Dolby

Really disappointed no one has tagged @hckosice in this post till now.

I am in.

[hide] Event & Date Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Women's Super-G Day 1 February 5th, 2019 Nicole Schmidhofer x Ramona Siebenhofer Stephanie Venier Ester Ledecka Viktoria Rebensburg Federica Brignone Sofia Goggia Tina Weirather x Ragnhild Mowinckel Ilka Stuhec Lara Gut-Behrami Lindsey Vonn Mikaela Shiffrin x Any Other Athlete Men's Super-G Day 2 February 6th, 2019 Vincent Kriechmayr Matthias Mayer x Hannes Reichelt Johan Clarey Josef Ferstl Christoph Innerhofer Dominik Paris x Kjetil Jansrud Alexander Aamodt Kilde Axel Lund Svindal x Mauro Caviezel Beat Feuz Any Other Athlete Women's Alpine Combined Day 3 February 8th, 2019 Ricarda Haaser Ramona Siebenhofer Any Athlete from Canada Any Athlete from France Marta Basino Federica Brignone Ragnhild Mowinckel Ana Bucik Ilka Stuhec Wendy Holdener x Petra Vlhova x Mikaela Shiffrin x Any Other Athlete Men's Downhill Day 4 February 9th, 2019 Vincent Kriechmayr Matthias Mayer Hannes Reichelt Johan Clarey Adrien Theaux Josef Ferstl Christoph Innerhofer x Dominik Paris x Alexander Aamodt Kilde Kjetil Jansrud Axel Lund Svindal Mauro Caviezel Beat Feuz x Bryce Bennett Any Other Athlete Women's Downhill Day 5 February 10th, 2019 Nicole Schmidhofer x Ramona Siebenhofer x Stephanie Venier Romane Miradoli Kira Weidle Viktoria Rebensburg Nicol Delago Nadia Fanchini Sofia Goggia Tina Weirather Ilka Stuhec x Corinne Suter Lara Gut-Behrami Lindsey Vonn Any Other Athlete Men's Alpine Combined Day 6 February 11th, 2019 Romed Baumann Marcel Hirscher x Vincent Kriechmayr Marco Schwarz x Alexis Pinturault :FRA Victor Muffat-Jeandet x :ITA Dominik Paris :NOR Alexander Aamodt Kilde :NOR Kjetil Jansrud Pavel Trikichev :SUI Mauro Caviezel :SUI Luca Aerni :USA Ted Ligety :WHT Any Other Athlete Mixed Team Event Day 7 February 12th, 2019 :AUT Austria x :CAN Canada :FRA France x :GER Germany :ITA Italy :NOR Norway :SVK Slovakia :SLO Slovenia Sweden :SUI Switzerland x :USA United States :WHT Any Other Nation Women's Giant Slalom Day 8 February 14th, 2019 :AUT Any Athlete from Austria :FRA Tessa Worley x :GER Viktoria Rebensburg :ITA Federica Brignone :ITA Marta Bassino :NOR Ragnhild Mowinckel :SVK Petra Vlhova x :SLO Meta Hrovat Frida Hansdotter :SUI Wendy Holdener :SUI Lara Gut-Behrami :USA Mikaela Shiffrin x :WHT Any Other Athlete Men's Giant Slalom Day 9 February 15th, 2019 :AUT Manuel Feller :AUT Marcel Hirscher x :FRA Mathieu Faivre :FRA Thomas Fanara :FRA Alexis Pinturault x :GER Stefan Luitz :NOR Henrik Kristoffersen x :NOR Leif Kristian Nestvold-Haugen :SLO Zan Kranjec Mats Olsson :SUI Loic Meillard :USA Tommy Ford :WHT Any Other Athlete Women's Slalom Day 10 February 16th, 2019 :AUT Katharina Liensberger :AUT Bernadette Schild :AUT Katharina Truppe :CAN Erin Mielzynski :GER Christina Geiger :ITA Irene Curtoni :SVK Petra Vlhova x Frida Hansdotter Anna Swenn Larsson :SUI Wendy Holdener x :USA Mikaela Shiffrin x :WHT Any Other Athlete Men's Slalom Day 11 February 17th, 2019 :AUT Manuel Feller :AUT Marcel Hirscher x :AUT Michael Matt :AUT Marco Schwarz :FRA Clement Noel x :FRA Alexis Pinturault Dave Ryding :GER Felix Neureuther :NOR Henrik Kristoffersen Andre Myhrer :SUI Daniel Yule x :SUI Ramon Zehnhaeusern :WHT Any Other Athlete [/hide]

Shame on you @dcro

[hide] Knockout Round January 20th - February 1st, 2019 16 Nations, Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals and Final Final Date & Time (GMT+4) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 February 1st 2019, h. 18:00 Japan 2 1 Qatar [/hide]

[hide] Final Round January 25th - January 27th, 2018 8 Nations, Placement Matches, Semifinals, Bronze Medal Match and Gold Medal Match Bronze Medal Match Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 27th 2019, h. 14:30 France 3 Germany Gold Medal Match Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 27th 2019, h. 17:30 Denmark 4 Norway [/hide]

[hide]  Knockout Round January 20th - February 1st, 2019 16 Nations, Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals and Final Semifinals Date & Time (GMT+4) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 28th 2019, h. 18:00 Iran 0 1 Japan January 29th 2019, h. 18:00 Qatar 1 2 United Arab Emirates [/hide]

[hide] Final Round January 25th - January 27th, 2018 8 Nations, Placement Matches, Semifinals, Bronze Medal Match and Gold Medal Match Semifinals Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 25th 2019, h. 17:30 Denmark 2 France January 25th 2019, h. 20:30 Germany 2 Norway [/hide]

[hide] Knockout Round January 20th - February 1st, 2019 16 Nations, Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals and Final Quarterfinals Date & Time (GMT+4) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 24th 2019, h. 17:00 Vietnam 0 2 Japan January 24th 2019, h. 20:00 China 0 1 Iran January 25th 2019, h. 17:00 South Korea 2 0 Qatar January 25th 2019, h. 20:00 United Arab Emirates 0 2 Australia [/hide]

Vinesh Phogat has become the first ever Indian to be nominated to the Laureus Sports Awards. She has been nominated for the Comeback of the Year award.

[hide] Knockout Round January 20th - February 1st, 2019 16 Nations, Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals and Final Round of 16 Date & Time (GMT+4) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 20th 2019, h. 15:00 Jordan 2 0 Vietnam January 20th 2019, h. 18:00 Thailand 0 2 China January 20th 2019, h. 21:00 Iran 2 1 Oman January 21st 2019, h. 15:00 Japan 3 0 Saudi Arabia January 21st 2019, h. 18:00 Australia 2 0 Uzbekistan January 21st 2019, h. 21:00 United Arab Emirates 1 0 Kyrgyzstan January 22nd 2019, h. 17:00 South Korea 3 0 Bahrain January 22nd 2019, h. 20:00 Qatar 2 1 Iraq [/hide]

[hide] Main Round January 19th - January 23rd, 2018 12 Nations, 2 Groups, the 1st and 2nd Nations from each Group will qualify for the Semifinals Group I Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 19th 2019, h. 18:00 France 2 Spain January 19th 2019, h. 20:30 Germany 2 Iceland January 20th 2019, h. 18:00 Brazil 3 Croatia January 20th 2019, h. 20:30 Iceland 3 France January 21st 2019, h. 18:00 Spain 4 Brazil January 21st 2019, h. 20:30 Croatia 4 Germany January 23rd 2019, h. 15:30 Brazil 3 Iceland January 23rd 2019, h. 18:00 Germany 3 Spain January 23rd 2019, h. 20:30 France 2 Croatia Group II Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 19th 2019, h. 18:00 Tunisia 2 Sweden January 19th 2019, h. 20:30 Denmark 2 Hungary January 20th 2019, h. 18:00 Norway 3 Egypt January 20th 2019, h. 20:30 Hungary 3 Tunisia January 21st 2019, h. 18:00 Sweden 1 Norway January 21st 2019, h. 20:30 Egypt 2 Denmark January 23rd 2019, h. 15:30 Tunisia 3 Egypt January 23rd 2019, h. 18:00 Norway 4 Hungary January 23rd 2019, h. 20:30 Denmark 2 Sweden [/hide]

[hide] Preliminary Round January 10th - January 17th, 2018 24 Nations, 4 Groups, the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Nations from each Group will qualify for the Main Round Group A Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 10th 2019, h. 18:15 Germany 10 Korea January 11th 2019, h. 18:00 Serbia 2 Russia January 11th 2019, h. 20:30 Brazil 8 France January 12th 2019, h. 15:30 Russia 4 Korea January 12th 2019, h. 18:15 Germany 15 Brazil January 12th 2019, h. 20:30 France 1 Serbia January 14th 2019, h. 15:30 Serbia 6 Brazil January 14th 2019, h. 18:00 Russia 3 Germany January 14th 2019, h. 20:30 France 4 Korea January 15th 2019, h. 15:30 Russia 6 Brazil January 15th 2019, h. 18:00 Korea 5 Serbia January 15th 2019, h. 20:30 Germany 3 France January 17th 2019, h. 15:30 Brazil 4 Korea January 17th 2019, h. 18:00 Germany 3 Serbia January 17th 2019, h. 20:30 France 2 Russia Group B Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 11th 2019, h. 15:00 Japan 4 Macedonia January 11th 2019, h. 18:00 Iceland 2 Croatia January 11th 2019, h. 20:30 Bahrain 2 Spain January 13th 2019, h. 14:00 Macedonia 4 Bahrain January 13th 2019, h. 16:30 Croatia 6 Japan January 13th 2019, h. 19:00 Spain 1 Iceland January 14th 2019, h. 15:30 Iceland 1 Bahrain January 14th 2019, h. 18:00 Croatia 4 Macedonia January 14th 2019, h. 20:30 Spain 3 Japan January 16th 2019, h. 15:30 Japan 5 Iceland January 16th 2019, h. 18:00 Croatia 2 Bahrain January 16th 2019, h. 20:30 Macedonia 3 Spain January 17th 2019, h. 15:30 Bahrain 4 Japan January 17th 2019, h. 18:00 Macedonia 3 Iceland January 17th 2019, h. 20:30 Spain 1 Croatia Group C Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 10th 2019, h. 20:15 Chile 15 Denmark January 11th 2019, h. 18:00 Saudi Arabia 3 Austria January 11th 2019, h. 20:30 Tunisia 1 Norway January 12th 2019, h. 15:00 Austria 5 Chile January 12th 2019, h. 17:30 Norway 4 Saudi Arabia January 12th 2019, h. 20:15 Denmark 6 Tunisia January 14th 2019, h. 15:00 Tunisia 7 Chile January 14th 2019, h. 17:30 Norway 3 Austria January 14th 2019, h. 20:15 Denmark 10 Saudi Arabia January 15th 2019, h. 16:15 Saudi Arabia 5 Tunisia January 15th 2019, h. 18:30 Norway 6 Chile January 15th 2019, h. 20:45 Austria 3 Denmark January 17th 2019, h. 15:00 Chile 4 Saudi Arabia January 17th 2019, h. 17:30 Austria 2 Tunisia January 17th 2019, h. 20:15 Denmark 4 Norway Group D Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 11th 2019, h. 15:30 Angola 3 Qatar January 11th 2019, h. 18:00 Argentina 4 Hungary January 11th 2019, h. 20:30 Egypt 5 Sweden January 13th 2019, h. 15:30 Qatar 3 Egypt January 13th 2019, h. 18:00 Hungary 6 Angola January 13th 2019, h. 20:30 Sweden 5 Argentina January 14th 2019, h. 15:30 Hungary 8 Qatar January 14th 2019, h. 18:00 Argentina 2 Egypt January 14th 2019, h. 20:30 Sweden 9 Angola January 16th 2019, h. 15:30 Angola 4 Argentina January 16th 2019, h. 18:00 Hungary 3 Egypt January 16th 2019, h. 20:30 Qatar 6 Sweden January 17th 2019, h. 15:30 Egypt 3 Angola January 17th 2019, h. 18:00 Qatar 2 Argentina January 17th 2019, h. 20:30 Sweden 1 Hungary [/hide]

Question 1: How should TISC hosting rights be awarded if the winner declines their right to host the next edition? (b) Open bid process after all medallists decline Question 2: If there is an open bid process, how would you rather it be conducted? (b) First time hosts and previous hosts allowed to bid, but the draw will be weighted in favour of first time hosts Added condition: non-winners need to have a cooling period before allowed to bid again. Question 3: (a) unchanged, maintain the rule as it is

Perils of today's time: People talking without knowing the full story. The temple in question Sabarimala is closed to everyone who does not follow the ritual related to it. One has to wear certain clothes, no footwear, fast and pray for 40 days before they can enter the temple. The diety inside the temple, Lord Ayyappa, is a celibate God and hence, women between ages to 10-50 are not allowed to visit there. Similarly, there are temples in India where some other group of people are not allowed. For example, in Pushkar, Savitri temple does not allow married men. In Kamakhya, no men are allowed. There are numerous such examples. Numerous other temples have other restrictions like a certain dress code to be followed, a certain offering to be made, a certain time when the temple can be visited only. Such restrictions are there because we treat the residing diety not only as a God but also as a human and these restrictions are there according to the legend associated with the residing diety.

[hide] Preliminary Round January 5th - January 17th, 2019 24 Nations, 6 Groups, the 1st and 2nd Nations from each Group and 6 best 3rd ranked Teams among all Groups will qualify for the Round of 16 Group A Date & Time (GMT+4) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 5th 2019, h. 20:00 United Arab Emirates 2 0 Bahrain January 6th 2019, h. 17:30 Thailand 0 1 India January 10th 2019, h. 15:00 Bahrain 1 1 Thailand January 10th 2019, h. 20:00 India 0 2 United Arab Emirates January 14th 2019, h. 20:00 United Arab Emirates 2 0 Thailand January 14th 2019, h. 20:00 India 2 0 Bahrain Group B Date & Time (GMT+4) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 6th 2019, h. 15:00 Australia 3 0 Jordan January 6th 2019, h. 20:00 Syria 1 2 Palestine January 10th 2019, h. 17:30 Jordan 0 2 Syria January 11th 2019, h. 15:00 Palestine 1 3 Australia January 15th 2019, h. 17:30 Australia 2 0 Syria January 15th 2019, h. 17:30 Palestine 2 0 Jordan Group C Date & Time (GMT+4) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 7th 2019, h. 15:00 China 1 1 Kyrgyzstan January 7th 2019, h. 17:30 South Korea 3 0 Philippines January 11th 2019, h. 17:30 Philippines 0 2 China January 11th 2019, h. 20:00 Kyrgyzstan 0 2 South Korea January 16th 2019, h. 17:30 South Korea 3 0 China January 16th 2019, h. 17:30 Kyrgyzstan 2 0 Philippines Group D Date & Time (GMT+4) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 7th 2019, h. 20:00 Iran 3 0 Yemen January 8th 2019, h. 17:30 Iraq 1 1 Vietnam January 12th 2019, h. 15:00 Vietnam 0 2 Iran January 12th 2019, h. 17:30 Yemen 0 1 Iraq January 16th 2019, h. 20:00 Vietnam 1 0 Yemen January 16th 2019, h. 20:00 Iran 3 0 Iraq Group E Date & Time (GMT+4) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 8th 2019, h. 20:00 Saudi Arabia 2 0 North Korea January 9th 2019, h. 20:00 Qatar 1 2 Lebanon January 12th 2019, h. 20:00 Lebanon 0 1 Saudi Arabia January 13th 2019, h. 15:00 North Korea 0 1 Qatar January 17th 2019, h. 20:00 Saudi Arabia 1 0 Qatar January 17th 2019, h. 20:00 Lebanon 1 0 North Korea Group F Date & Time (GMT+4) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 9th 2019, h. 15:00 Japan 3 0 Turkmenistan January 9th 2019, h. 17:30 Uzbekistan 1 1 Oman January 13th 2019, h. 17:30 Oman 0 2 Japan January 13th 2019, h. 20:00 Turkmenistan 0 2 Uzbekistan January 17th 2019, h. 17:30 Oman 2 0 Turkmenistan January 17th 2019, h. 17:30 Japan 2 1 Uzbekistan [/hide]

India withdrew from the Hockey Pro League as Hockey India felt that we had better chance of qualifying for Olympics by playing in Hockey Series.

If France overtakes China it would be perfect for us. I would like to avoid France, Pakistan and Malaysia amongst the unseeded teams. France is much better than their ranking. Pakistan is in free fall but still they are capable of surprises specially against India. And Malaysia is our boogie team.

[hide] Knockout Round December 10th - December 16th, 2018 12 Nations, Quarterfinal Play-Offs, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Bronze Medal Match, Gold Medal Match Semifinals  Date & Time (GMT +5:30) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 December 15th 2018, h. 16:00 England 2 Belgium December 15th 2018, h. 18:30 Australia 2 Netherlands [/hide]

[hide] Knockout Round December 14th - December 16th, 2018 4 Nations, Semifinals, Bronze Medal Match and Gold Medal Match Semifinals Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 December 14th 2018, h. 17:30 Russia 2 Romania December 14th 2018, h. 21:00 France 4 Netherlands [/hide]

[hide] Knockout Round December 10th - December 16th, 2018 12 Nations, Quarterfinal Play-Offs, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Bronze Medal Match, Gold Medal Match Quarterfinals Date & Time (GMT +5:30) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 December 12th 2018, h. 16:45 Argentina England December 12th 2018, h. 19:00 Australia France December 13th 2018, h. 16:45 India 2 Netherlands December 13th 2018, h. 19:00 Germany 2 Belgium [/hide]

[hide] Knockout Round December 10th - December 16th, 2018 12 Nations, Quarterfinal Play-Offs, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Bronze Medal Match, Gold Medal Match Quarterfinals Part #1 Date & Time (GMT +5:30) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 December 12th 2018, h. 16:45 Argentina 3 England December 12th 2018, h. 19:00 Australia 4    France [/hide]

[hide] Konockout Round December 10th - December 16th, 2018 12 Nations, Quarterfinal Play-Offs, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Bronze Medal Match, Gold Medal Match Quarterfinal Play-Offs Date & Time (GMT +5:30) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 December 10th 2018, h. 16:45 France China December 10th 2018, h. 19:00 England New Zealand December 11th 2018, h. 17:00 Belgium 2 Pakistan December 11th 2018, h. 19:00 Netherlands 2 Canada [/hide]