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Finally, after 33 years my dream as Vball fan comes true 

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Well, what a bad game.

 

All signs were pointing to France winning:

-We won the group game so that made it more likely for them to win this one.

-ROC only lost to them so they have to play again in order for russians to get their "clean sheet" gold medal 

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Woooo

 

I didn't watch the games (work) but I was nervously following the scores all the time. One of the best days for me as a sports fan, hopefully thursday will be even better one.

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Congrats Brazil for the silver medal.

 

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QFs draw done...

 

 

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Death group survived!

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All back to normal but the long nap costed us a point. 

 

Still, won't matter if France doesn't beat ROC or Brazil.

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I really, seriously, need all of the argentinian teams and athletes to be eliminated as soon as possible in order to start enjoying the games.

 

 

 

This game traumatized me.

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2 minutes ago, hckošice said:

How you read De Cecco ? "Dé Czecho" ?

 

and obviously I do not know the players, but having a player literally named Loser must be something

mmm if I had to write it in english it would be something like "the check-oh"

 

haha we have a funny guy in our tv that narrates all the games of the team and when Loser scores a great point he sometimes says "why do they call him loser? he's a winner!" (he says winner in english)  this guy has many other catch phrases like that when he's narrating games, really wholesome fellow.

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 Final Roster

 

 

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hace 4 horas, bmo dijo:

The pools are officially finalized for Tokyo 2020

 

Pool B is definitely stronger. I could see every team but Turkey going through. Pool A should have 4 easy qualifiers with Japan, Serbia, Brazil and Korea.

 

Don't be offended but your take is bad 

 

Our team has literally no chance. Winning even a set would be an achievement. Turkey and Russia will fight for 4th place there.

 

In the other pool DR is at least equal to Korea and maybe Japan as well (though I think they will rise their level for this tournament). Serbia will win the pool easily and Brazil should be 2nd.

Edited February 4, 2020 by LDOG

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hace 18 minutos, intoronto dijo:

Wow group B on paper looks much stronger.

 

Yeah, the bad performance at the world cup last year actually helped Canada avoid this group.

I was hoping that Cuba would win yesterday just so France would move to the other side. I was really mad when they collapsed 

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All teams qualified, according to ranking the groups will be like this:

 

Group A

 

       

 

Group B

 

         

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All teams qualified, according to ranking the groups will be like this:

 

Group A

 

      

 

Group B

 

        

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What an unexpected roller coaster of emotions this tournament was.

 

 

 2nd participation in OG. 

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hace 21 minutos, intoronto dijo:

How are ties broken?

 

If you ask for norceca it's number of wins > points standing > point ratio > set ratio > result between the tied teams.

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When they gather all their best players and train a little they are better than Chile. 

 

Chile scheduled this match on the first day on purpose because they thought they would arrive unprepared like always, but this time they played several friendlies with Cuba. 

 

 

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Again our troll quota in women's volleyball 

 

 

Good luck in Tokyo ladies, nobody back at home will be watching your games but good luck anyway 

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hace 10 minutos, OlympicsFan dijo:

I have no clue about volleyball but i think that is too easy of an explanation. Didn't he also play at the 2016 olympics where Germany didn't do anything? He would have to be by far the best player in the world to turn a bad team into a medal contender. I think it is more likely that Germany has had some great coaches recently (Heynen, Giani).

 

Yes, but they barely lost in the 5th set of the final match to Poland IIRC. 

 

The difference in performance when he is in vs when he doesn't is atonishing. He played European championship 2017 and Germany won a medal out of nowhere. Then he didn't play WCh qualification and Germany failed to qualify. Last euro in 2019 he didn't play and Germany even lost to teams like Spain... 

All of this coached by Giani.

Edited January 9, 2020 by LDOG

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hace 7 minutos, OlympicsFan dijo:

Very unexpected win. I didn't follow this tournament so far, because i didn't think that Germany had a chance, but maybe i will watch the final. I thought that Germany has been on a downward trajectory the last couple of years thanks to all the best players being too old, but apprently the home advantage has helped this team a lot. I am a bit surprised that France didn't look too convincing so far, weren't they one of the best teams in the world just a couple of years ago?

 

Only one player matters in german team: Grozer.

 

When he plays Germany wins medals in World and european championships. When he doesn't play, Germany doesn't even qualify to anything. Probably the team most dependant on a single player in the world.

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Tunisia and Egypt have alternated qualifications in men's volleyball since 1996. Neither has been able to qualify two times in a row.  

 

This ping pong has lasted since Algeria qualified in 1992. 

Edited January 9, 2020 by LDOG

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hace 56 minutos, Fly_like_a_don dijo:

Don't know about the others,  may qualify from Asia/Oceania. I'm sure Iran will fail to qualify this time around. 

 

Iran will easily qualify, believe me, I've watched these teams too much. Australia can't do anything to them unless they allow it. 

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hace 31 minutos, MHSN dijo:

check this. I assume you guys you have to re calculate things if you counted everything based on the previous system

http://www.fivb.org/en/volleyball/Rankings.asp

 

Iran cant drop indeed.

 

The situation for Italy and Canada remains as we said. They can fall behind Russia and Argentina respectively.

 

Also, I wonder when we get rid of those silly World league points. Canada and France have huge points from that.

Edited October 15, 2019 by LDOG

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Justo ahora, Dunadan dijo:

 

 

Only if they are really sure to be stronger...otherwise they can end up like France in Rio.

 

Yes, IMO only Brazil, Poland or USA can think like that.

The rest have to take it game by game, even Italy or Russia who are normally considered big teams.