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[hide] Medal Matches December 20th, 2020 Third Place Match Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 December 20th 2020, h. 15:30 Croatia 7 Denmark Final Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 December 20th 2020, h. 18:00 France 2 Norway [/hide]

First disciplines are officially confirmed by the EOC. You can guess, which one I'm most happy about - I bet you hit within the first shot

You mean with a bob of... Slovenia?

There was a chance for a Portuguese curler in a Polish league, but he decided to drop out curling just ahead of the postponement of the league.

[hide] Semifinals December 18th, 2020 4 Nations, the 2 Winners from each Semifinal will qualify for the Final. The 2 losers from each Semifinal will play the Third Place Match. Semifinals Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 December 18th 2020, h. 18:00 France 9 Croatia December 18th 2020, h. 20:30 Norway 3 Denmark [/hide]

OK, IOC will do that, no problem.

USA, swastikas and Morcco within just a few hours in a single thread.

[hide] Main Round December 10th - December 15th, 2020 12 Nations, 2 Groups, the 1st and 2nd Nation from each Group will qualify for the Semifinals Group 1 Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 December 10th 2020 Montenegro 4 Sweden December 10th 2020 Denmark 7 Spain December 11th 2020 France 2 Russia December 11th 2020 Denmark 5 Sweden December 13th 2020 Montenegro 3 Russia December 13th 2020 France 6 Spain December 15th 2020 France 5 Sweden December 15th 2020 Denmark 2 Russia December 15th 2020 Montenegro 3 Spain Group 2 Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 December 10th 2020 Netherlands 4 Germany December 10th 2020 Croatia 6 Norway December 12th 2020 Hungary 5 Romania December 12th 2020 Netherlands 2 Norway December 14th 2020 Hungary 3 Germany December 14th 2020 Croatia 1 Romania December 15th 2020 Croatia 2 Germany December 15th 2020 Hungary 5 Norway December 15th 2020 Netherlands 8 Romania [/hide]

@Vektor- you are from one of only two privileged nations to have tested the new format and you are the one to ask? It's three semifinals with 12 athletes each and from that comes 12 finalists. - Round robin fencing being held, as it is now at big events, a day before everything and counting for the rest of the competition, as I understand. - Riding with less obstacles (to make it shorter) and it starts with it so that the longest warm-up would not be between the events. - Swimming in a "cool small pool" @hckosice - yes, indeed, it looks cool, it was in Budapest at the World Champs and it makes quite an impressive view - the problem is it's provisional, so only one official photoreporter was allowed to come to make photos (that's not very "media friendly") - Fencing would be just the bonus round - I read the point value in that would be increased as it's one point for victory now and athletes don't really want to start in it, but they introduced a rule that they won't be allowed to take part in other events if they don't take part - which is the only such case in the whole pentathlon. - Laser-run would be shorter with 600 m lap only - maybe a better balance, but possibly fewer interesting chases down the course. And most of the warm-ups are dramatically shortened - it's 20 minutes for swimming now (and you have much more time to change clothes), with ten minutes of break between warm-up and start of the first heat (to change from warm-up to competition suit), and there is a swimming cool-down after the session. In fencing it's 30 minutes now (usually bonus round is either held right after the round robin or at bigger events quite a time after swimming), and there is 27 minutes of laser-run warm up (starting quite close to the finish of the last rider, which causes him or her to lose some of that time to change from riding to running clothes) with a three-minute long break before the start to set the order at the start line.

Professor Wojciech Zabłocki, one of the biggest Polish fencers and a great architect (he was the one to build the cycling track in Pruszków) has died recently. He was a widower after a famous Polish actress Alina Janowska. With his dead we got to know that his teammate from 1950s, Jerzy Twardokens also died a few years ago. Twardokens emigrated to USA in 1958 and started using the name George, became a doctor at the University of Nevada, his daughter is Eva Twardokens, Olympic alpine skier who survived the plane crash last year. The strangest thing about his death is that until he wasn't mentioned by one of the journalists as one of those "waiting for Zabłocki on a God's piste" yesterday. Apparently we've all thought it's a fake news as there was no news about it anywhere, not only from Polish or American media, but even on Olympedia, which is a strange thing for Olympian (Helsinki 1952) and World Championships medalist, being part of such a great team as him, Zabłocki or Pawłowski. But with a little bit of deeper research (which was needed after I asked for a dementi of that info and the editor-in-chief of the newspaper gave the date of 26th July 2015) we've found the confirmation - and @Dragon has already updated Olympedia thanks to that. Still it sounds quite impossible that such a person's death remains unnoticed by the internet. And yet it shows the power of that certain journalist - he's celebrating 50 years of work for the biggest Polish sports newspaper this year and he is nominated to the most prestigious sport journalist award in Poland, which will be given tomorrow (it's the Bohdan Tomaszewski Award - you might know the patron from the official Olympic Movie from Moscow as he was shown commentating the gold of Malinowski in 3000 m steeplechase: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xipsGMJDVpw - I personally refer to the journalists awarded with it as "The Order of the Garter of the Polish Sports Journalism" - and there's not a single one I doubt deserve it).

Just as surfing, which was also... oh, wait.

"No new events" - except for extreme slalom, mixed sailing.. oh, go to fuck with your words, Thomas, they don't mean a shit.

Is that Bach or his Doppelgänger? Strong words on Belarus, no new events... WTF?

Ready to head for Brno, but who knows, where will we be in 2025. A year ago we were just half a year to Tokyo 2020. And we still are.

So French, my dear Captain Renaud.

Lena's sisters

I'm comming!

Don't you have enough of bubbles in sport this year?

Greetings from Chloe Esposito and Ismael Herndez Uscanga - Rio 2016 medalists. Greetings from Ahmed El Gendy and Salma Abdelmaksoud - YOG champions from Buenos Aires.

[hide] Preliminary Round December 3rd - December 8th, 2020 16 Nations, 4 Groups, the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Nation from each Group will qualify for the Main Round Group A Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 December 4th 2020, h. 18:15 France 6 Montenegro December 4th 2020, h. 20:30 Denmark 9 Slovenia December 6th 2020, h. 18:15 Slovenia 4 France December 6th 2020, h. 20:30 Montenegro 3 Denmark December 8th 2020, h. 18:15 Montenegro 4 Slovenia December 8th 2020, h. 20:30 France 2 Denmark Group B Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 December 3rd 2020, h. 18:15 Russia 6 Spain December 3rd 2020, h. 20:30 Sweden 7 Czech Republic December 5th 2020, h. 18:15 Czech Republic 9 Russia December 5th 2020, h. 20:30 Spain 3 Sweden December 7th 2020, h. 18:15 Spain 11 Czech Republic December 7th 2020, h. 20:30 Russia 5 Sweden Group C Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 December 4th 2020, h. 18:15 Hungary 5 Croatia December 4th 2020, h. 20:30 Netherlands 4 Serbia December 6th 2020, h. 16:00 Serbia 2 Hungary December 6th 2020, h. 18:15 Croatia 7 Netherlands December 8th 2020, h. 18:15 Serbia 4 Croatia December 8th 2020, h. 20:30 Netherlands 5 Hungary Group D Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 December 3rd 2020, h. 18:00 Romania 2 Germany December 3rd 2020, h. 20:30 Norway 13 Poland December 5th 2020, h. 16:00 Poland 7 Romania December 5th 2020, h. 18:15 Germany 9 Norway December 7th 2020, h. 18:15 Germany 1 Poland December 7th 2020, h. 20:30 Romania 5 Norway Top 3 Place 1st Place 2nd Place 3rd Place Nation Norway Hol... I mean, The Netherlands France [/hide]

Lack of opposition is a basic symptom of autocracy. Adding also the personal cult show made during the last IOC Session, it seems we can start talking about the Olympic Reich instead of Committee.

Good that van der Merwe is paid for parking instead of racing. If someone doesn't know the story - that's what Lauda said asked why he hadn't helped Williamson in Zandvoort. Three years later... well, that's a story you probably know.