Gianlu33

sabotage of the penguins destroyed. flags are back

I think it is safe to assume that Algeria won't be voting themselves?

Don't worry  

As soon as ACIS (Antarctica Counter-Intelligence Service) starts.

http://www.iwf.net/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2016/10/2016-10-Buenos-Aires-2018-Qualification-System-FINAL-Weightlifting-EN.pdf

Thank you everyone for coming to the opening ceremony, it was a great honour and pleasure to show you what Lithuania has to offer. We hope that you enjoyed the show and we will be seeing you tomorrow at 12:00 GTM+2 in the Grand Final.
 
 

Totallympics Open International Song Contest
   Lithuania 2016
 

Juries Voted  0/33           Denmark   0    Bulgaria   0    Malta   0    India   0    Canada   0    Algeria   0    Mexico   0    Argentina   0    Colombia   0    Italy   0    Netherlands   0    Czech Republic   0    France   0    Greece   0    Portugal   0    Tunisia   0    Great Britain   0    Croatia   0    Lithuania   0    Serbia   0    Poland   0    Moldova   0    New Zealand   0    Indonesia   0    Turkey   0    Ireland   0    Slovakia   0    Azerbaijan   0    Brazil   0    Romania   0    Finland   0    Slovenia   0    United States   0    

Weightlifting competition was beautiful at Beijing Olympics. Those with letters will also get disqualified at some point.
 

Who gets it right?
 
The World is already counting hours to the next edition of TISC, which will be held in Kaunas, Lithuania this weekend. Nations from all around the World are gathering as we speak. Some are hoping for a win, some are hoping to get as many points as possible and break their personal bests, while some others are mostly here to enjoy the show.
 
As we approach the Grand Final, we've been wondering which nations usually give points to the winner, and how many points each nation usually gives to the top 3 finishers. To sum it up - we want to see which nations get it right.
 
We start by looking at how often each country gives at least one point to the eventual winner. If you are looking to get a win, you should keep an eye on votes of Canada, Denmark, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Tunisia and Turkey. These 7 nations have always given points to the winner. Denmark, Italy and Lithuania competed in every edition of TISC, which makes their ability to pick the winner even more amazing. Which nations are on the opposite end of the scale? Indonesia, USA and Romania. Indonesia never gave any points to the winner, however they competed only once. USA on the other hand competed in every edition, but they gave points to the winner only once out of six times! That was at the 2015 Annual contest, when USA interestingly gave maximum 12 points to the winning Irish song. Romania gave points to the winner only once in four participations.
 
This map shows tendencies of each nation to pick the winner. Dark blue nations usually don't award points to winner, light blue nations are around 50-50 in that respect, light red nations give points to the winner most of the times, while red nations always do. Only nations competing in this edition are shown on the map.
 

 
The second criteria we look at is how many points each nation usually gives to the top 3 finishers. Note: if a nation finished in top 3 at some contest, then a nation that finished 4th at that contest counts as a top 3 finisher. Switzerland (two-time participant) is on the top of the list with an average of 25.00 (33 is the maximum, 12+11+10). They are followed by Denmark (22.83), Italy (22.67), Australia (20.50), Egypt (20.20) and Russia (19.75). Nations that usually give the least number of points to the top 3 finishers are Algeria (4.00), United States (5.83), Portugal (9.50), Colombia (10.67) and Croatia (11.00).
 
Following map shows tendencies of each nation regarding the average number of points that they give to the top 3 finishers. All nations are included. Nations in dark red tend to give considerable amount of points to the top 3 finishers, those in light red usually give a good number of points, those in light blue tend not to give that many points while those in dark blue don't give many points to the top 3 finishers. Note that whole South America as a continent doesn't really give that many points to the highest ranked finishers. Also, Portugal seems to be quite an exception in predominantly red Europe.
 

 
However, if we have to choose one nation that gets it right the most, then that would be Denmark. Apart from the fact that they gave points to each of the previous winners, they also usually give a lot of points to the eventual top 3 finishers, making Denmark the ultimate TISC trend setter.
 
Special thanks goes to @OlympicIRL who provided most of the data
 

If Canada doesn't have snow, i just.... 
 

Like most people, to hopefully not let the entire world go insane  
 
To add in the insanity, we might see a victory for Geert Wilders (our local idiot) in the Dutch elections next year..it depends on how much of those "OMG MIGRANTS KILL EVERYONE" losers will actually vote on him in the end
 
 
 

I would vote for never! 

I am still surprised Slovenia does not compete in this sport.
 
First olympic medal took Rudolf Cvetko in 1912 (Fencing), I know you are familiar with our Swimming (Sara Isakovič) and Athletics (Primož Kozmus, Jolanda Čeplak, Brigita Bukovec,...)  medals. Do not forget about our experiences in shooting (Rajmond Debevec), and we even have very good training facilities for Equestrian (Lipica, Celje,..).
 
So, it is really strange not competing in this event.
 
BTW, as many of you I am also extremely dissapointed on media production of this wonderful sport. As we would still be living way back in 20th Century.  

116 year old competing.
 

This is Trump in 2004. At last he don't hate the Olympics  
 

 

This is Trump in 2004. At last he don't hate the Olympics  
 

 

This is Trump in 2004. At last he don't hate the Olympics  
 

 

United States right now
 

I'm a bit confused right now.
 
I don't know what happen but I went to sleep on 2016 and now I wake up in 1933! 

Not youtube, but this work on my laptop.
 
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/11/07/politics/live-election-results-coverage/index.html

So today is the day, piece of crap VS piece of shit in the US elections  

History is made!  Ireland defeat New Zealand 40-39. I'm ready to pay for view the @OlympicIRL face  

No, I did not watched it, well, thats womens juniors level this kind of results aren´t nothing special or unordinary, don´t take it too much seriously
 
here the only result summary I found about it http://sport.aktuality.sk/c/244880/slovenske-juniorky-si-schuti-zastrielali-proti-taliankam/ and some pics here http://www.hockeyslovakia.sk/sk/clanok/v-prievidzi-desat-junioriek-sr-strelilo-tucet-golov-taliankam

Poverty and Destitution can make more than this 

Maybe should it say:  How are "DESPERATE"  for try something like that .........

The bobsleigh and skeleton world championships will be held in Sochi this winter. More and more athletes are talking about boycotting it since the IOC said Russia shouldn't organize any major championships for now after the state-sponsored doping scandal (there apparently also is the pathetic, Middle Age-like homophobia that nobody with a decent mind would be ok with, but I think the doping thing is the biggest thing).