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Gold for Netherlands? They were slow in qualification.

Australians also got screwed. They almost ran over Belorussian who was still down on the track. No gun was fired.

Relegations left and right. China set WRs in both qualification and first round. Great Britain was also faster than Germany in qualification. First Germans got into final after GB's relegation, and then they won gold after China's relegation. In the final round they were also slower than Australians that won bronze medal match. So that was gold for Germany despite not having the fastest time in any of the rounds.

Oh, so Belarus doesn't get a re-run after falling in men's team sprint. Didn't know that rule is only for certain nations.

Great time for Vogel/Welte in women's team sprint. Unfortunately, the first thing that comes to my mind when I hear about these two is their London 2012 gold... That competition was quite pathetic.

Suppose it's high time for the Dutch to completely focus on some shady engineering.

That's absolutely nowhere for their Olympic standards.

Yup, they are going to be nowhere until Tokyo, when suddenly some technology will get them 80% of gold medals.

[hide] Event and Date Gold Medal Winner Silver Medal Winner Bronze Medal Winner Athletes Women's Team Sprint Day 1, April 12th, 2017 China Russia Germany Australia Canada China Colombia France Germany Netherlands Russia Spain Any Other Men's Team Sprint Day 1, April 12th, 2017 Great Britain Germany New Zealand Australia France Germany Great Britain Japan Netherlands New Zealand Poland Russia Any Other Women's Scratch Race Day 1, April 12th, 2017 Kirsten Wild Jolien D'Hoore Sarah Hammer Amy Cure Verena Eberhardt Jolien D'Hoore Stephanie Roorda Jarmila Machacova Elinor Barker Rachele Barbieri Kirsten Wild Evegeniya Romanyuta Sarah Hammer Any Other Women's Team Pursuit Day 2, April 13th, 2017 Great Britain United States Canada Australia Canada China France Germany Great Britain Italy New Zealand United States Any Other Men's Keirin Day 2, April 13th, 2017 Fabian Puerta Zapata Francois Pervis Sam Webster Matthew Glaetzer Fabian Puerta Zapata Tomas Babek Francois Pervis Joachim Eilers Callum Skinner Yuta Wakimoto Azizul Awang Matthijs Büchli Sam Webster Any Other Men's Team Pursuit Day 2, April 13th, 2017 Australia Great Britain New Zealand Australia Belgium Canada Denmark France Great Britain Italy New Zealand Russia Any Other Men's Scratch Race Day 2, April 13th, 2017 Someone from Spain Morgan Kneisky Cheung King Lok Morgan Kneisky Lucas Liss Cheung King Lok Felix English Adrian Teklinski Evgeny Kovalev Someone from Spain Someone from Switzerland Roman Gladush Zachary Kovalcik Any Other Women's Sprint Day 3, April 14th, 2017 Kristina Vogel Anastasiya Voynova Lee Wai Sze Stephanie Morton Zhong Tianshi Katy Marchant Kristina Vogel Miriam Welte Lee Wai Sze Simona Krupeckaite Natasha Hansen Anastasiya Voynova Tania Calvo Barbero Any Other Women's Omnium Day 3, April 14th, 2017 Sarah Hammer Jolien D'Hoore Kirsten Wild Amy Cure Jolien D'Hoore Lotte Kopecky Tatsiana Sharakova Luo Xiaoling Laurien Berthon Yumi Kajihara Kirsten Wild Anita Yvonne Stenberg Sarah Hammer Any Other Men's Indivudual Pursuit Day 3, April 14th, 2017 Andrew Tennant Callum Scotson Any Other Callum Scotson Mikhail Shemetau Jay Lamoureux Thomas Denis Kersten Thiele Andrew Tennant Filippo Ganna Artyom Zakharov Dion Beukeboom Sebastian Mora Any Other Men's Points Race Day 3, April 14th, 2017 Eloy Teruel Kenny de Ketele Any Other Sam Welsford Andreas Graf Raman Ramanau Kenny de Ketele Moreno de Pauw Benjamin Thomas Cheung King Lok Regan Gough Eloy Teruel Ian Holt Any Other Women's 500m Time Trial Day 4, April 15th, 2017 Kristina Vogel Lee Wai Sze Anastasiya Voynova Zhong Tianshi Martha Bayona Pineda Katy Marchant Kristina Vogel Miriam Welte Lee Wai Sze Laurine van Riessen Daria Shmeleva Anastasiya Voynova Tania Calvo Barbero Olena Starikova Any Other Men's Omnium Day 4, April 15th, 2017 Attilio Viviani Eloy Teruel Any Other Liu Hao Leung Chun Wing Attilio Viviani Artyom Zakharov Park Sang-Hoon Aaron Gate Dylan Kennett Eloy Teruel Gaël Suter Any Other Men's Sprint Day 4, April 15th, 2017 Someone from Russia Callum Skinner Fabian Puerta Zapata Matthew Glaetzer Fabian Puerta Zapata Quentin Lafargue Joachim Eilers Callum Skinner Yoshitaku Nagasako Azizul Awang Matthijs Büchli Sam Webster Someone from Russia Any Other Women's Madison Day 4, April 15th, 2017 Australia Great Britain Italy Australia France Great Britain Hong Kong Ireland Italy New Zealand Russia Ukraine Any Other Women's Individual Pursuit Day 4, April 15th, 2017 Jennifer Valente Katie Archibald Amy Cure Amy Cure Rebecca Wiasak Lotte Kopecky Annie Foreman-Mackey Elise Delzenne Katie Archibald Beatrice Bartelloni Jaime Nielsen Jennifer Valente Ruth Winder Any Other Women's Keirin Day 5, April 16th, 2017 Someone from Russia Lee Wai Sze Someone from China Someone from Australia Someone from China Martha Bayona Pineda Kristina Vogel Miriam Welte Lee Wai Sze Simona Krupeckaite Shanne Braspennincx Someone from Russia Lee Hyejin Lyubov Basova Any Other Women's Points Race Day 5, April 16th, 2017 Jasmin Duehring Elise Delzenne Any Other Lotte Kopecky Ina Savenka Jasmin Duehring Jarmila Machacova Elise Delzenne Someone from Great Britain Minami Uwano Anita Yvonne Stenberg Gulnaz Badykova Kimberly Geist Sarah Hammer Any Other Men's 1000m Time Trial Day 5, April 16th, 2017 Someone from France Denis Dmitriev Someone from New Zealand Matthew Glaetzer Tomas Babek Someone from France Joachim Eilers Callum Skinner Yoshitaku Nagasako Azizul Awang Someone from Netherlands Someone from New Zealand Krzysztof Maksel Denis Dmitriev Any Other Men's Madison Day 5, April 16th, 2017 Spain Belgium France Belgium Denmark Belgium Great Britain Ireland Italy New Zealand Poland Spain Any Other [/hide]

Exactly. Who cares about the conventions of professional level sports? "Normal" people play basketball/football/running on summer, hockey/skiing/ice skating on winter. Let's keep it at that. Luckily, this seems to be only some ridiculous blog or whatever.

That's an awful proposition. Medal tables would basically become meaningless, just like the names of Olympics (Winter and Summer)...

Never say never when Agenda 2020 is in question

Wasn't Philippe Gilbert doing something similar not long ago? And Tom Boonen too.

That would at least allow a lot more nations to experience ice hockey. However, competition system used at 2016 WYOG is unbelievably ridiculous. Qualification points were completely based on head to head results. You could literally have second best result in one event and still finish 9th there because you were randomly paired with the best athlete in round one. Suppose it was very hard to have fastest lap competition as a time trial.

Amazing Let's just hope he won't switch nationality...

But yeah, they are proposing some mixed team events that don't even exist at this point. It's like Universiade....

Or mixed sport mixed gender lol. For example, mixed team archery-boxing-canoeing.

It's not calculated like that. Average points per jury are used. In Algeria's case: avg pts = 215 (all-time points) / 105 (number of juries that could have voted for ALG) = 2,05 min pts = 0,70 (from 2015 TISC Open) max pts = 3,58 (from 2016 TISC Annual) And since 35 nations are competing here we get this. AVG = 34 * 2,05 = 69,7 (70) MIN = 34 * 0,70 = 23,8 (24) MAX = 34 * 3,58 = 121,72 (122)

FINA So greedy... As if swimmers don't already have 378 medal chances. Mixed team taekwondo This is April fools, right? (one should hope so)

London Calling: Personal Bests, Milestones and Number 8 Only weeks are separating us from the Grand Final of the 2017 Totallympics Annual International Song Contest, and it promises to be nothing short of spectacular as 35 nations will fight it out to earn the honor of having the best song. Though it's not all about winning, as some nations may be looking just to have their best performance ever. 35 nations will compete in the upcoming contest, a record since the transition to the new forum, but also an overall record for the TISC Annual contests. Every nation will aim to get points from the other 34, but how many points do you need to beat you personal best, or even "personal worst" in this case? Here it is. A graph has three segments. Blue arrows represent how many points a nation needs to get to match their average performance over the years. Top of the each black line represents the points needed to match the personal best, while the bottom of the each line represents the points needed to match the personal worst. Exact points for each of the three aspects are given in the table below. So what do we see in this graph. Well, first of all, another proof of Irish dominance. There are only 5 nations whose best ever performance is better than Irish average one (those are GBR, GER, FRA, ITA and MEX)! Moreover, if we take a look at Ireland's "worst" performance, it is still higher than the best ever performance from 10 other nations competing here. But it's not all about Ireland. One nation that stands out is just about the most consistent one, Portugal. They need 75 points for the best ever, and 64 for the worst ever result! In all of their three participations they finished on very similar points. Totallympics' very own Mr. Consistency One nation is missing from all this however, the "wild card" Iran, our only debutante this year. No history records can help us pinpoint their performance, but we will take a look at what Iran needs to do to be the most successful debutante ever (excluding the nations that debuted at the very first contest). But let me tell you, getting a crown for being the best debutante ever is no easy task. When Colombia debuted back at the 2014 TISC Open contest, they earned massive 228 points and finished second. Some of the most successful debutantes also include Switzerland (5th place at the 2014 TISC Open) and Australia (6th place at the 2014 TISC Annual). It appears as though first time performers have never won this thing however, excluding the very first contest of course. Milestones Now we take a look at some of the milestones that are bound to happen at the 2017 TISC Annual contest. First of all, our British hosts should get their 1000th point in TISC history. As of now, they are on 996 points, so just about the first voters may wrap this up. Hosting this contest should make this milestone even more special to the team GB. Some of the smaller, personal milestones, include the possibility (probability) of reaching their 500th TISC point for team Argentina (497 as of now) and Greece (459). There are also some of the overall milestones bound to be reached. Indonesia, which will open the voting proceedings on April 29 will also become the 250th jury to present their votes. Also, 20000th overall TISC point will be awarded in this edition. It will be awarded by the jury number 8 in the voting order, Algeria. More specifically, it will go to the nation that gets 8 points from Algeria. Notice the recurring theme? Well, I guess we should keep an eye on number 8 in the Grand Final of this, the 8th edition of TISC.

Bosnian rider gets 49% in Grand Prix at Zeeland. Must be the lowest Grand Prix score I've ever seen. That's too bad really. When she started competing for Bosnia & Herzegovina in 2015 she was actually in the low 60% area.

Maybe he wants to have a life outside of swimming. After all, that is only James Magnussen, not really the top swimmer at the moment.

Have you tried peaking twice a year yourself?

Since this is Totallympics, I suppose the people are probably following Olympic qualification tournaments on their phones.