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Malena Zamfirova was hit by a drunk tourist today (not with a car), while she was preparing for the next World Cup in Czechia.  It happened in the so called "safe zone" near the lift, where there were a lot of people and this drunk just uncontrollably ran her. She had many fractures and had to be flown by helicopter. Tomorrow she is moving to Austria with a special transport, where on Friday she is having a surgery. I am fuming  

Malena Zamfirova was hit by a drunk tourist today (not with a car), while she was preparing for the next World Cup in Czechia.  It happened in the so called "safe zone" near the lift, where there were a lot of people and this drunk just uncontrollably ran her. She had many fractures and had to be flown by helicopter. Tomorrow she is moving to Austria with a special transport, where on Friday she is having a surgery. I am fuming  

Malena Zamfirova was hit by a drunk tourist today (not with a car), while she was preparing for the next World Cup in Czechia.  It happened in the so called "safe zone" near the lift, where there were a lot of people and this drunk just uncontrollably ran her. She had many fractures and had to be flown by helicopter. Tomorrow she is moving to Austria with a special transport, where on Friday she is having a surgery. I am fuming  

Malena Zamfirova was hit by a drunk tourist today (not with a car), while she was preparing for the next World Cup in Czechia.  It happened in the so called "safe zone" near the lift, where there were a lot of people and this drunk just uncontrollably ran her. She had many fractures and had to be flown by helicopter. Tomorrow she is moving to Austria with a special transport, where on Friday she is having a surgery. I am fuming  

Seems a bit stupid to cancel them. If you can't go, then the tournament continues without you, just like it would in other cases. Realistically how many teams won't be able to go to Italy or Greece? 

Apparently not included in the official World Boxing calendar, but yesterday finished the 77th edition of the traditional "Strandja" Tournament, the oldest Boxing tournament in Europe.
 
Women:
 
W48 kg -  Sabina Bobokulova def.  Hanna Okhota - 5:0
W51 kg -  Zlatislava Chukanova def.  Feruza Kazakova - W/O
W54 kg -  Elina Bazarova def.  Lauren Mackie - 5:0
W57 kg -  Nigina Uktamova def.  Michaela Walsh - 3:2
W60 kg -  Donjeta Sadiku def.  Rebeca de Lima Santos - 3:2
 
W65 kg -  Navbakhor Khamidova def.  Laura Yessenkeldi - 5:0
W70 kg -  Chantelle Reid def.  Viviane dos Santos Pereira - 5:0
W75 kg -  Aziza Zokirova def.  Emma Sue Greentree - 5:0
W80 kg -  Nadezhda Ryabets def.  Yaren Duztas - 5:0
W80+ kg -  Valeriya Axenova def.  Oltinoy Sotimboeva - 5:0
 
Men:
 
M50 kg -  Daniyal Sabit def.  Bilalhabashi Nazarov - 3:2
M55 kg -  Maksym Zymenko def.  Lorenzo Patricio - 3:2
M60 kg -  Radoslav Rosenov def.  Gabriel Oliveira - 5:0
M65 kg -  Elvin Aliiev def.  Yuri Falcao Reis - 4:1
M70 kg -  Lavant Brownlee def.  Farukh Tokhtassunov - 4:1
 
M75 kg -  Fazliddin Erkinboev def.  Rami Kiwan - 5:0
M80 kg -  Pavlo Illiusha def.  Javokhir Ummataliev - 3:2
M85 kg -  Akmaljon Isroilov def.  Matvii Razhba - 5:0
M90 kg -  Turabek Khabibullaev def.  Bogdan Tolmachov - 5:0
M90+ kg -  Damar Thomas def.  Ozodbek Aliev - 5:0
 
Final Standings:
 
1.  Uzbekistan - 7-4-6
2.  Kazakhstan - 4-2-3
3.  Ukraine - 3-3-4
4.  Bulgaria - 2-1-4
5.  England - 2-1-3
 
6.  USA - 1-1-5
7.  Kosovo - 1-0-0
8.  Brazil - 0-4-1
9.  Ireland - 0-1-3
10.  Australia - 0-1-1
10.  Azerbaijan - 0-1-1
 
12.  Turkey - 0-1-0
13.  Mongolia - 0-0-3
14.  Italy - 0-0-1
14.  Germany - 0-0-1
14.  Egypt - 0-0-1
14.  Romania - 0-0-1
14.  Armenia - 0-0-1
 
 

Seems a bit stupid to cancel them. If you can't go, then the tournament continues without you, just like it would in other cases. Realistically how many teams won't be able to go to Italy or Greece? 

Last night, I had the privilege to see my first live curling matches.  The USA National Championships were just 1.5 hours away from where I live (not bad in a country the size of ours, and even more surprising since I live in an area where it rarely snows).  I got to visit the 'page final' (i.e. first playoff round), the highlight of which for me was Team Shuster vs. Team Stopera.  Team Stopera ended up winning by 1 point, but Shuster will be able to play one final match this morning to see if they can make it to the finals this afternoon (the winner of which will qualify to Worlds).  None of the current Olympians were there, having declined their spot in the tournament.
 
Got some free swag  

 
These people would yell 'Peel! Peel! Peel' whever someone would peel a stone.

 
Got to see the measuring instrument in action.

 
And yes, Matt Hamilton and Colin Hufman had sleeveless jerseys on.

Don't know if someone else is collecting Euro coins, but since we joined the zone it's been fun looking at what you can get. 
 
It took only 2 months, but today i finally got my first Slovakian coin.  @hckošice  

Don't know if someone else is collecting Euro coins, but since we joined the zone it's been fun looking at what you can get. 
 
It took only 2 months, but today i finally got my first Slovakian coin.  @hckošice  

Interesting, for only 2 months i think i have seen some kind of coin from all of the big countries - Germany, Italy, Spain, Holland, France, Portugal, Belgium, Finland, Ireland and yes the 2 euro from Croatia. But some of them were the smaller ones, 10, 5, 2 cents. 
 
Expectedly there aren't any from the smaller countries so far. Nothing from the Baltics, Cyprus, Slovenia, Malta, Andorra etc. But also a bit surprising i haven't seen any from Greece yet. 
 
Don't know from what part of Italy are you, but it's safe to say that when summer hits there will be a lot of Bulgarians visiting Rome, so i'm sure they'll bring some of our coins to spread around.

Don't know if someone else is collecting Euro coins, but since we joined the zone it's been fun looking at what you can get. 
 
It took only 2 months, but today i finally got my first Slovakian coin.  @hckošice  

With the end of yet another Olympic Games comes the time of my traditional round-up of the activity in the forum. And we have a new record for a Winter Games, at least when it comes to the last 3 editions. 
 
One factor is that we had them back in Europe in a much more convenient time zone for many users, than the last two, which were in Asia.
 
Also having stuff before the Opening Ceremony plays a big factor, as Curling took advantage of the concentration of eyes early on. Having the largest program in sessions helps as well. 
 

The best part of last nights closing ceremony was the highlight montage Eurosport made.
 
Anyone who didn't see it NEEDS to see it. Amazing.   Probably my second favourite montage of an OG after the London one in 2012.
 

 

The best part of last nights closing ceremony was the highlight montage Eurosport made.
 
Anyone who didn't see it NEEDS to see it. Amazing.   Probably my second favourite montage of an OG after the London one in 2012.
 

 

With the end of yet another Olympic Games comes the time of my traditional round-up of the activity in the forum. And we have a new record for a Winter Games, at least when it comes to the last 3 editions. 
 
One factor is that we had them back in Europe in a much more convenient time zone for many users, than the last two, which were in Asia.
 
Also having stuff before the Opening Ceremony plays a big factor, as Curling took advantage of the concentration of eyes early on. Having the largest program in sessions helps as well. 
 

With the end of yet another Olympic Games comes the time of my traditional round-up of the activity in the forum. And we have a new record for a Winter Games, at least when it comes to the last 3 editions. 
 
One factor is that we had them back in Europe in a much more convenient time zone for many users, than the last two, which were in Asia.
 
Also having stuff before the Opening Ceremony plays a big factor, as Curling took advantage of the concentration of eyes early on. Having the largest program in sessions helps as well. 
 

With the end of yet another Olympic Games comes the time of my traditional round-up of the activity in the forum. And we have a new record for a Winter Games, at least when it comes to the last 3 editions. 
 
One factor is that we had them back in Europe in a much more convenient time zone for many users, than the last two, which were in Asia.
 
Also having stuff before the Opening Ceremony plays a big factor, as Curling took advantage of the concentration of eyes early on. Having the largest program in sessions helps as well. 
 

With the end of yet another Olympic Games comes the time of my traditional round-up of the activity in the forum. And we have a new record for a Winter Games, at least when it comes to the last 3 editions. 
 
One factor is that we had them back in Europe in a much more convenient time zone for many users, than the last two, which were in Asia.
 
Also having stuff before the Opening Ceremony plays a big factor, as Curling took advantage of the concentration of eyes early on. Having the largest program in sessions helps as well. 
 

With the end of yet another Olympic Games comes the time of my traditional round-up of the activity in the forum. And we have a new record for a Winter Games, at least when it comes to the last 3 editions. 
 
One factor is that we had them back in Europe in a much more convenient time zone for many users, than the last two, which were in Asia.
 
Also having stuff before the Opening Ceremony plays a big factor, as Curling took advantage of the concentration of eyes early on. Having the largest program in sessions helps as well. 
 

With the end of yet another Olympic Games comes the time of my traditional round-up of the activity in the forum. And we have a new record for a Winter Games, at least when it comes to the last 3 editions. 
 
One factor is that we had them back in Europe in a much more convenient time zone for many users, than the last two, which were in Asia.
 
Also having stuff before the Opening Ceremony plays a big factor, as Curling took advantage of the concentration of eyes early on. Having the largest program in sessions helps as well. 
 

With the end of yet another Olympic Games comes the time of my traditional round-up of the activity in the forum. And we have a new record for a Winter Games, at least when it comes to the last 3 editions. 
 
One factor is that we had them back in Europe in a much more convenient time zone for many users, than the last two, which were in Asia.
 
Also having stuff before the Opening Ceremony plays a big factor, as Curling took advantage of the concentration of eyes early on. Having the largest program in sessions helps as well. 
 

God the scheduling is so awful these last couple of days. Why is speed skating starting now and not in half an hour or 45 minutes, when the hockey match will be over. There is nothing going on in the next 2.5 hours beside this..

MOST AND LEAST PREDICTABLE SPORTS
 
Below is a graph that shows you how we did as a group in the individual sports.  The lower the number, the lower the predictability.  The higher the number, the higher the predictability.
 
As for scoring, a score of 66% means on average, we guessed two medallists correctly, but the third medallist was not guessed at all.
A score of 50% means that we got one medallist completely correct, and then got the placement wrong for one other medallist, and the third medallist was unknown.  Or, it could mean we guessed the three podium finishers, just in the wrong order.
A score of 33% means that we got one medallist correct, but the other two were not guessed at all (even for other medals).
 

 
I think our top and bottom finishers are to be expected.
 
 
MOST AND LEAST PREDICTABLE DISCIPLINES
 
Events where we guessed the Gold Medallist 100%:

 
Events where we guessed the Gold Medallist 0% (nobody guessed it correctly, but maybe for another medal):

 
Our Average Gold Medal Correct Guess was 45%
 
 
Our Least Predictable Disciplines:

 
Our Most Predictable Disiplines:

 
Our average, across all disciplines, for total podium makeup is 48%.
 
Full Discipline Results by Predictability:


 
What I learned this Olympics: Though there are favorites...the Olympics causes anything to happen!   
 
Thanks for playing, everyone!  I won't be doing this in the future, as it took away from my enjoyment of the Olympics somewhat (both in the hosting and the predicting myself), but I look forward to the next Olympics cycle!