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De_Gambassi

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  1. I thought you had already stoped watching sport since the introduction of breakdancing ?
  2. Next week is going to be the first - KO match ever (Euro OR WC)
  3. 1. Kylian Mbappé, men's football 2. Kylian Mbappé, men's blind soccer 3. Kylian Mbappé, men's 110m hurdles 4. Kylian Mbappé, men's archery individual 5. Kylian Mbappé, men's C1 slalom
  4. Mexico is the single most under-archiver country in the history of the World Cup. How a single-sport 130m relative rich country has only reached the quarter finals two times (both on home soil) is beyond belief. The country should be a second Brazil.
  5. There is an official request from the french camp about this disallowed goal.
  6. Definitely, they don't want the US missing it again, 4 years before their home World Cup
  7. How are the TV audiences doing in your countries ? Here, the first french game against Australia had almost the exact same figure than four years ago against the same team (12.53 M vs 12.59 M), but with a very time slot (monday at 20.00 vs saturday at 12.00), so hard to compare
  8. Indeed, it will all be forgotten in 24 hours like any any good ceremony.
  9. That's the moment when we are really, really, missing the downvotes counter on youtube.
  10. When you reach your fist ever world championship medal PS: the guy responsable for the anthems should be put in jail
  11. Freaking unbelievable, we eliminated Spain
  12. A 40 minutes video ! The FFF is really trying too hard ! And no Captain Tsubasa kit
  13. Well, yes, the argentinian team in big games. Fine... Rght now, the Spain-Mozanbique game is not doing much better than the France-Chile one earlier this afternoon
  14. All right, I somehow had forgotten about this time difference thing
  15. I was reading an ITW from the french rink hockey team coach. He seems to be very much against these 'Games' and would favored a return to the old RH World Cup. Can't be the only one thinking like that.
  16. Likely, yes and also revenues they were expecting didn't happen. I don't think the competition will survive much longer.
  17. The whole point of this Pro League was to move away from the tournaments format and to provide regular home games helping growing a fan base in each country
  18. Amazing performances by the french athletes here (no) . You have to wonder why it was chosen for Paris and by who
  19. It's still a lot more than individual sports and only delivers two gold medals. With the limit of athletes we have now and the number of sports/events, the odds are stacked against any new team sport entering the olympics even as additional sport. Will Brisbane even have 240 quotas to use for its additional sports ?
  20. You didn't understand the discussion then... I didn't make that argument in the first place, that was @Vektor. I was responding to it, particulary the point where he lumps both rugby and cricket as equally commonwealth-focused. I was pointing out that Rugby is indeed a lot less commonwealth-focused, using a slightly exaggerated argument (no shit). RU is my favorite sport btw and I know more than a bit of its history having dedicated hundred of hours searching and writing about it... And back to your handball argument, it's really "but, but tennis table shouldn't be an olympic sport, because China". Yeah, the sport is heavely dominated by Europeans. But who cares, as long as the game is universal and played pretty much everywhere. The universality of a sport has not to be judged on the regional spread of its top nations, but on the number of players around the world and the number of nations that do play the game. And perhaps, it was not so the case when handball was introduced back then. But again, who cares? It was a different time with different exigences and different rules (IIRC, IOC was only asking for 25 countries to play a sport to be considered at that time) I don't wish cricket to be an olympic sport because it's too commonwealth (that was never my argument, only if that was argument had to be made, rugby would fared a lot better in that regard), but because it's not universal enough in my book. Besides, I don't think cricket will gain olympic status, but not because of its lack of universality, but for more practical reasons (cost and legacy of a cricket stadium and quotas requirement).
  21. What kind of strawman argument is that. Handball has nothing to do with the discussion. It's an universal sport, heavely dominated by European countries, but played pretty much everywhere by locals. Cricket is not. Outside of T1 nations, the game is almost non existent or limited to expats from cricket nations. The Netherlands are often cited in these kind of discussions as some kind of proof of some depth behind T1 nations. Yet, with the country only having around 5,000 players it is demonstrating quite the opposite. For me, that's a sport that should not be Olympic. In that regard, rugby is doing much better (Spain with 40k players as an exemple of a non-commonwealth, non-T1 nation), which was my initial point. Baseball also. Ps: I'm quoting numbers from european countries as they are the ones the most easely accessible.
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