Women's Field Hockey FIH World Cup 2018

[heywoodu 15,355]

  On 8/4/2018 at 8:45 PM, OlympicIRL said:

 

No, never been in a world final in a team sport before. And  certainly did not think it would be hockey that would provide us with our first ever appearance in a world final. It's amazing!

 

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What did you think it'd be then, water polo?  

[OlympicIRL 5,543]

  On 8/4/2018 at 9:22 PM, heywoodu said:

What did you think it'd be then, water polo?  

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Rugby was always a slightly more realistic option

 

[heywoodu 15,355]

  On 8/4/2018 at 9:26 PM, OlympicIRL said:

 

Rugby was always a slightly more realistic option

 

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Well I'm rooting for them to go all the way now and write some more history  

[OlympicIRL 5,543]

  On 8/4/2018 at 9:29 PM, heywoodu said:

Well I'm rooting for them to go all the way now and write some more history  

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The chance is probably at 1% but then again, before the tournament, the chance of us making the World Cup final probably stood at something like 0.1% so our chances have improved considerably

Edited August 4, 2018 by OlympicIRL

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[De_Gambassi 1,225]

  On 8/4/2018 at 8:45 PM, OlympicIRL said:

 

No, never been in a world final in a team sport before.

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[heywoodu 15,355]

 

I am 100% sure stranger things have happened than a 12.50 odd team winning a match  

[OlympicIRL 5,543]

  On 8/5/2018 at 7:18 AM, De_Gambassi said:

 

 

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Well in that case we won the Snooker World Cup 3 times in a row and also the Golf World Cup twice. A1GP World Cup of Motorsport too (I guess it's a team sport since there was a background team and not just the driver involved ).

 

But you get the idea, first final in a major / Olympic team sport

 

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[OlympicIRL 5,543]

  On 8/5/2018 at 8:26 AM, heywoodu said:

 

I am 100% sure stranger things have happened than a 12.50 odd team winning a match  

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Which scoreline had the shortest odds?

 

Edited August 5, 2018 by OlympicIRL

[heywoodu 15,355]

  On 8/5/2018 at 8:32 AM, OlympicIRL said:

 

Well in that case we won the Snooker Workd Cup 3 times in a row and also the Golf World Cup twice. A1GP World Cup of Motorsport too (I guess it's a team sport since there was a background team and not just the driver involved ).

 

But you get the idea, first final in a major / Olympic team sport

 

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A1GP  Too bad Ireland won that right in the year when there were fewer and fewer teams and several rounds were cancelled due to a lack of interest, but still  

 

Although I wouldn't count that as a true team sport, just like snooker and golf