heywoodu 13,540 Posted November 20, 2021 #21 Share Posted November 20, 2021 21 hours ago, phelps said: it's the ancient Roman Amfitheater... nowadays it's used for operas and concerts almost exclusively, but they held also a couple of World League Volleyball matches of our men's National team in the recent past... still, it's too small (it can accomodate no more than about 22,000 people) to host the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games (and moreover, it's the Milano-Cortina Games...and it's been clear from the beginning that the Games opener would be in the San Siro Stadium in Milan)... Bormio is cool, but the Dolomites are just on another level in terms of landscape... 22.000 people would be a nice change, a little less massive can be good, especially when it's in a truly unique setting other than just another big stadium. Too bad it's apparently only the Paralympic ceremony and not both. Ted 1 If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 13,217 Posted February 23, 2022 #22 Share Posted February 23, 2022 From usually well infromed sources the different national hockey federations were already informed about the Men tournament qualification format for Milano/Cortina 2026. Same format will be played as the Vancouver, Sochi, PyeongChang and Beijing tournaments. 12 teams tournament, 8 qualified directly via IIHF ranking after next year 2023 World Championships, 1 automatical host quota for Bella Italia and 3 will advance from 4 rounds qualification Tournaments, with 9th, 10th and 11th ranked IIHF 2023 country hosting the final qualification tournaments. The final IIHF world ranking will be counted the usual way: Last 4 WChs and last Olympic Tournament will be counted, with the 2023 WCh having 100% counts, 2022 WCh 75%, WCh 2021 50% and WCh 2020 (since was not played due pandemic the 2019 will be used instead) 25% and The last Olympics have 100% counting value. So basically the qualifying ranking right now for Milano looks so Rank NOC WCh 2023 WCh 2022 WOG 2022 WCh 2021 WCh 2020(19) Total 1. 1200 1160 1120 1760 2. 1160 1060 1160 1690 3. 1040 1200 1200 1680 4. 1060 1120 1040 1615 5. 1120 1000 960 1580 6. 1100 960 1100 1580 7. 1000 1040 1000 1520 8. 940 1100 1020 1510 9. 960 1020 1060 1495 10. 1020 900 900 1440 11. 920 920 940 1385 12. 880 880 920 1330 ahjfcshfghb and rafalgorka 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,795 Posted February 23, 2022 #23 Share Posted February 23, 2022 no, the direct spot for Italy no... please! for the good of the game, let Italy qualify on the ice, if they can... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,795 Posted March 10, 2022 #24 Share Posted March 10, 2022 the project of the new Arena that is going to host the men's Hockey games in 2026 has been revealed earlier Today... https://www.milanotoday.it/sport/olimpiadi-invernali-2026/progetto-definitivo-arena-santa-giulia.html Ted, hckošice and De_Gambassi 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
De_Gambassi 896 Posted March 10, 2022 #25 Share Posted March 10, 2022 Looks great, the Swiss will love that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intoronto 4,202 Posted March 13, 2022 #26 Share Posted March 13, 2022 Not sure if this was posted here: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intoronto 4,202 Posted May 26, 2022 #27 Share Posted May 26, 2022 Congress also voted to include in the Olympic programme a women's Nordic combined, paired mogul and mixed ski cross competitions in freestyle and mixed competitions in snowboarding in parallel slalom. from itg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monzanator 3,593 Posted May 26, 2022 #28 Share Posted May 26, 2022 Yeah, more mixed nonsense. Rich have to get richer after all Not gonna say what the level in women's nordic combined will be. Probably extremely low given how Geraghty-Moats was able to dominate until recently despite being a very mediocre ski jumper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NearPup 2,156 Posted May 26, 2022 #29 Share Posted May 26, 2022 27 minutes ago, intoronto said: Congress also voted to include in the Olympic programme a women's Nordic combined, paired mogul and mixed ski cross competitions in freestyle and mixed competitions in snowboarding in parallel slalom. from itg Just to clarify, this appears to be dual moguls (as in men's and women's dual moguls, not a team event). 12 minutes ago, Monzanator said: Yeah, more mixed nonsense. Rich have to get richer after all Not gonna say what the level in women's nordic combined will be. Probably extremely low given how Geraghty-Moats was able to dominate until recently despite being a very mediocre ski jumper. Well the level in women's ski jumping increased extremely quickly after Olympic inclusion so I assume the same will happen here, though obviously the level in men's Nordic Combined is itself very low as is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,795 Posted May 26, 2022 #30 Share Posted May 26, 2022 34 minutes ago, Monzanator said: Yeah, more mixed nonsense. Rich have to get richer after all Not gonna say what the level in women's nordic combined will be. Probably extremely low given how Geraghty-Moats was able to dominate until recently despite being a very mediocre ski jumper. Geraghty-Moats times are way gone... nowadays it's Norway dominating from the hill and on the skis (with the Italian Sieff being the best of the rest among the good jumpers and the Slovenian Volavsek being the best of the rest among the skiing specialists...and all the Japanese team growing very quickly)... early starters have no chance anymore already... I'm pretty sure in 4 years time we're gonna have an interesting event, possibly even more than the men's... the true scandal are those mixed team events in skicross and slalom snowboarding (and the dual moguls, which is basically a double chance for the same skiers)... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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