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I might, supposedly Frisian is the closet language to English. I can understand a bit of Dutch sometimes too.

You have to be youthful and urban to understand, sorry grandpa ? .

Oh Eastern Europe

Well should she ever want some financial support, I could help spread the word and maybe donate a bit.

Yeet (first and last time I’ve ever said that), I’m dope enough to know that shiz existed. That’s a big boof on @mrv86 part though. Honestly, that’s a shmood though so Yolo. Old people just don’t understand that these new sports smack. I mean dude, duh. You can tell unlike the rest of my generation, I’ve never once used these words.

How long before I see you in one of these videos @heywoodu

Well I could make sure she gets to €51 . That could be the first order of business for the Totallympics Biathlon Club. We could fund the Brazilian biathletes

Has she tried finding equipment sponsors? Or does the Brazilian federation not allow that. She could also go the Go Fund Me route. I’ve been looking for athletes to help, but I just don’t have the funds for that now. I hope when I finish college, to lay out a small savings account for helping athletes and kids in countries with sports without support to get equipment, coaches, national attention, etc.

Is there any way skis could be sent for her? Is it looking like the other skis will be found?

What would you make the national sport though. What sport is worth that honor on that list?

16–17 based off what I could find. That’s why we’re making our own list for shits and giggles.

For Finland, based on the stated criteria, I’d argue for Pesapallo over Ice Hockey. I’d also argue for Bobsleigh over Ice Hockey for Latvia.

Kaatsen was an Olympic demonstration sport in 1928, so I’ve actually heard of that one. I was more familiar with that, before I had even heard of Korfball.

I’d argue for Ice Hockey there...or even Bandy

Yes, I first saw a game of Cricket in person (it was just a game between friends) on a lawn at the California State University of Fresno of all places.

I’d still say Archery and Taekwondo are more popular in Korea than Baseball. The bottom also definitely have sports that would beat baseball out for the title of national sport. Plus, the Bahamas and Canada already have some by law.

That doesn’t vindicate his actions though. I mean, I expect higher standards from someone in a position like him.

Right, but if you look back on page 3 you can see the model criteria I set down for the list of national sports (as nominated by Totallympics users) I wanted to start. If we go purely off most popular most countries would all share Football as their national sport. I totally agree with what you said, those sports just don’t fit the criteria. Plus, most Americans refer to Baseball as “America's Game”

Raise your hand if you’re not shocked by a Russian being racist:

Videos of all the Raquetball finals can be found on the International Raquetball Federation Facebook page

@bmo I’m assuming you’d have no problems nominating Baseball as our national sport? Actually, choosing one for the US is quite hard since we invented Baseball (in its current form), Basketball, and American Football (and probably some much lesser known ones). I’d still place my vote for Baseball because it was the first sport to integrate racially, the first to have an ultra popular professional league, and it’s connection to the 4th of July and American national identity. As for California, I already said our official (by law/decree) state sport is surfing. It makes sense seeing as we have some of the most famous surf spots in the world, and probably the most surfers per capita. I’d personally argue that Cycling, Triathlon, Athletics, or Pickleball be made the official state sport. Beach Volleyball, Volleyball, and Skateboarding would be in contention too. If we were to have an official winter state sport it would most certainly have to be Freestyle Skiing.

Alright, we’ll this was a fun little discussion to wake up to this morning. Based off the comments I think we should create another list (National Sports As Nominated By Totallympians). So if you could only choose one sport as your countries national sport what would it be? Some words of advice, try to choose something mildly popular or something that would need cultural protection to survive, choose something with historical or cultural importance in your country, choose something that’s at least developed at the national level, choose something unique.

I thought about this topic when I started training for a triathlon today. I was thinking about how my state was the birth place of the sport, but it is neither the state nor national sport. So I thought I’d be cool to here about national sports in your countries. Below the US and California’s “national” sport. The US has no official national sport, but most people consider Baseball to be the national sport. California has an official state sport. It is Surfing.

I thought It would be a fun little topic to discuss and compile a list of national sports for all the IOC recognized countries and territories. So below you can (or will in a few days time) find a list of all the NOC’s national sports. If you disagree with your countries national sport and think it should be something else, you can post about that too. Also if you state, region, province, or city has a recognized “national” sport, post about that below, so we start a sub-list of those. National Sports By Law Flag Country Sport Argentina Pato Bahamas Cricket Bangladesh Kabaddi Bhutan Archery Brazil Capoeira Canada Lacrosse/Ice Hockey Chile Rodeo Colombia Tejo Mexico Charrería Namibia Football/Netball/Rugby Nepal Volleyball Philippines Arnis Puerto Rico Paso Fino South Korea Taekwondo Sri Lanka Volleyball Uruguay Destrezas Criollas National Sports As Nominated By Totallympics Users Flag Country User(s) Sport Brazil @thiago_simoes @hoversaBR Football/Futevôlei Czech Republic @ahjfcshfghb Ice Hockey/Nohejbal Denmark @wumo26 Handball England @uk12points @Nickyc707 Cricket/Football France @De_Gambassi @Benolympique Pétanque/Football Hungary @Vektor Football India @Shravan Kumar Field Hockey Italy @phelps Football Netherlands @heywoodu Speed Skating New Zealand @Wanderer Rugby Poland @Vojthas @Monzanator Volleyball/Ski Jumping/Speedway Slovakia @hckosice Ice Hockey/Nohejbal Sweden @Belle Football Switzerland @Ustatsch Schwingen United States @Olympian1010 Baseball

Also I’ve love current page number of this chat, so I’ll commemorate it at 16:20 PCT