Vojthas

Because there's no life in North Korea.

In Poland there's a law that no NF president can serve longer than two terms of 4 years. Isn't that a government interference?

BREAKING: Curling qualifying system accepted by the IOC. Probably this is its first public release, here at Totallympics. Naturally, it was already sent to NOCs and NFs. Curling.pdf

Usually it was FIFA WWC for the best European nations. Might be the same with Africa this time as well if the Women AFCON won't be held in early 2024 (usually it was November/December).

[hide] Group Stage July 6th - July 18th, 2022 16 Nations, 4 Groups, the 1st and 2nd-placed Nations from each Group will qualify for the Quarterfinals. Group A Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 July 6th 2022, h. 20:00 England 2 1 Austria July 7th 2022, h. 20:00 Norway 3 0 Northern Ireland July 11th 2022, h. 17:00 Austria 2 0 Northern Ireland July 11th 2022, h. 20:00 England 1 1 Norway July 15th 2022, h. 2000 Northern Ireland 1 2 England July 15th 2022, h. 20:00 Austria 0 2 Norway Group B Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 July 8th 2022, h. 17:00 Spain 4 0 Finland July 8th 2022, h. 20:00 Germany 3 1 Denmark July 12th 2022, h. 17:00 Denmark 2 2 Finland July 12th 2022, h. 20:00 Germany 1 2 Spain July 16th 2022, h. 20:00 Finland 0 3 Germany July 16th 2022, h. 20:00 Denmark 1 4 Spain Group C Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 July 9th 2022, h. 17:00 Portugal 1 2 Switzerland July 9th 2022, h. 20:00 Netherlands 2 3 Sweden July 13th 2022, h. 17:00 Sweden 3 0 Switzerland July 13th 2022, h. 20:00 Netherlands 4 0 Portugal July 17th 2022, h. 17:00 Switzerland 1 3 Netherlands July 17th 2022, h. 17:00 Sweden 5 0 Portugal 0 Group D Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 July 10th 2022, h. 17:00 Belgium 2 1 Iceland July 10th 2022, h. 20:00 France 2 0 Italy July 10th 2022, h. 17:00 Italy 2 0 Iceland July 10th 2022, h. 20:00 France 2 1 Belgium July 18th 2022, h. 20:00 Iceland 1 3 France July 18th 2022, h. 20:00 Italy 1 1 Belgium Finalists Place 1st 2nd Nation Sweden Spain [/hide]

The Pentathlon Stadium just makes an impression of WOW! I was in Budapest at 2019 WCH - it gives you this WOW, that it's possible to make such a job. From the practical point of view - it's on the same side as Beijing 2008 or Sochi 2014 Opening Ceremonies.

From that point of view it is indeed enjoyable. The thing is - no specific warm-up for specific discipline. Forget about beating the records in swimming. The athletes say the seeding for swimming series according to pentathlon result is also against their performance - when you swim along with people on a similar level, you battle them, when you have such differences you don't really have any reference point. They also say it doesn't look good in TV with such huge difference, but I say it finally shows how swimming is part of pentathlon instead of just a single discipline.

The very first quotas to be decided.

MTB started the ranking

But the Albstadt short doesn't count. The ranking started on Saturday, the short one was on Friday. MTB.xlsx

I was hoping for UCI to prepare an Olympic Ranking as well with their newest update of the World Ranking. But maybe the Totallympians will sum up, how it goes week by week?

Where do we have the football system from?

Samaranch Jr, Prince Albert II, baron de Coubertin itself...

No, they're not - Samaranch Jr denied this. The IOC just wants a change towards the public. It can be done easily with riding being reformed, but even dropping the riding will not help, if all the competitions are behind a paywall and the TVs who have the TV broadcasting rights are not getting any material, because there is no TV broadcast material - only the UIPM TV is broadcasting. The next thing - IOC wants the athletes in the core of decision making process. The athletes are punished for any protest against dropping the riding - Taishu Sato got a yellow card when he appeared on the fencing piste holding a T-shirt saying "keep riding" - there is no rule he broke. Marek Grycz says the athletes were threatened with exclusion for having such a T-shirt by the Technical Delegate Ágnes Kulcsár - also no rule broken. The obstacle run was already chosen before the UIPM Congress - that's why among the criteria for the new 5th discipline there was a one saying "it cannot be under governance of any IOC recognized organization" - this is something totally different to fencing and swimming (and in some way running and shooting). This brought obstacle run as a favorite - Rob Stull is both, the Americas representative in the Board of World Obstacle and a president of American Confederation of Modern Pentathlon. Also an announcer (or a screamer would be more appropriate word) at most UIPM competitions for almost a decade already. John Helmick, the treasurer of UIPM, said that "they are the athletes" - because most of the UIPM EB members used to compete in pentathlon. That's their way of "athletes in core of decision process".

It seems Poland will open the qualification rankings in two sports. European Triathlon Championships in Olsztyn are to be the first event counted towards the Olympic Ranking while the Gradi Polish Open (Pro Golf Tour event) will be played in the first week counting in the Olympic Golf Ranking.

If I count it correctly (I know, I've never done that correctly before Sochi and PyeongChang) there is only 10 mixed teams qualified and there is a problem with 1000 m men - after reaching the 56 men, the quota should go to but it would be their eighth, so it should give them the 5th athlete and exceed the 56 maximum. So does it go to the next non-colliding (China and Italy) or simply Netherlands doesn't get the fifth athlete, but gets the eighth quota and third in 1000 men. Similar applies to Canada in 1500 men. No problem among women. PS. To be sure - is it the athlete "by name" or "China 1", "Korea 1", "China 2" at each WC stage counting to "China 1" etc. overall?

The atmosphere at the end of the - game was great! Sorry, @heywoodu, this time it's for us.

You want me to use Google Translate for Slovakian?

What have I missed?

[hide] General (25) 1 - The number of Asian NOCs that win a medal will be higher than the number of Pan American NOCs that win a medal. [YES - 4] 2 - A medalist from the 2017 Jeux de la Francophonie will win a medal. [YES - 6] 3 - At least one individual medallist from Athens 2004 will win an individual medal. [YES - 3] 4 - Japan will win at least 3 medals in team sports. [YES - 9] 5 - Spain will win more than 22 medals (their record). [NO - 5] 6 - The youngest medallist will be younger than 14. [NO - 7] 7 - United States will win at least 10 medals in team sports. [NO - 6] 8 - Will North Macedonia get a medal at this edition of Olympics. [YES - 2] 9 - India will win 7 or more total medals, surpassing their highest ever number for a single edition. [NO - 3] 10 - Philippines or Malaysia will win their first olympic gold medal. [YES - 5] 11 - Sweden will win more gold medals than Norway. [YES - 4] 12 - The number of gold medals won by Brazil will be equal or lower than the number of gold medals won by all other south american nations added up. [YES - 3] 13 - Host nation Japan wins at least 10 gold medals. [YES - 7] 14 - At least one athlete will test positive for cannabis. [NO - 2] 15 - Malaysia will win a gold medal. [YES - 4] 16 - At least one nation will win its first ever olympic medal. [YES - 8] 17 - No nordic nation (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden) will win more than 10 medals. [NO - 4] 18 - Bahrain will maximum win one medal. [NO - 2] 19 - Canada will win at least 23 medals. [YES - 6] 20 - Jamaica's female athletes will stand/win at least 3/4 of Jamaica's medals overall. [YES - 7] 21 - Netherlands will win at least 24 medals. [YES - 9] 22 - Italy will be ranked higher in the overall medal table in Tokyo than their 9th place in Rio 2016. [NO - 10] 23 - ROC, France and Germany will end up higher in the overall medal table than Great Britain. [NO - 9] 24 - At least one nation will win 6 medals, but none of gold. [YES - 10] 25 - At least one nation from every continent (the five olympic continents) will be represented in the top 20 in the medal table. [YES - 9] Aquatics - Diving (2) 26 - Canada will win at least three medals overall. [NO - 8] 27 - Great Britain will win silver medals in both men's synchronized events. [YES - 5] Aquatics - Swimming (10) 28 - United States will win a medal in every relay event [YES - 10] 29 - In at least two events in swimming there will be a tie for a medal position. [NO - 6] 30 - Japan will end above China in the swimming medal table. [YES - 8] 31 - Caeleb Dressel will set at least one world record. [YES - 3] 32 - Italy will win at least one gold medal. [YES - 5] 33 - Katinka Hosszu will not win a medal. [NO - 3] 34 - Ariarne Titimus will win gold in women's 200m and 400m freestyle [NO - 1] 35 - Every continent (Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, North and South America) will be represented in the swimming medal table. [YES - 5] 36 - Kliment Kolesnikov, Evgeny Rylov and Kristof Milak will combined win at least 6 individual medals. [YES - 2] 37 - At least two Rio 2016-medallists from the marathon swimming events will win a medal in Tokyo. [NO - 1] Aquatics - Synchronized Swimming (1) 38 - China will win silver medals in both duet and team event. [NO - 7] Aquatics - Water Polo (2) 39 - Women's tournament - United States will win all their matches with a goal difference of a least four goals in each match. [NO - 1] 40 - Men's tournament - At least two of the three nations that won a medal in Rio 2016 will again be on the podum (not necessarily in the same place). [YES - 6] Archery (2) 41 - There will be at least one event with a podium with only Asian athletes/teams on it. [YES - 2] 42 - 13 or more nations will be represented in the quarterfinals in men's and women's individual events combined. [NO - 5] Athletics (13) 43 - There will be a podium sweep i.e all medals won by one nation in at least one event . [YES - 1] 44 - At least two world records will be broken in the field events (including decathlon and heptathlon). [YES - 3] 45 - United States will combined win 6 or more medals in the 100m and 200m events. [YES - 7] 46 - Wayde van Niekerk will win a medal. [YES - 8] 47 - All race walk gold medals will be won by Asian nations. [NO - 2] 48 - Ukraine will win two medals in women's high jump. [YES - 4] 49 - Japan will win at least one medal excluding race walk events and relays. [NO - 1] 50 - At least two athletes in men's pole vault will get over 6.00m. [YES - 8] 51 - Yulimar Rojas will have at least three jumps over 15.18m in women's triple jump final. [YES - 3] 52 - 3 or more relay teams will be disqualified or DNF in the 100m relay events finals. [NO - 1] 53 - Joshua Cheptegei will not win any gold medals. [NO - 1] 54 - The combined score of men's decathlon and women's heptathlon will be 15.715 or higher. [NO - 4] 55 - Kenya will not win any gold medals in the 800m and 1500m for both men and women. [NO - 10] Badminton (2) 56 - Japan will win a medal in three of the five events [NO - 3] 57 - Four out of five finals will be in three sets [YES - 2] Baseball (1) 58 - Two Asian teams will be on the podium [NO - 6] Basketball (2) 59 - Women's Tournament - United States will win all their matches with a difference of more than 20 points. [YES - 6] 60 - Men's Tournament - France will be the best-placed European team. [NO - 7] Basketball 3x3 (2) 61 - Women's Tournament - Mongolia will score 10 or less points in all of their games. [NO - 8] 62 - Men's Tournament - The two finalists will both be European teams. [NO - 4] Boxing (2) 63 - Great Britain and Ireland will win the same amount of gold medals [NO - 2] 64 - In at least two of the weight classes none of the top four seeded boxers will be on the podium. [NO - 3] Canoeing - Slalom (2) 65 - There will be at least one missed gate (50 seconds penalty) in one of the men's finals. [YES - 10] 66 - None of the semifinal winners will end up winning gold. [NO - 9] Canoeing - Sprint (2) 67 - The boat leading after 250m in men's K-4 will win gold . [YES - 4] 68 - Lisa Carrington will win at least 3 medals. [YES - 5] Cycling - BMX (2) 69 - Colombia will win two medals in the BMX racing events. [YES - 9] 70 - United States will win gold in both BMX freestyle events. [NO - 5] Cycling - Mountain Bike (2) 71 - There will be less than 20 seconds between 1st and 2nd place in the men's race. [YES - 2] 72 - Both Pauline Ferrand Prevot and Sina Frei will be on the podium in women's race. [NO - 5] Cycling - Road (2) 73 - Rohan Dennis will beat Filippo Ganna in men's time trial. [YES - 1] 74 - Women's road race will be decided in a sprint (less than 5 seconds between 1st and 2nd place). [YES - 9] Cycling - Track (3) 75 - A female athlete will win at least two individual medals. [NO - 7] 76 - At least two world records will be broken. [YES - 7] 77 - Netherlands will top the medal table.[NO - 3] Equestrian (2) 78 - Australia will finish inside the Top 8 in all three team events. [YES - 10] 79 - At least ten athletes will enter the medal jump-off in the individual jumping. [NO - 6] Fencing (2) 80 - At least one fencer seeded 17th or worst in the individual events will win a medal. [YES - 8] 81 - At least one nation will win more than one gold medal in the team events. [YES - 10] Field Hockey (2) 82 - At least one medal match will finish without any goals scored from penalty corners. [YES - 2] 83 - Women's Tournament - The defending gold medallists from Rio 2016, Great Britain, will be eliminated in the quarterfinals. [NO - 10] Football (2) 84 - Both gold medallists will be among teams who won their group in the pool phase. [YES - 8] 85 - Women's Tournament - United States will concede a maximum of one goal in the pool phase. [NO - 6] Golf (2) 86 - Both gold medals will be won by an athlete from an Asian country. [NO - 8] 87 - Rory Sabbatini (SVK) will finish ahead of Ondrej Lieser (CZE) in men's event. [YES - 7] Gymnastics - Artistic (3) 88 - Women's Balance Beam - At least three athletes will fall off the beam during the apparatus final. [NO - 9] 89 - Turkey will win their first ever olympic medal in gymnastics. [YES - 10] 90 - Epke Zonderland will be the oldest medallists. [NO - 1] Gymnastics - Rhythmic (1) 91 - Bulgaria and Italy will get medals in the group all-around event. [NO - 9] Gymnastics - Trampoline (1) 92 - The point difference between 1st and 3rd place in the men's and women's event finals will combined (both event included) be 2.75 or less. [NO - 1] Handball (2) 93 - A non-European team will make it to the semifinals (Men's or Women's). [NO - 6] 94 - Men's Tournament - The top scorer will be a wing player. [NO - 2] Judo (2) 95 - Japan will win at least 7 medals. [YES - 5] 96 - Kosovo will win two medals. [YES - 7] Karate (2) 97 - At least 12 different countries will win one medal. [NO - 4] 98 - Turkey will be the European nation with most medal (In case they equal with another European nation the answer to the question will be no). [NO - 3] Modern Pentathlon (2) 99 - At least one athlete (male or female) will win less than 8 matches in the preliminary fencing round. [YES - 9] 100 - Egypt will have at least two athletes in the top 6 in the two events combined. (Two athletes in the top 6 in either men's or women's event or one female and one male athlete that will get a top 6 place each). [NO - 8] Rowing (3) 101 - Denmark will win at least three medals. [NO - 4] 102 - 16 or fewer nations will win a medal overall. [YES - 6] 103 - The 1st and 2nd place in women's eight will be decided by 2.2 seconds or fewer. [YES - 5] Rugby Sevens (2) 104 - In both men's and women's tournaments there will be no European team on the podium. [YES - 2] 105 - New Zealand will be the best placed team from Oceania in both men's and women's tournament. [NO - 3] Sailing (2) 106 - Papua New Guinea will finish last in both Men's Laser and Women's Laser Radial classes. [NO - 1] 107 - The two French windsurfers, Goyard and Picon, will have a combined total place that is better or equal-placed than/with Great Britain's two windsurfers, Squires and Wilson. [YES - 1] Shooting (3) 108 - In at least one event final (among 50m rifle 3P, 10m air rifle, 10m pistol, skeet, trap) the score of the women's gold medallist will be higher than the score of the men's gold medallist. [YES - 10] 109 - In at least one individual event, the leader after the qualification stage will end up last in the final. [NO - 9] 110 - At least one nation will win more than one medal in a single mixed team event. [YES - 7] Skateboard (2) 111 - Will there be a clean sweep (all podium places won by one nation) in a skateboarding event. [NO - 10] Softball (1) 112 - Italy will finish 6th. [NO - 3] Sport Climbing (1) 113 - In women’s combined, the winner of speed climbing in the qualification round will qualify to the combined final. [YES - 10] Surfing (2) 114 - Will any european country get a medal in surfing. [NO - 6] 115 - At least one medalist (men's or women's) will be a surfer that didn't take part in any stage (contested prior to the 2020 Olympic Games) of the 2021 World Surf League. [NO - 2] Table Tennis (2) 116 - At least one of the following athletes will score a first round victory - Ibrahima Diaw (SEN), Yoshua Shing (VAN), Dodji Fanny (TOG), Hend Zaza (SYR). Batmönkhiin Bolor-Erdene (MGL), Sarah de Nutte (LUX). [YES - 5] 117 - Australia will lose both opening team matches (men and women) 3:0. [YES - 8] Taekwondo (2) 118 - At least 20 nations will win a medal. [YES - 4] 119 - At least one nation will win its first Olympic medal in Taekwondo. [YES - 8] Tennis (2) 120 - The singles gold medal in either men or women event will be won by a non-Grand Slam singles winner. [NO - 7] 121 - An athlete will win medals in singles AND doubles OR singles AND mixed event. [YES - 4] Triathlon (2) 122 - Mixed Relay event - France will be better ranked than Great Britain and Australia will be better ranked than New Zealand. [NO - 5] 123 - Great Britain will not win a medal in men's event. [NO - 6] Volleyball - Indoor (2) 124 - Men's tournament - There will be three teams on the podium that played in the same group during the Group Stage. [NO - 9] 125 - Women's tournament - It will be a repeat of the 2018 World Championship podium (Doesn't have to be in the same order). [YES - 9] Volleyball - Beach (1) 126 - Brazil will win one medal or none in both men's or women's beach volleyball tournaments. [NO - 10] Weightlifting (2) 127 - At least one Chinese athete will get three invalid lifts in either snatch or clean & jerk. [NO - 7] 128 - At least two world records will be broken (snatch, clean and jerk or overall). [YES - 8] Wrestling (2) 129 - Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan will combined win at least 7 medals [YES - 4] 130 - Cuba will be ranked higher than United States in the wrestling medal table. [YES - 1] [/hide]

You're a Slovakian - there is few other choices in the summer.

Poland By the numbers: 22nd Summer Olympic appearance 210 = athletes in Tokyo 110 = male athletes in Tokyo 100 = female athletes in Tokyo 24 = sports in Tokyo (15 in 2016, 19 in 2012, 22 in 2008) 119 = Olympic debutants in Tokyo 91 = former Olympians in Tokyo 12 = athletes born in 2000 or later 52 = age of oldest Olympic debutant (Sławomir Napłoszek - archery, turns 53 on 29th July) 17 = former Youth Olympics participants Singapore 2010 - 2 (Bartłomiej Wawak - MTB, Anna Maliszewska - modern pentathlon) Nanjing 2014 - 10 (Sylwia Zyzańska - archery, Mateusz Borkowski - athletics, Konrad Bukowiecki - athletics, Aneta Konieczek - athletics, Elżbieta Wójcik - boxing, Klaudia Zwolińska - canoe slalom, Szymon Sajnok - track cycling, Natalia Bajor - table tennis, Patrycja Adamkiewicz - taekwondo, Karol Majchrzak - tennis) Buenos Aires 2018 - 5 (Pia Skrzyszkowska - athletics, Kornelia Fiedkiewicz - swimming, Jakub Kraska - swimming, Jakub Majerski - swimming, Iga Świątek - tennis) 5 = most Olympic appearances (Paweł Spisak - equestrian, Paweł Korzeniowski - swimming, Mikołaj Burda - rowing) 1 = former Olympic gold medalists (Anita Włodarczyk - athletics 2012, 2016) 6 = former Olympic medalists (same as above + Karolina Naja - canoe sprint bronze 2012, 2016, Marta Walczykiewicz - canoe sprint silver 2016, Maja Włoszczowska - MTB silver 2008, 2016, Rafał Majka - road cycling bronze 2016, Piotr Małachowski - athletics silver 2008, 2016, Wojciech Nowicki - athletics bronze 2016, Monika Chabel, Agnieszka Kobus-Zawojska, Maria Sajdak - rowing bronze 2016, Agnieszka Wieszczek-Kordus wrestling bronze 2008, Zofia Noceti-Klepacka - sailing bronze 2012)