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Most wealthy people support him, it's no surprise.

Argentina released the team list today (I won't post it cuz it's too long and nobody here is really interested in it ). We'll have 141 athletes participating in all sports except for Acrobatic Gymnastics and Diving. The flag bearer will be Dante Cittadini (sailing, Nacra 15). IMO a bit unfair that his girl partner with whom he has won many titles recently isn't also picked as "joint-flag bearer", but whatever, our NOC aren't the brightest minds...

At least in the case of prime ministers/presidents it's common protocol that they should speak their own language even in big international meetings (only in interviews they tend to adapt to the language of the interviewer). It's not that they necessarilly don't know english or other lenguage. For example, Putin knows many languages but rarely speaks in something that isn't russian.

Wow I thought dominican was the weakest team in the competition but seems like not.

lol our girl in skeet missed a whooping 11 shots (!) today and dropped from 2nd to nowhere. Silver lining for us is that USA qualified all 3 shooters for the final.

Ok, Djokovic was solid and delpo made UE in almost every important point he had. Disappointing final. Unfortunately delpo just doesn't have the body to compete with a Nadal/Djokovic as long as they are in their prime. Number 4 in ranking is the best he can be for now.

Actually there isn't much difference in UEs. The big difference is return: delpo only 66% points won with 1st serve, which for him is VERY bad, Djokovic defense is full gear today.

Not my language but probably some weird pronounciation like "weelch". In many words portuguese sounds funny from our point of view

Two questions: What would have happened if there was rainy weather in Rome today? Why all the other teams must wait 3 days to play their first match??

The champion will be France, Russia or less likely USA. Brazil doesn't have chance to be champions this time, but still should get top 6 finish. Italy who knows... I see them making semis but I also could see them losing a group game...

I didn't watch the match but I understand all this happened just because of some coaching warning? I fail to see the connection between that and sexism, are there statistics that show that women get this type of warning more often than men or something?

^The thing about equestrian is that the kids won't use their own horses but ones provided by the organization, so the results will be pretty random to an extent.

It's very difficult to predict the men's final for me. Novak has only played nobodies and Nishikori (who just doesn't have the aggresive tennis needed to beat him) until now and delpo hasn't played any high level player either (Isner is special and Rafa got injured in like 4 games). The few times delpo managed to defeat Djokovic in the past he served and hammered forehand like crazy all match. Sounds weird but I think it depends more on delpo than on Djokovic, the latter is no mystery: he will just play his usual super-consistent tennis and defend, defend, defend. Delpo must break that if he wants to win.

Yes, we get it, India is good. We realised by the 24th post you made about it.

Botswana should have won. Of those 4 it's currently the most stable country.

Draw of hockey 5s: http://www.fih.ch/events/youth-olympic-games/3rd-youth-olympic-games-m/news/fih-reveals-pools-and-match-schedule-for-youth-olympic-games-2018 Tomorrow is the draw for beach handball and apparently Argentina will be participating in both genders unlike I thought! (which is great because both our teams were u18 wch bronze medalists). It seems that international federations can twist the team sport quota rules at their will... we will participate in all team sport events except girls rugby and futsal.

15/15 is better.

Nadal bageled

Break point for delpo: Isner ace Break point for delpo: delpo can only return it to the net Break point for delpo: delpo somehow returns but Isner does forehand winner instantly... Anti-tennis

I see that the equestrian contest is full of non-olympic events. With those conditions there is almost no way for dcro to lose it. No pressure!

Yes, but unless you have insane depth in your football system those players will be worse and the national team performance will suffer. And I suppose that no federation wants that because they lose sponsors, price money from tournaments, etc When it's about NTs the players have all the bargaining power. In a club they can just fire you and buy another player of the same level.

Yes, but unlike clubs they don't "own" the players. If they think that the conditions to play are bad, they can refuse call ups.

I'm a bit pissed off that, despite the world champion korean is 18 years old, we only inscribed our two rifle girls of the same age for the junior event. One of our girls even participated in Rio but nope, still we only let you compete in junior. lol Small country small goals, I guess.

One of the brazilian players (n°18) is too muscular, he looks like a mma fighter rather than a volleyball player Yay, another one of these pan am cups we're stocking them lately.

I don't know the exact dates but WL finals are usually mid July and pan am games will be late July. There are one or two weeks between, almost a month for those that don't make the wl finals.