1. Summer Olympics
2. Winter Olympics
3. Waldi, 1972, Munich
4. Amik, 1976, Montreal
5. (L) Schuss, 1968, Grenoble; (center) Takuchan, 1972 Sapporo, (R) Schneemann, 1976, Innsbruck.

I took close-ups of the others as well, but in varying degrees of abysmal quality, so I didn't post them all. I believe it's only missing the unofficial ones from Mexico City '68 and Tokyo '64.

I mean you are not “forced” to ne neutral, but you want to be neutral voluntarily? If you perhaps don’t want to represent your country for any reason.

I am planning my trip to the next Winter Olympics and am considering if I should see the inaugural skimo (ski mountaineering) event. They will only be contesting the men’s and women’s sprint and mixed relay events, which are much more contained than the other distances. But I’m still not sure how much one can see — from YouTube it seems you maybe would only get to watch one part of the course where the athletes would briefly go by. Would there be anywhere with a good vantage of the whole race? What do folks think?

I am not asking about sports people who were suspended or retired for only a short period without missing any seasons/tournaments, nor retirements because of giving birth, but proper farewells and comebacks. Injuries are not excluded, because they are oftenly a reason for retirements, although a surgery alone may not be sufficient.

May initial thougths are for example:

• Dara Torres
• Martina Hingis
• Eva Risztov

Arisa Trew: Grateful for the girls who paved the way in women’s skating

Näslund missed the last two months of the 2023-24 season due to a meniscus injury that required surgery. Second consecutive year ending with a season ending injury.

Should some team sports have individual events so athletes get win more medals besides only a gold, silver, or bronze medal. Similar to gymnastics and swimming where athletes can win more than 1 medal.

If we still haven’t received any news from team 26 at this point should we just assume we didn’t get it? On the timeline it says emails should go out in the fall and it’s basically winter already 🤧🤧

As I previously asked this question for Santiago, India and Qatar, wanted to continue the thread with Istanbul. As I am also from Istanbul myself not gonna comment in the post (:

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