Wanderer

Ah, it's starting. I think you can catch it on http://www.lrt.lt/mediateka/tiesiogiai/lrt-televizija
if you're interested, I'll be performing second.

Werloc!!!!     
Wish you good luck!

http://www.rio.itftennis.com/olympics/news/%2Folympics%2Fnews%2Farticles%2Fitf-introduces-continental-qualification-places-for-tokyo-2020
 
The ITF today announced the introduction of six Continental Qualification places for both the men’s and women’s singles events at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Tennis Event. The new qualification places have been approved by the IOC Executive Board as part of the Tokyo 2020 Qualification System for tennis that will be released by the IOC in the coming weeks.
The 2020 Olympic Tennis Event will once again feature five disciplines: men’s singles and doubles, women’s singles and doubles, and mixed doubles. Each singles draw will comprise 64 players, with a maximum of four players per nation. There will be 56 direct acceptances as at previous Games, and eight ITF places, including the six Continental Qualification places.
For the first time in Olympic history, players will have a chance to earn their place in the Olympic Tennis Event through success at one of the regional multi-sport games, including the 2018 Asian Games and 2019 African and Pan American Games. In addition, one place will be awarded to the highest ranked man and woman in both Europe and Oceania from a country not yet represented in singles.
The following will qualify for a Continental Qualification place provided their ranking is within the Top 300 on the singles rankings of 8 June 2020, and provided the quota for that nation has not yet been filled by four direct acceptances:
 
Continent Qualification Route Quota Place Quota per gender North & South America 2019 Pan American Games - Lima, Peru Singles winner and runner up 2 Asia 2018 Asian Games -  Jakarta and Palembang, Indonesia Singles winner 1 Africa 2019 African Games -  Luksaka, Zambia Singles winner 1 Europe Universality Place Highest ranked athlete on the Singles Rankings that is from an NOC not yet represented in singles 1 Oceania Universality Place Highest ranked athlete on the Singles Rankings that is from an NOC not yet represented in singles 1  

http://www.rio.itftennis.com/olympics/news/%2Folympics%2Fnews%2Farticles%2Fitf-introduces-continental-qualification-places-for-tokyo-2020
 
The ITF today announced the introduction of six Continental Qualification places for both the men’s and women’s singles events at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Tennis Event. The new qualification places have been approved by the IOC Executive Board as part of the Tokyo 2020 Qualification System for tennis that will be released by the IOC in the coming weeks.
The 2020 Olympic Tennis Event will once again feature five disciplines: men’s singles and doubles, women’s singles and doubles, and mixed doubles. Each singles draw will comprise 64 players, with a maximum of four players per nation. There will be 56 direct acceptances as at previous Games, and eight ITF places, including the six Continental Qualification places.
For the first time in Olympic history, players will have a chance to earn their place in the Olympic Tennis Event through success at one of the regional multi-sport games, including the 2018 Asian Games and 2019 African and Pan American Games. In addition, one place will be awarded to the highest ranked man and woman in both Europe and Oceania from a country not yet represented in singles.
The following will qualify for a Continental Qualification place provided their ranking is within the Top 300 on the singles rankings of 8 June 2020, and provided the quota for that nation has not yet been filled by four direct acceptances:
 
Continent Qualification Route Quota Place Quota per gender North & South America 2019 Pan American Games - Lima, Peru Singles winner and runner up 2 Asia 2018 Asian Games -  Jakarta and Palembang, Indonesia Singles winner 1 Africa 2019 African Games -  Luksaka, Zambia Singles winner 1 Europe Universality Place Highest ranked athlete on the Singles Rankings that is from an NOC not yet represented in singles 1 Oceania Universality Place Highest ranked athlete on the Singles Rankings that is from an NOC not yet represented in singles 1  

http://www.rio.itftennis.com/olympics/news/%2Folympics%2Fnews%2Farticles%2Fitf-introduces-continental-qualification-places-for-tokyo-2020
 
The ITF today announced the introduction of six Continental Qualification places for both the men’s and women’s singles events at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Tennis Event. The new qualification places have been approved by the IOC Executive Board as part of the Tokyo 2020 Qualification System for tennis that will be released by the IOC in the coming weeks.
The 2020 Olympic Tennis Event will once again feature five disciplines: men’s singles and doubles, women’s singles and doubles, and mixed doubles. Each singles draw will comprise 64 players, with a maximum of four players per nation. There will be 56 direct acceptances as at previous Games, and eight ITF places, including the six Continental Qualification places.
For the first time in Olympic history, players will have a chance to earn their place in the Olympic Tennis Event through success at one of the regional multi-sport games, including the 2018 Asian Games and 2019 African and Pan American Games. In addition, one place will be awarded to the highest ranked man and woman in both Europe and Oceania from a country not yet represented in singles.
The following will qualify for a Continental Qualification place provided their ranking is within the Top 300 on the singles rankings of 8 June 2020, and provided the quota for that nation has not yet been filled by four direct acceptances:
 
Continent Qualification Route Quota Place Quota per gender North & South America 2019 Pan American Games - Lima, Peru Singles winner and runner up 2 Asia 2018 Asian Games -  Jakarta and Palembang, Indonesia Singles winner 1 Africa 2019 African Games -  Luksaka, Zambia Singles winner 1 Europe Universality Place Highest ranked athlete on the Singles Rankings that is from an NOC not yet represented in singles 1 Oceania Universality Place Highest ranked athlete on the Singles Rankings that is from an NOC not yet represented in singles 1  

Well, if there wasn't any qualifications or training or similar for those events, I think you can still predict them. But please do that in separate post and you can write down your predictions without using the table

Oh my Gough!
 
 
 
I've been waiting months to use that.  

evil Russians wanted to break website and disappoint olympic gigs like us? yeah, they also made my cat pee in shoes

We have first 10 points - @Domcal and @Werloc are with perfect predictions for women's skiathlon! On the other end are bestmen and OlympicsFan, but hopefully, they will score soon enough!

We have first 10 points - @Domcal and @Werloc are with perfect predictions for women's skiathlon! On the other end are bestmen and OlympicsFan, but hopefully, they will score soon enough!

I think I had never seen that much snow here. Too bad it only stayed like on the pictures below for like 2 hours and then it started to melt a little bit (but it still covers the grass and if we're lucky there will be snow tomorrow too):
 

 
 
 

 

 

 
At work I had like 15 minutes available during my lunch break to go outside so I took a few pictures and enjoyed the sound of the snow under my feet (love this sound):
 
Great weather to eat outside obviously  Want some ice cream?
 

 
 
There's this kind of cabin at work, with the snow it looked like I was in the French Alps and not in the North West of France  
 

 

 
 
 
Voilà! Sorry for the spam  

It looks like a very interesting and funny place @dcro!
 
 
 
Btw, last days from a huge fog to a nice sunset on the Alps:
 

 

 

 

And here are a couple of pics from a more recent trip (September 2017) to a mountainous area nearby...
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

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Yup, only tomorrow though...

It's been a while!  
 
Good luck to my second team as well, they are underdogs too
Rubin Statham v Di Wu
Michael Venus v Zhang Ze
Marcus Daniel /Artem Sitak v Xin Gao / Maoxin Gong
Rubin Statham v Zhang Ze
Michael Venus v Di Wu
 
Only win in doubles is expected  
 
 

Would be cool if they had different colors like Olympic rings. 

Here are some my recent photos
 
Park Cair, my birth city  "frost-mirrors" 
 

 
This one was taken the same morning:
 

 
This too
 

 
Yes, I have a thing for ice, frost, snow and winter  
And I always smile
 

 
I needed burdock for sesquiterpene lactones  

Wow, looks like Vickery wants to play for  (her mother is Guyanese)
 
"Vickery, 22, recently made known her desire to compete for Guyana at the Olympics. She is one of the fastest racing players on the WTA circuit, and is currently ranked 105 in the world, her highest ranking ever.
Only last week she competed in the ASB Classic in New Zealand, bowing out at the semi-final, losing to number one seed Caroline Wozniacki. Vickery had a good run in the tournament, earlier defeating Agnieszka Radwanksa 6-2 6-2 at the quarter-final stage. 
Prior to that, she got past Veronica Cepede Royg 6-2 6-4 in the Round of 16 and Lauren Davis 6-1 6-2 in the Round of 32. In the Qualifiers, she defeated Magdalena Frech 7-5 6-3, Conny Perrin 6-0 6-3 and Deborah Chiesa 6-4 6-3."
 
https://newsroom.gy/2018/01/17/im-looking-forward-to-greatness-from-you-dr-norton-tells-vickery/

Some pics from our little trip to Istria...
 
It was a pretty unique train ride...
 
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Don't worry, I didn't control it!
 

 
 
Can't remember if it was water or fire coming out of this.
 

 
 
Stalker alert!
 

 

 
 
Who cares if it breaks...
 

 

And some pictures from the monastery Ravanica.  It was built in 1375–1377 as an endowment of prince Lazar of Serbia, who is buried there.
 

 

 

 

Few photos from the village where my grandparents live
 
This is one very very old house (btw they don't live in this house lol)
 


This is a well