Idk if that's actually true, but in volleyball there are a sort of established system of qualification to LA, where Top-3 from WCh, continental champions and top-3 from World Rankings will participate at the next Olympics
A bit late, but today was the official 67th ceremony "Sportsperson of the year" for 2024. In no surprise what so ever Karlos Nasar took the top prize with almost a perfect score - 1365 point out of possible 1370.
1. Karlos Nasar - weightlifting - Olympic, World & European champion in 2024 with multiple World Records;
2. Boryana Kaleyn - rhythmic gymnastics - Olympic Silver in the AA, 2 Golds & a Bronze at the Europeans;
3. Semen Novikov - wrestling - Olympic Gold in Greco-Roman after 24 years;
4. Magomed Ramazanov - wrestling - Olympic Gold in men's Freestyle after 28 years;
5. Grigor Dimitrov - tennis - 2 Grand Slam 1/4, 1 Masters Final, top 10 in the rankings;
6. Bozhidar Andreev - weightlifting - Olympic Bronze, European champion;
7. Kimia Alizadeh - taekwondo - Olympic Bronze, European champion;
8. Javier Ibanez - boxing - Olympic Bronze, European Silver medal;
9. Aleksandar Vezenkov - basketball - In contention for Euroleague MVP;
10. Kubrat Pulev - professional boxing - won WBA Regular Heavyweight Championships
They gave out awards to the athletes between 11 and 20 as well, though it was in no particular order.
Valentina Georgieva - artistic gymnastics - 5th at the Olympics, European CH Silver, a World Cup win;
Lyubomir Epitropov - swimming - 9th at the Olympics, First Bulgarian European Champion in swimming;
Stiliana Nikolova - rhythmic gymnastics - 11th at the Olympics, 2 European titles and a Silver medal;
Gabriela & Stefanie Stoevi - badminton - 1/4 at the Olympics, European CH Silver;
Rami Kiwan - boxing - 1/4 at the Olympics, European Champion;
Svetlana Staneva - boxing - 1/4 at the Olympics, European Champion;
Radoslav Yankov - snowboard - 1 World Cup win & 1 Third place;
Tihomir Ivanov - athletics - 8th at the Olympics, 6th at the European Championships;
Desislava Angelova - rowing - 6th at the Olympics, 5th at the European Championships;
Nikola Tsolov - motorsport - 3 wins in Formula 3.
Team of Year is the Women's National U18 Volleyball team, which won a Volley Euro title for the first time in decades.
Yes, but they are effective. They invest everything in speed skating and short track + in some individual units with good results, e.g. Dekker in women's snowboard or in a girl in women's skeleton. Italy, on the other hand, invests in everything, e.g. men`s ski jumping, nordic combined, etc., but doesn`t have any dominant discipline and mostly get beat up: from Switzerland in alpine skiing, from Norway and France in biathlon and from Germany and Austria in luge etc.
Moving Oberhof to the third trimester is hilarious
And come on, no Asia at all (I know, nobody comes and watch when it is there, so ok), as good as no North America? Meh.
Looking forward to this more than the Worlds. Think most countries are sending full teams, but for & others we will only send a handful of qualified people to
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