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Yo todavia no puedo creer lo de los 200 combinados. Primero, Chain metiendo esa gran marca con 14 años. Segundo, estuve viendo los parciales de Hein y no me habia dado cuenta pero el crol del final que hizo en 29.3 es una animalada. Para que tengan idea ninguna de las finalistas del último mundial (ni mcintosh) metió menos de 30 segundos en ese sprint final. El tramo de mariposa al comienzo fue lo más debil de la performance de Agostina (en comparación con la super elite igual). Todo esto, recordemos, 14 minutos despues de terminar los 800.

She made 54-something in the 100 FR mixed relay. Would've also won the gold in the individual 100m contested earlier in the session had she entered it.

Two gold medals for Agostina Hein with two new (senior) south american records! 8:22:01 in 800 FR and 2:10:82 in 200 IM. (she did the IM only 10 minutes after racing the 800)

Hein already with a SA junior record in the heat of 200IM very close to the senior record of Maranhão.

I'd really like to understand what's the mentality behind these shameless purchases from Turkey and other neighbouring countries. Do they feel any pride when they win? Does it bring any profit in terms of 'soft power' to win by doing this when everyone else in the world thinks you're cheating?

The turning point of portuguese football started with their 1989 & 1991 youth world cup wins. That generation of Figo, Rui Costa, etc. Before that they had only produced elite players very sporadically (and even the greatest, Eusebio, grew up in Mozambique).

Two awfully weak teams ( & ) let into the world cup because of this weird uneven format. And who are okayish but shouldn't be going either. And oddly enough they have a shot to make the knockouts cuz they will be in some of the weakest groups. A side note: in 2017 Italy had two more world cup participations than Argentina. now they're one down.

Denmark will win for sure, the others are all very close in my view. I've a feeling Sweden wins (revenge for 2022). Kosovo can definitely hurt Turkey but their defense is maybe too frail. I'd bet on Turkey. Bosnia is nothing special (watched a good part of their game) but Italy being unreliable is an understatement and they have a big problem in creating goal opportunities. Chance of an upset if Italy starts the same XI.

They're tough. And they're not even using good players like Rahmani (injured) and Zegrova (in bench).

Kosovo has a few very interesting players and are in a streak of good results, they can win even if they aren't favorites. Turkey lacks a good striker. Today they had all the possession but not much edge.

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You can just ask for that without any justification?. So jealous (same profession).

I was fearing they'd bend to IOC's stupid format eventually... it's a small sport without much leverage. I hope handball and water polo resist.

(Men) withdrew from the qualifiers in Egypt due to the warning issued by the Department of State to US nationals in the middle east. They had lost their first two games and were already eliminated anyway.

Never played myself but watched videos of competitive players. Guys watching some traffic lights and saying 'yeah, this is inner Mongolia" and so on.