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[hide] Men's Tournament - Knockout Round July 21st - July 27th, 2019 12 Nations, Play-Offs, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Third Place Match and Final Quarterfinals  Date & Time (GMT +9)  Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 July 23rd 2019, h. 14:00 Serbia 5 Spain July 23rd 2019, h. 15:30 Croatia 6 Germany July 23rd 2019, h. 17:00 Hungary 5 Australia July 23rd 2019, h. 18:30 Italy 2 Greece [/hide]

Not surprising Europeans dominated this Open. Most Americans have problems with the links anyway and this was a new course for like most of them. JB Holmes shot +16 on the final day? Talk about going down the gutter. Everyone hyped McIlroy before the start and it's the old man Lowry who carried the flag in the end. I wonder how popular Eire victory is in Ulster?

You probably don't realize how successful Italian fencing is Getting "a medal" is simply not good enough.

[hide] Event & Date Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Men's 400m Freestyle Day 1 July 21st , 2019 Mack Horton x Jack McLoughlin Sun Yang x Gabriele Detti Danas Rapsys x Aleksandr Krasnykh Mykhailo Romanchuk Zane Grothe Any Other Swimmer Women's 400m Freestyle Day 1 July 21st, 2019 Kiah Melverton Ariarne Titmus Li Bingjie Wang Jianjiahe Boglarka Kapas x Anja Kesely x Simona Quadarella Katie Ledecky x Leah Smith Any Other Swimmer Men's 4x100m Freestyle Relay Day 1 July 21st, 2019 Australia x Brazil Canada France Great Britain Hungary Italy Japan Netherlands Poland Russia x United States x Any Other Nation Women's 4x100m Freestyle Relay Day 1 July 21st, 2019 Australia Canada China Denmark France Germany Great Britain Japan Netherlands x Russia Sweden x United States x Any Other Nation Men's 100m Breaststroke Day 2 July 22nd, 2019 Ilya Shymanovich Yan Zibei Tobias Bjerg Adam Peaty x James Wilby Nicolo Martinenghi Fabio Scozzoli Yashurio Koseki x Arno Kamminga Anton Chupkov Kirill Prigoda Michael Andrew x Andrew Wilson Any Other Swimmer Women's 100m Butterfly Day 2 July 22nd, 2019 Emma McKeon x Brianna Throssell Maggie MacNeil Zhang Yufei Beryl Gastaldello Elena Di Liddo Svetlana Chimrova Erin Gallagher An Se-hyeon Louise Hansson Sarah Sjostrom x Kelsi Dahlia Katie McLaughlin x Any Other Swimmer Men's 50m Butterfly Day 2 July 22nd, 2019 Nicholas Santos Mehdy Metella Ben Proud Oleg Kostin x Andrey Zhilkin Joseph Schooling Andrii Govorov Michael Andrew x Caeleb Dressel x Any Other Swimmer Women's 200m Individual Medley Day 2 July 22nd, 2019 Kaylee McKeown Sydney Pickrem Ye Shiwen x Siobhan-Marie O’Connor Katinka Hosszu x Rika Omoto Yui Ohashi Kim Seoyeong Melanie Margalis x Any Other Swimmer Men's 200m Freestyle Day 3 July 23rd, 2019 Kyle Chalmers Clyde Lewis Fernando Scheffer Sun Yang x James Guy Duncan Scott Dominik Kozma Ketsuhiro Matsumoto Danas Rapsys x Mikhail Dovgalyuk Martin Malyutin x Andrew Seliskar Townley Haas Any Other Swimmer Women's 1500m Freestyle Day 3 July 23rd, 2019 Madeleine Gough Kiah Melverton Wang Jianjiahe Kristel Kobrich Sarah Koehler Anja Kesely Simona Quadarella x Mireia Belmonte x Katie Ledecky x Ashley Twichell Any Other Swimmer Women's 100m Backstroke Day 3 July 23rd, 2019 Kaylee McKeown Kylie Masse x Taylor Ruck Fu Yuanhui Simona Kubova Katinka Hosszu x Margherita Panziera x Natsumi Sakai Kathleen Baker Olivia Smoliga Any Other Swimmer Men's 100m Backstroke Day 3 July 23rd, 2019 Mitch Larkin x Marcus Thormeyer Jiayu Xu Apostolos Christou Any Italian Swimmer x Ryosuke Irie Any Romanian Swimmer Kliment Kolesnikov Evgeny Rylov Matt Grevers x Ryan Murphy Any Other Swimmer Women's 100m Breaststroke Day 3 July 23rd, 2019 Jessica Hansen Kierra Smith Shi Jinglin Arianna Castiglioni Alia Atkinson x Reona Aoki Anna Belousova Yulia Efimova x Jessica Vall Tatjana Schoenmaker Lilly King x Micah Sumrall Any Other Swimmer Men's 800m Freestyle Day 4 July 24th, 2019 Jack McLoughlin Felix Auboeck Guilherme Costa Sun Yang x David Aubrey Florian Wellbrock Gabriele Detti x Gregorio Paltrinieri Henrik Christiansen Mykhailo Romanchuk x Zane Grothe Any Other Swimmer Women's 200m Freestyle Day 4 July 24th, 2019 Emma McKeon Ariarne Titmus Penny Oleksiak Taylor Ruck Any Chinese Swimmer x Charlotte Bonnet Siobhan Haughey Katinka Hosszu x Federica Pellegrini Femke Heemskerk Veronika Andrusenko Sarah Sjostrom Katie Ledecky x Any Other Swimmer Men's 200m Butterfly Day 4 July 24th, 2019 David Morgan x Matthew Temple Leonardo De Deus Li Zhuhao Tamas Kenderesei Kristof Milak Federico Burdisso Daiya Seto Chad le Clos x Zach Harting x Justin Wright Any Other Swimmer Men's 50m Breaststroke Day 4 July 24th, 2019 Ilya Shymanovich x Joao Gomes x Felipe Lima Adam Peaty x Nicolo Martinenghi Fabio Scozzoli Yashurio Koseki Kirill Prigoda Caba Siladi Michael Houlie Michael Andrew Any Other Swimmer Mixed 4x100m Medley Relay Day 4 July 24th, 2019 Australia x Canada China Germany Great Britain Hungary Italy Japan Netherlands Russia x South Africa United States x Any Other Nation Women's 200m Butterfly Day 5 July 25th, 2019 Brianna Throssell x Yufei Zhang x Franziska Hentke Alys Thomas Boglarka Kapas x Suzuka Hasegawa Mireia Belmonte Katie Drabot Hali Flickinger Any Other Swimmer Men's 100m Freestyle Day 5 July 25th, 2019 Oussama Sahnoune Kyle Chalmers Pieter Timmers Marcelo Chierighini Breno Correia Duncan Scott Alessandro Miressi Vladislav Grinev x Vladimir Morozov Caeleb Dressel x Blake Pieroni Any Other Swimmer x Women's 50m Backstroke Day 5 July 25th, 2019 Minna Atherton Kaylee McKeown x Etiene Medeiros Chen Jie Fu Yuanhui x Mie Nielsen x Mimosa Jallow Georgia Davies Any Dutch Swimmer Allcja Tchorz Anastastia Fesikova Daria Vaskina Kathleen Baker Olivia Smoliga Any Other Swimmer Men's 200m Individual Medley Day 5 July 25th, 2019 Mitch Larkin x Caio Pumputis Qin Hiayang Wang Shun Philip Heintz Max Litchfield Duncan Scott x Daiya Seto x Jeremy Desplanches Chase Kalisz Any Other Swimmer Women's 4x200m Freestyle Relay Day 5 July 25th, 2019 Australia Canada China France Hungary Italy Japan Netherlands x Russia x United States x Any Other Nation Women's 100m Freestyle Day 6 July 26th, 2019 Cate Campbell x Emma McKeon Penny Oleksiak Taylor Ruck Zhu Menghui Pernille Blume x Charlotte Bonnet Siobhan Haughey Femke Heemskerk Ranomi Kromowidjojo Sarah Sjostrom x Mallory Comerford Simone Manuel Any Other Swimmer Women's 200m Breaststroke Day 6 July 26th, 2019 Sydney Pickrem Kelsey Wog Shi Jinglin Ye Shiwen x Molly Renshaw Reona Aoki Yulia Efimova x Tatjana Schoenmaker Jessica Vall Lilly King x Micah Sumrall Any Other Swimmer Men's 200m Backstroke Day 6 July 26th, 2019 Mitch Larkin Jiayu Xu Luke Greenbank Matteo Restivo Ryosuke Irie x Keita Sunama Radoslaw Kawecki Evgeny Rylov x Ryan Murphy x Jacob Pebley Any Other Swimmer Men's Breaststroke 200m Day 6 July 26th, 2019 Zach Stubblety-Cook Matthew Wilson Qin Haiyang Marco Koch Ross Murdoch James Wilby Luca Pizzini Yashurio Koseki x Ippei Watanabe Dmitriy Baladin Anton Chupkov x Josh Prenot x Andrew Wilson Any Other Swimmer Men's 4x200m Freestyle Relay Day 6 July 26th, 2019 Australia x China Germany Great Britain x Hungary Italy Japan Netherlands Russia United States x Any Other Nation Women's 50m Butterfly Day 7 July 27th, 2019 Maggie MacNeil x Penny Oleksiak Emilie Beckmann Jeanette Ottesen Farida Osman x Ranomi Kromowidjojo Louise Hansson Sarah Sjostrom x Kelsi Dahlia Any Other Swimmer Men's 50m Freestyle Day 7 July 27th, 2019 Bruno Fratus x Ben Proud Kristian Gkolomeev Maxim Lobanovskij Andrea Vergani Shinri Shioura Pawel Juraszek Vladimir Morozov x Andrii Govorov Michael Andrew Caeleb Dressel x Any Other Swimmer Men's 100m Butterfly Day 7 July 27th, 2019 Vinicius Lanza Li Zhuhao Mehdy Metella x Marius Kusch James Guy Laszlo Cseh Kristof Milak Piero Codia Joseph Schooling Chad le Clos x Jack Conger Caeleb Dressel x Any Other Swimmer Women's 200m Backstroke Day 7 July 27th, 2019 Minna Atherton Kaylee McKeown Kylie Masse Taylor Ruck Liu Yaxin x Katalin Burian Katinka Hosszu x Margherita Panziera x Anastasia Avdeeva Daria Ustinova Kathleen Baker Regan Smith Any Other Swimmer Women's 800m Freestyle Day 7 July 27th, 2019 Kiah Melverton Ariarne Titmus Li Bingjie Wang Jianjiahe Sarah Koehler Boglarka Kapas x Simona Quadarella x Mireia Belmonte Katie Ledecky x Leah Smith Any Other Swimmer Mixed 4x100 Freestyle Relay Day 7 July 27th, 2019 Australia x Canada China France Great Britain Hungary Italy Japan Netherlands x Russia United States x Any Other Nation Men's 1500m Freestyle Day 8 July 28th, 2019 Jack McLoughlin Sun Yang x Jan Micka David Aubrey Damian Joly Florian Wellbrock x Daniel Jervis Domenico Acerenza Gregorio Paltrinieri x Henrik Christiansen Mykhailo Romanchuk Zane Grothe Jordan Willimovsky Any Other Swimmer Women's 50m Breaststroke Day 8 July 28th, 2019 Jessica Hansen Fanny Lecluyse Ida Hulkko Martina Carraro Benedetta Pilato Alia Atkinson x Yulia Efimova x Jessica Vall Sophie Hansson Lilly King x Any Other Swimmer Women's 50m Freestyle Day 8 July 28th, 2019 Bronte Campbell Cate Campbell x Etiene Medeiros Liu Xiang Pernille Blume Femke Heemskerk x Ranomi Kromowidjojo Maria Kameneva Erin Gallagher Sarah Sjostrom Simone Manuel x Abbey Weitzeil Any Other Swimmer Men's 50m Backstroke Day 8 July 28th, 2019 Mitch Larkin x Mikita Tsmyh Finlay Knox Jiayu Xu Jeremy Stravius Richard Bohus Shane Ryan Robert Glinta Kliment Kolesnikov Evgeny Rylov x Zane Waddell Michael Andrew Ryan Murphy x Any Other Swimmer Women's 400m Individual Medley Day 8 July 28th, 2019 Emily Overholt x Sydney Pickrem Ye Shiwen x Fantine Lesaffre Aimee Willmott Katinka Hosszu x Zsuzsanna Jakabos Yui Ohashi Mireia Belmonte Any Swimmer from USA Any Other Swimmer Men's 400m Individual Medley Day 8 July 28th, 2019 Thomas Fraser-Holmes Maksym Shemberev Brandonn Almeida Philip Heintz Max Litchfield x Peter Bernek David Verraszto Daiya Seto x Lewis Clareburt Joan Lluis Pons Ramon Chase Kalisz x Jay Litherland Any Other Swimmer Women's 4x100m Medley Relay Day 8 July 28th, 2019 Australia x Canada China Italy Japan Russia South Africa Sweden x United States x Any Other Nation Men's 4x100m Medley Relay Day 8 July 28th, 2019 Australia Brazil China Germany Great Britain x Italy Japan Russia x South Africa United States x Any Other Nation [/hide]

[hide] Women's Tournament - Knockout Round July 20th - July 26th, 2019 12 Nations, Play-Offs, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Third Place Match and Final Quarterfinals  Date & Time (GMT +9)  Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 July 22nd 2019, h. 14:00 United States 8 Greece July 22nd 2019, h. 15:30 Russia 7 Australia July 22nd 2019, h. 17:00 Spain 3 Netherlands July 22nd 2019, h. 18:30 Italy 4 Hungary [/hide]

[hide] Men's Tournament - Knockout Round July 21st - July 27th, 2019 12 Nations, Play-Offs, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Third Place Match and Final Playoffs  Date & Time (GMT +9)  Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 July 21st 2019, h. 14:00 Montenegro 8 Australia July 21st 2019, h. 15:30 Greece 2 United States July 21st 2019, h. 17:00 Spain 1 Japan July 21st 2019, h. 18:30 South Africa 9 Germany [/hide]

 [hide] Women's Tournament - Knockout Round July 20th - July 26th, 2019 12 Nations, Play-Offs, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Third Place Match and Final Playoffs  Date & Time (GMT +9)  Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 July 20th 2019, h. 14:00 Netherlands 5 Canada July 20th 2019, h. 15:30 New Zealand 4 Hungary July 20th 2019, h. 17:00 Greece 2 China July 20th 2019, h. 18:30 Kazakhstan 7 Australia [/hide] 

Thx for the explanation Yeah, we were called "Lachs" or "Lachy" by the East Slavics, Turks & other Middle East people since like forever But I was unware this still exists in Iran or maybe other Arabic countries. It comes from this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lendians Most of the countries use the modern name versions of Poland or Polonia now. In Europe I'm fairly sure Lithuania & Hungary still use the "Lachs" version (Lengyel in Hungarian means Polish) but Hungary still uses the vintage version Magyarorszag as country name so it makes sense

So how do people in Iran call their own country? Because I'm completely lost now

Anita Wlodarczyk has undergone a knee surgery and is done for the season. There goes our safest gold pick for Doha

Speaking of botched plane flights from 2011 Bojana Jovanovski once flown to the wrong city for a WTA event. And the distance was far greater than between Krakow & Kosice. It's not like San Diego was a new event back then even it if was played on the suburbs aka Carlsbad. But she somehow confused California with New Mexico. Stange flights too --> since she flew from Dallas to Albuquerque she must have gotten it all wrong from the start. https://www.bbc.com/sport/tennis/14369086

National team success usually boosts any sport's popularity. And cricket wasn't part of the Olympics while the World Cup only started in the 70s so they were very late to the party. But I don't think the British rule over India, Bangladesh & Pakistan has nothing to do with cricket being popular in this very specific region of Asia. It has everything to do with this. Likewise cricket being popular in South Africa, Zimbabwe & even Namibia over in Africa - the three countries on the continent with a relatively significant white presence in society over the years.

Kevin Na has pulled out of The Open with injury and guess who replaced him in the field? @hckosice

I realize cricket is the most popular sport in India but c'mon! It's just a relict from the British Empire days. If France occupied India for all those centuries instead you wouldn't even sniffed this game at all

[hide] Knockout Round July 5th - July 19th, 2019 16 Nations, Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Third Place Match and Final Third Place Match Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 July 17th 2019, h. 21:00 Tunisia 1 2 Nigeria Final Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 July 19th 2019, h. 21:00 Senegal 1 0 Algeria [/hide]

South East Asia is the most populous region in the world (if I can say India belongs to this region). Yes, badminton is so popular because it has a big following in China & India - two of the most populous countries in the world. But just because such big countries have a history in this sport it doesn't make it global or popular in the world. USA plays football but it's not a global sport. Likewise baseball which extends to Carribean & Japan but it's not a global sport. Cricket is the Commonwealth version of baseball. Very big in isolated parts of the world but only a big fish in a very small pond. And it just so happens 33% of the countries which participate in Cricket World Cup have like zero team success in every other sport in the world (Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh). There are only 10 teams in the World Cup, you mentioned three countries and guess you can add West Indies which takes talent from all of the Carribean so that's quite a pool of talent available allthough it rivals baseball over there.

Nobody plays handball in USA/Canada, mind you. And nobody claims these events are global sports either (unlike cricket) so your arguments are dead wrong on arrival. The only true Commonwealth sport that has gained global following to a degree is rugby. But then again, South East Asia doesn't play rugby much opposite to cricket.

Yeah, I don't really follow men's tennis anymore. The courts are so slow it's hilarious. The likes of Edberg and Becker would blow Djokovic & Nadal off the court in less than 60 mins back on the old carpet

Again, British Empire is no longer the world. Hell, badminton is more popular than cricket but the numbers are skewed since these sports are popular in some of the most populous countries in the world. Cricket isn't a global sport, it's a big fish in a very, very small pond. Why would they reduce the number of teams taking part in World Cup in first place if it's so popular?

Don't the native Algerians actually hate France?

This should be called British Empire Games at best The last true relict of the colonial era. Irrelevant sport nobody pays attention to IMO.

Why is it called a World Cup anyway? There's nobody from outside the Commonwealth even playing this sport?

Well, Vettel has completely lost it again. This guy is total headcase at this point. Meanwhile SC screws Bottas and Hamilton wins again. It was actually the best race of the season anyway.

Serena is not a sacred cow though

[hide] Event & Date Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Women's Epee Individual Day 1 July 18th 2019 SUN Yiwen x Any Athlete from Estonia VITALIS Coraline CANDASSAMY Marie-Floren. KONG Man Wai Vivian NAVARRIA Mara x FIAMINGO Rossella KANG Young Mi CHOI Injeong Any Athlete from Poland POPESCU Ana Maria x KOLOBOVA Violetta HURLEY Courtney HURLEY Kelley Any Other Athlete  Men's Sabre Individual Day 1 July 18th 2019 APITHY Bolade BAZADZE Sandro HARTUNG Max x SZILAGYI Aron x Any Athlete from Iran CURATOLI Luca OH Sanguk x KIM Junho GU Bongil IBRAGIMOV Kamil RESHETNIKOV Veniamin DERSHWITZ Eli Any Other Athlete Women's Foil Individual Day 2 July 19th 2019 THIBUS Ysaora x EBERT Leonie DI FRANCISCA Elisa ERRIGO Arianna VOLPI Alice x AZUMA Sera JEON Hee Sook DERIGLAZOVA Inna x IVANOVA Anastasia KOROBEYNIKOVA Larisa BOUBAKRI Ines KIEFER Lee Any Other Athlete Men's Epee Individual Day 2 July 19th 2019 PEREIRA Yulen BOREL Yannick x Any Athlete from Hungary SANTARELLI Andrea MINOBE Kazuyasu KANO Koki ALEXANIN Dmitriy PARK Sangyoung x Any Dutch Athlete BIDA Sergey HEINZER Max NIKISHIN Bogdan HOYLE Jacob LIMARDO GASCON Ruben x Any Other Athlete Women's Sabre Individual Day 3 July 20th 2019 QIAN Jiarui SHAO Yaqi BERDER Cecilia BRUNET Manon PUSZTAI Lisa MARTON Anna Any Athlete from Italy KIM Jiyeon EGORIAN Yana VELIKAYA Sofya x POZDNIAKOVA Sofia x KHARLAN Olga x Any Athlete from USA Any Other Athlete Men's Foil Individual Day 3 July 20th 2019 LE PECHOUX Erwann KRUSE Richard CHEUNG Ka Long FOCONI Alessio x GAROZZO Daniele x AVOLA Giorgio CASSARA Andrea Any Athlete from Japan HEO Jun CHEREMISINOV Alexey SAFIN Timur IMBODEN Race x MEINHARDT Gerek MASSIALAS Alexander Any Other Athlete Women's Epee Team Day 4 July 21st 2019 China Estonia France Germany Hong Kong Italy Korea Poland x Russia x Ukraine USA x Any Other Team Men's Sabre Team Day 4 July 21st 2019 France Germany x Hungary Iran Italy x Korea x Romania Russia USA Any Other Team Women's Foil Team Day 5 July 22nd 2019 France Germany Italy x Japan Korea Poland Russia x USA x Any Other Team Men's Epee Team Day 5 July 22nd 2019 China Denmark France Hungary Israel Italy x Japan Korea x Switzerland Ukraine Russia x USA Any Other Team Women's Sabre Team Day 6 July 23rd 2019 China France x Hungary Italy x Japan Korea Russia x Ukraine USA Any Other Team Men's Foil Team Day 6 July 23rd 2019 France x Germany Hong Kong Italy x Japan Korea Russia USA x Any Other Team [/hide]