Monzanator

3-0. No max points in the predictions?

The bus flipped on the highway!

Turkey were sitting too deep. Own goal

Turks are sitting so deep Italians are literally tripping over each other - and the ref - around their penalty box

There U have it: @George_D had 11/11 correct picks

Tsitsipas beats Zverev in five sets to advance into the men's final.

Women's doubles final will be Krejcikova/Siniakova vs Mattek-Sands/Swiatek. Let's see if Krejcikova can pull off the double. Last time a player won singles & doubles at Roland Garros in the same year was Mary Pierce in 2000.

Well, TVP Sport has the rights here and just today there are 4 hours of studio before the kick-off game in two separate blocks. I suppose there will be more of that even with three daily games later on. It sure helps football is far & away the most popular sport in Poland so we'll get a ton of coverage outside the games. The quality of this is a different matter as I'm long tired of old-timer experts on TVP Sport like former NT coaches Gmoch and Engel who should basically fuck off by now

[hide] Preliminary Round June 11th - June 23rd, 2021 24 Nations, 6 Groups, the 1st and 2nd Nation from each Group + the 4 best 3rd-placed Nations will qualify for the Round of 16 Group A Date & Time (GMT +2, CEST) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 11th 2021, h. 21:00 Turkey 1 2 Italy June 12th 2021, h. 15:00 Wales 0 1 Switzerland June 16th 2021, h. 18:00 Turkey 3 2 Wales June 16th 2021, h. 21:00 Italy 0 0 Switzerland June 20th 2021, h. 18:00 Switzerland 1 1 Turkey June 20th 2021, h. 18:00 Italy 2 0 Wales Group B Date & Time (GMT +2, CEST) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 12th 2021, h. 18:00 Denmark 3 1 Finland June 12th 2021, h. 21:00 Belgium 2 1 Russia June 16th 2021, h. 15:00 Finland 0 1 Russia June 17th 2021, h. 18:00 Denmark 1 2 Belgium June 21st 2021, h. 21:00 Russia 2 2 Denmark June 21st 2021, h. 21:00 Finland 0 2 Belgium Group C Date & Time (GMT +2, CEST) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 13th 2021, h. 18:00 Austria 0 0 North Macedonia June 13th 2021, h. 21:00 Netherlands 2 0 Ukraine June 17th 2021, h. 15:00 Ukraine 2 1 North Macedonia June 17th 2021, h. 21:00 Netherlands 3 1 Austria June 21st 2021, h. 18:00 North Macedonia 0 4 Netherlands June 21st 2021, h. 18:00 Ukraine 1 1 Austria Group D Date & Time (GMT +2, CEST) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 13th 2021, h. 15:00 England 1 1 Croatia June 14th 2021, h. 15:00 Scotland 1 2 Czech Republic June 18th 2021, h. 18:00 Croatia 3 1 Czech Republic June 18th 2021, h. 21:00 England 2 0 Scotland June 22nd 2021, h. 21:00 Croatia 2 0 Scotland June 22nd 2021, h. 21:00 Czech Republic 2 4 England Group E Date & Time (GMT +2, CEST) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 14th 2021, h. 18:00 Poland 2 1 Slovakia June 14th 2021, h. 21:00 Spain 2 0 Sweden June 18th 2021, h. 15:00 Sweden 2 0 Slovakia June 19th 2021, h. 21:00 Spain 3 0 Poland June 23rd 2021, h. 18:00 Slovakia 0 2 Spain June 23rd 2021, h. 18:00 Sweden 3 1 Poland Group F Date & Time (GMT +2, CEST) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 15th 2021, h. 18:00 Hungary 1 3 Portugal June 15th 2021, h. 21:00 France 2 1 Germany June 19th 2021, h. 15:00 Hungary 0 4 France June 19th 2021, h. 18:00 Portugal 2 2 Germany June 23rd 2021, h. 21:00 Portugal 3 3 France June 23rd 2021, h. 21:00 Germany 3 0 Hungary Finalists Place 1st Place 2nd Place Nation [/hide]

[hide] Preliminary Round June 13th - June 28th, 2021 10 Nations, the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Nation from each Group will qualify for the Quarterfinals Group A Date & Time (GMT -3) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 14th 2021, h. 18:00 Argentina 2 1 Chile June 14th 2021, h. 21:00 Paraguay 3 1 Bolivia June 18th 2021, h. 18:00 Chile 1 0 Bolivia June 18th 2021, h. 21:00 Argentina 1 1 Uruguay June 21st 2021, h. 18:00 Uruguay 2 2 Chile June 21st 2021, h. 21:00 Argentina 2 1 Paraguay June 24th 2021, h. 18:00 Bolivia 0 2 Uruguay June 24th 2021, h. 21:00 Chile 3 2 Paraguay June 28th 2021, h. 21:00 Argentina 3 0 Bolivia June 28th 2021, h. 21:00 Uruguay 1 0 Paraguay Group B Date & Time (GMT -3) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 13th 2021, h. 18:00 Brazil 3 0 Venezuela June 13th 2021, h. 21:00 Colombia 3 1 Ecuador June 17th 2021, h. 18:00 Colombia 2 0 Venezuela June 17th 2021, h. 21:00 Peru 1 2 Brazil June 20th 2021, h. 18:00 Venezuela 2 1 Ecuador June 20th 2021, h. 21:00 Colombia 2 1 Peru June 23rd 2021, h. 18:00 Ecuador 1 1 Peru June 23rd 2021, h. 21:00 Colombia 2 2 Brazil June 27th 2021, h. 18:00 Ecuador 1 3 Brazil June 27th 2021, h. 18:00 Venezuela 2 3 Peru Top 3 Place 1st Place 2nd Place 3rd Place Nation [/hide]

Pennetta making USO final wasn't that much of a surprise. She made QF there three times plus one SF before winning it. And she won Indian Wells, a bigger title than anything Pavlyuchenkova or Krejcikova ever won before.

They demolished the Calgary luge track, right? I can't see them bidding for another WOG after a move like that given how the luge track is always the main financial dead weight when it comes to WOG bids.

Barbora Krejcikova comes from 3-5 down in the third set to win 9-7 vs Maria Sakkari. Obviously the most unexpected GS final since Bartoli vs Lisicki at Wimbledon.

Can't wait for the tournament to start so this political thing finally becomes irrelevant. EU has ignored War in Donbass for years so why bother pretending now? Obviously expecting boos when England takes a knee

Thailand team themselves have accepted the apology and said it was a genuine mistake. Time to move on if the team essentially being targeted by this behaviour has moved on already.

@hckošice C'mon, even Slovakia should know you only have to stop Lewandowski when playing Poland

Maria Sakkari beats Iga Swiatek 64 64 and is probably the main favorite the win the women's singles now.

Barbora Krejcikova beats Cori Gauff 76 63 in the third QF. Czech Republic remians one country that has insane WTA depth despite limited population compared to USA, Russia, Germany or France. And Krejcikova was basically reduced into a top doubles speciallist in the last few years. No way someone could have bet on her making GS SF in singles.

Our boxing is downright horrible these days so it's cool we have someone there. Obviously Masternak would have been there if the Games happened in 2020 like planned? Really happy for Drabik. She was one victory away from making Rio. Got robbed in a 3-2 decision vs some Thai opponent IIRC. She really deserved that qualification!

Table tennis doesn't have 7(!) different set of individual medals though. It's a much bigger handicap for China to enter only two players in ONE individual event than to have Japan enter 7 judokas in SEVEN weight categories per gender. Boxing or wrestling would be your comparison. They only allow one entry per nation?

It's not even about Canada. Japan is the big elephant in the room, if they cut down on China in table tennis to prevent the medal sweep, they have to do the same in judo. You can't apply double standards, let one discipline promote powerhouses and save the other for minor nations. You have to put some consistency here. And they won't expand the number of entries per judo because they have to make room for new sports to begin with. Judo is old fashioned, classic sport that millenials usually ignore. And it will never get the following of athletics or swimming where there are enough entries that both powerhouses and minnows can compete at the same time.

Olympics prefer diversity and quota for lesser nations. Top-heavy approach just won't get the go ahead at the Olympics. You can't have it both ways. They cut down on China in table tennis, overall number of entries in weightlifting and so on. Judo will get those random judokas from Cameroon or Gabon that get bounced 30 seconds into their first fight rather than have a second national quota for a country with multiple elite judokas like Canada in women's 57kg.

If the commentators don't know what the selection criteria is then of course it's dumb if decided for pure speculation. If the criteria was whomever does better at WC goes to Olympics then it's pretty clear cut.

That was the popular explanation of the WR back then - that Wang ran 24 laps instead of 25.

Well, Dems are trying to make Harris do something so maybe her lies aren't so clean cut this time? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57408094