LDOG

Germany lost to Spain. Just....

No. Because corruption is way too deep into AIBA. Because the results aren't serious 50% of the time. Because the best boxers don't compete at the olympics and I don't like that in any sport (men's football, Baseball, etc).

[hide] Knockout Round July 30th - August 5th, 2018 12 Nations, Quarterfinals Play-Offs, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Bronze Medal Match, Gold Medal Match Quarterfinals #2 Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 August 2nd 2018, h. 18:00 Ireland 1 India August 2nd 2018, h. 20:15 Netherlands 2 England [/hide]

Well, my city is in a middle area between subtropical and subpolar zones so there aren't that big temperature variations compared to other places. Currently 8 in winter at almost midday, which is fine I guess. I hate the summer, especially when you are in a place without AC in a very hot day.

India wins handily against a weak Italy (who likely felt the blow from losing 12-1). India has been the strongest asian team for 2-3 years but this is their first good result in a world tournament, it's usually China and Korea who perform better than them against teams of other continents. They will also have good chance to win vs Ireland playing like this.

The registration process to get the yog pass is open since today. I already sent my request.

[hide] Knockout Round July 30th - August 5th, 2018 12 Nations, Quarterfinals Play-Offs, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Bronze Medal Match, Gold Medal Match Quarterfinals #1 Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 August 1st 2018, h. 18:00 Germany 2 Spain August 1st 2018, h. 20:15 Australia 1 Argentina [/hide]

What? not really, it was all determined by ranking and serpentine system: pool A: (1st, 8th, 9th & 16th), B: (2,7,10, 15), C: (3, 6, 11, 14), D: (4, 5, 12, 13) The semifinal was supposed to be England-Argentina (2v3), it's just that both teams (and New Zealand too) failed to perform.

Unless England loses the next game, one of Ireland, Italy or India will be in semifinals.

[hide] Knockout Round July 30th - August 5th, 2018 12 Nations, Quarterfinals Play-Offs, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Bronze Medal Match, Gold Medal Match Quarterfinals Play Offs #1 Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 July 30th 2018, h. 18:00 Belgium 1 Spain July 30th 2018, h. 17:00 Argentina 1 New Zealand [/hide]

I would never call anyone "big favorite for gold" in shooting.

Riner looks closer to lose every year. He should have lost in semis last wch but referee helped him. Yes, I know it sounds silly but it's the truth.

Our team is beyond pathetic. 13 PC no goal, opponent 1 shot and it's goal this tournament is probably going to be the worst disappointment of argentine sport since football WC 2002.

I read today that China didn't take here their full squad, opting to save players for the Asian Games. Maybe that can explain their dismal performance so far.

I give up, this tournament is impossible. I may as well have made random predictions everywhere and I would be earning more points. I don't remember any hockey competition like this, it's normally a very predictable sport.

Archery: 0-1 (women individual) Artistic Swimming: 0 Athletics: 13-16 Badminton: 0 - only core sport Argentina has never qualified. Baseball: 0 Basketball: 0-12 (men, 50/50 chance) Beach Volleyball: 0-4 Boxing: 1-2 Canoeing - Slalom: 0-1 Canoeing - Sprint: 2-10 (for sure K1 200 and 1000 in men, I don't know if there is still continental quota for K4) Cycling - BMX: 1-2 (could be two men -difficult- or one each gender) Cycling - Mountain Bike: 0-1 (men) Cycling - Road: 1-3 (men) Cycling - Track: 0-1 (omnium if he improves, but most likely nothing) Diving: 0 - this sport is currently inexistent Equestrian: 1-4 maybe we can qualify the jumping team again. Fencing: 2-3 (by ranking in women sabre/men epee, maybe continental quota in Women epee) Field Hockey: 32 Football: 0-18 (men) Golf: 1-2 (men only) Gymnastics - Artistic: 2 (men&women individual) Gymnastics - Rhythmic: 0 Gymnastics - Trampoline: 0 Handball: 0-14 (maybe the men can qualify, 50/50 against Brazil) Judo: 1-2 (Paula Pareto and... maybe someone else) Karate: 0-1 (it's a long shot) Modern Pentathlon: 1-2 (women for sure, men maybe) Rowing: 2-8 (for sure the singles, maybe the lightweight doubles and maybe men double sculls if they can improve a bit) Rugby Sevens: 12 (men) Sailing: 11-13 (everything except the 470s -men with light chance-) Shooting: 4-5 (10m air rifle m&w, skeet m&w and maybe we can qualify someone in trap or 3 positions) Skateboarding: 0 - no idea, but I don't think we have much chance. Softball: 0 Sport Climbing: 0 - no idea, we have good young climber girl for YOG but don't think she will have level to qualify for Tokyo. Surfing: 0 Swimming: 7-10 (women breastroke 100 and 200, women freestyle all except 100, men freestyle 50, 100, 200, women medley 200, 400, men butterfly 100, 200, open water women) Table Tennis: 0-1 (maybe one men) Taekwondo: 0-1 (maybe Lucas Guzmán can qualify this time) Tennis: 4 (full men team, no women) Triathlon: 1-2 Volleyball: 12-24 (men certainly and women depending on Brazil mostly) Water Polo: 0 Weightlifting: 0 - we're pathetic Wrestling: 1 - Bermúdez again in W freestyle. Total Sports: 21-32 Optimistic Total Athletes: 214 Realistic Total Athletes: Around 150 Pessimistic Total Athletes: 112

Tokyo Qualification Events have already begun and this year we have many of them. Earlier we had a thread about Early Team Sports Qualification Predictions, but now with little less than two years to the beginning of the Games, it's time to open thread for official qualification predictions. Here is a Template you can follow for a detailed prediction by Sport. Copy, paste and edit the text inside the brackets. Archery: add your text/number here Artistic Swimming: add your text/number here Athletics: add your text/number here Badminton: add your text/number here Baseball: add your text/number here Basketball: add your text/number here Beach Volleyball: add your text/number here Boxing: add your text/number here Canoeing - Slalom: add your text/number here Canoeing - Sprint: add your text/number here Cycling - BMX: add your text/number here Cycling - Mountain Bike: add your text/number here Cycling - Road: add your text/number here Cycling - Track: add your text/number here Diving: add your text/number here Equestrian: add your text/number here Fencing: add your text/number here Field Hockey: add your text/number here Football: add your text/number here Golf: add your text/number here Gymnastics - Artistic: add your text/number here Gymnastics - Rhythmic: add your text/number here Gymnastics - Trampoline: add your text/number here Handball: add your text/number here Judo: add your text/number here Karate: add your text/number here Modern Pentathlon: add your text/number here Rowing: add your text/number here Rugby Sevens: add your text/number here Sailing: add your text/number here Shooting: add your text/number here Skateboarding: add your text/number here Softball: add your text/number here Sport Climbing: add your text/number here Surfing: add your text/number here Swimming: add your text/number here Table Tennis: add your text/number here Taekwondo: add your text/number here Tennis: add your text/number here Triathlon: add your text/number here Volleyball: add your text/number here Water Polo: add your text/number here Weightlifting: add your text/number here Wrestling: add your text/number here Total Sports: add your text/number here Optimistic Total Athletes: add your text/number here Realistic Total Athletes: add your text/number here Pessimistic Total Athletes: add your text/number here

[hide] Event & Date Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Men's Finn Day 1 August 10th, 2018 Any Athlete from Australia Jorge Zarif Milan Vujasinović Tapio Nirkko Jonathan Lobert x Giles Scott x Ed Wright Ioannis Mitakis Zsombor Berecz Nicholas Heiner Peter-Jan Postma Josh Junior Andrew Maloney Max Salminen Alican Kaynar Caleb Paine x Any Other Athlete Men's 470 Day 1 August 10th, 2018 Mathew Belcher/William Ryan x David Bargehr/Lukas Mahr Zangjun Xu/Chao Wang Any Athletes from France Any Athletes from Germany Luke Patience/Chris Grube Panagiotis Mantis/Pavlos Kagialis x Giacomo Ferrari/Giulio Calabro Any Athletes from Japan Paul Snow-Hansen/Daniel Willcox Anton Dahlberg/Fredrik Bergstrom x Denis Cinar/Ates Cinar Stuart McNay/David Hughes Any Other Athlete Women's 470 Day 1 August 10th, 2018 Any Athlete from China Camille Lecointre/Aloise Retornaz Any Athlete from Germany Hannah Mills/Eilidh McIntyre x Amy Seabright/Anna Carpenter Gil Cohen/Noa Lasry Ai Kondo Yoshida/Miho Yoshioka Afrodite Zegers/Anneloes van Veen Agnieszka Skrzypulec/Irmina Mrozek-G. Tina Mrak/Veronika Macarol x Any Athlete from Spain x Linda Fahrni/Maja Siegenthaler Any Other Athlete Men's Laser Day 2 August 11th, 2018 Tim Burton x Mathew Wearn Tonči Stipanović Pavlos Kontides x Jean-Baptiste Bernaz Philipp Buhl x Any Athlete from Great Britain Juan Ignacio Maegli Any Athlete from Italy Sam Meech Thomas Saunders Stefano Peschiera Jesper Stalheim Christopher Barnard Any Other Athlete Women's Laser Radial Day 2 August 11th, 2018 Emma Plasschaert x Tatiana Drozdovskaya Brenda Bowskill Anne-Marie Rindom x Any Athlete from Finland Any Athlete from France Any Athlete from Germany Alison Young Maria Erdi Manami Doi Viktorija Andrulyte Marit Bouwmeester x Josefin Olsson Paige Railey Erika Reineke Dolores Moreira Any Other Athlete Men's 49er Day 3 August 12th, 2018 Any Athlete from Australia Yago Lange/Klaus Lange Benjamin Bildstein/David Hussl Šime Fantela/Mihovil Fantela Any Athlete from Denmark Any Athlete from France Any Athlete from Germany Dylan Fletcher-Scott/Stuart Bithell x James Peters/Fynn Sterritt Logan Dunning Beck/Oscar Gunn Josh Porebski/Trent Rippey Any Athlete from Poland x Jorge Lima/Jose Costa Any Athlete from Spain x Any Other Athlete Women's 49er FX Day 3 August 12th, 2018 Victoria Travascio/Maria Branz Martine Grael/Kahena Kunze x Ida M. Baad Nielsen/Marie T. Olsen x Jena Mai Hansen/Katja S.-Iversen x Any Athlete from Germany Charlotte Dobson/Saskia Tidey Odile van Aanholt/Marieke Jongens Annemiek Bekkering/Annette Duetz Alexandra Maloney/Molly Meech Ragna Agerup/Maia Agerup Helene Naess/Marie Rønningen Kimberly Lim/Cecilia Low Tamara Echegoyen/Paula Barcelo Any Athlete from Sweden Any Other Athlete Men's IKA Formula Kite Day 3 August 12th, 2018 Martin Dolenc Theo de Ramecourt Axel Mazella x Nicolas Parlier Florian Gruber Guy Bridge x Oliver Bridge x Maks Zakowski Denis Taradin Toni Vodišek Any Athlete from the United States Any Other Athlete Women's IKA Formula Kite Day 3 August 12th, 2018 Any Athlete from Australia Stine Jensen Leonie Meyer Steph Bridge Anais Mai Desjardin Alexia Fancelli x Megumi Hirata Elena Kalinina x Bibiana Magaji Daniela Moroz x Bilge Ozturk Any Other Athlete Men's RS:X Day 3 August 12th, 2018 Bing Ye Mengfan Gao Louis Giard Thomas Goyard Pierre Le Coq x Kieran Holmes Martin Byron Kokkalanis Shahar Zubari Mattia Camboni Kiran Badloe Dorian van Rijsselberghe x Piotr Myszka Ivan Pastor Mateo Sanz Lanz Any Other Athlete x Women's RS:X Day 3 August 12th, 2018 Peina Chen x Yunxiu Lu Ingrid Puusta Helene Noesmoen Charline Picon Any Athlete from Great Britain Hei Man Chan Noga Geller x Flavia Tartaglini Lilian de Geus x Malgorzata Bialecka Zofia Noceti-Klepacka Stefania Elfutina Marina Alabau Bianca Manchon Any Other Athlete Mixed Nacra 17 Day 3 August 12th, 2018 Santiago Lange/Cecilia Carranza Saroli Jason Waterhouse/Lisa Darmanin x Thomas Zajac/Barbara Matz Lin Cenholt/Christian Lubeck Any Athlete from France Paul Kohlhoff/Alisa Stuhlemmer John Grimson/Anna Burnet Ben Saxton/Nicola Boniface x Vittorio Biassaro/Maelie Farscari Ruggero Tita/Caterina Banti x Gemma Jones/Jason Saunders Olivia Mackay/Micah Wilkinson Fernando Echevarri/Tara Pacheco Riley Gibbs/Louisa Chafee Any Other Athlete [/hide]

Really? That's the reason we're waiting?? Can I just open it?

Is a "qualification predictions" thread ever gonna be opened?

Football, Handball, Hockey, Volleyball and lately i'm taking a liking to Fencing.

Solid 5th place of our team smashing USA in their turf. Too bad we had to play Fiji in QF. Fiji and South Africa are the only teams we can never beat.

Lol korea changed goalkeeper in the first quarter but it made no difference. I found out their keepers have only 6 and 5 international caps respectively that's an insane choice from their coach, no wonder these girls can't stop any shot.

Oops now it's 6-0, all this in 7 shots on goal