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22 minutes ago, CCB said:

Belgian women's team in improving very quickly. Netherlands was a bit better today, but I expect a  -  in the final again. Maybe Belgium shows us then what they are really worth. 

They have improved but I think literally every game between these teams in the last 3 years has finished 2-1 or 2-0 so today's match is far from being novelty. 

Women's hockey is so stagnant right now that I could win very easily any prediction contest about it. Always the same results and with very similar scores. 

Day 3 

Pool A 

 0-2

 2-0

Standings  

 6 pt. (+6)

 3 pt. (+4)

 3 pt. (-2)

 0 pt. (-8)

Pool B 

 5-0

Standings

 6 pt. (+9)

 3 pt. (+2)

 3 pt. (-2)

 0 pt. (-9)

Day 2 

Pool A

 5-0

 3-5

Day 1 

Pool B 

 6-0

 3-3

Day 2

Pool A  

 6-0

 5-1

Pool B

 5-0

Day 1

 3-0

 4-0

1 hour ago, Makedonas said:

Decent results in recent friendlies, for example we played 4 sets vs Bulgaria just a couple weeks ago and won all four of them (whereas they beat us 3-0 at the European Championships in both 2019 and 2021). In general our team seems to have improved over the past few years, mainly due to our teenage star Martha Anthouli (2.02 cm) leading the way now.

Yes but Bulgaria beat them back and also lost to Ukraine twice. And from there there's a jump in level to Germany. 

I think just getting out of this group is good enough for Greece. It's clearly the toughest one as well with no obvious weak team.

10 minutes ago, Makedonas said:

Bad result for us today, 0-3 against the hosts Germany. We had some set points in the third set but could not do it. I thought we had a good chance to win going into the match.

 

Based on what?

1-2 in the men juniors  

 2-3

 Qualified.

3 hours ago, phelps said:

sure! US doctors and managers (but it's the same for the Europeans taking advantage of the Africans in distance running), but an athlete coming from a small Nation with no other chance to improve his life (and his family's) than succeding in sport

 

that's the perfect 

"No other chance" his parents are US college graduates, don't think he was living in a hut. 

2 minutes ago, Benolympique said:

tomorrow there is a decisive match

Yes I know, I'm saying in the case of a tie in the 3rd game.

If Wikipedia doesn't lie this could end up decided by field goals scored if there is a tie.   

For now Australia has scored one more of them. 

40 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Yes, the fact that this chance even exists is weird. Group games should not be possible to be repeated until the final.

It's done so to make almost impossible for one of the two hosts to have to play in the other country. 

The situation you mention happened in (men's WC) Korea-Japan 2002 when Brazil and Turkey played a semifinal after meeting each other in group stage.

Curiously that time Korea could have played in Japan had they advanced to the final. 

2 minutes ago, Fly_like_a_don said:

Right  can win a medal even a gold in Nacra. 

That is too much to ask I fear but I find it a bit insulting that whoever wrote this didn't even include the crew among the top 12 lmao

7 hours ago, Rafa Maciel said:

Nacra 17 potential quotas:

 

"Almost a Lock"

 Ruggero Tita / Caterina Banti

 

"Should Qualify"

 John Gimson / Anna Burnet

 Sinem Kurtbay / Akseli Keskinen

 Paul Kohlhoff / Alica Stuhlemmer

 

"Likely to Qualify"

 Micah Wilkinson / Erica Dawson

 Laila van der Meer / Bjarne Bouwer

 Emil Jarudd / Hanna Jonsson

 

Fighting it out for the remaining 2 quotas, they have 9 nations including , , ,  and 

 

Source: Nacra17.org » 2023 World Sailing Championship

 

 

I'm quite confident we'll get a quota in Nacra. Some of these duos mentioned are not better than our guys.

How did Faroe get so good recently and why is Greenland nowhere as good?

25 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

They already have hosts lined up for 2025, 2027, and 2029.

 

In general, I watch a lot of the competition, but the time zone was bad for me this time around. 

How??? Who pays for this?

Is this the last edition of this nonsense? How does this event survive financially speaking? Like, who even watches it?

Eurohockey div II  

Semifinals: 

 v

 v

This means  &  qualify to OQTs since the other teams are host & not eligible.   

On a sidenote, I see  destroyed  14-0 in "el člasico". 

Clearly only one of these sides contributed to that olympic medal in Moscow 

57 minutes ago, OlympicsFan said:

Argentina is world champion on the men's side and irrelevant on the women's side. Belgium is also nowhere to be seen (and of course eastern european and most african countries as well).

We're making progress, league went pro 4 years ago and since last year all clubs must have youth teams all the way to U14 (before they had nothing).

These girls playing for the senior team now basically had no club academy instruction and their technical deficiencies are evident.

I'm hopeful because a lot of girls play football here and they are more and more every year. And obviously there's no shortage of coaches and facilities. It was just a matter of actually caring. The results will be seen in 10 years.