hckošice

Yao Ming one of the few basketball players I know

that feeling wears the same uniforms each OC

Isimerinós

wtf the Irish suits

dear lord the pyjamas

and here the Murica

Erki Nool flag bearer of

like scout group

Galia

man there was some atrotious fashion in 2004

like cook class students lol

Parade of nations

where did you found this ? anyway this is sadly mostly true lol...especially that part with eastern europe/central europe and hockey, yes, million of hope, glorifying the whole roster like super heroes and then bitching about everyone from the coach to the last servicemen of the team after preliminary round exits

Yesterdays recap. 2 new confirmed cases from 3171 tests. Thankfully no new death and 9 new healed patients meanning currently we have 960 active cases, 186 of them need hospitalization, 7 of them in serious condition in ICU beds and 1 in critical under artificial lung ventilation So right now in Slovakia 1381 Confirmed Cases (+2 Yesterday), 3171 Tests Yesterday (74099 in Total) 18 Deaths (+0 Yesterday), 403 Fully Recovered (+9 Yesterday) https://covid-19.nczisk.sk/en

One day, one return to the past... 26th April 1986 Today it is exactly 34 years... Early in the morning of April 26, 1986, the fourth reactor exploded at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in USSR nowadays Ukraine. One of the worst nuclear accident and disaster in the history... meanwhile the former USSR during that period hosted the Ice Hockey 1986 World Championships and during that day the home country did important move to the title that was for a long period the last a host country achieved at home soil until 2013 and Sweden winning the title at home... 8: 0 on the day of the disaster In the first game of the 2nd match day of the final round Sweden defeated Canada in a high drama battle 6-5 a result that will help mainly the hosting nation It was in fact the home team that would make the biggest step to the gold, it was taken right on April 26, 1986 in a match against Finland, in which the USSR team won a crushing victory with a score of 8-0. Now we know that in the same day in the country there was a disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which, of course, the authorities nor the organizers was not in a hurry to inform either the tournament participants or the fans ...

heaven if I was there, I would spend half of the days just lying on the sand at the beach and the other half just going crazy in the water and jumping into the waves.

called as Košice in french https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/2011-04-28-593866944_x.htm

Man, how I envy you ! That looks like paradise on earth

6 new confrmed cases yesterday in Slovakia and again a new NR in number of tests 4839 in total we surpassed the 70000 tests. 1 already mentioned death yesterday and 8 other patients received their second negative test so they are declared fully recovered now Also the amount of hospitalized patients dropped by 31 to the current 181 patients needing hospitalizaton, 5 of them are in ICU beds and 2 more are sadly in very critical situation under artificial lung ventilation So right now in Slovakia 1379 Confirmed Cases (+6 Yesterday), 4839 Tests Yesterday - NR (70928 in Total) 18 Deaths (+1 Yesterday), 394 Fully Recovered (+8 Yesterday) https://covid-19.nczisk.sk/en

One day, one return to the past... 24th April 1976 The day When the Soviet Union humiliated Canada The day When the Soviet Union humiliated Canada...A year after with absolute glory won the enormously prestigious Canada Cup in 1976 wanted to returne after it´s 7 years "Splendid isolation" to the IIHF world Ice Hockey international ice in the same beauty and glory but it ended in a total nightmare A brief hockey report appeared in the Russian media yesterday: "We commemorate 43 years since the Soviet Union achieved the highest victory in history over Canada 11-1, It was at the World Championships in Vienna in 1977 and the then selection of the USSR finished the tournament with bronze, but Canada finished even worse without any medal ... " The championship in the Austrian capital was dominated by the Czechoslovaks with the legendary Vladimír Dzurilla in the net or brothers Peter and Marián Šťastný (later defected to quebec and represented Canada for years before returning after the fall of the communism and playing for Slovakia) in the attack, but the history of hockey from this tournament includes mainly the two Canadian losses to the Soviets. In the first round part, they lost by 1-11 and in the final round they received another massacre 1-8. What actually exactly happened? The year before, the confident cradle of hockey had triumphed in sovereign way at the "home" ultra-prestigious Canada Cup and was about to celebrate its return to international ice with great ambitions. The Canadians have been missing for seven years because of the protest about the IIHF rule banning professionals from starting at the World Championships and the Winter Olympics. However, the international situation eased after the Canada Cup and the "maple leaves" sent a strong NHL enclave to Vienna with brothers Tony and Phil Esposito, defenders Carl Vadnais, Dallas Smith and Phil Russell, or forwards Rod Gilbert, Ron Ellis, Pierre Larouche, Jean Pronovost or Eric Vail. But the expected celebration turned into a nightmare... "They threw us into wolves. We've never experienced anything like this before. We've had a successful Canada Cup, and if we still wanted to have this competition in the future, we had to play in the World Championships. Some of it took a lot of money, but we weren't , "said forward and then Canadian captain Phil Esposito after years. The legendary center of Boston bruins and New York Rangers scored 1,590 points during his NHL career and is ranked tenth in the historical table of the most productive players. But at the world championship in Vienna, he was not surprised when he lost 1-11 and 1-8 to the Soviet Union. Even a later clear victories over the reigning and future world champions from Czechoslovakia (8-2) or the Swedes (7-0) did not bring the Canadians a medal "I don't like to remember the events of 1977. Before the championship they told me that I didn't have to put on my helmet and they changed it a minute before the first match. After the last match I was so angry that I threw my helmet towards Gunther Sabitzky the former president of IIHF, He was so stupid that he came to me and asked for an autograph. I told him something very vulgar at the time," Phil Esposito, 78, now remember in his memoirs. The Canadian professionals from the NHL had a hard time digesting the lesson from the Soviet hockey machine whch scored eleven goals in their first game. Alexander Yakushev scored four goals, Helmut Balderis and Boris Mikhailov both added two goals. After the match, four Canadian players Wilf Piment, Walt McKechney, Greg Smith and the aforementioned Phil Esposito refused to take off their helmets during the Soviet anthem. However, there were also those who recognized the qualities of the opponent. "The Soviets were efficient and accurate in shooting. We played against a great team," admitted Canadian goalkeeper Jim Rutherford. The later general manager of the NHL teams, who also brought to the Stanley Cups the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Carolina Hurricanes, was the secong GK of the team behind Tony Esposito in Vienna. "At that time, the World Champs had no interest in Canada at all. There was no television broadcasts, not even pictures of our matches in the evening news. I remember my parents calling me when they wanted to know how we played," Rutherford added. The Canadian selections that have come from the NHL to the European ice in the past have never been a let say real model for fairness and decency. The team from 1977, led by the little-respected coach Johnny Wilson, crossed the limits of roughing several times and also collected some memorable derogatory attributes such as the team from ZOO. Wilf Paiement hit one of the Soviet players with a hockey stick, and Eric Vail performed the same, both receiving higher penalties. In the case of Vail, this was a key moment in the second match between Canada and the USSR, when the Soviets scored two goals in a power play at the beginning of the second period within 24 seconds and jumped off to 3-1. The Canadians failed mentally, collecting 52 penalty minutes by the end of the match and losing the match 1-8. After the match, the overseas players did not have a nice word for the Finnish referee Raim Sepponen, they were especially angry at the key exclusion of Vail. "I haven't seen such a referee in 16 years of my career. Our opponents have, of course, influenced him," said Phil Esposito. His brother Tony evaluated the whole tournament a little more concisely. "Circumstances did not suit us, but with stupid fouls we lost better results. They cost us a medal," said the Canadian goalkeeper. Years ago, player agent and later popular hockey commentator Bill Watters described the Canadian failure against the Soviets in Vienna over the years: "It was a hard lesson for us to behave on the international ice. Once we noticed that our hard game was being judged too harshly, and "We gave up, we started winning. After years, we learned how to play in Europe. We got used to the wider rinks and the European way of deciding matches."

basically in all our book eshops, but many of them are already sold out. but maybe they may reprint some of them PyeongChang 2018 https://www.martinus.sk/?uItem=305517 Rio 2016 (Sold out now) https://www.martinus.sk/?uItem=250790 but the Czech one is still available https://www.martinus.sk/?uItem=247108 Sochi 2014 https://www.martinus.sk/?uItem=166718 London 2012 (Sold out now) https://www.martinus.sk/?uItem=133940 Vancouver 2010 (Sold out now) https://www.martinus.sk/?uItem=81935 Beijing 2008 (Sold out now) https://www.martinus.sk/?uItem=53623 Torino 2006 (Sold out now) https://www.martinus.sk/?uItem=25345 Athenes 2004 https://www.martinus.sk/?uItem=18374 Salt Lake City 2002 https://www.knihyprekazdeho.sk/Kniha/salt-lake-2002-1194075 Sydney 2000 (Sold out now) https://www.martinus.sk/?uItem=6899 older books are no longer in eshops, rather you can find them only in some antiquarians if you are lucky

I have a really good "impressive" collection of Olympics books in Slovak language (all from Seoul 1988 to PyeongChang 2018 + Oslo/Helsinki 1952, Tokyo 1964 and Grenoble/Mexico City 1968) but not going to sell them for anything

Yesterdays recap : New Testing NR of 4828 yesterdays tests revealed 13 new positive cases. 31 new healed patients (like last day, yesterday we noticed more recovered than new infected patients), Just a couple of minutes ago, sadly passed away another person, the stats always show 0 new deaths from yesterday but will sadly have to soon add +1 from today. Also the amount of hospitalized patients dropped by 10 to 212. 7 are in ICU beds and 2 right now under artificial lung ventilation So right now in Slovakia 1373 Confirmed Cases (+13 Yesterday), 4828 Tests Yesterday - NR (66089 in Total) 18 Deaths (+0 Yesterday, but +1 Today), 386 Fully Recovered (+31 Yesterday) https://covid-19.nczisk.sk/en Also one of the quarantined Roma Slums, the one in Bystrany have been just reopened today the other 4 remains still under quarantine Daily Tests and confirmed cases Graph Blue - Daily Tests Red - Daily new confirmed cases Lines - the 1st one (13.03) Slovakia closed borders, (21.03) New Governement started, (22.04) 1st phase of lifting restrictions started

Same format as 2010, 14 and 18, all teams are assured to play the play-offs (Group winners and best 2nd team will have a bye for the quarterfinals everyone else advance to the play-offs repechage), so even last team of a group can eventually still finish the tournament as medalist.

ROAD TO BEIJING 2022 Olympic Preliminary Round Groups set after IIHF World Rankings published --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) has published the 2020 IIHF Men’s & Women’s World Rankings on Friday. The annual ranking is based on the results in the World Championships and Olympic Winter Games (including Olympic Qualification) of the last four years and the 2020 edition is used for the seeding of the 2022 Olympic Winter Games. The 2020 rankings include points from the 2020 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship program in the men’s senior and women’s senior category. For tournaments that were not played due to the coronavirus pandemic, the points will be given according to the seeding position as foreseen in the IIHF Sport Regulations. 2020 IIHF Men’s World Ranking Due to the lack of tournaments there has been few movements in the 54-country ranking. The top-10 remain the same and are led by Canada followed by Russia, Finland and Sweden. Click here for the full ranking. The Olympic Qualification for the men’s teams has already started in November 2019 and will end with the Final Olympic Qualification scheduled for 27-30 August 2020 in the following groups: Group D: Slovakia, Belarus, Austria, Poland. In Bratislava, Slovakia. Group E: Latvia, France, Italy, Hungary. In Riga, Latvia. Group F: Norway, Denmark, South Korea, Slovenia. In Norway (city TBA). 2020 IIHF Women’s World Ranking Click here for the full ranking. The ranking will also determine the seeding for the women’s Olympic Qualification. The structure will depend on the number of national teams entered for Olympic women’s ice hockey. The rights to host an Olympic Qualification group are given according to the seeding (World Ranking position), which means that the teams ranked 7th to 9th – Czech Republic, Germany and Sweden – would have the right to host their Final Olympic Qualification group. The planned dates are 11-14 February 2021. More details on the Olympic Qualification in women’s ice hockey will be announced later once the teams are entered. Note: The allocation of events for the 2021 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship program as well as the seedings, groups and hosts will be clarified by the next IIHF Congress and then be published on IIHF.com. IIHF.COM