Oatland

Team Logo:

Team Uniform:



Overview: Sports are very popular in Hospe. From Motorsports to Esports to your average ball and stick game, there are few things more traditionally Hospean than arenas packed full of chanting fans.
For the 2020 Oatland Summer games, Hospe's representatives are as follows:

Rifle Shooting:
1a) Richard Belling:(30)
Richard Belling says he competes for fun but his results say otherwise. Having won multiple national championships , he was the obvious choice for representing the nation. His ability to remain levelheaded even in the toughest competitions only helps his aim.
2a) Aliya Yusuf(27)
Aliya Yusuf takes rifle shooting very seriously, so seriously that on competition days she completely ignores everyone and everything but her target. Hospean sports journalists know it's pointless to interview her before events. This intense focus has led her to be ranked number 1 in the kingdom.

Decathlon
1a&b)Jordan and Kingsley Opra(23)
Kingsley and Jordan are twin brothers who have been extremely close since birth. So close that they wouldn't let me write their names seperately.
For the past four years, decathlon in Hospe have been known as the Opra Show. If it's not Jordan on the top step then it's Kingsley.
Jordan is the faster runner with greater physical flexibility while Kingsley is stronger with more endurance.

Weightlifting
Typhon Edwin(30)
Hospe isn't know for it's strongmen that's why Typhon Edwin is a national hero. His father took note of his incredible strength when the teenager was helping him chop wood fast forward 13 years and Typhon Edwin has broken the vast majority of Hospean weightlifting records.

Equestrian Sports
Josiah Eke(25)
Equestrian sports is just regaining momentum in Hospe after the HESA(Hospean Equestrian Sports Association) laid dormant for 13 years. Joe Eke is spearheading the revival of this sport.
Thunder(6)
Josiah's noble steed, at just six years old, this powerful mare is one of Hospe's most popular animals. A Hospean purebred, Thunder is beautiful yet imposing.

Swimming
A)Binta Orus(23)
Growing up the daughter of a Fisherman in the Hospean Border Islands Binta had no choice but to learn how to swim. However she had to right to become as good as she is at it. An extremely versatile swimmer, she excels at all styles but no Hospean can match her freestyle skills.
B)Gafar Hollis(30)
Gafar Hollis took up swimming as a hobby when he was a child, but when his mother noticed he was setting Olympic level times in their Olympic sized swimming pool, he took it up as a career and didn't look back. No seriously he doesn't look back at his scores of gold medals he just keeps winning more.
C)Savannah Lasisi(19)
Savannah blew up in Hospe after taking silver in national competition, at the age of 17. Just two years later, she's preparing for her Summer Games debut, she set a new backstroke record in Hospe just last year.
D)Tamuno Apia(24)
Tamuno Apia was always precocious as a child but he took it to another level when he won the Men's Freestyle Final in Myrus at the age of 21, beating competitors over a decade older than him.

Archery
A) Aurelia St.Hammond(18)
While Hospe is still struggling to establish an official archery federation. Aurelio St.Hammond has been dominating the local leagues set up around the country, she has even tested herself against the best the Hospean Border Islands have to offer and came out on top. Extremely accurate she often shoots apples of her friend's heads for some "live" practice.

Gymnastics
A)Christian Augier(28)
A master of artistic gymnastics, he dropped out of Hospean Business Prep. to practice his craft during his early teens. It certainly wasn't a waste of time , he's currently ranked number one in the kingdom.
B)Blaire White(30)
Blaire White is referred to as the goddess of Hospean Artistic Gymnastics. She even has her own national holiday. She has the skills to back up the hype, having been ranked number 1 in Hospe for almost 10 years.
C)Dominique Kingsley-Patrick(22)
Dominique is to rhythmic gymnastics, as rock music is to guitars. One makes absolutely no sense without the other. Dominique first. Dominique first captured hospean hearts when she performed a routine to a metalcore version of a popular folk song, at the age of 17. She often livestreams practice routines making her one of the Hospe's biggest athletes. She has been ranked number 1 in Hospe for two years.

Fishy Apples' 2020 Oatland Summer Games Submission Form

Fishy Apples is returning once more to the Oatland Summer Games, and which let's just say from the results of last year's Summer Games has made folks feel as though we're a bit... cursed. A year later, and folks are STILL talking about and asking how we failed to even medal in swimming, so upon Queen Jackie's suggestion, we hired an outside coach to overlook our team for this year and give their impressions.

Before we share our more detailed information, this is the quick primer we worked up for our guest coach of who is participating where and in what, as well what they are, and for the Oatland Games Committee we also included, as usual, our national anthem, and our uniforms!!

---

This below is file footage of our foreign-hired coach meeting our team and preparing this year's roster...

Coach: "So... let me get this straight. You guys had a poor go at it last year, winning only one medal (Cheryl Religieuse beams widely, flashing her bronze medal for equestrian sports), and even got creamed at two events you should on paper completely dominated."
Queen Jackie: "Well, I threw mah back out for that interview an' then there's those old injuries, an' stuff..."
Lily Normande: "Honestly, I'm not sure if it's a secret doping program, speciesism, some combination of both, or something else I'm missing, but how did a bunch of humans beat us? Last year three out of five members of our team were mermaids. We're PART FISH. How did that work?!"
Coach: "Well, to quote your nation's application from last year, 'Our coaches got together and decided to focus our recruiting on swimming, choosing to bring an amazing five athletes with us, because we determined that if a nation where nearly three out of five of our citizens were beings commonly associated with the water couldn't win a medal in an event doing one of the very things we're best known for, then we're CLEARLY doing it wrong, and we should be ashamed of ourselves.' Well, that must mean you're clearly doing something wrong, and should be ashamed of yourselves."
*awkward silence*
Daisy Ashmead: "...Damn, she got us there."
Coach: "Now that got that out in the open, and we know it was primarily your fault, let's see what we got to work with..."
*3 hours of adjusting and cursing vehently later*
Coach: "Well... hate to say it, but it seems we pretty much have the same team from last year. Seeing as there are the same number of player slots but now ten events, this is what we're going to do. First, at least for this year, we're straight up cutting weightlifting."
Queen Jackie: "What in tarnation?!"
Coach: "Well, this is largely a PR move more than anything, giving you a chance to save face from the disaster that was 2019. Speaking of 2019, you're still a world leader, you know, and there is that whole global pandemic going on, so I don't think it'd make great optics for a world leader to go off participating in a pan-regional sporting event during these times."
*another round of silence*
Red Halivista: "She's just kicking ALL our butts today."
Queen Jackie: "Alright. Guessin' ah'm out then. What else?"
Coach: "I want Holly Blossomforth to focus on one event, and seeing as she is one of best riflemasters in Fishy Apples, it would be best for her to focus solely on her proficiency in Rifle Shooting, and to withdraw from Archery. Finally, the last cut is one not made by my hand, but the military, as Dahlia Stayman, according to my notes, is under deployment by the Fishy Apples Royal Navy and thus cannot attend the games this year. As a result, this opens up three slots for us fill for the new event, Sailing, so let's welcome our newcomers Alstroemeria Edmund, Bob Urliss, and Ruri Izaya."
*several minutes of introductions later*
Coach: "Now then, let's get to know the team..."

---

Diving

Following last year's games, Faruk Nor has been working on his diving with a series of cliff diving challenges all across Fishy Apples, and to add extra challenge, streaming each attempt and allowing the viewers to choose what kind of technique to perform. This always kept him on his toes as he never knew what diving technique he had to perform next, forcing him ensure he was well-rounded.

---

Rifle Shooting

Upon our hired coach's recommendations, along with regular winter biathlete Dusty Tatin, Holly Blossomforth narrowed her focus this year on her rifle traning, and this year had the idea of using her military contacts to arrange a group training exercise with all the participating athletes in the Rifle Shooting event in The Bunny Fire training together at an event in The Onigiri Enclave, headed by none other SID second-in-command Brigadier General Mirin Haberdash, possibly the best markswoman is all The Bunny Fire, and owner of one of the only two models of the Mysterium Arms MA-666 "God Killer" 66.6mm x 420mm Depleted Uranium 4ng Anti-Matter Core Round Magnetic Rail-Accelerated Sniper Rifle. The training camp was a rosuing success for all nations involved, and Holly even got to fire the God Killer, levelling a whole mountain in a single shot. Needless to say most everyone there was impressed. General Haberdash said she her aim was slightly off, as she didn't quite hit the target on the side of the mountain, and fellow Onigiri Enclave SID officer who happened to be Colonel Weyl Nantessa said she's seen bigger."

---

Decathlon

To further prepare for these games, sports medicine physician Red Halivista began a program of using his weekends to enthusiastically run around the sweltering deserts around Risottosh in order to build up his endurance. At first, it was a bit of a slog, but now he has gotten to where he can get decent times with ten pound weights strapped to his arms and legs.

---

Gymnastics

Russel Cox resumed his career as apizza delivery boy after the 2019 games, but kept working on his parkour skills in hopes he could polish them into something he could use this year, and good news, this year, he didn't lose a single pizza. Improvement!!
Meanwhile our other gymnast, Ayame Yoshikage, other the 2019 games opened her own cheerleading camp for girls for all species ages 10 to 14 outside of Setsuna City near Lake Redlove. The cheerleading practice she has done in that time, as well as operating the camp, has kept her limber and ready for these games coming up.

---

Weightlifting

The coach decided to bench our queen, and no one else wanted to apply, so we have no team for weightlifting this year.

---

Equestrian Sports

Back again is our only medal winner, Cheryl Religieuse, riding on such notoriety to help build more popularity for equestrian sports in and around Coral Canyon City, but otherwise has simply continued to do what she loves, raising and riding horses.
Meanwhile, fellow teammate Mandy Baldwin has developed a bit of a rivalry with Cheryl, feeling slighted that someone of a lower tax bracket got a medal and not her last year, and is now wanting to prove she's as good, if not better by training herself and her prized mare vigorously daily for these games.

---

Swimming - National Specialty

Swimming... oof. The results of last year hit Fishy Apples hard. Some like Momoka Nishitara thought they could have done more, while others like Lily Normande actually believed it was an outright hidden agenda of speciesism behind the scenes of the games, considering, with the exception of that cardboard cutout Windiria sent, only humans were winning medals, and that cutout was awfully human-shaped if you asked her. However, at the end of the day, the only clear thing was that we lost, and that we had to get better at what is SUPPOSED to be our specialty. As such, Lily began to hit the gym regularly after work, as well as swim to work with weights strapped to her body. Daisy Ashmead would regularly swim the irrigation pipes while timing herself. Momoka Nishitara decided to work on building her endurance and lung capacity, so she began laps twenty feet underwater with a twenty pound weight strapped to her tail. Finally, Nadia Karang, the sole human on the team, used deep-sea diving exercises to help get her into better shape in preparation for the upcoming games.

---

Archery

With Holly Blossomforth bowing out of the Archery event, it means Natsume Chiyo and Ro Tassarion need to step up even more if they hope to bring in medals for Fishy Apples. Natsume is considered a clear competetor this year, mainly thanks to the extreme rigors of her Magus Sister training, which includes an intense archery regimen. Ro also has maintained his fletching prowess is his work as a sheriff's deputy in Lobster Eye.

---

Fencing

We don't know much as to what Cameo Antonovka has been doing save his regular routine, as he seemed rather salty after the 2019 games, keeping to himself, and we thought we wouldn't see himback again, but he surprised us by returning to our ranks again. What secret techniques has he been working on no one knows...

---

Finally, we have our newcomers in the Sailing division. Alstroemeria Edmund is an Earth mermaid from The Sweet Apple Ocean who runs a sail-operated cargo ferry back and forth from The Sweet Apple Ocean to the island city of Lorelai, stopping halfway in between in the middle of the ocean to deliver and pickup supplies from the underwater city of Niwatori City. When asked why she chooses to use sail power over say diesel, solar, steam, or something thaumatic, Alstroemeria said it was part to reduce her carbon footprint and part to reduce overhead, as she wasn't as big as other shipping companies yet, and it was a way to keep up with them.
When asked about his sailing experience, accountant and Jazz native Bob Urliss told us he first learned to rig a sail from his granddad, but really began to master it when he got into participating in historical naval battle reenactments, where he regularly portrayed a Bosun's Mate on a recreation of the HMS Applesauce, one of Fishy Apples' largest and most famous naval ships of the late 17th-early 18th centuries.
Ruri Izaya is a wealthy nekomimi socialite from Setsuna City and president of her local yacht club. As such, her sailing credentials have been vouched for by winning the All-Bunny Fire Ice Regata two years in a row, where sailors have to sail their dinghies from Northern Spy, across the cool northern seas of The Bunny Fire, where the occasional iceburg may prove to be a harrowing obstacle, out to and around the island where the Windirian city of Zepyhrion resides, and back to the finish line at Silk Sardonyx in the northern part of The Onigiri Enclave.

---

With that, that concludes our 2020 entry to the Oatland Summer Games!!