Monzanator

I predict some Turkish "fans" will burn a few cars and other stuff now. Anyway, this is what you get when you promote politics in football. Obviously BBC and other media didn't realize promoting politics in sports doesn't only mean promoting liberal democracy. Qatar quashed the narrative with heavy pro-Palestine campaign in 2022 and forced the liberal media to sit on their hands since suddenly they realized queer campaign wasn't the only one that had to be accepted. Welcome to the real world Germany is lucky Mesut Ozil has retired already or his Edrogan fanboyism and the grey wolf tattoo would really cause havoc. And now UEFA can pretend he never existed

Hubert Hurkacz suffered a knee injury diving to a net ball and has withdrew from R2 match vs Arthur Flis. It's anyone's guess how that affects the Olympics participation now.

QF referees: Anthony Taylor - vs Michael Oliver - vs Daniele Orsato - vs Clement Turpin - vs This probably means Vincic and Marciniak are heavy favorites for the semi-finals but I'm unsure who gets the final unless Orsato gets his 5th match of the tournament. Soares Dias is my dark outsider if Portugal doesn't make it.

NOC listed 88 names that reached the qualifying standard.

Maria Camila Osorio Serrano has confirmed she made the OG cut-off after all the recent withdrawals.

Poland will always send as many athletes as possible. Let's see if we avoid the swimming drama from 2021 where six swimmers found out they are ineligible to compete only after they arrived in Tokyo

It feels like every Brazilian fan has been saying their NT or the coach sucks for the past 14 years

Armenia and Kurds saying negative things about Turkey? That's brand new information! Like I've said, this is a by-product of letting more teams into the Euro finals. Majority of the Balkans and Turkey has a much easier way to qualify now and of course they are nationalistic nations so you know what you get. England might change the St. George's cross to purple colors and nobody cares after like five days but it's not that simple with some other nations who have long been ignored on the global stage. This is their time to shine and they will full advantage of that.

That's the flip side of having so many teams play at the Euro. It's no longer an exclusive party for Western democracies. However Germany should be aware they are the Turkey's second home to begin with? This inappropriate behaviour is simply reality. What does Germany's internal affairs minister say about all those Turks actually living in Germany?

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Mert with a save of the tournament in added time and makes the QF!

Merih Demiral with his second goal of the match!

scores after 60 seconds!

Very poor defending from Romania. Overall they've played a bad match. 2-0 for Holland.

Gegenpressing!

Racovitan forgot this is not Polish Ekstraklasa. Dutch wasting many chances as per usual.

Sixth seed Andrey Rublev lost in R1 to Francisco Comesana in four sets

Gakpo scores for 1-0.

The thing is when the penalty kick actually starts. Common sense indicates it's when the player starts running towards the ball after the whistle but the current interpretation allows to think it starts after the deliberate stop as well. Which is pure nonsense but FIFA & UEFA are letting this fly. Overall the number of goals doesn't go up as fast as it did like 10-15 years ago because the gap between teams has indeed closed down.

Defending women's champion Marketa Vondrousova loses to Jessica Bouzas Maneiro 4-6 2-6 in R1. One of the worst performances by a defending GS champion I can ever remember.

Almost 2.5 years later and EU has lifted the travel sanctions on Mazepin & his father which means they can enter EU again. Moreover Haas has to re-pay 9 of the 13 million dollars they received for signing Mazepin into a two year contract. https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/ex-f1-driver-mazepin-begins-testing-in-europe-as-eu-sanctions-lift/10630558/

Lulu Sun's parents are from China and Croatia and she represented Switzerland where she was born until March. I don't know if people in New Zealand even realize who Lulu Sun is.

Legendary meltdown from Slovenia in PSO. Sesko is worth 50 million Euro? Yeah, right. That miss might haunt Slovenia for the next 20 years or something.

Horrendous miss from Sesko. His stock must be going down after wasting this chance. Pepe lives on!