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Here's an Opening ceremony that you can't find on the Olympic channel.

Don't know if @heywoodu saw this. https://www.olympicchannel.com/en/playback/far-from-home/core-branded-far-from-home/this-first-time-brazilian-olympic-cross-country-skier-trains-on-the-streets/

Sweden declined two more places, one went to Belgium while the other is yet on offer (Slovakia being the next on the list).

[hide] Event & Date Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Women's 7.5km Sprint Day 1 February 10th, 2018 Darya Domracheva Veronika Vitkova Kaisa Makarainen X Anais Bescond Justine Braisaz X Marie Dorin-Habert Laura Dahlmeier Denise Herrmann Franziska Hildebrand Franziska Preuss Dorothea Wierer Tiril Eckhoff Anastasiya Kuzmina X Valentyna Semerenko Any Other Athlete Men's 10km Sprint Day 2 February 11th, 2018 Julian Eberhard Simon Eder Ondrej Moravec Simon Desthieux Martin Fourcade X Antonin Guigonnat Arndt Peiffer Simon Schempp Lukas Hofer Dominik Windisch Johannes Thingnes Boe X Tarjei Boe X Emil Hegle Svendsen Jakov Fak Benjamin Weger Anton Babikov Any Other Athlete Women's 10km Pursuit Day 3 February 12th, 2018 Darya Domracheva X Veronika Vitkova Kaisa Makarainen Anais Bescond Justine Braisaz Marie Dorin-Habert Laura Dahlmeier X Denise Herrmann Franziska Hildebrand Franziska Preuss Dorothea Wierer Tiril Eckhoff Anastasiya Kuzmina X Valentyna Semerenko Any Other Athlete Men's 12.5km Pursuit Day 3 February 12th, 2018 Julian Eberhard Simon Eder Ondrej Moravec Simon Desthieux Martin Fourcade X Antonin Guigonnat Arndt Peiffer Simon Schempp Lukas Hofer Dominik Windisch Johannes Thingnes Boe X Tarjei Boe Emil Hegle Svendsen Jakov Fak Benjamin Weger Anton Babikov Any Other Athlete X Women's 15km Individual Day 4 February 14th, 2018 Darya Domracheva X Veronika Vitkova Kaisa Makarainen Anais Bescond Justine Braisaz Marie Dorin-Habert Laura Dahlmeier X Denise Herrmann Franziska Hildebrand Franziska Preuss Dorothea Wierer Tiril Eckhoff Anastasiya Kuzmina Valentyna Semerenko Any Other Athlete X Men's 20km Individual Day 5 February 15th, 2018 Julian Eberhard Simon Eder Ondrej Moravec Simon Desthieux Martin Fourcade X Antonin Guigonnat Arndt Peiffer Simon Schempp Lukas Hofer Dominik Windisch Johannes Thingnes Boe Tarjei Boe Emil Hegle Svendsen Jakov Fak Benjamin Weger Anton Babikov Any Other Athlete X X Women's 12.5km Mass Start Day 6 February 17th, 2018 Darya Domracheva Veronika Vitkova Kaisa Makarainen Anais Bescond Justine Braisaz X Marie Dorin-Habert Laura Dahlmeier Denise Herrmann X Franziska Hildebrand Franziska Preuss Dorothea Wierer Tiril Eckhoff Anastasiya Kuzmina Valentyna Semerenko Any Other Athlete X Men's 15km Mass Start Day 7 February 18th, 2018 Julian Eberhard Simon Eder Ondrej Moravec Simon Desthieux Martin Fourcade Antonin Guigonnat Arndt Peiffer Simon Schempp Lukas Hofer Dominik Windisch Johannes Thingnes Boe X Tarjei Boe Emil Hegle Svendsen X Jakov Fak Benjamin Weger Anton Babikov Any Other Athlete X 2x6km Women's + 2x7.5km Men's Mixed Relay Day 8 February 20th, 2018 Austria Belarus Czech Republic Finland France X Germany X Italy Norway Slovakia Sweden X Switzerland Ukraine Any Other Nation Women's 4x6km Relay Day 9 February 22nd, 2018 Belarus Canada Czech Republic France X Germany X Italy X Norway Poland Slovakia Sweden Ukraine Any Other Nation Men's 4x7.5km Relay Day 10 February 23rd, 2018 Austria Canada Czech Republic France X Germany X Italy Norway X Slovenia Sweden Switzerland Ukraine United States Any Other Nation [/hide]

I'll stick with vs game (cheering for the Finns of course...). I hate how they introduced mixed doubles under a false pretense that it will bring more nations, while in reality it's just a bonanza for the same old countries (except for Finland who incredibly qualified). Finns however still have a curling medal, but they haven't took part since 2006, so that's something...

I actually heard about that major change a while ago. Some people from Croatian federation were advocating the idea of having more apparatus specialists represented (since pretty much every gymnast here is an apparatus specialist, and not the all-around specialist), and I know that one of them was in the team that assembled this system. I guess it makes sense, as it makes life easier for apparatus specialists from both big and small nations. Having some out-and-out apparatus specialist instead of 5th best all-around athletes from bigger nations should make apparatus finals more interesting.

What kind of work exactly?

Surely New Zealand is getting a medal too. Speed skaters, Zoi Sadowski, freestylers... Also Denmark.

Our team is optimistic enough after the first training runs. They are one of very few crews that haven't been to Pyeongchang before. Exciting to have our sledding teams here (and interestingly all of them come from coastal Croatia).

For me it's today. I'll watch one match (how long can mixed doubles last?) and then I'll go to sleep.

Good news for Dom is that the other Italians were quite fast.

Tucker West DNF, D-Fisch big mistake. I hope this means they didn't touch corner 9 too much.

[hide] Event & Date Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Cross-Country Skiing Women's 15km Skiathlon Day 1 February 10th, 2018 Theresa Stadlober Kerttu Niskanen Krista Parmakoski X Marit Bjoergen X Ingvild Flugstad Oestberg Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen Heidi Weng X Justyna Kowalczyk Charlotte Kalla Stina Nilsson Nathalie von Siebenthal Jessica Diggins Any Olympic Athl. from Russia Any Other Athlete Ski Jumping Men's Normal Hill Individual Day 1 February 10th, 2018 Stefan Kraft Markus Eisnbichler Richard Freitag Andreas Wellinger X Junshiro Kobayashi Anders Fannemel Johan Andre Forfang Robert Johansson Dawid Kubacki X Kamil Stoch X Piotr Zyla Any Athlete from Slovenia Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Men's 30km Skiathlon Day 2 February 11th, 2018 Alex Harvey Matti Heikkinen Iivo Niskanen Maurice Manificat X Alexey Poltoranin Hans Christer Holund Emil Iversen Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo X Martin Johnsrud Sundby X Calle Halfvarsson Marcus Hellner Dario Cologna Alexander Bolshunov Sergey Ustiugov Any Other Athlete Ski Jumping Women's Normal Hill Individual Day 3 February 12th, 2018 Chiara Holzl Daniela Iraschko-Stolz Katharina Althaus X Juliane Seyfarth Carina Vogt Any Athlete from Italy Yuki Ito Sara Takanashi X Maren Lundby X Any Athlete from Slovenia Irina Avvakumova Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Men's Sprint Classic Day 4 February 13th, 2018 Ristomatti Hakola Iivo Niskanen Any Athlete from France X Federico Pellegrino Eirik Brandsdal Pal Golberg Emil Iversen Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo X Teodor Peterson Oskar Svensson Alexander Bolshunov Gleb Retivykh X Sergey Ustiugov Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Women's Sprint Classic Day 4 February 13th, 2018 Krista Parmakoski Maiken Caspersen Falla X Kathrine Rolsted Harsem Ingvild Flugstad Oestberg X Heidi Weng Anna Dyvik Hanna Falk Stina Nilsson X Laurien van der Graaff Sadie Bjornsen Sophie Caldwell Jessica Diggins Natalia Nepryaeva Any Other Athlete Nordic Combined Men's Normal Hill+10km Day 5 February 14th, 2018 Wilhelm Denifl Luka Klapfer Ilka Herola Eero Hirvonen Francois Braud Maxime Laheurte Eric Frenzel Fabian Riessle Johannes Rydzek Alessandro Pittin Akito Watabe X Espen Andersen X Jarl Magnus Riiber Jan Schmid Any Other Athlete X Cross-Country Skiing Women's 10km Freestyle Day 6 February 15th, 2018 Theresa Stadlober Kerttu Niskanen Krista Parmakoski Riitta-Liisa Roponen Marit Bjoergen X Ingvild Flugstad Oestberg Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen Heidi Weng Charlotte Kalla X Sadie Bjornsen Jessica Diggins X Anastasia Sedova Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Men's 15km Freestyle Day 7 February 16th, 2018 Alex Harvey Matti Heikkinen Maurice Manificat X Andrew Musgrave Alexey Poltoranin Hans Christer Holund X Johaness Hoesflot Klaebo Simen Hegstad Krueger Martin Johnsrud Sundby Calle Halfvarsson Marcus Hellner Dario Cologna X Alexander Bolshunov Sergey Ustiugov Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Women's 4x5km Relay Day 8 February 17th, 2018 Finland X Germany Italy Norway X Sweden X Switzerland United States Any Olympic Athl. from Russia Any Other Nation Ski Jumping Men's Large Hill Individual Day 8 February 17th, 2018 Stefan Kraft Markus Eisnbichler Richard Freitag Andreas Wellinger X Junshiro Kobayashi Anders Fannemel Johan Andre Forfang X Robert Johansson Dawid Kubacki Kamil Stoch X Piotr Zyla Any Athlete from Slovenia Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Men's 4x10km Relay Day 9 February 18th, 2018 Finland X France Germany Italy Kazakhstan Norway X Sweden X Switzerland Any Olympic Athl. from Russia Any Other Nation Ski Jumping Men's Team Day 10 February 19th, 2018 Austria Czech Republic Finland Germany X Italy Japan Norway X Poland X Slovenia United States Any Olympic Athl. from Russia Any Other Nation Nordic Combined Men's Large Hill+10km Day 10 February 19th, 2018 Wilhelm Denifl Luka Klapfer Ilka Herola Eero Hirvonen Francois Braud Maxime Laheurte Eric Frenzel X Fabian Riessle Johannes Rydzek Akito Watabe X Espen Andersen Jorgen Graabak Jan Schmid X Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Women's Team Sprint Day 11 February 21st, 2018 Finland Germany Italy Norway X Slovenia Sweden X Switzerland Any Olympic Athl. from Russia Any Other Nation X Cross-Country Skiing Men's Team Sprint Day 11 February 21st, 2018 Canada Estonia Finland France X Germany Italy X Norway X Poland Sweden Switzerland United States Any Olympic Athl. from Russia Any Other Nation Nordic Combined Men's Team (Large Hill + 4x5km Relay) Day 12 February 22nd, 2018 Austria Finland X France Germany X Italy Japan Norway X Poland United States Any Other Nation Cross-Country Skiing Men's 50km Mass Start Classic Day 13 February 24th, 2018 Sergei Dolidovich Alex Harvey Matti Heikkinen Iivo Niskanen X Alexey Poltoranin Hans Christer Holund Johaness Hoesflot Klaebo X Sjur Roethe Martin Johnsrud Sundby Calle Halfvarsson Dario Cologna X Alexander Bessmertnykh Sergey Ustiugov Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Women's 30km Mass Start Classic Day 14 February 25th, 2018 Theresa Stadlober Kerttu Niskanen Krista Parmakoski Aino-Kaisa Saarinen Masako Ishida Marit Bjoergen X Ingvild Flugstad Oestberg Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen Heidi Weng X Justyna Kowalczyk X Anna Haag Charlotte Kalla Nathalie von Siebenthal Any Athlete from United States Anastasia Sedova Any Other Athlete [/hide]

That's the very one. I never seem to remember coaches' names, no matter how many times I heard them.

Poland is the only surprise.

I think he is also the coach of skier. He is like one of those small nations coaches, like that one coach in skeleton whose name I can't remember right now.

Wait, what Chilean is that?

Nice word play. What do you want? A Ferrari?

Really doesn't mean anything at this point (Deen and Costerg used 4-man sleds as they don't compete in 2-man, and we can't know what most of the other used). And why would someone cheer for a home nation in sledding sports (as if they don't already have a huge advantage...).

Cheerleaders have arrived.

Zografski Looks like the Estonians may not be that bad. Should be Turkey vs Kazakhstan for the last place.

FIG made things really complicated. It will take some time to study it, but you know how it is, Totallympians have to know these by heart.

So how many users (of these time zones) are planning to have all nighters for 16 days? Except @heywoodu and @hckosice which go without saying.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Summer_Olympics_Parade_of_Nations

[hide] Event & Date Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Short Track Speed Skating Men's 1500m Day 1 February 10th, 2018 Charles Hamelin X Samuel Girard Shaoang Liu Saolin Sandor Liu Sjinkie Knegt X Lim Hyuo Jun Seo Yi-Ra Hwang Dae Heon X John Celski Any Other Athlete Luge Men's Singles Day 2 February 11th, 2018 Reinhard Egger Wolfgang Kindl Samuel Edney Andi Langenhan Felix Loch X Johannes Ludwig Dominik Fischnaller X Kevin Fischnaller Kristers Aparjods Semen Pavlichenko Roman Repilov X Tucker West Any Other Athlete Speed Skating Men's 5000m Day 2 February 11th, 2018 Bart Swings Ted-Jan Bloemen Patrick Beckert X Moritz Geisreiter Nicola Tumolero Andrea Giovannini Sven Kramer X Jan Blokhuijsen X Bob de Vries Peter Michael Sverre Lunde Pedersen Lee Seung-Hoo Any Other Athlete Speed Skating Women's 1500m Day 3 February 12th, 2018 Any Athlete from Canada Any Athlete from Germany Miho Takagi X Lotte van Beek Marrit Leenstra X Ireen Wust Heather Bergsma X Brittany Bowe Any Olympic Athl. from Russia Any Other Athlete Luge Women's Singles Day 4 February 13th, 2018 Alex Gough Kimberley McRae Dajana Eitberger Natalie Geisenberger X Tatjana Huefner Raluca Stramaturaru Martina Kocher X Summer Britcher X Erin Hamlin Emily Sweeney Any Other Athlete Figure Skating Mixed Pairs Day 5 February 15th, 2018 Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya Harley Windsor Megan Duhamel Eric Radford Julianne Seguin Charlie Bilodeau Sui Wenjing Han Cong X Yu Xiaoyu Zhang Hao Vanessa James Morgan Cipres Aliona Savchenko Bruno Massot X Any Pair from Italy Any Pair from Italy Evgenia Tarasova Vladimir Morozov X Natalia Zabiiako Alexander Enbert Alexa Scimeca Knierim Chris Knierim Any Other Pair Any Other Pair Skeleton Men's Skeleton Day 6 February 16th, 2018 Any Athlete from Canada Christopher Grotheer Axel Jungk X Any Athlete from Great Britain Martins Dukurs X Tomass Dukurs Nikita Tregubov Alexander Tretiakov Sungbin Yun X Matt Antoine Any Other Athlete Skeleton Women's Skeleton Day 7 February 17th, 2018 Janine Flock X Kim Meylemans Jane Channell Mirela Rahneva Elisabeth Vathje Tina Hermann Jacqueline Loelling X Laura Deas X Lizzy Yarnold Kimberley Bos Elena Nikitina Any Athlete from United States Any Other Athlete Figure Skating Men's Singles Day 7 February 17th 2018 Patrick Chan Jin Boyang Moris Kvitelashvili Oleksii Bychenko Yuzuru Hanyu X Shoma Uno Denis Ten Mikhail Kolyada Dmitri Aliev Javier Fernandez X Nathan Chen X Adam Rippon Misha Ge Any Other Athlete Speed Skating Men's 500m Day 8 February 19th, 2018 Alex Boisvert-Lacroix X Mika Poutala Nico Ihle Any Athlete from Japan Kai Verbij Ronald Mulder X Jan Smeekens X Havard Holmefjord Lorentzen Any Athlete from South Korea Any Athlete from United States Any Other Athlete Bobsleigh Women's 2-Man Day 9 February 21st, 2018 Elfje Willemsen Kaillie Humphries X Alysia Rissling Mica McNeill Mariama Jamanka Anna Koehler Stephanie Schneider X Nadezhda Sergeeva Sabina Hafner Jamie Greubel Poser Elana Meyers Taylor X Any Other Athlete Freestyle Skiing Men's Ski Cross Day 9 February 21st, 2018 Any Athlete from Austria X Any Athlete from Canada Jean-Frederic Chapuis Terence Tchiknavorian Francois Place Arnaud Bovolenta Paul Eckert Victor Oehling Norberg X Viktor Andersson Marc Bischofberger Alex Fiva X Any Other Athlete Short Track Speed Skating Women's 1000m Day 10 February 22nd, 2018 Kim Boutin Marianne St-Gelais X Elise Christie X Arianna Fontana Yara van Kerkhof Suzanne Schulting Lee Yu-Bin Choi Min-Jeong X Shim Suk-Hee Any Other Athlete Figure Skating Women's Singles Day 11 February 23rd, 2018 Loena Hendrickx Gabrielle Daleman Kaetlyn Osmond X Carolina Kostner Satoko Miyahara Kaori Sakamoto Elisabet Tursynbayeva Evgenia Medvedeva X Maria Sotskova Alina Zagitova X Mirai Nagasu Bradie Tennell Any Other Athlete Freestyle Skiing Women's Ski Cross Day 11 February 23rd, 2018 Sami Kennedy-Sim Andrea Limbacher Kelsey Serwa X Brittany Phelan Marielle Berger Sabbatel Alizee Baron Debora Pixner Sandra Naeslund X Fanny Smith X Any Other Athlete Speed Skating Women's Mass Start Day 12 February 24th, 2018 Ivanie Blondin X Any Athlete from China Elena Moeller Rigas Claudia Pechstein Francesca Lollobrigida Francesca Bettrone Any Athlete from Japan X Irene Schouten Annouk van der Weijden Any Athlete from United States Any Other Athlete X Snowboarding Men's Parallel Giant Slalom Day 12 February 24th, 2018 Alexander Payer Andreas Prommegger Benjamin Karl X Radoslav Yankov Jasey-Jay Anderson Sylvain Dufour Roland Fischnaller Edwin Coratti Mirko Felicetti Rok Marguc Lee Sang-Ho X Nevin Galmarini X Andrey Sobolev Any Other Athlete Snowboarding Women's Parallel Giant Slalom Day 12 February 24th, 2018 Julia Dujmovits X Claudia Riegler Ina Meschik Ester Ledecka X Ramona Hofmeister Selina Jörg Carolin Langenhorst Gloria Kotnik Julie Zogg Ladina Jenny Ekaterina Tudegesheva Alena Zavarzina X Any Other Athlete Bobsleigh Men's Four-Man Day 13 February 25th, 2018 Benjamin Maier Justin Kripps X Chris Spring Francesco Friedrich X Johannes Lochner Nico Walther Oskars Kibermanis X Oskars Melbardis Yunjong Won Rico Peter Any Athlete from United States Any Other Athlete Curling Women's Tournament Day 13 February 25th, 2018 Canada X China Denmark Great Britain X Japan South Korea Sweden X Switzerland United States Any Olympic Athl. from Russia Curling Men's Tournament Day 13 February 25th, 2018 Canada X Denmark X Great Britain Italy Japan Norway South Korea Sweden X Switzerland United States [/hide]