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Start Copying Here [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 New Zealand Great Britain Netherlands Australia France Germany Great Britain Japan Netherlands New Zealand Poland Russia Any Other Women's Scratch Race Day 1, April 12th, 2017 Rachele Barbieri Verena Eberhardt Evegeniya Romanyuta 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 United States Great Britain Canada Australia Canada China France Germany Great Britain Italy New Zealand United States Any Other Men's Keirin Day 2, April 13th, 2017 Tomas Babek Fabian Puerta Zapata Azizul Awang 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 Great Britain Australia Denmark Australia Belgium Canada Denmark France Great Britain Italy New Zealand Russia Any Other Men's Scratch Race Day 2, April 13th, 2017 Felix English Zachary Kovalcik Someone from Switzerland 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 Lee Wai Sze Zhong Tianshi 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 Lotte Kopecky Luo Xiaoling 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 Filippo Ganna Sebastian Mora 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 Raman Ramanau Any Other Kenny de Ketele 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 Lee Wai Sze Tania Calvo Barbero Olena Starikova 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 Gaël Suter Leung Chun Wing 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 Callum Skinner Someone from Russia Matthew Glaetzer 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 Great Britain Australia France Australia France Great Britain Hong Kong Ireland Italy New Zealand Russia Ukraine Any Other Women's Individual Pursuit Day 4, April 15th, 2017 Rebecca Wiasak Annie Foreman-Mackey Any Other 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 Kristina Vogel 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 Jarmila Machacova Anita Yvonne Stenberg Someone from Great Britain 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 Matthew Glaetzer Someone from France Someone from Netherlands 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 Great Britain Belgium France Belgium Denmark France Great Britain Ireland Italy New Zealand Poland Spain Any Other [/hide] End Copying Here

Lets move some different sports arbitrarily from Summer to Winter Olympics to make space for Ice Hockey in Summer Olympics. Who cares if these sports have well defined calendars which takes into account Olympics. Important thing is NHL fans should be able to enjoy NHL for 10 months and have a good chance of medal in Olympics.

Good news: We have qualified for World League semifinals (as expected). Bad news: Our new chief coach thinks we have already qualified for World Cup

Congrats to the medallists. Considering that the only Ice Hockey I have ever watched is in movies/serials, I can't complain on missing out on the medal. I am more surprised at my high position in the initial stages of the contest.

I am a tea (Chai) person even in general and when coffee is twice as expensive as tea

[hide] Knockout Round April 4th - April 7th, 2017 6 Nations, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Bronze Medal Match and Gold Medal Match. Bronze Medal Match Eastern Time Zone (GMT -4) Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 April 7th 2017, h. 15:35, USA Hockey Arena, Plymouth Finland 2 Germany Gold Medal Match Eastern Time Zone (GMT -4) Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 April 7th 2017, h. 19:35, USA Hockey Arena, Plymouth United States 2 Canada [/hide]

Leander was bound to be dropped with Bhupathi becoming non-playing captain. IMHO, either both Paes/Bopanna should be retired keeping future in mind or both should be played for their experience. But, as long as Bhupathi/Paes/Bopanna are even remotely involved with Indian tennis, they will ensure that team is always divided in camps.

Take these rankings with a bucket of salt. I doubt if we can even draw games against North Korea, Thailand, Jordan or Iraq. We will get a good idea of where we are at Asian level only in Asian Cup 2019 (we should have not much trouble in qualifying).

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[hide] Knockout Round April 4th - April 7th, 2017 6 Nations, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Bronze Medal Match and Gold Medal Match. Semifinals Eastern Time Zone (GMT -4) Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 April 6th 2017, h. 15:35, USA Hockey Arena, Plymouth Canada 1 Finland April 6th 2017, h. 19:35, USA Hockey Arena, Plymouth United States 3 Germany [/hide]

[hide] Knockout Round April 4th - April 7th, 2017 6 Nations, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Bronze Medal Match and Gold Medal Match. Quarterfinals Eastern Time Zone (GMT -4) Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 April 3rd 2017, h. 15:35, USA Hockey Arena, Plymouth Finland 2 Sweden April 3rd 2017, h. 19:35, USA Hockey Arena, Plymouth Russia 2 Germany [/hide]

After much deliberation, Indian delegation has also sent its votes. Good luck to all the songs.

[hide] Preliminary Round March 31st - April 3rd, 2017 8 Nations, 2 Groups, 3rd and 4th from Group A, 1st and 2nd from Group B qualify to Quarterfinals, 1st and 2nd from Group A qualify to Semifinals. Group A Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 March 31st 2017, h. 16:00, USA Hockey Arena, Plymouth Finland 1 Russia March 31st 2017, h. 19:35, USA Hockey Arena, Plymouth United States 1 Canada April 1st 2017, h. 15:35, USA Hockey Arena, Plymouth Russia 2 United States April 1st 2017, h. 19:35, USA Hockey Arena, Plymouth Canada 1 Finland April 3rd 2017, h. 15:35, USA Hockey Arena, Plymouth Canada 1 Russia April 3rd 2017, h. 19:35, USA Hockey Arena, Plymouth United States 2 Finland Group B Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 March 31st 2017, h. 12:00, USA Hockey Arena, Plymouth Czech Republic 2 Switzerland March 31st 2017, h. 15:35, USA Hockey Arena, Plymouth Sweden 2 Germany April 1st 2017, h. 12:00, USA Hockey Arena, Plymouth Czech Republic 1 Germany April 1st 2017, h. 18:00, USA Hockey Arena, Plymouth Switzerland 2 Sweden April 3rd 2017, h. 12:00, USA Hockey Arena, Plymouth Germany 1 Switzerland April 3rd 2017, h. 18:00, USA Hockey Arena, Plymouth Sweden 2 Czech Republic [/hide]

I don't think ISIS gives specific instructions to anyone outside Iraq-Syria area. All the ISIS terrorist attacks outside the area are carried out by a small group of radicals who are using ISIS brand. An Indian-American commentator has written a couple of nice posts about the difference between ISIS - the organization in Iraq-Syria area and ISIS - the brand. First Post Second Post

With weigh-in on the morning of competition, when will draws take place? Same day or previous day, so before weigh-in?

I won't be amazed. The present Indian PM Narendra Modi has conducted large scale diaspora events in many countries he has visited. Even though these programs were just outreach programs and nothing political, Indian Government ensured that local government had no issues with the programs (in all such programs, local leaders, not of Indian origin, were invited to be part of the event). If Netherlands government feels a certain event can cause law and order issue, it has every right to deny permission to that event. Be it Erdogan's event or Modi's event or any other leader's event.

Why are Turkish ministers campaigning in Europe for referendum in Turkey? Netherlands/Germany has to manage law and order, so if they think the speech of a Turkish minister can cause L&O issues, I don't see any problem in NED/GER restricting entry to Turkish ministers.

Amir Khan is the actor in both songs but he has sung only this year's entry. Previous song was sung by Rehman.

which song are you exactly talking about? There was one song "Chalo Chalo" recently which was sung by West Indian cricketer Dwayne Bravo while there is another classical sports themed song "Chale Chalo" which featured Amir Khan but was sung by A R Rehman.

The reason why I am against users just picking any random country is because it gives massive advantage to countries with multiple users. For example, I can pick a useless song from country X while some other Indian user can be official Indian entry. I can then give full points to Indian song, increasing India's points tally. Even if not deliberate collusion, songs that we have heard multiple times are prone to get more points. All these issues were discussed previously in the old forum resulting in the present rule. If many users think this rule need to be changed, we can have another discussion about this for future contests, but for this contest, rule disallows you to compete for another country.

Freedom of speech means nobody should be persecuted physically or legally for his/her views. It does not mean people can't counter or ridicule him/her or boycott him/her.

Exactly, IOC must be thinking, let us lock down Los Angeles and Paris before either of them start having second thoughts and we are in a horrible situation where the only interested hosts for 2028 are nations without a big budget/infrastructure.

I didn't mean secretive but careless. For example, for Rio, majority of the Qualification Documents were uploaded by Australian NOC much before respective IFs bothered to put them online. But, since FEI published this, it clears all doubts. Each IF will finalise individually.

IIRC IOC has to approve the qualification system for each sport, so even they will be finalized there. But, IOC doesn't release the qualification system so we have to search the internet for IF/NOC to release the data.

"Again, we must emphasize that this decision is under the full authority of the IOC; it is not the ISSF that is making this decision." Translation: Don't look at us, direct all the nasty tweets to IOC.