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Listening to your advice, I have just booked a trip to Paris for a week in June next year. That will be my personal "pre-olympic test event" :-) Getting around the city and see where are the venues and other things... Should be fun! Do you know when you can sign for tickets for the first time? Should be some kind of lottery, I guess.

I've got an e-mail informing that Eurosport Player will not be available here in Poland since December 15th. That's a shame. They proposed sth else instead (Eurosport available on internet platform called player.pl but I'm worried that it won't be as good as before. I'm worried because I used EPlayer a lot to watch Tokyo and Beijing Games "on demand", any event I wanted was available live or later on, that was awesome. And I hoped the same for Paris 2024, so I guess they will offer sth similar... And the winter season in starting and it was always good to watch it on EPlayer as well... Ehh... I wonder if EPlayer is going to be unavailable in other European countries as well??? I will create an account in this player.pl thing and see what it is, never used that before.

I have finished watching last apparatus finals and one more thing came to my mind... There is so much technical progress in the world, new advanced technologies, Man landed on the Moon and so on... But athletes numbers are still put on their clothes using SAFETY-PINS... :-) Will it ever change?

Y Yes, now it is like it should be, I can't see other users posts.

Well, the biggest problem for me now is that I would like to continue with some polls about some popular team events, but there was USSR team winning at least one gold in each of them. As I count all the medals to the nowadays NOCs , i think in these events the medals will need to be counted to Russia as majority of the team members of USSR teams were Russian. I will try to count it, how many Ukrainians, Armenians etc. were there and if majority will be other than Russians, I will change it. Like in rowing, men’s Yugoslavian fours team was all Croatian, not Serbian. So next poll or two are all about team sports… Stay tuned.

And I can see other users previous predictions as well if their posts were edited...

@Wumo @Sindo in FIFA world cup prediction contest, if a post is edited, you can see other user previous predictions in "edit history"...

[/hide] Group Stage November 20th - December 2nd, 2022 32 Nations, The Top 2 Nations from each Group will qualify for the Round of 16. Group A Date & Time (GMT +3) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 November 20th 2022, h. 19:00 Qatar 1 2 Ecuador November 21st 2022, h. 19:00 Senegal 1 1 Netherlands November 25th 2022, h. 16:00 Qatar 0 1 Senegal November 25th 2022, h. 19:00 Netherlands 3 1 Ecuador November 29th 2022, h. 18:00 Ecuador 1 2 Senegal November 29th 2022, h. 18:00 Netherlands 4 1 Qatar Goup B Date & Time (GMT +3) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 November 21st 2022, h. 16:00 England 2 0 Iran November 21st 2022, h. 22:00 United States 1 1 Wales November 25th 2022, h. 13:00 Wales 2 1 Iran November 25th 2022, h. 22:00 England 4 2 United States November 29th 2022, h. 22:00 Wales 1 2 England November 29th 2022, h. 22:00 Iran 1 1 United States Group C Date & Time (GMT +3) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 November 22nd 2022, h. 13:00 Argentina 6 0 Saudi Arabia November 22nd 2022, h. 19:00 Mexico 1 2 Poland November 26th 2022, h. 16:00 Poland 3 1 Saudi Arabia November 26th 2022, h. 22:00 Argentina 3 1 Mexico November 30th 2022, h. 22:00 Poland 1 3 Argentina November 30th 2022, h. 22:00 Saudi Arabia 0 1 Mexico Group D Date & Time (GMT +3) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 November 22nd 2022, h. 16:00 Denmark 2 1 Tunisia November 22nd 2022, h. 22:00 France 3 0 Australia November 26th 2022, h. 13:00 Tunisia 2 1 Australia November 26th 2022, h. 19:00 France 2 2 Denmark November 30th 2022, h. 18:00 Australia 0 2 Denmark November 30th 2022, h. 18:00 Tunisia 1 3 France Group E Date & Time (GMT +3) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 November 23rd 2022, h. 16:00 Germany 3 1 Japan November 23rd 2022, h. 19:00 Spain 4 0 Costa Rica November 27th 2022, h. 13:00 Japan 2 1 Costa Rica November 27th 2022, h. 22:00 Spain 3 2 Germany December 1st 2022, h. 22:00 Japan 0 2 Spain December 1st 2022, h. 22:00 Costa Rica 0 2 Germany Group F Date & Time (GMT +3) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 November 23rd 2022, h. 13:00 Morocco 2 1 Croatia November 23rd 2022, h. 22:00 Belgium 3 1 Canada November 27th 2022, h. 16:00 Belgium 2 0 Morocco November 27th 2022, h. 19:00 Croatia 2 1 Canada December 1st 2022, h. 18:00 Croatia 1 2 Belgium December 1st 2022, h. 18:00 Canada 0 1 Morocco Group G Date & Time (GMT +3) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 November 24th 2022, h. 13:00 Switzerland 1 1 Cameroon November 24th 2022, h. 22:00 Brazil 3 0 Serbia November 28th 2022, h. 13:00 Cameroon 2 1 Serbia November 28th 2022, h. 19:00 Brazil 3 1 Switzerland December 2nd 2022, h. 22:00 Serbia 0 1 Switzerland December 2nd 2022, h. 22:00 Cameroon 1 2 Brazil Group H Date & Time (GMT +3) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 November 24th 2022, h. 16:00 Uruguay 3 1 South Korea November 24th 2022, h. 19:00 Portugal 2 0 Ghana November 28th 2022, h. 16:00 South Korea 0 1 Ghana November 28th 2022, h. 22:00 Portugal 2 2 Uruguay December 2nd 2022, h. 18:00 Ghana 2 3 Uruguay December 2nd 2022, h. 18:00 South Korea 0 2 Portugal Top 3 Place 1st 2nd 3rd Nation Spain Belgium Argentina [/hide]

@Dragon I found your old post here. Yes, you have invented this whole thing :-) Thanks for an idea! And thanks for bringing up stories like David Wilkie 1976 win. That's what I was hoping for, that we will remind ourselves some less popular and less known olympic stories!

Poll #42. 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? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Olympic_medalists_in_athletics_(women)#200_metres https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Olympic_medalists_in_athletics_(women)#3000_metres_steeplechase https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Olympic_medalists_in_swimming_(men)#200_metres_breaststroke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Olympic_medalists_in_judo#Half_middleweight_2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Olympic_medalists_in_judo#Middleweight_2

Updated after Event #180 (Poll #41).

Updated after Event #180 (Poll #41).

Results ATHLETICS - Men's Long Jump 1. Carl Lewis USA 2. Bob Beamon USA 3. Ivan Pedroso CUB SWIMMING - Men's 200m Individual Medley 1. Michael Phelps USA 2. Tamas Darnyi HUN 3. Massimiliano Rosolino ITA (T) TABLE TENNIS - Women's Singles 1. Zhang Yining CHN 2. Deng Yaping CHN 3. Chen Meng CHN* BADMINTON - Women's Doubles 1. Ge Fei, Gu Jun CHN 2. Greysia Polii, Apriyani Rahayu INA 3. Misaki Matsutomo, Ayaka Takahashi JPN BADMINTON - Mixed Doubles 1. Zhang Jun, Gao Ling CHN 2. Tontowi Ahmad, Liliyana Natsir INA (T) 3. Lee Yong-dae, Lee Hyo-jung KOR (T) Thanks for voting!

As almost all the 2022 season world championships are done maybe we could do sth similar - Paris 2024 simulation, as it could happen, with predicting the medalists, day by day? What you think?

Maybe you are right. But I'm going to enjoy this World Cup. We must enjoy the time now as much as we can. When Trump wins in 2024 and Putin is doing what is doing, we are in deep shit in our part of Europe. So let's enjoy things while we still can.

Time for a very serious question.

Anyone knows what's going on with Manrique Larduet? It's a pity he's not here. Such a great gymnast to watch.

Waiting for a new Rhys youtube video... https://www.youtube.com/c/RhysMcclenaghanGymnast/videos

Anyone knows why MJ Dos Santos and Tang Xijing didn't perform in AA final? Hopefully no injuries...

Congrats @thiago_simoes @vinipereira great to see Andrade win!!! She could have done it Tokyo already but we will wait for Paris! Uneven bars was a scary moment here, looks like she had to improvise a bit but she held it well. I'm so happy for this gold medal.

Of course, thanks! Corrected.

@Vic Liu what are your thoughts on table tennis here? It will be Chinese sweep anyway… @Griff88 i guess we are interested what you think about badminton events here…

Alonso car almost like a kite today… that was scary. Heavy crash at the big speed in the middle of the straight.

Poll #41. 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? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Olympic_medalists_in_athletics_(men)#Long_jump https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Olympic_medalists_in_swimming_(men)#200_metres_individual_medley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Olympic_medalists_in_table_tennis#Singles_2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Olympic_medalists_in_badminton#Women's_doubles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Olympic_medalists_in_badminton#Mixed_doubles