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Wow too many harsh discussions here! lets try to fix all this World Cup stress with a bit of humor, by showing you guys how Portuguese team is training in this days for the match again Uruguay and Suarez!

Yeah thats exactly how i feel during most discussions on here, a grown-up among children. Lets hope that you guys will grow up too.

I hope we will together be at china 2019

Belgian journalists in the media center were actively celebrating Belgian yellow cards

Dear OlympicFan, I fear that the one who should learn History is you, the REAL history (even of the thirties), trying to behave in a better fair-play mode and show some respect, if not for my "jurassic" age, at least for my (although scarce) world knowledge, as I have a Ph.D. in classical languages and Hispanic-American literature, I have been living many years in South-America and I can also read and speak your wonderful language, besides knowing very well your splendid Country; I hope you can help me in avoiding every time to cite the sentence of one of the most prestigious Italian sports writers - Gianni Brera - who once wrote something like: ..."it's true that the Germans are really the best in everything - athletics,football,philosophy,classical music,literature,organization - but perhaps their problem is that they claim that other peoples admit it ... bowing in front of them" ! Even your comments about athletics are often not inspiring for someone like me who have attended LIVE 7 World Championships and 4 Olympic Games and has been a subscriber of Leichtathletik for thirty-five years and member of ATFS... Anyway, be sure that I will answer in a placid way to every insult, but I will NEVER ignore any comment; wrong things must be fought-off, like the comment of ThiagoSimoes (who probably has not understood the meaning of "pontificatore"), who insults me ("cuzão", even if I don't have a big booty, is definitely an insult, as he might not remember that I studied Portuguese in my University, I have been living in Brazil for many years and I have a girlfriend of Minas Gerais - unfortunately not young and beautiful as the Heywoodu's one ... !-) Finally I would like to remind all my "pontificatori" that it's a good-natured "apelido" (epithet) and it's even a compliment (I call my girlfriend "pontificatrice"); once again, be sure that I will always reply WITHOUT OFFENDING, whenever I read some biased or offensive comment against me, my Country or some other Nation which does not deserve nasty words ! BUT I will definitely reply. P.S. Dear Heywoodu, I hope your Girlfriend brought you some "acerola" (great drink "laranja - your favorite colour ... - com acerola") and/or "açaí na tigela" !

The big difference is that Germany has a lot of great young talents and will have no problem to be a contender again in 4 years, while Italy and the Netherlands have been shit for a long time and don't have much promise, that's also why german fans can take those provocations as what they are: An attempt to hide the fact that those countries have become irrelevant in today's football and that it is very likely to stay that way.

I swear I'm gonna trap and skeet something if they do that

You'll get rid of it in the next Olympic cycle, when it will be replaced by mixed skeet

I see its busy at the water polo.

Go USA Virgin

I would like to see expanded Olympics, with multiple host cities or even countries. Ideally they would last the current 19 days or longer/shorter if needed. My games would be flexible to allow them to be sustainable. I also realize that an Olympics the size and scale that I want would probably be impossible, but hey a totallympian can dream. Summer Olympics Dream Program Aquatics - Diving [12] 1m Springboard (m/w) 3m springboard (m/w) 10m Platform (m/w) Synchronised 3m Springboard (m/w) Synchronised 10m Platform (m/w) High Diving (m/w) Aquatics - Swimming [40] 50m Freestyle (m/w) 100m Freestyle (m/w) 200m Freestyle (m/w) 400m Freestyle (m/w) 800m Freestyle (m/w) 1500m Freestyle (m/w) 4x100m Freestyle Relay (m/w/mixed) 4x200m Freestyle Relay (m/w) 100m Breaststroke (m/w) 200m Breaststroke (m/w) 100m Butterfly (m/w) 200m Butterfly (m/w) 100m Backstroke (m/w) 200m Backstroke (m/w) 200m Individual Medley (m/w) 400m Individual Medley (m/w) 4x100m Medley Relay (m/w/mixed) 5km Open Water (m/w) 10km Open Water (m/w) Aquatics - Synchronised Swimming [3] Women's Duet (w) Women's Team (w) Mixed Duet (mixed) Aquatics - Water Polo [2] Tournament (m/w) (expand women to 12 teams) Archery [10] Individual Recurve (m/w) Team Recurve (m/w/mixed) Individual Compound (m/w) Team Compound (m/w/mixed) Athletics [49] 100m (m/w) 200m (m/w) 400m (m/w) 800m (m/w) 1500m (m/w) 5000m (m/w) 10,000m (m/w) 110m/100m Hurdles (m/w) 400m Hurdles (m/w) 3000m Steeplechase (m/w) 4x100m Relay (m/w) 4x400m Relay (m/w/mixed) Marathon (m/w) 20km Race Walk (m/w) 50km Race Walk (m/w) Long Jump (m/w) Triple Jump (m/w) High Jump (m/w) Pole Vault (m/w) Shot Put (m/w) Discus Throw (m/w) Javelin Throw (m/w) Hammer Throw (m/w) Heptathlon (w) Decathlon (m) Badminton [5] Singles (m/w) Doubles (m/w/mixed) Baseball [1] Tournament (m) Basketball [4] 3x3 Tournament (m/w) Tournament (m/w) Boxing [15] 10 Men's weights 5 Women's weights Canoeing - Slalom [5] K-1 (m/w) C-1 (m/w) C-2 (mixed) Canoeing - Sprint [14] K-1 200m (m/w) K-1 1000m (m/w) K-2 1000m (m/w) K-4 1000m (m/w) C-1 200m (m/w) C-1 1000m (m/w) C-2 1000m (m/w) Cycling - BMX [4] BMX Race (m/w) Park (m/w) Vert (m/w) Cycling - Mountain Bike [5] Men's/Women's Race (m/w) Downhill (m/w) Slopestyle (m) Cycling - Road [4] Road Race (m/w) Time Trial (m/w) Cycling - Track [16] Individual Sprint (m/w) Team Sprint (m/w) Team Pursuit (m/w) Keirin (m/w) Omnium (m/w) Madison (m/w) Points Race (m/w) Individual Pursuit (m/w) Equestrian [6] Individual Dressage (mixed) Team Dressage (mixed) Individual Jumping (mixed) Team Jumping (mixed) Individual Eventing (mixed) Team Eventing (mixed) Fencing [12] Individual Foil (m/w) Team Foil (m/w) Individual Épée (m/w) Team Épée (m/w) Individual Sabre (m/w) Team Sabre (m/w) Field Hockey [2] Tournament (m/w) Football [2] U-23 Tournament (m/w) Golf [4] Individual Stroke Play (m/w) Team (mixed) (2 men, 2 women per team) Gymnastics - Artistic [14] Individual All-Around (m/w) Team All-Around (m/w) Floor (m/w) Vault (m/w) Pommel Horse (m) Rings (m) Parallel Bars (m) Horizontal Bar (m) Balance Beam (w) Uneven Bars (w) Gymnastics - Rhythmic [6] Individual All-Around (w) Individual Ball (w) Individual Hoop (w) Individual Ribbon (w) Individual Clubs (w) Group All-Around (w) Gymnastics - Trampoline [2] Individual (m/w) Synchronised (m/w) Tumbling (m/w) Handball [2] Tournament (m/w) Judo [15] 7 Men's weights 7 women's weights Team Event (mixed) Karate [10] 4 Men's Kumite weights 4 Women's Kumite weights Individual Kata (m/w) Modern Pentathlon [3] Individual (m/w) Relay (mixed) Rowing [14] Single Sculls (m/w) Double Sculls (m/w) Lightweight Double Sculls (m/w) Quadruple Sculls (m/w) Pairs (m/w) Fours (m/w) Eights (m/w) Rugby Sevens [2] Tournament (m/w) Sailing [12] RS:X (m/w) Laser (m) Laser Radial (w) Finn (m) 470 (m/w) 49er (m) 49er FX (w) Nacra 17 (mixed) Kitesurfing (m/w) Shooting [17] 10m Air Rifle (m/w) Mixed Team 10m Air Rifle (mixed) 50m Rifle Three Positions (m/w) 10m Air Pistol (m/w) Mixed Team 10m Air Pistol (mixed) 25m Pistol (w) 25m Rapid Fire Pistol (m) 50m Pistol (m/w) Trap (m/w) Mixed Team Trap (mixed) Skeet (m/w) Skateboarding [6] Park (m/w) Street (m/w) Vert (m/w) Softball [1] Tournament (w) Sport Climbing [8] Combined (m/w) Speed (m/w) Lead (m/w) Boulder (m/w) Surfing [4] Shortboard (m/w) Longboard (m/w) Table Tennis [7] Singles (m/w) Doubles (m/w/mixed) Team (m/w) Taekwondo [10] 4 Men's weights 4 Women's weights Individual Poomsae (m/w) Tennis [5] Singles (m/w) Doubles (m/w/mixed) Triathlon [3] Individual Race (m/w) Mixed Team Relay (mixed) Volleyball - Beach [2] Tournament (m/w) Volleyball - Indoor [2] Tournament (m/w) Weightlifting [14] 7 Men's weights 7 Women's weights Wrestling [18] 6 Men's Freestyle weights 6 Men's Greco-Roman weights 6 Women's Freestyle weights Additional Sport [119] Beach Soccer - (m/w) Billiards - Carom (m/w), 9 Ball Pool (m/w), Snooker (m/w) Boules - All Pétanque events (m2/w2) Bowling - Single (m/w), Doubles (m/w) Chess - Open Tournament Cricket - T20 (m/w) Cycling Trials - 20 (m/w) Floorball - (m/w) Futsal - (m/w) Flying Disc - Ultimate (mixed), Golf (m/w) Acrobatic Gymnastics - Pair (mixed/m/w), Group (m/w) Aerobic Gymnastics - Pair (mixed), Group (mixed) Muaythai - no more than 8 weight classes (m/w) Orienteering - Sprint (m/w), Long (m/w), Classic (m/w), Sprint Relay (mixed) Racquetball - Singles (m/w) Roller Speed Skating - 300m Time Trial (m/w), 1000m (m/w), 10000m Points/Elimination (m/w), 20000m Elimination (m/w) Roller Figure Skating - Single (m/w), Pairs (mixed) Roller Hockey - (m/w) Sambo - no more than 12 weight classes (m/w) Squash - Single (m/w), Doubles (m/w) Finswimming - 16 events (m/w) Waterski - Jump (m/w), Slalom (m/w), Wakeboard (m/w) Wushu - 8 Sanda weight classes (m/w) Total medel events: Total athletes: no more than 20,000 Days of competition: 19 (including Day -2, Day -1 and Day 0 before the Opening Ceremony)

Well I'll be damned, there's an 'Unread content' tab on this forum

"You brought this as "proof" but now you are saying that it is irrelevant. For me it's an absurd claim." I didn't bring it as proof for anything. If one country is forbidden to play at the world cup by another country that invaded it just weeks before, then that's a scandal for me and if that country was one of the biggest rivals of the eventual world champion, then the title loses at least some of its value in my opinion, but we obviously disagree about that one. At least we agree that the first italian win was a joke. Is there any proof for german doping? If yes, then this would also make that world cup a joke. I didn't know about the brazilian scandal and i never claimed that i did know about all world cups, but good that you brought it up, because it means that Germany should be tied first place in world cups together with Brazil. In the end the essence of this discussion is that world cup wins from 80 years ago don't really have much relevance, because it was a completely different game. Italy won only 2 world cups after 1938, noone in his right mind would put them on the same level as Brazil or Germany. Margaret Court won 24 slams, but noone seriously considered her as great as Williams or Graf, because she won her titles in a time when the competition was clearly weaker, the same is true for Italy concerning football, they won half of their world cups in a time when there weren't really any professional league. That is the reason why many experts consider Italy the Maragaret Court of football.

Yes, you need to change your system like Germany did after 2004. You trust old players too much and don't give enough chances to young players + your coach has been very bad.

100 m gold and silver for the Turkish Harvey-Barnes duo. How exciting.

Even I don't remember that, it's not generally a smiley that I'd use and I guess it was purely with ironic purpose Anyways, being a passive bystander, this thread is a gold mine for the popcorn industry with all the drama

There goes your prediction down the drain.

Agnieszka Radwańska is in semifinal in Eastbourne tournament very good result for her, it's basically Aga's first tournament where she played full whole match since masters in Miami, reason of this long break was several injuries.

Fixed, thanks a lot

Patricia Deketer

Pity. I would have liked Senegal to advance. I can't see Japan being a threat to Belgium or England.

Yes, that's why they looked so happy after the match.^

Yep, hence my ninja-edit which was apparently not ninja enough

Italians always had a tendency to be melodramatic, now we can witness it first hand.

No, my favorite is still Italy. They went through the group stage very quiet, as usually, but when it matters they will show up.

can you stop these useless comments , playing the giver of lessons is so easy

No era penal!

I imagine the italians doing this when they respond OlympicsFan

When Germany is eliminated from the WC

You guys were truly excited yesterday, many people really happy in bars for the Germany being eliminated. Finally some World Cup excitment in The Netherlands

Apparently rowing competitions here are held on 1000 m courses. Why Spain bothered to bid for this event if they are not interested in a successful organization?

Because they have better rules?

Pavlo Don't feed this troll.

Provisional Standing after Day 14 available here Witty Wolf Still Learning to Play Football Award @NikolaB (Consolation award ) Walk of Shame Award @Pablita (Could you believe this? Pablita? )

As a drag queen said before, "sweetheart, let's get it together before you wanna read". As a gay man, I've been attacked numerous times by bestmen, and Sindo does nothing about it. Nothing. He's always given me the same old excuse, that it would make no difference to ban users because they can create new accounts, and for all that's worth, bestmen is still around with his questionable comments. I have my fair share of complaints about OlympicFan, but I decided to ignore him and never reply to what he writes. A few days ago, he made fun of Polish and Senegalese people in a humiliating way; curiously, he wrote a few moments ago that nasty people must lead miserable lives, what says a lot about him. Now, I replied to his nasty comment in a way that would subvert his own logic. I am always respectful and every time I criticize the results, I present my point of view. I never refer to specific users in any way that would make them feel bad or sorry about themselves. Besides, I've been around for a long time, even before the forum moved to this new format. You read ONE comment I make and you call me pontificatori. Well, we have a word for you in Brazilian Portuguese: cuzão. Have a nice day.

@hckosice Mat'o Homola of Slovakia won a race in the World Touring Car Cup in Vila Real (the second of three races in the weekend) today, his first ever victory in a high-level competition I can't even remember a Slovak getting this kind of win, cool

A) I respected your Mediterranean Games B) the level is actually about par with other international games C) It been around since before the Pan American and South American Games D) It gives smaller countries an opportunity to compete on a big stage and win medals E) It helps countries qualify for the Pan American Games F) to turn your words back on you “if you don’t like sports games why are you here?”

Former Serbian and Tottenham Hotspur player Goran Bunjevčević died today at the age of 45 after nearly two months without conscience after stroke.