Every year, some time in June or July, I am spending hours and hours looking into flight schedules, checking out travel distances by car and air and typically use a lot of bad words: This is the time when the…
Beijing 2022 – No Flyctory.com Medal Count, Just Thoughts…
The Winter Olympic Games 2022 are finished. I have to say, I am relieved. It may have been the two worst weeks for sports history since 86 years, likely. You would typically see the Flyctory.com alternative medal count in here.…
Tokyo 2020 – My Thoughts By Sports (… and some more)
The Summer Olympic Games 2020 in Tokyo are over. Two weeks of intense sports coverage are lying behind us. Definitely special games, especially due to the impact of Covid-19 and the lack of spectators. I initially wanted to post about…
The Flyctory.com-Style Medal Count of the 2021 Tokyo Olympics
After the 2018 PyoengChang Olympic Winter Games, I already felt urged to do my very own medal count of the event: I wanted to see which is the most versatile country in the Olympic programme. One motivation was that the…
Some weird sports I discovered during Covid-19
Are you currently also fascinated (or disgusted) by the Olympic Games? This posting is about cool sports – even though none of them will lead to a golden medal in Tokyo. During the last one and a half years of…
Hawk-Eye Live – the End of the Tennis Line Judges?
A typical scene at the bett1HULKS tennis tournament during the last two weeks at Cologne’s LANXESSarena: Alexander Zverev (who swept both singles tournaments, by the way – great performance!) at first serve. The ball hits somewhere near the edge of…
The Big Three of Tennis Men Singles – Unique Dominance?
After Novak Djokovic won the Australian Open 2020, charts like the one by below by the German Data Journalist Felix Richter were likely almost covered by any major sports magazine in the world (at least the ones who touch tennis…
Women Soccer Bundesliga is back – But some Girls score in a different Way
They did it: the German Women Soccer Bundesliga (Flyeralarm Frauen-Bundesliga) re-started a few days ago, on 29th May 2020. I hope it does not hurt the ladies if I state that the interest on the first matches was rather limited…