vinipereira

If everything goes as planned, Belgium, Brazil, France and Germany should qualify.
 

Yes, how dare a non-European continent dominate a sport!
 
 

About conspiracy theories in draw:
 

Ryan Cochrane won medals in those events at last year's world championship. Even though his times from the trials may not sound like a winning times, he is known to perform at key events. He is certainly a contender for medals in both events and clearly does have a chance. 

What would be your "best team"? Last year Germany U-21 was defeated 5-0 by Portugual in Euro.
 
I truly believe that Germany will be a strong team, but I can not see the superiority that you said.

One more lesson for totallympics euro-users that "europe > everything else" isn't always true.  

What's the point of threads if nobody posts in them? If we should go to SwimSwam then what's the point of this site? If we were bombarding the thread with blow by blow results that's one thing, but I don't see us being disruptive. On the other side I have no issue seeing the results of other nations.

I don't think it's a problem, this is a swimming qualification thread and there's no doubt other qualifiers for large nations will be talked about (we already did it for France). Honestly for a sport like this and athletics there isn't much else to talk about since there isn't any true qualification event since it's all about times.

My point about this is that it's a) easier to believe and b) more logical that countries where "glory to the Motherland" (or some communist stuff) through sports is so incredibly important, are doping with state help.
 
For example here in the Netherlands we don't have this extreme "glory to the Motherland" feeling and I don't think there is state-run doping here. Obviously I think there is doping here, but I think it's more private or arranged by the teams itself instead of coming from the sports federations and authorities.
 
But my main point stays the same: it is a sign of huge weakness when people are saying "Stop it, it's a conspiracy from the big bad wolf against us!" instead of "We're gonna do all we can to clean up this shit". 
 
1. XX athletes from country X get caught
2. People in country X respond by saying "omg, conspiracy against us, we're the victims!!"
 
That doesn't make it any more believable. 
 
 

Trust me, there is no way I believe the Dutch skaters in general are clean  
 
But thinking that this whole thing about the Russian state doping is actually a Western conspiracy..nah, no way. Maybe it is easy to make people believe that countries like Russia, China and North Korea are massively doping, but I really don't think this is such a weird thought. 
 
Instead of screaming "OMG it's a conspiracy!" like a frustrated teenage child, it'd be a lot more helpful to take the blame and start cleaning up the mess for real. 
 

I don't know what's suspicious about that. It's definitely not the extremely childing Russian thing of "OMG it's a Western conspiracy to make us look bad!11!!!!", because if that was the case, Russia wouldn't have voted for the inclusion of meldonium on the WADA list. And besides, that's Russia's standard reaction. They don't like something, they make it "a Western conspiracy". Grow up Russians. 

Totallympics will go through a server's change in the next hours, so the forum could be down for some hours.
 
The server's change will not change anything users can notice, it's just where the forum is based (we are moving from a French server to an Italian server).
 
That's also the reason why some of you had problems to open Totallympics in the past few days, it should be all fixed just after the server's change will be completed.

The new one, without a doubt. Obviously it's sad that all old content is gone....not so much results that can be found anywhere on internet, but unique things like the all-sports medal tables and the threads about which nations have yet or not yet qualified for Rio. 
Discuz however was so hopeless in terms of options...I mean, for crying out loud, it did not even have a "spoiler" option 
Also it's cool that the other had so many results (although discussing was often impossible because people just had to urge to post every single result of every single heat of every single event for World Championships or World Cups), but without a working "search" function, that's 90% useless...
On this forum we have both the search and spoiler function which I think would greatly increase the whole results thing:
- Post results in a spoiler --> They won't get in the way of discussions and won't take you forever to scroll down the page
- Simply use the search function when you want to find certain results 
Perfect  

Not yet, we have to re-organize everything and decide which events to have a thread for. Unfortunately Rio 2016 is very near and we are very short of time.