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Nice to see this thread back!!!

That one wasn’t fluke at all! His tactics was brilliant and he’s in a great shape

Together With Slovakia ! I would prefer Warsaw summer games though 😎

I am beginning to think how big are Musgrave chances for an Olympic medal in 26? Which event(s)? Skiathlon only or sth else as well?

I loved this quote from ES yesterday: Val Gardena - a motocross track with a snow on it!!! alpine season has officially begun!

Oh I love this sport

And there is Cameron Alexander with Bib 63. So when Bennett finishes you still can’t be sure of anything heh 👍

Bryce Bennett with Bib 62 in today’s SuperG. LOL you have to wait till the end then PS. Jan Zabystran 💪💪💪

I wonder if some of our Romanian users could write a bit about circumstances of that ROU decision. My bet is Causeascu thoght that in those difficult time for Romanian people (the 80's) sports success may make some support for him and improve the mood in the nation. But i don't know Romania, never been there, that's my thoughts only, my guesses.

ROU did a great job to go to LA. Many say their athletes were cheered there a lot.

POL decision to skip LA 1984 was the worst thing in our olympic history, apart from some doping and injury issues.

Thank you very much! You are doing a great job here! Thanks

@Pontus Hey! I think we have sth for you here for Paris 😎👍

@Josh i didn’t have time for more detailed analyzis but it looks like our medal tables are quite similar to each other even if we predicted many events differently . Good!

Going to work now. I will be back here in the evening CET. 👍👍👍

All the ice hockey fans: In an imaginary world, if olympics are this season and if NHL makes a break for games, and if all the best players say YES - what is the real strength of all these main NOCs here? Who should make it to the Top 4??? POL will not be there, if they somehow get there i'd be extremely surprised

I hope all the best NHL players will show up - but we all know it's rather unlikely. If the olympics were in USA or Canada... But fortunately these ones are in Europe and i would really like to go - 3 days, ice hockey, figure skating and short track - that would be fun

Medal table (23 events) 4-3-2---9 4-3-1---8 4-2-4---10 3-1-3---7 3-1-1---5 2-3-2---7 2-1-2---5 1-4-3---8 0-1-2---3 0-1-1---2 0-1-1---2 0-1-0---1 0-1-0---1 0-0-1---1

ICE HOCKEY Men 1. Canada 2. Czechia 3. Slovakia Women 1. Canada 2. United States 3. Sweden

Medal table (21 events) 4-3-1---8 4-2-4---10 4-2-2---8 3-1-1---5 2-3-2---7 2-1-2---5 1-4-3---8 1-1-3---5 0-1-2---3 0-1-1---2 0-1-0---1 0-1-0---1

FIGURE SKATING Men 1. Ilia Malinin USA 2. Shoma Uno JPN 3. Adam Siao Him Fa FRA Women 1. Kaori Sakamoto JPN 2. Loena Hendrickx BEL 3. Isabeau Levito USA Pairs 1. Sara Conti, Niccolo Macii ITA 2. Minerva Fabienne Hase, Nikita Volodin GER 3. Deanna Stellato-Dudek, Maxime Deschamps CAN Ice Dance 1. Madison Chock, Evan Bates USA 2. Charlene Guignard, Marco Fabbri ITA 3. Piper Gilles, Paul Poirier CAN Team Event 1. United States 2. Canada 3. Japan

Day 15 (August 10, 2024) Athletics- Men’s High Jump I say Gold for Barshim as well. But i may be biased because he is my fav high jumper and probably even my fav no-POL athlete these days. He's got Polish coach :-) No medal for Tamberi would be sad for me cause he's my second-fav male high jumper. It can obviosly happen though. And Woo is serious contender for sure, I haven't picked him for medal myself but maybe you're right. Athletics- Women’s 100m Hurdles I believe Harrison will win this one. Finally she will prove she can run her best in the final as well. Not only in prelims, semis or DL meetings. So i think she will win this one. But ofc - she may even not make it through US Trials here, because US Trials level in some events will be amazing and this is one of those events... No fan of Amusan at all so I don't want her to get a medal here. But she's a contender ofc. Athletics- Men’s 800m I haven't predicted gold for Arop either but maybe we should be more optimistic here. He has a chance for gold. He looked simply great in Budapest. Looking at him - after first 100m you just knew he will win this final. Athletics- Men’s 5000m I said Ingebrigtsen will get 1500-5000 double but surely UGA can have a gold here. Athletics- Women’s 4x400m Relay Athletics- Men’s 4x400m Relay I agree - 2 golds for USA in M and W 4x400 Basketball- Men’s Tournament I may be very disappointed but for now I'm thinking M basketball will be one of the best events in Paris. I just can't wait to see these matches. My only hope is GRE will advance and Giannis will play (but both these things are not very likely). Anyway, let the best remaining top 4 teams qualify now and let's not have many NOs when the best players will be asked to join their teams. Beach Volleyball- Men’s Tournament Yes, SWE and NOR are my favs as well. Where do you see POL here? Diving- Men’s 10m Platform I like the UKR kid very much but i don't see it happen. It would require both CHN athletes to screw things up (one of them can always screw up, but both of them in the same event... - very unlikely imo). And AUS is really strong here as well. Anyway, I predicted a surprised gold for UKR in synchro platform due to CHN collapse, we'll see. Handball- Women’s Tournament It would be very sad for FRA to get to the final here, and then lose it in front of their own crowd. But at least there will be some crowd in the stands this time. Anyway, it can happen ofc, we'll see WCH results soon... Volleyball- Men’s Tournament I believe in POL team here, i predicted them for gold as well, but i'm afraid we'll lose QF game again - OR we will win QF relatively easily and then we will celebrate too much, lose our concentraton and implode heavily in a SF But if we advance to the final somehow - I don't tnink we'll meet JPN there, they are strong but - i don't know how to say it politely - JPN guys are playing well but they are not hmm... high enough??? Ofc, after what i wrote, POL will lose QF against JPN for sure... Waterpolo- Women’s Tournament Here i predicted gold for HUN but you are right here i guess

is already out of Paris? Or we are still in the mix???

We are shopping now in a fashion outlet , it will take sth like 6 hours for my wife and daughters to get out of here so I will definitely have time for your posts. Stay tuned! 😎

This is great plan. Checking out juniors and lesser known athletes i ain’t got time for it now - so the first version of my predictions will be rather what if Olympics are this season This whole thing is just for fun!!!