Vojthas

I have enough of all this political sh*t. The IOC (probably thorugh the AC) should go to UN with some resolution that athletes going to competition get an visa-free entrance to the country for the competition period.

Oh, so there is something new this time. I think it's better, because the old way the coaches could have chosen the rivals for their athletes.

Egypt for sure, probably also RSA (Oosthuizen, Burger) and some totally unknown individuals (four years ago there was someone from Kenya, Burkina Faso, Mauritius and Madagascar). But let's be honest - Egypt will get both quotas for sure. The question is if they will use it after possible qualification from World Ranking and the second nation (RSA probably) will get the quota reallocation.

Something like that should be recorded by every IF. But maybe we'll do it - do you know better experts in qualification systems than Totallympians?

[hide] Event & Date Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Cross-Country Skiing Men's Sprint Freestyle February 21st, 2019 Alex Harvey Lucas Chavanat Richard Jouve Baptiste Gros Federico Pellegrino X Emil Iversen Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo X Finn Haagen Krogh Sindre Bjoernestad Skar Alexander Bolshunov X Gleb Retivykh Any Athlete from Sweden Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Women's Sprint Freestyle February 21st, 2019 Sandra Ringwald Mari Eide Maiken Caspersen Falla X Kristine Stavaas Sistad X Any Other Athlete from Norway Natalia Nepryaeva Yulia Belorukova Any Athlete from Slovenia Nadine Faehndrich Maja Dahlqvist Stina Nilsson X Any Other Athlete from Sweden Sophie Caldwell Jessica Diggins Any Other Athlete Nordic Combined Men's Individual Gundersen Large Hill 10km Cross-Country February 22nd, 2019 Martin Fritz Franz-Josef Rehrl Mario Seidl X Ilka Herola Eric Frenzel Vinzenz Geiger Fabian Riessle Johannes Rydzek X Akito Watabe X Espen Bjoernstad Joergen Graabak Jarl Magnus Riiber Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Women's 7.5km+7.5km Skiathlon February 23rd, 2019 Teresa Stadlober Krista Parmakoski Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen X Therese Johaug X Ingvild Flugstad Oestberg Heidi Weng Yulia Belorukova Natalia Nepryaeva Anastasia Sedova Natalie Von Siebenthal Ebba Andersson Charlotte Kalla X Jessica Diggins Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Men's 15km+15km Skiathlon February 23rd, 2019 Alex Harvey Iivo Niskanen Maurice Manificat Francesco De Fabiani Emil Iversen Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo X Sjur Roethe Martin Johnsrud Sundby X Alexander Bolshunov Sergey Ustiugov Any Other Athlete from Russia Any Athlete From Sweden Dario Cologna X Any Other Athlete Ski Jumping Men's Individual Large Hill February 23rd, 2019 Stefan Kraft Roman Koudelka Marcus Eisenbichler Karl Geiger X Stephan Leyhe Ryoyu Kobayashi X Johann Andre Forfang Halvor Egner Granerud Robert Johansson Dawid Kubacki Kamil Stoch X Piotr Zyla Timi Zajc Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Women's Team Sprint Classical February 24th, 2019 Finland Germany Norway X Poland Russia Slovenia Sweden X Switzerland United States X Any Other Nation Cross-Country Skiing Men's Team Sprint Classical February 24th, 2019 Canada Finland France Great Britain Germany Italy X Norway X Russia X Sweden Switzerland United States Any Other Nation Nordic Combined Men's Team Sprint Large Hill 15km Cross-Country February 24th, 2019 Austria X Czech Republic Finland France Germany X Italy Japan X Norway Poland Russia United States Any Other Nation Ski Jumping Men's Team Large Hill February 24th, 2019 Austria Czech Republic Finland Germany X Japan X Norway Poland X Russia Slovenia Switzerland Any Other Nation Cross-Country Skiing Women's 10km Classical February 26th, 2019 Teresa Stadlober Krista Parmakoski X Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen X Therese Johaug X Ingvild Flugstad Oestberg Any Other Athlete From Norway Yulia Belorukova Natalia Nepryaeva Ebba Andersson Charlotte Kalla Sadie Bjornsen Jessica Diggins Any Other Athlete Ski Jumping Women's Team Normal Hill February 26th, 2019 Austria Czech Republic France Germany X Italy Japan X Norway X Russia Slovenia United States Any Other Nation Cross-Country Skiing Men's 15km Classical February 27th, 2019 Alex Harvey Iivo Niskanen Any Athlete From France Francesco De Fabiani Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo X Martin Johnsrud Sundby X Didrik Toenseth Any Other Athlete From Norway Evgeniy Belov Alexander Bolshunov X Any Other Athlete from Russia Any Athlete From Sweden Dario Cologna Any Other Athlete Ski Jumping Women's Individual Normal Hill February 27th, 2019 Daniela Iraschko-Stolz Eva Pinkeling Katharina Althaus Juliane Seyfarth X Ramona Straub Carina Voigt Yuki Ito Sara Takanashi X Maren Lundby X Anna Odine Stroem Lidia Iakovleva Nika Kriznar Ursa Bogataj Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Women's 4x5km Relay February 28th, 2019 Finland X Germany Italy Norway X Russia Slovenia Sweden X Switzerland United States Any Other Nation Nordic Combined Men's Individual Gundersen Normal Hill 10km Cross-Country February 28th, 2019 Martin Fritz Franz-Josef Rehrl Mario Seidl Eero Hirvonen Ilka Herola Eric Frenzel X Vinzenz Geiger Fabian Riessle Johannes Rydzek X Akito Watabe X Joergen Graabak Jarl Magnus Riiber Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Men's 4x10km Relay March 1st, 2019 Canada Finland France Germany X Italy Norway X Russia X Sweden Switzerland United States Any Other Nation Ski Jumping Men's Individual Normal Hill March 1st, 2019 Stefan Kraft X Roman Koudelka Marcus Eisenbichler Karl Geiger Stephan Leyhe Ryoyu Kobayashi Johann Andre Forfang Halvor Egner Granerud Robert Johansson Dawid Kubacki X Kamil Stoch X Piotr Zyla Timi Zajc Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Women's 30km Mass Start Freestyle March 2nd, 2019 Krista Parmakoski Therese Johaug X Ingvild Flugstad Oestberg Heidi Weng X Any Other Athlete From Norway Yulia Belorukova Natalia Nepryaeva Anastasia Sedova Ebba Andersson Charlotte Kalla X Any Other Athlete from Sweden Nathalie Von Siebenthal Jessica Diggins Any Other Athlete Nordic Combined Men's Team Gundersen Normal Hill 4x5km Cross-Country March 2nd, 2019 Austria X Czech Republic Finland France Germany X Italy Japan X Norway Poland Russia United States Any Other Nation Ski Jumping Mixed Team Normal Hill March 2nd, 2019 Austria Finland France Germany X Italy Japan X Norway X Poland Russia Slovenia United States Any Other Nation Cross-Country Skiing Men's 50km Mass Start Freestyle March 3rd, 2019 Alex Harvey Jean Marc Gaillard Maurice Manificat Francesco De Fabiani Emil Iversen X Sjur Roethe Martin Johnsrud Sundby X Any Other Athlete from Norway Alexander Bolshunov X Sergey Ustiugov Any Other Athlete from Russia Any Athlete From Sweden Dario Cologna Any Other Athlete [/hide]

After very poor start I finished just one point behind top 10 which is good for me as I don't watch much alpine skiing nowadays and my predictions were based on big names of Shiffrin and Hirscher in technical events, old man Svindal and another retiring athlete Vonn. Congrats to medalists!

The silver of Mixed Relay in short track is the 30th medal of at Winter EYOFs.

As far as I understood there is a possibility to discontinue WEG, but if there will be someone interested to host all disciplines, then it will remain.

In Group C Kubiak is tied with in second place.

[hide] Cross-country Skiing (20) 1- Norway will win gold in both Men's and Women's Individual Sprint [YES - 4] 2- Sweden will win 2 medals in Women's Individual Sprint [NO - 4] 3- Norway will have at least 5 athletes in the final in the Men's and Women's Individual Sprint (Example: 3 Men and 2 Women qualify for the final. Bet won/yes) [YES - 3] 4- Sophie Caldwell will qualify for the final in the Women's Individual Sprint [NO - 3] 5- Andrew Young will be in Top 25 in the qualification for the Men's Individual Sprint [YES - 3] 6- Therese Johaug will win 4 gold medals [YES - 5] 7- Therese Johaug will win Women's 10km C with 35 or fewer seconds to second place [NO - 4] 8- Norway will win more or the same amount of medals in total as Canada, Finland, Italy, Russia and USA [YES - 5] 9- Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo will run the 4th leg for Norway's Relay [NO - 3] 10- Finland will win at least two or more Individual medals [YES - 4] 11- Sindre Bjoernestad Skar will represent Norway in the Teamsprint [NO - 4] 12- At least 2 or more athletes from the Women's 5km C will be slower than the winner of the Men's 10km C [YES - 3] 13- No male athlete from Sweden will win a medal (Including Relay) NO - 4] 14- The winner of the Men's Skiathlon will be in Top 10 after the first 15km [YES - 5] 15- The same nation will lead after every leg exchange (including finish line) in the Men's or Women's Relay [NO - 5] 16- A nation will sweep a podium in any event [YES - 4] 17- At least one athlete will be 10 or more seconds after a heat winner in the Men's or Women's Individual Sprint [YES - 4] 18- The winner of the Men's 50km will win with 3 or fewer seconds to second place [NO - 3] 19- The winner time of the Men's 50km will be 1:50:00 or under [YES - 3] 20- Ebba Andersson will win more or the same amount of medal as Charlotte Kalla [NO - 4] Nordic Combined (15) 1- An Athlete will win 2 or more gold medals. [YES - 4] 2- Jarl Magnus Riiber will be Top 3 after the ski jumping in both Individual events [NO - 3] 3- Franz-Josef Rehrl will lead after the ski jumping in at least one of the Individual events [YES - 4] 4- Austria will have at least 3 or more athletes in Top 10 after the ski jumping in one of the two Individual events [YES - 5] 5- Alessandro Pittin will be in Top 35 after the ski jumping in at least one of the Individual events [YES - 4] 6- Szczepan Kupczak will fall at least 25 places back in the Cross-Country Skiing (Example: 5th after ski jumping, ends 30th. Bet won/yes) [YES - 6] 7- Ilka Herola will overtake at least 15 athletes in the Cross-Country Skiing [NO - 2] 8- Johannes Rydzek and Fabian Riessle will represent Germany in the Team Sprint [YES - 2] 9- Germany will have at least 2 or more athletes on the podium in the same event [YES - 3] 10- Japan will win at least one medal [YES - 3] 11- Finland will win a medal in the Team Sprint [NO - 2] 12- At least 2/4 events will be decided in a sprint (3 or fewer seconds) between first and second place [YES - 2] 13- The podium for the Team Event will be; 1. Germany, 2. Norway, 3. Austria [NO - 3] 14- Vinzenz Geiger will be the highest-placed German athlete in at least one Individual event [NO - 2] 15- Austria will win at least one gold medal in the Individual events [YES - 3] Ski Jumping (15) 1- Ryoyu Kobayashi will not win a gold medal in any of the Individual events [YES - 4] 2- Poland will have 3 or more athletes in Top 10 in at least one the Individual events [YES - 10] 3- Maren Lundby will win with 7 or more points to second place in Women's Individual event. [YES - 3] 4- Stefan Kraft will win at least 3 medals [NO - 3] 5- At least one defending champion (from 2017) will win a gold medal [YES - 5] 6- Vladimir Zografski will qualify for the second round in both Individual events [NO - 4] 7- Killian Peier will be in Top 12 in at least one of the Individual events [NO - 3] 8- Marcus Eisenbichler will be the highest-ranked German athlete in both Individual events [NO - 4] 9- The podium in the Mixed Team event will be; 1.Germany 2. Norway, 3. Japan [NO - 2] 10- Halvor Egner Granerud will be the highest-placed Norwegian athlete in at least one of the Individual events [NO - 3] 11- Nika Kriznar will be the only athlete born in 2000 or later to be in Top 10 in the Women's Individual event [NO - 2] 12- Norway will win a medal in all team events, Men, Women and Mixed [NO - 4] 13- Finland will qualify for the final round (last 4 jumps) in the Men's Team event [YES - 3] 14- Austria will win at least one gold medal in any event [NO - 3] 15- The leading athlete/nation in at least 4/6 events after the first round, will end up winning the gold medal (First round in a team event will be after the first jump from every athlete on the team) [NO - 4] General/Overall (6) 1- Top 3 of the Overall medal table will be; 1. Norway, 2. Germany, 3. Austria [YES - 3] 2- At least one event will be postponed with 1 hour or more during the WCH [NO - 2] 3- Austria will win at least one gold medal [YES - 4] 4- Norway will win a medal in at least 18/22 events [NO - 3] 5- Sweden and Finland will win more or the same amount medals as Germany overall [NO - 4] 6- Athletes with three names will win at least 12 or more medals in all events (Only the official name on fis.com will count. Examples: Franz-Josef Rehrl, Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo, Daniela Iraschko-Stolz) [NO - 2] [/hide]

First stage is coming up. Cairo, so the home country of Junior Athlete of the Year 2018 Ahmed El Gendy - winner of everything in 2018 (Junior and Youth World Champion, double Youth Olympic Champion) and also winner of this year's opening in Budapest. I read that Hungary is going to send their top girls including Földházi and Kovács who both didn't participate in Budapest Indoor. Poland doesn't send their Olympians - Nowacka had a long break and it's a problem with horse riding (she started in tetrathlon only in Polish Open Cup), Maliszewska has a minor foot injury, Staśkiewicz also had some problems with arm, but seems to be OK now. Also Stasiak has some bigger injury of knee, and Gutkowski also suffered something and didn't start in Polish Open Cup. We send Kobecka and Dominiak for women's event and Ławrynowicz, Świderski and our Youth Olympic medallist Kasperczak (debut in senior international competition outside Poland). For mixed event Kobecka and Ławrynowicz.

My hope for a livescore is an app.

Continental Cup Finals in Netherlands - 22-28 June 2020.

Still no dates not only for qualification itself, but even the draw for qualification to Europeans in Budapest in 2020. As the tournament will be in January (due to Olympics of course) they need to take three rounds by... October? Which means two things - or very tight calendar for weaker teams starting from round 1 or, what is more possible, only two rounds of qualification with probably less entries than before Barcelona.

We paid $500K for men's tournament, but for women's, which we got because nobody wanted to host it, we paid less, but Przedpełski (former president of Polish federation, important person in FIVB) doesn't want to say how much.

[hide] Event & Date Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Women's Super-G Day 1 February 5th, 2019 Nicole Schmidhofer Ramona Siebenhofer Stephanie Venier Ester Ledecka X Viktoria Rebensburg Federica Brignone Sofia Goggia Tina Weirather Ragnhild Mowinckel Ilka Stuhec Lara Gut-Behrami X Lindsey Vonn Mikaela Shiffrin X Any Other Athlete Men's Super-G Day 2 February 6th, 2019 Vincent Kriechmayr Matthias Mayer Hannes Reichelt Johan Clarey Josef Ferstl Christoph Innerhofer Dominik Paris Kjetil Jansrud X Alexander Aamodt Kilde Axel Lund Svindal X Mauro Caviezel Beat Feuz X Any Other Athlete Women's Alpine Combined Day 3 February 8th, 2019 Ricarda Haaser Ramona Siebenhofer Any Athlete from Canada Any Athlete from France Marta Basino Federica Brignone Ragnhild Mowinckel X Ana Bucik Ilka Stuhec Wendy Holdener Petra Vlhova X Mikaela Shiffrin X Any Other Athlete Men's Downhill Day 4 February 9th, 2019 Vincent Kriechmayr Matthias Mayer Hannes Reichelt Johan Clarey Adrien Theaux Josef Ferstl Christoph Innerhofer Dominik Paris Alexander Aamodt Kilde X Kjetil Jansrud Axel Lund Svindal X Mauro Caviezel Beat Feuz X Bryce Bennett Any Other Athlete Women's Downhill Day 5 February 10th, 2019 Nicole Schmidhofer Ramona Siebenhofer Stephanie Venier Romane Miradoli Kira Weidle Viktoria Rebensburg Nicol Delago Nadia Fanchini Sofia Goggia Tina Weirather Ilka Stuhec X Corinne Suter Lara Gut-Behrami X Lindsey Vonn X Any Other Athlete Men's Alpine Combined Day 6 February 11th, 2019 Romed Baumann Marcel Hirscher X Vincent Kriechmayr Marco Schwarz Alexis Pinturault :FRA Victor Muffat-Jeandet :ITA Dominik Paris :NOR Alexander Aamodt Kilde X :NOR Kjetil Jansrud Pavel Trikichev :SUI Mauro Caviezel :SUI Luca Aerni :USA Ted Ligety :WHT Any Other Athlete X Mixed Team Event Day 7 February 12th, 2019 :AUT Austria X :CAN Canada :FRA France :GER Germany :ITA Italy :NOR Norway :SVK Slovakia :SLO Slovenia Sweden :SUI Switzerland X :USA United States X :WHT Any Other Nation Women's Giant Slalom Day 8 February 14th, 2019 :AUT Any Athlete from Austria :FRA Tessa Worley X :GER Viktoria Rebensburg X :ITA Federica Brignone :ITA Marta Bassino :NOR Ragnhild Mowinckel :SVK Petra Vlhova :SLO Meta Hrovat Frida Hansdotter :SUI Wendy Holdener :SUI Lara Gut-Behrami :USA Mikaela Shiffrin X :WHT Any Other Athlete Men's Giant Slalom Day 9 February 15th, 2019 :AUT Manuel Feller :AUT Marcel Hirscher X :FRA Mathieu Faivre :FRA Thomas Fanara :FRA Alexis Pinturault X :GER Stefan Luitz :NOR Henrik Kristoffersen X :NOR Leif Kristian Nestvold-Haugen :SLO Zan Kranjec Mats Olsson :SUI Loic Meillard :USA Tommy Ford :WHT Any Other Athlete Women's Slalom Day 10 February 16th, 2019 :AUT Katharina Liensberger :AUT Bernadette Schild :AUT Katharina Truppe :CAN Erin Mielzynski :GER Christina Geiger :ITA Irene Curtoni :SVK Petra Vlhova X Frida Hansdotter X Anna Swenn Larsson :SUI Wendy Holdener :USA Mikaela Shiffrin X :WHT Any Other Athlete Men's Slalom Day 11 February 17th, 2019 :AUT Manuel Feller :AUT Marcel Hirscher X :AUT Michael Matt :AUT Marco Schwarz :FRA Clement Noel :FRA Alexis Pinturault Dave Ryding :GER Felix Neureuther X :NOR Henrik Kristoffersen Andre Myhrer X :SUI Daniel Yule :SUI Ramon Zehnhaeusern :WHT Any Other Athlete [/hide]

[hide] Knockout Round January 20th - February 1st, 2019 16 Nations, Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals and Final Final Date & Time (GMT+4) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 February 1st 2019, h. 18:00 Japan 2 1 Qatar [/hide]

[hide] Final Round January 25th - January 27th, 2018 8 Nations, Placement Matches, Semifinals, Bronze Medal Match and Gold Medal Match Bronze Medal Match Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 27th 2019, h. 14:30 France 6 Germany Gold Medal Match Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 27th 2019, h. 17:30 Denmark 5 Norway [/hide]

[hide] Knockout Round January 20th - February 1st, 2019 16 Nations, Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals and Final Semifinals Date & Time (GMT+4) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 28th 2019, h. 18:00 Iran 0 2 Japan January 29th 2019, h. 18:00 Qatar 2 0 United Arab Emirates [/hide]

I'll tell you more. Until me and my colleagues realised, how useful Messenger is, we used only Facebook group. Now there are only summaries of Messenger discussions. Another thing - I wanted to recruit someone to my website to help me with equestrian news - no equestrian forum had recent posts, only some with one-two per day. I used to know some forums, now there I use only two - Totallympics and our Polish Olympics-orientated forum.

[hide] Final Round January 25th - January 27th, 2018 8 Nations, Placement Matches, Semifinals, Bronze Medal Match and Gold Medal Match Semifinals Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 25th 2019, h. 17:30 Denmark 3 France January 25th 2019, h. 20:30 Germany 4 Norway [/hide]

[hide] Knockout Round January 20th - February 1st, 2019 16 Nations, Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals and Final Quarterfinals Date & Time (GMT+4) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 24th 2019, h. 17:00 Vietnam 0 2 Japan January 24th 2019, h. 20:00 China 1 2 Iran January 25th 2019, h. 17:00 South Korea 3 0 Qatar January 25th 2019, h. 20:00 United Arab Emirates 0 2 Australia [/hide]

[hide] Main Round January 19th - January 23rd, 2018 12 Nations, 2 Groups, the 1st and 2nd Nations from each Group will qualify for the Semifinals Group I Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 19th 2019, h. 18:00 France 1 Spain January 19th 2019, h. 20:30 Germany 4 Iceland January 20th 2019, h. 18:00 Brazil 6 Croatia January 20th 2019, h. 20:30 Iceland 3 France January 21st 2019, h. 18:00 Spain 5 Brazil January 21st 2019, h. 20:30 Croatia 3 Germany January 23rd 2019, h. 15:30 Brazil 3 Iceland January 23rd 2019, h. 18:00 Germany 0 0 Spain January 23rd 2019, h. 20:30 France 4 Croatia Group II Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 19th 2019, h. 18:00 Tunisia 7 Sweden January 19th 2019, h. 20:30 Denmark 8 Hungary January 20th 2019, h. 18:00 Norway 6 Egypt January 20th 2019, h. 20:30 Hungary 2 Tunisia January 21st 2019, h. 18:00 Sweden 3 Norway January 21st 2019, h. 20:30 Egypt 8 Denmark January 23rd 2019, h. 15:30 Tunisia 3 Egypt January 23rd 2019, h. 18:00 Norway 4 Hungary January 23rd 2019, h. 20:30 Denmark 2 Sweden [/hide]

[hide] Knockout Round January 20th - February 1st, 2019 16 Nations, Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals and Final Round of 16 Date & Time (GMT+4) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 20th 2019, h. 15:00 Jordan 2 0 Vietnam January 20th 2019, h. 18:00 Thailand 1 2 China January 20th 2019, h. 21:00 Iran 2 0 Oman January 21st 2019, h. 15:00 Japan 1 0 Saudi Arabia January 21st 2019, h. 18:00 Australia 2 1 Uzbekistan January 21st 2019, h. 21:00 United Arab Emirates 1 0 Kyrgyzstan January 22nd 2019, h. 17:00 South Korea 3 1 Bahrain January 22nd 2019, h. 20:00 Qatar 0 1 Iraq [/hide]

If you pick only sport packages (for example you want only basic and no music, no film, no other entertainment, no Discovery-like science channels) it might be more a less the same price as some good standard - I'd say about 40 € ?