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Another Vancouver 2010 moment: Nicolien Sauerbrei's giant slalom gold medal. The first and only snow medal for !
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdnBxYisZjg

It's so dependent on how many (important) events in each sport actually happened this year. As a result it feels like cycling just got the most opportunity to shine this year. There has been other sports, but often the events were far more limited in attendance and attention (athletics and swimming for example).
 
Sportsman: Mathieu van der Poel
Sportswoman: Anna van der Breggen
Talent: Femke Bol
Team: ??? (probably a rowing team after that successful European championship)
 
Surely my follow Dutchmen will have some more original picks.

Germany's female sportsperson of the year is Long Jumper Malaika Mihamo
 
Male sportsperson of the year is Leon Draisaitl (Ice Hockey)
 
Team is FC Bayern Munich (Football)

And comparing Židek to Bradbury? I don't know, it's a tough sell.
 
Finished 9th in the seeding run (still only 0.5 secs away from 3rd). Placed 1st in each preliminary KO round. Lead the gold medal final for most of the race and still almost won it (against a guy who would eventually became double gold medalist).
 
Very unlike Bradbury (even if it was still Židek's only big podium apparently)...
 
 

Yes.
 
This is Totallympics, dude.

I have also been reading all the memories! I definitely have some ideas for Dutch (and international) memories, though far from enough to fill 212 more days ;-)
 
Luckily the Olympic channel did part of the work for me with this compilation!
 

nobody! there were almost no major international competition for our notable athletes this year.
 
but if someone puts a gun on my head and forces me to pick a name, I would give it to Sardar Azmoun, he was the topscorer in the Russian League this year. I know this is nothing but I can't remember any kind of achievement this year. everything was cancelled.
 
PS: there is no official award here since some years, but even if it was, that should be based on our own calendar, not 2020. a year here starts and finishes in March. so even those few sport events before the COVID shouldn't be counted, they were all before March 2020.

As for most of other users, very hard to pick an outstanding performance in a year that saw most major sporting events cancelled.
 
Still the outstanding Mexican athletes of the year, in no particular order, would be:
 
Jessica Salazar, track cycling Renata Zarazúa, tennis Carlos Ortiz, golf Sergio Pérez, car racing

obviously no official award should be given this year, as most events have been cancelled or contested in unusual (when not unfair) conditions...
 
by the way, my very personal awards (limited to the few sports that at least had some serious competitions) for Italy are a no brainer...
 
Man of the Year: Filippo Ganna (Track & Road Cycling)
 
Woman of the Year: Dorothea Wierer (Biathlon)
 
Male Rising Star of the Year: Jannik Sinner (Tennis)
 
Female Rising Star of the Year: Benedetta Pilato (Swimming)

Diego Schwartzman or Nadia Podoroska, don´t think someone else made something remarkable this year. 

naaaa...I always look at your memories (most of them are also my memories)...
 
I would rather start to post also my list when we reach the last 100 days (I'm so lazy ), but maybe I could anticipate that (especially for the Winter Games memories)...who knows? 

Julian Alaphilippe (Cycling Road) & Vincent Luis (Triathlon)

Absolute No brainer
 
Here the Official results (Only our Sport Journalists are allowed to vote)
 
 
The only I miss in this top 10 personally is our Rookie of the year : Emma Zapletalová (Athletics) whom I would put even in place 6 instead of Dúbravka
 
but I am satisfied with the top 3 maybe even Top 5

Men : Danyil Boldyrev
Women : Olga Kharlan

Ok, let's try (NOT official prizs BUT MY OPINIONS)
 
Men of the Year: Filippo Ganna (Road Cycling)
Women of the Year: Dorothea Weirer (Biathlon)
Team of the Year: Women's Track Cycling Team 
Paralympic Athlete of the Year: Simone Barlam (Swimming)
Coach of the Year: Stefano Villa (Track Cycling)
Youth of the Year: Benedetta Pilato (Swimming)

My own top13
1. Armband Duplantis, pole vault 
2. Daniel Ståhl, discus
3. Linn Svahn, Xc skiing 
4.  Anna Hasselborg, curling 
5. Isabelle Haak, Volleyball
6. Sandra Näslund, ski cross
7. Victor Hedman, ice hockey
8.Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Football
9. Hanna Öberg, Biathlon
10. Frida Karlsson, XC skiing
11. Angelica Bengtsson, Pole vault
12. Ebba Andersson, XC skiing
13. Sebastian Samuelsson, biathlon

we could make the predictions of a sport per day like a calendar forward

it is the 5th sport to have finished its qualifications after (softball, field hockey, equestrian, volleyball) the next sport to finish its qualifications will be water polo at the end of February.

Ester Ledecká,
 
Last week easy win in snowboarding PGS in Cortina..so, what to do now ? what about just going to celebrate this win by having some fun skiing in Val d´Isere
 
what a personage !

Portuguese National 20km Race Walk Championships 2020
 
Women's 20km Race Walk:
 Ana Cabecinha (1:30:18)
https://www.portugalathleticsresults.pt/3512/resultados

Saw this yesterday and had to double check, if the timing was right. This would have been good for a Bronze at last years WC 
 
Still not getting any hopes up, since i know, when the big championship comes, the under-performance also does. 

Men's Decathlon:
 
Brisbane
 Ash Maloney (8492)
Cedric Dubler (8367)
 

Albie Thomas Mile 2020
 
Women's 400m Hurdles:
 Sarah Carli (55.09)
https://www.nswathletics.org.au/news/albie-thomas-mile-review-olympic-qualifier-for-carli-as-edwards/

and that unbelievable era of Communism
 
The return home from the normal world to the sad reality of "socialist paradise" ..reporter of Czechoslovak TV asking most idiotic questions at the airport (firstly just congartulating happy birthday to 20 years old Jana Novotná (RIP) and not mentioning at all her silver medal to immediatelly starting infront of Miloš wife with the most stupid question. Tennis players are not famous for bringing medals, what price has this medal for you ? kudos, Miloš showed how he knew to keep his cold blood, "I do not know the price of that medal, but it is nice experience to win it"
also mentioning his semifinal against Edberg as the hardest game.
 

Ok,
 
I guess I can post some daily videos here too.
 
Will start with medals. No worries, there not so much so it won't take too long
 
Miloslav Mečíř won 2 medals for former Czechoslovakia in Seoul 1988 at the grand return of Tennis under the 5 rings.
After a bronze with the Czech Milan Šrejber in the M doubles three days before the end of the games in the next afternoon came his most famous win in the M Singles final.