justony

until Sport Climbing became part of the Olympic schedule, the "combined event" didn't exist and it was quite an oddity to see the same people being at the top of both boulder and lead, even if boulder was basically invented as a form of (indoor) training for the lead specialists
 
in the last 10 years, with this "combined event" included in the Olympic program, many things have changed and of course the strongest specialists in both disciplines started to develop also the skills required by "the other one" to be competitive in the new event
 
actually, also the design of the boulder and lead walls has changed to allow all the top athletes to become better all-arounders than true specialists of a single event
 
but, despite that, there are still a very good number of those and if you're not Janja Garnbret, it's very difficult to be a medal candidate in both disciplines
 
most likely, with boulder and lead being now separated also at the Olympics, I hope everything will be back to basics, with boulder and lead walls being way more complicated for the non-specialists, requiring different skills (and physical characteristics) that can't easily match one with the others

Finally some common sense. IOC decides to put all 3 disciplines in programme for LA28. 
 
So now, we will see Speed, Lead and Boulder separate, with quota of 38 athletes per gender all together.

Pogacar is so used to easy wins, that he throws himself in the bushes just to make the race more interesting for him 

Let's try again.  Nika Prevc WR - 236 m (2x) 
 
Watch on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1cCmbxsG10
 

Let's try again.  Nika Prevc WR - 236 m (2x) 
 
Watch on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1cCmbxsG10
 

First world cup victory for Fak since 2015

Actually skis weren't the problem...she basically blacked out and had to be taken to the medical center (it took us quite a while to find her). She's better now, full of anger for tomorrow at least. 

Bruna DNF - did not look good at 2km.    Skis were slipping all over the place. 

Probably the most important day of Bruna's career tomorrow. The nerves here are off the charts, vamos
 

Oh yeah, and we can be recognized by a big banner with "Nunspeet" (our hometown) on it, and I'm carrying a Dutch-Brazilian flag, which I'll hold in a certain way to let Bruna know how she's doing when she is halfway
 

The only interesting story today was Shiffrin dissing Vonn and later won with Johnson, while Vonn finished well behind, mostly due to her downhill.

I am not a big fan of these experiments being adapted immediately by the olympics.

Léon Marchand
SWIMMING
 
 Armand Duplantis
ATHLETICS
 
 Tadej Pogačar
ROAD CYCLING
 

Denmark
HANDBALL
 
 United States
BASKETBALL
 
 Spain
FOOTBALL
 

I love Pogacar (and Sinner), but for me, if you don't go to the Olympics out of your own choice in an Olympic year it's a total no no on these kind of awards.

Posted my votes. 
 
For the first time our small country has an athlete, who without a doubt should deserve best athlete of the year award. Without being too "cocky", Armand Duplantis is the only real threat to Tadej Pogačar.

Posted my votes. 
 
For the first time our small country has an athlete, who without a doubt should deserve best athlete of the year award. Without being too "cocky", Armand Duplantis is the only real threat to Tadej Pogačar.

I can count for you, but what I will say is that I don't think it was a lot. 

And now ladies and gentlemen, please stand for the final time for the national anthem. 
 
 
So that's it for another year
 
A big thanks to @OlympicIRL and @Sindo for helping me set everything up and enduring my constant pestering. 
 
Same goes for @heywoodu @Wanderer and @Topicmaster1010 for updating the scoreboard throughout the day. 
 
And once again congrats to @Erigert @Belle and @Hipooo for getting top 3 as well as everyone who voted for Maximo Park. 
 
I hope you enjoyed yourselves despite the mistakes and I'll see you all next year in . 

Quite amazing, I believe it is first time our song got 3 times 12 points, yet somehow we managed only for 25th place.
 
Anyway, big thank you to all, who gave us points. It is very rare I vote for the actual winner, so congratulations to Czechia. Also it is sad, Ukraine left contest, I liked their song very much, it was in my top 3.

Quite amazing, I believe it is first time our song got 3 times 12 points, yet somehow we managed only for 25th place.
 
Anyway, big thank you to all, who gave us points. It is very rare I vote for the actual winner, so congratulations to Czechia. Also it is sad, Ukraine left contest, I liked their song very much, it was in my top 3.

Greetings from Bulgaria! On behalf of the Bulgarian delegation I would like to thank our hosts for organizing another fun TISC Grand Final Day and we wish good luck to all the participants.
Without further ado, these are the results of the votes of the Bulgarian National Jury....
 
 
 
 Bulgaria 
 
 
 Brazil 10   Poland 9   Ireland 8   Argentina 7   Mexico 6   Greece 5   China 4   Spain 3   Italy 2  Slovenia  1   

Greetings from Serbia! On behalf of the Serbian delegation I would like to thank our hosts for organizing another fun TISC Grand Final Day and we wish good luck to all the participants.
Without further ado, these are the results of the votes of the Serbian National Jury....
 
 
 
 Serbia 
 
 
 
 Slovenia 12  Spain  11   Sweden 10   Italy 9   Ireland 8   Hungary 7   Greece 6   Argentina 
5   Bulgaria  4    Brazil 3    France  2    Netherlands 1   
 
 
And that completes the results of the votes from the Serbian National Jury. Have a great day! 

Goedemiddag uit Nederland! De Nederlandse jury wil @Cinnamon Bungraag bedanken voor de zware, maar dankbare taak die velen van ons kennen: het organiseren van TISC! Bedankt voor, zoals altijd, een mooi evenement. We bedanken ook alle deelnemers voor hun inzendingen, het was weer erg leuk om te luisteren! Hier zijn de stemmen van de Nederlandse jury.
 
Good afternoon from the Netherlands! The Dutch jury would like to thank our host @Cinnamon Bun for the tough but thankful task many of us are familiar with: hosting TISC! Thank you for, as ever, a lovely event. We'd also like to thank all the participants for their entries, it was once again lots of fun to listen! Here are the votes for the Dutch jury.
 
 
 
 Netherlands 
 
 
 Argentina 10   Slovenia 9   Canada 8   Guatemala 7   Brazil 6   Bulgaria 5   New Zealand 4   Great Britain 3   Moldova 2   Spain 1 

Matyox (Thanks in Kaqchikel) and the twelve points go to.....
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Guatemala 
 
 
 Slovenia 12  Poland 11   Greece 10   Czech Republic 9   Sweden 8   Serbia 7   Italy 6   Spain
5   Tunisia 4   Moldova 3   Mexico 2   China 1   
 
 
And that completes the results of the votes from the Guatemalan National Jury. Have a great day!