NationStates Jolt Archive

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Capitalizt SLANI welcomes the thirty-three delegations to the Unified Capitalizt States (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Unified_Capitalizt_States) for the Games of the II Olympiad in Querzakhi.

Participants
(links to signups and rosters to be inserted later)
Abu Omar (AOM)
Antrium (ANT)
Ariddia (ARI)
Bazalonia (BAZ)
Bushes Been Quaked (BBQ)
Cafundéu (CAF)
Capitalizt SLANI (COM)
Coocoostan (COO)
Damnhippeez (HPZ)
Drunce (HRD)
Edward City (USE)
Estresse Intenso (EIT)
자스연 (Jasīʼyūn) (JSY)
Kelssek (KSK)
LancasterCounty (LCO)
Lerasia (LSA)
Maineiacs (MAI)
Malabra (MAB)
Mikitivity (MKT)
Nitrodymium (NTD)
Oolong Island (OOI)
Reineberg (REI)
Ropa-Topia (RTP)
Qazox (QZX)
Quakmybush (QMB)
Saidercray (SCY)
San Adriano (SNA)
Sativaville (STV)
St Samuel (STS)
Stopmenow100 (SMN)
United Island Empires (UIE)
Wentland (WLD)
Zwangzug (ZGZ)

Rosters
Please post the rosters for your teams (those that aren’t in the signup post) in the roster thread. Also, any additional information that you want to give about your athletes for other RPers to use should be given there.

Questions
If you have any questions or complaints about something, please post them in this thread (or ask me on the #nssport IRC channel if I happen to be there). Do not TG me; I probably won’t notice.

Links
Results thread (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=525321)
Roster thread (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=525030)
Schedule: OpenDocument (http://www.thirdgeek.com/ns/olympics/querzakhi2/schedule/), CSV (http://www.thirdgeek.com/ns/olympics/querzakhi2/schedule/CSV/)

NSwiki article (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Second_Summer_Olympics)

After the sad conclusion to the only gold medal won by Qazox at the first summer games, the Qazoxain delegation is surrounded by security constantly to prevent any assassins or trouble makers from reaching the team. A delegation of around 60 athletes will be partcipating, including a men's team in soccer, a women's team in baseball, a Chessboxer and what could be the team's strengths, Women's football, cycling and tennis. The chairman of the QOC has guarenteed that anything short of 2 golds and 7 total medals will be seen as a failure. The team is now on its way to Querzakhi, Unified Capitalizt States (Capitalizt SLANI), where the opening ceremonies are just a few days away. Good luck to all our athletes, and i hope that none of them die this time. A delegation of 90 athletes will travel to the opening ceremonies, with Gretchen Bucci,of Women's World Cup fame being the flag bearer for the nation.

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Ariddia ready for Olympics

As the Second Summer Olympic Games approach, the Ariddian delegation are preparing for their trip to Querzakhi. Some of Ariddia’s best athletes from the Ashford Games will be present, but the PDSRA’s Athletics delegation, in particular, will be composed of mostly young athletes with little or no international experience.

C.O.A. ( http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Ariddian_Olympic_Committee) President Eo Sheh has told PINA ( http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/PINA) that the aim is to give the country’s talented youth an opportunity to gain experience – and possibly even shine – in the world’s greatest international sports competition.

Alongside these novice athletes, however, will be some big names. Youssef Kasmba, for archery, and Christina Zhang, for fencing, will both be there in Querzakhi, hoping to re-edit their previous Olympic and Ylompic exploits. Kasmba and Zhang both remain undefeated so far, and carry with them high hopes of new gold medals for Ariddia.

Most of all, Ariddia’s hopes rest on its judokas and gymnasts. Six of Ariddia’s ten judokas are Ashford medal winners, including Olympic champions Admina Mwakingwe and Adam Jameson. Ariddia’s ‘Dream Team’ of gymnasts hopes to sweep up the most medals. Together, they won thirteen medals (of which six gold) in Ashford, making them no doubt the most formidable force in Ariddia’s delegation. Ariddian gymnast Josh Vidic won three gold medals in Ashford, including one in the team competition, and is returning for more.

Most notable, however, will be the presence of events for athletes with disabilities. This will be the culmination of long campaigns by Ariddia’s Olympic and Paralympic committees; the PDSRA has been an isolated voice at the forefront of the struggle to promote paralympic sports on the international stage. This began with one-legged swimmer Mélanie Sandré ( http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/M%C3%A9lanie_Sandr%C3%A9) competing as the sole athlete with a disability in Tyrellia and Ashford.

Now, it appears probable that blind football – as suggested by Ariddia – will be a demonstration event in the Querzakhi Games. Ariddia’s blind football team ( http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Ariddia_blind_football_team), quarter-finalists at the Blind World Cup, will be part of their country’s Olympic delegation, and the team’s blind captain, E Ol, will be Ariddia’s flag-bearer during the Opening Ceremony.

“I really hope we have the opportunity to compete,” Mr. Ol told PINA. “Sports for athletes with disabilities still haven’t attracted much international attention. Playing in front of all those spectators at the Olympics would be a spectacular opportunity to at least make people aware of our existence. We’re blind, and we play football. We exist. And we’re proud to play for our country.”

It is not yet certain whether amputee football will also be a demonstration event, but the Comité Olympique Ariddian has stated that it will send an amputee football team to Querzakhi even if the event is not scheduled to take place.

“We want them to be there, taking part in the Opening Ceremony,” Eo Sheh explained. “Even if there’s no amputee football at these Games, our amputee football players want to be present and hopefully give some free training and a little hope to any disabled people who are interested within the Capitalizt States.”

One thing is certain: Ariddians in general are enthusiastic about the Olympics and looking forward to watching the competition.

During the Ashford Games, Ariddian athletes won 29 medals, finishing eighth on the medal table. With fewer athletes taking part this time, it may be difficult to do better, but it is a challenge the Ariddian delegation is willing to take on.

At 8:30 PM Rêvane time tomorrow, PINA will broadcast a half-hour report on athletes with disabilities and competitions for disabled athletes in Ariddia and elsewhere, followed by a half-hour look back at the Ashford Games at 9:30.

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From MSPN --

The Maineiacs Olympic team has arrived in the host city, and has begun to prepare to compete in the nation's first Summer Olympics. Our team has a lot to live up to following our strong showing at the 2nd Winter Olympiad in which we bested our mark of 4 medals with no gold at the 1st Winter Olympics to bring home 20 medals and 6 gold. Newly elected President Allison McDermott sent her best wishes to the team via vid hookup, and MOC President Luther Goran spoke hoghly of our athletes' chances. Competitors to watch include swimmer Betsy Kelleher, sister of gold-medalist Ice Dancer Warren Kelleher, our Men's Baseball team, our Women's Softball team, Badminton playing brothers Vibol and Sopheap Parmansupol, Swimmer Sheila Mitchell, 16-year old diver Nuo Mei, our team's youngest member, and 37-year-old boxer George Holmes, our team's oldest member.

As the athletes from at least 32 countries begin to pour into Querzakhi, the Qazoxain Delegation still awaits thier flight from Qazox City to Querzakhi. The feeling amongst this group of 90 men and women is one of elation, as they are the best and brightest of their nation and expect to prove they are the best amongst the world as well.

Our best guess as to Qazoxian favorites in this competion are:

Women's Football- Won gold last time out, and are the favorites this time out.

Derikk Kiid, in Men's BMX-has won all 5 QMX titles, and is expected to medal here.

Stephanie Hezel, Women's Marathon- set a Qazox record at the 15th St. Nash Marathon with a time of 2:15:09, should be a contender for a medal.

Alan O'Neill, Men’s Road Time Trial - Amongst the best in the world and has competed in the last 4 TOUR de QAZOX', improving each time, a dark horse for a gold.

Frank Refth, Men’s Track Individual Sprint- Among the best sprinter in the world, but injuries of late may see him fall just short of a medal.

Team Qazox- Men’s Track Team Sprint- As one of the top teams in not only the TOUR de QAZOX, but the defending World Champions, but first appearance in the Olympics.

Luanne Holt, Women’s BMX- Won 4 of the 5 QMX' titles and is one of few who have actually beaten Derikk Kiid.

Coba Turin, Women’s Mountain Bike- Ranked 4th in the world, and is expected to medal here.

Nelson Leist and Tyrone Mcgowin, Tennis Mens' Singles and Doubles- Both men are ranked in the top 20 in the world as singles, and are ranked #3 in doubles, if they don't get at least 2 medal between them it will be a shame.

Tanisha Howser, Women's Triathalon- Set a new Women's record at the Iroman: Qazox last year with a time of 8:23:50, should do ever better at the shorter Olympic Distance.

Well when Lerasia signed up for the olympics last week we were under the harsh dictatorship of Romescu, 2 days ago he was overthrown in a bloody revolution, the Lerasian athletes performance might no be so well as they might be worried what is going on back home with all the Securiforce violence ect

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From the special Olympic preview

You can lead a horse to water but you probably can't play water polo on it.

With a good run at the World Water Polo Championship earlier this year the mens' water polo team is out for gold. First on the agenda would be revenge against the Az-cz team which defeated them at home in the final. But it isn't going to be a cakewalk for the team supposedly second-best in the world.

"It's evident some very good teams didn't come for the World Championships, for whatever reason. We cannot take it for granted that we won the silver and that means it'll be easy at the Olympics. And as favorites it puts pressure on us." said captain Brandon Nichol, who plays as a driver and will be looking to unleash his wicked perimeter shot at the Games.

The womens' team are also raring to go for glory. Although not as favored as the men's team, they want to prove they're a force to be reckoned with.

"We're not at the same level as the guys and the competition is tougher for us." goalkeeper Lynn Lithgow said, "but I'm looking forward to earning some respect, the team's pumped and we are as strong as any other team out there."

Another team from Kelssek is regarding the competition with keen interest, though for other reasons. Scouts from the Kelssek Water Polo League, beginning its second season of fully professional play this summer, want to find some talent at the Games.

"In Kelssek we have a league where there's enough money and a good lifestyle to attract any talented athlete. We want to build the top league in the sport and grabbing the best talent is the way to develop our league and the sport as well." says John Atkinson, who scouts for Kraken de Outineau. "We're one of the few countries where you can make a living playing water polo. That positions us well."

boxing

Men’s Super Heavyweight (1)

OOC:
boxing

Men’s Super Heavyweight (1)
If you want to enter an athlete, you’ll need to give him a name. If you do, please post it in the signup thread (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=522713).

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I’ve been delayed by RL issues (and several hours of playing Football Manager to try to ignore those issues :p ); the schedule should be up by early Saturday, 2007–04–28 and the first results should be up later that day.

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Xavier Trias - Hello, I'm Xavier Trias.

Helen Santiago - And I'm Helen Santiago.

Xavier - And you're watching the WNC Pre-Olympic Report on WNC Sport, Edward City's favourite Sport News Channel. Helen, what do you think about this Olympics and the Edwardian Team.

Helen - I think that the Unified Capitalizt States have made a great job with the infrastructures for the games. About the USE delegation, I think that our team will not have so much posibilities to win because of the high participation at the games.

Xavier - Yes, but I think that Edward City will have good scores at this games.

Helen - Yes?

Xavier - Yes. Edward City will have a great medal count. Do you remember the last winter olympics? We were so deceptioned about the results of the first 5 days of the games, we won no medals, but then, we suddenly won lots of medals and we finished with the tenth position. This games will be succesful for Edward City, I think.

Helen - Well, this has been all for now. We will return with another Pre-Olympic Report soon. Good night.

For the 1st time ever, Sativaville will be sending athletes to the Summer Games. The small delegation of 60 Athletes will be led into the Olympic stadium by Ryan Header of triathalon fame. The team is only expected to seriously compete in Men's and Women's basketball, with a small chance in the Triathalon.

Probably one of the smallest if not, the smallest olympic team is the Lerasian team made up of only 11 athletes.

This is the first olympic games Lerais has entered, it has only just come out of a revolution that deposed a vicious dictator, Essad Romescu. all of the athletes were out of Lerasia when the revolution happened.

The small team of 11 athletes will be led in by Flag bearer Olga Florenco. she is only 20 years old but she has been doing gymnastics at Lerasia's Sports accademy's since she was 3 years old. They are carrying in the Lerasian flag that was used since the dictator came to power in 1981 but now that the dictator is depsoed a Flag change is being debated. but for now they will be represented under the Romescu era flag

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Gillard chosen as flag-bearer

Breton-born judoka Andrew Gillard, 23, will carry the Kelssekian flag at the opening ceremony in Querzakhi tomorrow, the Kelssekian Olympic Committee announced.

Generally considered a medal contender in the men's 73kg category, Gillard was chosen because of his melding of leadership, ability, and community service, said KOC president Patrice Bouvier.

"We wanted to choose someone who is not only an exemplary athlete, but a strong representative of our national values. Andrew Gillard fits those criteria. His humanitarian work and his dedication to his sport are an example for everyone to follow." said Bouvier.

Gillard, who is a trained paramedic, worked as a volunteer for the Kelssekian Red Cross in the humanitarian operation in The Tyrsis Imperium last year. While there, he was often exposed to very dangerous conditions, but he tells the Chronicle and Herald that he enjoyed every minute of it.

"It was tough, draining, and emotionally exhausting when you're dealing with death and disease all the time. But those who live, get well, and thank you as they leave for saving them, that makes it very fulfilling work. It was an experience of a lifetime," said Gillard, "and I'm very honoured to have been chosen to carry the flag. It's a rare opportunity."

Thirty-two nations will be taking part in the Second Summer Olympics starting tomorrow in Querzakhi. The Unified Capitalizt States will be hosting the Olympics for a third time, although this is the first time they are hosting the summer games. Nevertheless, if the experience of the Winter Games is any indication, Querzakhi is set to be a great show.

CAFUNDÉU DECIDES FLAG-BEARER

A young and promising athlete, Júnia Abate will be the flag-bearer of Cafundéu in the Olympic Games. She is one of the favourites in the Archery competition, and already won several national titles. She will hold the flag, but other four athletes will stand near her, staying on focus too. The COC (Comitê Olímpico Cafundelense - in English, Cafundéu's Olympic Comitee), make this decision to make a different entrance.

The other athletes that will enter together with Júnia Abate will be: Grace, the beautiful forward of the basketball National Team; Mário Guila, a very good boxer; Carolina Berna, a competitor in the Rhytmic Gymnastic and Geraldo Magela, goalkeeper of the Blind Football National Team.

Day 0.5 results are up. (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=525321)

QSNBS
OLYMPIC UPDATE



Early results from the opening day of the olympics, Qazox' men's team, was placed in group D along with Bazalonia, Reineberg, Nitrodymium, Jasīʼyūn, and Coocoostan. The first match was against Nitrodymium and ended in a 1-1 draw, with a goal by Tomas Richter in the 56th minute providing the only Qazox goal. Other events and results will be posted when they come in.

NSWiki Page:
http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Qazox_at_the_Second_Summer_Olympics

Inside the Merano Regency newsroom:

"All right, let's get the sports crew on this. Big deal, only comes around once every-oh, I'm not going to bother to convert all the messed-up math between the nations. You know what I'm talking about."

"The World Cup?"

"No! That's a stupid overblown athletic waste of time! This is the Olympics: display of international camaraderie as everything but the glory of competition is ignored. Got the difference?"

"Not too sure I do."

"Well, we've got a while to teach you. Should be covering the opening ceremony right about now..."

Querzakhi, United Capitalizt States

He didn't know why they'd picked him: not David or Jon in the country's demonstration event? Not one of the many bikers? Perhaps that was it: with so many people blurring together, they wanted someone to stick out. But they could have gone with...Hans? Anyone but a member of the largest team that the country had sent, certainly? Anyone but the man who'd made the error that let Lovisa get the tying run on in the World Baseball Classic?

But perhaps the Olympics would be Ben's redemption.

Delegations large and small filed on before his. The niche of being last in alphabetical order was a fine one for him.

All of a sudden, though, it was time. Wrapping his hands around the frigid flagpole, he walked out into the Querzakhi night...and before the eyes of billions.

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Kelssek gets first medal

It's women's synchronised diving that has given Kelssek its first medal of the Querzakhi Olympics, with Beatrice Saucion and Inès Audette finishing third out of four pairs in the 3m springboard event. While not exactly a victory won in a tough field and also in something testosteronal sports radio hosts tend to dismiss as "not a real sport, you call that a sport? I could do that. I could jump off a diving board in perfect timing with my partner... AND I'M NOT GAY, THEY JUST CALL THEM 'PARTNERS' IN THIS SO-CALLED GAME, flip a few times in the air, and land in the water, anyone could do that, (etc.)", the Olympians are celebrating it all the same.

"It's nice to get on the board on day one. I hope this is the first of many medals to come." chef de mission William Parker said.

But there was a big surprise as Kelssek's U-23s defeated Ariddia 2-1 in football, a major upset against a much stronger team, and against the World Cup champions - though not, of course exactly the championship team itself. Yet, a win against a major footballing power is something that has footy fans excited.

Alex Carbaugh has also put in a strong performance in the archery competition. He placed 13th in the ranking round and led the team to 7th place in the team event.

SOME MONTHS AGO...

"Let's face it, Len...no-one gives a monkey's toss about fencing."

Len Worth was forced to agree. The President of the Wentland Fencing Committee looked around his dilapidated gym. Paint was peeling off the walls, the mats were worn through. One of the sabres was a wooden replica and a foil was made of, well, foil.

He had just presided over the national championships which did not even have quarter-finals as there were only four entrants in each category. It was a shame, thought Worth, given that Mat Gould showed some genuine promise with the foil, but a Wentland fencing team in the World Championships? It would be considered a joke.

Worth trudged back to his office and perused the Fencing Chronicle. Nothing about Wentland. Surprise.

Then he noticed something a little surprising.

"Beaumont complained that the D&S Committee was biased against him. 'Yet again I have proved my worth and yet again I have been overlooked for the Worlds. I am getting a little fed up and don't think I will volunteer for them again.'

"Beaumont alleges there are a number of fencers who are dissatisfied with the management of D&S fencing and is threatening to lead a revolt."

Hmm, thought Worth. I wonder.

***

"I do not like zis bleu...it does not suit me..."

Alain Beaumont, moustachioed maverick of the martial art, was complaining about the royal blue blazers the Wentland team wore to the opening ceremony. "Don't worry, Alain," remarked Gould, "you'll be in the tabards soon."

"Indeed...back wiz ze sword...ze only weapon for a gentleman..."

The Wentland team caused some eyebrows to be raised. A bunch of fencers from the fringes of the D&S and Oliverry squads had been rushed through citizenship. Only the likes of Michelle Davies were native Went and were expected to lose out very quickly.

But Len Worth was pleased. The gym had had a new lick of paint and the equipment had been refreshed with Lotix funding, now Wentland could boast Olympic-ranked athletes. And they were ready to go on the very first day.

The native Wents seemed to be inspired. Phil Smith and David Samuels only narrowly lost their first round matches whereas Beaumont marched through imperiously. Maybe it would be the making of a few chaps. And the archery team had managed to avoid killing someone. Good stuff.

BazSports Olympic Update!

In bizzarre news the Bazalonian Olympic Commitee has refused to provide names for athletes competing in the second summer olympics over concerns that they might be targetted by terrorists. Instead the athletes will be refered to by numbers given to the officials of the olympics from the Unified Capitalzt States.

"This is an important measure both as a security measure and as a way of combating sporting egos, This way we can focus on the sports and not on the personalities." This has been a controversial decision with many people slamming the decision, particularly Jason Feder, the Bronze medal winner for the Men's Road Race.

"What whole lot of crock. The BOC just couldn't be assed to get their rear-end into gear and tabulate a proper list. They gave me a card which I was to hand in to get all my gear, I doubt anyone knows exactly who exactly is here anyway. Really great for security." Mr Feder said when interviewede in response to his Bronze medal win.

Whatever is going on in the BOC, one thing is for certain, I am not happy.

by Jan Heffernen

From MSPN--

Mainiacs Strikes Gold!

As Day 1 of Olympic competition unfolds, Maineiacs has brought home its 1st Summer Olympic gold medal. San Yu & Zhi Ling won the Women's Synchronized Springbord Diving, beating the Silver medal winners from Cafundéu by an impressive 49.5 points. In the other medal event from this morning, Frits Schuyler fell and did not complete the Men's Cycling Road Race. Our Men's Archery team stands currently in 17th place out of 18 teams, René Toussaint and Élan Pherick advance to the 2nd round in men's Sabre, but teammte Johan Piton did not qualify. In Women's Sabre, Renate Immacolata, Karesinda Aminda, and Juliana Vitoria all advance. Our Men's Soccer team lost 2-1 to St. Samuel, and both of our Mixed Doubles Badminton teams received 1st round byes. We will be back this evening with another Olympic update.

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a schedule (http://www.thirdgeek.com/ns/olympics/querzakhi2/schedule/)! (and a CSV version (http://www.thirdgeek.com/ns/olympics/querzakhi2/schedule/CSV/), too)

Day 1 results are up. (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12593140&postcount=2)

OOC: I'm not having fun trying to load this damned schedule. I keep getting an octet stream, which I don't know what to do with. Suggestions? Insults?

I rebut any insults of my computing knowledge with the fact that I ran 10 klicks before you got up. It's called exercise nerdlinger.

OOC: I'm not having fun trying to load this damned schedule. I keep getting an octet stream, which I don't know what to do with. Suggestions? Insults?
You mean you actually want to read it? :p

It’s an OpenDocument spreadsheet, which can be read with OpenOffice. (The CSV file can be read with any spreadsheet program or text editor.)

St Samuel - Olympic News

Football News

Men's

St Samuels youngsters won there first match with a 2-1 win over Maineiacs. The Latin Crusaders captained by St Samuel young star, Leo Sensini, won confidently with goals from Costas Avrillia and Maximus Di Sicci.

Group B
Cafundéu 3 – 1 Mikitivity
St Samuel 2 – 1 Maineiacs
Edward City 2 – 1 Ropa-Topia

Women's

St Samuel's ladies could only manage a 1-1 draw with Coocoostan after scoring a late equalizer.

Group D
Wentland 2 – 1 Mikitivity
St Samuel 1 – 1 Coocoostan

Inside the Merano Regency newsroom:

"So I take it these Olympics are a pretty big deal."

"Now you're getting the hang of it. Listen, we're slated to do a feature on the women's team. Can you handle it yourself?"

"Those hockey players? I think so!"

"Whaddaya mean those hockey players? We're not algebraic! Nope, gymnastics for us."

"I thought you said the women's team."

"...There's not a men's."

"Look at these people!" The new writer flung down a photograph of the squad onto the desk. "They're not old enough to count as women, they're just girls."

The older journalist picked the picture up, analyzing it carefully. "You've got a point there. I think it's time to throw in the reliable incredibly-cute-gymnasts-mired-in-international-scandal angle."

"You can't be serious. This is Zwangzug we're dealing with here. They wouldn't be that desperate, not to win a-what did you call it? Stupid overblown athletic waste of time?"

"You're regressing."

MONOPOLISTS' FIRST DAY RESULTS

ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL (men) - Cafundéu's Sub-23 team defeated Mikitivity by the result of 3x1. Cafundéu's goals were scored by Dário (in the 23rd and in the 44th minute) and Léo Mattos (in the 79th minute).

DIVING - Silver Medal for Cafundéu in the Women's Synchronized 3 m Springboard.

FENCING (Sabre) - Cafundéu champions Lars Dover and Karl Ratsel continue in the competition. Érico Souza is out. About the women, Fernanda Zen and Gabrielle Zanine continue, but Hera Lee is eliminated.

DIVING - Silver Medal for Cafundéu in the Men's Synchronized 10 m Platform.

FENCING (Women's Epee, Men's Foil) - Only Fernanda Zen and Lars Dover continue in the competition.

From MSPN--

Our divers have left their mark here at the Querzakhi Olympics. Sheng Zibo and Xiang Heng won the gold in Men's Synchronized Platform, duplicating the gold in the Women's Synchronized Springboard competition earlier today. Our Women's soccer team fared better than their male counterparts, defeating Ropa-Topia 4-0, on the strength of GK Ludmila Petskov's flawless performance in the net (6 saves) and 2 goals by F Gina Sandini. Our women's Archery team did slightly better than the Men; they stand in 11th place after one round. In women's Badminton both Pakpao Adulyadej and Sukon Bhumanipam received byes in the 1st round. Cyclist Kitty Dennis fell and did not complete the Road Race. In Women's Épée, Clarissa Melania, Caterina Montse, and Aimée Lausanne all advance, while in Men's Foil, Oscár Phillieu advances after defeating Brad Bradley of Stopmenow100 15-12 but Giovanni Peretti and Estève Donat were both eliminated. Men's Gymnastics got underway tonight; qualifiers for Maineiacs include Sho Ryouta in Parallel Bars, Rings, and Vault; Saburo Jiro on the Pommel Horse; Bart Thomas in Vault; and James Tufts in Floor Exercise; Frank Russel and Kim Hyun-shin did not qualify in any event and our team had no qualifiers in Beam, horizontal Bar, or Uneven bars, and no qualifiers in the All-around.

"Who was that?" asked Sheila Mitchell of her roommate Betsy Kelleher, as Betsy hung up the phone.

"My brother, just checking up on me." said Betsy.

"I don't envy you," said Sheila. "you're handling the pressure of having to live up to a gold medalist in your family better than I would."

"I'm used to it," said Betsy. "Warren and Sophie have been on top of the skating world back home and at or near the top in the Multiverse for years. I grew up with it. You seem to be handling the after-effects of the trip better though. I'm totally zoned-out"

"Yeah, a Libby-Burroughs space twister takes a bit of getting used to your first time. You'll be fine. Swimming doesn't start for a few more days, so you'll have plenty of time to rest up." said Sheila.

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PREVIEW: SWIMMING

Kelssekian swimming is on the upswing thanks to the dividends of efforts to develop sporting talent over the last decade and buzz is being generated for these Olympics as Kelssek's prospects look better than ever.

Bazalonia's troupe of numbers will, of course be a big rival for golds in the pool. The boost of the home crowd is also going to give the Capitalizt SLANI a boost and swimmers from Edward City are likely to put in a good showing. But no other delegation has the depth of talent Kelssek has, claims the head of the Kelssek aquatics federation, Luc Therien.

"Others have one or two stars, but we're solid through all the events." he claims. "I want us to be ruling the podium."

Phillipe Destry is a name many swimming fans are going to be thinking of at the competition, however. The 20-year old from the Outineau suburb of Dorval stunned the nation at last year's national championships with his comprehensive demolition of one national record after another.

Destry thinks Reineberg's Matthew Daniels as his main rival for gold at Querzakhi. An almost-certain showdown in the final of the 100m butterfly, Destry's specialty, is likely to attract a riveted audience, in spite of the fact that it will take place at 2am Kelssek time. Many are also speculating if he can beat Cafundéu's Romário Hadid in the 200m. But it's no contest in the mind of his big brother Bernard, who is also a medal favorite in the breaststroke.

"No contest. Phillipe will win." he says.

Jessica Langton, Virginia Dunston, and Lisa Greenwood are all tipped for medals in the women's events too, though the competition does seem tougher in for them with the names of Natsumi Hinata and Ariadna Hue, both of Edward City, already considered to have locked up the gold and silver for most of the women's events.

Langton dismissed those predictions. "They're underestimating us. If you think they'll sweep up all the medals you're wrong. I respect them, I know the kind of work they put in, but we've all been working very hard too. I'm looking forward to the event."

Greenwood did, however, admit the competition was very tough. "Looking at all the names, I think for me winning anything at all would be a bonus. I'm just excited about meeting up with all the great people from around the world who will be competing. There's a certain camaraderie at the poolside which I enjoy."

The swimming program will be getting underway on Wednesday.

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Olympics: Capitalizt archers exceed expectations in early stages
QUERZAKHI, TA—At the CDA Olympic Range today, the Capitalizt archery teams performed exceptionally well in the ranking round of the Second Summer Olympics archery competition. Early in the day, the men’s competition was held, in which Capitalizt SLANI’s 조해군 (Jo Hā-gun) finished second individually. His score of 691, shattering the Olympic record set at Ashford, was exceeded only by an incredible 703 from Antrium’s Îolest Krîàr. The other members of the SLANI team, Rango Kois and Tom Mason, also shot their way into the top ten. Their combined score of 2038 was enough to make Capitalizt SLANI the top seed and set a new Olympic record for the team ranking round. Also in the men’s competition, the 자스연 (Jasīʼyūn) team posted rather unremarkable individual scores, though they did manage to claim the fifth seed.

During the afternoon, the women’s competition was held, in which a slight breeze kept the high scores achieved by the men out of reach. The SLANI team was led by 기인민 (Gi ʼIn-min), whose score of 660 made him the top seed. Samantha Hill finished just nine points back in fourth place, and 주태일 (Ju Tā-il) five points behind that in sixth. As a team, SLANI earned the top seed by a wide margin, and will face the underperforming Abu Omar team in the first knockout round. The 혜성즈 (Hyesūŋjī) team edged out Antrium by six points and Cafundéu by eight, seeding them second behind SLANI. They face St Samuel in the first round.

With confidence running high among the Capitalizt archers, the nation has a strong chance of picking up a few medals in the archæic sport. Combined with medal hopes in fencing, and various flukes such as their bronze medal in synchronized diving today, the host team could have a sizable tally even before the much-hyped athletics delegation begins.

QSNBS
OLYMPIC UPDATE

After the conclusion of the first full day of the 2nd Olympic Games, here's the late results for our delegation:

Football (Women's)- The defending Gold medalists started defense of their medal with an impressive 5-1 win over Kelssek. The H'wu sisters each had 2 goals, while Gretchen Bucci added the other goal. The team was placed in Group A, the only group with 6 teams. There will be some challengers down the road, as Recent Women's World Cup champions, Cafundéu and our old rivals Wentland are also among the medal favorites. The dark horse is Quakmybush, who has done well in the past.

That's all the competition for the first day so far, And stay tuned to QSNBS for all your Olympic coverage, including all of Qazox' Football mtaches, live and without interuption.

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SATIVAVILLE Olympic Coverage:


Live from Querzakhi:

The Stoners faced their first ever taste of competition in the Olympics and came away shorthanded with a 1-2 loss to Malabra in opening round action in Football. Lumped in a group with Wentland and the Hosts, little is expected of the team, but a win or 2 will do just fine.

No other action today inculded the Sativaville delegation.

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Day 1.5 results are up (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12595178&postcount=3).

SATIVAVILLE Olympic Coverage:


Live from Querzakhi:

2 games and 2 losses for the men's team a tough heartbreaking 0-1 loss to United Island Empires, leaves the team in 6th place of 7 teams only ahead of Stopmenow100. With 4 matches left, the chances for advancement are slim, as matches with Wentland and the hosts still loom.

As of this writing, no other athletes from Sativaville have competed in their events.

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From MSPN--

Maineiacs has won another medal in the 2nd Summer Olympiad. Kitty Dennis, of Bangor, Arrostook Province took home the silver medal in Women's Cycling Road Time Trial. Dennis's medal came less than a day after she fell off her bike in the Road Race. "I'm fortunate to not have injured myself because a silly mistake." said Dennis "this medal was all the sweeter considering I might not have been in the race at all if I hadn't gotten lucky." Elsewhere in Olympic competition, our Men's Archery team was eliminated after losing a close match to Bazalonia 230-228; the Badminton teams of Sopheap Parmansupol & Sukon Bhumanipam and Vibol Parmansupol & Pakpao Adulyadej both advanced to the quarterfinals in Mixed Doubles; Corrine Trumble is 6th, Marian Upton 7th, Gary Olsen 9th, Sarah Silversmith 19th, and Timothy Kelly 22nd in the Individual Dressage event in Equestrian: their performance has the team in 2nd thus far in the team competition; Élan Pherick and René Toussaint were eliminated in Men's Sabre while Renate Immacolata, Karesinda Aminda, and Juliana Vitoria were all eliminated in Women's Sabre. Our Men's Field Hockey team lost 3-2 to Malabra; Our Women's Handball team lost 26-24 to Kelssek while Ernie Previn struck out 4 and allowed only 2 hits in our Men's Softball victory by a score of 5-0 over Kelssek. 1B Gary Olsen hit a 2-man homerun. Yvonne Craig qualified in Women's 10m Air Rifle; Junichiro Matsudo lost his first match in the 60kg bracket in Men's Judo and will now move into the Repêchage, but is not in contention for a medal. In Women's Judo, Sayuri Kaede received a bye and is automatically in the semifinals of the 48kg bracket. Maineiacs leads the medal count early on, with 3 medals -- 2 gold, and 1 silver.

It had not been a good couple of days for Wentland's team. A disastrous performance in the football cast doubt on the chances of qualifying for the later stages. The men's archers had wobbled through unconvincingly and the mercurial Lydia Costa had blown it in the badminton.

Only Alain Beaumont's swashbuckling imperiousness in the fencing had cheered the Went, plus Mat Gould's highly promising debut.

A few of the sports fans wandered over to watch the road time trial. Only nine entrants. Some thought Leonora Pennyworth might have an outside shot at a medal given the paucity of competitors, but she had never really shown at world level.

But the Went supporters sent a flurry of texts after the first lap. "Omg she's winnig this is gr8 lol". A blistering first lap saw her take a twelve second lead and the competitors visibly wilted when they passed the stands.

By the end the main stand was awash with royal blue as the bespectacled librarian crossed the line and parked up. When told she was half a minute up she stared open-mouthed. When Porto Belo failed to gain the required minute Wentland had its first gold of the Games - and Pennyworth was reduced to muttering "my goodness! My goodness! What a palaver!" in numb shock.

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No medals yet, as Olympics get underway

A great many Ariddians were watching as their country’s delegation was the third to appear during the Opening Ceremony. Blind football team captain E Ol proudly carried the Ariddian flag, while Christina Zhang (Olympic Champion in fencing) walked beside him to guide or steady him when necessary. Ol’s presence as flag-bearer at the forefront of the Ariddian delegation was applauded by the Ariddian media, who perceived it as a “powerful image sent to the rest of the world” (Le Quotidien du Peuple). Reporters also noted the presence of Geraldo Magela towards the head of Cafundéu’s delegation. Although not blind himself, Mr. Magela plays (as goalkeeper) in Cafundéu’s national blind football team.

Most of Ariddia’s athletes were present, except those scheduled to compete during the first day or two of events. Among the latter was one of Ariddia’s greatest defending Olympic Champions: Youssef Kasmba, who took part in the very first event here in Querzakhi.

In the men’s archery ranking round, Comrade Kasmba was two points short of his Ashford record, obtaining 666 points, and finishing behind seven competitors who all broke his standing Olympic record. The result was a shock to his supporters, who were used to seeing him squeeze ahead of even the toughest opponents. Still, Kasmba finished well enough to skip the first qualifying round, confirming that he remains among the world’s best.

He will be facing strong opposition from Antrium’s Îolest Krîàr, who was the only archer to break the barrier of 700 points, setting a new record at an astonishing 703.

In football, there was disappointment as the men’s team lost its first match 1-2 to a superior team from Kelssek. Although this is not the same team as the World Cup’s Rouge-et-Noirs (the C.O.A. does not allow professionals to compete in the Olympics), many spectators had been expecting better from a team representing the country which was recently World Cup champion.

The women’s team, which reached the final and won silver in the last Olympics, began with a bye-day. The Ariddian ladies’ team is expected to top its group, but at the Olympics unfortunate surprises tend to happen all too often.

In handball – a sport the Ariddians are not expected to win any medals in – the ladies were defeated 23-31 by LancasterCounty.

Many Ariddian spectators were no doubt a lot more interested in the two “major” events (from an Ariddian perspective): gymnastics and judo, where the PDSRA’s hopes for medals are highest.

The Ariddian “Dream Team” (Jang, Vidic, Gris, Iu, Vaillant and Andresen) dominated the qualifiers of the men’s gymnastics in spectacular style. Jang Yong-Jun (76.889) and Josh Vidic (76.804) qualified in first and second place overall, while an excellent Moshe Stein (76.802) from Nitrodymium came third. Of the eight gymnasts qualified individually for the all-around, five are Ariddian (Jang, Vidic, Gris, Iu and Vaillant).

“These were the early stages,” Michael Gris was careful to remind everyone. “We’re very pleased, of course, and quite confident, but we have strong opponents, we still need to work hard, and absolutely anything can still happen.”

In judo, in the men’s 60kg event, At Suwil (gold in Tyrellia and silver in Ashford) was given a bye on the first day of qualifying, and will advance directly into the semi-finals to face St Samuel’s Louis Sutton. In the women’s 48kg event, the recurring curiosity was tiny Ariddian judoka Dong Yue Yan (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Dong_Yue_Yan), who is only 1m47 tall and usually weighs around 39kg. As in Ashford, Ms. Dong had to gain weight in order to compete, and attracted a fair amount of media attention and popular support. As in Ashford, though, her participation in these Olympics will have been short: she was defeated by Kelssek’s Laura Ashton.

Day 2 results are up (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12596624&postcount=4).

MONOPOLISTS' SECOND DAY RESULTS

Cycling - in the Women's Road Time Trial, Rebecca Porto Belo finished in the third position, winning a Bronze Medal.

Equestrian (Dressage) - horsemen Antônio Carlos Bamerindus and Francisco Palmeira get the 2nd and 3rd positions. The girls had a bad performance.

Fencing (Sabre) - Karl Ratsel is the only one that continues in the competition. The others were eliminated.

Field Hockey (Men) - Cafundéu's poor team was able to get a draw against Reineberg.

Judo - Not a good day for the Cafundelenses, as most of the athletes lost their disputes.

Shooting - good performance of Lisandra Belle and Hugo Pascoal, which are strong contenders for the gold medals.

Equestrian (Cross Country) - Palmeiras and Bamerindus repeat their good performances and now are first and second. Cafundéu is currently the best team.

Fencing (Men's Foil) - Lars Dover defeated Josh Rutledge and continues in the competition.

Fencing (Women's Epee) - Fernanda Zen defeated Çwe Mi-ju and continues in the competition.

Field Hockey (Women) - the Academy Girls defeated Kelssek by a good margin and stays in front of their group.

Gymnastics - both men and women teams got good results, but the women performed better, even giving some trouble to Ariddia.

Men's Handball - team battled, but couldn't avoid the draw against United Island Empires.

It was all too much for Leonora Pennyworth. The shy librarian, who only discovered her penchant for cycling when recovering overdue books from all over Torshire on her faithful Raleigh, had never finished higher than seventh at world level and suddenly found herself as Wentland's new Olympic hero after a mesmeric run.

In the end she barricaded herself in the Olympic village, anonymous to most behind her thick specs, shyly showing her gold medal to those athletes who asked to see it, and at other times secluding herself in a quiet corner with a few tomes and occasionally staring at her medal in disbelief.

One of the Wentland cycling journos asked for her secret of success and she said she had found a recipe in a book by the mystic Qi Sheng involving an infusion of feverwort and the horngloss. She had checked in secret with the Olympic committee who verified that it was absolutely legal and a quick sniff had left her feeling euphoric at the start.

Dangerous stuff, she said, which was why she had not shared it out amongst the Wentland team. But the twins in the keirin event had expressed an interest and Pennyworth had provided them with something. She was hoping for some success elsewhere as she did not like the attention. Gosh, who would have thought so many would have been so interested in a silly bike ride? She hadn't even got Mrs Montagu's overdue Cartland collection.

"Hey-hey, Miriam?"

She had been chatting excitedly with Alyson as their coach hurried them forward. "Who are you?" she said suspiciously.

"Uh, my name's Mike. I'm with the newspaper. I want to talk to you so I can write about you."

"She neds 2 rest 4 the next round," the coach said angrily.

"Uh. Okay." Mike shuffled some papers in his hands. "In that case...Jessie?"

"Her 2."

"Ah." Mike tried to reposition his papers, which led to his camera crashing on the street. "Right, maybe I'll come back later?"

The coach's stare told him that would be a better idea.

Miriam continued walking, a little put off. In the air, she was free: on the mat, lithe. On the ground, she was short, small: really, just a little kid.

She liked doing gymnastics better.

Meanwhile, Mike aimlessly walked around the Olympic village until he saw a woman in Zwangzug colors. "Hi," he began cheerfully. "I'm Mike, I'm with the Regency..."

"Oh, hi!" She gave him a thumbs-up sign. "Here 2 rit about the game? It was a gud 1: be4 1/2 time Ropa-Topia rely domin8d, but after-"

"Slow down..."

"The defender was 3/4 of the way down but Lorna ¬get charged w/a penalt and scord gol 1..."

"You aren't a gymnast, are you?"

"& Stefany got..."

RM: Welcome To Olympics This Morning, I'm Ron Mclearn.

WR: And, I'm Wendy Rogers.

RM: Let's get to the results.

WR: In the Men's Archery Ranking Round, Louise Shelton scored 674 points and came in 7th.

RM: While Carlos Vaughn scored 602.

WR: And Kelly Lucas scored 597.

RM: The team total was 1873, putting them in 8th place.

WR: The Quakmybush U-21 Soccer Team lost its first match to Saidercray, 2-1, with Randy Mitchell scoring the lone marker.

RM: In Men's Cycling Action, the road race took place, Danny Chandler finished with a time of 5:47:53 to finish in 13th.

WR: Quakmybush's other two riders, Harold Warren, and Terry Nguyen both crashed out in a large accident that occurred near the beginning of the race.

RM: In Women's Archery, Eva Tran was the top Quakmybushian finisher, with a score of 622.

WR: That score was matched by Rita Blair.

RM: While Jill Walsh scored a 616.

WR: The team had a total score of 1860, and are in 6th.

RM: The Women's Soccer team won their first match 2-1, with goals by Candace Kruger, and Brittany Karner.

WR: Geraldine Estrada defeated fellow Quakmybushian Marilyn Burgess 21-17 in the first round of Women's Badminton.

RM: While Pauline Hicks defeated Pip O'Rion of St Samuel.

WR: Quakmybush's medal total reached two in one event when Melinda Lawerence finished 2nd, and Kelly Edwards finished 3rd in the Women's Road Race.

RM: In Mixed Badminton, Judy Davis, and Willie Stanley defeated Gladys Cooper, and Calvin Huff in an all Quakmybush match up.

WR: In Cycling, the Women's Road Time Trial, Eileen Sims finished one position short of a medal in fourth.

RM: While Tanya King finished 6th.

WR: The Men's Field Hockey team defeated the host's 3-2 on a hat trick by Nathan Cheney.

RM: While the Women's Handball team defeated Bushes Been Quaked 34-28.

WR: The Men's Softball team defeated Bazalonia on a walk off home run by Sean Potter.

RM: Geraldine Estrada suffered a heartbreaking loss in Women's Badminton, losing 21-19 to Emma Gayle of Wentland.

WR: Also in Women's badminton, Pauline Hicks was knocked out.

RM: In the Men's Road Time Trial, the top Quakmybushian finisher was Patrick Moran in 10th.

WR: While Miguel Nunez finished 14th.

RM: The Women's Field Hockey team lost their first match 2-1 to Bazalonia.

WR: The Men's Handball team drew their first match with Abu Omar.

RM: While in the first game of Women's Softball, the team lost 3-1 to Ropa-Topia.

WR: Quakmybush currently sits 7th in the medal standings with 2 Medal, a silver, and a bronze.

RM: Well, were out of time.

WR: I'm Wendy Rogers.

RM: And I'm Ron Mclearn.

Few events, but some good results

In men’s handball, Ariddia was, not surprisingly, defeated 27-35 today by Nitrodymium, but in the “key sports” of judo and gymnastics, there was better news.

The “Golden Girls” – Ariddia’s lady gymnasts, the defending Olympic champions, who won six gold medals in Ashford – performed to their usual high standards, although they faced high quality competition – notably from Cafundéu. The latter’s Fernanda Santos Faria qualified in top place (77.528) for the all-around, ahead of Ariddia’s excellent Sunny Mokhobo in second (77.453). In fact, Cafundéu’s team as a whole edged ahead of the Golden Girls, with 308.964 points to the Ariddians’ 308.678. Not accustomed to not coming first, the Girls will have to fight hard to defeat their top opponents. Nor should teams such as Kellsek (currently third) be under-estimated. The fight truly is on for the gold.

In judo, in the men’s 66kg event, Ashford bronze medallist Darren Foams defeated Marc Hauptreif Commerce Heights’ in the quarter-finals, and will face St Samuel’s Roberto Kingstonian in the semis. Foams reaching the final, and therefore being sure of at least a silver medal, would be excellent news for Ariddians who might be worrying at seeing their country still absent from the medal table. . .

In the ladies’ 52kg competition, defending Olympic champion Admina Mwakingwe was exempt from taking part in the quarter-finals, and will face Maineacs’ Hyun Kung-Soon in the semis.

In judo, in the men’s 66kg event, Ashford bronze medallist Darren Foams […] beat St Samuel’s Roberto Kingstonian in the semis.

In the ladies’ 52kg competition, defending Olympic champion Admina Mwakingwe […] eliminated Maineacs’ Hyun Kung-Soon in the semis.
OOC: Those were the fixtures for the judo semifinals, not results.

OOC: Those were the fixtures for the judo semifinals, not results.

OOC: Meh. It's the middle of the night (moving on towards early morning), I'm tired, and I can't read. Fixed.

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"The idiosyncratically-named Bryan Bryan of the idiosyncratically-named nation of Stopmenow100 has won the gold in cycling for the men’s road time trial, while Juan de la Cierva and Miguel Ferrarra added silver and bronze, respectively, to Edward City's and Maineiacs's, respectively, big early haul.

Meanwhile, Sonia Gatling has surprised by making it to the quarterfinals of the Women's Indiviudal Épée. Most of Kelssek's fencers predictably dropped out early, but not Gatling who defeated Wentland's Suzie Courtois 15-12 and will face Roberta Hubbard for a semi-final spot.

Cafundéu defeated Kelssek 5-2 in the other kind of hockey, Olivia Damon was Kelssek's best performer in the gymnastics qualifiers, helping Kelssek progress with the second-highest overall score, and Kenji Ichiro will be Scott Westbot's semifinal opponent in the judo 66kg category. Boston McFee couldn't beat St. Samuel's Lizzie Mantini in the 52kg quarterfinals, and went into the Repêchage round where she will face a home hero, Rikarda Mariniäsa.

One miss was the difference for Kieran Tarrant, who failed to qualify in the men's trap shooting competition, and the women's softball team were comprehensively pummeled 14-0 by Mikitivity.

That's the latest from the Olympics, and you can get updates anytime as well as the full broadcast schedule by going to KBC Online (http://kelssek.tripod.com/kbc/querzakhi07)."

QSNBS
OLYMPIC UPDATE

Day Two of the Olympics, and only a couple of athletes were involved, in the Men’s Road Time Trial in Cycling. Qazox' best hope for a medal, Alan O'Neill finished in seventh place, missing a medal by 51 seconds. His time was 59 min:46.56 sec. Jeff Holl, while not a threat to medal, got off to a slow start and finished 17th of 18 riders with an overall time of 1 hr:01 min:43.02 sec. Cycling is the country's strong suit, but the Road Time Trial was one of the teams' weaker events.

That's all the competition involving Qazox today, stay tuned to QSNBS for all your Olympic coverage, including all of Qazox' Football mtaches, live and without interuption.

(OOC: I thought that each country could have 3 riders the Men’s Road Time Trial?)

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From MSPN--

Another medal for Maineiacs, and some more gymnastic disappointment. Miguel Ferrarra won the bronze in Men's Cycling Time Trial, while our Women's Gymnastic team struggled to qualify for the Team All-Around even as our Men's team had done. Olga Pakova from Manieacs City's Little Odessa district qualified in Balance Beam, while Boston's Terri Gilbert qualified in Pommel Horse and Rings. No othe member of the team qualified in any event, and none qualified for the Individual All-Around. In other Olympic news, Sukon Bhumanipam moves on to the quaterfinals in Women's Badminton, but teammate Pakpao Adulyadej was eliminated. Corrine Trumble was 6th in Equestrian Cross-Country while Gary Olsen was 13th, Sarah Silversmith was 14th, Marian Upton 16th, and Timothy Kelly 19th; the team currently sits in 3rd. Oscar Phillieu was eliminated in Men's Foil, Clarissa Melania and Aimée Lausanne both advance to the Quaterfinals in Women's Épée, but Caterina Montse has been eliminated. Our Women's Field Hockey team won its first match, defeating LancasterCounty 2-1; Our Men's Handball team beat Estresse Intenso 32-25; Kenji Ichiro is in the Semifinals of Men's Judo in the 66kg division; and Perry Davis did not qualify in Men's Trap. Maineiacs leads the medal count thus far with a total of 4 -- 2 gold, 1 silver, and 1 bronze.

Day 2.5 results are up (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12598415&postcount=5).

QSNBS
OLYMPIC UPDATE

Day two continues for Qazox and here are the results:

In Men's Football, Qazox drew once again, this time with Jasīʼyūn 1-1. The only goal was scored by Greg Holden in the 35th minute.

In Men's Baseball, Qazox rallied from a 2-0 deficit in the bottom of the 9th to beat Abu Omar 4-2. Juan Ortiz hit a 3-run homerun to propel the team to its first Olympic victory. The team was placed in Group D with Abu Omar, Maineiacs, LancasterCounty and Coocoostan. Should be an interesting group as three of the teams participated in the 1st World Baseball classic not to long ago.

Luanne Holt won Qazox' first medal at these games, A gold in Women's BMX, eaily winning with a time of 42.77 seconds. Her teammates, Denise Richards and Coba Turin finished in 8th and 13th respectively. Their times were respectively 47.31 and 48.49 seconds. This marks Qazox' first individual Gold medal at the Summer Games and thier 2nd gold medal and overall medal. Congradulations to Ms. Holt.

That's all the competition involving Qazox for now, stay tuned to QSNBS for all your Olympic coverage, including all of Qazox' Football mtaches, live and without interuption.


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From MSPN--

As the 2nd day of competition closed, Maineiacs remains on top of the medal standings, picking up the bronze in Women's Synchronized Platform Diving, and a silver for Kristin Chase in Women's BMX Cycling. Our Men's Field Hockey team lost for a 2nd time, falling 4-2 to Edward City. Junichiro Matsudo moves on to the finals in the Repêchage in Men's Judo 60kg division; the best he can finish is 5th overall. Sayuri Kaede is in the Finals of Women's Judo 48kg dividion; she will walk away with at least the silver. Yvonne Craig was 8th and last in Women's 10m Air Rifle; Our Men's Volleyball team lost their 1st match to Quakmybush 3-0. Our Beach Volleyball pair of Paul Martin and Jim Hale fared no better, losing their first match 2-1 to Flávio Lang and Francisco do Prado of Cafundéu.

Hello, all, and welcome to Damnhippeez first Olympic Report. We're still kind of new at this, so bear with us. Well, we competed in our first two events today, but there was good news and bad news. The good news is that Digger Thomas and Moondog King won their first Beach Volleyball match, so we're all real stoked about that. We spoke to the dudes, and they said they were really pumped up after their win, and they're looking forward to their next match. Now for the bad news: Blossom Sterling only finished 11th in Women's BMX. She was bummed out, but This dude thinks she's still totally bitchin'. President Brown said he was real proud of our team, and he couldn't wait to see the rest of the Olympics. Well, that's all for now, so peace out!

"That's two silvers, at least!" William Parker, the chef de mission, said triumphantly as he walked into the room in the village they'd set aside for administrative work. "But realistically... two golds! Ha!"

"Just got back from the judo?"

"You bet! Awesome! Any other good news?"

"If you can call it that, something is definitely abnormal, boss. Ariddia's lost 2 in a row in football now. Oh and about the beach volleyball, Ryan Beasley and Brad Felt... did you watch?"

"Beach volleyball? No. I told you, I was at the judo competition. There's something very theraputic about the ancient art of beating the shit out of other people."

"Well they lost because they apparently spent the whole game strutting around, flexing muscles and whistling at female spectators, followed by a drug-fueled sex romp through the seedier parts of town."

"Goddamnit, I knew it was a waste of money flying those himbos all the way here."

"On the other hand," he said, consulting a sheaf of paper, "TV ratings for beach volleyball went through the roof, and we can be sure they'll go even higher for the women's one."

Parker chewed his lower lip. "Call the KBC and Channel 12, and see if they'll pay the airfare for them."

Newsflash!
Olympic Games: Ariddia poor in team sports, but Suwil doing well

Ariddia’s male football team has sunk to the bottom of Group C, after a 1-2 defeat to Saidercray, much to the surprise of virtually all spectators. The men’s 0-3 defeat to Edward City in Volleyball was, perhaps, not quite as unexpected.

In judo, Indigenous Ariddian At Suwil defeated Sativaville’s Loui Sutton in the semi-finals of the men’s 60kg event, and is the first Ariddian to be certain of a medal in these Games. He will face Jeffrey Aunson of Kelssek in the final.

There was a tear in the eye of Luanne Holt as the Qazox anthem played over the cycling road stadium. The first gold for her country at the Olympics.

There was also a tear in the eye of Kisha Hobson. She had made the world stage for the first time late in her career and she was determined to make the most of it. Her plan was simple. Go into the lead and hold on. Try to break everyone.

It came within a second - a scant, tiny, infinitesimal second - of getting her an unexpected medal.

She bravely struggled through the press conference with the Wentland media, only occasionally glancing at the global scrum around Holt. "I'll be back," she vowed, "I've tasted life at the top and I like it!! Just one more chance. "

With that she walked away. Only the most dedicated pressmen spotted the bandage around her ankle. So near yet so far.

Day 3 results are up (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12599670&postcount=6).

St Samuel Olympic News

Dante Gieger Wins St Samuels first Medal

31 year old, Dante Gieger has won St Samuels first gold medal after coming first in Mens Trap Shooting final. The ex-soldier, Gieger, just beat Pascoal of Cafundeu by 2 points.

Unlucky Defeat for Men's Football Team

St Samuel lost to Cafundeu in there second football match 1-0. St Samuel tried in vain to break down the Cafundeu defence but were unable to do so after some fantastic goalkeeping.

Fencing

Francisco Umberto is in the semi-final of the Men's Individual Sabre Fencing Semi finals after beating Karl Ratsel of Cafundeu. Umberto face Santos Mason of NTD for a place in the final.

Meanwhile Tessa Piedmont has also booked a place in the semi's after beating Ignasia Vala of COM. Piedmont takes on Joanne Baldwin of JSY in the next round. After beating Vala, Piedmont faced Schneider of NTD in the Q/F Womens Individual Epee where she lost 15-14.

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Medals coming in for favoured events

The Ariddian women played their first football match today, and defeated Wentland in Group D by one goal to nil. The Ariddians, who won silver in Ashford, are among the favourite to qualify for later rounds, but within group D they will have to contend with St Samuel – who today demolished Mikitivity by five goals to one. In volleybay, the Ariddian’s women’s amateur team lost to Edward City 1-3.

In judo, Darren Foams met and defeated Roberto Kingstonian – also of St Samuel – in the semi-finals, and will consequently be going for gold in the final against Kelssek’s Scott Wesbot. In parallel, Admina Mwakingwe defeated Hyun Kung-Soon of Maineacs in her semis, and will face Cafundéu’s Andréia Tomati Mascavo in the gold medal match.

But the best news of all came from gymnastics, where the Ariddian Dream Team achieved 309.316 points in the men’s team all-around, taking gold ahead of good teams from Estresse Intenso and Cafundéu. The win was not a surprise, given the Ariddians’ excellent performance in the qualifying stage, but it was one of the results Ariddian fans had most been waiting for. It was also the country’s first medal of these Games, and the first time the national anthem, Dream (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Ariddia#National_Anthem), rang out in Querzakhi. The six “Dream Team” lads, Jang, Vidic, Gris, Iu, Vaillant and Andresen, stood together proudly on the podium, wearing their medals and watching the Ariddian flag being raised. Some non-Ariddian spectators, upon hearing the tune of Dream, which is also that of the Internationale, spontaneously began to sing the revolutionary anthem, to Michael Gris’s apparent amusement.

The studio pundits were depresswd. "A dreadful day for Wentland. All the fencers - out. Emma Gayle - out. The women's football team - defeated. And now the women's archery team is one arrow away from defeat..."

Kate Lonergan steeled herself and launched an arrow. A nine. Nearly good eniugh - but not quite.

An official approached the Wentland team. "Who is going to take part in the shoot off?"

"Me," said Lonergan and Siobhan Fogarty together.

"Oh, do one, See-oh-ban," moaned Lonergan. "I got the last one, I am the world champ, it's made for me. "

"And who got the higher score in the first round, little Katie? I think you'll find it was moi. "

Team manager Richard O"Hood stepped in. "I've had ENOUGH of you two...shut up...Kellie will take it. "

"KELLIE????"

Kellie Bright blushed and tried to back out - too late. The official had taken her name.

She didn't even look to see what the Lancaster County score was. Tighten string, concentrate, ignore the snickers of the team "mates"...

PING

*thunk*

"WHOOOOAAAAAA!!!!!"

"Right in the middle!!!! Bright's first bull...and it could not have come at a better time..."

"The United Capitalizt States...what a place for me!

Zwangzug continues its ironic sporting success here, with this game officially in the books. 6-2 over Bazalonia, with Caleb Runnon notching the win. Here with me is Rob Staun, whose home run made this game 5-2 in the sixth. Anything to say about the game, Rob?"

"Uh...I'm glad we won."

"Indeed...so am I. Pleased with your own performance?"

"Well yeah..."

"Excellent. How does it feel to be representing your country at the Olympics?"

"Okay."

"Ah, yes. Thank you, Mr. Staun, and good luck in your next game."

"Sure."

"Keeping an eye on the results here, it seems that the field hockey team-which has done considerably more to reinforce the stereotype of Zwangzugians as intellectual-has tied with LancasterCounty. Komodo scored from midfield, as did forward Perel, who was subsequently injured when-I quote Lemnis-"she tried to foul the other goalie through the frieze of the net, stretching through and distorting the squares to rhombi that were not equiangular", and subsequently fell on her own stick.

I am the Vox!"

MONOPOLISTS' THIRD DAY RESULTS

Archery (Teams) - the male team defeated Reineberg and now will face Jasīʼyūn. The female team defeated Coocoostan and now will face Wentland.

Association Football (men) - the Sub-23 team, even with some players out in Alasdair I Frosticus, defeated St Samuel with a simple win. The goal was scored by Flecha.

Baseball (men) - Cafundéu's poor National Team started well, defeating Mikitivity.

Basketball (women) - the National Team played very well and defeated Quakmybush by a good margin. Grace and Íris had a great performance.

Diving (women) - the girls Leite and Pacheco won a gold medal in the Women's Synchronized 10 m Platform.

Fencing (Sabre) - Karl and Fernanda lost, and now all the fencers are already eliminated from this competition.

Field Hockey (men) - Cafundéu surprised and defeated Malabra.

Handball (women) - Cafundéu had a tough game against the hosts, which ended in a draw.

Judo - Andréia Tomati Mascavo reached the final of her category, and has chances of winning a gold medal.

Beach Volleyball (men) - Cafundéu started to show the country's capacity in this sport. All the doubles won their games.

Association Football (women) - the WWC champions defeated Bazalonia by the result of 2x1. Goals were scored by Luísa and Fernanda Garcia.

Baseball (women) - Cafundéu suffered a huge loss against Ropa-Topia.

Basketball (men) - a good performance and a big win against the National Team of Reineberg.

Diving (men) - Cafundéu wasn't able to get a gold medal in the Men's Synchronized 3 m Springboard.

Fencing (Men's Foil/Women's Epee) - Lars Dover and Fernanda Zen are qualified for the semifinals.

Field Hockey (women) - the Academy Girls only drew the game against the United Island Empires.

Gymnastics (men's team) - a sad result for Cafundéu, who only got a bronze medal, finishing behind the rivals of Estresse Intenso, something that annoyed the population.

Shooting (men) - Hugo Pascoal got a silver medal in the Men's Trap.

Volleyball (women) - Cafundéu's volleyball showed all its strength defeating the hosts winning three sets against zero.

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CAFUNDÉU UNLUCKY, BUT SUCCESSFUL

After three days and one gold medal, the population likes the situation of the country, in the second position in the standings. But some supporters are worried by the fact that the country won four silver medals, which can mean that the athletes are becoming nervous in the medal decisions. But sport programs are sure that the country's performance is better than the expected.

This is because the country has a big chance to win some medals in the gymnastic competitions, having to battle against Ariddia, in the equestrian competitions, and especially on team sports. The National Teams of basketball, handball, football and volleyball are strong and willing to win medals.

QSNBS
OLYMPIC UPDATE

Early day three results from Querzakhi.

The Women's football team continued their unbeaten streak at the Olympics with a 2-0 win over our hosts Capitalizt SLANI. Both goals were scored by Sofia Yochum, who was a half-time sub for Gretchen Bucci, who is also the coach. Atop of group A with 3 matches left, and things are looking good for the team to advance.

In Women's baseball, Qazox got destroyed by Edward City 10-2, after allowing 9 runs in the first three innings. Gretchen Maddux got the loss, while Michelle Schimidt knocked in both of Qazox' runs with a double in the 7th.

In Men's BMX, medal favorite Derikk Kiid got of to a bad start, sliding off the course on turn one and finished with a time of 45.08 seconds, which placed him 6th, only 1/5th of a second out of bronze. Sean Dwight finished in 10th, with a time of 46.25 and Paul Port finished dead last of 23 with a time of 50.11.

That's all the competition involving Qazox for now, stay tuned to QSNBS for all your Olympic coverage, including all of Qazox' Football mtaches, live and without interuption.


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From MSPN--

Welcome to Day 3 of our Olympic coverage. Let's recap...

Our Women's Archery team was narrowly eliminated; Our Women's Soccer team lost 1-0 to Saidercray; Sukon Bhumanipam lost her quarterfinal match in Women's Badminton; Men's Basketball got underway with our team beating Quakmybush 78-75; Barry Weston took the silver in Men's BMX; and we won the gold in Men's Synchronized Diving -- Our divers have won all 3 of the gold medals for our nation so far. Clarissa Melania and Aimeé Lausanne were both eliminated in Women's Épée; Our Women's Field Hockey team lost 3-2 to Kelssek; our Men's Gymnastics team finished 7th; our Men's Handball team easily beat Bushes Been Quaked 42-24; Kenji Ichiro lost his semifinal match, and will now play for the bronze in Men's Judo 66kg division; Hyun Kung-Soon also lost her semifinal match in Women's Judo 58kg division, she will also play for the bronze. Our Women's Softball team beat Edward City 4-1; Our Women's Volleyball team defeated Quakmybush 3-0, while in Women's Beach Volleyball Isadora Ihlnaus and Camila Porteus wone their first match 2-0. More updates later.

Day 3.5 results are up (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12602920&postcount=7) (late).

Day 4 results are up (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12603343&postcount=8).

"We're here with Bets Daykin, who is Wentland's youngest ever Olympian and after a sterling round in the showjumping is set to become Wentland's youngest ever medallist...Bets, how are you feeling?"

"Nervous...Olly's got to clear five fences...it's not a gimme...the course is difficult..."

"No-one's had a round that bad...there's plenty of points in hand...did you expect to win a medal?"

"I've not won one yet...fingers crossed..."

The interviewer and Daykin watched Peter Oliphant, who was a little leery over the jumps, enter in royal blue riding jacket. He took the first fence and knocked it down.

"Ooh, that will shake his confidence..."

Two and three were clear. Then it went horribly wrong.

"Oh, he's hit the wall...he's ploughed through the combination...silver's gone and bronze is by a thread...come on Peter...oh, he's brought the last two down and Wentland will be fourth...again..."

The camera cut back as the hitherto confident young horsewoman just dissolved into tears.

QSNBS
OLYMPIC UPDATE

Big Update today as the late Day 3 scores have just come in as well as the early day 4 scores.

Late Day 3 results:
In Men's Football, Qazox got stomped by Bazalonia 5-0, despite the loss, the team is only 2 points off advancement.

In Cycling, in Men’s Team Sprint Team Qazox finsihed with the 2nd best qualifaction time, a time of 44.235, just off the pace set by Edward City. They will take on the Hosts in the first round.

Early Day 4 results:

The Qazox women continue to impress with a 3-1 win over Jasīʼyūn, all but qualifing for the next round. Kathrine Facer scored twice and Gretchen Bucci added a late goal to ensure the win.

In women's baseball, Qazox once again struggled to score coming up short in a 6-1 loss to Ropa-Topia.


That's all the competition involving Qazox for now, stay tuned to QSNBS for all your Olympic coverage, including all of Qazox' Football mtaches, live and without interuption.

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"Hey," Mike smiled apologetically to the fierce coach. "I'm still new at this. There was some women's gymnastics thing: were your kids in that?"

"No," she said bluntly.

"Ah. Uh, okay. Any word on when they'll be competing?"

"Plent of words 4 nus over thar." She pointed towards the excited hockey team.

"Oh, thanks. Right, I'll just be going..." He walked off as fast as he could while trying to make it look like he was not, in fact, fleeing from the eager athletes.

But Alba hadn't earned a spot as a forward by being slow. "We scored twice as many goals as tha did!" she exulted, panting as she caught up to him. "& now we're #1 in the group!"

"Oh...that's...Really? Wow."

"But sum other teams ¬have played as often as we have, so we can't slip up. We'll need 2 continue r tactix..."

RM: Hello, and welcome to Olympics this Morning, I'm Ron Mclearn.

WR: And I'm Wendy Rogers, let's get to those results.

RM: The Men's Archery Team lost to LancasterCounty.

WR: In Men's football, Quakmybush drew Abu-Omar 1-1.

RM: Gladys Cooper, and Calvin Huff lost in the Mixed Doubles Badminton quarterfinals.

WR: The Men's Baseball team defeated Ropa-Topia 3-2.

RM: The Women's Basketball Team got off to a rocky start and lost 83-70 to Cafundeu.

WR: Lorraine Blair finished 5th in the Women's BMX

RM: Also in the BMX, Lydia Pope finished 6th.

WR: While Audrey Welch finished 7th.

RM: The Men's Volleyball team shut out Maineiacs 3 sets to none.

WR: The Women's Archery Team defeated Maineiacs 237-234 to advance.

RM: The Men's Basketball team lost on a Maineiacs buzzer-beater 78-75.

WR: In the Men's BMX, Frank McGuire finished 9th.

RM: Also in the BMX, Brandon Mcbride finished 13th.

WR: While Mark Brock finished 21st.

RM: The Women's Field Hockey team lost 3-1 to St Samuel.

WR: The Women's Softball team defeated Bazalonia 4-2.

RM: The Women's Volleyball team lost 3 sets to none to Maineiacs.

WR: The Women's Beach Volleyball Team of Ashley Parazader and Alexis Finley won their first match 2-1.

RM: The Men's football team lost 2-1 to Estresse Intenso.

WR: The Men's Team Sprint team of Ferguson, Taylor, and Underwood qualified for the next round.

RM: The Men's Field Hockey team drew Kelssek 3-3.

WR: The Women's Handball team lost a heart-breaker to Maineiacs. 25-24 was the final score.

RM: The Men's Softball team shut-out the hosts 5-0.

WR: The Men's Volleyball team got another shutout, this time, against Kelssek.

RM: The Women's Archery team lost to Antrium 238-232.

WR: The Women's Football Team tied Nitrodymium 1-1.

RM: The Women's Baseball team defeated Kelssek 6-2.

WR: The Women's Team Pursuit team qualified for the semi finals.

RM: The Women's Field Hockey team drew Commerce Heights 2-2.

WR: The Men's Handball beat LancasterCounty 26-25.

RM: The Women's Softball team defeated Commerce Heights by a score of 3-0.

WR: In the pool, Erica Baker qualified for the final of the Women's 100m Butterfly.

RM: Ashley Parazader and Alexis Finley continued their winning ways with another 2 sets to 1 win.

WR: While Quakmybush's other set of lovely beach ladies, Vicky Vann, and Ali Mackenzie won their match 2-1.

RM: That's All the time we have.

WR: I'm Wendy Rogers.

RM: And I'm Ron Mclearn, have a good day.

MONOPOLISTS' FOURTH DAY RESULTS

Archery (teams) - both teams lost the quarterfinals and are eliminated.

Association Football (men) - the Monopolists won another game, this time against Edward City by the result of 3x1. Goals were scored by De Bois, Toninho and Coqueiral.

Equestrian (team) - Cafundéu's team dominated the whole competition and secured the gold medal for the country with an incredible large margin.

Field Hockey (men) - team lost to Edward City by the result of 3x1.

Handball - Cafundéu had an extremely important game, the classic rivalry against Estresse Intenso. In the end, the team one by the difference of one goal.

Judo - two bronze medals came, with Mário Sato and Sofia Paredes.

Shooting - Cássio Nacira is qualified in the Men's 10 m Air Pistol. Cíntia Felipo is qualified in the Women's 10 m Air Pistol.

Volleyball (men) - good win against Edward City, winning three sets against one.

Association Football (women) - victory against Maineiacs by the result of 2x0. Goals were scored by Natália (twice).

Baseball (women) - team was destroyed by LancasterCounty.

Equestrian (jumping) - Antônio Carlos Bamerindus and Francisco Palmeira stayed easily in front of the other competitors. They battled for the gold medal, which went to Bamerindus. Palmeira got the silver medal.

Fencing (Men's Foil/Women's Epee) - Lars Dover reaches the final, but Fernanda Zen has only the chance to win a bronze medal.

Gymnastics (women) - Cafundéu's team was only able to get the silver medal, as Ariddia's team was fantastic.

Handball (men) - close loss against Edward City.

Judo - Andréia Tomati Mascavo loses in the final and gets the silver medal.

Swimming - Piedade and Virgin have a good start in the butterfly style.

Beach Volleyball (women) - both doubles won their games and didn't lose a single set.

From MSPN--

We have a lot to report, so let get to it. Our Women's Soccer team lost 2-0 to Cafundéu; Our Women's Baseball team beat Edawrd City 3-2; Our Lady Cyclists had the fastest qualifying time in the first ever Olympic Women's Team Pursuit; our Men's team qualified in the Team Sprint. In the Equestrian Jumping finals, Corrine Trumble finished 5th, Sarah Silversmith was 10th, and Gary Olsen 11th, while all three also qualified in Show Jumping and the team took home the silver in the team event. Our Women's Field Hockey team lost 2-1 to United Island Empires, but our Women's Softball team did better, beating the same opponent 2-0 Ou Men's Field Hockey team tied them 2-2. We finished 5th in the Team All-Around in Women's Gymnastics; Our Men's Handball team lost 29-23 to Kelssek; Kenji ichiro got a bronze in Men's Judo 66kg division; Hyun Kung-Soon did likewise in the Women's 52kg division, and Sayuri Kaede won the silver in the Women's 48kg dividsion; Renée Foreteller qualified in Women's 10m Air Pistol, Mike Garvey qualified for the Men; Isadora Ihlnaus and Camila Porteus won again in women's Beach Volleyball 2-0 over Kimberly and Katie of LancasterCounty. Swimming began today, but Kathy Hacker failed to qualify in Women's 100m Butterfly; our Men's Soccer team played Ropa-Topia to a 3-3 draw; Vibol Parmansupol and Pakpao Adulyadej lost their semifinal match in Mixed Doubles Badminton, and will now play for the bronze; Our Women's Handball team barely beat Quackmybush 25-24 and Our Men's Softball team lost to Edward City 3-1.

Day 4.5 results are up (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12604711&postcount=9).

"For Wentland, Miss Katherine Lonergan. "

Applause.

Silence.

String drawn back.

Aim.

*achoo*

TWANG

"Four scored. May I remind spectators to keep silent during the competition. "

Lonergan turned around furiously to see Siobhan Fogarty smiling sweetly. "I'm sorry, Katie...the old hay fever..."

"You don't have bloody have hay fever. You could cost us a medal!!!"

"Pfft, we'll hammer these rubes. At least," saud Fogarty, glancing at Kellie Bright, "if we weren't carrying passengers. "

"Don't blame me," said Bright. "Not my fault they wanted to blood someone. "

"Well, sweetie, maybe we'll blood YOU if we don't get through. Capeesh?"

Somehow the dysfunctional archers won through to the semis but the individual competition was awaited with interest.

Five gold! Ariddia tops the medal chart

It has been a time of intense excitement in Querzakhi for Ariddian athletes and supporters. After good performances in qualifying stages, the PDSRA’s gymnasts and judokas were given the opportunity to prove themselves one more time in finals. And prove themselves they did, in spectacular fashion, giving their country a total of four new gold medals.

In gymnastics, the Golden Girls (Mokhobo, Mkrchyan, Smithson, Mathijsen, Reed and Set) equalled the men’s achievement, taking gold with 308.202 points, ahead of Cafundéu’s 305.119.

A double gold in team gymnastics was what everyone had been hoping for, and it appeared to confirm Ariddia’s position as the world’s gymnastics’ superpower. Nor is this the last of it; there are still many individual events to come, and gymnasts such as Jang Yong-Jun and Sunny Mokhobo will have new opportunities to shine.

“It’s quite an achievement, for a Third World country!” one delighted fan said. “Do you know the equipment they train with is years and years old? I’m really excited, very proud of our Dream Team and Golden Girls, and I hope they’ll win many more medals!”

In judo, meanwhile, the three Ariddians who had reached the final in their category all won gold as well. At Suwil defeated Kelssek’s Jeffrey Aunson, while Darren Foams beat Scott Wesbot, also of Kelssek, and Admina Mwakingwe defeated Cafundéu’s Andréia Tomati Mascavo. All three Ariddians had won medals in Ashford but only Mwakingwe had taken gold four years ago.

“It probably won’t last,” one Ariddian supporter said, “but for now at least we can say we’re at the top of the medal chart at the Olympic Games. I’m very grateful to all our athletes. They’re fantastic!”

Meanwhile, in football, the men are making up for a shaky start, and defeated Abu Omar (1-0) and Estresse Intenso (1-0). In volleyball, the men lost 1-2 to Bazalonia and 0-3 to Quakmybush. In handball, the women narrowly lost 24-28 to Malabra, in a close and exciting match which witnessed spectators of both sides actively encouraging their teams. The Ariddians are an amateur team with very little international experience, and their good result was seen as very positive despite their being defeated. Similarly, the men lost by a very narrow margin, 24-27… also to Malabra.

A shock, however, was the defeat of the Ashford vice-Champions, the Ariddian ladies’ football team, who lost 0-1 to St Samuel in a stunning upset.

After the thrill of the first medals, new judokas took to the tatami. Joseph Kabir was given a bye in the men’s 73kg, qualifying automatically for the semi-finals, but in the women’s 57kg Minh Hai Deleclair competed and won, defeating Maineacs’ Natsuko Immura. She, too, will be in the semis, with strong hopes for another medal to add to her country’s tally in judo.

Day 5 results are up (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12606364&postcount=10).

QSNBS
OLYMPIC UPDATE

Once again due to the Olympics being held halfway around the world, The Late Day 4 and early day 5 results:

Late Day 4 results:
In Men's Football, Qazox drew with Coocoostan, improving thier record to 0-3-1. The lone goal was scored by Yancy Fry in the 35th minute.

In Men's Baseball a 5-run 3rd inning propelled Maineiacs past Qazox 6-3. Reyes and Reed each accounting for the Qazox runs. Reed with 2 RBI's and a run and Reyes with 2 runs and an RBI. The loss drops the team to 1-1, but they are still in contention.

In the Men’s Team Sprint Qazox easily raced past the Hosts with a time of 44.001 sec. They advanced to the gold medal final against Bazalonia, which means a medal for the team. That medal will double the edal results from the 1st Olympics held in Ashford, Casari. 1 there to at least 2 here.


Early Day 5 results:

The Qazox women have qualified for the next round with a tough 1-0 win over United Island Empires. With only one match left it is expected that HEad Coach Gretchen Bucci will rest some of the starts for the medal rounds. The lone goal was scored by Rene Rena on a penalty kick in the 60th minute.

In women's baseball, Qazox once again struggled to score getting crushed by LancasterCounty 7-0. Gretchen Maddux picked up her 2nd loss. The team is almost eliminated from any medal contention.


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"It's a truism-or if it isn't, it should be-that whoever's ahead at the end of baseball games, wins. Unfortunately for Reineberg, three and a half hours after this wild game began, Zwangzug was ahead after the ninth. Seven-six the final, with homers from Ellis and Quave. The go-ahead run was driven in by a bunt from Ian Schmidt, in as a substitute in his international debut.

A decidedly deserved victory, however, came to the United Island Empires hockey team: 4-1 over Zwangzug. Despite having eleven goals against and ten four, their record is 1-2-1? Wait, that's win, draw, loss. I'm used to the duality of baseball, the wins and losses only, no matter how many extra innings must be played out. Fortunately, there are many games yet to be played.

I am the Vox!"

MONOPOLISTS' FIFTH DAY RESULTS

Association Football (men) - Cafundéu defeated Ropa-Topia by the result of 3x0 and is qualified. Goals were scored by Marshall and Roosevelt (twice).

Baseball (men) - Cafundéu suffered another huge loss, this time against Malabra.

Basketball (women) - the girls, commanded by Grace, defeated the hosts in a good game.

Equestrian (team dressage) - once again, Bamerindus and Palmeira dominated the competition and helped the team to win the gold medal.

Field Hockey (men) - the team lost the game against LancasterCounty.

Handball (women) - good victory for Cafundéu against Nitrodymium, with 11 goals of difference.

Judo - Lorenzetti, Tikohara, Cardoso and Abraão continue in the competition.

Swimming - Raquel Pereira qualifies for the medley final. Clemente and Cavalcante are in the freestyle final too.

Volleyball (men) - another secure win, this time against Bazalonia.

Beach Volleyball (men) - impact loss of Flávio Lang and Chico Prado. Nadal and Serra won.

Association Football (women) - the girls defeated Ropa-Topia and are qualified. Goals were scored by Ana Laura (scored three times).

Baseball (women) - huge loss against Bazalonia.

Basketball (men) - important victory by the result of 87x78 against Maineiacs.

Fencing (Men's Foil/Women's Epee) - Lars Dover won the gold medal, defeating Mirko Schyren. Fernanda Zen lost the bronze medal dispute.

Field Hockey (women) - the Academy Girls defeated Maineiacs.

Shooting - Cíntia Felipo got the second place in the Women's 10 m Air Pistol.

Volleyball (women) - easy win against Malabra, three sets against zero.

Beach Volleyball (women) - both doubles won their matches.

SOME MONTHS AGO...

His Majesty was incredulous. "They have a competition for horses? Walking? In a poofy manner?"

The head of equestrian was sweating. "Indeed, Your Majesty. It is part of the eventing but it is also separate. "

"Ludicrous! No point in entering that. "

Only later did he think again. "You know, dear, this Olympics thing might be a laugh. Shall we enter?"

"My goodness, dear, what in? We are not exactly athletic. "

"That gay horse thing. Can't be that hard, eh, what? Your Egbert is a bit that way..."

And it came to pass that Wentland's second medal was won by the Royal Family. His Majesty graciously allowed the Went flag to be subservient to another in his presence and bestowed gifts on all who cheered.

Day 5.5 results are up (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12608702&postcount=11).

Richard O'Hood had ordered Siobhan Fogarty and Kate Lonergan to dine together, ready for the bronze medal playoff. It was not going well.

"Will you stop looking daggers at me? At least if they were arrows they'd miss. "

"Ha ha, bimbette...just cos SOME of us made the sexiest sports star calendar..."

"Some of us turned it down. Because we have some dignity. "

"Nonsense, you're jealous cos you're not blonde. "

"Tell you what, Katherine...let's see if a brunette wash will improve your intelligence..."

With that Fogarty upset a bowl of chocolate sauce over Lonergan's blonde locks and innocently returned to her seat. "

Lonergan, fuming and dripping brownly, did not let her emotion show. "A very intelligent response, my dear See-o-ban. Clearly you are too intelligent to be a brunette. "

Lonergan carefully poured a jug of custard over Fogarty's head and returned demurely. "You know, Foggers, I dare say that HAS improved matters. You might make the sexy calendar next year. "

Fogarty wiped some of the custard from her eyes. "Well, little Katie, you know as well as I do that models need to look after their skin. A mud pack will do you good. ". And fogarty shoved a Mississippi Mud Pie in Lonergan's face.

Longergan spluttered as she struggled to see through a haze of chocolate. "Indeed, Fogs. And if you want to make the calendar you could also do with a facial. I know a most excellent cream. "

Lonergan picked up a cream cake and drove it into Fogarty's visage, twisting it to rub it in. "There. A paler complexion already. "

Just then Kellie Bright appeared to see how things were getting on. "Crumbs, what happened to you two? You look like there's been an explosion in the kitchen. "

"Shut up, sprout," yelled Lonergan. "We're discussing things. "

"Doesn't look like a discussion," commented Bright. "Looks more like a fight. If Mr O'Hood finds o-"

Bright's diatribe was ended by a trifle and a custard pie both flying through the air smashing square on her face and she ran off yelling.

"Best shot all year, Seeb..."

"Shut up, Kitten. Where were we?"

"I think it was your turn...do you want the squirty cream?"

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Editorial:Olympic presence will be marred by incompetence

Coocoostan's first Olympics were meant to be a introduction to the world. It has come to pass in recent years that our policy of largely isolation has ended, first opening relations with our neighbour, Kelssek, then other countries in our region and now, hopefully others in our world.

Instead, it has been a farce, but the athletes are exempt from blame. Some of the national associations are exempt as well. Baseball is an excellent example. Their roster was completed long ago, even in advance of the deadline for the failed Ylompics. But the blame falls squarely on the Coocoo Olympic Committee. This cabal of lazy, incompetent and largely spineless bureaucrats was appointed during the Kaygorodov administration and has somehow survived until now, but hopefully, that is about to change.

What evidence is there of this? For example, no athletes received more than a week's notice of their selection. Selection? It's true, there were no trials. At least they got picked. You may have noticed, there are no swimmers from our nation and only a handful of athletics competitors. The reason no medals have come,yet, is because the best are largely still here. Darrowmere SC head Roger Oduya, said plainly that his club had 35 olympic hopefuls, only two of which were picked, at the last second, with one of them battling injury. Most of the individual athletes were picked either because of their connections at the CoOC, or because their federation or sports club fought to have them included.

Still, through all of this mess, our athletes fight valiantly. Take for example, young Yuri Shostakovich, who in his first international meet, finished 6th in the road race, before being left off the starting list for the time trial . While one can hardly blame organziers, who have a massive event on their hands, for forgetting one of tens of thousands, one can certainly blame the Coocoo officials, who basically told Yuri that they supposed he wasn't racing and didn't look into the matter, even after it was too late. Why should young Shostakovich keep training? What of Nina Lopatina, the fencer who waited patiently for her ride, only to find out her CoOC driver had slept in. She took a taxi, arrived late and still only lost by one. She lost to, by the way, a Kelssekian, backed by amongst other things, a Ministry of Amateur Sport, and an Institute for Sport. The Kelssekians do everything right that our cabal of dullards do so wrong. There are others, like veteran cyclist Sergei Buznikin, who retired after finishing 9th in the time trial on a bad hamstring, to go run his own cycling team. One cannot blame him for disowning the Olympic establishment in our country.

To our athletes, who are valiant in the face of so much that is not of their doing, we implore you, while our newspaper is aware of your struggle, many others simply ignore the underlying issues to focus on the pomp and ceremony of the festival. You must do something. Something that they cannot overlook, while a Cyclist being left off the start list, or a Fencer taking a taxi are small enough to ignore. If you all speak with one voice, the country will hear you. So speak, if you wait until the next Olympics, it will be far too late.

Neil Collins was delighted. He was not playing - on the bench - but Wentland had just gone two ahead, the number ten heading in from a chip from the number six. This added to the penalty stroked home by the number nine earlier.

He then woke up.

"Dammit, Barnesy," he said. "If we win 2-0 I bet that oneiromancer's been at it again. "

"Which game? Olympics or World Cup?"

"Er, I dunno. Either, I suppose. "
***

"It's THERE...a wonderful header from the chip...two-nil to Wentland and that is going to put them in a very strong position to go through..."

Day 6 results are up (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12610103&postcount=12).

(OOC: You forgot to add my gold medal in Equestrian - Jumping for today, I think I should have 4 gold medals. Thanks :) )

MONOPOLISTS' SIXTH DAY RESULTS

Baseball (men) - another huge loss, this time to St Samuel.

Cycling (men) - in the Team Sprint, Cafundéu defeated Bazalonia and won a bronze medal.

Field Hockey (men) - Maineiacs defeated Cafundéu, in an expected result.

Handball (women) - Cafundéu battled, but was defeated by the United Island Empires, but will play the quarterfinal against Edward City.

Judo - good results for Lorenzetti and Tikohara. Bad results for Abraão and Cardoso.

Swimming - in the men's medley, Romário and Plínio are qualified. Raquel Pereira got a bronze medal in the individual medley. Clemente and Cavalcante qualified in the freestyle. Cardinale in the breaststroke.

Volleyball (men) - easy victory against Quakmybush, 3 sets against zero.

Equestrian (jumping) - Antrium's team was unstoppable and Cafundéu got a silver medal. Bamerindus is the first-placed in the individual competition.

Field Hockey (women) - the Academy team defeated Zwangzug.

Gymnastics (women) - silver medal to Ana Paula Batista in the general individual competition.

Handball (men) - tough game against the hosts, but a victory in the end. Team will play against Quakmybush in the quarterfinals.

Volleyball (women) - magnificent performance against Maineiacs, and a well-deserved victory.

Beach Volleyball (women) - both doubles won their games, and didn't lose a single set.

(OOC: I think I have 10 silver medals instead of 9)

RNN - Olympics Update:


John Gooden: "Well Marilyn, it's been quite a disappointing start to these Olympic Games for the athletes of Reineberg. They need to start shaping up if they want to start winning medals."

Merilyn Hodge: "Quite indeed, John. They've come so close on a few occasions, but Jimmy Matsui is the only athlete to finish with a medal - a bronze medal in the Men's 60kg Judo."

JG: "What do these athletes need to do in order to step up their game?"

MH: "At this point, they just need to stay focused. We've seen a lot of athletes come in here with a great deal of potential, yet they lost focus and lost the chance at a medal. But we still have yet to see Bailey Hill perform in his track events, there's a lot of hype surrounding this young man. We all expect great things from him."

JG: "Maybe he'll even bring home Reineberg's first gold medal. But how about the softball team and the football team, they've both been playing quite decently so far."

MH: "They still have a long way to go, we'll have to see how it turns out. One of the biggest stories this week has been Matthew Daniels; he came into these games as Reineberg's top swimmer, but hasn't been any real threat. John, what's going on?"

JG: "Keep in mind Marilyn, these are his first international games, he's probably just a little anxious and nervous. Either way, he has greatly underperformed."

MH: "I think it's safe to say that the whole Reineberg team of athletes has underperformed. But they're not giving up, John, it's not over 'til it's over."

JG: "Indeed."

MH: "Yes."

JG: "Anyway, stay tuned to RNN for the latest news on the Reineberg athletes and their performances and hopefully more medal finishes to talk about. But keep in mind, it could be worse."

MH: "Exactly, look at Coocoostan."

JG: "Indeed. This is John Gooden and Marilyn Hodge saying g'night."

MH: "G'night."

"And United Island Empires once again beats Zwangzug: this time, in baseball. A two-run double for Nathan Ellis wasn't enough: Meyers will be credited with the loss.

"Will be"? I announce in the present and the future. Nothing is past, in baseball, and yet everything is past, because all of the mystique we prize comes from the past. Where history is ridiculed, baseball's transcends the mocking.

But this is not socialist Zwangzug, land where history is held in scorn. No, I remain in Querzakhi with Olympic coverage. While television is sacrificed to snooker and its ensuing controversy, radio remains our medium, blasting out of the past.

So I will cover too the hockey team: they lost 3-1 to Cafundéu. Fermat scored the only goal, which tied the game, but Cafundéu showed its dominance afterwards. If any of the team is listening to this, by the way, I do not mean "dominance" in the sense of the first term of a polynomial eventually determining its behavior as the dependent variable goes to infinity: I know that's your preferred interpretation.

I am the Vox!"

QSNBS
OLYMPIC UPDATE
(ooc: I believe Qazox' bronze should be a Silver...)
Once again due to the Olympics being held halfway around the world, The Late Day 5 and early day 6 results:

Late Day 5 result:

In the Men’s Team Sprint Qazox was narrowly edged at the line by Bazalonia, earning the team the silver medal. The time was 44.106 to 44.153. This marks the 1st silver Qazox has won at the Olympics.


Early Day 6 result:

In women's baseball, Qazox once again lost this time 8-3 to Bazalonia. The loss eliminates the team from any medal contention.


That's all the competition involving Qazox for now, stay tuned to QSNBS for all your Olympic coverage, including all of Qazox' Football mtaches, live and without interuption.

NSWiki Page:
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SATIVAVILLE Olympic Coverage:


Live from Querzakhi: Weekly Update

We apologize but our satellite feed wa disrupted over the last few days, so we'll catch up on al the action of this last week

Day 1:
The Stoners faced their first ever taste of competition in the Olympics and came away shorthanded with a 1-2 loss to Malabra in opening round action in Football. Lumped in a group with Wentland and the Hosts, little is expected of the team, but a win or 2 will do just fine.

Day 2:
United Island Empires scored a late goal to beat the Football team 1-0.

Day 3:
The Football team falls to 0-3 with a 2-1 loss to LancasterCounty.
In Women's Basketball, the team had the Bye.

Day 4:
In Women's Baseball, the team lost in 10 innings to St Samuel 3-2.
In Men's Basketball, the team had the bye.
In Women's Basketball, lead by Earlene Hulet's 27 points, the team won against St Samuel 87-79.

Day 5:
In Women's baseball, the team had the bye.
In Men's basketball, two late three-pointers lifted Bazalonia past the team 79-84.
In Football, the team drew with Stopmenow100 1-1.
In Women's basketball, the team blew a 15pt 2nd half lead and lost to Abu Omar 74-79.

Day 6:
In Women's baseball, a 4-run 8th inning lifted the team past Abu Omar 4-3.
In Men's basketball, a 15-2 spurt late in the 2nd half lifted the team to a 87-73 win over Coocoostan.
In football, the worst loss ever for a Sativaville team 2-7 vs. the hosts, Capitalizt SLANI.
In Women's Basketball, the team rode a 50-29 halftime lead to a 96-69 blowout over Ropa-Topia.

Day 7:
In Women's baseball the team held off a pesky Kelssek 5-3.
In Men's Basketball a 32pt. effort from Tyrone Ethington lead the team to a 89-52 win over Ropa-Topia.


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Richard O'Hood was beside himself. "Where have you two BEEN? And you're soaking wet!!"

"If you must know we've been in the shower. Getting ready for this poxy match. "

"That we shouldn't even be in. Except SOMEone decided to allow children to play. "

"That's not fair," said O'Hood. "Kellie's got to start somewhere. "

"Whatever. It's cost us gold, anyway. "

"Although I don't want to share with her, anyway. "

Siobhan Fogarty poked her tongue out. "You're on, bimbo, so get going. "

*twang thud*

"Seven? Rubbish. Watch how to do it. "

*twang thud*

"There you go. Eight. "

*twang thud*

*applause*

"Bloody hell, they got a bull. "

"No, squealed Kellie Bright, "that was me!!!!"

"Did you hear something, low cloud?"

"Only a juvenile high pitched squeak I thought the kids were in bed. "

Bright pouted and concentrated on her remaining arrows.

***

The medal ceremony was unique. Kellie Bright beamed tearfully on the third step, whereas Kate Lonergan and Siobhan Fogarty kept trying to push each other off it.

Mostly good in Querzakhi

The PDSRA is still top of the medal chart, although a few slip-ups are occuring here and there.

The two most recent medals came from the same event: the men’s individual artistic all-around in gymnastics. Five of the eight finalists were Ariddians, so it is perhaps no surprise that two Ariddians made it onto the podium. Michael Gris delighted spectators with his performance, and took gold with a score of 77.782. Nitrodymium’s Moshe Stein, identified earlier as the main threat to the Dream Team, took silver, while the bronze went to Ariddia’s Sae Iu. The other Ariddian men – Jang Yong-Jun, Denis Vaillant and Josh Vidic – came fourth, fifth and seventh respectively. Thus all but one of the top five places were held by Ariddians, in an event that was acclaimed back home as a “great victory” for Ariddian gymnastics.

The ladies, however, did not fare as well in an identical event. Only two Ariddians had qualified among the nine finalists, and the surprise of the day (for Ariddian spectators at least) was a women’s gymnastics podium with none of the Golden Girls on it. Pénélope Arsenault of Kelssek took the gold, while Laure Mkrchyan finished “only” fifth, and Sunny Mokhobo (who had come second out of sixty athletes in qualifying) made uncharacteristic mistakes, finishing ninth.

In other events, the ladies are making up for their early slip-ups in football; a convincing 3-0 win over Coocoostan leaves them with reasonable hopes of qualifying from Group D. St Samuel, currently in top place, have played all their matches and have 7 points, while Ariddia and Wentland (in second and third) each have 6 points after three games. The battle is on for the top spot.

In volley-ball, the women faced their neighbours from Ropa-Topia. The atmosphere in the stadium was excellent, as supporters from both sides were pleased to encounter fellow Uhuhlanders this far from home, but the Ropa-Topian players won the match with little difficulty (3-0).

The two countries also met in men’s handball, where Ropa-Topia won – with a little more effort – 27-22. Ropa-Topia will advance to the next round, while the Ariddians, having lost all their games, will not.

Also in handball, the ladies faced a frustratingly narrow defeat (25-29) to Abu Omar, an exciting match which, however, leaves them at the bottom of Group D with no points – eliminated. Ropa-Topia, meanwhile, qualified from Group B, despite losing to Edward City 24-27.

In volleyball, the men’s amateur team have lost their fourth game running, but are reportedly “very pleased” at the “fantastic” training this competition is providing them with. The women have also lost their latest game, remaining at the bottom of their group.

In what some Ariddians are beginning to see as the main sport of the Games (judo), Joseph Kabir began the competition directly in the 73kg semi-finals (after automatically qualifying), and defeated Gabriel Sabater (Edward City). He will face Kelssek’s Andrew Gillard in what should be a very interesting final. Kabir won bronze in Ashford, so whatever his result here in Querzakhi, it will be an improvement. But his team mates have said they are certain Kabir is capable of winning gold.

In the women’s 57kg event, however, Min Hai Deleclair lost her semi-final to Cafundéu’s excellent Carol De Lorenzetti. She will be going for bronze against Commerce Heights’ I Yu-hŭy.

In the men’s 81kg competition, there will be a new Ariddian medal: Adam Jameson defeated St Samuel’s Franciso Ewell in the semi-final. Adam Jameson was gold medallist in Tyrellia and in Ashford, and has never lost a final. He is arguably Ariddia’s best judoka, and carries the hopes of his entire nation as he goes for a third gold in three Games.

Again, however, things are not looking quite so good for the women. Julie Lanza, silver medallist in Ashford, has lost her semi-final to Kelssek’s Joan Burben. Kelssek is proving to be a force to be reckoned with in judo, and now a cog in the wheels of the Ariddian powerhouse.


(Note: “I Yu-hŭy” is the standard Ariddian romanisation of Commerce Heights judoka 이유희’s name, which in the UCS is romanised as ’I ’Yu-hyi. Korean is an official regional language in Ariddia, as it is one of the official languages of the Ariddian Arctic Islands (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Ariddian_Arctic_Islands).)

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Edited transcript from media file "KBC WORLD SERVICE PODCAST 5 MAY 2007" (3:21.174 to 3:58.428) - http://media.switchpod.com/users/kelssek/kbcworldservice05may2007.mp3

...day 6 is underway and in gymnastics Penelope Arsenault won gold for Kelssek in the women's artistic individual all-around event with a score of 78.008, and she was joined on the podium by Ana Paula Batista of Cafundeu who took the silver and Jodi McFadden from Nitrodynium who won the bronze. In the same event Olivia Damon and June Tarrant finished 6th and 7th respectively. It's Kelssek's 3rd gold medal and comes after Jessica Langton won gold for Kelssek in the women's 4x100m individual medley yesterday. Joey Crookshanks and Brent Fowles have qualified for the final of men's 400m freestyle and Bernard Destry had the fastest qualifiying time in the heats of the men's 100m breaststroke...

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The girls get it done
by Joseph Macryde

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Pénélope Arsenault was the star today in the Querzakhi gymnastics arena as she impressed the judges to win the gold in the women's individual artistic all-around. The young Halifax University student was, predictably, very happy about that, gushing to the media, "I'm completely overjoyed right now and it's very emotional. It's a lovely feeling."

It was also the continuation of a trend which has seen women supplying all the golds for Kelssek. In fact, of the seven Kelssek has won so far only two came from the guys, and while that imbalance might change since Phillippe Destry hasn't jumped into the pool yet, it's interesting fodder for a sportswriter like me who's looking to make some irrelevant and quite possibly stupid social commentary on the basis of an early trend which may not in fact continue.

The fact is that women's sports are not very well developed in Kelssek, yet ironically it creates the environment where female Olympians can thrive. Okay, sure, the main professional leagues have women's divisions and so do all the sporting clubs and franchises worth their salt. Big deal. The fact is that a lot of Jessica Langton's fanbase care more about her tits than her prodigious swimming ability. While she was busy winning an individual medley gold medal the commentator on the KBC was busy describing how "streamlined" her body was. Way to hide your sicko perversions, deprived middle-aged disembodied voice. But there's none of that with the guys, even if it's just because we wouldn't want to add flaming homosexuality to the KBC swimming commentator's ick factor. We the taxpayers demand you please replace him.

The fact is that we expect more from the males because they are male. And we guys are all too quick to dismiss female fans as puck bunnies, mud wrestlers or pool buoys while pretending we really care about gymnastics and would watch it even if they weren't wearing skin-tight outfits.

I'm kind of losing track of whatever point I was going to make but really, the girls are winning all the medals. Show some respect, and would the KBC please headhunt Andrew Wilkins from NSN? He doesn't sound like an utter pervert and he at least can say "breaststroke" without needing the producer to cut his mic to cover up the adolescent giggling.

The door closed quietly, as the captains of the various teams sat down. It was the cyclist's room, so the three of them were there, plus the captains of all the various teams. Cyclist Sergei Buznikin led the meeting as the Opening Flag Bearer. He put the day's copy of Ekran on to the small coffee table, then looked up at the twenty or so people sitting on beds, or leaning against the bare wall. "Seen this?" most nodded.

"The question is, what're you all going to do about it?" Buznikin was open.

"What can we do? We're going to compete, all of us." Archery captain Pyotor Kuznetsov spoke up.

"This is worth doing something though. The article didn't even mention the fact that the Volleyball teams were on the application, but the CoOC forgot about them. I'm just not sure how we can distance ourselves." Sailing captain Laureen Newman was next.

Runner Dennis Obongo was next. "That may be it, we can literally distance ourselves. They live here, so we can go somewhere else."

Sergei spoke up. "Are you suggesting, Dennis, that we move out of the Olympic village?" Dennis nodded.

A quick vote saw unanimous approval, except for the fact that they counted the volleyball teams, so there were two abstentions.

Sergei pulled strings, calling back home to muster up the money to put the team somewhere else, while Laureen and Dennis searched for exactly where "somewhere else" would be. They managed to find some dormitories empty for the summer, and it was done.

About two hours later, the CoOC official walking around the building discovered everyone packing. "Just what the hell is this?" he asked Yuri Shostakovich, a cyclist, who had missed a race because the CoOC hadn't informed organizers. All he did to answer, was turn his head and give him a short middle finger, before zipping his bag and walking out, bumping him on the way by. The vans were on time for a change and they piled in, some of them on the floor, but all headed out. They saw some of the senior officials milling about a souvenir kiosk on the way by and some of the baseball players threw their keycards at them. "Hey Sergei! I guess you're Chef de Mission now." the baseball players shouted at him. They'd been on strike a few years ago, to earn reimbursement for meals and hotels, being semi-professional. Now they were all on strike of sorts and the best thing about it, was that they'd done it right before the media was allowed in, to talk to the athletes who had competed in the afternoon.

The BSC crew caught on that something had happened. "Is the press breifing later today Pavel?

"Yes, it will be.....at 2200. Now if you'll please leave us until then."

There was just one more question. "So, where are all the athletes Pavel?"

And with that, Pavel Ivanov couldn't come up with an answer, the iconic image of the whole episode being him standing there in shock, with his mouth barely open, while some of his underlings herded the cameras out.

"So, if they aren't here? Then where are they now?" the press pool soon got called and were talking to the athletes.

RNN - Olympics Update:


John Gooden: "Good afternoon, viewers, this is John Gooden with Marilyn Hodge, and we have quite the news story for you today. These Olympic games have been running fairly smooth all week, until now it seems. We recently got word that earlier today the Coocoostan athletes left the Olympic Village. We haven't heard where they're off to, but this is sure to upset the CoOC."

Marilyn Hodge: "Without a doubt, John, they won't be happy about this. But I'm sure the Coocoostan athletes weren't happy about being ignored in some of their events, either."

JG: "No kidding, Marilyn, but when you have thousands of participants, it's hard to keep track of them all. It's like shaving, you try to get all of the hair to land in the sink, but some of them miss, and fall to the floor."

MH: "Great analogy, John, but this is no joke. Could this potentially spark a violent outbreak?"

JG: "Let's hope not! You remember last time something like this happened, I'm sure."

MH: "I sure do. But speaking of violence, we also have breaking news of events happening back in Reineberg. It seems that a group of female athletes are protesting through the streets of Reineberg's capital, obviously upset at the fact that the Emporer did not allow them to compete in these games. We have reports of several casualties so far, among them is Lisa Wilkinson, one of Reineberg's elite female athletes."

JG: "Quite a sad display of events, Marilyn, quite sad."

MH: "Anyway, we'll keep you folks updated throughout the day, as we get the results from each event. Stay tuned."

Day 6.5 results are up (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12613463&postcount=13) (late). Go find all the mistakes I made in the medal table. :p

Day 7 results should be up around 00:00, and day 7.5 at the scheduled time (06:00).

From BSC Online (http://bsc-online.blogspot.com)
Poor results continue as Athletes move out of Olympic Village

Querzakhi-UCS

Coocoostan's Olympic athletes moved out of the Olympic Village today, in protest of the poor management of the country's Olympic delegation by the Coocoostan Olympic Committee(CoOC). Greivances included botched transportation, the acceptance of several missed entries by CoOC officials, as well as the fact the Olympic team is small, with the seleciton process disorganized. "These Olympics have been shameful and I can only hope that the CoOC is held to account for virtually non-existant chances to perform our best." said the athletes own "Chef de Mission", cyclist Sergei Buznikin (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Sergei_Buznkin). Meanwhile, CoOC officials blasted the athletes at their nightly news conference, calling them "Brigands, opportunists and traitors to the flag," and said they would try to have them withdrawn from the games. With that highly unlikely, and with the CoOC having lost control over the athletes, it seems that a higher authority will have to intervene.

John Gooden: "Hello again, to all of our viewers, I'm John Gooden with my partner, Marilyn Hodge."

Marilyn Hodge: "Thank you, John. In today's Olympic news so far, team Reineberg is finally performing up to par. It's been a slow start to these games, but many of our athletes look to now be in position to possibly take home a medal."

JG: "First up, we have Robin Huard and Frank Marion advancing to the second round in the men's individual archery event. Huard posted a 161, one of the higher scores of the day, to defeat Maineiacs' David Schultz, who posted a score of 153. Marion scored a 157, just narrowly beating out Miahjw Jana from Malabra, with a score of 156. Unfortunately, John Tuck was defeated by Kelssek's Kevin Wendoe, 162 to 148. Huard will face Malabra's Miqjab Nicjaw in the second round, while Marion will go up against Joey Cozmica from St Samuel."

MH: "How about those Cozmicas, there's so many of them, and they're all very skilled archers."

JG: "Right you are, our archers have their work cut out for them."

MH: "On to men's association football, Reineberg defeated the winless Qazox team 4 to nil, to secure a qualifying spot. They're really the surprise of these games, John, I don't think anyone thought that the Reineberg football team would perform this well against all of the other highly talented teams."

JG: "I certainly didn't. They're now at an impressive 3-1-1. Although there is some bad news in the men's shotput event; Peter Deja finished a dismal 20th place in the qualification round with a throw of 19.38m, so he will not move on. But to make matters worse, he apparently tore a tendon in his leg while storming off after his poor throw. How about that?"

MH: "How about it indeed. In men's badminton doubles, Pavol Timmonen and Andy Walker advance past the second round and into the quarterfinal fixtures after beating Quakmybush's team of Warren Ford and Curtis Malone. They'll go on to face Enrique Fuentes and Erick Nichols of Nitrodymium. It should be an interesting match."

JG: "Very interesting. In the men's cycling individual pursuit qualification, Jonathan Tracy finished 5th to make it to the next round, while Alfonse Meier finished 11th and will not advance. They had times of 4:19.597 and 4:26.137, respectively. Tracy will face Keith Holt from Quakmybush in the quarterfinals."

MH: "And in fencing today, Clarke Gabriel will move on in the men’s individual épée after beating Gerard Wesley of Wentland in a dominating fashion, with a final score of 15 to 11. Owen Burton, however, was defeated 15 to 13 by St Samuel's Louis Montana. Gabriel will square off against Hoŋ Gu-ā, hailing from Jasīʼyūn, in the third round."

JG: "In men's field hockey, team Reineberg pummeled LancasterCounty with a final score of 3 to 1. They improved their record to 3-1-1 and secured a qualifying spot with the win. Well done, boys."

MH: "In men's volleyball, team Reineberg remain undefeated after shutting out Ropa-Topia, and are now 4 and 0. You know, John, I have a strong feeling about this team. I think they have a real shot at bringing home a gold."

JG: "I do too Marilyn, but only time will tell. Well, folks, Reineberg is still at the bottom of the list in medal standings, but we look forward to these next few days, as there are many opportunities to score more medal finishes."

MH: "And meanwhile, the "Coocoo Controversy" still continues, with athlete Sergei Buznikin showing a great deal of frustration. We have sent out Sally Meadows, our field correspondant to go interview to him, but we've heard no news back from her. Hopefully nothing bad has happened."

JG: "Hopefully, indeed. This is John Gooden and Marilyn Hodge saying goodbye."

MH: "G'bye."

It was nearly a royal flush in the Grand Prix dressage as His Majesty romped - or rather minced - away with the prize, demonstrating the rare breeding for which both the Wentland royal family and the Wentland thoroughbreds are renowned. His Majesty's special marks included a bonus where he distributed guineas to the crowd whilst his mount was executing an arabesque and the judges had no real choice but to award world record marks. The female contingent could not quite match that but they both also finished in the top 5.

Meanwhile, elsewhere it was heartbreak. The cycling team pursuit bronze just evaded the women by the tiny margin of, er, eleven seconds, the Quak team possibly taking pity in not lapping them. Derek Batey just missed on qualification in the men's event, the men archers all went out - Eric Forrest nearly nailing a judge with a wayward arrow - and Tony Hearn lost out to Francisco Umberto on the final touch in an epic epee, the St Samuel expert winning five of the last six points when he looked dead and buried with an epee through his heart.

There were however a couple of bright spots. Wentland romped into the quarter-finals of the football with a demolition of Sativaville, a Norman Cooper hat-trick being the highlight of his competition so far, although a tough test against 100% Cafundeu lies in wait. The young Cafundeu team has only conceded two goals and Tommy Barnes and the remainder of the royal blue boys will have to play above themselves to get themselves into medal contention.

And massive Martin Ruane and Angry Amelia Price easily made the shot put finals. Both are primarily wrestlers but the decision to allow only one representative per nation meant that some were redistributed amongst other strength sports by the Olympic Committee in an unusual demonstration of lateral thinking. The man mountain does not have a perfect technique but sheer strength propels the put beyond where nature intends, whereas Price has more grace if less strength and the hitherto dominant Commerce Heights team is starting to look over their shoulders.

Judo again…

…but today Querzakhi witnessed an Ariddian judoka actually losing in a final. Joseph Kabir, in the men’s 73kg final, did better than in Ashford (where he had won bronze), but failed to defeat Kelssek’s impressive Andrew Gillard. Thus confirming, as we suggested last time, that Kelssek are a force to be reckoned with at the highest level in judo.

In the women’s 57kg event, meanwhile, Minh Hai Deleclair was competing for a place on the third step of the podium… and got there, defeating Commerce Heights’ I Yu-hŭy. It is her first Olympic medal.

Thus, with nine medals, of which six gold, Ariddia is in third place on the overall medal chart.

In archery, Ariddians were waiting to see defending Champion and record holder Youssef Kasmba back in action, but, having obtained a good enough rank for a bye, he skips round one and will be seen next in round 2, competing against Edgar Baum of Mikitivity.

There was good news in football, however. After a poor and frankly worrying start earlier in the competition, the men’s team won their final match of the qualifying stages 2-0 (against Quakmybush), securing a place in the quarter-finals… against Bazalonia.

In volleyball, by contrast, the amateur men’s team lost their fifth consecutive match, doing roughly as bad as neighbouring Ropa-Topia in the other group.

Finally, in fencing, the great Christina Zhang (“the Lady with the Sword”, as some have dubbed her in loose reference to Arthurian legend), gold-medallist in both Tyrellia and Ashford, began her competition directly in the second round, defeating Wentland’s Martine Foix 15-10.

"And this dragging game is finally over, as Ridge pops to shortstop. 4-3 Edward City, after an interminable rain delay.

Thunder rolled this afternoon over Querzakhi, more quickly than the ball has. Sloppy play on both sides meant that none of Zwangzug's three runs, and only two of Edward City's, were earned. Rob Staun made three of the many errors. Staun in right field, with Nathan Ellis, who occupied it in the Classic, moving to left in place of Karen Lee. There is no women's baseball team from Zwangzug here. A loss?

There is no softball team either, which is perhaps a positive thing. It has so often been known to segregate women from men, though both genders are competing at it here. No, the fact that Lee and Alexis Paige must stay home, my broadcasting as strong a link as any to their teammates, is testament not to discrimination, but to the fact that the women of Zwangzug are insufficiently athletic-or, some would say, too intelligent-to field a team. A baseball team, that is: the hockey players and gymnasts are still here, and there are no accusations that they have no male counterparts. So, Staun makes the starting lineup; Schmidt and Goldberg get to play on the international stage.

I am the Vox!"

From MSPN--


Hello, and welcome back to our Olympic Update. We apologize for the problems with our satellite hookup that has kept us off the air. Let's see what's been happening...

Day 4.5--

Our Men's soccer team played Mikitivity to a 1-1 draw; Vibol Parmansupol and Pakpao Adulyadej lost their semifinal match in Mixed Doubles Badminton; Our Men's Baseball team beat Qazox 6-3 on the strength of a 3-run homer by C Mike Kirkland; our Women's Basketball team beat 82-70 highlighted by a 15 point performance by PG Donna Robinson; we were eliminated in the 1st round of Men's Cycling Team Sprint; Timothy Kelly, Marian Upton, and Gary Olsen all qualified in Equestrian Dressage-Gand Prix Test, giving the team the bronze medal. Hyun Moon Kim lost in Men's Judo 73kg division; Natsuko Immura likwise lost in Women's 57kg divsion. Mike Garvey finished 8th in Men's 10m air pistol; Betsy Kelleher qualified for the finals in Women's 400m IM; Our Men's volleyball team lost 3-1 to Kelssek, but Paul Martin and Jim Hale won thir match in Beach Volleyball 2-1.


Day 5--

Our Women's Soccer team lost 2-1 to Bazalonia; Our Women's Baseball team beat Ropa-Topia 4-3; Our Mane's Basketball team lost 87-78 to Cafundéu; Our Women's Cyclists won the semifinals of Women's Team Pursuit, setting an Olympic Record of 2:16.648; Our Women's Field Hockey team lost 3-1 to Cafundéu; Our Men's Handball team lost a heartbreaker 27-26 to Bazalonia; Robert Matsui lost in Men's Judo 81kg divsion; Amravati Melati lost Women's Judo 63kg division; Renée Foreteller was 5th in Women's 10m Air Pistol; Our Women's Softball team shutout Quakmybush 2-0; Evan Macgregor qualified in Men's 400m Freestyle; our Women's Volleyball team beat Bazalonia 3-0; Isadora Ihlnaus and Camila Porteus won 2-1 in Beach Volleyball.

Day 5.5--

Vibol and Sopheap Parmansupol received a bye in Men's Doubles Badminton; our Men's Baseball team on again, easily beating Coocoostan 6-2; Clara Montserrat moved on to the second round in Women's Foil, while Voirrey Breeshey defeated teammate Anna Mireio to advance. Our Men's Field Hockey team won their first game, beating Cafundéu 5-2; our Women's Handball team beat Bushes Been Quaked 28-23; Hyun Moon Kim advanced to the bronze medal match in Men's Judo 73kg division, and Natsuko Immura will play for the bronze in Women's 57kg division. Ines Parra qualified in Women's Trap; Our Men's Softball team lost 3-0 to LancasterCounty; Betsy Kellerher of Oceanview, Plymouth Province took home the silver in Women's 400m IM; Our Men's Volleyball team beat Arridia 3-0.

Day 6--

Vibol and Sopheap Parmansupol both received byes in Men's Singles Badminton; our Women's Baseball team remained undeafted, beating LancasterCounty 6-3; our Women's Cycling team won the silver in the Team Pursuit; Sarah Silversmith, Corrine Trumble, and Gary Olsen all qualified in Equestrian Jumping, giving our team another bronze; we advanced to the semifinals in Women's Team Sabre; although they did not play, our Men's Handball team was eliminated from the medal round; Billy Rank failed to qualify in Men's 10m Air Rifle; our Women's Aoftball team demolished Ropa-Topia 12-1; Evan Macgregor missed the finals in Men's 400m Freestyle; Sean O’Reilly quaklified for the quarterfinals in 100m Breaststroke; our Women's Volleyball team lost 3-1 to Cafundéu; Isadora Ihlnaus and Camila Porteus lost for the first time in Beach Voleyball, 2-0.

Day 6.5--

Harrison Murphy advanced to round 2 in Men's Archery; Our Men's Soccer team lost 5-0 to Cafundéu -- they failed to win a single match in the entire tournament; Donat Ferenc qualified in Men's Shot Put, Giedre Dauskasas qualified for the Women; Vibol and Sopheap Parmansupol moved on the the qurterfinals in Men's Doubles Badminton; our Men's Baseball team beat LancasterCounty 4-1; our Women's Basketball team beat Bazalonia 87-72, and will will play Cafundéu in the quarterfinals; James Toby qualified in Men's Cycling Individual Pursuit; Nuo Mei sits in 4th after one round in Women's Platform Diving; Francois Yprés moves on to the 3rd round in Men's Individual Épée; Our Men's Field Hockry team lost 3-1 to United Island Empires; Natsuko Immura won a bronze medal in Women's Judo 57kg division; Ines Parra finished 5th in Women's Trap; Davis Morton was 7th in Men's 400m IM; our Women qualified in the 4x100m Freestyle Relay; Our Men's Volleyball team lost 3-1 to Cafundéu; Paul Martin and Jim Hale lost in Beach Volleyball and are out of the medal round. Our Medal count stands at 17: 3 gold, 7 silver, and 7 bronze.

Day 7 results are up (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12614369&postcount=14).

John Gooden: "Hello again, folks, I'm here with Marilyn Hodge to bring you the latest Olympic news live from Querzakhi."

Marilyn Hodge: "That's right. The latter part of the day was pretty up and down for Reineberg, but the big story of the day is Matthew Daniels, bringing home silver in the men’s 400 m freestyle event. The finish gave a new life to the struggling Reineberg team of athletes, perhaps this is the spark they needed."

JG: "We'll have more on that story in just a bit, but first we have other updates from today to talk about. Larry Hawk missed the men’s Triple Jump qualification, as a result of apparent "soreness" in his calves, and Pavol Timmonen was defeated in a very close match in the second round of men's singles in badminton. The final score was 22 to 20, against St Samuel's Ilton Jones. We have report that these two men actually met earlier this week in the Olympic village and apparently got along very well together. It's a shame that they had to match up against eachother, but that's the way things go."

MH: "Team Reineberg lost another game of the men's basketball, this time losing by eleven points to the Maineiacs team. They have dropped all three of their matches, this team just couldn't seem to get it together."

JG: "You're telling me, they just haven't been the same team we see play back home. Off to cycling, in the men's individual pursuit, Liam Wilson qualified in on time, with Aki Norstrom narrowly missing out on the final qualifying position. Wilson will go against Ricardo Martin, from Quakmybush, in the first round."

MH: "And now for the man of the day, our very Matthew Daniels joins us live in the studio. It's a pleasure to have you here Matt, how does it feel to be Reineberg's top medal scorer so far?"

Matthew Daniels: "I'm going out there and giving it my all, I have the greatest man here with me, coaching me, and I just hope we can bring home a gold."

JG: "You missed out on the men’s 100 m breaststroke, can you tell us what happened there?"

MD: "I just love swimming. I need to get in a zone when I swim, today I think I was in that zone. Not 100%, but pretty damn close. Oh sh-, can I say that on television?"

MH: "Don't worry about it."

MD: "Anyway, today just felt really great, and I'm so proud of everyone that has helped me get to where I am today. There are so many guys who never get to even make it to these games, and many talented chicks too, but because of Reineberg's laws that prevent them from performing internationally, none of them could be here today. I'd actually like to dedicate this medal to my girlfriend back home, maybe I'll make a wedding ring out of any medals I win."

JG: "That certainly is... unique."

MH: "Well, Matt, can you tell us about your plans for the rest of the week, what are you going to do once your events are over?"

MD: "My coach has been great, he really has, we train for hours and hours a day, trying to be that much better. It's paid off so far, with this medal, but I would give anything just to win a gold medal. I'm going to give it my all, that's for sure."

JG: "I'm sorry Matt, that's all the time we have, thanks again for joining us, and we wish you all the best in your upcoming events."

MD: "Thanks guys."

MH: "And in true sportsmanlike fashion, he failed to answer a single question. You know John, I've always wondered why that is."

JG: "Me too, Marilyn, me too."

MH: "We'll see you all tomorrow, good night folks. This is Marilyn Hodge and John Gooden signing off."

MONOPOLISTS' SEVENTH DAY RESULTS

Archery (men) - all athletes are qualified for the second round.

Association Football (men) - Cafundéu continues winning, this time against Maineiacs. Goals were scored by Flecha (three times), Roosevelt and Nego Guerreiro.

Basketball (women) - difficult game against Edward City ended with a loss. Cafundéu is qualified and will play Maineiacs in the quarterfinals.

Fencing (Men's Epee/Women's Foil) - Ratsel is qualified; Fernanda Zen qualified too.

Judo - Carol De Lorenzetti defeated Alexandra Petra and won a gold medal. Augusto Tikohara won another defeating Adam Jameson. Timóteo Abraão also won a bronze medal.

Swimming - Diego Clemente won the freestyle 400m. Romário Hadid won a silver medal in the individual medley.

Volleyball (men) - Cafundéu defeated Maineiacs.

Beach Volleyball (men) - both doubles won their games.

Archery (women) - only Natália Zarpa was eliminated, on shootouts.

Association Football (women) - Cafundéu defeated Saidercray with a simple win, and the goal was scored by Natália. The team will play St Samuel in the quarterfinals.

Baseball (women) - another loss, this time to Edward City.

Basketball (men) - Cafundéu defeated Quakmybush, and now is qualified.

Diving (women) - Íris Leite won the Women's 10 m Platform competition. Alice Pacheco won a bronze medal.

Fencing (team sabre) - Cafundéu is in the final against Capitalizt SLANI. Same situation for the ladies.

Field Hockey (women) - tough victory against Ropa-Topia.

Volleyball (women) - another 3x0 win, this time against Quakmybush.

Beach Volleyball (women) - both doubles lost their games, but qualified in the first place in their groups.

QSNBS
OLYMPIC UPDATE

Once again due to the Olympics being held halfway around the world, The Late Day 6 and early day 7 results:

Late Day 6 results:

In Men's Football, Reineberg stomp Qazox 4-0, ending any medal chances for the team. A 0-3-2 record for these college players does not bode well, as the QFC has announce that the Olympic team will be the same as the Cup of Harmony team.
In Baseball, The men's team continues to perfrom well with a 6-2 win over Coocoostan. Only a loss in the next game can prevent the team from advancing to the quarterfinals.


Early Day 7 results:
In Women's football, a 3-1 win over LancasterCounty gave Qazox a 5-0-0 group record and the best record so far. Goals were scored by: Annabelle Lorenzana in the 34th and 58th minutes, and Sofia Yochum in the 70th. The team will take on Edward City in the quarterfinals.

The Women's baseball team is still winless, allowing 6 runs in the 5th to Maineiacs, blowing a 3-0 lead. the will have the bye next, followed with a match against Cafundeu, who is also winless at this point.

In Men’s Individual Pursuit—Qualification, Frank Refth qualifed 5th overall with a time of 10.374. He will take on James Toby of Maineiacs in the 1st round. Alan O’Neill finished 15th with a time of 10.701, ending his Olympics.


That's all the competition involving Qazox for now, stay tuned to QSNBS for all your Olympic coverage, including all of Qazox' Football mtaches, live and without interuption.

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SATIVAVILLE Olympic Coverage:


Live from Querzakhi: Day 8 Update

Good news today as Sativaville's basketball teams, both the men and women, advanced to the quarterfinals, where they'll each be only 3 wins away from Gold.

In the early action, the football team was demolished by Wentland 4-0, as the team finished with a record of 0-1-5, and a -12 GD, earnign them the Wooden Olympic Spoon.

In Women's Basketball, a 86-76 win over Estresse Intenso, coupled with a St. Samuel win, gave Sativaville the top spot in Group A, based on Scoring differential. The team averaged 85.8 pts, trailing only Malabra in that catergory, while only allowing an average of 75.8. The 10 point differential was behind only Malabra and Maineiacs for the best. The team will take on Saidercray in the Quarters.

In Women's Baseball, A wild pitch in the bottom of the 7th, allowed Quakmybush to eke out a 4-3 win. With 2 games left, the team still has a shot at the quarterfinals, but would most likely need to win both to do so.

In Men's basketball, an easy 95-60 win over United Island Empires, moved the team into the quarterfinals. The team had the best PPG average with 87.5. The team also dominated on defense allowing an average of only 67.3 PPG. The 20.2 differential was easily the best amongst the teams. It is unknown as this time who they will play in the quarterfinals, as there are still games left to be played in the opening round.
(OOC: What's the Quarterfinal Fixtures for Men's basketball?)

That's all for now, stay tuned as Sativaville tries to earn their first medal.


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"...best of luck the rest of the way."

"Thank you."

"Virginia Dunston and Jessica Langton, who will be the first and second swimmers for Kelssek in the women's 4x100m freestyle relay, and they will be getting it on in just about 15 minutes from now. This is live coverage of the swimming competition from Querzakhi in the Unified Capitalizt States at the pool where Kelssek has won several medals already and I must say that it's very enthralling watching the ladies swimming... because the competition is really good, and tough, of course, very gripping."

"Now this pool of course, the chronicle...", a slip which sent a prickle down the spine of the producer, who'd switched off a little and thought for a moment that the excorciating newspaper column was about to be openly discussed live on the air, "I mean, the chlorine level is being checked right now to ensure it's correct and that we're good to go for the excitement that is sure to be whipped up when the swimmers come out for the event. We'll be right back after we go to the Olympic report back to the studio in Kirkenes."

Day 7.5 results are up (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12615131&postcount=15).

(OOC: What's the Quarterfinal Fixtures for Men's basketball?)
*yawns* I’ll look at it later.

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And on the seventh day...

QUERZAKHI - It was quite a successful day seven for Kelssek with a gold, three silvers and a bronze. The gold came off the trampoline as Elisabeth Aubry put in a great showing to impress the judges. Joan Burben lost to Edward City's Naïla Salhi in the women's 63kg judo final for the silver.

Shawn Abram took the silver in the men's C-1 slalom, and Mikitivity also won their first gold medal - their first medal, in fact - in that event thanks to a superb effort by Pierre Brassard.

Arienne Blaeux was disappointed by her fourth-place finish in diving as Nuo Mei of Maineiacs came between Íris Leite and Alice Pacheco of Cafundéu, who took gold and bronze respectively.

"I wasn't up to the standard today. I'm disappointed, but it's a learning experience." she said.

Also in the pool, Brent Fowles won bronze in the men's 400m freestyle, in a race which saw Diego Clemente from Cafundéu setting a new Olympic record of 3:39.26 with a blistering swim. The women's 4x100m freestyle relay team also settled for silver after losing out to Edward City. Jessica Langton praised the Edward City swimmers, calling them "great competitors".

Kieran Tarrant surprised by topping the qualification round for the men's 50m pistol event in shooting, while in field hockey Kelssek's men's team finished their Olympics with a 2-2 draw against hosts Capitalizt SLANI, ending the competition bottom of the group with three draws and two losses. It was nevertheless a satisfying result for team captain Gordon Kinnock.

"We've done well to come out with the results we've had, of course, we're very much an amateur team, and it was really the great experience of this that we came for," he said.

Looking forward, the water polo competition gets underway this Wednesday (early Thursday morning Kelssek time) and both the men's and women's teams are favoured to win gold. Men's captain Brandon Nichol is optimistic about their chances.

"We know what we're capable of and everyone is excited to get going. I think we're going to do very well at the games."

A tie in hockey is of no import
One of many things Vanessa ignores
When practicing to compete in her sport
Is her country's other athletes and scores.

Not apathy, but rather focus deep
Compels her into concentration: Run
And jump and throw before you get to sleep,
She tells herself: then you'll find out who won

Tomorrow. She lives up to this command
The standings meaningless. She's come this far:
The soreness in her legs and arms and hand
Is testament enough. She is no star

But she is here, she is trying her best,
And that's enough for today. Now, to rest.

"It's not fair. Why don't I get a bye?"

"Luck of the draw, Kate."

"No, boss, they knew I'd massacre whoever I was against. It would not be funny. But they want to see little Katie do her bimbo thing."

"SHUT UP, Siobhan! It was a random draw."

"Who have I got anyway?"

"Sheila Widdley."

"WIDDLEY!!! Ha ha ha!!!! I'll piss on her."

And Kate Lonergan did, not bothering to fire an arrow in two rounds and firing one behind her. It was an easy win to send her into the second round. It was rough justice on the Kelssek archer as her score of 154 would have seen her through some of the other matches. Certainly it would have beaten Kellie Bright who buckled under the individual pressure and was out of the competition, to the howling derision of Lonergan and Fogarty. "At least you can have your hot milk now, sprog..." "Yeah, let the adults play with their bowy-wowys."

However elsewhere it was a disaster. The lack of practice caught up on Ruane and Price and both missed out on medals. The biggest disaster befell the Little Tits, who were cruising to the 1-1 draw that would see them progress when a freak deflection put Coocoostan ahead and the woefully unprepared underdogs scored a third as the whole Wentland team sought an equalizer in injury time.

Worse was Robbie Davies pulling a cruciate ligament with his second triple jump attempt. He was not fancied to do anything in the competition, but his career looks over. The remainder of the athletics is looking a disaster area, Duggie Cruz fading badly in the 1500m and not qualifying for the semi - and he was the brightest medal hope.

HOWEVER...

The nation itself didn't care for these disasters. Wentland itself erupted in wild and ecstatic celebration as the Head of State, His Majesty King Æþelwold II, scraped home in the dressage. Not realizing there was a third round His Majesty had spent most of the previous day carousing and watching The Pettes putting on a special concert for the Wentland team, and liberally distributing red wine amongst the populace. When told he had to ride "freestyle" he somehow managed to crawl onto Concorde and bounced around the dressage ring in an approximation of a dressage routine to the garage tones of rapper Oh Grubly to scrape the gold by less than a tenth of a point. His Majesty immediately became one of Wentland's most successful athletes ever with two medals in his first Olympics. He immediately announced his retirement "to let the plebs have half a chance" before declaring that he was going to "large it masseeeeve".

***

Gold medallist in trampolining Elisabeth Aubry was interviewed on Wentland TV and asked about her career progress. She replied "oh, it's been somewhat up and down."

Day 8 results are up (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12616950&postcount=16) (including fixtures for men’s basketball).

Through 8 days of play, LancasterCounty has had its ups and downs and close calls. many teams were eliminated on the last days of competition but a few of our players are still in the mix.

Kate Lonergan arrived at the butts in a determined mood. "Right! What's the top score today so far? 164? I think we can beat that..."

And she did, shooting in top form. Coming to the final arrow she was on 159 and with a shot at the Olympic record, but perhaps deliberately she got a six to beat Beth Parker's score by one. "Meh, the record can wait. Besides, I've got to give Sibby a chance to beat me."

Fogarty glared as she approached her match with Cozmica - she was a very different proposition to the hapless Sims, who had been blasted into oblivion by an early series of bulls and near bulls. And Fogarty started with a similar series taking an early lead that she never relinquished.

Coming to the final arrow she was on 159 as well, and after Cozmica only scored eight Fogarty was guaranteed through. "Watch and learn, little bimbo knickers, watch and learn." But just as she fired there was a clatter of arrows that had been accidentally knocked over by a competitor and her aim was wayward. "Two!!!!"

"Right," yelled Fogarty, "who created that row?"

"Dunno," said an official, "it was someone with blonde hair."

It was only later that they realized there was some competition for the gold. A score of 167 was put up. "Jeez, who did that?"

"A sort of squiggly J over T, an EH and an 01 over a 2."

"Eh?"

"It's one of those Jason things. They like their archery."

"Oh yeah."

***

In the show-jumping there was disappointment as monocled Cedric de Keyser could not go clear again and clipped the sixth fence, as well as incurring a time fault. This would have put him in a jump-off with fellow Wentland jumper Bennett Gordon for bronze, but for the total disaster suffered by Déķàmp who went last with the gold in reach and ploughed through rather than over a number of fences. As it was there was a jump-off for silver, but the two Wentland riders have agreed to split the medals. Literally. They are to attend the silversmith to have both medals divided and re-welded together so each has a silver and bronze half.

The most frustrated rider however was the gamine Mariana Ximenes. The only rider to go clear in round two, she bemoaned a slight slip in the triple combination in the first that had her take two of the combo fences down and ultimately cost her gold.

From MSPN--


A few more medals lately, but also some bad luck...

Day 7--

Maria Delgado was eliminated in Women's Archery; our Women's soccer team did not play but was eliminated from the medal round; Donat Ferenc was 6th in Men's Shot Put and Giedre Dauskasas was 12th in the Women's Shot Put; Daniel Johnson qualified in Men's Triple Jump; brothers Vibol and Sopheap Parmansupol both advanced to the quarterfinals in Men's Singles Badminton; our Women's Baseball team beat Qazox 6-3; our Men's Basketball team qualified for the medal round by beating Reineberg 83-72, and will play Bazalonia in the first round; James Toby qualified in Men’s Cycling Individual Sprint; Nuo Mei won the silver in Women's Platform Diving; we will play for 5th place in Men's Sabre and for the bronze in Women's Sabre; our women's Field Hockey team tied Zwangzug 2-2 but needed a win to avoid elimination; Talley Hopewell was 5th in Women's Trampoline; Robert Matsui lost his bronze medal match in Men's Judo 81kg division, but Amravati Melati won a bronze in the Women's 63kg division; Our Women's Softball team scored another shutout, this time 10-0 over Bazalonia to assure then a spot in the medal round; Sean O’Reilly failed to qualify in Men's 100m Breaststroke; our Women's Volleyball team also qualified for the medal round, beating Malabra 3-2, while Isadora Ihlnaus and Camila Porteus will not make the medal round in Beach Volleyball.

Day 7.5--

Harrison Murphy was eliminated in Men's Archery; Kenneth Franklin qualified in the Men's 1500m; Pablo Robles was 8th in the Men's 20k Walk; Janice Templeman is currently 3rd in Heptathlon; Vibol and Sopheap Parmansupol advanced to the semifinals in Men's Badminton; Yaroslav Ragunovich was 4th in Men's Slalom C-1; James Toby lost in the quarterfinals of Men’s Cycling Individual Pursuit; Marian Upton was 7th, Timothy Kelly 9th, and Gary Olsen 11th in Equestrian Dressage Grand Prix; Francois Yprés made it to the quarterfinals in Men's Individual Épée; Our Men's Field Hockey team lost 3-1 to Reineberg and will not compete in the medal round; Makaio Ikaia is in the semifinals of Men's Judo 90kg division; Maata Kiri is in the semifinals of Women's Judo 70kg division; Manny Ponselle did not qualify in Men's 50m pistol; our Men's Softball team is in the medal round by virtue of a 2-1 victory over LancasterCounty; Sheila Mitchell in the Women's 100m Backstroke, while we were 5th in the 4x100m Freestyle Relay; Lim Bao and Kun Bai both received 1st round byes in Men's Table Tennis; our Men's Volleyball team beat Edward City 3-1.

Day 8--

Three more medals: gold in Women’s Slalom C-2, a gold for Huan Shui in Men's Springboard Diving, and a bronze in Women's Team Sabre, the only bright spot for our Fencers at these Olympics. In other events, Beth Parker advanced to the third round in Women's Archery; Sven Gejdenson qualified in Men's Hammer Throw; Daniel Johnson was 6th in Men's Triple Jump; Wilma Jansen did not qualify in Women's 100m; Vibol and Sopheap Parmansupol learned they will play each other in the semifinals of Men's Badminton; Our Women's Baseball team scored another easy victory, beating Cafundéu, a nation that has seemed to have our number in other sprts 10-2; James Toby lost in Men’s Cycling Individual Sprint; Corrine Trumble was 5th, Sarah Silversmith 9th, and Gary Olsen 12th Equestrian Jumping; we lost to Kelssek in Men's Sabre to finish 6th; our Women's Field hockey team lost 4-2 to Ropa-Topia and are eliminated; Li Po was 4th in Men's Trampoline, missing the bronze by 0.1 points; Sunan Khan is in the semifinals of Men's Judo 100kg division; Kimiko Kaneda is in the semifinals in the Women's 78kg division; Perry Davis did not qualify in Men's Double Trap; our Women's Softball team beat the host nation 4-0 and advances to the medal round; Evan Macgregor qualified in Men's 200m Freestyle; Antoinette Puissant qualifed in Women's 100m Breststroke; Lan Mei made it through one round in Women's Table Tennis. Our medal count is now 22: 5 gold, 8 silver and 9 bronze.

MONOPOLISTS' EIGHT DAY RESULTS

Archery (men) - only Orlando Junqueira continues in the competition.

Equestrian (dressage) - Bamerindus couldn't hold the pressure to compete against a King and finished in the second place. Carla Rosa got the bronze medal.

Fencing (Men's Epee/Women's Foil) - Ratsel and Zen continue in the competition.

Field Hockey (men) - another loss, but the team played well.

Judo - most of the athletes qualified.

Table Tennis (men) - only Seu Madruga lost in the first round.

Volleyball (men) - another victory, this time against Kelssek.

Archery (women) - Abate and Mendonça continue in the competition.

Triple Jump (men) - João got the bronze medal.

Baseball (women) - another huge loss.

Equestrian (jumping) - Bamerindus won the gold medal one more time. One Wentland competitor had the same name of a famous actress of Cafundéu and received flowers from fans, but the confusion was solved later.

Fencing (teams sabre) - the men's team won the gold medal, but the women's got the silver medal.

Field Hockey (women) - hard victory against LancasterCounty.

Table Tennis (women) - only Kolgat lost.

QSNBS
OLYMPIC UPDATE

Once again due to the Olympics being held halfway around the world, The Late Day 7 and early day 8 results:

A very light day of action for the Qazox delegation as only one event had a participant.

In Men’s Individual Pursuit—1st round, Frank Refth edged out James Toby of Maineiacs with a time of 10.534 to 10.553. Refth advanced to the next round of competition.


That's all the competition involving Qazox for now, stay tuned to QSNBS for all your Olympic coverage, including all of Qazox' Football mtaches, live and without interuption.

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Live from Querzakhi: Day 9 Update

The Men's Basketball team found out their quarterfinal opponent and it is Cafundeu.
In Women's Baseball, a 5-2 loss to the hosts, Capitalizt SLANI, pushes the team to elimination. They can still tie for 3rd if they beat United Island Empires, and if St. Samuel loses. But due to tiebreakers, notably the losses to St Samuel and Quakmybush, the team will go home after tommorow's game.

Anticipation mounts for the quarterfinals in Basketball in whcih both of Sativavilles' teams are participating in. While nothing is a given, each team has a decent shot at a medal, possibly gold ones.

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Mariana Ximenes was at first delighted to have been presented with flowers by a shy Cafundu supporter. "Why, thank you! What a nice surprise!"

She beamed as she carried the flowers to the changing-rooms. Only to be met by another fan outside. "Excuse me, senhorina...I should be grateful if you would accept this as a token of my estimation..."

"Carnations! My favourite. How did you know?" She gave the young man a peck on the cheek and entered.

The young man was nonplussed. "She seems different to on the television...and I never knew she was from Wentland..."

Ximenes entered - to be surrounded by a forest of greenery highlighted by pinks and yellows. "Gracious, what's all this?"

"Dunno," commented Bennett Gordon. "They all seem to be from Cafundeu."

"I didn't realize they were so keen on me...it's my first Games...what's going on? I know they love their horses, but still..."

She read one of the cards. "I love you in Chocolate con Pimenta..."

"What on earth is that?"

"Some sort of confectionery."

"Hmm, I've never been in a chocolate bath before. What about this one?"

"Ana Francisca, marry me!!!"

"Who's Ana Francisca?"

"How should I know? I'm not Norman bloody Barry."

"We have to take these back to the village..."

As she rode out to the arena for her second round in the showjumping she was delighted to be showered with flowers from the Cafundeu section of supporters. She rode around in front of them, the Cafundeu supporters peered more closely, and a murmur spread amongst them. "It's not her...it's someone else..."

Buoyed by such support Ximenes rode magnificently to a clear round. She was only slightly disappointed that the Cafundeu fans did not continue showering her with flowers, instead offering polite applause, but at least she had a clear to her credit. That blasted combination...

From MSPN--

Two more medals for Maineiacs this morning: a bronze in Men's Slalom C-2, and a gold for Sheila Mitchell in the Women's 100m Backstroke. Our medal count is now 24: 6 gold, 8 silver, and 10 bronze. In other events, Makaio Ikaia will play for the gold in Men's Judo 90kg division, and Maata Kiri goes for the gold in Women's Judo 70kg division; Kenneth Franklin qualified for the finals in Men's 1500m; George Hightower qualified in Men's High Jump; Vibol and Sopheap Parmansupol will play for the bronze in Men's Doubles Badminton; Lim Bao and Kun Bai both advance to the quarterfinals in Men's Table Tennis; Francois Yprés lost in the quarterfinals of Men’s Individual Épée; Janice Templeman had a disappointing second day in the Heptathlon and came in 8th; and our Men's Baseball team, already qualified for the medal round completed the preliminary round undefeated, beating Abu Omar 7-1, Catcher Mike Kirkland had his second home run of the tournament. We'll have another update this evening.

"No extra-inning heroics tonight,
Zwangzug: the baseball team's Olympic quest
Does not end with a bang, or with a fight
But with a whimper. On a bye day, rest

Saw them eliminated. At the same
Time as they would have played, if there had been
A game they were in, though there was no game,
Vanessa Conway, too, competed. When

The scores were added, she came fourth to last.
Not much more was expected from her, yet
Her triumph isn't simply being fast

But, like the Zebras, overcoming shocks
In winning or losing.

I am the Vox!"

Day 9 results are up (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12621370&postcount=18).

From MSPN--


Maineiacs atletes did today what they seem historically to do best on the world sports stage -- win bronze medals, two more, in fact. Sunan Khan was awarded a bronze in Men's Judo 100kg division by virtue of not having an opponent to face. In an interview Khan said "I'll take it." Sven Gejdenson got the bronze in Men's Hammer Throw. Elsewhere, Beth Parker was eliminated from Women's Archery; Leroy Staples qualified in Men's 400m; Vibol Parmansupol defeated his brother in Men's Singles Badminton, to move on to the gold medal match, Sopheap Parmansupol will play for the bronze. Our Women's Baseball team beat Bazalonia 5-2 to finish the preliminary round undefeated, they will face Quakmybush in the quarterfinals; Rachel Overton was 5th in Women's Slalom K-1; James Toby qualified in the repêchage in Men’s Cycling Individual Sprint; we have reached the semifinals in Women’s Team Épée; we will play for 5th place in Men's Team foil; James Tufts was 8th (and last) in Men's Gymnastics Floor Exercise, said Tufts afterwards, "Perhaps 'Nadia's Theme' wasn't the best choice for music." Kimiko Kaneda is in the finals in Women's Judo 78kg division -- she is assured of at least a silver; more bad luck for our Men's Swim team, as Evan Macgregor failed to qulisfy in the 200m Freestyle; Antoinette Puissant was 7th in Women's 100m Breaststroke; Lan Mei is in the quarterfinals in Women's Single Table Tennis; Linus Novartis and Teodors Kaustaskas both received first round byes in Men's Tennis; Irina Tcherpova and Christa Schiller win thier first round matches in Women's Singles Tennis; our Men's Volleyball team lost to Bazalonia, but our women's team beat Capitalizt SLANI, and moves on to the medal round. Maineiacs currently has 26 medals: 6 gold, 8 silver, and 12 bronze.

MONOPOLISTS' NINTH DAY RESULTS

Archery (men) - Junqueira continues in the competition.

Baseball (men) - the team was surprising, playing well, but lost the game.

Fencing (Men's Epee/Women's Foil) - Ratsel and Zen continues in the competition.

Judo - Nevada won a bronze medal. Barca Negra and Idário have chances to get a gold medal.

Table Tennis (men) - Takishihara and Monteiro still in the competition.

Archery (women) - Abate and Mendonça still in the competition.

Baseball (women) - wow! The team won a game. No words to comment about this impressive result.

Fencing (teams) - men's foil team continues in the competition.

Gymnastics (Men's Artistic Floor Exercise) - Massa, one of the favourites, had a good performance and got a silver medal.

Tennis/Table Tennis (women) - not too good results for the Cafundelenses, as only Charada won.

Volleyball (men) - another great victory, this time against Ariddia.

Volleyball (women) - team didn't lost a single set yet, and won another game, against Quakmybush.

RM: Welcome to Olympics this morning, due to a large snowstorm our satellites have been off for a while.

WR: Now to catch up on those results.

RM: The Men's football team defeated Kelssek 3-1.

WR: The Men's Baseball team won 5-2 over Kelssek.

RM: The Women's Basketball team lost to Edward City 87-71.

WR: The Men's Team Sprint team qualified for the bronze medal race.

RM: The Men's Field Hockey team lost 4-1 to Ropa-Topia.

WR: The Men's Softball team lost 5-0 to St Samuel.

RM: In the Women's 400m Individual Medley, Diane Anderson qualified.

WR: While, Diana Lee did not advance.

RM: The Men's Volleyball team won 3 sets to none over Ariddia.

WR: The Women's Football team lost to Estresse Intenso 2-0.

RM: The Women's Baseball team lost 5-3 to United Island Empires.

WR: The Men's Basketball team, actually won a game, defeating Reineberg 88-77.

RM: The Women's Team Pursuit team qualified for the bronze medal match.

WR: The Women's Field Hockey team lost 3-1 to Malabra.

RM: The Women's Softball team lost 2-0 to Maineiacs.

WR: In the Men's 400m Freestyle Heats, Stephen Wolfe qualified.

RM: Wayne Butler also qualified.

WR: In the Women's 100m Butterfly Final, Erica Baker finished one spot out of a medal.

RM: The Women's Volleyball team defeated the hosts, 3 sets to 1.

WR: In Women's Beach Volleyball action, Vicky Vann, and Ali Mackenzie lost 2 sets to 1.

RM: The Men's Team Sprint lost out on a bronze medal by .020 seconds.

WR: The Men's Field Hockey team lost 2-1 to St Samuel.

RM: The Women's Handball team lost 28-27 to Kelssek.

WR: The Men's Softball team lost 3-1 to Reineberg.

RM: In the Men's 400m Individual Medley Semis, Jesus Hicks, and Dennis Brewer did not advance.

WR: In the Women's 400m Individual Medley, Diane Anderson finished 7th.

RM: The Men's Volleyball team lost to Cafundeu.

WR: In Men's Singles Badminton, defeated 812621 of Bazalonia 24-22.

RM: Also in Men's Badminton, Billy Kennedy defeated Pablo Nuvenizza 22-20.

WR: The Women's Baseball team lost 5-4 to the hosts.

RM: The Women's Team Pursuit team won a bronze medal.

WR: The Women's Field Hockey team lost 2-1 to Edward City.

RM: The Men's Handball team defeated St Samuel 26-25.

WR: The Women's Softball team lost 10-0 to Edward City.

RM: In the Men's 400m Freestyle semis Wayne Butler, and Stephen Wolfe failed to advance.

WR: In the Men's 100m Breaststroke Heats, Nathan Murphy advanced.

RM: While Chad Armstrong did not.

WR: The Women's Volleyball team lost 3-2 to Bazalonia.

RM: In Women's Beach Volleyball action, Ashley Parazader, and Alexis Finley lost 2-1.

WR: While Vicky Vann and Ali Mackenzie won 2-0.

RM: In Men's Archery, Kelly Lucas lost.

WR: Carlos Vaughn also lost.

RM: The Men's Football team lost 2-0 to Ariddia.

WR: In Men's Shot Put qualifying Ricky Norton advanced.

RM: Dan Clayton also advanced.

WR: While Zachary Klein did not advance.

RM: In Women's Shot Put qualification, Kristen Tate advanced.

WR: Nicole Hamilton also advanced.

RM: While Vera Richards did not.

WR: In Men's Doubles Badminton action, Harry Hayes, and Johnny Soto advanced.

RM: Warren Ford and Curtis Malone lost.

WR: The Men's Baseball team lost 5-4 the hosts.

RM: The Men's Basketball team lost 81-75 to Capatalizt Slani.

WR: In the Men's Individual Pursuit qualification, Keith Holt advanced.

RM: Claude Newman also advanced.

WR: The Women's 4x100 Relay team qualified for the finals.

RM: The Men's Volleyball team lost 3-1 to Edward City.

WR: In Women's Archery, Eva Tran won.

RM: While Jill Walsh lost.

WR: And Rita Blair did advance.

RM: The Women's Football team drew Edward City 1-1.

WR: In the Men's Shot Put Final, Ricky Norton finished 4th.

RM: While Dan Clayton finished 11th.

WR: In the Women's Shot Put final, Kristen Tate finished 10th.

RM: While Nicole Hamilton finished 11th.

WR: In Men's Triple Jump qualification, Maurice McCarthy, Curtis Brock, and Gilbert Hogan did not advance.

RM: In Men's Badminton, Renee Casey lost 21-15.

WR: While Billy Kennedy lost 24-22.

RM: Zachary Hayes also lost 22-20.

WR: The Women's Baseball team won 4-3 Sativaville.

RM: The Men's Basketball team lost 84-73.

WR: In the Men's Individual Sprint Qualification, Ricardo Martin advanced.

RM: As did Jay Bryan.

WR: The Women's Softball team won 2-1 over United Island Empire.

RM: In the Men's 100m Breaststroke semis, Nathan Murphy failed to advance.

WR: The Women's Volleyball Team lost 3-0 to Cafundeu.

RM: In Women's Beach Volleyball Ashley Parazader and Alexis Finley lost 2-1.

WR: While Vicky Vann and Ali Mackenzie won 2-1.

RM: In Men's Archery, Louise Shelton advanced to the third round.

WR: In The Men's 1500m qualification, Robert Cross advanced.

RM: Also in the 1500m, Claude Schwartz advanced.

WR: As well as Luis Wilkins.

RM: In the Men's 20k walk, Ray Reese finished 6th.

WR: While Ricky Joseph finished 7th.

RM: And Bruce Fields finished 12th.

WR: After the first day of the Women's Heptathlon, Gladys Jordan sits 8th.

RM: While Gene Powell sits 14th.

WR: And Amanda Macdonald sits 22nd.

RM: That is all the time we have.

WR: I'm Wendy Rogers.

RM: And I'm Ron Mclearn.

QSNBS
OLYMPIC UPDATE

Once again due to the Olympics being held halfway around the world, The Late Day 8 and early day 9 results:

Late Day 8-

Men's baseball- Despite a 5-3 loss to LancasterCounty, Qazox will move on to the Medal round based on run differential The difference was a 2-run Homerun in the bottom of the 9th which made it a 5-3 instead of a 5-1 loss. The team will take on Stopmenow100 in the Round of 16.

The 1st day of Tennis matches was postponed due to groundskeeping problems, they will begin on Day 9.

Early Day 9-
Women's baseball- A tough 4-3 loss to Cafundeu, which saw Qazox leave the bases loaded and no-one out in the bottom of the 9th, earned the team the Wooden Spoon.

In Cycling at the Men's Individual Sprint, Frank Refth found out his Quarterfinal opponent after the Repêchage, It will be Liam Wilson of Reineberg.

In Men's tennis, Both Nelson Leist and Tyrone Mcgowin recieved a 1st round bye. Int he 2nd round, Leist will take on Cléber Prestes of Cafundeu, while Mcgowin will take on St Samuel's Joey Ulivo.

In Women's tennis, Kelly Christion lost in straight sets to Enriqueta Alvarez of United Island Empires 5-7, 2-6; while Kelly Liedtke lost in straight sets to Edward City's Joana Sagrera 4-6, 6-7 (8-10).


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Live from Querzakhi: Day 10 Update

The only match involving Sativaville was the Women's Baseball, a tough 2-3 loss to United Island Empires. The loss dropped the team to 2-4 overall, 5th place in the group. While Baseball is not one of the country's strong suits, it was impressive that the cobbled together team managed to win 2 games. the SOC has decided that at the next Olympics, a increased focus on this game will do wonders.

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Day 9.5 results are up (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12622829&postcount=19).

San Adriano begins Olympics

The Querzakhi Games have now begun for this Olympiad’s smallest delegation. Although Benjamin Eash (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Benjamin_Eash) and Femke van der Vaart (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Femke_van_der_Vaart) took part in the opening ceremony, they had yet to compete, and were spending their time training, getting properly settled in and discovering the many marvels of Querzakhi itself.

For the first time, Benjamin Eash won his first match in table tennis, defeating Wentland’s Carl Price 4-2. Confidently, the Sanadrianese eliminated another Wentlander, Desmond Douglas, in the next round (4-3). Since San Adriano has a population of fewer than 500, there were few of his fellow citizens present to watch his quarter-final match, but many spectators cheered him on anyway, waving Sanadrianese flags, adopting the tiny country as their favourite. And, to their satisfaction, Eash won against Maineacs’ Lim Bao, qualifying for his first ever semi-final.

Reportedly, Sanadrianese flags are selling fairly well in Querzakhi.

Disappointment all round

The past three days or so have not been kind to the delegation of the PDSRA, and supporters were subjected to a string of shocking disappointments, one after the other.

There was some good news, of course. The women’s football team, discarding all initial doubts, achieved a highly convincing 3-0 win over Mikitivity, and qualified in top place from Group D. Just like the men’s team, they will face Bazalonia next.

In women’s gymnastics, there were two Ariddians represented in trampolining, and both won a medal. Kelssek’s Elisabeth Aubry took gold, but Ariddia’s Hope Mathijsen was only one tenth of a point behind, and won silver. Sunny Mokhobo took bronze.

The best news of all, perhaps, came in the men’s trampoline event, where Abdel Andresen took gold with a comfortable margin over his own fellow Ariddian Jang Yong-Jun, who won silver. They were the only two Ariddians competing.

There was another gold to come in the men’s artistic floor exercise. Of the eight gymnasts to have made it to the final, four were Ariddian. Denis Vaillant took the gold, impressing the judges, while Abdel Andresen took bronze, Michael Gris finished fifth, and Jang Yong-Jun came seventh.

In the equivalent women’s event, Anaïs Reed was the only Ariddian competing, and finished fourth.

In athletics, Michelle Planturier provided a good surprise for all Ariddians by unexpectedly qualifying in the women’s 100m. With a time of 11.74, finishing fourth in her heat, she was given a hero’s welcome by her team, as though she had won a medal. In the other heats, Sarah Pryanishnikov and Sandra Jay failed to qualify. Planturier later finished last of her quarter-final, but that barely seemed to matter. She had managed a tremendous achievement.

In judo, Julie Lanza won her bronze medal match, but Adam Jameson, who had never been defeated in any Ylompic or Olympic match, lost for the first time in the final, taking silver. The gold went to Cafundéu’s Augusto Tikohara.

Shortly thereafter, Joanna Montnoir lost her semi-final, while Olivier Aleksanyan defeated Edward City’s Albert Mainzer in his. Aleksanyan had a point to prove here in Querzakhi. He had won silver in the Tyrellia Ylompics, and had been expected to do very well in Ashford, but had had the extreme misfortune of being drawn against his own compatriot Adam Jameson in the very first round. Jameson had won, and had gone on later to win the gold medal. There had been howls of protest from the Ariddian delegation at this perceived injustice, but to no avail. Now, at long last, Aleksanyan was back in an Olympic final, where he belonged.

Montnoir won her bronze medal, but Aleksanyan, disappointingly, lost his final, finishing with silver.

“I’m still glad to have done this,” he said a few moments later. “I’ve always believed I could have made the final back in Ashford, and now I’ve proved it. And I’m very happy to have won a new medal for my country.”

In archery, Youssef Kasmba, “the Undefeated”, won his second round match, while, in fencing, the equally undefeated Christina Zhang beat Commerce Heights’ Stephanie Wilkins to reach the quarter-finals.

Then came the shocks.

The third round was supposed to be little more than a formality for Kasmba – the defending Champion, Olympic record holder and, quite arguably, the greatest male archer alive. But the Ariddian did not look at his best, seeming tired and not entirely focused. Commerce Heights’ Tom Mason defeated “the Undefeated” quite comfortably, providing a huge and welcome surprise for a cheering home crowd, and leaving the Ariddians in attendance utterly stunned.

It got worse.

Christina Zhang was likewise expected to sail through to the finals, but lost her semi-final match by the narrowest of margins (14-15) to Fernanda Zen of Cafundéu. The defending Champion, who had been a clear favourite for gold, was left to compete for bronze.

And then it got even worse.

Zhang, like Kasmba, was left without a medal when she lost the bronze-medal match 12-15 to Commerce Heights’ Karen Fletcher. It was an unmitigated disaster for two of the best Ariddian athletes of all times.

Chess boxing, lastly, was the novelty of these Games. Although the two participating Ariddians – Saiful Parvez and Nathaniel Smith – were defeated in the first round, the event attracted a fair amount of attention in Ariddia, with the entire competition being broadcast on PINA (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/PINA).

Will blind football be an Olympic event at these Games?

Eo Sheh, President of the Comité Olympique Ariddian, has re-iterated his hope of seeing blind football receiving official demonstration status at the Querzakhi Games, but has announced that, should the event not take place, the C.O.A. would be seeking to organise friendly matches on the Games’ margins.

“We’re looking for anyone interested in taking part. If there’s no stadium available, we could even play in a public park in or near Querzakhi. The setting doesn’t matter; the main thing is for matches to be held.”

"Kate Lonergan...in real difficulties...needs a bull to get back into it...AND THERE IT IS!!!! Two rounds to go and the gap is now one point..."

A shout came from the crowd. "Fluke! Check the fletch!"

"Shut up, See-owe-ban. Just cos you were up against a remedial. "

"Not my fault I have been seeded. "

"Oh, that's what the football team were doing in your room last night, then. "

Siobham Fogarty pouted and was ready to launch a fresh verbal attack when Kougioumtzes, possibly discombobulated by the warring Went, shot and scored a measly four. Lonergan's was a seven and she was in the lead.

"See you in the semis, Sibby. "

"Don't count your chickens. There's still a round to go. "

"Meh, piece of cake. "

And despite the Jasiyun archer scoring an eight Lonergan signed off with an outer bull to get through by three points.

***

"I've got the draw, girls.."

"I hope I'm playing her, I could do with an easy game. "

"No, you've avoided each other. Kate, you've got Janeway. "

"Un morceau de gateau, comme on dit en Oliverry. And Fogguy? Has she got Narjaltan?"

"No, she's got Abate. "

"Ha ha! You're going out!"

"Wanna bet?"

"Yeah. What do you want to bet?"

"Loser streaks in the athletics stadium tomorrow. "

"You are ON. Get those pendulous tits polished, Fogmonster. They're gonna be popular. "

***

Meanwhile, His Majesty was thinking along very similar lines at the swimming pool, but was distressed to find his royal assistance was not required at the women's breast stroke.

***

"Rosie got a MEDAL???"

There was widespread incredulity in Breworth. The village had spent all year saving money to send Rosaria Holmes to the Olympics and she had won silver in the women's slalom. Admittedly there were only six competitors, one of whom capsized, and another of whom was penalized two seconds, but a medal was a medal.

Meanwhile another surprising competitor was Mat Gould, whose fencing was reaching a peak. Even D'Urville was impressed as Gould anchored the foil team to touching distance of a surprise medal.

Day 10 results are up (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12625039&postcount=20).

Foreign Secretary dispatched to Querzakhi
From BSC Online (bsc-online.blogspot.com)

Coocoobad-CFC

Foreign Secretary Nadia Tereshkova has been dispatched to Querzakhi, the site of the ongoing Summer Olympics, to negociate an end to the Athletes walkout of the Olympic village. Speaking to the Parliamentary Congress, Tereshkova promised to approach both sides openly and attempt to change the situation to resolve the problem. The athletes packed their bags on Saturday, citing poor organization by the Coocoostan Olympic Committee in several areas. Privately, President Pakhomov is said to be upset at how the incident has seemingly embarrassed the country internationally and wants the crisis resolved before the end of the games. However, both the CoOC and the Coocoostan Athletes Union, as the delegation now calls itself, have said publicly that they are unwilling to compromise. Tereshkova was selected, say sources inside #1 Avenue of Heroes, because of her post, as well as her experience as an arbitrator in the labour world.

Mike hurried into the auditorium as Miriam quietly took her turn on the vault. The flash of the cameras seemed to throw her off: much smaller than the other competitors, she lacked the veterans' poise. A flash of raw skill, she was there, and then gone.

That part he could handle. The emotion in her face, the interplay of the lights off the apparatus: he could weave beauty out of words. No, the difficulty was figuring out just exactly what all the figures were all about.

"What's with the numbers?" he muttered as the judges raised their cards.

"#s!" an excited voice jubilated.

Hearing such incomprehensible speed and mathematical buzz, Mike feared the worst.

But the speaker's voice was too low to belong to one of the hockey players. "It's her scor...just behind Minas."

"Who are you?"

"Jon Ejee," he grinned. "Futur medalist."

Mike closed his eyes. "Right. What exactly is going on here?"

"Wel, David had a by so he got laz 1st round. I got practis tho noking out that King dude. Then in 1/4 finals David lost on tim 2 this Teaki person and I bet sum lady."

Jon's words sped by so quickly that Mike could only make sense of the last. "Lady? There aren't any events for people of different genders to compete against each other."

"Then I beat Teaki. So now I get 2 b in the gold match."

"That wouldn't happen to be on the same day as," Mike checked his notepad. "the womens' uneven bars, would it?"

"I duno."

"Oh. Well. That's too bad, then. Um...I'll just see where the Sanadrianese flag stall is."

From: Tarkan Saleta, Chairman, Capitalizt Olympic Committee [Capitalizt SLANI]
To: Eo Sheh, President, Comité Olympique Ariddien

Having received your request that blind football be included as a demonstration event at the Olympics in Querzakhi, we have little choice but to deny it. Though we do appreciate and support the efforts of Ariddian sports federations to establish events for disabled athletes, there are not enough other National Olympic Committees willing to send teams to such an event to justify the expense. However, should you decide to organize an unofficial competition in this discipline, in the UCS or elsewhere, the COC will send a team to participate.

—————

From: Elid Tresillian, Chairman, Querzakhi United Football Club
To: Eo Sheh, President, Comité Olympique Ariddien

I have read your recent call for blind football to held as a demonstration sport at the ongoing Olympics, and your statement that the COA would hold an unofficial event should the request be denied. Querzakhi United currently owns the Trevithick Field stadium in Querzakhi, which was used by the club prior to the construction of Drakcorp Querzakhi Olympic Stadium, and would be willing to facilitate the use of this ground for a blind football event should the Olympics organizers deny your request. The stadium can seat about twenty-five thousand spectators and, though it has seen little use in the past thirty years, can easily be repaired before the end of the Olympics.

From MSPN--


A very busy 24 hours for our Olympic team. Kenneth Franklin finished 6th in Men's 1500m; George Hightower was 4th in Men's High Jump; Athena Karamanlis had the best qualifing distance in Women's Discus; Vibol and Sopheap Parmansupol got the bronze in Men's Doubles Badminton, while in Singles, Vibol won the gold, and Sopheap the bronze; Ilie Renhauer was 4th in Men's Slalom K-1; Olga Pakova was 5th in Women's Gymnastics Floor Exercise; Makaio Ikaia won the gold in Men's Judo 90kg division; Maata Kiri won gold in Women's Judo 70kg division; Paula Peters failed to qualify in Women's 25m pistol; Davis Morton qualified in Men's 100m Backstroke, but Kirsten Foster did not qualify in women's 400m Freestyle; Lim Bao and Kun Bai both lost in Men's Table Tennis; Teodors Kaustaskas moves on in Men's Singles Tennis, but Linus Novartis does not; Leroy Staples failed to move on from the quarterfinals in Men's 400m; Mary Lawrence-Jacobson will be in the finals of Women's 800m; Kim Turner won the gold in Women's Slalom C-1; we play for the gold in Women’s Team Épée; our men were 5th place in Men’s Team Foil; Kimiko Kaneda had to settle for the silver in Women's Judo 78kg division; Ines Parra qualified in Women's Double Trap; our Men's Swim team is in the finals of the 4x100m Freestyle Relay; Lan Mei will be in the semifinals of Women's Table Tennis; Christa Schiller is in the quarterfinals in Women's Singles Tennis, but Irina Tcherpova lost. We have managed to climb back up to 3rd in the medal standings, with 33 total medals; 10 Gold, 9 silver, and 14 bronze.

To: Tarkan Saleta, Chairman, Capitalizt Olympic Committee [Capitalizt SLANI]
From: Luther Goran, President, Maineiacs Olympic Comittee (Comité Olympique de Maineiacs) (MOC)

Sir: Could you inform us as to the status of our request to have rugby as a demonstration sport?

MONOPOLISTS' TENTH DAY RESULTS

Archery (men) - Junqueira was eliminated

Fencing (Men's Epee/Women's Foil) - Ratsel was eliminated, but Zen won a gold medal.

Gymnastics (Women's Artistic Floor) - Giovana Janela won a bronze medal.

Judo - Hatamori won a bronze medal.

Table Tennis (men) - Takishihara and Monteiro in the semifinals.

Tennis (men) - Humehll and Da'llara will play each other in the next phase.

Archery (women) - only Júnia Abate continues in the competition.

Gymnastics (Women's Artistic Vault) - Isabela Jordão Minas won the bronze medal.

More Judo - gold medals for Barca Negra and Idário.

Tennis (women) - Charada is qualified.

QSNBS
OLYMPIC UPDATE

Once again due to the Olympics being held halfway around the world, The Late Day 9 and early day 10 results:

Late Day 9-

In Chess Boxing, the unusual hybrid sport, Qazox' Ivan King dominated the chess part of the match, nearly checking mating his opponent in the 3rd round, but a lousy 4th round which saw King hit the mat 3 times, ended the match against Zwangzug's Jon Ejee at the 2:10 mark of round 4. King has stated that he will improve his Boxing, and next Olympics, if Chess Boxing is on the program, he will try again.

In Men's Tennis, Nelson Leist held off Cléber Prestes of Cafundeu 6-4, 2-6, 7-5 to advance to the 3rd round, while team-mate Tyrone Mcgowin was upset in 3 sets by St Samuel's Joey Ulivo, 6-3, 2-6, 2-6.

Early Day 10-
No action involving Qazox.



That's all the competition involving Qazox for now, stay tuned to QSNBS for all your Olympic coverage, including all of Qazox' Football mtaches, live and without interuption.

(ooc: Ummm. Not to nitpick much, but in the Olympics, men's Tennis, are best 2 of 3 sets, to 6 points... just passing along the info. A best of 7 sets would not happen. That's why my scores are 3-set matches.)

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Live from Querzakhi: Day 11 Update

Good day for Sativaville as in Chess Boxing, we have a shot at a medal.
In theOpening round, Olag Teaki knocked-out Saiful Parvez of Ariddia in the 2nd round, despite being 3 pawns down after the 1st chess portion.
In the Quarterfinals, a surprising Check-mate in round 7 eliminated David Adul of Zwangzug, earning Teaki a semi-final berth.
His luck would run out against Jon Ejee of Zwangzug, who earned a time-limit victory in the 5th round.
So in the 3rd place match against Commerce Heights' own Sin Sīŋ-ug, Sativaville has a chance to earn their first ever medal.


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Day 10.5 results are up (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12626887&postcount=21).

(ooc: Ummm. Not to nitpick much, but in the Olympics, men's Tennis, are best 2 of 3 sets, to 6 points... just passing along the info. A best of 7 sets would not happen. That's why my scores are 3-set matches.)
Yes, I know; I mistakenly used the table tennis scorinator that day (which doesn’t affect who won, just the numbers). And nitpicking is good. :p

"With one arrow to go, Fogarty only needs really to hit the target to go through to the semi-finals..."

Siobhan Fogarty was confident. "Are you ready for your strip, little miss girlie calendar?"

Kate Lonergan was nervous. "It wasn't a girlie calendar. It was very tasteful. And I don't think you'd say that to Beth Ditto. "

"Miss April? She was only in it for the fat-o-philes. Watch and strip, bimbo. "

Siobhan Fogarty lined up her arrow and released.

*twang*

*rrrip*

*thud*

The commentator was the first to react. "Unbelievable! Fogarty's arrow just fell apart in mid air!"

Fogarty was incensed. "Umpire! I demand another go! That's not fair!"

"I'm sorry, Miss Fogarty, but archers are responsible for their equipment. I have to rule that as a miss. Miss Abate wins 106-103. "

Siobhan fogarty was incandescent as she marched to the back. Her anger was raised to fever pitch when she saw a smiling Kate Lonergan. "Oh, bad luck, See-o-ban. Who would have thought that an arrowhead would fall off? Just like that? It is as if someone had unscrewed it or something. "

"YOU did it!!! You bloody BITCH!!!!"

"Now now. Why should I do a thing like that? You miust excuse me, I have a semi final to prepare for. Shouldn't you be getting ready to go to the athletics stadium?"

***

"Inez Vogel? Who is she?"

"I dunno. "

Wentland's second silver in canoeing had been won by a genuine enigma. No-one knew who Inez Vogel was and no-one admitted to entering her.

It turned out that it was a pseudonym for Donna Bird, who had had her mother - a secretary at the Committee - put her name down "for a laugh". She certainly had the last laugh with a careering run that took her into the silver position. She was helped by going first, just as the conditions deteriorated, but she was delighted with second.

***

"It all comes down to this. Montana and Gould. Next touch wins. "

The St Samuel fencer immediately went forward and Gould retreated. He parried a couple of thrusts and saw an opening. A bold charge forward and the red light came on.

"A hit! A most palpable hit! Wentland wins! Mat Gould has done it! The find of the Games has guaranteed another medal for Wentland!"

*yawn* "Gordon leads...Obongo is up there...Harris from Quakmybush...eleven laps gone...not even half distance...Ramsey half a lap back...this is dull...

"Oh, this is interesting...Oslo has passed Grim for sixteenth...there is a seagull on a flagpole...

"Saurbrun is wearing yellow trainers...*yawn* twelve laps gone...jeez, there's still fifteen minutes of this...running...running...still running...it's all tactical...Erokhin hanging back...

"Hello, the crowd has woken up...we have a STREAKER!!! Wow, look at those THINGIES!!! Take the mask off, love...oooo...security is chasing after her, oh dear, they've collided with the runners at the back...Ramsey's in the pile, with Udawye and Gorkpile...and some others...go on, love...security can't catch her and she's gone...oh, what a pert derriere...

"Oh well, back to the bloody race...Cox...indeed..."

RNN - Olympics Update

John Gooden: "Hello again, folks! If you've missed the last few days of Olympic action, you have a lot to catch up on. I'm here with my partner Marilyn Hodge, and we'll recap some of the important events that have taken place over the last few days."

Marilyn Hodge: "Indeed we will, John. Well, let's start with the latter half of day seven. Frank Marion qualified for the third round of men's archery, while both competitors from Reineberg, Wolfgang Saurbrun and Greg Rowan, made it past the quarterfinals in the men's 1500 m. The suprise of the day, however, was Giancarlo Masso's bronze medal in the 20 km walk. He literally came out of nowehere and squeaked into the top three within the last kilometer of the race. The men's doubles badminton team was eliminated in the quarterfinals, while Jonathan Tracy made it into the semifinals in the men’s individual pursuit cycling event. Clarke Gabriel made it past the third round in the men's fencing individual épée and into the quarterfinals. The men's field hockey team was victorious once again, beating Maineiacs 2 to 1. They improved to 4-1-1. The men's softball team was also victorious, shutting out Bazalonia 9 to nil, on their way to a 4-1 record. And to finish off day seven, Ken Rayu was eliminated in the first round of the men's singles table tennis event."

JG: "Ain't that a shame. Well, day eight started off on a good note, Lars Jarrett qualified in second place and moved on in the hammer throw. Liam Wilson also qualified in his event, the men's individual sprint cycling. Livio Iannicci finished fourth in the 3 m springboard diving, just out of medal contention. And Matthew Daniels qualified first in the men's 200 m freestyle swimming, setting an Olympic Record in the process."

MH: "The second half of day eight also started off well. Frank Marion continued to move on in the men's individual archery event, qualifying for the quarterfinals, while Greg Rowan moved on past the semifinals in the men's 1500 m athletics event. Wolfgang Saurbrun, however, was eliminated. Wallace Rashard also performed strong, and qualified for the men's high jump but unfortunately Rory Blake tripped on entry in an embarassing fashion, and did not post a score."

JG: "Poor guy, I've never seen anyone reach such a shade of red."

MH: "Nor have I. Anyway, Reineberg lost 5 to 2 in men's baseball to United Island Empires, falling to a 1-3 record. Jonathan Tracy qualified for the bronze medal race in men’s individual pursuit cycling, and Clarke Gabriel moved on to the semifinals in men's individual épée, for fencing."

JG: "Now on to day nine. Alessandro Robitini made it past the first round in the men's 400 m track event, but unfortunately Bailey Hill did not. Lars Jarrett finished fifth in the hammer throw, narrowly missing out on third place. Matthew Daniels qualified for the men's 200 m freestyle swimming, and advanced to the finals. And the men's volleyball team remained undefeated, beating LancasterCounty with a socre of 3 to 1."

MH: "During the second half of the day, Frank Marion saw his archery run come to an end, he was defeated in the quarterfinals. Greg Rowan finished fourth in the men's 1500 m, losing out to third by less than two tenths of a second. Wallace Rashard amazingly won the gold medal in men's high jump, with a nearly flawless jump. This was Reineberg's first gold of the Olympics. Jonathan Tracy finished fourth in men's individual pursuit cycling, after a miserable final race. Matthew Daniels qualified for another event, this time the men's 100 m backstroke. And finally, Arthur Shields moves on in men's tennis singles, while Manny Osgoode was eliminated early."

JG: "Yesterday was a good day for Reineberg athletes, and started with Alessandro Robitini making it through the quarterfinals in the men's 400 m track event. Matthew Daniels was the highlight of that day, winning gold in the men's 200 m freestyle swimming. He had tears in his eyes as the Reineberg national anthem was being played, obviously his first Olympic gold medal was a very emotional event."

MH: "I would imagine so, John. The rest of day 10 was up and down, with weak performances by Wolfgang Saurbrun, finishing 9th in the men's 10,000 m, and both Reineberg boxers, who were eliminated right off the bat. Paul Gregston and Bruce Inakawa were the athletes performing. However, the ups came with Clarke Gabriels silver medal in men's individual épée, and Matthew Daniels qualifying for the finals in the 100 m backstroke."

JG: "Well folks, you're all up to speed now, stay with us as we continue our coverage of the Olympic games. This is John Gooden and Marilyn Hodge saying goodbye."

From MSPN--


Another day of "so close, yet so far" for many Maineiacs athletes, plus a few more medals:

James Gordon was a distant 4th in Men's 10,000m; Rosine Dubois was 12th in Women's 5000m; Athena Karamanlis was a disappointing 8th in Women's Discus; Sukon Bhumanipam and Pakpao Adulyadej advanced to the quarterfinals in Women's Doubles Badminton; our Men's Basketball team beat Bazalonia 79-72, and will play St Samuel in the semifinals; Monkut Thukimpo received a bye into the semifinals of Men's Boxing Flyweight division; Manuel Pérez defeated João Barros Numen of Estresse Intenso to move on to the semifinals in the Featherweight division; Oriana Capparelli lost her quarterfinal match in Women’s Cycling Individual Pursuit; we face the host nation for the gold in Women’s Team Foil; Sho Ryouta was 6th in Men's Gymnastics Vault; An Bo got a bronze in Men's Judo 100+kg division; Davis Morton will swim in the finals of Men's 100m Backstroke; and Teodors Kaustaskas was eliminated in Men's Singles Tennis. Our medal count is now 34: 10 gold, 9 silver, and 15 bronze.

The world is greatly limited in scope
For Hans as he runs. Nothing but the ground
Matters: not his time, other runners, hope
Of victory or medal, sight or sound.

Some marvel that he is so unaware:
Oblivious to their reality.
They ask if he perceives, but doesn't care
Or whether he, quite simply, cannot see

Everything they know. Though he is not blind
Or deaf, there is no way for them to pierce
The barriers, of sorts, within his mind.
He runs on, not fueled by emotion fierce

Just fixating on each step till he's done
And even then, he doesn't stop his run.

Day 11 results are up (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12629598&postcount=22).

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'Bout bloody time
It appears, that oddly enough, the Coocoostani Olympic team has awakened. In the last several days, Lena Grebeshkova made the final 8 in table tennis and Dennis Obongo finished 7th in the 10 kilometre run, which was welcome, to go along with Yuri Shostakovich in the road race, and Sergei Buznnikin finishing the time trial on a bad hamstring. But day 11 was far too kind, with Raisa Bulgakova finishing an unlikely run to the finals with a 5th place finish in the Women's 100m. She was never near the front, in an unusually slow heat, with the gold medal going to 11 seconds. It was a tough performance by an athlete who's worked hard her whole career and still has the 200 left to go in five days. But the saving grace has appeared in the form of the Boxing team. It may not seem like it, but relatively speaking, we like boxing. Especially amongst the Slavic/Central Asian chunks of the population, boxing is popular. Our newest addition in San Andreas likes fighting as well, so we're now two somewhat strong boxing nations molded into, if current pace keeps up: One of the best boxing nations in the world. Henrik Jonsson fought well in his new, lower weight class, showing the speed that was slowed down with a bid to fight as a middleweight. You should see the new, slim, fast Jonsson, hoisting a belt at home soon. Of course, the boxing hero of our country, Ruslan Karpov, fought today and also won, meaning both will fight in the semifinals and are now bound to finish no worse than fourth. These two will have the highest finish of the olympics. Basically, while they want the gold, they need to win one of their next two matches to win a medal. The scary thing? There are still five boxers, including another star in Maksim Glukhov still to fight. Ron Yeltsin goes tomorrow in heavyweight. Could the boxing team be our saving grace? One can only hope. With Raisa Bulgakova going from a college Junior with bad hamstrings left off the nationals roster, to half a second from being an olympic champion, one should appreciate that hope will get you farther than one can imagine.

NOTES:

-Nadia Tereshkova met with both CoOC President Vitya Mehmedov and CAU head Sergei Buznikin and said they have agreed for the athletes to move back into the olympic village, under joint leadership, with the Interior Secretariat running a public inquiry after the Olympics, with delays to allow athletes to celebrate any medals. Tereshkova will remain in the country, with President Pakhomov set to attend the tail-end of the Boxing tournament and the closing ceremonies.

-The Kelssekians have 24 medals(10-10-4) and are in 3rd. Damned beer-swilling pacifists.

MONOPOLISTS' ELEVENTH DAY RESULTS

Basketball (men) - Sativaville could easily defeat our strong National Team, and eliminated us.

Boxing (men) - Raposão, Furacão and Gouveia qualified.

Fencing (Men's Epee) - Ratsel won the bronze medal.

Judo - Medeiros won the gold medal and Olariel is qualified for the final.

Swimming - Piedade won the gold medal on the freestyle 400m

Table Tennis (men) - all-Cafundéu final between Monteiro and Takishihara.

Tennis (men) - Humehll qualified after defeating Da'llara.

Archery (women) - Abate lost in the quarterfinals, and will try to get a bronze medal.

Basketball (women) - Cafundéu defeated Maineiacs and will play against Sativaville in the next phase.

From MSPN--

Welcome to our Evening Olympic Update. In this evening'e action, Mary Lawrence-Jacobson won our first track medal at these games, a silver in the Women's 800m. Sukon Bhumanipam and Pakpao Adulyadej were eliminated from Ladies Doubles Badminton; our Women's Basketball team lost a heartbreaker to our usual nemesis in these Olympics, Cafundéu, by a score of 81-79. Seamus Murphy won a split decision in his quarterfinal match in Men's Boxing Light Welterweight division; Omar Abdullah lost in Men's Middleweight division; James Toby is in the semifinals in Men’s Cycling Individual Sprint; we got the silver in Women's Team Épée, as our ladies were soundly beaten in the gold medal match by Capitalizt SLANI; Saburo Jiro was 4th in Men's Gymnastics Pommel Horse, the best showing thus far by a Maineiacs gymnast, male or female; Keiko Kin will play for the gold in Women's Judo 78+kg division; Ines Parra was 5th in Women's Double Trap; Kirsten Foster swam poorly, and did not qualify to make the finals in Women's 200m Freestyle, this was more than made up for by our Men's team's surprise gold in the 4x100m Freestyle Relay; Lan Mei plays for the bronze in Women's Table Tennis; Christa Schiller advanced to the semifinals in Women's Singles Tennis; the 4-time Maineiacs Cup winner said she feels "very confident" of her chances to bring home a medal. Current medal count is 37: 10 gold, 11 silver, and 15 bronze.

QSNBS
OLYMPIC UPDATE

Once again due to the Olympics being held halfway around the world, The Late Day 10 and early day 11 results:

Late Day 10-

In Men's Tennis, Nelson Leist led Arthur Shields of Reineberg 6-1, 5-0 in the 2nd set, when one of the most shocikng collapases in not only Olympic, but possibly entire sporting history happened. Shields took the next 13 games to win the match, 1-6, 5-7, 0-6. Leist was unavailble for comment on his perfromance, but his Coach, Krieg Blitz was quoted to say "It was like he had a complete mental breakdown out there."

Early Day 11-
In Cycling the Men’s Individual Sprint Quarterfinals saw Frank Refth advance to the semifinals with a 10.262 to 10.448 win over Liam Wilson of Reineberg. He will take on Renan Vital Abrandini of Cafundeu in the Semis.


That's all the competition involving Qazox for now, stay tuned to QSNBS for all your Olympic coverage, including all of Qazox' Football mtaches, live and without interuption.


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Live from Querzakhi: Day 12 Update

The Basketball quarterfinals began for both Men and Women, and Sativaville is now into the semifianls of each.

In Men's action, a late 16-3 spurt lead the team to a 85-75 win over Cafundeu. Sativaville was the only "higher" seed to advance. They will take on Malabra in the semifinals.

In Women's action, a 3 pointer by Katy Kucera with 1.2 seconds remaining gave the team a thrilling 79-78 win over Saidercray. They will advance and play Cafundeu, winners against Maineiacs also by a last second 3-pointer, in the semifinals.

So each Basketball team is one victory away from clinching a medal and 2 victories away from Gold.


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QSNBS
OLYMPIC UPDATE

TENNIS PLAYER HOSPITALIZED

Star tennis player of Qazox, Nelson Leist, has been hospitalized due to a staph infection on his right elbow. He has been taken to the Querzakhi Olympic Hospital for further testing. The infection has been trace to his 3rd round match with Arthur Shields of Reineberg. A hard spill on the hardcourt in the second set, with Leist leading that set 3-0 (40-15), started bleeding, leading to a stoppage of play. The wound was bandaged, but according to doctors got infected. The staph infection spread rather quickly, as Qazoxians have little to no immunity to that particular infection. It is presumed that the infection was the reason why he looked lost and completely outmatched in the match. Antibiotics have been given to Leist, and doctors are 100% sure of a complete recovery. The QOC will not ask to have the match replayed, despite the protests of the team coach, one Krieg Blitz. Leist is expected to be able to participate in Men's doubles when they start.

Day 11.5 results are up (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12631525&postcount=23).

"Boo!!!"

"Will the spectators PLEASE be quiet for the archers. Otherwise we shall be forced to clear the range. "

Siobhan Fogarty calmed down. It was a tight call, it was almost on the line, but it was a definite seven for Gi In-Min. Which meant Kate Lonergan needed a six to equal and a seven to go through.

Lonergan turned to smile sweetly at the audience. "Oh, I don't think I can do this...it's too difficult..."

She raised the bow at least four times, each time lowering it again. As the clock ticked down she quickly waised the bow, released an arrow and scored a seven.

"Miss Lonergan wins 109 to 108. "

There was applause from the arena, except from Siobhan Fogarty. "You were just lucky. She was rubbish. You'll never win the gold. "

"Oh yes I will. It's in the bag, Sibby. "

"Want to bet?"

"Oh dear, Fogmonster. You never learn, do you? There was a nip in the air at the athletics, I hear. "

"Ha bloody ha. I tell you what...loser retires. How about that?"

"No," smiled Lonergan. "I have a better idea. You want to get in that calendar? Well, how about a makeover?"

Fogarty looked for the catch, but couldn't find one. "You're on. "

***

Len Worth was on tenterhooks. It couldn't happen, surely? The men's fencing team had dominated the foil final but the SLANI were catching up fast. Short's bolt was shot but D'Urville and Gould were just holding on.

"Watch the clock! Nearly there! DEFEND!!!"

But Mat Gould didn't know the meaning of "defend" and continued going forward. And it worked - two quick hits saw Wentland clear.

Len Worth was feeling a little teary. Maybe he could get some new mats.

"Kellie?"

Siobhan Fogarty approached Kellie Bright tentatively in her Olympic Village room. She was watching telly in bed, still wearing her bronze medal, clutching a teddy bear.

"Oh, it's you. What do you want?"

"A favour. "

"Oh really? Why should I do you a favour, Sheee-vawn, when you've been so nasty to me?"

"I haven't, really. It's a form of team bonding. We have to put the new bug through her apprenticeship. "

Bright pouted and said no more.

"Me and Kate have this little game. She wrecked my arrows so I have to wreck hers. She won't let me get near her so I was wondering if you could, er, dab this glue on them..."

"What?"

"It will stick the nock to the string just enough to affect the flight. It'll drive her mad!"

"You're asking me to cost her the gold?"

"She cost it me. "

"No! I won't! It's not fair!"

"Suit yourself. " Fogarty picked up a stuffed rabbit. "Hmm, I wonder what Mr Bun would taste like? With some fava beans? A litle chianti?"

"Put him down! He's not done anything!"

"How about this tiger? He looks grrrrreat!"

"No! No!"

"Well, grubling, you know what to do...I'll just take this hedgehog as a hostage...here's the glue...ta-ta. "

Kellie Bright sobbed softly. Her Olympic dream was turning into a nightmare.

From MSPN--

So far today, we've seen some surprising performances from athletes in sports we'd so far been struggling with, highlighted by a gold medal in Women’s Team Foil, and for Davis Morton of our beleaguered Men's Swim team in the 100m backstroke. In other Olympic news, Spiro Kristakos failed to qualify in the Men's Discus, and injured himself on his final attempt. An MRI showed it to be a torn quadrecep. Mary Lawrence-Jacobson continues to perfoerm well in Women's track, qualifying for the 400m; Theresa Emerson qualified in the Women's 400m hurdles; our Women's Baseball team advanced to the semifinals by beating Quakmybush 4-3, giving closing pitcher Sylvia O'Bannon her first save opportunity in this tournament; we will face LancasterCounty in the semifinals; George Holmes is in the semifinals in Men's boxing Heavyweight division, but Jorge Tavares lost in the Light Flyweight division; in another Fencing surprise, we are in the semifinals in Men’s Team Épée; Terri Gilbert was 5th in Women's Gymnastics Pommel Horse, Keiko Kin won the silver in Women's Judo 78+kg divsion; Yves Montero qualified in Men's 200m Butterfly; Men's Water Polo got underway today, with our team losing 8-6 to Quakmybush. Our medal Count is now an impressive 40: 13 gold, 12 silver, and 15 bronze.

Day 12 results are up (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12633637&postcount=24).

MONOPOLISTS' TWELFTH DAY RESULTS

Boxing (men) - Pedrão Porrada, Ligeirinho and Rochapedra qualified.

Gymnastics (Women's Artistic Pommel Horse) - Fernanda Santos Faria showed all her talent with a beautiful move and won the gold medal.

Judo - Olariel won the gold medal in a difficult final against Keiko Kin.

Swimming - Cardinale won a bronze medal in the backstroke 100m

Table Tennis (men) - Takishihara defeated Monteiro and won the gold medal. Monteiro got the silver medal.

Tennis (men) - Humehll continues in the competition.

Water Polo (men) - loss against Bazalonia.

Archery (women) - Abate won the bronze medal.

Cycling (women)- Mica Sete won the silver medal in the points race.

Gymnastics (Women's Artistic Uneven Bars) - Ana Paula Batista was simply great and won the gold medal for Cafundéu.

Water Polo (women) - loss against St Samuel.

From MSPN--

Larry Knowles has qualified in the Men's 100m, hopefully signalling and end to the disappointing start our track team has gotten off to. Svetlana Dzusganich qualified in Women's Pole vault, but had the lowest height of all the qualifiers; our Men's Baseball team coasted to another easy victory, beating Malabra 6-1, they will now face United Island Empires in the semifinals; Julian Kerensky will be in the semifinals of Men's Boxing Bantamweight division; Umberto Sanchez is in the Lightweight semifinals; Stefana Zuider was 4th in the Women’s Cycling Points Race, but was well behind the bronze medalist, ʼIm Sol-bo of the host nation; we play for the bronze in Men’s Team Épée; in the first rowing event of these olympics, Nigel Smythe qualified in Men’s Single Sculls; Solange Tuilly of Trois-Rivières, Quebec qualified in Women's 50 m Rifle Three Positions; Oceanview, Plymouth's Shelia Mitchell qualified in Women’s 200 m Individual Medley, as she begins her quest for her second medal of these Games; Lan Mei won the bronze in Women's Singles Table Tennis; Christa Schiller will go for the gold in Women's Singles Tennis; in Day 1 of Women's Water Polo, we beat United Island Empires 9-8. We now have 41 medals: 13 gold 12 silver and 16 bronze.

QSNBS
OLYMPIC UPDATE

Once again due to the Olympics being held halfway around the world, The Late Day 11 and early day 12 results:

Late Day 11-
No action for Qazoxian athletes, but Nelson Leist was released from the hospital.

Early Day 12-
In Men's Baseball, Qazox scored 4 runs in the top of the 8th, wiping away a 3-0 deficit to advance to the semifinals over a dispondent Stopmenow100 team. They will take on Nitrodymium in the semis.


That's all the competition involving Qazox for now, stay tuned to QSNBS for all your Olympic coverage, including all of Qazox' Football mtaches, live and without interuption.


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SATIVAVILLE Olympic Coverage:


Live from Querzakhi: Day 13 Update

No action.. but plenty of off-site action as Men's Basketball team member, Kelly Hodes was arrested early this morning, suspected of DUi. According to police reports, Hodes' BAC was 0.13,over twice the legal limit of 0.06 in Commerce Heights. (ooc: don't really know what it is in Commerce Heights.. but go with it). Hodes has been taken of the team, and faces a 180-day sentence. It is unknown at this time if Hodes will serve his sentence in CH or back home, but a ruling should come down by the end of the week.


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Day 12.5 results are up (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12635456&postcount=25).

"Did you do it?"

"Er, yes. "

"Good."

"Where's Hoggy?"

"Who?"

"My hedgehog. "

"Oh, that thing. You can have it back when she loses. "

"That's not fair. "

"Hey, I have to make sure. "

"By the way, what are all those things for?"

"What things?"

"Mud and cakes and stuff. Kate says it was something to do with beauty treatment. "

"Oh, REALLY???"

***

"You know something, hobbit...I don't think you DID put that glue on the bimbo's arrows. "

"What makes you think that?"

"She's shooting far too well. "

"But she's losing. "

"Yeah, cos Si-jin is shooting like Jesus. "

"Does it matter?"

"You disobeyed me, pixie. However you may have your hedgehog back. "

"Oh goody. Gerry Giraffe's been lonely. "

"You have a gay giraffe?"

"No. He's not been at all gay lately. He's been depressed without Hoggy. "

"There's one condition, midget. You have to join little Katie for her makeover. "

"Oh, goody gumdrops!!!"

***

Silver again. Still missing out on Olympic gold. Kate Lonergan's only consolation was that Siobhan Fogarty had no idea what the makeover bet was really about.

"Bad luck, blondie...silver really suits you though. Maybe we can assist in giving you that golden touch?"

Siobhan Fogarty was waiting in the dining area with an expectant Wentland team, including a distraught Costa and Gayle who were a netcord away from a medal in the badminton, who had been invited to watch.

"Isn't this fun?" Said Kellie Bright, already seated in a chair. "Siobhan says she's an expert at this. "

"Oh, I bet she is..."

Kate Lonergan had no alternative but to take a seat. Who tolf Fogarty?

The demonstration started. "When you have young ladies with blonde hair, they ofte want a tan on their faces. "

"Oh yes!" Exclaimed Bright.

"Shut up, moron features..." Hissed Lonergan.

"If you could please both lean back. Perfect. And a good thing for this is gravy. "

Fogarty had a jug of gravy in each hand and carefully poured it over Lonergan's and Bright's faces. Bright spluttered. "Are you sure this is god for us?"

"Oh, dear, Kellie. Perhaps you prefer a mud pack."

Fogarty got a couple of handfuls of mud in each hand and with laughter from the team rubbed it in Lonergan's and Bright's faces.

"There. Better?"

"Oh, bostin," said Lonergan sarcastically.

"Eurrgh! I can feel worms in mine!"

"And another excellent facial can be provided by mushy peas. "

Fogarty poured a can of green goop over Lonergan and Bright's faces. "Ooh, that's cold," gasped Bright

"Facial cream to finish..I find this can best be provided in cake form. "

Fogarty planted a number of cakes in her victims' faces. .

"And finally we turn to the hair...perhaps we are tired of blonde? Maybe a nice black?"

Fogarty had treacle for this and carefully massaged the sticky stuff into Lonergan's and Bright's roots. "Or a dashing punky pink?". Strawberry yogurt followed. "Or back to blonde again...". Custard.

"Mmm, that smells good..." Commented Bright.

"I hope you're happy now, Fogarty. I've lost gold, you've humiliated me in front of the entire team, it can't get any worse...oh, hi, Mum. "

Novice commentator Walter Raleigh had been handed the job of the women's points race. Only six competitors? Who would be interested?

But they were reckoning without a Wentland competitor. Who had had access to Leonora Pennyworth's infusion.

"Reyes leading...still the early stages...wait a minute, she's breaking NOW!!! Far too early!!! Sete's gone with her and...they've slowed? Huh, they're letting the others catch up...curious...Reyes has five points now...they keep sprinting and stopping..this is weird..."

Eventually Luna was lapped and following a monster break from Reyes and Sete so were the others. They had their mini-race for bronze whereas Reyes destroyed Sete with seven laps to go, taking the last points sprints with ease and winning Wentland's second cycling gold of the Games

"4 2 1?"

"It's a geometric progression!"

"No, the 2 is ¬part of the series. So it's insufficient data."

"But what about r other games?"

"Oh, that's different. You have to compensate 4..."

All in all, the defeated hockey team was ironically handling defeat with much more ease than Jessie was dealing with victory.

She climbed up onto the medal podium, which was uneven like the bars she had done so well on. Once again, everyone was looking at her. But instead of flying above them, she was stuck low to the ground, overshadowed in the crowd. She couldn't have stood taller than the other medalists, even from the top step.

From MSPN--

Our performance today was highlighted by Hakan Musa's gold in Men's Weghtlifting 56kg class. Musa lifted an impressive 275 kilos. We lost the bronze medal match in Men’s Team Épée; Mary Lawrence-Jacobson will not compete in the finals of Women's 400m; Theresa Emerson did not qualify for the finals in Women's 400m Hurdles; Jackson Middletonis in the semifinals of Men's Boxing Welterweight division; Leonard Kight advanced to the Light Heavyweight semifinals; Shang Zibo had a disappointing first round in Men's Diving Platform, and sits in 9th place; Melanie Young had the best qualifing time in Women’s Single Sculls, besting her nearest competitor by nearly 14.5 seconds; Kelly Edwards was 6th in Women's Skeet Shooting; Siever Sall qualified in Men’s 100 m Freestyle, however Yves Montero did not qualify in Men's 200m Butterfly; Kun Bai and Lim Bao received a bye into the quarterfinals in Men's Table Tennis. We now have 42 medals: 14 gold, 12 silver, and 16 bronze.

Day 13 results are up (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12638614&postcount=26)…the day number, and that it was Friday, of course, explaining why the forums were not kind enough to let me do it earlier. :p

The next results will be sometime around 10:00 UTC.

"Lerasia's First Gold!"
a slogan that was plastered around all of Berezin.
Alin Sernsco the Lerasian Olympic Diver has one Lerasia 2 medels so far, the only medels, he seems to be the only athlete that is having success but the other 10 athletes in Lerasia's small team are happier than ever

Under the old Romescu Dictatorship anything less than a medel would mean Torture upon their return from any sports event, Now the Lerasian team are happy knowing they can perfrom their sports without any fear of torture.

Alin Sernsco lifted the gold medel up to his head and kissed it, infront of a pile of Lerasian Reporters
"I'm just proud I have done well from my country! From all of the Lerasian Athletes here, we all miss you but we will continue to do our best for Lerasia!"

QSNBS
OLYMPIC UPDATE

Day 13 Results:
In Cycling Men's Individual Sprint—Semifinals, Frank Refth lost to Renan Vital Abrandini of Cafundeu 9.965 to 10.569. Refth will race for the bronze medal, against a racer he beat in the first round, but who came through the repechage, James Toby of Maineiacs.

That's all the competition involving Qazox for now, stay tuned to QSNBS for all your Olympic coverage, including all of Qazox' Football mtaches, live and without interuption.


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SATIVAVILLE Olympic Coverage:


Live from Querzakhi: Day 13 Update, Late Action
Sativaville's 1st chance at a medal was lost by decision. In the Bronze Medal Chess Boxing match, Olag Teaki took on Hometown favorite Sin Sīŋ-ug. After the scheduled 8 rounds (ooc: if i remember correctly that's as long as it lasts right?) Teaki had a slight advantage on the chess board, and held his own in the ring. But the judges ruled 39-37, 39-37, 38-38 in favor of Sin Sīŋ-ug. A couple of neutral observers scored it 39-37 in favor of Teaki, as he was clearly the aggressor during the fight. A formal protest has been lodged with the Olympic Council, but chances are they will not overturn the decision.


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From MSPN--


Our Men's Track team continues to struggle in Olympic competition. Larry Knowles did not advance from the quarterfinals in Men's 100m; in Women's Track and Field, Svetlana Dzusganich took the silver in the Pole Vault, and Irene Hill qualified in the High Jump; our Women's Basketball team lost to Malabra 79-74 and finishes the tournament in 6th place. Arthur Spencer is in the quarterfinals in Men's Boxing Super Heavyweight division; James Toby will race for the bronze in Men’s Cycling Individual Sprint; Shang Zibo was a disappointing 6th in Men's Diving Platform; Sho Ryouta was 7th in Men's Gymnastics Rings; Nigel Smythe and Paedrag O’Malley qualified in Men's Double Sculls; sailing got underway today, and Fred Jones was 4th in Men's One-Person Dinghy; Solange Tuilly was 6th in Women’s 50 m Rifle Three Positions; Kathy Hacker did not qualify in Women’s 200 m Butterfly, but Sheila Mitchell won her second gold, winning the 200m IM. Lan Mei and San Zhen move on to the semifinals in Women's Table Tennis; in Women's Tennis, Christa Schiller was defeated 2 sets to 0 by Sanya Marino of St. Samuel -- Schiller takes the silver; and Secil Polmanglu won the silver in Women's Weightlifting 48 kg division. We have so far 45 medals: 15 gold, 13 silver, and 17 bronze.

From BSC Online

Hodges takes surprise bronze, first Olympic medal in national history. Boxers continue to impress.

Querzakhi-COM

Mike Hodges of Aubrey took the first ever Olympic medal in national history in the morning's competition in Aubrey, finishing 3rd in the Men's One-Person Dinghy sailing competition. Hodges finished with 40 points, while the winner, Levrik Saemkadet of Anterium finished with 26. Hodges nearly did not attend the olympics, as only last-second lobbying from both the Aubrey Sailing Club as well as the Coocoostan Sailing Federation got Hodges and teammate/captain Laureen Newman into the Men's and Women's Dinghy respectively. Newman competes in the Women's portion of the Regatta, in 6 days.
The win comes as Coocoostan's boxers completed their first round, with Super Heavyweight Tiny Harrison losing his match via a stoppage. Still, 4 of 7 boxers advanced to the Semifinals and are guaranteed 4th place. All can win a medal if they win one of their next two matches and are guaranteed a silver. Those to advance include proven domestic champions Ruslan Karpov and Maksim Glukhov, but also Henrik Jonsson and Jake Sutton, two fighters who went down a weight class to fight at the games, with both looking more comfortable.
Between our surprising fighters, underdog sailors and two Water Polo teams, the CoOC's prediction of five medals no longer looks like a symbol of their arrogance, but rather a realistic possibility. Regardless, with the lessons learned, the Winter Olympic team is sure to do even better.

Day 13.5 results are up (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12639031&postcount=27).

After the scheduled 8 rounds (ooc: if i remember correctly that's as long as it lasts right?)(11, I think, but I don't really know.)

"Y ¬I get a medal?"

"Bcuz it's a demonstra10 event."

"Well, I'm a demon."

"No ¬ur. Ur a human, and a stupid 1 2."

"Watch it."

"I watch it ≈ u watch Shockley's pawns."

"So, "Demon" can b my niknam."

"I think we'd all prefer if it ¬was."

"2 bad."

Debbie Marcel was not really expecting to do well in the triple jump. She should have been in the long jump but a mistake in transcription had her in the wrong event. So she concentrated on just getting her first jump in, at whatever distance, and then going for it.

The first jump was in. Just over 14 metres. A personal best. Which was not difficult. The second jump was not. About three feet over the board. The third one saw her fall between hop and step.

And that was it. Debbie Marcel's Olympics. "My nspace blog is not going to be that extensive," she thought.

***

Martina Henzies was Wentland's leading tennis player. Indeed she was nearly Wentland's only tennis player. Wentland's number 2 was ranked 358th in the world. However she had had a lot of success on the international circuit, only to fall short in the big events. Eight Grand Slam semi-finals had resulted in eight defeats.

After crashing out early in the first Olympics, when she was still a rising star, she was favoured to do well in the second, if only she could get past her semi stumbling block.

She couldn't.

With a bronze play-off, nobody thought she would pull herself together to snatch a medal. But after Henzies went 4-1 down and one set down St Samuel opponent Karina Seleryne seemed to pull a muscle and her mobility was impaired. Henzies was merciless, and won seven games on the trot to take the game into a decider and gain an early break. Seleryne fought back to 4-3 down but Henzies nailed the final two games to get her first-ever medal.

However, the press conference was all about the injury to Karina Seleryne and not even the Wentland press seemed to be interested in the bronze. Henzies was growing more and more upset - "it's not my fault she got injured, I wasn't going to throw it out of sympathy" - but when asked "let's face it, Martina, is the only way you won't choke if you play an injured opponent?" she stormed out of the conference and returned to the Olympic village, where she packed and left the compound.

[ooc: the bronze needs to be added to the WLD total]

Day 14 results are up (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12641073&postcount=28).

A quiet start of the day for Wentland, only the epic 4-3 loss to the troubled Coocoostan doubles in the table tennis really registering on the sporting radar.

Then came the moment all of Wentland had awaited. The start of the wrestling!

Gwynn Jones came out for his first-round bout in the Freestyle and had been drawn against Márcio Careca of Cafundeu. Jones was still fuming after being well beaten in his first Olympics by countryman Jimmy Saint and was immediately all over the hapless Careca. Jones took the first period with a takedown and Careca went on the defensive; this cost Jones as right at the end he allowed his foot to go outside the area and lost a point.

Enraged, Jones ducked an attempted grab and executed a reverse waistlock into a Wentland suplesse, dumping Careca straight on his shoulders and neck and automatically gaining a five-pointer. Jones bridged into a pin to end the match there and then and career into the semi-finals.

So, Wentland's attempt at a wrestling clean sweep has started well - Gwynn Jones in the semi, where he faces Estanion, who squeaked past Sullivan with a late escape.

QSNBS
OLYMPIC UPDATE

Day 14 Results:
In the Semifinals of Men's Baseball, a 4-2 loss to Nitrodymium, dropped Qazox into the Bronze Medal Match against Maineiacs. Maineiacs has already beaten Qazox 6-3 in the Group stage, so revenge is at hand possibly.

In Cycling—Men’s Individual Sprint—Bronze Medal Race Frank Refth won Qazox' 3rd medal of these games, beating James Toby of Maineiacs 10.233 to 10.647. The medal makes Refth Qazox' first ever multiple medal winner.

In Men's Tennis, Doubles first round action, Nelson Leist showed a complete recovery from his earlier attack of Staph to lead the team to a win over Davido Lando/Luka Traber of Commerce Heights 6-2, 4-6, 6-1.


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MONOPOLISTS 13TH/14TH DAYS RESULTS

Boxing (men) - Mário Guila, our best boxer, won the quarterfinal fight. Chance of gold medals for Raposão and Gouveia. Furacão lost and won a bronze medal.

Cycling (men) - Abrandini lost in the final and won the silver medal.

Gymnastics (Men's Artistic Rings) - Fausto Massa won another silver medal, his second in these Olympic Games.

Shooting (women) - Kelly Giordano won a bronze medal in the 50m rifle.

Swimming - Raquel Pereira won a bronze medal in the 200m medley.

Weightlifting (women) - bronze medal for Lágrima... which finished in the last place!

Gymnastics (Women's Artistic Rings) - Isabela Jordão Minas won the gold medal. Fernanda Santos Faria won the bronze medal.

Table Tennis (men) - Madruga and Monteiro reached the semifinals.

Water Polo (men) - the team defeated Quakmybush.

Weightlifting (men) - Louro won the silver medal in the 62kg competition.

Diving (women) - Íris Leite won a bronze medal in the 3m springboard.

Sailing (men) - good result, as Lira and Barbada got a bronze medal in the dinghy competition.

Water Polo (women) - loss against Quakmybush.

Weightlifting (women) - de Lacta finished in front of one competitor and won a silver medal.

RM: Welcome to Olympics Late Night.

WR: I'm Wendy Rogers.

RM: And I'm Ron Mclearn.

WR: Let's get to those results.

RM: In Women's Steeplechase action, Bertha Wilkins, and Alma Ellis qualified for the finals of the 3000m version. Also in the 3000m Hazel Edwards did not advance.

WR: In the Women's Triple Jump Final, Ana Stokes finished 5th.

RM: In Cycling action, Jay Bryan struck gold by winning the Men's Individual Sprint.

WR: In Women's Softball action, the Quakmybush team lost 4-1 to St Samuel.

RM: In the pool, heats for the Men's 200m race took place. Mark Townsend, and Ricky Copeland both advanced.

WR: In Table Tennis, the Women's double team of Devon Milinkovich, and Brittany Terryberry have advance to the semi-finals.

RM: The Women's Water Polo team defeated Cafundeu 7-6.

WR: Quakmybush now sits 14th in the medal standings.

RM: They have 2 golds, 4 silvers, and 7 bronze, for a total of 13.

WR: Well, that's all the time we have. I'm Wendy Rogers.

RM: And I'm Ron Mclearn.

Our men's baseball team lost. No one cares how anyone else did. The President has declared a National Day of Mourning.

From BSC Online
(bsc-online.blogspot.com)

Jonsson, Karpov lose, still claim Bronze medals.

Querzakhi-COM


Boxers Henrik Jonsson and Ruslan Karpov both fought well in a losing cause, dropping two and five point losses in the semifinals of the Light Welterweight and Middleweight boxing competitions respectively. Still, due to the lack of a Bronze Medal match, both fighters picked up Bronzes, upping the medal count to three and marking the most productive day in Coocoostani olympic history. Two other boxers, Light Heavyweight Jake Sutton and Welterweight Maksim Glukhov, will fight on Monday morning here in Querzakhi. The guaranteed Bronze medals means that eventually, the pre-games medal predicition of 5 by the CoOC will actually be fufilled. Also moving onto the semifinals were the Grebeshkova sisters, Yuliya and Lena, who defeated Wentland's Dean and Hart 4-3 in a hard fought match. The Women's Softball team was not nearly as lucky, losing 4-0 to a dedicated Maineiacs side. In Women's Water Polo, the Ibix swam to their second consecutive draw, 6-6 with Malabra. With the two boxing medals, Coocoostan moves past the hamlet of San Adriano, into sole possession of 26th place overall.

SATIVAVILLE Olympic Coverage:


Live from Querzakhi: Day 14 Update
No action on the field/court/whatever, but a couple of important thing off of it. Sativaville's Protest over the result of the Bronze Medal Match in Chess Boxing was denied by a 7-2 vote.

And in legal matters, Kelly Hodes plead Guilty and will serve a 100 day sentence in prison for DUI. He will however be able to serve his time in a Sativaville jail, and will have to perform 1000 hours of Community Service. Hodes will not recieve a medal, if the team does earn one.


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Day 14.5 results are up (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12642855&postcount=29).

QSNBS
OLYMPIC UPDATE

Late Day 14 Result:

The Women's Marathon was held at 6:00pm local time to ensure that the runners would have enough light to finish the race. The late start time also made it more bearable as high temperatures earlier would have been too much.

Qazox' Stephanie Hezel finsihed with a time of 2hrs:39min:01sec, well off her personal best, but it was good enough for 9th overall. She did lead for most of the first 15 miles, but 687762 of Bazalonia took over from there and won the gold. A good showing, as Qazox looks to expand its sporting horizons at these games.

(OOC to CH: Just wondering have you posted results for Women’s Track Team Sprint and/or Women’s Mountain Bike yet.. if so which Day's results are they under (as i missed them obivously) and if not what day are they scheduled to take place? Also, When are the Soccer Quarters going to begin? TY)


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(OOC to CH: Just wondering have you posted results for Women’s Track Team Sprint and/or Women’s Mountain Bike yet.. if so which Day's results are they under (as i missed them obivously) and if not what day are they scheduled to take place? Also, When are the Soccer Quarters going to begin? TY)
The women’s track cycling team sprint will begin on day 22.5; the women’s mountain bike will be on day 23; the football knockout matches will begin on day 19 (women’s quarterfinals) and end on day 24 (men’s finals).

The Boxing team had to have been the closest-knit group of all. 6 of the 7 of them had trained together for months, prior to coming, and the seventh had been a familiar face, so it was a fun time. It was a lesson to the other sports. The Boxers had won four medals, it was only a question of what colour the last two would be. They had all chosen not to drink, as Maksim and Jake fought semifinals tomorrow and it wasn't fair to tempt them. Their training session had been good. Maksim had chosen to work on the heavy bag as he liked his arms a little stiff when he fought, as it put up a mental barrier to punching too much. Sutton had done a bit of everything and looked ok. They stood on the balcony of the now inhabited Coocoostani Building of the Olympic Village, talking.

Jake Sutton was clearly a little nervous, he was still getting used to fighting a class up, as a new trainer had helped him eat well enough to gain the muscle his frame could take. His voice quivered a little. "Well, I guess I've got a shot, I won my first match ok."

Ron Yeltsin, who had not won his first match, spoke up. "You trashed the guy by 11. The Referee was sweating more than you."

Ruslan Karpov, still in his team tracksuit, thinking about the Bronze medal he would soon have a second and realized, only three people in the history of his country had won one. He realized something else. Mark Hodges, the sailor, was from Aubrey, and had been born in Kelssek. Henrik Jonsson, who Ruslan knew well, was also an immigrant. He was the only one born in the country, the only one who'd never known another home.

Still, he felt a little drained. He thought of a few times in the first round he could've landed a body shot, but didn't, because he didn't want to miss. He knew he'd fought as hard as he ever had, as these boxers were so much harder. He'd fought Jake once, his first Middleweight title defence, which he'd won handily, in front of a crowd of 80,000. He knew Jake's weakness, but should he tell him? What if it only wrecked his fragile confidence? No, he could. Jake had evolved as a boxer since his new trainer had come along and he told him. "Jake. You hold your left too low."

The others turned to look at him. That was a huge mechanical adjustment to make overnight. "What?"

"You do. It leaves the left side of your face open to my right. If you even just held it higher, the left side of your face would hold up better."

Jake knew he was right. The kid from Commerce Heights he'd....embarrassed, had just been not up to scratch for whatever reason. The scouting report had been all wrong, he'd even looked sick. Still, the shots he did land were to the left side of his head. He knew Ruslan was right. But how to fix it?


Within 10 minutes, the toy gloves they used to practice sometimes were on and they were sparring in Ruslan and Maksim's room. Jake held his left a little higher and Ruslan still got him. Higher still and Ruslan got him again. The third time though, Jake kept moving his hand higher until the other five said it was good. They started just lightly punching, more tapping, until Jake's left dropped back to where it had been. Ruslan saw an opening and threw a punch over Jake's shoulder. Jake didn't even have to touch him, as Ruslan had wanted to send a message about dropping the left, the force of his own half-punch sending him stumbling into his dresser. The six of them starting braying like donkeys as some Water Polo players walked in, wondering what the racket was. Maksim answered, "Don't worry, we're just practicing." The Polo players scoffed and walked away, before Maksim spoke again. "Hey, it may look juvenile, but four medals don't lie."

From MSPN--

Several more medals lately, if not the ones we were hoping for. Oliver Samuels failed to qualify in Men's 3000m Steeplechase, but Teresa Emerson did qualify in the Women's Steeplechase, although not in the 100 m Hurdles; our Women's Baseball team lost and will play for the bronze, our Men's team will also play for the bronze, as will our Men's Basketball team and our Men's Softball team; Monkut Thukimpo won the bronze in Men's Boxing Flyweight Division; Manuel Perez won the bronze in the Featherweight division; Jeanette Lacroix qualified in Women’s Cycling Individual Sprint, but lost in the quarterfinals, and James Toby was 4th for the Men; San Yu won the silver in Women's Springboard; Terri Gilbert was 6th in Women's Gymnastics Rings; Rich Yary did not qualify in Men’s 50 m Rifle Prone, Solange Tuilly did qualify for the Women's event; Siever Sall did qualify in Men's 100m Freestyle, only to finish 5th; Kun Bai and Lim Bao play for the gold in Mens' Table Tennis, and Lan Mei and San Zhen are in the semifinals for the Women; our Men's Water Polo team beat St. Samuel 7-6, our women's team lost 7-2 to Capitalizt SLANI, our Men's team played Cafundéu to a 7-7 draw; Sharokh Khorshid was 4th in Men's Weightlifiting 62kg division, Roshanak Shannaz won the bronze in Women's 53kg division, and Asil Samanoglu won the gold in Men's 69kg division; Irene Hill won the bronze in Women's Triple Jump; Seamus Murphy won a bronze in Men's Boxing Light Welterweight division; George Holmes will go for gold in Men's Heavyweight division; Fred and Sam Jones won the gold in Two-Person Dinghy; our Women's Softball team shutout Coocoostan 4-0 and are now our last hope for a gold; Sean O’Reilly qualified in Men's 200m Breaststroke; Teodors Kaustaskas and Linus Novartis are in the quarterfinals in Men's Tennis; Rich Holland is in the semifinals of Men's Freestyle Wrestling 60kg division, Pavel Petskov made it to the semifinals in Men's Freestyle 55kg division, and Bisera Mira will play for the gold in Women's Freestyle 48kg divison, in the Men's Freestyle 74kg divisionl Hector Marian lost his quarterfinal match; Sabrina Zoeller won the bronze in Women's Marathon; Carson Whittaker missed the bronze in Men's Flatwater C-1 500 by barely 0.3 seconds; we will be in the finals of Men's 4×200 m Freestyle Relay; Christa Schiller and Irina Tcherpova have made the quarterfinals in Women's Doubles Tennis. Our medal count is now 55: 17 gold, 15 silver, and 23 bronze.

RM: Welcome to Olympic Lunch Hour

WR: I'm Wendy Rogers.

RM: And I'm Ron Mclearn.

WR: Let's get to those results.

RM: In the Men's 3000m Steeplechase final, Jim Becker finished 10th.

WR: In the semifinals for the Women's 100m Hurdles, Leslie Clark, Vicki Schneider, and Pamela Terry failed to advanced to the final.

RM: In the Women's Marathon, Lucy Fuller finished 16th, while Michelle George finished 19th.

WR: In the Men's Flatwater C-1 500m race, Wayne Duncan finished third, and received a bronze medal.

RM: In the Women's Individual Sprint quarterfinals, both Natalie Black, and Lisa Robbins have advanced to the semifinals.

WR: The Men's 4x200m Freestyle Relay team failed to advance to the final

RM: The Men's Table Tennis doubles team lost in the semis and will now play for bronze.

WR: The Men's Water Polo team lost 7-6 to Kelssek

RM: Quakmybush currently sits 15th in the Medal Standings.

WR: With 2 Golds, 4 Silvers, and 8 Bronze.

RM: Well, thats all the time we have.

WR: I'm Wendy Rogers.

RM: And I'm Ron Mclearn.

Set...

*bang*

Go, go, go.

Over the first fence, OK, fine, three steps, lift, jump, nail landing, three steps, lift, jump, nail landing...

Ignore Stewart, she's favourite. Concentrate, ooh, clipped that one. Ignore, steps, jump, go go go go go.

Final one, this is it, got it, chaaaaaarge, dip NOW!

Wow, second! SECOND!!! I'M IN THE FINAL!!!!!!!!

"Fran Middleton, congratulations...after Omar Jabeel's fifth in the steeple that is the best performance by a Wentland athlete EVER...and a personal best for you..."

"Yayyy!!!! I'm in the final!!!! Do you hear???? THE FINAL!!!! WHOOOOO!!!! Drinks on me tonight!!!!!!!"

***

Amelia Curtis was fretting. "Where is she? Where IS she???? She should be here by now..."

Coach Missy Molitor was desperately trying to calm down her charge. "She's bound to be here...she knows she's in the doubles..."

"Does she? She was in a state...I haven't seen her for days..."

The umpire was also fretting. "I'm afraid we're going to have to start..."

"Quick, Mel. Claim a toilet break."

"Oh yes. Umpire, women's needs..."

---

"Are you ready to start now?"

"INJURY!!!" hissed Molitor.

"Er, I think I need the medic...slight knee graze..."

"Oh, OK...two minute break..."

---

"I'm sorry, we have to start now. Do you want to scratch?"

"NO WAY!!! I'll play on my own."

The first set was a bit of a gift. 6-0 to Agnes Olson and 안재소. Amelia Curtis was sweating and panting and it was nothing to do with lovemaking. Another Olympic dream shattered.

Suddenly Martina Henzies appeared. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry...I clean forgot..."

Missy Molitor clammed Curtis' mouth shut. "Recriminations later. Just get out there and win the last two sets."

---

"OK, done that. What now?"

***

Warwick The Kingmaker, wrestling coach, was also fretting, but for another reason. Whereas the arena was filled with 1,500 fervid wrestling fans, around 1,400 were from Wentland. And it was having a deleterious effect on the opposition.

After Dean Delamere and Steve Logan were byed into the semis after opponents pulled out, Lira Frenberg of Cafundéu bravely stood up to the Baby-Faced Assassin Lolita Davies. After two minutes of being pounded and pummelled around Frenberg, a hopeless 10-2 down, submitted and Davies was guaranteed a medal.

"Hm, I'm not sure we're getting proper competition here," Kingmaker warned his team. "We're too good at this, we've intimidated everyone out. Even the bears aren't here."

"That's not our fault, is it? We're properly trained for this sort of thing."

"Yeah, but maybe we've been too well trained. Maybe we should enter the juniors next time...or at least maybe you should take it a bit easier on 'em...we've scared them all off..."

"OK, boss. You tell Ditto that. We'll watch."

Day 15 results are up (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12644874&postcount=30).

"Damn it! We should have won that game!" said Mike Kirkland.
"I know how you feel," said Lilly Woodward. "it's not fun to go into an event favored to win and slip up."
"Tell me about it," said Ed Bauer. "not to mention the fact that there were supposed to be some scouts for the Majors observing the game. They'll be really impressed by the way I committed two errors."
"Or by me hitting into a double play." said Mike.
"Well, the Ladies' team wasn't supposed to win the gold anyway, but the press back home has been hyping us since about halfway through the prelims. I'm set to pitch in the bronze medal game. No pressure there." said Lilly ruefully.
"Well, it could be worse," said Ed. "imagine being on the Women's Softball team. With us screwing up, and the Men's Basketball team stumbling, they're the only ones left who can still win the gold."
"Yeah, I don't envy them; I'm nervous enough as it is." said Lilly.

RM: Welcome to Olympics Late Night!

WR: I'm Wendy Rogers.

RM: And I'm Ron Mclearn.

WR: Let's get to those results.

RM: In the Women's 3000m Steeplechase finals, Bertha Wilkins finished 8th, while Alma Ellis finished 12th.

WR: In the Women's 20k walk, Vera Underwood finished 5th, while Ruth Howell finished 11th. Julie Doyle pulled a muscle and failed to finished.

RM: The Men's Team Pursuit team lost their quarterfinal match to Reineberg.

WR: In the Women's 100m Freestyle semifinals, both Louis Dennis, and Heather Morton failed to advanced to the finals.

RM: In the Men's 200m Breaststroke semifinals, Ricky Copeland, and Mark Townsend both advanced to the final.

WR: In Women's Table Tennis action, the team of Milinkovich, and Terryberry lost in the semis and will play in the bronze medal match.

RM: The Women's Water Polo team defeated Bazalonia 10-7.

WR: Quakmybush sits 15th in the medal standings.

RM: They have 2 golds, 4 silvers, and 8 bronze.

WR: That's all the time we have.

RM: Thank you, and goodnight.

MONOPOLISTS' FIFTEENTH DAY RESULTS

Boxing - Pedrão Porrada, Rochapedra and Ligeirinho qualified for the final fights.

Canoeing (men) - Edgard Zanata won a gold medal in the flatwater C-1500m competition.

Gymnastics (Men's Artistic Balance Beam) - Sebastião Marabá won the gold medal thanks to some mistakes made by his main opponents.

Shooting (men) - Marcelo Peixe won a silver medal in the rifle 50m competition.

Table Tennis (men) - Monteiro and Madruga reach the final of the competition.

Water Polo (men) - draw against Maineiacs.

Weightlifting (men) - Xaveco won a bronze medal in the 69kg competition.

Wrestling - Elói qualified for the next phase of the competition.

Basketball (women) - tough and sad loss against Sativaville in the semifinals.

Shooting (women) - Kelly Giordano won the gold medal in the 50m rifle competition.

Water Polo (women) - enourmous loss against Edward City.

Weightlifting (women) - Ivone Rotto finished in front of one opponent to win a silver medal.

QSNBS
OLYMPIC UPDATE

(ooc: Thanks.. thought i might have missed them.. ty again)
Day 15 early results:

In Men's Doubles Tennis, the team of Nelson Leist/Tyrone Mcgowin easily won against the Bazalonian team of 602039/700724 6-1, 6-1, to move into the semifinals.

In Women's Doubles Tennis the team of Kelly Liedtke/Kelly Christion were completely whitewashed by the Nitrodymium team of Ruthie Giles/Trisha Oliver 0-6, 1-6.


That's all the competition involving Qazox for now, stay tuned to QSNBS for all your Olympic coverage, including all of Qazox' Football mtaches, live and without interuption.


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SATIVAVILLE Olympic Coverage:


Live from Querzakhi: Day 15 update

SATIVAVILLE WILL GET AT LEAST 2 MEDALS!!!!!

You read that correctly, Sativaville will leave Querzakhi with at least two medals, as both the Men's and Women's basketball teams advanced to the Gold Medal Matches. The men's side held off a pesky Malabra 80-73 as Guy Valderas made 6 of 6 crucial free-throws in the final minute. They will take on St Samuel in the finals.

On the women's side, a three-pointer by Melisa Seelye gave Sativaville their first lead at 67-65, and never trailed again holding off Cafundeu 81-77. They will take on Kelssek in the finals.


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From MSPN--


Well, the medals keep trickling in...

Julian Kerensky took in a bronze in Men's Boxing Bantamweight division; Umberto Sanchez got a bronze in the Light Weight division; and Dara Gluke won the gold in Women's Weightlifting 58kg division. In other olympic action, Teresa Emerson was 10th in Women’s 3000 m Steeplechase; Paola Ascuelhas was 8th in Women’s 20 km Walk; we finished 4th in Women’s Flatwater K-4 1000; our Men's Cycling team lost in the quarterfinals of the Men’s Team Pursuit; Sho Ryouta was last among eight competitors in Men's Gymnastics Parallel Bars; Keith Randall and Greg Harvey were 4th in Men's Keelboat; Solange Tuilly was 7th in Women’s 50 m Rifle Prone; we face Ropa-Topia for the gold in Women's Softball; Tamara Lohse qualified for the finals in Women’s 100 m Freestyle; Sean O’Reilly made it to the finals in Men’s 200 m Breaststroke; Lan Mei and San Zhen face a team from the host nation in Women's Doubles Table Tennis; our women's Water Polo team lost 9-6 to Coocoostan; Vasiliy Feodor received a bye into the semifinals in Men's Freestyle Wrestling 66kg division; Basak Evren is in the semifinals in Women's 55kg division; Rich Holland plays for gold in the Men's 60kg division. Our medal count improves to 58: 18 gold, 15 silver, and 25 bronze.


OOC: it looks to me like Randall and Harvey tied the bronze medal winners in Men's Keelboat. Am I mistaken?

OOC: it looks to me like Randall and Harvey tied the bronze medal winners in Men's Keelboat. Am I mistaken?
You’re right, they did have the same score, but the competition was a series of eleven races, so ICly, the tie was broken by ISAF Rule A8 (OOCly, I used a random number to decide who finished third):
A8.1 If there is a series score tie between two or more boats, each boat’s race scores shall be listed in order of best to worst, and at the first point(s) where there is a difference the tie shall be broken in favour of the boat(s) with the best score(s). No excluded scores shall be used.

A8.2 If a tie remains between two or more boats, they shall be ranked in order of their scores in the last race. Any remaining ties shall be broken by using the tied boats’ scores in the next-to-last race and so on until all ties are broken. These scores shall be used even if some of them are excluded scores.

ok

ooc: for those that may care, I've put up the medal Standings on the NSWiki. On the main 2nd Summer Olympics page is the top ten, and there is a link to the complete medal standings. if you wish to add your country's flag post the link in the NSWiki BEFORE the name: This is done on the line after the Rank

it should look something like this when you are done:

| Rank
| style="text-align: left" |[[LINK to Country's Flag]] [[Country at the Second Summer Olympics|Country]] ([[Country|CTY]])
| # of golds
| # of silvers
| # of bronzes
|Total # of medals
|-

Those of you that posted flags for the 1st Summer Olympics Medal Standings, I carried them over for ya :D ;)

ooc: for those that may care, I've put up the medal Standings on the NSWiki. On the main 2nd Summer Olympics page is the top ten, and there is a link to the complete medal standings. if you wish to add your country's flag post the link in the NSWiki BEFORE the name: This is done on the line after the Rank

it should look something like this when you are done:

| Rank
| style="text-align: left" |[[LINK to Country's Flag]] [[Country at the Second Summer Olympics|Country]] ([[Country|CTY]])
| # of golds
| # of silvers
| # of bronzes
|Total # of medals
|-

Those of you that posted flags for the 1st Summer Olympics Medal Standings, I carried them over for ya :D ;)


Huh? Could you translate that into idiot-ese, please?

Huh? Could you translate that into idiot-ese, please?

that was as close to idiot-ese as i could get. If you want, just TG your Flag's link to me and i'll take care of it for you... (that goes for anyone else that would like to as well)

Day 15.5 results are up (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12647077&postcount=31).

The teacher teamed the girls together as a joke. Cook and Ook. Hilarious. They had never heard that one before. No wonder they didn't like each other.

But surprisingly they seemed to read each other's mind in the kayak. It was a way of life up in the remote and sparse Rimelands to kayak around and the few inhabitants had generally swept the board in domestic competition - so they had to be good if they were successful there.

So they went in international competitions. Some success but not much. Then a couple of like-minded followers joined in. And it was golden.

Literally.

They were three seconds ahead by 250 metres and eight by half-distance. It was all too easy. In the last hundred or so they eased off and cruised over the line with two to spare. It was crushing.

***

They cheered in the wrestling arena when the result came through with a thunderous roar. The Wentland supporters had not had that much to cheer about; Mick McManus and Kathy Gregan byed through, and Gwynn Jones fairly cantering to a 6-3 win over the brave Estanion, but Jones had taken Kingmaker's instructions to heart and the last two minutes saw Jones merely grab resthold after resthold to keep the score down and to ensure he did not fall victim to a surprise pin. Even then he had to let Estanion score a couple of escapes late on to make the score a bit more respectable.

San Adriano completes Olympics

The small delegation from the Sovereign Village of San Adriano (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/San_Adriano) has completed its participation at the second Summer Games. Spectators were expecting surprises, of the likes provided by Sabrina Vannucci (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Sabrina_Vannucci) or Thomas Peruzzi (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Thomas_Peruzzi) in previous Games, and the Sanadrianese did not disappoint.

Benjamin Eash (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Benjamin_Eash), a medical student who plays table tennis as an amateur, had been eliminated quickly in both the Tyrellian Ylompics and the Ashford Olympics, but here in Querzakhi he surprised his supporters by winning his first round match 4-2 over Wentland’s Carl Price. It was Eash’s first victory in an Olympic match, but not his last. Making it through the second round and the quarter-finals, he stumbled in the semis, but righted himself with a 4-3 win over Nitrodymium’s Walker Hanson in the match for the third place – taking bronze.

“In the past, Sabrina’s won a gold, and Thomas Peruzzi has a silver, so I thought I’d be original and take bronze,” Eash joked. “Now my country has one medal of each colour from its Olympic history!”

And Eash has been rewarded by having his portrait join Vannucci’s and Peruzzi’s on all new editions of Sanadrianese lira (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Sanadrianese_lira) banknotes with a value of SL 500.

San Adriano’s other representative at these Games, Femke van der Vaart (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Femke_van_der_Vaart), is a postwoman who lives and works in Ropa-Topia, but has Sanadrianese nationality by marriage. These were her first Olympics. She has attracted media attention as much for her unusual sense if style (she has dyed her hair light green and wears green lipstick, which, together with her very dark skin, gives her a strikingly distinctive look) as for being a representative of the tiny Sovereign Village. She was, of course, the only athlete wearing the Sanadrianese green and red suit at the women’s marathon.

Van der Vaart, too, had supporters all along the road, waving Sanadrianese flags even though the vast majority of them were not themselves Sanadrianese. Despite this support, the “running postwoman” failed to complete the race – which would have been her first marathon at this highly competitive level. She abandoned not long before the 38km mark.

“I’m sorry I didn’t do better,” she said later. “There were athletes with amazing talent out there, and I was simply outclassed. Still, I’m proud and grateful for the opportunity to represent my country. And congratulations to Benjamin! He’s done great!”

As for other Uhuhland nations, Ariddia has been sweeping up medals in gymnastics, while neighbouring Ropa-Topia finally has its first medal – a bronze in women’s field hockey. The two neighbouring countries, Ropa-Topia and San Adriano, share the twenty-seventh spot on the medal chart, with one bronze medal each.

From MSPN--

After Day 1 of Men's Decathlon, Taylor Spencer stands in 4th, just 6 points out of a medal. Sven Gejdenson failed to qualify in Men's Hammer Throw; our Women's Baseball team beat Bazalonia 10-3 to take the bronze medal, and our Men's Softball team beat the host nation 4-0 to take the bronze; Jackson Middleton will play for the gold in Men's Boxing Welterweight division; Leonard Kight won a bronze in the Light Heavyweight division; Mason Ferguson got the bronze in Men's Flatwater C-1 1000; Jeanette Lacroix finished 6th in Women's Cycling Individual Sprint; Nigel Smythe picked up the gold in Men's Single Sculls; Gary Martin did not qualify in Men’s 25 m Rapid Fire Pistol; Davis Morton qualified in Men’s 200 m Backstroke; we were 5th in Men’s 4×200 m Freestyle Relay; Kun Bai and Lim Bao won the gold in Men's Doubles Table Tennis; Christa Schiller and Irina Tcherpova are in the semifinals of Women's Doubles Tennis; our men's Water Polo Team lost 8-4 to Kelssek; Viktor Alyev won the gold in Men's Weightlifting 77kg division; Pavel Petskov will play for the bronze in Men's Freestyle Wrestling 55kg division; Bisera Mira took the silver in Women's Freestyle Wrestling 48 kg division. We are now at 66 total medals: 21 gold, 16 silver, and 29 bronze.

RM: Hello, and Welcome to Olympic Late Nate.

WR: Let's get to those results.

RM: After the first day of the Men's Decathlon Gene Morton sits 6th, while Jacob Poole is in 13th, and Larry Schwartz is in 17th.

WR: In Women's Hammer Throw qualification, Patrick Mason, and Harvey Kelley both advanced. While Alvin Poole failed to advance.

RM: In Canoing action, Darren Davidson, missed out on a medal by less then one second.

WR: The Men's Table Tennis doubles team of Stuart Lai, and Shota Okabe lost their bronze medal match.

RM: The Men's Water Polo team drew Bazalonia 6-6.

WR: Quakmybush currently sits 15th in the medal standings.

RM: They have 2 golds, 4 silvers, and 8 bronze.

WR: Well, that's all the time we have.

RM: I'm Ron Mclearn.

WR: And I'm Wendy Rogers.

RM: We'll see you tomorrow.

Day 16 results are up (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12650666&postcount=32).

I’m sick today, so I’m not going to do another set of results until 18:00. I’ll make up for the lost time during the final two days, since there are less events then.

Day 16 results are up (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12650666&postcount=32).

I’m sick today, so I’m not going to do another set of results until 18:00. I’ll make up for the lost time during the final two days, since there are less events then.

Hope ya feel better. And let me be the first to say: A very Great Job of hosting the Olympics again.

QSNBS
OLYMPIC UPDATE


Day 16 early results:

Two Heartbreakers of scores, as Qazox fails to add to its medal tally.

In the Semis of Tennis, Men's Doubles, The team of Nelson Leist/Tyrone Mcgowin couldn't put away the team from Maineiacs Teodors Kaustaskas/Linus Novartis and lost a tough match 5-7, 7-6 (7-3), 8-10.

In the Bronze medal game also against a team from Maineiacs, Qazox jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the top of the 1st, but Maineiacs manged to score 3 times each in the 7th and 8th to win the bronze 6-2. This was a vast improvement from the previous Olympic Team, who went 1-3. This team went 3-4, and if not for a couple of bad innings, could have won the gold.


That's all the competition involving Qazox for now, stay tuned to QSNBS for all your Olympic coverage, including all of Qazox' Football mtaches, live and without interuption.


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From BSC Online (bsc-online.blogspot.com)

Sutton wins, advances to Gold Medal Match
http://english1.peopledaily.com.cn/200408/29/images/0829_B94.jpg

Querzakhi-CAS

Maksim Glukov's Semi-final match was stopped by the referee. Jake Sutton's was nearly the same, but for some reason it continued, as he disposed of Lucas Duarte da Costa of Cafundeu handily 36-16 and will meet Josh Nazlo of Stopmenow100 in the Gold Medal Match on Saturday. While da Costa showed a lot of heart by staying with the match, Sutton dominated him and once his defence broke down in the 3rd and final round, it was over. With the win, Sutton locked up at least a silver medal, which will be the highest in national history. Sutton did not speak to reporters, as has been his habit, but his better-known teammates on the boxing team were supportive. "Jake's a great boxer. I remember when I fought him, how fast he was and how he was hard to knock down, even when he was on the ropes. He's got trainers who care about him now and he's fighting at his full weight, so it's not surprising to us that he won," said Karpov, who defeated Sutton when he was a lanky middleweight. Sutton has looked a little faster, but carries more muscle than before and now has to battle a long wait for Saturday's match. BSC Sport Boxing Analyst Garry Russel says Sutton should be a slight favourite. "Jake Sutton is one of the strongest boxers in his class at these games. Light Heavy tends to be an also-ran, Sutton is actually stronger than Nazlo on paper, as far as we know. But! It's the olympics for one, so he'll bring his A plus stuff and who knows how Sutton will handle the pressure. We all saw him handle it poorly fighting Karpov at home, so it'll be crucial that in front of a smaller crowd, he's able to fight his fight, as so far, he's dominated his opponents. Also, Nazlo will almost certainly box him closer than anyone yet, so whether he'll be able to stand up to a little more punishment is also important. Either way, if you watch one boxing match in your life, this should be it."

In other action, the duo of Yuliya and Lena Grebeshkova lost their Women's Table Tennis Bronze Medal Match, 4-1 to Quakmybush. In Women's Water Polo, the Ibix drew again, this time 8-8 with Kelssek, making them the only undefeated team in the tournament. Sprinter Raisa Bulgakova finished 4th in her Quarterfinal and moved onto the next round in the women's 200 metres.

From MSPN--

In the latest segment of the Olymics, Peter Abeche qualified for both the Men's 110m and 400m hurdles; Wilma Jansen has qualified in Women's 200m; our Men's Baseball team battled back from a 2-0 deficit to win the bronze medal against Qazox 6-2; Arthur Spencer plays for gold in Men's Boxing Super Heavyweight division; Pushpa Kishmi advanced to the gold metal bout in Women's Boxing Flyweight division; we got another bronze in Women’s Flatwater K-4 500; Melanie Young of Nantucket, Plymouth Province won the gold in Women’s Single Sculls; Monty Morgan was 7th in Men's Windsurfer; Cindy Sellers qualified in Women’s 25 m Rapid Fire Pistol; our Women's Softball team lost 2-0 to Ropa-Topia and takes the silver; Tamara Lohse was 8th in Women’s 100 m Freestyle; Sean O’Reilly took the bronze in Men’s 200 m Breaststroke; Lan Mei and Shan Zen won the gold in Women's Doubles Table Tennis; Teodors Kaustaskas and Linus Novartis will play for the gold in Men's Doubles Tennis; our Women's Water Polo team beat Malabra 9-5 but still lie at a distinct disadvantage in goal differential; Vasiliy Feodor will compete for the bronze in Men's Freestyle Wrestling 66kg division; Basak Evren will be in the bronze medal match in Women's Freestyle Wrestilng 55 kg division; and Ayla Izmit did not finish the Women's Weightlifting 63 kg division competition, citing a torn quadrecep. Medal count is now 73: 23 gold, 18 silver and 32 bronze.

The camera panned along the line of starters for the hurdles. For a moment it lingered in front of Fran Middleton. The first time the royal blue singlet had been in an Olympic eight runner final. Could the miracle happen?

No.

A big clunk of the penultimate hurdle when Middleton was fourth cost her her remote shot at the medals. She was devastated - her qualifying time woukd have seen her snatch silver.

***

The big shock came in the men's hammer. Mighty Dave Quinn, another converted wrestler, reached the qualifying distance with his first throw and he spent the remaining two getting in some practice. But that one throw put him in the lead and shortened his gold odds.

***

"Bloody hell, Stevie! I said take it easy, but not THAT easy!!!"

Wentland's dream of a wrestling clean sweep came within a midge's minim of collapsing in the freestyle 74s. Logan needed two late takedowns to squeeze past Pedro Almena and get to the final.

Logan shrugged. "Never in doubt. "

What was definitely never in doubt was tiny Lolita Davies' gold. A five point Wentland souplesse in the first minute gave her a lead that was never threatened by Mira and the team moved into the top ten of the medals table.

The world was Ben Rascoe's oyster. One of Wentland's most promising athletes, he had just won gold at the junior 1500m and become the first ever Went medallist.

The flight back to Wentland had been uneventful until the plane passed over the Northlands. Rascoe noted the clouds with slight anxiety. He never noticed the lightning strike.

By the time the rescuers reached the wreckage only Rascoe remained alive. Barely. Unconscious and beyond any perception. He would spend the rest of his life on a life support machine.

***

"Are you sure this is legal?"

"Look, do you want me to go through Counsel's opinion again? It is absolutely legal. "

"And ethical?"

"Let's just get on with it. "

Professor Kauderwelsch prepared the serum. This was the only chance for Rascoe. He had obtained dna from various sources to see whether his theory would work. If there was a stong enough will to win and a strong enough athletic ability it could pull Rascoe out of his coma.

"Here goes..."

***

Ben Rascoe didn't feel like Ben Rascoe any more. He felt like a number of people. Each pushing to the forefront. He wanted to run. He wanted to jump. He wanted to throw. He did not recognize the life of Ben Rascoe.

He was now ten men in one.

He was Amalgam.

The one hundred metres. First event in the decathlon. Amalgam lined up. He was aware in every fibre of his being that his entry had caused an outpouring of interest. Who was he? They knew he was Ben Rascoe but he wasn't. He had strange mannerisms, where he was struggling with himself, where he would talk from different perspectives. Schizophrenic? Driven mad? No-one knew.

But the hundred metres was to start. Set, go. Off he sprung and he was impelled forward by a strange force. From deep within the power of a sprinter emerged and Amalgam was blasting clear. He could not believe it himself but he broke the beam in 10.24. A time that would have made the Wentland Olympic team for the sprint. Astonishing and a win by nearly a second.

It happened again in the long jump. Nearly eight metres with the first jump. Easily the furthest. But Amalgam was suffering. His second jump was a foul after he went too far and seemed to be trying to gain height. Kauderwelsch was on hand to give medical treatment and Amalgam roared in pain as he felt the splitting pain of a brainstorm. He forfeited his third as Kauderwelsch continued his treatment.

Then the shot. He missed his first throw through still being treated. The second was a foul after he leapt out of the circle. The third was crucial but he nailed a seventeen metre throw. And then went back to Kauderwelsch's care before the fourth event.

By the end of the day Amalgam was leading with his best event - the fifteen hundred - to come. But could his mind hold together long enough? Kauderwelsch was worried - as were those athletes in the know.

Day 16.5 results are up (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12653659&postcount=33).

MONOPOLISTS' SIXTEENTH DAY RESULTS

Boxing - Duarte da Costa and Rabelo won bronze medals. Mário Guila and Jéssica Marvi went to the final fight.

Gymnastics (Women's Artistic Parallel Bars) - Daniela Sanchez did well in getting a silver medal for Cafundéu.

Swimming - Ian Cardinale won a silver medal in the men's 200m breaststroke. The men's 4x200 freestyle team won a bronze medal.

Table Tennis (men) - Monteiro and Seu Madruga lost the final and won a silver medal.

Tennis (women) - Charada and Bady went to the semifinals.

Water Polo (men) - Cafundéu lost to St Samuel.

Canoeing (women) - the Bonsucesso sisters, together with Marthe and Moraes, won the gold medal in the team flatwater competition.

Sailing (men) - in the Windsurf, Tico Onda Nova won a silver medal.

Water Polo (women) - Cafundéu drew with Bazalonia.

Weightlifting - Biúrp got a bronze medal, defeating Izmit.

SATIVAVILLE Olympic Coverage:


Live from Querzakhi: Day 16 update

GOLDEN BOYS!!!!

Sativaville has won its first ever medal and it is GOLD!!!! a 80-72 win over St Samuel marks the first time in Sativaville history that a team from the country has won anything. Led by 23 pts from Guy Valderas, the team jumped out to an early 15-6 lead and never trailed.


Here is the Sativaville stats for the game: (Starters in Italics)
Javier Vital PG 37 min--10 pts--6 asst--2 reb--3 fouls
Lance Villalvazo SG 38 min--11 pts--3 asst--1 reb--5 fouls (Fouled Out)
Guy Valderas SF 38 min--23 pts--2 asst--7 reb--4 fouls
Tyrone Ethington PF 37 min--8 pts--1 asst--11 reb--4 fouls
Jamie Wragg C 35 min--18 pts--0 asst--10 reb--4 fouls
Kurt Gering SG 2 min--3 pts--0 asst--1 reb--1 foul
Jessie Sautner PF/C 3 min--5 pts--1 asst--2 reb--2 fouls
Lonnie Whiddon C 3 min--0 pts--0 asst--1 reb--1 foul
Tyrone Fraise SG/PG 3 min--0 pts--0 asst--1 reb--1 foul
Nelson Mahn SF 2 min--0 pts--1 asst--2 reb--0 fouls
Christian Philson PG 2 min--2 pts--0 asst--0 reb--0 fouls
Kelly Hodes SF/PF -DNP (Suspended)
TOTALS: 200 min--80pts--14 asst--38 reb--24 fouls
FG%: 30/63 .476--3ptFG%: 5-11 .454--Off Reb: 11--FT%: 15-19 .789


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Day 17 results are up (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12655255&postcount=34).

"The final minute of the contest and are we going to see a massive shock? Mantini four-nil up against McManus and the Wentland crowd are nervous...McManus has to come up with something special...ohh, he's got him in a leg vice and this could be it...WENTLAND SOUPLESSE!!! Five points and McManus has surely won it now...he winks at the crowd, he has nailed it and is in the final..."

Kingmaker was at his wits' end. The flamboyant McManus was casually brushing non-existent dirt off his shoulder and totally nonchalant about everything. "Oh, there were seconds remaining, were there? Hm. I never noticed. "

***

The dramatic finish had geed up the crowd and Gwynn Jones duly pleased the majority with a functional, if uninspired, win over Rich Holland. Kathy "Ray Gun" Gregan followed suit with a spectacular flying headscissors takedown to stun Hwi-gye - even though it was worth but one point the Commerce Heights grappler was so stunned she was easy meat for the pinfall and the overall win.

***

Meanwhile, on the track Laurie Rose set a new national record in reaching the semis. A finals place is a possibility, albeit distant given her time. .

The Wentland Barmy Army had turned one corner of the Olympic Stadium royal blue. Could they see a first-ever athletics medal today?

First hope was Martha Haggerty who swept into the hammer final with ease. Unfortunately the occasion got to her and only one of her final throws was legal. Her qualifying throw, admittedly in better conditions, would have secured her gold...

They cheered on Lowell Hodges but to no avail, last in his heat and he was one of the ten 200m runners whose Olympics ended after twenty one seconds. And they cheered during the decathlon.

It was not looking good for Amalgam. The hurdles was a disaster as he switched from run to jump irregularly and he crossed the line in a dosastrous eighteen seconds plus. The discus was also bad at just over fifty metres and he dropped to second. The pole vault was dreadful, Kauderwelsch regretting that there were not many vaulters in Wentland, and not even clearing four metres dropped him out of the medals.

Kauderwelsch encouraged Amalgam before the javelin. "Just wait for the last event. Keep close and you've got them. ". Kauderwelsch hid his disappointment after the javelin - not even sixty metres - as the 1500 remained.

"Go to the front and run. Run!!!"

Amalgam did get to the front and completed the first lap in under a minute. The pace was too much after nine events for many and Zella was the first putative medallist to drop back. "You've got them! You've GOT them!". Amalgam could hear kauderwelsch amidst the cacophony of voices in the arena and in his head and he ploughed on. Benning gave up and concentrated on his position. Only Spencer tried to stay with Amalgam but it was costly. Amalgam hit his stride in the last 200 and Spencer faded way, way, way back. Rascoe was on his own as he ducked for the line iin three forty one. He needed a twenty second lead over Benning. He had nearly half a minute.

The Barmy Army went wild. With Benning still finishing they raised the roof. First athletics medal ever. In the blue riband event. And gold.

And a bronze in the canoeing by a gnat's crotchet.

Made up for Logan's disaster in the wrestling.

Day 17.5 results are up (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12656350&postcount=35).

From MSPN--

Lots to cover over the past 36 hours...

Larry Knowles got to the quarterfinals of Men's 200m, but further, as our Track and field teams continue to struggle; Taylor Spencer, in one of track's few bright spots, won the bronze in Men's Decathlon; Vlasta Horvath was 4th in Women's Hammer Throw; our Men's Basketball team won the bronze; Chantelle Mercer will be in the gold medal bout in Women's Boxing Featherweight division; Iris Roper will go for the gold in Women's Light Welterweight division; we were 4th in Men’s Flatwater C-2 500; Nigel Smythe and Paedrag O'Malley got the bronze in Men’s Double Sculls; Antoinette Puissant failed to qualify in Women's 200m Breststroke; Christa Schiller and Irina Tcherpova lost the bronze medal match in Women's Doubles Tennis, while Teodors Kaustaskas and Linus Novartis took the silver in Men's Doubles; our Women's Volleyball team lost 3-0 to LancasterCounty in the quarterfinals; Aleksandr Semyonovich withdrew from Men's Weightlifting 85kg division with abdominal cramps; Pavel Petskov won a bronze in Men's Freestyle Wrestling 55kg division; Semyon Kolyma will play for the bronze in the 84 kg divison; Peter Abeche is in the finals of Men's 110m Hurdles, and the semifinals of the 400m Hurdles; Wilma Jansen made the finals of the Women's 200m; Atefeh Nyerere will be in the gold medal bout in Women's Boxing Middleweight division; Tatiana Perry won a bronze in the Heavyweight division; Ophelia Mason and Paula Dore won the gold in Women's Flatwater K-2 1000; Melanie Young and Valerie Steele were 4th in women's Doubles Sculls; Thomas Rand won the gold in Men's Heavyweight Dinghy; Cindy Sellers was 6th in Women’s 25 m Rapid Fire Pistol; Hania Leptski won the silver in Women's Weightlifting 69kg division; Vasiliy Feodor lost the bronze medal match in Men's Freestyle Wrestling 66 kg divison; Natalya Petrovich will play for the bronze in Women's 63kg division; Basak Evren won the bronze in Women's 55kg divison; Hector Ramirez did not qualify in Men's Long Jump; Rosine Dubois did not make the finals in Women's 1500m Graciela Lopez won the bronze in Women's Boxing Light Flyweight division; Rani Bugov made the gold medal bout in the Bantamweight division; Mason Ferguson and Larry Iverson got the silver in Men’s Flatwater C-2 1000; Denisa Illiacu qualified in Women's Rhythmic Gymnastics, but Ramona Lysenko did not; Randy Lipton was 15th in Men's Modern Pentathlon; Peter Thompson and Steve Jansen go the bronze in Men’s Lightweight Double Sculls; Rich Yary did not qualify in Men’s 50m Rifle Three Positions; Davis Morton won the silver in Men’s 200m Backstroke; Stacy Allen and Florence Porter won the gold in Women's Synchronized Swimming Duet; our Men's Water Polo team lost 7-6 to Bazalonia, but qualifies for the medal round based on goal differential; Butch Brockman was 4th in Men's Weightlifting 94kg divsion; Kostas Paradis lost his quarterfinal match in Men's Freestyle Wrestling 96kg division; Paraskede Elvida will play for the gold in Women's 72kg division. Our medal sount is now 88, just 2 medals off the lead, with 26 gold, 22 silver, and 40 bronze.

Kingmaker's instructions to Robin Brooks were brutally simple.

"Kill. "

Stung by Steve Logan's surprise loss the previous day the coach wanted to instil some respect in the opposition.

And Brooks did just that in his semi-final. A drop takedown and angel hold got him four up. A controversial escape saw him penalized a point and in a fury Brooks launched his opponent into a brutal Warplands souplesse straight into a pin. Less than a minute gone and he was in the final, barely glancing backwards as he stormed off the mat.

Kingmaker had been frustrated before. The masked giant Hiroshima faced no-one as his putative opponent withdrew and Janie Dawson had faced nothing but blanking before eking out a 5-2 win in a match of single points. Dawson was not pleased with her performance - "hopefully in the final I can show what I'm made of. "

***

Lord Winterisle did not show emotion but he was utterly bemused. A favourite for the modern pentathlon and defending champion. What had happened? He was a close third into the final event but was sluggish and passed by many, including, to his chagrin, the Pyxarch.

Dashed bad show, he thought. Man should know his place, what? The Pyxarch by contrast was delighted with his top five finish, perhaps presaging a life away from the Pyx. All he ever considered was the Pyx, it was his job, his life. He had had some scarce practice for the mod pent through being seconded to His Lordship for the fencing training and had provided competition for the shooting. Naturally His Lordship always won. But now the Pyxarch had finished ahead and the endless queries regarding the Pyx may yet come to an end. Although there might need to be a new Pyxarch, unless he supervised a Pyxarchomenos or something. It was a veritable pyxle.

RM: Hello, I'm Ron Mclearn, and welcome to Olympic Evening.

WR: And I'm Wendy Rogers.

RM: Let's get to those results.

WR: In the quarterfinals of the Men's 110m Hurdles, Harold Hicks, and Adam Flores both advanced to the semi finals. While Marcus Turner failed to advance.

RM: In the first round of the Men's 400m Hurdles, Francis Black, Allen Pratt, and Elmer Owen all advanced to the next round.

WR: In the Women's 200m quarterfinals, Tammy Cummings, Kathryn Wilson, and Evelyn Pierce all advanced.

RM: In the final of the Men's 200m Breastroke, Ricky Copeland finished 5th, and Mark Townsend finished 6th.

WR: Devon Milinkovich and Brittany Terryberry won the bronze medal in Women's Doubles Badminton.

RM: The Women's Water Polo team lost 7-5 to St Samuel.

WR: In the first round of the Men's 200m Ricardo Norton, Bryan Erickson, and Marcus Bridges all advanced to the next round.

RM: After the second day of the Men's Decathlon, Gene Morton sits 11th. While Jacob Poole sits in 15th. Larry Schwartz finished 19th.

WR: In Women's Hammer Throw qualification, Cynthia Barnett, Bessie Kelly, and Marjorie Atkins all failed to advance.

RM: The Men's Flatwater C-2 500m race saw Quakmybush finish 7th.

WR: Lisa Robbins took on Natalie Black on the semis of the Women's Individual Sprint. Lisa won the race.

RM: In the semi finals of the 200m Women's Breaststroke, Janet Burke advanced. While Rosemary Poole did not move on.

WR: In the semi finals of the Men's 110m Hurdles Harold Hicks got through on a photo finish. While Adam Flores failed to advance.

RM: In the quarterfinals of the Men's 400m Hurdles, Allen Pratt advanced, as well as Francis Black and Elmer Owen.

WR: In the Women's 200m semi finals, Tammy Cummings, Kathryn Pierce, and Evelyn Pierce all failed to advance.

RM: In the Women's Flatwater K-2 1000m race, Rios and Reeves won a silver medal.

WR: In the heats for the Men's 200m IM Carl Campbell advanced. While Tony Robbins did not.

RM: In the Women's 4x200m Freestyle race Quakmybush qualified for the final.

WR: In the Men's Volleyball quarterfinals, Quakmybush defeated Reineberg 3 sets to 2.

RM: In the quarterfinals for the Men's 200m Marcus Bridges advanced. While Ricardo Norton, and Bryan Erickson did not.

WR: In qualification for the Men's Long Jump, Ted Garner, and Christian Poole did not advance.

RM: In the Semifinals of the Women's 1500m, Megan Griffith, and Clara Garner advanced. While Heidi Russel did not.

WR: In the Men's Flatwater C-2 1000m race, Norman and Murray won a bronze for Quakmybush.

RM: Lisa Robbins won a Gold Medal in the Women's Individual Sprint.

WR: Also in the Women's Individual Sprint Natalie Black finished with a bronze medal.

RM: Janet Burke won a silver medal in the Women's 200m Breastroke.

WR: Men's Water Polo team beat St Samuel 10-6.

RM: That's all the time we have thank you and good night.

MONOPOLISTS' SEVENTEENTH DAY RESULTS

Boxing - Nathália Regueiro, Janine, Karine and Grazielli reach the final fights in their respective categories.

Gymnastics (Women's Artistic Horizontal Bar) - Isabela Jordão Minas showed all her talent in the popular "trave" (the bar - her speciality). Her friend Fernanda Santos Faria won the silver medal.

Tennis (women) - Charada and Bady reach the final, even with an average performance.

Volleyball (women) - the girls of Cafundéu are one of the favourites to win the title and advanced to the semifinals defeating Nytrodimium.

Shooting (women) - Cíntia Felipo won the silver medal in the 25m pistol. Cafundéu's shooting athletes got good results, but had difficulties in the decisions.

Volleyball (men) - the hawks of Cafundéu are playing well and are now in the semifinals after defeating LancasterCounty.

Weightlifting - Hiale won the gold medal, in a good and surprising result for Cafundéu.

QSNBS
OLYMPIC UPDATE


Day 17 result:

Qazox won its 4th medal at these games as Nelson Leist/Tyrone Mcgowin defeated 219469/569564 of Bazalonia 6-7 (4-7), 7-5, 8-6 to win the Bronze Medal in Men's tennis Doubles.

The Women's football team has been waiting for days for the Quarterfinals to begin in that competition, but still no word from Commerce Heights officals as to when they will be played (ooc: ICly i don't know ;) )


That's all the competition involving Qazox for now, stay tuned to QSNBS for all your Olympic coverage, including all of Qazox' Football mtaches, live and without interuption.


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SATIVAVILLE Olympic Coverage:


Live from Querzakhi: Day 17 update

10 seconds. That's all that stood between Sativaville and a historical sweep of the gold in Basketball. Leading 74-72, and with Kelssek inbounding at half court, all the team had to do was prevent a decent 3-pt shot. But Kelssek managed to find a player low and just a split second later it was tied at 74-74 with 8.7 seconds left. But a risky half-court heave was intercepted by Kelssek, and their main shooter managed to heave a miracle three with 0.8 seconds left to give Kelssek the gold.

It was a dissapointing end to a great run for the Women's team, but there is no shame in silver, It means that you are better than 99% of the world, right?


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Day 18 results are up (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12658919&postcount=36).

Our 3rd Medel of the Olympics!

Nicolae Voronescu our Gymnast has won Bronze!

So far Lerasia has won 2 bronze and 1 gold! for such a small olympic team we are all very proud of our athletes!

"Well, Geoff, a thrilling and successful morning of Olympic competition. "

"Indeed, Geoff. Let's look at Sonya Maiden's gold medal match again. "

(VT. Bell rings. Maiden and Alvarez circle carefully. Alvarez tries a dive. Maiden dodges and grabs Alvarez' stomach from above. Maiden lifts Alvarez high and twists her in the air before driving her down. The referee signals five points as Maiden holds a stunned Alvarez down for a pin. The referee calls for the bell. )

"That's it, Geoff...twelve seconds..."

"Indeed, Geoff. Let's look at the other Wentland highlights. "

(Pause. )

"Er, are there any?"

(Rifling through papers. )

"Phil Barrera..."

"No, no-one understood that race. It took four hours to suss the winner. "

"Lady Winterisle came fifth. "

"Yeah, like Pyxy. "

"Er...I think that was it. "

"Wild Angus?"

"He was pretty wild at his bye. I think he wanted to eat someone. "

"Swimming?"

"No-one drowned. "

"Er..."

"Ah..."

"We've got another ten minutes..."

"Er..."

"Have we got that streaker footage again?"

Day 18.5 results are up (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12660882&postcount=37).

RM: Hello, and Welcome to Olympic Evening. I'm Ron Mclearn.

WR: And I'm Wendy Rogers.

RM: Let's get to those results.

WR: In the Men's 110m Hurdles, Harold Hicks won the silver medal.

RM: In the semifinals of the Men's 400m Hurdles, Elmer Owen advanced to the next round. While Allen Pratt, and Francis Black failed to advance.

WR: In the Women's Flatwater K-2 500m race, Munoz, and Hoffman finished 5th.

RM: In the Men's Points Race, Harry Patterson finished in 7th place.

WR: In the Women's Modern Pentathlon, Darlene Hampton finished 20th, while Nancy Burgess finished 21st.

RM: In the semis of the Men's 200m IM, Carl Campbell failed to advance.

WR: In the 4x200m freestyle relay, the Quakmybush team finished in 6th.

RM: In the semifinals of the Men's Volleyball, Quakmybush defeated St Samuel 3-1.

WR: The Women's Water Polo team defeated Edward City 10-8.

RM: In the semis of the Men's 200m Marcus Bridges advanced.

WR: In the Women's 1500m final, Megan Griffith finished 5th, while Clara Garner finished 12th.

RM: In the Men's Flatwater K-1 500m race, Eric Casey finished 8th.

WR: In the semi finals of the Men's Keirin, Cory Norton, and William advanced.

RM: In the quarterfinals of Men's Handball, Quakmybush defeated Cafundeu in a classic game, scoring with 10 seconds left.

WR: In the heats of the Men's 50m freestyle, Chris Cook advanced, while Bruce Norris did not.

RM: In the Women's 800m Freestyle semifinals, Eileen Fox has advanced. While Victoria Ramirez did not.

WR: Quakmybush currently sits 15th in the medal standings.

RM: They have 3 golds, 7 silvers, and 11 bronze medals.

WR: Well, that's our time, I'm Wendy Rogers.

RM: And I'm Ron Mclearn, thank you and good night.

MONOPOLISTS' EIGHTEENTH DAY RESULTS

Boxing - Capixaba, Fernoni and Danine reach the final fights in their respective categories.

Swimming - Ian Cardinale won the 200m backstroke competition. The women 4x200m medley won a silver medal.

Synchronized Swimming (Women) - the female duet got only the bronze medal.

Tennis (women) - Charada and Bady finally lost, but got an important silver medal.

Volleyball (women) - Cafundéu reached the final with a strong team.

Water Polo (men) - loss against Kelssek.

Weightlifting (men) - Marcílio Dias was the strongest one in the 94kg competition. Dinah Cadillac won a silver medal.

Wrestling - the violent and furious Pitbull de Mauá qualified, together with Keyla and the benevolent but wise Michel Serdan.

Volleyball (men) - Cafundéu reached the final of the competition and is probably the favourite team to win the gold medal.

Water Polo (women) - loss against Abu Omar.

QSNBS
OLYMPIC UPDATE


Day 17.5 and 18 results:
Nothing at all involving Qazox, so we decided to take a look at the race for the Medal championship, an unoffical title to be sure, but one of intense national pride:

The Hosts, Commerce Heights, has 103 medals overall, the most of any country and its almost evenly split between Gold, Silver, and Bronze with 32, 30, and 41 respectively.
2nd place is Maineiacs with 98 medals, 28 gold and 28 silver with 42 bronze.
3rd is Cafundeu with 96 medals and they have at least 30 of each kind, 30 gold, 32 silver and 34 bronze.
In a somewhat distant 4th is St Samuel. They have 65 medals, most of which are silver and bronze and 14 golds.

As for Qazox? We have 4 medals, good for a tie for 21st overall. The 4 medals are still short of the goal of 7 at these games, but there are a few events left that Qazox can medal in, so its still possible to reach that lofty goal.

With the QOC increasing funding for not only the next Summer Olympics, but also the Winter Olympics, Qazox could become a force in 4 years.

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From MSPN--

Peter Abeche finished 8th in Men's 110m Hurdles and advances to the finals in the 400m Hurdles; Wilma Jansen was 4th in Women's 200m; Stanka Ismali will be in the gold medal bout in Women's Boxing Lightweight division and Rose Kent is in the gold medal bout in the Welterweight division; Elizabeth Nash will play for gold in the Light Heavyweight division; Rhonda Reed will play for gold in the Super Heavyweight division; Anne Cartaxas and Marina Liston won the silver in Women's Flatwater K-2 500; Igon Metaxas won the silver in Men's Flatwater K-1 500; Harold Sandersen was a surprise silver medalist in Men's Cycling Points Race, but failed to qualify for the finals in Men’s Keirin; Yong Hyun Jung was 8th in Men's Rhythmic Gymnastics, Jin-Ho Young was 10th, and Denisa Illiacu was 8th in the Women's competition; Sheila Gorman was 16th in Women's Modern Pentathlon; Wendy Crewe and Ginger Hale won the silver in Women’s Lightweight Double Sculls, and we won the silver in Men’s Quadruple Sculls; Ed Gilbert and Anne Horner were 4th in Sailing Skiff class; Ellis Sampson did not qualify in Men's Skeet Shooting; Davis Morton advanced to the finals in Men's 200m IM; we finished 7th in Women’s 4×200 m Freestyle Relay; Siever Sall qualified in Men's 50m Freestyle; Summer Ralston did not qulify in Women's 800m Freestyle; Duncan Filbert and Gary Idle got the bronze in Men's Synchronized Swimming Duet, and our Men's team stands in second after the technical routine in the Team Event; our Women's Water Polo team played Kelssek to 7-7 draw and was eliminated; Portia Orinda won the gold in Women's Weightlifting 75kg division; Mohammed Khatani won the gold in the Men's 105 kg division; Masaharu Hitachi made it to the semifinals in Men's Freestyle Wrestling 120kg division; Natalya Petrovich won the bronze in Women's Freestyle Wrestling 63kg division; Paraskede Elvida won the silver in Women's Freestyle Wrestling 72kg divions; Semyon Kolyma lost the bronze medal match in Men's 84kg division; in the first day of Greco-Roman Wrestling, Varlam Kastanitch was defested in the quarterfinals of the Men's 55kg division; Taekwondo also got underway, with San Ong Pak advancing to the semifinals in the Women's 49kg division, and Young Hyun Jun losing his match in the Men's 58kg division -- he will now play in the Repêchage. We now have 98 medals, actually 2 more than 2nd place Cafundéu, but with fewer gold. We have 28 gold, 28 silver, and 42 bronze.

Day 19 results are up (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12663425&postcount=38).

Albert Wall was not know as the Clown Prince of the Mat for nothing. Coming in to the strains of "Why Can't We Be Friends", he feigned a handshake with his Commerce Heights opponent and withdrew, to the mocking laughter of the Wentland supporters, and infuriated his adversary by strutting around the arena shouting "ooo are yer?".

Would the antics cease once he got going? No. He basically begged his opponent to put him in a hold. A bemused Morgan did so and the lithe Wall escaped. One point.

Morgan tried again with a chancery. Wall yelled at the crowd "ooh, this is a tricky one" before escaping again. Another point.

Wall suggested they swap places. Morgan, sensing a chance of a point himself, concurred. Wall slapped on a three quarter nelson and rolled Morgan to the edge of the mat. Another point.

Morgan was losing his temper and charged at Wall, who ran off the mat saying "see, you can have a point now. Can we still be friends?"

Morgan, now irate beyond measure, charged at Wall again, who ran to the edge of the mat and suddenly dropped to trip the hapless Morgan for another point.

During the inter-period break Wall swigged conspicuously from a water botle with the word "GIN" written in magic marker. He lurched drunkenly back to the mat and staggered around singing and continuously, if "fortuitously", evading Morgan's grasp he snuck behind and pinched his opponent's derriere and ran off the mat again.

At 4-2 it was still close but Wall soon remedied that. As Morgan finally gripped Wall the Wentland grappler escaped, then applied a chancery takedown, then a Wentland souplesse to rack up a bunch of points. Which very quickly became irrelevant as Wall bridged the souplesse into a pin.

Morgan stormed off the mat in disgust at Wall's antics, and Wall looked hurt and affronted. But he was in the final now

***

The Wentland Barmy Army was already on a high from the previous day's action. Two golds - Dawson controlling another dull match against Elvida and Robin Brooks nailing a souplesse in a dire match with Frappidaris, who spent the entire match trying to avoid being pinned - and Hiroshima forcing a submission from Acebes via a bearhug putting them in a good mood. Even Olen Macias had joined the fun, touching his way into the 50m swimming semis. As well as the keirin success, although no-one knew what that was and were surprised the motorbike didn't win.

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Parker "overwhelmed" by massive haul

From the expected triumphs in chlorinated water to the unlikely exploits in women's basketball, Kelssek's medal haul so far at Querzakhi has chef-de-mission Dennis Parker "overwhelmed".

"We never expected this kind of success. I think we can really try to establish ourselves as a powerhouse now." he added in an interview for the KBC.

While Kelssekians were expected to do well in swimming, water polo, judo, gymnastics and diving, medals have come from some rather unexpected places. Kieran Tarrant's silver - and Olympic record score - in shooting caught everyone by surprise, Tarrant, an amateur whose day job is a paralegal for Celestar's train division, included.

"Never," he said when asked if he ever thought he could even make the final round, let alone the silver.

There have also been some medals from weightlifting, freestyle wrestling and cycling, all sports flying well below the collective Kelssekian radar. However, to many fans this is the best part of the Olympics - the opportunity to watch the obscure.

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P.D. stumbles, finishes fourth

"I'm not setting targets for myself. I'm just going all out for the win in every race." said Philipe Destry a week ago when asked if he thought he could achieve the feat of racking up five medals.

He's got three now, but he couldn't quite take the fourth as he came up short in the individual medley, finishing behind an almost-inseperable pack of three - Matthew Daniels (Rejistan), Romário Hadi (Cafundéu) and Matthies Heerlen (Capitalizt SLANI) - who all touched the wall within a split-second of each other.

Destry was clearly disappointed not to at least make the podium in one of his favoured events - he already has a gold from the 4x100m version - but refused to give any impression besides optimism to reporters.

"I think I did a very good race, but there's others I'm going to win. Since when do you always win? The competition's very tough and I'm going to do my best out there."

And that could have some devastating implications, not just now, but for the future. And his brother Bernard, who also has three medals from the games, is keen to deflect the spotlight to his younger brother.

"I'm four years older. I'm at my peak now. You just see what Philipe can do at his age and I think he's still got a long way to go."

Day 19.5 results are up (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12664813&postcount=39).

RM: Hello, and welcome to Olympic Evening. I'm Ron Mclearn.

WR: And I'm Wendy Rogers.

RM: Let's get to those results.

WR: In the Men's 400m Hurdles Final, Quakmybush's Elmer Owen won the bronze medal.

RM: In qualification for the Men's Pole Vault, Ronnie Young, and Russel Romero advanced to the next round. Cecil McKenzie, however, did not.

WR: In the qualification for the Women's Javelin, Arlene Marshall will move on. While Arlene Blake, and Sylvia Simpson will not.

RM: In the Women's Flatwater K-1 1000m race, Joyce Morris finished 4th.

WR: In the semi finals of the Women's Keirin, both Jeanne Douglas, and Vivian Phillips have advanced to the final.

RM: In the finals of Men's Volleyball, Quakmybush came up short, losing to Cafundeu 3-1.

WR: In the Men's 200m final, Marcus Bridges finished 8th.

RM: In the quarter finals of the Men's 800m, Oscar Fowler has advanced. Jesse Kelly, and Christian Drake both failed to move on.

WR: In the semis of the Men's 5000m Curt Hunter, and Allen Coleman advanced. While James Greene failed to advance.

RM: In the Men's Flatwater K-1 1000m race, Theodore Powers finished 6th.

WR: Quakmybush defeated LancasterCounty in a great Women's Handball game 28-27.

RM: Chris Cook failed to advance in the Men's 50m Freestyle race.

WR: Eileen Fox finished 6th in the Women's 800m Freestyle final.

RM: The Women's Water Polo team lost 7-4 to the hosts.

WR: Quakmybush currently sits 15th in the medal standings, with 3 gold, 8 silver, and 12 bronze medal.

RM: Thank you for your time, and good night.

MONOPOLISTS' NINETEENTH DAY RESULTS

Boxing - Polyana won a bronze medal. Cassiana reached the final of the competition. Raposão and Gouveia lost their final matches and got silver medals.

Canoeing (men) - André Luís Arroyo won a gold medal in the flatwater K-1500m competition.

Volleyball (women) - sad loss against St Samuel in the final game.

Wrestling - Pitbull de Mauá qualified for the final. Michel Serdan has a chance to win a gold medal too.

Association Football (women) - Cafundéu defeated St Samuel by the result of 3x1. Goals were scored by Luana, Ana Laura and Alice. Team will play against Qazox in the semifinals.

Rhythmic Gymnastics (women) - Cafundéu's girls had very much support from everybody, but unfortunately weren't able to defeat Ariddia.

Swimming - Romário Hadid lost the gold medal and an olympic record in the final, ending in the second place.

Volleyball (men) - Yeeeah! Victory against Quakmybush gives to Cafundéu first gold medal in team sports.

Weightlifting - Corsinha won a bronze medal in the over 75kg competition.

From MSPN--

Peter Abeche won the gold in the Men's 400m Hurdles, providing some vindication for our Track teams, which have struggled thus far; Leroy Staples did not make the semifinals in the Men's 800m; Kenneth Franklin will be in the finals of the Men's 5000m; Francis Wilson qualified in Men's Pole Vault; Dragana Tepic did not qualify in Women's Javelin; Ophelia Mason won the bronze in Women's Flatwater K-1 1000; Yannik Touris was 4th in the Men's Flatwter K-1 1000m; Maria Indurain qualified for the finals in Women’s Cycling Keirin; in Men’s Keirin, Harold Sandersen was 2nd in the 7-11 Classifiaction Race, 8th overall; we were 5th in Women’s Rhythmic Gymnastics Group, and got the bronze in the Men's Group; we got the silver in Women’s Quadruple Sculls; Mare Zvonimira and Michaela Vadic were 5th in Women's Pairs Rowing; Ted Samuels and Heather Wood were 5th in Sailing Multihull; Davis Morton was 8th in Men's 200m IM; Siever Sall qualified for the finals in Men's 50m Freestyle; we stand in 3rd after the technical routine in Women's Syncronized Swimming, but our men had a disappointing Free Routine and fell to 5th; Park Iseul Jung will be in the semifinals of the Repêchage in Men's Taekwondo 68kg division; San Ong Pak will be in the Repêchage semifinals in the Women's 49kg division; Young Hyun Jun will be in the Repêchage semifinals in the Men's 58kg division; Becca Stanley won the gold in Woemn's Weightlifting over 75kg division; Ismail Buzgulov was 5th in the Men's over 105kg division; Masaharu Hitachi will play for the bronze in Men's Freestyle Wrestling 120kg divsion; In Greco-Roamn Wrestling, Ilkay Erdem is in the semifinals in the Men's 60kg division; Miron Grischuk will be in the semifinals of Men's 66kg division, and Magdalena Piri will play for the gold in Women's 48kg division. Our medal count is now 103: 30 gold, 29 silver, and 44 bronze.

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Damnhippeez News


Woah, like, hey dudes! Damnhippeez hasn't done much here at the Olympics, but we aren't done yet! Like, we have one shot left at a medal! Digger Thomas and Moondog King are in the semifinals of Men's Beach Volleyball, and we wish them luck. Even if we don't win, these Olympics have been a blast! They sure know how to party here, even if they are a bunch of capitalist stiffs! We'll keep you posted on the event, and let you know when the Freestyle Frisbee exhibition will be. Until then, peace out!

QSNBS
OLYMPIC UPDATE


Day 18.5 and 19 results:

The Quarterfinals of Women's Football began last nite and as expected Qazox walked over Edward City 3-0, advancing to the Semifinals, where they will play the defending Women's World Cup champs, Cafundeu. On the other side of the bracket, the Ashford Silver medalist, Ariddia advanced to the semis again and they will take on Estresse Intenso, Cafundeu's former colony. These Olympics could have some interesting possible Gold medal finals: Qazox-Estresse Intenso (old power vs. new power), Cafundeu-Estresse Intenso (Colonizer vs. Former Colony) Ariddia-Cafundeu (Defending Men's Champs Nationvs. Defending Women's Champs Nation) or Ariddia-Qazox (rematch of the Gold medal at Ashford).


That's all the competition involving Qazox for now, stay tuned to QSNBS for all your Olympic coverage, including all of Qazox' Football mtaches, live and without interuption.


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http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Qazox_at_the_Second_Summer_Olympics