 Australia 2129 16 Japan 1587 17 Latvia 1568 18 Poland 1441 19 Kazakhstan 1246 20 Andorra 1170 21 Spain 1170 22 Ireland 1161 23 Hungary 812 24 Ukraine 712 25 China 621 26 Thailand 336 27  Armenia 276 28 Romania 266 29 Slovakia 217 30  Bulgaria 193 31 Mongolia 137 32 Serbia 131 33 Argentina 118 34 Korea 115 35 Croatia 97 36 Chile 80 37 Colombia 76 38 North Macedonia 47 39 Lithuania 47 40 Belgium 45 41  Liechtenstein 39  
Women
 
Rank NOC Points 1 Norway 12310 2 Sweden 10634 3 Finland 9539 4 Germany 9529 5 United States 8562 6 Switzerland 6329 7 France 5039 8 Italy 4680 9 Canada 4533 10 Czechia 4298 11 Austria 3636 12 Estonia 2190 13 Slovenia 1885 14 Kazakhstan 1677 15 Ukraine 1304 16 Australia 1203 17 Poland 588 18  Japan 510 19 Latvia 442 20 Chinese Taipei 194 21 Andorra 183 22 Armenia 131 23 Korea 122

Just wanted to mention this.
 
This week's edition of the Keep The Flame Alive podcast will feature an interview with Bruna
https://flamealivepod.com/
 
Will be available late on Thursday European time.

Happy New Year to you as well!
 
So, we got back from Oberwiesenthal Sunday night, after an adventurous drive in the snow and a long road back home. It went well there: the classic sprint on Saturday resulted in 314 points, which improved her own position towards the team sprint in the world championships (being in the team sprint is potentially very important towards the Olympics). She beat her main rival by a whopping 11 seconds, so that was awesome.
 
20k mass start classic on Sunday wasn't that good: in the first of six laps, some athletes around her fell, one of them hit her left foot (the one that got injured in the accident 3 years ago) and that resulted in quite some pain. I was waiting with my drinks in the coaching area, but after the field passed there in lap two, she didn't appear, so I knew something was up. Walked back and saw her walking towards me, then she explained what had happened. The pain after being hit in the foot was too much to keep going for 16km, especially in a race that wouldn't count for the Olympic ranking anyway and was only meant for 'racing rhythm', continueing could do more damage than good.
 
That's a shame, but no problem, the sprint went well and that was WAY more important. Also: the day before the race we went to the Polish wax cabin to ask for help, because she does always need someone to wax her skis and 'Team' Brazil isn't really an option. The Polish very gladly helped (and were paid with a nice 12-pack of beer we brought for that occassion) and the skis were really good, so that was fantastic. Even better: after the mass start, and explaining why being hit in the foot was such a problem and so on, the wax guy - without us even asking - offered to also help at the world championships, and invited her for a training camp with the team in the summer  
 
December had gone very well as well, right now (with still this entire season and half of next season to go) she is leading the Brazilian Olympic ranking by a nice margin. Of course many races to come for everyone, but so far, so good!
 
Next option is 17-19 January, FESA Cup in Falcade. Financially it's a bit tough, since that is yet another 2300km with the rental car (with which we already did 1600 now, and we only have 2000 on the contract, so every km outside of it costs 20 cents), plus another accomodation needed. We're looking into the options, because Falcade has a classic sprint AND a 10k freestyle, which is the absolute perfect combination considering those are the things that count for the Olympic ranking. We're trying to scrape enough together, so...we'll keep you updated  

Hello from Oberwiesenthal, where there will be FESA Cup races tomorrow and Sunday
 
Spot the Brazilian, I assure you she's on the photo