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There is no mystery, they've run into the greatest clay player ever era. Federer would have never won RG if Soderling didn't take out the dirty laundry for him in 2009.

TF1 Group no longer owns Eurosport, mind you. The previous tournament's rights were secured when that was still the case. Discovery owns ES now and they're shut out by FOX in USA, TF1 in France & BBC in the UK. Case closed.

[hide] Preliminary Round June 7th - June 20th, 2019 24 Nations, 6 Groups, the 1st and 2nd Nations from each Group and 6 best 3rd ranked Teams among all Groups will qualify for the Round of 16 Group A Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 7th 2019, h. 21:00 France 3 0 South Korea June 8th 2019, h. 21:00 Norway 3 1 Nigeria June 12th 2019, h. 15:00 Nigeria 2 1 South Korea June 12th 2019, h. 21:00 France 2 0 Norway June 17th 2019, h. 21:00 Nigeria 0 3 France June 17th 2019, h. 21:00 South Korea 1 4 Norway Group B Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 8th 2019, h. 15:00 Germany 3 1 China June 8th 2019, h. 18:00 Spain 3 0 South Africa June 12th 2019, h. 18:00 Germany 2 0 Spain June 13th 2019, h. 21:00 South Africa 1 3 China June 17th 2019, h. 18:00 South Africa 0 5 Germany June 17th 2019, h. 18:00 China 2 1 Spain Group C Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 9th 2019, h. 13:00 Australia 1 1 Italy June 9th 2019, h. 15:30 Brazil 6 0 Jamaica June 13th 2019, h. 18:00 Australia 1 3 Brazil June 14th 2019, h. 18:00 Jamaica 0 4 Italy June 18th 2019, h. 21:00 Jamaica 0 3 Australia June 18th 2019, h. 21:00 Italy 1 3 Brazil Group D Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 9th 2019, h. 18:00 England 3 1 Scotland June 10th 2019, h. 18:00 Argentina 0 5 Japan June 14th 2019, h. 15:00 Japan 3 0 Scotland June 14th 2019, h. 21:00 England 4 0 Argentina June 19th 2019, h. 21:00 Japan 2 1 England June 19th 2019, h. 21:00 Scotland 2 0 Argentina Group E Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 10th 2019, h. 21:00 Canada 4 0 Cameroon June 11th 2019, h. 15:00 New Zealand 2 3 Netherlands June 15th 2019, h. 15:00 Netherlands 4 0 Cameroon June 15th 2019, h. 21:00 Canada 3 1 New Zealand June 20th 2019, h. 18:00 Netherlands 2 2 Canada June 20th 2019, h. 18:00 Cameroon 0 3 New Zealand Group F Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 11th 2019, h. 18:00 Chile 0 4 Sweden June 11th 2019, h. 21:00 United States 4 0 Thailand June 16th 2019, h. 15:00 Sweden 3 0 Thailand June 16th 2019, h. 18:00 United States 5 0 Chile June 20th 2019, h. 21:00 Sweden 0 1 United States June 20th 2019, h. 21:00 Thailand 3 1 Chile [/hide]

Most soccer games in USA are played on football-purpose stadiums though. Scientific data can be easily shifted one way or another tbh. People who play their entire career on artificial turf can argue anything and vice versa. Soccer is a sport traditionally played on grass though so US-based research is always flawed IMO.

Nope. Most knee injuries occur when the foot gets stuck in the turf and the knee joint snaps the wrong way. It occurs on artificial turf more often. American football study is quite clear: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-football/football-knee-injuries-more-likely-on-artificial-turf-study-idUSBRE84002Q20120501

Hey, it's not me who says journalism is about truth

Coming from a former communist country I can definitely say sociallism is not the way to go. USA has never experienced sociallist rule hence why it's so popular. One can argue Democtratic Party should change their name already. As for journalists, the days of them simply providing information are long, long gone. It's all about influencing society and having power over people's will. From Hearst to Murdoch, it's all about power. There is no such thing as independent media anymore IMO. Everyone follows an agenda one way or another.

But they won't since they dream about getting a better life. And Merkel has no moral backbone to turn them away plus she's a dead woman walking now so none of her ideas matter anymore. The damage is done.

You are very naive. Religion as well as politics & journalism is all about power. About controlling any given society. These three are locked in an eternal war for power. Land ownership is a perfect way to control people. Any state holds that priviledge and so many more. You have to purchase the land first then purchase the build permit and the list goes on and on. Hell, these states even battle for ownership of some ice field in Antarctica because of what lies underneath it. Hell, they even sell land claim on the frickin' Moon of all places.

Merkel is a cooked goose at this stage. Germany only needed cheap working force and she allowed the far-right to rise into significant presence again.

Meanwhile at Mugello...

Atle Skardal won't continue as the head of the women's tour.

Of course she is an Olympic Champion I still remember Martin Lopez Zubero too but don't remember if Spain has ever won more golds in swimming. In Poland there is a well-publicized curse of the flagbearer, since Waldemar Baszanowski won two golds in 1964 & 1968 (he was a FB also in 1972!) the athletes carrying the flag has won only one medal (Waldemar Legien gold in 1992).

How many times has Veszprem made the Final 4 without winning it now?

Marcus Ericsson finished 2nd in the second Detroit race. Felix Rosenqvist had a big crash late on while running in Top 6.

Roy Keane was never a fan favorite outside Old Trafford. It could have been worse if that was Vinny Jones IMO

Half-time in Italy - Poland and it's 1-0. We still haven't scored any goals outside of the Tahiti tourists. Two shots in total in the first half...

Kurek is still more popular than Kubiak though

That's incorrect. Halaand already had severe issues with the other knee and would have stopped playing soon afterwards regardless of this tackle. Plus he was the one who mocked Keane and accused him of faking when Kean tore his ACL back in 1997.

I have a feeling it will be one of the volleyball players

I believe Nibali & Roglic were paying too much attention to each other and let Carapaz fly under the radar. And he proved too strong not to lose that 90 sec. lead he build at the start of the final week. Quite frankly Nibali needed a solo stage attack where he puts distance between himself & everyone. That never happened. Was he waiting for Carapaz to collapse?

I don't follow this steroids sport full-time. Completely forgot Quintana still exists

Carapaz is the first Grand Tour winner from South America since Luis Herrera? Rafal Majka in 6th place overall

I see BBC has dived deep into the England hype - imagine the God damn hype again - so no coverage on Eurosport anymore. But there will be one on TVP Sport and I hope the two female experts from ES will be present there (it's like I only heard two of them during all these years).

The parallel "integrity" bullshit will be quickly dropped once the event stretches beyond window TV stations are willing to accept. Do I see these events taking a lot longer now with the additional quals? Unless they will limit these events to one-gender only or just don't broadcast the qual runs at all.