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Excellent, but it doesn't look like we'll see any NHL players, I guess their president is much too focussed on the money or something. Also, there are no American NHL teams, so that doesn't help. Toronto Granites is going to represent Canada according to rumours, because the Toronto St Patricks want to play the NHL.

The French bobsleigh trials turned out to be a close affair, but Legrand and his team managed to sneak away with the win by a tight 27 seconds! Apparently André Berg didn't compete, which is odd, since he should be much better..

Some first breaking news is that the ban of the war-loving Germans is causing protests. Our speed skaters aren't going, so we can say goodbye to the medal table. Damn it. I had hoped for some surprises, but then again, the times of Coen de Koning and Jaap Eden are already almost 20 years behind us. I mean, De Koning already posted a 9:16 5000m in 1906 and just two years ago at our national championships, nobody even got close to breaking the 10 minute barrier (which you'll definitely need to have any hopes of beating the mighty Finns and Nowegians).

This is an absolutely brilliant Twitter account, anyone with an interest in the (history of) the (Winter) Olympics should be following this: https://twitter.com/Chamonix1924 Basically, they're tweeting the preparations and I suppose later the competitions of the very first Winter Olympics, Chamonix 1924, 'as it happens'. Definitely a nice way to kill the wait towards the Pyeongchang Olympics, almost a full century later

It's really necessary to have 5 (!!) levels all called 'Super xxx'? I can hardly imagine the 6th level is that super.

Disappointing to not see living legend KC Boutiette there

Patrick Thaler almost retired yesterday If he hadn't posted his best season's result, saving his top-30 starting spot, he would have stopped.

No it doesn't I know Juan personally and found him to be a very nice and friendly guy. I'm sure Yonathan is a nice guy and very hard working athlete who deserves a place too, but since I don't know him personally and the 'fight' is between them, I'm cheering for the person I actually met (and who made sure I had dinner and breakfast)

I am not speculating, just saying what I heard from athletes when we were talking about qualifying for the Olympics Thanks though, I still really hope Juan gets it

I never actually have a physically visible reaction to sports (very, very rare exceptions excluded), but when Kasai won the silver medal in Sochi, I literally jumped out of my chair Imagine if he wins gold

Which would make people (like me) rather frustrated and unwilling to enthousiastically post in a thread like that Yes, I'll open a Tour de France thread and include some useful info in the opening post (like all stage profiles, neatly in a spoiler so it doesn't take a lot of space, and a link or two), because I like to open it like that and I like posting in a thread like that

Then that's the problem, not user B opening threads in the 'wrong' way. People shouldn't be pushed to open threads in the first place, people should simply feel free to open a thread they want when they see something interesting is coming up and there's no thread yet.

I don't mean it as a diss, I think for smaller sports and competitions that don't have well-known websites for results, the portal can be very useful. For sports like cycling or cross-country/alpine skiing though, I think the specialized big sites are just much more suitable (honestly, not to offend anyone, but I can't think of any reason why someone would go to the Totallympics results portal for a specific cycling result instead of Procyclingstats, or to the results portal for the result of a certain alpine skiing competition instead of fis-ski.com), but that's another discussion. I agree something like a logo is fine, no problem, but it should all feel a bit more open for people to post what they want. I'll admit I'm not the best to put my thoughts into words, so...that's not helping

Noriaki Kasai is going for his 8th Olympics, Japan has named him to the team Apart from him, also Taku Takeuchi, Daiki Ito (I suppose that means he's recovered from his injury?) and the Kobayashi brothers have been selected.

I think my point was a bit mistaken. It often feels like if you don't open something in the exact right way, it will get changed to all fit in the exact same format. Like I said, it's fine with or without it, it's not about one word, the point is that these things should be mostly left to whoever opens the thread. But there is no need for a format for a schedule. Again, users should be free to do it how they want: if I want to open a thread about competition A, I should be free to open a thread about competition A, including an opening post I like. If that includes a link to the Totallympics results portal, fine, if that includes a link to a more widely known and used results site, just as fine, and if that includes a schedule (no matter if that's a manually written one or a Wikipedia screenshot) or no schedule at all, perfectly fine as well. Most users don't want to add those 'extra' things, and that's fine too. Other users do, and they should be just as free to open a thread with an opening post as they want to write it. It really doesn't matter if an opening post in subforum Cycling doesn't have the exact same format as an opening post in subforum Luge. Didn't really mean threads being deleted, more stuff being edited. I don't have any examples from the top of my mind, but I do know more than once I've gotten rather frustrated after making a decent post, only to see it (unasked) being changed to fit in a specific exact format. That's just annoying, becuse just like in the previous two points: as long as a user doesn't monumentally mess up something and needs some help getting a post right, it's fine. Also if it doesn't follow a pre-decided format.

That sounds much more like a place with some nice quiet space to sit down with a drink in your hand and say how shitty 'political thing A' is and how awesome 'political person B' is

I've seen exactly two people actually suggesting something and agreeing...

And you know, it's French, we'd keep @Bohemia and @Benolympique and maybe even @bestmen happy

Actually I agree

Then again, it shouldn't be a rule not to have 'thread' in a title of course, that'd be the opposite end of a regime If someone wants to open a dogs thread and name it [OFF TOPIC] Dogs that should be just as fine as someone naming it [OFF TOPIC] Dogs thread

Yes! Why not? If I see a thread with the name [OFF TOPIC] Politics I would think to myself "hey, a thread, about politics!" and what do you know, I'd be right!

- A thread is a thread, it's not necessary to specify that in the thread title - An OP is the first thing we as users (and more importantly, newcomers) see: basic information like a link to an official website and a schedule should be there (without having to scroll down and/or click on a link to open another site, as it is now, users don't want to have to open more sites, they want to see their info on-screen) - If there's big news, people should feel free to open a thread about it without having a huge chance of this being merged into some general thread. It's a forum, once the big news is not news anymore, it'll die down by itself - The bar to opening new threads is way too high when either you have to use a strict format or a moderator comes in and changes the whole thing without being asked to do so Probably more, but I still got to write my bit about this weekend's luge World Cup before the darts starts

[OFF TOPIC] General chat It's a thread, no need to have 'thread' in the name of a thread to specify that a thread is a thread. [OFF TOPIC] Café 'Le Café' sounds good too, but might be confusing for newcomers

To the drawing boards! (well not me, I'm busy watching sports)

It's Agenda 2020, not 2020 Agenda. Well, actually Olympic Agenda 2020. Keep your facts straight.