Vojthas

Then maybe there is no place for football in the Olympic programme? I think it should be the most important competition for everyone. If FIFA has their own big show, then what for do they need the Olympics? Maybe it's time to change it for futsal or beach soccer?

For sure football (at least the men's event), tennis and golf. These are those sports who have more important competitions than Olympics (what hurts me) and it is seen in the attitude of athletes (in case of men's football it's the attitude of FIFA, which makes it junior competition instead of normal). About rugby - it is sevens, which is less popular than fifteens. But for me it's ok, it's like introducing vaulting in place of dressage. Boxing is for me the second sick sport in the Olympic programme (after weightlifting). No other sport has so many IFs. In this situation we cannot say, who really is the best. Road cycling - I would say that Olympics are not the most important race (what hurts me again), but in opposite to football, tennis and golf we can see the best athletes racing for it. It's like second World Championships, which I think is still less prestigous than TdF, Giro or Vuelta.

I want to ask in another matter. Are there any plans to come back to weekly schedule that was on totallympics before the great breakdown of the forum last year? It would be very helpful for some of the users.

It won't replace the World League, but the Champions Trophy. The idea quite interesting for gaining money in countries, where field hockey is more popular (TV rights, sponsorship etc.)

Italian girls were impossible that day - all four of them were in the top four places after first running lap, but Laura and Ilke destroyed this "dolce vita" (though the real "dolce vita" was at the after party on Sunday evening). But coming back to Alice - just two days later big tragedy for her - at the beginning of the mounting for the mixed relays she had problems with her horse, who got really nervous. I didn't see this, but those who were there said me the whole story - one of the referees was holding the horse to help her calm it down. She asked the referee not to, so he let it go. The horse stood up on its back legs and she fell off - she wasn't even on the sand yet, she fell down on a concrete and broke her wrist. I heard the medicals being called by the announcer and turn my head there (I was sitting near the mounting area, but watching the main parcour), one of Polish young athletes came down there to see what's happened and told me the story.

Well, the best summary is the quote from Beach Boys' song "Fun, Fun, Fun" (later covered by Status Quo feat. Beach Boys): "She makes the Indy 500 look like a Roman chariot race now"

Great group for women - and are too good, but with and we should fight for places 3-4. And I think that even 8th place will be enough to qualify for World Champs in London (I suppose all continental champions and host, England, will take place, that would give them quota from World League).

After he finished the competition a little wound under Bagazza's saddle-blanket was found.

instead of

Polish TVP Sport will broadcast live today's jumping since 3:40 a.m. CET, also on their website sport.tvp.pl (I'm not sure if it's not geo-blocked). The commentator will be Jarosław Idzi, former modern pentathlete, now member of the EBU Sports Committtee.

Next week the Dressage Nations Cup season starts in Wellington, FL. Only three teams start - , and . According to rules there shall be at least four teams for CDIO, so I am not sure, if this event will be counted to the overall classification.

The rumours in Polish media say, that TOP 10 of today's relays has a sure relay qualification to the PyeongChang 2018. I can't find such a rule neither in official international qualification system nor in Polish criteria. Anyone can confirm or deny the rumours about TOP 10?

Dawid Kubiak, Gábor Szabó jr and Rein Pill qualified for Jumping WC Final in Omaha from Central European League.

So, we start a new season, traditionally with Budapest Indoor Competition. Big success for the club from Székesfehérvár - among men Bence Demeter won, István Málits was third (Simon Casse of France was between them), while among women Sarolta Kovács finished second (lost to a great Belarussian talent Iryna Prasiantsova, outstanding runner). Another Hungarian on the podium was Anna Zs. Tóth from Újpest.

I can't imagine other scenario like Spain and India winning or at least getting to the final of their tournaments, which means Italy would be the best third placed team. Along with Spain I'd like to see Poland in the final of Valencia tournament - now the only chance for us to get to the next round and fight for the World Cup quota.

Good to know, that someone else cares about pentathlon here - sometimes I think that I talk only with myself about it. About the sport climbing - I suppose it was the most or at least the second most (after baseball/softball) discipline that people wanted to join the Olympic programme.

Since 2014 World Cup Dutch girls didn't win anything - World League, European Champs, Champions Trophy, Olympics, now Junior World Cup. Almost all their top players resign from the national team (among them Paumen, van As, Hoog). It doesn't look good for Oranje.

First ten personalities have been introduced to the UIPM Hall of Fame. They are: Baron Pierre de Coubertin (FRA): Founder of the modern Olympic Movement and creator of Modern Pentathlon General George Smith Patton (USA): 5th place in the first Olympic Games Stockholm 1912 General Sven Thofelt (SWE): Gold medal in Amsterdam 1928, UIPM General Secretary William Grut (SWE): Gold medal in London 1948, UIPMB General Secretary and long-serving UIPMB President Pavel Lednev (USSR): Bronze medallist in Mexico 1968 and Munich 1972, silver medallist in Montreal 1976 and Moscow 1980; pentathlon legend HM King Constantine (GRE): UIPM Honorary Patron, gold medallist in sailing, Rome 1960, Olympic Academy Andras Balczo (HUN): Gold medallist in Munich 1972, active in the social movement after retirement Juan Antonio Samaranch (ESP): IOC President (1980-2001) who opened the door for Modern Pentathlon to include women in the Olympic programme in 2000 Stephanie Cook (GBR): First women's gold medallist in Sydney 2000, now a respected doctor Zsuzsanna Voros (HUN): Gold medallist in Athens 2004, now a pentathlon coach Today starts the 68th UIPM Congress, we'll see, what it brings.

Champion of Champions - sounds great and some people are trying to make it great. In my opinion "it's all about the money" as it is hosted by Qatar, that seems to want to develope in as many sports as possible. This year's edition was won by two Germans - Annika Schleu among women and Patrick Dogue among men. There were many notable names on the start list - Schöneborn, Kovács, Murray, Prokopenko, Kasza, Belaud, Cooke, Zillekens, Demeter, Svoboda and others. But not many - all together 15 women and 19 men. It's a strange time for pentathlon competition - most of the athletes are still on holiday or just back from it and only started trainings. And this year this event was at the same time as an annual coaches conference in UK, so some coaches also missed it.

I read somewhere (I think that FIH retweeted this info) that Qatar is training in Poznań. Which might not be as strange as this city was host of 2011 Women's European Champs II and some indoor matches. But if it's so good that such a national team of such a rich country choose it as the base for their camp, why then Polish team is training somewhere else (Wałcz is understandable as it's under our Central Sports Centre, but besides the team played in places which I don't know exactly where they are on the map, and I was not weak in geography at school). And one of the Poznanian hockey fields (the one of Sports University) has new tribunes since the mentioned 2011 Europeans II.

In Poland during competitions there is a horse I noticed a few years ago - Arero. He is really difficult, many athletes get refusals/eliminations on it (Lithuania lost gold in Junior WCH in 2014 as Guzauskaite fell down from him), but if someone is really good in communicating with horses can achieve better result. It is about the skill, not only the luck (of course, some athletes get easier horse, but it's their fault to be worse rider if they have more difficult horse). @BearasI see you wrote that Serapinaite was good in combined and this time she made weak performance. I may asure you she's not. She used to be around average, which was very weak for she's Lithuanian and it's your best event (Asadauskaite, Guzauskaite, Venckauskaite, Tamasauskaite - all great runners). I rememeber that she lost 31 secs during just 1,5 lap at Junior WCH in Drzonków in 2014 against Földházi and lost gold this way. And Zsófia was not as strong in this event as she is now.

Nasze największe nadzieje medalowe (lekkoatletyka, kajakarstwo) to drugi tydzień, podobnie jak finały drużynówek. Na żagle też trzeba trochę poczekać, w ciężarach startujemy w cięższych wagach... Kalendarz nam nie sprzyja.

I think it's not an accident - even in Brazil they know that "Pole and Hungarian — two good friends/Polak, Węgier - dwa bratanki/Lengyel, magyar - két jó barát"

I read in December that and would live as neighbours.

Or at least time, then we may find the results of draw live on twitter maybe.