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Viktoria Tomova has earned a LL spot for Australian Open to enter her very first grand slam main draw. Kudos Viki!

0 or 1 medal. Bulgaria could win a medal in one of the following: parallel giant slalom - Radoslav Yankov snowboardcross - Alexandra Zhekova biathlon - Krasimir Anev None of them is favourite in their discipline but they all have their chances on a good day.

An interesting article about how far people are willing to go just for the sake of victory in Japan http://www.espn.com/olympics/canoe/story/_/id/22011471/japan-kayaker-yasuhiro-suzuki-banned-eight-years-lacing-rival-drink

One more in biathlon: Will Nadezhda Skardino make a miss in any biathlon event at the Olympics?

I cannot believe it 9th place at the rehearsal for the Olympics for Bulgaria. If Anev improves his skiing times and Sinapov his standing shooting we can challenge for top 6 finish.

@LDOG, I hope this is what you meant.

Oh sorry... not a big ice hockey fan... will take it out of the list.

Biathlon: Martin Fourcade to win 3 or more gold medals in men's biathlon A Russian born athlete to win gold in biathlon Both JT Boe and Martin Fourcade on the podium in both the sprint and pursuit competitions in biathlon There will be more than 10 biathletes with clean shooting in the men's 20km individual Alpine skiing: Naoki Yuasa of Japan to complete the man's slalom course in both legs Hirscher to finish ahead of Kristoffersen in men's slalom Luge Clean medal sweep for Germany in women's luge Cross country skiing: Ustyugov to win gold in both freestyle and classic Speed skating: Clean medal sweep for the Netherlands in any speed skating discipline Ski jumping: Kamil Stoch to win all three gold medals in ski jumping A Kazakh athlete not to place last in the men's large hill qualification Figure skating: A figure skater to land a quadruple jump in a combination with two triples without falling USA men's ice hockey team to not make it past the groups

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October 23rd

Oh no no no, Rublev vs Dimitrov in R3 and then the winner against Kyrgios. Not a good draw for Grisho at all

I found this inspiring video on Youtube today. I relate to Jared a lot and wish him every success both in Academia and in Sports.

Definitely not against classic (note: I proposed addition of an extra middle distance start, which favours classic in a way ) What I think is that in order to be even more epic an event needs some heroes. How is the 50k champion supposed to defend his title when the style changes with the Olympiad? Having to wait for 8 years makes the event epic in terms of anticipation but takes out the charm of defending the title. If I can compare marathon with race walking I would guess marathon is the mainstream, less technique, more attractive freestyle where race walking should be the technique demanding, few specialists event, where someone dominates before the race has even started 50K race walking is epic too but people tune in mainly for the marathon.

Well freestyle is far more popular and competitive nowadays.

To enter: Ski orienteering (M/W) - sprint, long distance and relay Ski jumping - large hill (W), ski flying (M) and mixed team event (M/W) Biathlon - single mixed relay Telemark (M/W) - sprint Ice hockey (M/W) - skills challenge Speed skating - Team sprint (M/W) Short track - mixed relay and a points race like in track cycling Figure skating - Synchro skating (W) Cross country skiing - keep skiathlon but also have both classical and freestyle middle distance (10/15km) - one of them to be mass, the other interval start. Make the 50k/30k mass starts always freestyle Alpine skiing - parallel slalom (night event) (M/W) To exit: Figure skating team event Alpine skiing team event Spee skating 3000m (W) and 5000m (M)

Grigor Dimitrov winning the ATP World Tour Finals in Londond

What a crazy relay! Bulgaria placed 8th without Anev. Best result for this season

Happy for Hirscher, he is just amazing, but poor Kristofferesen. He seems so motivated to get one over Marcel but misses by a fingertip time after time.

Reserved for daily results from Pyeongchang 2018

Bulgaria at the 2018 Winter Olympics Alpine skiing Albert Popov (m) Kamen Zlatkov (m) Maria Kirkova (w) Biathlon Krasimir Anev (m) Dimitar Gerdzhikov (m) Anton Sinapov (m) Vladimir Iliev (m) Mihail Kletcherov (m) Daniela Kadeva (w) Stefani Popova (w) Desislava Stoyanova (w) Milena Todorova (w) Emilia Yordanova (w) Cross Country skiing Veselin Tzinzov (m) Yordan Chuchuganov (m) Antoniya Grigorova - Burgova (w) Luge Pavel Angelov (m) Ski Jumping Vladimir Zografski (m) Snowboarding Radoslav Yankov (m) Teodora Pencheva (w) Aleksandra Zhekova (w)

Bulgarian Olympic History "The Olympic team shall include only fit men, not older than 30, men, well developed and educated'. This is how the national enlightenment and education minister Konstantin Velichkov determines the criteria for the Bulgarian delegation at the first modern Olympics in Athens 1896. The Swiss born physical education teacher takes part in three individual apparatus in gymnastics under the name Shampoff. He takes the elite fifth place on vault and thus starts the Bulgarian Olympic participation. The first memorable national participation at Olympic Games is in 1924 in Paris.The invitation to Bulgarian athletes came personally from Pierre de Coubertin. Four athletes, seven cyclists, two equestrian riders and the national football team travel to Paris. General Stoychev places 11th in equestrian out of 99 participants.

Bulgaria at the Olympics Summer games medals Games Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Total Rank 1896 Athens 1 0 0 0 0 – 1900–1920 did not participate 1924 Paris 24 0 0 0 0 – 1928 Amsterdam 5 0 0 0 0 – 1932 Los Angeles did not participate 1936 Berlin 25 0 0 0 0 – 1948 London did not participate 1952 Helsinki 63 0 0 1 1 40 1956 Melbourne 43 1 3 1 5 19 1960 Rome 98 1 3 3 7 15 1964 Tokyo 63 3 5 2 10 11 1968 Mexico City 112 2 4 3 9 18 1972 Munich 130 6 10 5 21 9 1976 Montreal 158 6 9 7 22 7 1980 Moscow 270 8 16 17 41 3 1984 Los Angeles did not participate 1988 Seoul 171 10 12 13 35 7 1992 Barcelona 138 3 7 6 16 18 1996 Atlanta 110 3 7 5 15 22 2000 Sydney 91 5 6 2 13 16 2004 Athens 95 2 1 9 12 33 2008 Beijing 72 1 1 3 5 42 2012 London 63 0 2 1 3 63 2016 Rio de Janeiro 51 0 1 2 3 65 Winter games medals Games Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Total Rank 1936 Garmisch- Partenkirchen 7 0 0 0 0 – 1948 St. Moritz 4 0 0 0 0 – 1952 Oslo 10 0 0 0 0 – 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo 7 0 0 0 0 – 1960 Squaw Valley 7 0 0 0 0 – 1964 Innsbruck 7 0 0 0 0 – 1968 Grenoble 6 0 0 0 0 – 1972 Sapporo 4 0 0 0 0 – 1976 Innsbruck 29 0 0 0 0 – 1980 Lake Placid 8 0 0 1 1 17 1984 Sarajevo 16 0 0 0 0 – 1988 Calgary 26 0 0 0 0 – 1992 Albertville 30 0 0 0 0 – 1994 Lillehammer 17 0 0 0 0 – 1998 Nagano 19 1 0 0 1 15 2002 Salt Lake City 23 0 1 2 3 20 2006 Turin 21 0 1 0 1 21 2010 Vancouver 19 0 0 0 0 – 2014 Sochi 18 0 0 0 0 – Medals by summer sport Sport Gold Silver Bronze Total Wrestling 16 32 21 69 Weightlifting 12 17 8 37 Athletics 5 8 6 19 Boxing 4 5 9 18 Canoeing 4 5 8 17 Shooting 4 6 6 16 Rowing 3 4 7 14 Gymnastics 2 4 8 14 Swimming 1 1 1 3 Judo 0 1 2 3 Volleyball 0 1 1 2 Football 0 1 1 2 Basketball 0 1 1 2 Tennis 0 0 1 1 Equestrian 0 1 0 1 Medals by winter sport Sport Gold Silver Bronze Total Total 1 2 3 6 Biathlon 1 0 1 2 Short track speed skating 0 2 1 3 Cross coun- try skiing 0 0 1 1

What a scare for Edmund. He sounded in a lot of pain. Luckily, he seems to be fine.

Really impressed by Rublev's start of the season. Unfortunately, Dimitrov is not convincing at all