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Alejandro Blanco didn't say anything about the favorite bid of IOC, but some Spanish journalists suggested Egypt, India or Germany as the potential favorites of Thomas Bach.

Madrid will not bid. Apparently IOC has said to the Spanish NOC president that they have other preferences for 2036 and it is not worth bidding. Spain will keep the bid for the 2030 WOG, though.

I would keep the current date. Btw, is in.

The city of Barcelona is not supporting the Games. The only ones supporting the bid right now are the Spanish NOC and the Pyrenees small towns, so it is quite difficult to take off given the circumstances. At this point the bid is just a political weapon to be used as leverage between political parties in Catalonia and Aragon. And Madrid is preparing to bid for 2036...

@OlympicIRLWill you update the Statistics Thread in a future?

Congratulations @Hipooo! I'm very happy for you and I'm looking forward to see what you prepare for the next year. As I said when I was giving the points, big thanks to @Dnlfor hosting this edition. Personally, after 2 very bad editions, I am very happy to tie my personal record again with this 6th place, but this time beating my previous point record (118 from my 1st participation in Open 2019), which is even better. Big thanks to all the juries from 19 countries who have given points to "La Oreja de Van Gogh": @kungshamra71(2nd time in 5 editions that I got a gold medal. I'm glad that the song brought you memories! I liked the Portuguese song too and in fact i added it to my main playlist ) @Hipooo @catgamer @Damian(I think that your song deserved better. I regret not giving it a few points) @Belle @IoNuTzZ @Ionoutz24 @NikolaB(Serbia is the only country giving Spain at least 1 point for the last 5 editions, so thanks for that ) @Griff88 @Gianlu33@Henry_Leon @Pablita @SteveParker (I don't know who voted for my song this time, but thank you all. I'm really glad you picked Franco Battiato this year, he was relatively popular in Spain and I felt sorry when I heard he died). @hckošice @dophuquy @Vic Liu @Federer91 @Benolympique @Bohemia @EupenM @Laraja @LuizGuilherme@titicow (I don't know who voted for my song this time, but thank you all) @Glen @heywoodu @intoronto It was also the first time (at leats since I'm participating) that Canada, Czech Republic, Sweden, Colombia, Vietnam and Romania gave points to Spain. This means that Greece, Hungary and the US are the only countries who have never awarded us a single point.

My reserves were Kazakhstan, Colombia and Lithuania. Sorry @konig The week I listened to the songs I was a bit stressed and that kind of music didn't catch my attention so much, but the song was good and I would have probably given it some points if I had to vote again today.

Spain New Zealand 12 Portugal 11 Italy 10 The Netherlands 9 Denmark 8 Slovakia 7 Czech Republic 6 Ireland 5 Sweden 4 Mexico 3 United States 2 China 1

Any guesses for my 12 points?

Spain Portugal 11 Italy 10 The Netherlands 9 Denmark 8 Slovakia 7 Czech Republic 6 Ireland 5 Sweden 4 Mexico 3 United States 2 China 1

Spain Greetings in Native Language: ¡Un placer haber participado una edición más en el TISC! Muchas gracias al anfitrión por hacerlo posible. English Translation: It has been a pleasure to participate one more year in the TISC! Thank you very much to the host for making it possible. Italy 10 The Netherlands 9 Denmark 8 Slovakia 7 Czech Republic 6 Ireland 5 Sweden 4 Mexico 3 United States 2 China 1

I just arrived to post my votes in a few minutes. Could you send me the template @Dnl? I didn't have time to do it myself.

I just realized that Spain finished just one position better than Croatia in both Open 2020 and Annual 2021 (25th and 24th) At least this edition is going a little bit better for me.

Thanks everybody for the points, specially @kungshamra71for those 12 points I will leave in a few minutes but I will try to be back this afternoon to post my votes. If I'm not mistaken, this is the scoreboard after 6 countries: # NOC TOT 1 FRA 38 2 NZL 38 3 CZE 37 4 SWE 36 5 GER 29 6 ESP 27 7 IRL 23 8 DEN 22 9 MDA 19 10 USA 18 11 POL 17 12 UKR 16 13 CAN 14 14 KAZ 14 15 LIT 13 16 SRB 12 17 HUN 11 18 VIE 11 19 BRA 10 20 ROU 10 21 GBR 9 22 GRE 7 23 CRO 6 24 ITA 6 25 POR 6 26 MEX 5 27 NED 4 28 ARG 3 29 ISR 3 30 CHN 2 31 MAL 2 32 BUL 0 32 COL 0 32 INA 0 32 IND 0 32 SLO 0 32 SVK 0

I did my first listening a couple of days ago and 17 songs made my first cut. I'm a bit busy these days but I hope I can have time this weekend to listen to the songs at least 2 more times before sending the votes.

Yeah. Nobody cares about winter sports in Spain and the Winter Olympics would be a waste of money. The Summer Olympics would have much more popular support if they don't spend too much money building new venues.

2030 in Spain is impossible. There are too many parties involved in the event with very antagonic views. We have the central government (PSOE, social democrats and the ones who re-started the project), two regional governments (Aragon is led by PSOE, but they feel discriminated for not including the region or the city of Zaragoza in the official naming, and Catalonia, led by ERC, who are also very interested because they will use it as a political tool) and two local governments (Barcelona is led by En Comú Podem/Podemos, non-secessionist left/green party, which doesn't want to host the Games, and the Pirineus towns led by Junts, right secessionist party, who like the idea but they don't want to do it with the central government). And then there is Madrid (PP, right) who already started to prepare the candidature for the 2036 Olympics but they can't make it official until the 2030 candidature fails. Alejandro Blanco is just playing games with the press.

Spain won 2 games and even scored against Italy

It's always nice to win, but it was just a friendly game. Besides, the match would have been more entertained if Bonucci wasn't kicked out so early.

It's true that our NOC president said that the candidature would have some venues outside of Madrid to save some money and he specifically mentioned Barcelona (swimming), La Seu (canoeing slalom), Sevilla (rowing and sprint canoeing) and Palma/Valencia (track cycling). Right now none of these sports has a proper venue in Madrid, but in the case of swimming last year the city approved extra funding to continue building a big swimming complex close to the Wanda Metropolitano, so they will probably won't need to have it in Barcelona.

Yeah... That song is beautiful and sad at the same time It was one of the candidate songs that I had and maybe I will send it in the future.

SPANISH ENTRY La Oreja de Van Gogh - 20 de Enero Lyrics (Spanish): Lyrics (English): La Oreja de Van Gogh is the most succesful Spanish pop-rock band. They started playing together in 1996 and they are still active today, although the female singer was replaced in 2007 (Leire Martínez replaced Amaia Montero, who decided to leave the band). The song that I have chosen to represent Spain this year was the second single of their second album, "Lo que te conté mientras te hacías la dormida", released in 2003. It isn't the most popular song of LODVG at all, but at that time it was a big success for being one of the first Spanish songs with an animated videoclip. It's also a very different style compared to the greatest hits of the band (Jueves, Rosas or La Playa), so I recommend you to check out these songs if you are interested in knowing the musical taste of Spain in the early 2000s. I hope you enjoy it!

is in. I have already decided the artist, but I'm not sure which song I will send.

We haven't opened a specific thread yet, but Madrid has announced today that the city will bid (again) for the 2036 Summer Olympics.

Congratulations @Dnl! I'm sure you will be a great host.