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🇺🇾 Juan Izquierdo, 27, football player from Nacional. He had an arrythmia in the end of the match against Sao Paulo in Copa Libertadores, then cardiac arrest and brain damage before death. Shocking news, the saddest part is that he has two little kids and the younger one was born a couple days ago. https://x.com/Nacional/status/1828606877048950830

Well, we tried What a pity the first goal, the same mistake that on Germany's goal in QF.

Lástima la última regata de Majdalani y Bosco. Si había alguna chance de pelear a los italianos quedó casi imposible y ahora a luchar con Gran Bretaña y Nueva Zelanda por el podio. Pueden ser primeros o quedarse afuera del podio. Como vienen los Juegos, no me animaría a pronosticar por las dudas

That was close We deserved to lose tbh, lots of amateur stuff. We'll need some more heroics from the GK to have a shot in the semis.

Uf, qué manera de zafar. Igual PB nos va a aniquilar jugando así.

Not that shocking, Zheng was the only one who won a set against Iga in RG 2022 before collapsing physically and she has the game to bother her. Swiatek didn't have it this week, too many nerves I guess. The bronze is hers, though. A Zheng-Vekic final would be cool.

Me alegro de haberme equivocado Ojalá sirva de motivación para el resto y saque algo de presión.

Lástima ese sombrerito fallido de Moneta. Jugando mal y todo estaban a nada de ir a suplementario y ahí andá a saber qué pasaba. Y bueno, a prenderle velas a Las Leonas, el Nacra y la Mascheneta. Después de ver el sorteo del tenis, si había alguna esperanza ahí, ya fue.

Es raro, pero después de lo de ayer le tengo fe al fútbol. Esto les va a servir de combustible interno y más si jugamos contra Francia en cuartos. La defensa no da garantías y Mascherano menos, pero ahora al menos hay algo de donde agarrarse desde la moral. Los Pumas mano a mano contra Francia también, otra guerra. Veremos qué sale.

Y? Cómo vienen las proyecciones? Yo veo tres medallas: Pumas, Leonas y el Nacra. Ninguna dorada. Ojalá me equivoque y haya algo más. Sobre todo el fútbol al que le tengo poca confianza.

No one would know, as both are kinda even and Zigart has just won the national championships and out of a great result in the Giro. There's always some discrepancy in these choices, but it seems to me it was the most logical decision. Now you have an avoidable turmoil out of nothing.

Or just do the political choice and pick the girlfriend of your best athlete so he is happier 😋 Baring some miracle, neither of the women was going to medal, anyway.

Yeah, 2-4 is the most likely scenario, with women's hockey being a lock and men's rugby as the next most probably podium, but not a given thing. Then football is the biggest potential medal, but the team could crash big time and wouldn't surprise me at all. Then is the Nacra 17 boat with a good chance to fight for a minor medal. There are other teams/athletes that have the background or potential to medal if the planets align (men's hockey, men's volley, Lucas Guzmán in taekwondo, Fede Gil in skeet, men's doubles in tennis, Torres in BMX Freestyle), but I don't think it'll happen tbh, hope to be wrong, though.

Well, it's a long list of athletes I'd like to do well. If I'd have to choose a top 5, on the top of my head: 🇪🇸 Carolina Marin winning another gold medal in badminton. 🇸🇮 Tadej Pogacar winning the road race. 🇺🇲 Katie Ledecky doing a 4 peat in the 800 and tying Latynina's gold medal record. 🇨🇺 Mijain Lopez winning another gold medal to challenge Milo of Croton 🤓 🇵🇱 Iga Swiatek and Novak Djokovic gold in tennis singles and 🇪🇸 Nadal-Alcaraz in doubles. In athletics, cheering for Eliza McCartney, Femke Bol, Shelly-Ann Fraser, Eva Swoboda, Andre de Grasse, Yaroslava Mahuchikh, Nicola Olyslagers, Sam Kendricks... To name a few. In other sports, athletes like Lisa Carrington, Daria Bilodid, Sarah Sjostrom, Simona Quadarella, Kristof Milak, Kate Douglass and many others that I don't remember now 😋 And of course the latin american athletes and mostly the south american ones.