Olympian1010

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Well, Unless I’m reading CoSport’s website wrong. All of my ticket requests have been denied. I applied for 18 tickets to 9 event sessions on 9 separate days. Apparently the ticket shortage is so bad in the US that 100,000s of people may have been denied Olympics tickets. It’s apparently just as bad in Australia and Japan, and I would imagine that it’s the same for most major countries. At this point I’m hoping it’s just a glitch in the website, but it doesn’t look good...

With the games only one more day out, I feel like it is a great time to remind everyone about one of the greatest opening ceremonies of all time (and my personal favorite):

Happy to see Para Table Tennis return. Beach Volleyball is whatever, it was popular in the Gold Coast, but the strength of commonwealth pairs isn’t great. I’m really excited to see women’s cricket join the program. I really just don’t understand leaving shooting off the program. It’s one of the most competitive commonwealth sports, and it’s a historic competitive, just a bad and sad move on the organizing committees part.

So this is essentially Ice Hockey that looks really funny because they aren’t wearing skates ?

I think chat rooms have replaced forums too. Discord, WhatsApp, Messenger, etc. are much more popular than forums now, and, at least from my experience running our podcast Discord, they run better and function similarly.

For these games, the EOC made them get the rights, but most of the time they broadcast where rights weren’t brought

Similar to what happened to me honestly

2 days to go!

I think the Olympic Channel has the rights for Indonesia by the way. Check on their website for the streaming schedule.

I get the feeling that a lot my generation could care less about this stuff, but my generation is still highly interested in the Olympics, so maybe will get a few more users in the run up to the games.

I registered after the 2018 Winter Olympics when I was for Tokyo 2020 qualification. Someone had posted the PDFs, so I was saving them to my google drive (essentially taking advantage of their work), when I saw a thread called Biathlon qualification for 2018 Winter Olympics. As I was looking around, I saw user complaining that the IBU made it impossible for Brazil to get any quotas. I said, I think I like these people, so I visited a few more times, and the joined the forum during the 2018 Commonwealth Games

A few days ago when commented on a post your profile glitched and said you were new. That’s my bad. Also, Hi

What do you think of the badminton field?

The best fan base in international football period.: https://www.facebook.com/foxsports/videos/321960232068280?s=100011031965109&v=e&sfns=mo

@intoronto with getting quotas in tennis. Who’s left without quotas still?

As always, yes . These games (and the 2015 Pan American Games) are what made me become a serious international sports fan. I’ve watched every single minute of the 4 daily 12 hour streams on YouTube from the 2015 edition up till day 8 (because it was the summer of 2016, and there wasn’t another small multi-sports event in Brazil that caught my attention).

I don’t think any did besides @bmo and @up and down

So the first Democratic Party Debate for candidates in the 2020 presidential election is coming up next week. I’m not a registered Democrat, but it is the party I’m most likely to support (especially in this election). I’m technically registered as DSA (Democratic Socialists of America) and their preferred candidate(s) will be Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. I like both of them, but I’m not sure they will be Trump in the election. Plus, I don’t necessarily agree with every they’ve said. Though I would be willing to support them should they win the primaries (party elections). Joe Biden has crawled out of his mansion to run in this election. His treatment of women is worrying to me. Plus, he’s more of a centrist and that hasn’t worked well for us lately. He’s also not fully onboard the pro-choice train. The candidate I originally supported was Kamala Harris (Go California!) and I agree with most, of not all, of her policies, but she’s been struggling in the polls lately. She can also struggle to show her human side because of her focus on law (that’s just how lawyers are...but you to be personable to win the US Presidential Election). If she wins the nomination I will support her (as I have in other elections). The candidate I most likely, and that is my favorite going into the first debate is Pete Buttigieg. He’s mayor is a mid-major town much like mine. He’s very personal and a proud out gay man. He is closer to the center than some, but he still supports the same basic policies I do. He’s also from the generation as me (or at least as close as it’s going to get). He also just gives me hope for the country. I really just like his energy and charisma. Those are the main contenders for the Democratic nomination, but others could upset. Andrew Yang has made a name for himself in the early campaign season, and could steadily gain percentage points as the campaign continues. He is far-left, so I would vote for him (though I don’t like all of his policies). Cory Booker will also carry the African-American vote if he’s able to get momentum. I’m personally not a huge fan of his over the top theatrics, but he’s not all bad. I would vote for him over Trump. Amy Klobuchar also has a few percentage points in the race. I like what she has to say, but her record for the treatment of her staff is not great. She would still be better than Trump. The last candidate with a small chance in my opinion is Beto O’Rouke. He made waves in the last election when he almost stole Ted Cruz’s debate postion. He to me, is too much of a centrist, but he is highly personable. This race should be interesting. I believe the party will nominate someone pretty far left (which is awesome). If the democratic candidate wins; our immigration rules will be softened and will accept many more immigrants, we will attempt to implement big climate change policies, LGBTQ rights will be prioritized, the economy will be an issue, and hopefully we see some nationalized health care. Their will be other issues fixed to, but those are the ones I most care about.

Well that’s how we enter every place unfortunately . In all seriousness, I’m very much happy to see some A level athletes making their way to Lima. Our evening team will be hard to beat.

Welcome @dcro! Enjoy the forum

I know, I’m just trying to make friends . It’s all right. The more the merrier (even if they don’t chat)

He was only a Youth Olympian :

Hello @fredr9 and welcome to the forum!

The 2019-2020 season the Curling World Cup has been suspended. World Curling story: http://www.worldcurling.org/2019-2020-curling-world-cup