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You are so terribly wrong here, I know Canada is far away from Eastern and Middle Europe but you must know that a lot of people care about Belarus here right now, and although I criticise IOC in different matters a lot, this decision involving Lukashenka and co. was really good. Highlighting this problem at the beginning of the conference also means a lot to me.

Only 90 riders in men's cycling road race - what a stupid decision in an event which should be blue ribbon event in this olympics with Champs Elysee finish. Totally nonsense.

What would be your best and worst options for your teams in today's UEFA zone qualification draw for world cup 2022 ? Best: 1. Denmark 2. Poland 3. Northern Ireland 4. Luxembourg 5. Andorra 6. San Marino Worst: 1. France 2. Poland 3. Russia 4. Bulgaria 5. Kosovo

#226 - Beijing 2008 - Gymnastics Artistic - W Floor Final - Sandra Izbasa was simply perfect there! This is legendary for me. https://www.olympicchannel.com/en/video/detail/women-s-floor-exercise-final-beijing-2008-replays/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyANyji0yYo&t=22s

It could be an interesting idea. But how it would look like? There are so many events - I don't know if I have that much time.

Here they say handball in Paris. We will see. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeux_olympiques_d'été_de_2024#Infrastructures_sportives

Sailing could not be in Paris - that is understandable. But why they try to move out of city handball or volleyball - one of the old, most interesting sports, normally core of the games, should be played in the golden circle. And they want us to watch skateboarding or breakdance on Champs-Élysées instead. Ehhh...

https://sport.francetvinfo.fr/handball/le-tournoi-olympique-de-handball-2024-lille-les-joueurs-tres-partages but handball in Lille? That would be another stupid decision.

What a relief. I hope they won't change their minds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Summer_Olympics#Outlying_venues According to english wikipedia, they want to push the whole volleyball indoor tournaments out of Paris and play it in Lille ! WTF? Why on earth they would want to do that? That would be a stupid decision! But the french wiki says it will be in Paris https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeux_olympiques_d'été_de_2024#Infrastructures_sportives So what's the truth? Lille is ain't that far like Tahiti, but anyway... https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1098059/paris-2024-considering-volleyball-change

If I did maths well - there is still 229 days to the Tokyo 2020/2021 opening ceremony. And 227 days until the first softball JPN-AUS game in Fukushima. So - the final countdown could be watching again the best olympic moments so far, it could be a quite random order - whatever comes to mind on particular day. I would start with: #227 - Beijing 2008 - Swimming - W 200m Freestyle Final - FEDE! FEDE! FEDE! https://www.olympicchannel.com/en/video/detail/slovenian-medalists-sara-isakovic-swimming-beijing-2008/

They will not lose so many long time die-hard fans like us, because - even if we agree that they make so many bad decisions and there are so many hilarious mistakes in IOC work - there is one truth: THERE IS STILL NOTHING BETTER IN INTERNATIONAL SPORTS THAN OLYMPICS ITSELF. I can't find anything which could be considered as a better thing to watch.

parkour-olympic-games https://nyti.ms/36qKNBv Parkour in 2024? Please, don't do that! If I could choose one new event - I would say High Diving.

@Giovanni Gianni Cattaneo This new form is better, thank you!

Beijing 2022 Schedule by Day

Day 5 Wednesday 29/07/1992 Good news - Three gold medals for Poland in one day. Bad news - Those 3 were the only gold medals for Poland in Barcelona'92. Judo - M 86kg - Waldemar Legień https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6mGSW5ydyA&t=3s Modern Pentathlon - M Individual & Team Gold Medals for Poland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ-JR6WoaOs Cycling Track - M Ind Pursuit - Chris Boardman WR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3VVVHk5_xM https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2012/jun/27/50-stunning-olympic-moments-chris-boardman Basketball Dream Team - USA vs Germany https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMEZdy_iU6M&t=2s

Day 4 Tuesday 28/07/1992 Swimming - W 100m backstroke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNJ0lv5NlkI&t=1s Gymnastics artistic - W team all-around https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jAi5W-EJRs&t=89s

Day 3 Monday 27/07/1992 Swimming - M 100m butterfly - Rafał Szukała silver medal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bUTnLsXgCQ M 400m Individual Medley - Tamas Darnyi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2KWtgDIAPY&feature=youtu.be Cycling Track - 1 km time trial - Jose Manuel Moreno https://www.olympicchannel.com/en/video/detail/spain-barcelona-1992-j-manuel-moreno-cycling-1km-timtrial-men/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb21T4TsiHM Diving - W 10m Platform - with this memorable view of the city in the background! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdZ4WumdWto Basketball - USA vs Croatia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiK1Pzq7v3M&t=57s Football - M Tournament - Poland vs Italy 3-0 - that was a huge surprise for me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZOS8GBKHO0

Day 2 Sunday 26/07/1992 Swimming M 200m Freestyle - Yevgeny Sadovyi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7TdRD0Zams&t=24s W 400m Individual Medley - Krisztina Egerszegi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUWvIowDhN4&feature=youtu.be Basketball First Dream Team Olympic Game - USA vs Angola https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7SaPj-wJBo W Cycling Road Race finish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD9uPzfXsyo&list=PLAWvRsehv7RYEwl7Y6M24PS8f27aiDNjS&index=21

Day 1 Saturday 25/07/1992 Opening Ceremony Who didn't love it? Probably one of the most entertaining ones, not only the cauldron lighting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzGCXdX6gig&t=7115s

Day 0 Friday 24/07/1992 M Football Tournament Group A Poland - Kuwait 2-0 Our national team started their journey to the eventual silver medal - this is last Polish team sport olympic medal unfortunately. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_WkruYvdrs

I would like to make some memories from Barcelona 1992 in this thread. I think I have the greatest sentiment for these games. This is when I started watching the games 24/7, and the olympics became my hobby. So - how do you remember these games?

Thank you @Giovanni Gianni Cattaneo this is extremely useful. You could Edit this with some minor schedule changes which were made lately and put volleyball teams like in hockey schedule

@Olympian1010 We had this thread before https://totallympics.com/topic/2360-tokyo-2020-day-after-day-as-it-could-have-happened/ I thought we could do something similar with Beijing. But obviously it would be a new thread, here we can discuss the team qualifications. And I don't want to make any contest. Just a nice discussion, exchange of views. This Tokyo discussion was superfun for me.