website statistics
Jump to content

  • Register/Login on Totallympics!

    Sign up to Totallympics to get full access to our website.

     

    Registration is free and allows you to participate in our community. You will then be able to reply to threads and access all pages.

     

    If you encounter any issues in the registration process, please send us a message in the Contact Us page.

     

    We are excited to see you on Totallympics, the home of Olympic Sports!

     

De_Gambassi

Totallympics Medallist
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    2,680

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    13

 Content Type 

Forums

Events

Totallympics International Song Contest

Totallympics News

Qualification Tracker

Test

Everything posted by De_Gambassi

  1. De_Gambassi
    Three french decathletes, six jumps, six faults
  2. De_Gambassi
    Most of the medals too (9 vs 6), very much unusual too when usually 35-40% of our medals come from the women. Might be a new trend in french sport
  3. De_Gambassi
    It won't be. There is zero lobbying for it. Here, noboddy knows that we are good at that sport or that it even exists.
  4. De_Gambassi
    Because, it's a very minor sport ?
  5. De_Gambassi
    Such a big news, that I just learned it from you Hockey clubs have zero national profile (only soccer and rugby clubs do). A french hockey club could have a miraculous run in HCL eliminating swedish clubs that I would not be reported, so the recrutment of one player French clubs do have a regional profile though, but from local medias is doesn't look huge neither tbh (but I don't live in that aera).
  6. De_Gambassi
  7. De_Gambassi
    No (and it was never close really) . The Australian Football International Cup will be the one in my knowledge (it's played without Australia, it doesn't mean much but it does exist)
  8. De_Gambassi
    So becomming artistic, synchro swimming has also turned somehow into a nine events sport. That's fine and all. But if the european championsips want to be a real thing in the future and come up with a meaningfull combined medals table at the end (after all, a price will be given to the top nation, so they do care), some sports will have to see the number of events keep in check...
  9. De_Gambassi
    As far as I'm concerned, the elimination race is the single most exciting race in track cycling, yet it's not even raced on its own during the euro/world championships. I don't know why the IOC felt obligated to bring up this Omnium thing and not simply one (or two) endurance event(s).
  10. De_Gambassi
    Basically, what happened here also. Ah, that's the part missing. D'oh. -------- We had three new velodromes opening in a couple of years here (and a couple more in the pipeline). I remember how the french cyling federation was claming then this was going to put french track cycling back to the top . Having the needed infrastructures is only one face of the coin, really.
  11. De_Gambassi
    It doesn't necessaraly works that way though. Every four years, we open a new velodrome in France, every olympics our results are getting shittier and sitthier
  12. De_Gambassi
    The're only relative geographical terms after all. When you've grown up 20 miles from the Atlantic coast, anything past Luxembourg is 'Easten Europe'.
  13. De_Gambassi
    How surprising is France topping the qualification stage ? And do you think, they can win the gold medal here ?
  14. De_Gambassi
    Thanks.
  15. De_Gambassi
    So we have straight semi finals for the men, but not for the women ?
  16. De_Gambassi
  17. De_Gambassi
    Apparently, there will be some quarter finals this year.
  18. De_Gambassi
    Indeed. Honnestly, I'm surpised by the doom and gloom over here. Just to give an exemple, I believe this will be the fist time ever that rowing will be broadcasted by the french public television outside of the olympics (even, the world championsips in France in 2015 were only broadcasted by Eurosport) . That, in itself, is allready a massive plus in my book.
  19. De_Gambassi
    Yeah, sure, rainy rowing championsips morning sessions are usually such a hit with the public Glasgow organisers said they allready sold over 114K tickets. I'm pretty sure they will sell a lot more tickets than they are used to (if not allready).
  20. De_Gambassi
    It's a start, and it's working (at least here). Four pages on today's l'Equipe, 100 hours+ of live broadcasting on public television. For sports like rowing or triathlon it will be the best they ever got outside of the olympics.
  21. De_Gambassi
    Honnestly, this bid feel strange from the beginning, a bit rushed and now spread too much for little purpose (other than balancing italian political scope I immagine). But don't worry, if they end up winning, it will be fine. It allways is. I'd love to see Milan and Turin for a joint bid for the summer olympics though
  22. De_Gambassi
    Stockholm is basically vaporware at that point...It won't happen. If the italian bid survive, they will have it in the bag. But I don't share your optism, i beleive we won't see an european bid making the last stage (again)
  23. De_Gambassi
    Do you think the bid will survive (generally speaking, not just with this Milan thing) ?
  24. De_Gambassi
    Yes, but not with AIBA though. This federation is beyond salvable.
  25. De_Gambassi
    https://gamesbids.com/eng/featured/milan-withdraws-from-italian-2026-olympic-bid-amid-coni-proposal-of-joint-project/ Milan drops out
×
×
  • Create New...