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Not enough eggs ?

I fear the Belgian medal hopefull might not reach the final.

At that point, ANY european bid should win versus ANY other bid. To Canada to host the Winter Games 16 years afer Vancouver is ridiuclous. I really hope It won't happen (and if it means Sapporo, so be it)

No american bid for 2026: https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2018/02/09/sports/olympics/ap-oly-usoc-2026-bid.html

Maybe it's the time of the day here, maybe it's the production, maybe it's just me. But I really don't feel captivated at all. To the point I can't wait for the mixed curling to be back.

Yes, he cheated (according to some people)

One of the parade highlights ( for me) is to hear how the stadium react to each nation's entry. This time, we heard nothing, not even for the home nation.

Apparently, they are a shit load of people who believe the stadium is empty.

My plan was to get some sleep and wake up at 2 am for the Moguls. Apparently, I don't know anymore how to get to sleep at 8 pm. So I guess, I will include some one hour and half of mixed curling to my schedule. Yeah.

So... basically my medals table

Gracenote's final batch: http://www.gracenote.com/virtual-medal-table/

[hide] Event & Date Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Short Track Speed Skating Men's 1500m Day 1 February 10th, 2018 Charles Hamelin Samuel Girard Shaoang Liu x Saolin Sandor Liu Sjinkie Knegt Lim Hyuo Jun x Seo Yi-Ra Hwang Dae Heon x John Celski Any Other Athlete Luge Men's Singles Day 2 February 11th, 2018 Reinhard Egger Wolfgang Kindl Samuel Edney Andi Langenhan Felix Loch Johannes Ludwig Dominik Fischnaller Kevin Fischnaller Kristers Aparjods Semen Pavlichenko Roman Repilov Tucker West Any Other Athlete Speed Skating Men's 5000m Day 2 February 11th, 2018 Bart Swings Ted-Jan Bloemen x Patrick Beckert Moritz Geisreiter Nicola Tumolero Andrea Giovannini Sven Kramer x Jan Blokhuijsen Bob de Vries Peter Michael Sverre Lunde Pedersen x Lee Seung-Hoo Any Other Athlete Speed Skating Women's 1500m Day 3 February 12th, 2018 Any Athlete from Canada x Any Athlete from Germany Miho Takagi x Lotte van Beek Marrit Leenstra Ireen Wust Heather Bergsma Brittany Bowe Any Olympic Athl. from Russia x Any Other Athlete Luge Women's Singles Day 4 February 13th, 2018 Alex Gough Kimberley McRae Dajana Eitberger x Natalie Geisenberger x Tatjana Huefner x Raluca Stramaturaru Martina Kocher Summer Britcher Erin Hamlin Emily Sweeney Any Other Athlete Figure Skating Mixed Pairs Day 5 February 15th, 2018 Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya Harley Windsor Megan Duhamel Eric Radford Julianne Seguin Charlie Bilodeau Sui Wenjing Han Cong x Yu Xiaoyu Zhang Hao Vanessa James Morgan Cipres Aliona Savchenko Bruno Massot x Any Pair from Italy Any Pair from Italy Evgenia Tarasova Vladimir Morozov x Natalia Zabiiako Alexander Enbert Alexa Scimeca Knierim Chris Knierim Any Other Pair Any Other Pair Skeleton Men's Skeleton Day 6 February 16th, 2018 Any Athlete from Canada Christopher Grotheer x Axel Jungk Any Athlete from Great Britain Martins Dukurs x Tomass Dukurs Nikita Tregubov Alexander Tretiakov Sungbin Yun Matt Antoine x Any Other Athlete Skeleton Women's Skeleton Day 7 February 17th, 2018 Janine Flock Kim Meylemans Jane Channell Mirela Rahneva x Elisabeth Vathje Tina Hermann x Jacqueline Loelling Laura Deas Lizzy Yarnold Kimberley Bos Elena Nikitina x Any Athlete from United States Any Other Athlete Figure Skating Men's Singles Day 7 February 17th 2018 Patrick Chan Jin Boyang x Moris Kvitelashvili Oleksii Bychenko Yuzuru Hanyu Shoma Uno x Denis Ten Mikhail Kolyada Dmitri Aliev Javier Fernandez Nathan Chen x Adam Rippon Misha Ge Any Other Athlete Speed Skating Men's 500m Day 8 February 19th, 2018 Alex Boisvert-Lacroix Mika Poutala Nico Ihle Any Athlete from Japan Kai Verbij x Ronald Mulder x Jan Smeekens x Havard Holmefjord Lorentzen Any Athlete from South Korea Any Athlete from United States Any Other Athlete Bobsleigh Women's 2-Man Day 9 February 21st, 2018 Elfje Willemsen Kaillie Humphries Alysia Rissling Mica McNeill Mariama Jamanka x Anna Koehler Stephanie Schneider Nadezhda Sergeeva x Sabina Hafner Jamie Greubel Poser x Elana Meyers Taylor Any Other Athlete Freestyle Skiing Men's Ski Cross Day 9 February 21st, 2018 Any Athlete from Austria Any Athlete from Canada Jean-Frederic Chapuis x Terence Tchiknavorian Francois Place x Arnaud Bovolenta Paul Eckert Victor Oehling Norberg Viktor Andersson Marc Bischofberger x Alex Fiva Any Other Athlete Short Track Speed Skating Women's 1000m Day 10 February 22nd, 2018 Kim Boutin x Marianne St-Gelais Elise Christie Arianna Fontana Yara van Kerkhof Suzanne Schulting x Lee Yu-Bin Choi Min-Jeong x Shim Suk-Hee Any Other Athlete Figure Skating Women's Singles Day 11 February 23rd, 2018 Loena Hendrickx Gabrielle Daleman Kaetlyn Osmond x Carolina Kostner Satoko Miyahara Kaori Sakamoto Elisabet Tursynbayeva Evgenia Medvedeva x Maria Sotskova Alina Zagitova x Mirai Nagasu Bradie Tennell Any Other Athlete Freestyle Skiing Women's Ski Cross Day 11 February 23rd, 2018 Sami Kennedy-Sim Andrea Limbacher Kelsey Serwa Brittany Phelan Marielle Berger Sabbatel Alizee Baron x Debora Pixner Sandra Naeslund x Fanny Smith x Any Other Athlete Speed Skating Women's Mass Start Day 12 February 24th, 2018 Ivanie Blondin Any Athlete from China Elena Moeller Rigas Claudia Pechstein Francesca Lollobrigida Francesca Bettrone x Any Athlete from Japan Irene Schouten x Annouk van der Weijden x Any Athlete from United States Any Other Athlete Snowboarding Men's Parallel Giant Slalom Day 12 February 24th, 2018 Alexander Payer Andreas Prommegger Benjamin Karl Radoslav Yankov x Jasey-Jay Anderson Sylvain Dufour Roland Fischnaller Edwin Coratti x Mirko Felicetti Rok Marguc Lee Sang-Ho Nevin Galmarini x Andrey Sobolev Any Other Athlete Snowboarding Women's Parallel Giant Slalom Day 12 February 24th, 2018 Julia Dujmovits x Claudia Riegler Ina Meschik Ester Ledecka x Ramona Hofmeister Selina Jörg Carolin Langenhorst Gloria Kotnik Julie Zogg Ladina Jenny Ekaterina Tudegesheva Alena Zavarzina Any Other Athlete x Bobsleigh Men's Four-Man Day 13 February 25th, 2018 Benjamin Maier Justin Kripps Chris Spring Francesco Friedrich x Johannes Lochner x Nico Walther Oskars Kibermanis Oskars Melbardis x Yunjong Won Rico Peter Any Athlete from United States Any Other Athlete Curling Women's Tournament Day 13 February 25th, 2018 Canada x China Denmark Great Britain x Japan South Korea Sweden Switzerland United States Any Olympic Athl. from Russia x Curling Men's Tournament Day 13 February 25th, 2018 Canada x Denmark Great Britain Italy Japan Norway South Korea Sweden x Switzerland x United States [/hide]

https://lequipe.fr/Volley-ball/Actualites/La-france-accueillera-le-final-six/873598 France will host the Final Six of the first edition of the new World League. They will host it... at Lille Stadium (27,000 seats, host of Davis Cup final, Eurobasket 2015, etc.) It's a incredible massive step in the dark by the federation (the National Team has filled only 6K, 7K arenas so far). This might bring french volleyball into an all new galaxy.

This is not about individual cases... that's not the point. Sure, Vonn has a probably higher chance than the 25% of winning the gold given here, but other americans probably have too high of a percentage of chance of victory for the exact same reason. The belief beeing that - at the end - things will balance each other (I reckon, it would work better with the Summer OG and higher numbers). The world cup rankings are not necesseraly accurate, but they are the most accurates datas to work with. (I was tempting to make a mix of 2017 & 2018 world, cup rankings and 2017 world championships but it was getting too complex fot what it is). Ideally, you would have a irrefutable, non arguable, list of the top x favorites in each event. But no one has that.

World cup rankings, only world cup rankings. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1c99jWN7wctFDhzO-mjByysVGflt4R5L79HEeePAdAns/edit?usp=sharing (I've done manually, so errors are always possible) People tend to forget that not only favorites win medals.

[hide] Event & Date Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Cross-Country Skiing Women's 15km Skiathlon Day 1 February 10th, 2018 Theresa Stadlober Kerttu Niskanen Krista Parmakoski Marit Bjoergen x Ingvild Flugstad Oestberg Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen Heidi Weng x Justyna Kowalczyk Charlotte Kalla x Stina Nilsson Nathalie von Siebenthal Jessica Diggins Any Olympic Athl. from Russia Any Other Athlete Ski Jumping Men's Normal Hill Individual Day 1 February 10th, 2018 Stefan Kraft Markus Eisnbichler Richard Freitag x Andreas Wellinger Junshiro Kobayashi Anders Fannemel Johan Andre Forfang x Robert Johansson Dawid Kubacki Kamil Stoch x Piotr Zyla Any Athlete from Slovenia Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Men's 30km Skiathlon Day 2 February 11th, 2018 Alex Harvey x Matti Heikkinen Iivo Niskanen Maurice Manificat Alexey Poltoranin Hans Christer Holund Emil Iversen Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo x Martin Johnsrud Sundby x Calle Halfvarsson Marcus Hellner Dario Cologna Alexander Bolshunov Sergey Ustiugov Any Other Athlete Ski Jumping Women's Normal Hill Individual Day 3 February 12th, 2018 Chiara Holzl Daniela Iraschko-Stolz Katharina Althaus Juliane Seyfarth x Carina Vogt x Any Athlete from Italy Yuki Ito x Sara Takanashi Maren Lundby Any Athlete from Slovenia Irina Avvakumova Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Men's Sprint Classic Day 4 February 13th, 2018 Ristomatti Hakola Iivo Niskanen Any Athlete from France Federico Pellegrino x Eirik Brandsdal Pal Golberg Emil Iversen x Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo x Teodor Peterson Oskar Svensson Alexander Bolshunov Gleb Retivykh Sergey Ustiugov Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Women's Sprint Classic Day 4 February 13th, 2018 Krista Parmakoski Maiken Caspersen Falla x Kathrine Rolsted Harsem Ingvild Flugstad Oestberg Heidi Weng Anna Dyvik Hanna Falk Stina Nilsson x Laurien van der Graaff Sadie Bjornsen Sophie Caldwell x Jessica Diggins Natalia Nepryaeva Any Other Athlete Nordic Combined Men's Normal Hill+10km Day 5 February 14th, 2018 Wilhelm Denifl Luka Klapfer Ilka Herola Eero Hirvonen Francois Braud Maxime Laheurte Eric Frenzel Fabian Riessle x Johannes Rydzek x Alessandro Pittin Akito Watabe Espen Andersen Jarl Magnus Riiber Jan Schmid x Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Women's 10km Freestyle Day 6 February 15th, 2018 Theresa Stadlober Kerttu Niskanen Krista Parmakoski Riitta-Liisa Roponen Marit Bjoergen x Ingvild Flugstad Oestberg Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen Heidi Weng x Charlotte Kalla x Sadie Bjornsen Jessica Diggins Anastasia Sedova Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Men's 15km Freestyle Day 7 February 16th, 2018 Alex Harvey Matti Heikkinen Maurice Manificat x Andrew Musgrave Alexey Poltoranin Hans Christer Holund Johaness Hoesflot Klaebo Simen Hegstad Krueger Martin Johnsrud Sundby x Calle Halfvarsson Marcus Hellner Dario Cologna x Alexander Bolshunov Sergey Ustiugov Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Women's 4x5km Relay Day 8 February 17th, 2018 Finland Germany Italy Norway x Sweden x Switzerland United States x Any Olympic Athl. from Russia Any Other Nation Ski Jumping Men's Large Hill Individual Day 8 February 17th, 2018 Stefan Kraft Markus Eisnbichler Richard Freitag x Andreas Wellinger Junshiro Kobayashi Anders Fannemel Johan Andre Forfang x Robert Johansson Dawid Kubacki Kamil Stoch x Piotr Zyla Any Athlete from Slovenia Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Men's 4x10km Relay Day 9 February 18th, 2018 Finland France Germany Italy Kazakhstan Norway x Sweden x Switzerland Any Olympic Athl. from Russia x Any Other Nation Ski Jumping Men's Team Day 10 February 19th, 2018 Austria Czech Republic Finland Germany x Italy Japan Norway x Poland x Slovenia United States Any Olympic Athl. from Russia Any Other Nation Nordic Combined Men's Large Hill+10km Day 10 February 19th, 2018 Wilhelm Denifl Luka Klapfer Ilka Herola Eero Hirvonen Francois Braud Maxime Laheurte Eric Frenzel x Fabian Riessle x Johannes Rydzek Akito Watabe x Espen Andersen Jorgen Graabak Jan Schmid Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Women's Team Sprint Day 11 February 21st, 2018 Finland x Germany Italy Norway x Slovenia Sweden x Switzerland Any Olympic Athl. from Russia Any Other Nation Cross-Country Skiing Men's Team Sprint Day 11 February 21st, 2018 Canada Estonia Finland France x Germany Italy x Norway x Poland Sweden Switzerland United States Any Olympic Athl. from Russia Any Other Nation Nordic Combined Men's Team (Large Hill + 4x5km Relay) Day 12 February 22nd, 2018 Austria Finland France x Germany x Italy Japan Norway x Poland United States Any Other Nation Cross-Country Skiing Men's 50km Mass Start Classic Day 13 February 24th, 2018 Sergei Dolidovich Alex Harvey Matti Heikkinen Iivo Niskanen Alexey Poltoranin x Hans Christer Holund Johaness Hoesflot Klaebo x Sjur Roethe Martin Johnsrud Sundby x Calle Halfvarsson Dario Cologna Alexander Bessmertnykh Sergey Ustiugov Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Women's 30km Mass Start Classic Day 14 February 25th, 2018 Theresa Stadlober Kerttu Niskanen Krista Parmakoski Aino-Kaisa Saarinen Masako Ishida Marit Bjoergen x Ingvild Flugstad Oestberg x Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen Heidi Weng x Justyna Kowalczyk Anna Haag Charlotte Kalla Nathalie von Siebenthal Any Athlete from United States Anastasia Sedova Any Other Athlete [/hide]

Just wait for us.

Possibly the worst "every country..." map in the history of "every country..." maps

Si vous avez deux heures à perdre... Le dernier Festival de la Jeunesse avant la chute de l'URSS organisé en 1989 à Pyongyang. Le régime nord coréen voulait contrebalancer les Jeux de Séoul en 1988 et y avait mis les moyens (bon ça a participé à la famine des 90's, mais, bon OSEF, il n'y a pas de prix à la gloire du Parti) PS: je le poste ici, puisque - apparemment - disponible uniquement en français. Edit: Pyongyang, pas Pyeongchang

After using the 2017 world cup results here to make my own predictive Pyeongchang 2018 medals table, I've done the same with the 2018 world cup reults. A bit more sophistacated this time using either a top 6/8/10 table depending of the sport/events (full detals here) Golds: 1. 15.5 medals 2. 11.8 medals 3. 9.2 medals 4. 6.3 medals 5. 6.05 medals 6. 5.75 medals 7. 5.65 medals 8. 5.25 medals 9. 4.95 medals 10. 4.6 medals 11. 3.7 medals 12. 3.25 medals 13. 2.95 medals Medals: 1. 41.3medals 2. 33.75 medals 3. 26.65 medals 4. 20.8 medals 5. 18.05 medals 6. 16.7 medals 7. 16.55 medals 8. 16.15 medals 9. 15.4 medals 10. 15.2 medals 12. 11 medals 12. 9.65 medals 13. 8.7 medals According to this: - Norway should easely secure the top place - Germany and Canada should complete the podium - Huge fight for the remaining 2 top 5 places with 7 nations competiting for them (8 even, depending of the success of the dutch speed skaters)

Benoit Valentin (Freestyle skiing, FRA) Rupture des ligaments croisés (Torn ACL ???), Aspen world cup finals

It's like... the best thing ever. Instant bookmark.

Impressive, one versus three and still winning.

https://www.insidethegames.biz/index.php/articles/1061028/boxing-faces-being-expelled-from-olympic-programme-at-tokyo-2020-unless-governance-problems-addressed Just drop AIBA, start fresh with a new federation...

+ https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/blizzard-of-ski-doping-cheats-q3ltj2djm?shareToken=6008b5c8585515d46e8f8a0daf8a3af4 tl;dr: - XC skiing blood tests leaked from 2001 to 2010 show a massive numbers of (blood) doping cases - 1/3 of medal winners (76% within russian ones) had blood passport abnormalities at one point or an other. - Prevalent among every countries: Russia (50), Germany (20), France (18), Austria (16) Norway (16), etc. - FIS didn't take any action and showed "“considerable resistance” when confronted with the problem back in 2001. EDIT: the ARD's piece http://www.sportschau.de/doping/skilanglauf-manipulationsverdacht-englisch-100.html 46% of medals...