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And Albania's first ever 12 points in the contest go to the Netherlands!
Good singer with a very catchy song. Already on my playlist of songs I listen daily!
 
 
ALBANIA
Netherlands 12 New Zealand 11 Portugal 10 Kazakhstan 9 Poland 8 Sweden 7 Italy 6 Hungary 5 Serbia 4 Germany 3 Romania 2 Malta 1 Goodbye everyone and enjoy the show!
Mirupafshim!
 
 

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TAISC 2024 - Opening Ceremony

TEATRO ALLA SCALA  
 
March 22nd, 2024
h. 17:00 GMT (18:00 Local Time)
 
Totallympics
Annual
International
Song
Contest
2024
 
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Opening Ceremony
 
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Special Guest:
 
La Rappresentante di Lista
(Veronica Lucchesi & Dario Mangiaracina)
 
TAISC 2023 Winner
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Participant Nations Parade
 
Competitors' Oath
 
 
Follow Live the
Grand Final * Saturday 23rd March * 9:30 GMT

 
Teatro alla Scala
The Teatro alla Scala was founded, under the auspices of the Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, to replace the Royal Ducal Theatre, which was destroyed by fire on February 1776 and had until then been the home of opera in Milan. The cost of building the new theatre was borne by the owners of the boxes at the Ducal, in exchange for possession of the land on which stood the church of Santa Maria alla Scala (hence the name) and for renewed ownership of their boxes.
Designed by neoclassical architect Giuseppe Piermarini, La Scala opened on 3 August 1778 with Antonio Salieri's opera L'Europa riconosciuta.
 
The theatre is regarded as one of the leading opera and ballet theatres globally. The theater complex is home to the La Scala Theatre Chorus, La Scala Theatre Ballet, La Scala Theatre Orchestra, and the Filarmonica della Scala orchestra and is located in the square of the same name, next to the Casino Ricordi, home to the Scala Theater Museum. The original structure was renovated in 1907 when it was given its current layout. In 1943, during World War II, La Scala was severely damaged by bombing. It was rebuilt and reopened on 11 May 1946.
The theatre underwent a major renovation from early 2002 to late 2004. The Milan City Council approved the project by the architect Mario Botta for the restoration.
The opera house re-opened on 7 December 2004 with a production, conducted by Riccardo Muti, of Salieri's Europa riconosciuta, the the same opera performed at La Scala's inauguration in 1778
 

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/more-sports/others/sharath-kamal-to-be-indias-flag-bearer-mary-kom-appointed-chef-de-mission-for-paris-games/articleshow/108683720.cms
 
 Achantha Sharath Kamal - Table Tennis
 
Fair choice, the 41 year old still goes strong and reached QFs of Singapore Smash, the premium TT events.

Donovan Carrillo gets a PB 80.19 in short program 

Unfortunately I will miss most of the contest due to job, so, I will not post votes by myself, please do it instead @Henry_Leon.

there's no way Capobianchi or Selva would be selected for Paris
 
if they have to keep those 2 speed spots, most likely they would use one of them to select another endurance girl (so to enlarge the roster of the pursuit quartet/omnium/madison group)
 
I think we could also use one of the road racing spots for that, as Balsamo could well have a shot at the road race (so to open up some space for Barbieri, Fidanza, Alzini and be able to choose at the last minute who to place in the team pursuit next to Balsamo, Paternoster and Guazzini, who basically are a lock)
 
however, I still hope they can get one of our male sprinters a chance in both sprint and keirin races

Giro d’Italia  Tour of Italy
(Not the cycling race)
 
 In this space we present some cities inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List
 
 
ALBEROBELLO

 
Alberobello is a small town and comune of the Metropolitan City of Bari (Apulia), famous for its unique trulli buildings.
The trulli of Alberobello have been designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1996.
 

 
Trulli were generally constructed as temporary field shelters and storehouses or as permanent dwellings by small proprietors or agricultural labourers.
Trullo is a house whose internal space is covered by a dry stone corbelled or keystone vault.
The trullo is essentially a rural building type, with its thick walls and its inability to form multi-storey structures, it is an inefficient use of ground space and consequently ill-suited for high density settlement.
Being constructed of small stones, however, it has a flexibility and adaptability of form making the design most helpful in tight urban situations.
 
 
Today, the trulli are popular for tourists and are often bought and restored for general use. Anyone wishing to restore a trullo, however, needs to conform with many regulations, as trulli are protected under the UNESCO world heritage law.
 
 

Congratulations  Lara Gut-Behrami  
 
and   Federica Brignone 27th win, the most successful Italian women skier ever di World Cup

IFSC European Cup: Speed - Lublin  
 
 
Men's Elite:
1.)  Gian Luca Zodda - 5.29sec
2.)  Luca Robbiati - Fall
3.)  Marcin Dzienski - 5.29sec
 
Women's Elite:
1.)  Franziska Ritter - 6.84sec
2.)  Beatrice Colli - 7.03sec
3.)  Aleksandra Miroslaw - 6.38sec

Italian Festival
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In this space we present some dialectical and traditional songs
 
GENOVA (Genoa)
Fabrizio De André - Creuza de ma (Live)

 
 
 
Ricchi e Poveri - Ma se ghe penso
 
Is a traditional song in the Genoese dialect (1925 - words and music: Mario Cappello, with Attilio Margutti)
The song tells the story of a Genoese who emigrated to Latin America in search of fortune, a very common social event between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, who, finding himself thinking about the beauty of his hometown, overwhelmed by nostalgia, decides to return, against his son's wishes.
This version is from ligurian group Ricchi e Poveri
 

 
 

TEAM CHALLENGE
 
 
 
Team VOLLY Rank
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Total 0 0 0 0 0 0 Volly was the mascotte of Men's Volleyball World Championship 2010

A blue and white swallow with the number 10, a volleyball in his hand and red knee pads.

Volly also returned for the men's world championship co-hosted by Italy/Bulgary 2018
 
 
 
Team CORTY Rank
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Total 0 0 0 0 0 0 Corty, the red squirrel, was the mascot of the Cortina 2021 Alpine Skiing World Championships

Corty is a character who draws inspiration from the tradition and history of Cortina d'Ampezzo, the small rodent is in fact one of the animals that inhabit the woods of the Dolomites.


 
 
Team PINOCCHIO Rank
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Total 0 0 0 0 0 0 Italia '80 was the first UEFA (European) tournament to present a mascot, while they were already used for the World Cup and Olympics.

The puppet created by Carlo Collodi, Pinocchio, was chosen and was represented with a balloon under his arm, a tricolor nose and a sailor's cap on his head with the writing Europa 80.

The mascot was not initially given an official name because it was believed that the rights to Pinocchio belonged to Disney. When the Collodi Foundation confirmed that the copyright on the book had expired 50 years ago, the organizing committee renamed the official mascot.


 
 
 
Team  DIVA09 Rank
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Total 0 0 0 0 0 0 Was the 2009 World Aquatics Championships in Rome.

Frogs symbolize vitality and energy, and also have the ability to adapt to different environments, especially aquatic ones.
It is always on the move, just like any athlete.


 
 
Team  BUMSI Rank
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Total 0 0 0 0 0 0 Bumsi was the mascotte of Biathlon World Championships 2020  Rasen-Antholz (Rasun-Anterselva).

"Bum" has its own meaning, it reproduces with a language the two actions of the biathlon: “bum” (shooting shots); “si” is the phonetic of sci (Italian for SKI) symbolizing cross-country skis.


 
Team  NEVE & GLIZ Rank
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Total 0 0 0 0 0 0 The two mascotte of Winter Olympic 2016

They both represent the characteristics of the Winter Games, including "Snow and Ice". Neve ("Snow" in Italian) is a humanized female snowball that wears red and represents "softness, friendship and elegance." Gliz (a shortened form of Ghiaccio, "Ice" in Italian) is a humanized male ice cube who wears blue and represents "enthusiasm and joy."
 
 
Team CIAO Rank
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Total 0 0 0 0 0 0 Ciao is the mascot adopted for the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy. It represents the stylized figure of a footballer, made up of cubes colored with the national colours, who had a football instead of a head.

The mascot immediately divided the public and critics, but unexpectedly it had a great success, it was reproduced in different forms, many gadgets, posters and puppets representing it, a resounding commercial success.

TEAM CHALLENGE
 
The teams will have the name of the mascots used in international events organized in Italy.

 

Carlos Alcaraz defeats  Jannik Sinner 1-6, 6-3, 6-2 to advance to the Indian Wells final. Alcaraz continues on his 11 match winning streak here, while Sinner’s undefeated 2024 season (17 consecutive wins) comes to an end. 

I thought about starting a new topic to discuss the matter, as in LGBTQ+ athletes, or politics towards it.
 
Hopefully it will be a topic with a lot of positive news being shared etc, but I thought about it due to a crime commited on a sports arena.
 
https://www.instagram.com/andersonmelo92/?img_index=7
 
Anderson Melo, a Beach Volleyball player who recieved a lot of homophobic chants and hate from the crowds (and possibly from the rival pair, could not really understand 100% from the video). The referee was totally inept and let this happened.
 
In Brazil, homophobia is a crime, so Anderson started a Police Report on that. 
 
 

Italian Festival
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In this space we present some dialectical and traditional songs
 
SARDEGNA (Sardinia)
 
No potho reposare
 
“A diosa” is the original title of the most famous Sardinian song, a 1915 poem by the poet Salvatore “Badore” Sini, and subsequently set to music by Giuseppe Rachel.
Version performed by two famous Sardinian singers:  Maria Carta (1934-1994) & Andrea Parodi (1977 -2006)
 

 
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Zirichiltaggia (Baddu tundu) (Lizardman, round dance)
Is a song in Gallurese (Sardinian) written by the Genoese singer-songwriter Fabrizio De André and Massimo Bubola (1978).
De André moved to Sardinia (Tempio Pausania) in the mid-seventies.
 

 
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Le Balentes - Cixiri (Chickpeas) 2001
Music and Lyric:  Rossella Faa & Augusto Pirodda
 

Karate 1 Premier League ( Antalya)
 
Tomorrow's Finals Lineup
 
Women's Individual Kata
Gold Medal Match: Saeko Azuma vs Grace Lau Mo Sheung
Bronze Medal Match #1: Dilara Bozan vs Ana Cruz
Bronze Medal Match #2: Sakura Alforte vs Maho Ono

Men's Individual Kata
Gold Medal Match: Kakeru Nishiyama vs Ariel Torres Gutierrez
Bronze Medal Match #1: Ryusei Ikeda vs Sakichi Abe
Bronze Medal Match #2: Alessio Ghinami vs Kazumasa Moto
 

Women's Individual Kumite, -50kg
Gold Medal Match: Moldir Zhangbyrbay vs Yorgelis Salazar
Bronze Medal Match #1: Cylia Ouikene vs Catarina Rodrigues
Bronze Medal Match #2: Mireia Vizuete Olivenza vs Ema Sgardelli

Women's Individual Kumite, -55kg
Gold Medal Match: Viola Lallo vs Bella Samasheva
Bronze Medal Match #1: Syria Mancinelli vs Ahlam Youssef
Bronze Medal Match #2: Valentina Toro Meneses vs Louiza Abouriche

Women's Individual Kumite, -61kg
Gold Medal Match: Fatima-Zahra Chajai vs Maryam Ajaray
Bronze Medal Match #1: Assel Kanay vs Lea Avazeri
Bronze Medal Match #2: Reem Khamis vs Yuki Kujuro

Women's Individual Kumite, -68kg
Gold Medal Match: Wiktoria Grejner vs Elena Quirici
Bronze Medal Match #1: Pamela Bodei vs Mobina Heydari
Bronze Medal Match #2: Silvia Semeraro vs Konstantina-Evangelia Peppa

Women's Individual Kumite, +68kg
Gold Medal Match: Maria Torres Garcia vs Johanna Kneer
Bronze Medal Match #1: Niamh Junner vs Chehinez Jemi
Bronze Medal Match #2: Rochelle Walters vs Sofya Berultseva
 

Men's Individual Kumite, -60kg
Gold Medal Match: Eray Samdan vs Abdullah Shaaban
Bronze Medal Match #1: Danilo Greco vs Christian Sabatino
Bronze Medal Match #2: Bogdan Marian Florian Gogolosi vs Abdallah Hammad

Men's Individual Kumite, -67kg
Gold Medal Match: Luca Maresca vs Said Oubaya
Bronze Medal Match #1: Jed Thompson vs Yugo Kozaki
Bronze Medal Match #2: tomas Freire Fuentes vs Omer Abdurrahim Ozer

Men's Individual Kumite, -75kg
Gold Medal Match: Omer Faruk Yurur vs Abdalla Abdelaziz
Bronze Medal Match #1: Nurkanat Azhikanov vs Enzo Berthon
Bronze Medal Match #2: Abdalla Hesham Abdelgawad vs Abilmansur Batyrgali

Men's Individual Kumite, -84kg
Gold Medal Match: Youssef Badawy vs Mohammad Aljafari
Bronze Medal Match #1: Ivan Kvesic vs Enes Garibovic
Bronze Medal Match #2: Konstantinos Mastrogiannis vs Turgut Hasanov

Men's Individual Kumite, +84kg
Gold Medal Match: Taha Tarek Mahmoud vs Andjelo Kvesic
Bronze Medal Match #1: Matteo Avanzini vs Rob Timmermans
Bronze Medal Match #2: Ahmed Elmasry vs Anes Bostandzic

Ranking round is over.
 
are the top 3 in the men's recurve.
 
are the top 3 in the women's recurve.
 
Unsurprisingly, New Zealand has a huge lead over the Pacific Nations

will not qualify anyone for the first time ever.

Giro d’Italia  Tour of Italy
(Not the cycling race)
 
 In this space we present some cities inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List
 
 
PISA

 
Pisa is a city and comune in Tuscany, straddling the Arno just before it empties into the Ligurian Sea.
Although Pisa is known worldwide for its leaning tower, the city contains more than twenty other historic churches, several medieval palaces, and bridges across the Arno. Much of the city's architecture was financed from its history as one of the Italian maritime republics.
The city is also home to the University of Pisa, which has a history going back to the 12th century, the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, founded by Napoleon in 1810, and hosts the largest headquarters of the National Research Council (CNR).
 
The Piazza del Duomo, also known as the square of miracles, is the most important artistic and tourist center of Pisa.
Listed among the UNESCO World Heritage Sites since 1987, you can admire some masterpieces of European Romanesque architecture, that is, the monuments that form the center of the city's religious life: the cathedral, the baptistery, the cemetery and the bell tower.
 

 
The Cathedral: the heart of the complex is the Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta, the medieval cathedral. It is a five-aisled church with a three-aisled transept. The building, like the bell tower, has sunk perceptibly into the ground, and some damage to the construction is clearly visible. The Pisan Romanesque style was created starting from this church and then exported to the rest of Tuscany, but also to Corsica and Sardinia, once under the control of the Republic of Pisa.
The bell tower of Santa Maria: known as "The Leaning Tower" or "The Tower of Pisa", is the bell tower of the Duomo. Below it the ground gave way slightly, causing it to tilt a few degrees. The inclination continued for many years, until it stopped after the restoration work concluded in the early 21st century. Due to construction difficulties, its construction lasted over two centuries (in three different phases of work) starting from the end of the 12th century.
The Baptistery: dedicated to St. John the Baptist, stands in front of the west façade of the Cathedral. The building was begun in the mid-12th century, the interior, surprisingly simple and devoid of decoration, also has exceptional acoustics. It is the largest baptistery in Italy: its circumference measures 107.25 m.
The Campo Santo: the monumental Camposanto is located at the northern edge of the square. It is a cemetery structured in the form of a cloister, with earthly tombs. The earth inside the courtyard is actually a relic, being earth coming from Mount Golgotha in the Holy Land, transported with several ships by the Pisans after the Fourth Crusade, hence the name "campo" (plot of land) "holy".
 
 

The 2 seconds from gate 16 are now removed, Cassini again on the quota Seat. But lets rather wait for the final official results 

The refugee team should have the same restrictions as the other nations, two men and two women attempting to qualify overall (I'm okay with them competing in the continent they are currently living in). The European qualifier had three men and two women while the Asian qualifier has four men competing.
 
Adding the restriction would at least decrease the chance of someone trying to use this as a loophole to compete at the Olympics.

win -80kg Quotas. Commentator now reading the rules - "If an athlete wins two rounds they win the match" Looks like they just found that out