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Does anyone know how many posts the old forum had before it went down? I only noticed now how the new one has surpassed 100 000 posts..

This one definitely can't count for the general standings. Short notice, not complete templates, contradicting statements from prediction contest mods... It's back to the same old story from 2016 and 2017 (for which we still don't have results btw), as @Pablita very well explained in her post. There must be some rules, although they can seem harsh, they should be for the best. I don't think prediction contests on Totallympics can survive any more flops to be honest...

I hope the bet contest will count for the general standings this time? That one is pretty unique so for me it's a shame if it doesn't count.

Meaning Romania.

Overall At least one Irish athlete will finish ahead of a British athlete in any of the events (DNFs are excluded)

Qualifiers in the four-man event... 3 - 2 - 1 -

I'm afraid and nervous for her going into Pyeongchang though. I still remember Sochi being very disappointing in every race, and this time it's her last chance... Makarainene finishing her career without an Olympic medal would be... Unjust, to say the least.

Well, yeah, I guess skiing is indeed more important than shooting in nordic combined.

Damn, Engel and Nordbotten missed the qualification standards, despite their climbing efforts. Kudos to Jakobsen though, <140.

Alright, this ridiculous run has to end. At once.

Yuasa

Monaco 7th after run 1. But their four-man team isn't going to the Olympics as this is only their first race of the season.

Now we know he's one of the lurkers on this forum.

Well, 5th place is actually not that far behind 4th on the allocation list. And also we'll have to see what happens with those combined races. Only 2 best count for qualification, so a lot of potential for improvement next week. But yeah, Natko should be the 5th I think.

Cool, first ever top 30 for the former WJC bronze medalist Elias Kolega. This has probably secured his place on the Olympic team. Good luck!

Kolega into 26th! Please, please, stay inside!

Is Australia stealing the spotlight from Brazil?

Nah, it's not like that. It's also the case in other national championships and other sports. Scores are inflated as a confidence builder.

That's called national championships inflation.

Amazing that also Brazil almost qualified two sleds in two-man! They were very much on the road, but a crash of their second sled in the very last race prevented it.

Still they will have only one sled AND very bad start number in heat 1 - dead last.

That's pessimistic projection, isn't it? 0-14 should be the realistic one.

You are using "unrealistic" wrong. Italian sweep in that event is quite unlikely, so it's definitely not realistic. In any case, I honestly hope not to see any clean sweep. What's the fun in that anyway? Unless it's like Dutch speed skating and after a certain point you hope it gets as ridiculous as it can get.

Our ski federation will organize NC in super-g and combined next week. Great opportunity to improve placings on the Olympic allocation list.

Ehm... What happened to Stoch? I'd say men's 5000m is more likely than any of the events you mentioned.