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Mistake for Chusovitina  Probabily she will not able to win a medal, very sad

Actually yes. He was the defending champion from this same competition last year!

Lennon - Bailey should have been an afternoon match, it's so, so, so boring so far  
 

 
Go Portela  

Awards ceremony live on BBC 1 now
 
Nominations for Sportsperson of the Year are:
 
Harry Kane
Dina Asher-Smith
Jimmy Anderson
Geraint Thomas
Lewis Hamilton
Lizzy Yarnold
 
Special Award - Billy Monger, the racing driver who returned to racing after losing both legs in a crash.
 
International Lifetime Achievement Award - Billie Jean King
 
Coach of the Year -  Gareth Southgate
 
World Star of the Year  -  Francesco Molinari (he beat Simone Biles (!) )
 
Team of the Year -  England Netball
 
Greatest Sporting Moment of 2018 - England netball team beating world champions Australia in the last second to win the Commonwealth Games
 
Final results
3rd Harry Kane
2nd Lewis Hamilton
1st Geraint Thomas

I adjusted the list above with new national records highlighted in grey now that we're two weeks further into the season.

This is really a shock

For anyone interested, I've added a Qualification Watch page to my blog.
 
Basically it lists all unqualified nations and which events they may qualify in. These are based on performances over the last two years. Please note that these are chances and not guarantees. Boxing will be added once the qualification process is confirmed. I have also yet to add invitation quotas (outside of athletics/swimming) as it is a bit too early to figure those out.
 
If anyone has any suggestions as to possible events a nation may qualify in, let me know.

we just heard an interesting story about 1978 FIFA World Cup. this is about how much England and Scotland hate each other in football
 
The night before Iran-Scotland match, Iranian coach had a surprising guest in his hotel room. Ron Greenwood, England NT manager at the time (England failed to qualify for that World Cup) who came to Cordoba in Argentina to help Iranian coach about the Scotland match !!! this sounds like nothing nowadays because everybody knows everybody but remember at the time Iranian coaches were living in a cave and had no clue about European teams. after 2-3 hours meeting with Greenwood Iranian coaches decided to make a change in startling lineup because Greenwood advised them to put someone "dirty" on Scotland's star Archie Gemmill. they used someone who never played as starter to stop Gemmill. and that guy didn't just stop their star but he also scored the equalizing goal  for Iran in second half (which was Iran's first ever goal at the World Cup in history) 
 
Scotland was a very good team at the time they were even thinking about winning the Cup , they even beat the Netherlands (eventual runner up) after this but still got eliminated because of that draw against Iran.
 
the whole story came to the light here because the guy who scored that goal "Iraj Danaeifard" just passed away few days ago.

Finally I reach to see some matches

Could be fun :
 

Austrian police came to Russians few hours ago & blamed people from this list in anti-doping rules violation during the WCH 2017:
 

I've uploaded manyyyy skiing crashes as public to my skiing channel, feel free to watch and subscribe
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG1hKuxipc32QDjUgmvfEtQ

16 November, according to athletics integrity unit.
https://www.athleticsintegrity.org/disciplinary-process/provisional-suspensions-in-force

Thank you. I just feel happy of having the opportunity to welcome back Totallympics to my country.  
 
But more important I feel committed to do a way better job than last time.
 
Expect a formal statement from bid committee and small presentation of the host tomorrow.

Totallympics Annual International Song Contest 2019
Host Nation Draw Result
 
 
 
The draw to find the host of the next edition of Totallympics International Song Contest has just been completed.
Congratulations to Mexico, who have won the rights to host TISC Annual 2019.
 
 

 
 
 
Commiserations to Algeria and Croatia, sorry it wasn't to be this time. I hope we get the chance to take TISC to both of your nations soon.
 
So, 5 years after Mexico hosted the first ever edition of the Annual, TISC will be returning to Mexico in 2019.
 
 
 

Reigning world and Olympic 20km race walk silver medallist Maria Guadalupe Gonzalez has been provisionally suspended after failing a doping test. 

So after ice hockey last week, today I'm attending Golden Spin in Zagreb.
 
And unlike in hockey, this is a chance to see Olympians in live, which is quite special.
 
Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier won the rhytm dance.
 

The cancelled snowboardcross event in Montafon will be rescheduled to Cervinia.
 
Qualification: Thursday, 20th December
Race 1: Friday, 21st December
Qualification and Race 2: Saturday, 22nd December

Totallympics Annual International Song Contest 2019
Host Nation Draw
 
 
The draw to find our next host is scheduled for Friday, 7th December @ 19:00 GMT.
Here is the ticket where the draw can be verified:
 
http://www.randomresult.com/ticket.php?t=999256HU5VA
 
Good luck to Algeria, Croatia and Mexico @bestmen @dcro @mrv86

As further proof that popular vote is bad, the winners of the awards mentioned here by phelps have been announced:
 
Man of the Year: Filippo Tortu 
Woman of the Year: Sofia Goggia
 
Team: Women's volleyball NT
Coach: M. Allegri (Juventus coach) 
Best Performance: Mauro Icardi (for the last Serie A season) 
Exploit: Elia Viviani 
Breakout: Simona Quadarella
Promising Athlete: Francesco Bagnaia 
Paralympic Athletes: Beatrice Vio and Oney Tapia
 

Here https://video.fil-luge.org/index.html
Now you can see it on demand

Today,  Larissa Paes skated a new national record on the 1.000m women. As I love stats, I looked up which national records have been improved this season so far as summarized below. With the world allround championships in Calgary and the world cup final in Salt Lake City this year, I expect a lot more national records to be improved during the later stages of the season.
 
500m women
Victoria Rodriguez  39,60 - 27-okt-18 - Salt Lake City (USA)
Ainoa Carreno  42,70 - 25-nov-18 - Tomaszów-Mazowiecki (POL)
Larissa Paes  45,28 - 24-nov-18 - Salt Lake City (USA)
Andrea Cabrera  1.12,28 - 17-nov-18 - Groningen (NED)
 
1.000m women
Larissa Paes  1.30,08 - 1-dec-18 - Salt Lake City (USA)
 
1.500m women
Ellia Smeding  2.04,38 - 5-nov-18 - Heerenveen (NED)
Valentina Espinosa  2.06,94 - 24-nov-18 - Salt Lake City (USA)
Larissa Paes  2.20,74 - 24-nov-18 - Salt Lake City (USA)
 
3.000m women
Valentina Espinosa  4.29,83 - 15-sep-18 - Salt Lake City (USA)
 
500m men
Marten Liiv  35,71 - 17-nov-18 - Obihiro (JPN)

I withdraw bid, good luck everyone

Logos of Milano/Cortina and Stockholm
 
 

As much as you know that I respect you and I would love for TISC to visit Croatia, I think that it still wouldn't be fair to shut out Mexico and Serbia only because they've hosted before and if they are ready and willing to host the show.
 
For example, if we're bidding for 2020 (let's say Ireland/Slovakia/Serbia etc), but then Indonesia, Portugal or some other country decides to bid, we'd immediately say goodbye to all of those countries, simply because they did it before? I understand you really want to host and I'm certain that that day will definitely come and perhaps it's even going to be the 2019 that you want. Heck, I never imagined that I would have a chance to take on this show, since I would've never been confident enough to bid for hosting, but magically won the competition