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Voting in this one ends soon

As a joke - early thoughts on who may win this thing in 2024: BEST MALE ATHLETE for sportsmen in Olympic sports Noah Lyles (Athletics) BEST FEMALE ATHLETE for sportswomen in Olympic sports Shericka Jackson (Athletics) BEST NON-OLYMPIC ATHLETE for athletes in Non-Olympic sports and disciplines Max Verstappen (F1) BEST PARALYMPIC ATHLETE for athletes with a disability - BEST YOUTH ATHLETE for athletes up to 18 years old (born after January 1st, 2005) (including Olympic, Non-Olympic and Paralympic sports) Mirra Andreeva (Tennis) BEST MEN'S TEAM for national men's teams or groups (including Olympic, Non-Olympic and Paralympic sports) Volleyball BEST WOMEN'S TEAM for national women's teams or groups (including Olympic, Non-Olympic and Paralympic sports) Swimming 4x100m Freestyle Relay BEST DOUBLES/PAIR OR MIXED TEAM for doubles and pairs or mixed teams and groups (including Olympic, Non-Olympic and Paralympic sports) Men's Doubles (Tennis) BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR for the most improved athlete (aged 19 or over) or national team (including Olympic, Non-Olympic and Paralympic sports) Mirra Andreeva (Tennis) COMEBACK OF THE YEAR for athletes or national teams who made a comeback performance in 2023 (including Olympic, Non-Olympic and Paralympic sports) Kristof Milak (Swimming) SPORT MOMENT OF THE YEAR for any sport moment from 2023 M Volleyball team winning QF game in Paris :-)

Some interesting news found on our Polish olympic forum tylko-igrzyska: The World Athletics Council also approved that seeding for the first round of relay competition at the Paris Olympic Games be determined at the World Athletics Relays Bahamas 24. The event in The Bahamas will automatically qualify 14 teams to Paris, but Council has confirmed that the finishing order of the top eight teams in the Bahamas finals will, additionally, determine first round seeding rights to the best lanes for Paris 2024. https://worldathletics.org/news/press-releases/decisions-made-233rd-world-athletics-council-meeting-monaco

My nominees: BEST MALE ATHLETE for sportsmen in Olympic sports Lèon Marchand (Swimming) Marco Odermatt (Alpine Skiing) Noah Lyles (Athletics) Novak Djokovic (Tennis) Armand Duplantis (Athletics) Nikola Jokic (Basketball) BEST FEMALE ATHLETE for sportswomen in Olympic sports Mollie O'Callaghan (Swimming) Kaylee Mc Keown (Swimming) Iga Świątek (Tennis) Faith Kipyegon (Athletics) Femke Bol (Athletics) Mikaela Shiffrin (Alpine Skiing) BEST NON-OLYMPIC ATHLETE for athletes in Non-Olympic sports and disciplines Max Verstappen (F1) BEST PARALYMPIC ATHLETE for athletes with a disability - BEST YOUTH ATHLETE for athletes up to 18 years old (born after January 1st, 2005) (including Olympic, Non-Olympic and Paralympic sports) Summer McIntosh (Swimming) Darja Varfolomeev (Rhythmic Gymnastics) Qiu Qiyuan (Artistic Gymanstics) Kaylia Namour (Artistic Gymnastics) BEST MEN'S TEAM for national men's teams or groups (including Olympic, Non-Olympic and Paralympic sports) Volleyball Rugby (Union) Handball BEST WOMEN'S TEAM for national women's teams or groups (including Olympic, Non-Olympic and Paralympic sports) Swimming 4x100m Freestyle Relay Swimming 4x200m Freestyle Relay Handball BEST DOUBLES/PAIR OR MIXED TEAM for doubles and pairs or mixed teams and groups (including Olympic, Non-Olympic and Paralympic sports) Equestrian - Jumping Team BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR for the most improved athlete (aged 19 or over) or national team (including Olympic, Non-Olympic and Paralympic sports) Jordan Stolz (Speed Skating) Ethan Katzberg (Athletics) Ilia Malinin (Figure Skating) Kaylia Namour (Artistic Gymnastics) COMEBACK OF THE YEAR for athletes or national teams who made a comeback performance in 2023 (including Olympic, Non-Olympic and Paralympic sports) Simone Biles (Artistic Gymnastics) Cameron McEvoy (Swimming) Katarina Johnson-Thompson (Athletics) Sha'carri Richardson (Athletics) Iga Świątek (Tennis) - due to coming back to No. 1 in style Ewa Swoboda (Athletics) - advancing to the 100m WCH final in the end... SPORT MOMENT OF THE YEAR for any sport moment from 2023 Josh Kerr beating Jakob Ingebrigtsen in M 1500m Athletics WCH Final Iga Świątek winning French Open Militiadis Tentoglou winning M Long Jump Athletics WCH Final in Round 6 RSA winning Rugby World Cup Final ARG beating WAL in Rugby World Cup QF FIJ beating AUS in Rugby World Cup Pool C Match and being biased 2 additional moments: W 100m final in Athletics WCH (Ewa Swoboda) W 400m final in Athletics WCH (Natalia Kaczmarek)

Yes, I know. I wanted to spice things up a bit 😎

Interesting comparison. But I bet he won’t order to shoot anyone in the back, you know…

I'm afraid he can't. But i don't know about ARG politics much and i would love to be wrong here

I must say what @Antooo did here is among my personal Top 10, maybe even Top 5 things ever made here. This will be such a useful tool next summer. Thanks again.

And hello @danknel and @RussB !!! We have many interesting posts from British users here but we all hope you will add your thoughts as well. Would be awesome! Enjoy your day

Hello @skurkiewicz and @Gagaska93 !!! Nice to see more Polish users here!!! Enjoy the forum - and BE ACTIVE please!!!

Where to watch it??? Any official streaming site?

This thing was awesome! Can we have it this year as well???

Summary of my early predictions here. Now I will try to update them (e.g. Swimming - W 100m Fly, Equestrian - Dressage Ind and Team and so on...). Also schedulling needs to be improved (mainly Artistic Gymnastics ind apparatus finals) and in the end - a new medal table will be published. SPOILERS ALERT - When i finish, you won't need to watch the games because you know the results already

@Antooo THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!! Great job!!!

How it’s gonna be How I’d like it

What to watch this week, besides YouTube archives??? 😎

My bets

Maybe one or two of our Dutch users could step up and bring their speed skating / short track speed skating predictions???

only one gold for Team USA in freestyle skiing??? maybe their snowboard team will perform better

if you add snowboard next, that'd be awesome

@Josh nice to see you started with curling & freestyle because both of these are terra incognita for me

Do you have this feeling sometimes that winter-sports world cup weekends have this "olympic games" kind-a-like flow? You open your TV in the early morning and then you switch from one event to another for the whole day... oh, I like it.

These are olympic champions in certain events. Imagine that all these champions are on the top of their game at the very same moment in time. Who would have won gold?

Updated after Event #30 (Poll #10).

Results FREESTYLE SKIING - Men's Aerials 1. Qi Guangpu CHN (T) 2. Han Xiaopeng CHN (T) 3. Anton Kushnir BLR (T) FREESTYLE SKIING - Women's Aerials 1. Lydia Lassila AUS 2. Xu Mengtao CHN 3. Lina Cheryazova UZB (T) SPEED SKATING - Men's Team Pursuit 1. Netherlands 2. Norway 3. Italy (T) SPEED SKATING - Women's Team Pursuit 1. Japan 2. Netherlands (T) 3. Canada (T) SHORT TRACK SPEED SKATING - Men's 5000m Relay 1. Canada 2. Italy (T) 3. Korea Rep. (T) Thanks for voting!