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The organization of the announcement is taking longer than I expected so I'll need another hour in order to get everything ready. I apologize for the delay. We will start unveiling the nominees at 21:00 (UTC).

NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCEMENT Monday, December 25th, 20:00 (UTC+0)

If someone still wants to vote in the first stage, I'll be accepting votes today. Hopefully I'll be able to unveil the nominees later

Thank you for the votes @Mateus Nagime, sharing them here is good enough. I'm accepting votes all day today, although I think most people are busy with other things 🎅 Only 17 voters so far which is not great...

After Blind Football withdrawal in Tokyo, I really hope this doesn't happen again.

I'm gonna save this post for next year

Brazil should go with 17 athletes which would be our biggest team ever in a Winter competition.

The last day of voting was scheduled for today, but we extended the deadline until Sunday. For those interested, follow the instructions in this post. Would love to see more members from Latin America, Africa and Asia voting, as well as people who didn't participate last year.

If there's a woman (or more) on the team, it should go in the "Doubles/Pair or Mixed Team" category.

Any format is fine

No problem, you can edit them

Sure, anybody can vote If everybody agrees I can extend the deadline until Sunday and reveal the nominees on Monday.

Maybe it is Karoline Knotten?

First stage voting should end tomorrow but we only have 5 voters so far. We may have to change the schedule and give it another week, announcing the nominees closer to New Year's rather than Christmas (just like last year). Or maybe even cancel the whole thing if the number of voters is too low. I tagged last year's voters in case anyone is interested. Of course there's a lot more people who can vote (didn't wanna bother more members tagging them here), so please feel free to follow the instructions in this post

That's a good idea, I didn't know we had athletes here apart from @brunamoura.

Goalball qualification has been completed. For the men's tournament, the qualified teams are Egypt (absent since 1992) and Iran (2012) return to the Games, while France qualifies for the first time thanks to the host quota. In Tokyo we had 10 teams instead of 8, and 5 of them didn't qualify (including current bronze medalist Lithuania): For the women's tournament, the qualified teams are Algeria (absent since 2016) and South Korea (2000) return to the Games, while France qualifies for the first time. Out of the 10 participating teams in Tokyo, 5 didn't qualify this time (including current silver medalist USA): In general, Europe (men's) and the Americas (women's) suffered with the reduced field, while Asia did pretty great.

"No" won 13-10.

FIRST STAGE OF VOTING First Stage voting is now open! Please copy the design from this post, fill in the categories you want to vote and send it to me by message. Voters have until Friday, December 22nd to cast their votes. Please contact me if you have any questions and pay attention to the following rules: In all categories, votes must be written in order of preference; Votes are required, at least, for the Best Female and Best Male Athlete categories; You don't have to vote in every category, but at least 3 choices are required in the categories you vote in; You can vote for athletes and teams from your own nation, but only 1 vote is allowed in each category.

This voting was very close but ultimately more people were against the idea of splitting the categories. Next year we can discuss new categories.

That's correct. vs for the men's quota.

Goalball African Championships quotas Men's: Women's:

Some suggestions for Best Doubles/Pair (or Mixed Team) Storm Hunter/Elise Mertens (Tennis) Ana Patrícia Ramos/Eduarda Lisboa (Beach Volleyball) Chang Yani/Chen Yiwen (Diving) Chen Meng/Wang Yidi (Table Tennis) Chen Qingchen/Jia Yifan (Badminton) Chen Yuxi/Quan Hongchan (Diving) Lian Junjie/Yang Hao (Diving) Wang Chuqin/Fan Zhendong (Table Tennis) Wang Zongyuan/Long Daoyi (Diving) Xu Shixiao/Sun Mengya (Sprint Canoeing) Ivan Dodig/Austin Krajicek (Tennis) Ondřej Perušič/David Schweiner (Beach Volleyball) Emma Jørgensen/Frederikke Matthiesen (Sprint Canoeing) Johannes Lochner/Georg Fleischhauer (Bobsleigh) Kim Kalicki/Leonie Fiebig (Bobsleigh) Peter Kretschmer/Tim Hecker (Sprint Canoeing) Toni Eggert/Sascha Benecken (Luge) Emily Craig/Imogen Grant (Rowing) Fintan McCarthy/Paul O'Donovan (Rowing) Ruggero Tita/Caterina Banti (Sailing) Keiju Okada/Miho Yoshioka (Sailing) Riku Miura/Ryuichi Kihara (Figure Skating) Bart Lambriex/Floris van de Werken (Sailing) Melvin Twellaar/Stef Broenink (Rowing) Ymkje Clevering/Veronique Meester (Rowing) Anders Mol/Christian Sørum (Beach Volleyball) João Ribeiro/Messias Baptista (Sprint Canoeing) Ancuța Bodnar/Simona Radiș (Rowing) Kang Min-hyuk/Seo Seung-jae (Badminton) Lim Si-hyeon/Kim Woo-jin (Archery) Vilma Bobeck/Rebecca Netzler (Sailing) Roman Röösli/Andrin Gulich (Rowing) Cory Thiesse/Korey Dropkin (Curling) Madison Chock/Evan Bates (Figure Skating) Rajeev Ram/Joe Salisbury (Tennis) Sara Hughes/Kelly Cheng (Beach Volleyball) Nikki Ayers/Jed Altschwager (Para Rowing) Wu Chunyan/Zhao Lixue (Para Archery) Tereza Brandtlova/David Drahoninsky (Para Archery) Alfie Hewett/Gordon Reid (Wheelchair Tennis) Lauren Rowles/Gregg Stevenson (Para Rowing) Sarita/Rakesh Kumar (Para Archery) Yui Kamiji/Kgothatso Montjane (Wheelchair Tennis) Sam Schröder/Niels Vink (Wheelchair Tennis)

Given the suggestion, I'll leave this poll here. If we don't have enough votes to change it, we can discuss it again next year. Loading...

Compiling a list of contenders for Best Youth Athlete (born after January 1, 2005). Included world medalists and a few others, but I'm sure there are many more (didn't even searched in non-Olympic sports/events). Kaylia Nemour (Artistic Gymnastics) Chloe Covell (Skateboarding) Valentino Guseli (Snowboard) João Fonseca (Tennis) Rayssa Leal (Skateboarding) Summer McIntosh (Swimming) Chen Yuxi (Diving) Quan Hongchan (Diving) Qiu Qiyuan (Artistic Gymnastics) Wang Zisai (Trampoline Gymnastics) Yu Yiting (Swimming) Zhou Yaqin (Artistic Gymnastics) Felix Lebrun (Table Tennis) Sya Dembélé [Syssy] (Breaking) Warren Zaïre-Emery (Football) Darja Varfolomeev (Rhythmic Gymnastics) Mia Brookes (Snowboard) Sky Brown (Skateboarding) Luana Márton (Taekwondo) Matin Rezaei (Taekwondo) Daria Atamanov (Rhythmic Gymnastics) Benedetta Pilato (Swimming) Ginwoo Onodera (Skateboarding) Hinano Kusaki (Skateboarding) Kokona Hiraki (Skateboarding) Momiji Nishiya (Skateboarding) Ruka Okamoto (Taekwondo) Taiga Hasegawa (Snowboard) Dominika Banevič [B-Girl Nicka] (Breaking) Niels Laros (Athletics) Alina Korneeva (Tennis) Mirra Andreeva (Tennis) Maximilian Maeder (Sailing) Kim Chae-yeon (Figure Skating) Lee Chae-un (Snowboard) Lee Hae-in (Figure Skating) Banlung Tubtimdang (Taekwondo) Kirill Boliukh (Diving) Oleksiy Sereda (Diving) Gavin Bottger (Skateboarding) Isabeau Levito (Figure Skating) Minna Stess (Skateboarding) Tate Carew (Skateboarding) Alex Saffy (Para Swimming) Angus Hincksman (Para Athletics) Barbara Aigner (Para Alpine Skiing) Johannes Aigner (Para Alpine Skiing) Vinicius Marques (Para Athletics) Sara Vargas Blanco (Para Swimming) Hector Denayer (Para Swimming) Linn Kazmaier (Para Biathlon/Cross-Country Skiing) Poppy Maskill (Para Swimming) Rhys Darbey (Para Swimming) Sam Downie (Para Swimming) Ng Cheuk Yan (Para Swimming) Evelin Száraz (Para Swimming) Rudransh Khandelwal (Shooting Para Sport) Sheetal Devi (Para Archery) Róisín Ní Ríain (Para Swimming) Alexandra Rexová (Para Alpine Skiing) Simoné Kruger (Para Athletics) Anastasiya Dmytriv (Para Swimming) Judith Tortosa Vila (Para Athletics) Ivan Tetiukhin (Para Athletics) Ezra Frech (Para Athletics) Samantha Heyison (Para Athletics)

Just a few updates. I accepted @OlympicIRL suggestion and now we will have the Best Doubles/Pair or Mixed Team category. If we have more mixed events in the future, perhaps we can create a separate category. We'll be also moving forward with the Comeback of the Year category, and I would deeply appreciate any suggestions for this award.