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Another medal and national record for Pignatiello in 400, this time silver though I'm surprised some of the girls in this final improved their heat times by 4/5 seconds. Isn't that a bit unusual for the 400? Tomorrow I expect her 3rd medal and record in 1500 (probably another silver).

I feel France will win at the end. About Italy... I said in page 2 that they aren't with best team, maybe you missed it

Argentina champion U23

Pignatiello gold and new national record in 800, now 2 more to go

There was also big win vs USA in the U19 for Egypt and now a decent chance to make QF when facing Cuba.

Historic win over Brazil in U18 world championships

[hide] Preliminary Round August 24th - August 28th, 2017 16 Nations, 4 Groups, 1st Nation from each Group will qualify for Qarterfinals, 2nd and 3rd Nations will qualify for Playoff Round Pool A Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 August 24th 2017, h. 17:30, Ergo Arena, Gdańsk / Sopot Finland 1 3 Estonia August 24th 2017, h. 20:30, PGE Narodowy, Warsaw Poland 2 3 Serbia August 26th 2017, h. 17:30, Ergo Arena, Gdańsk / Sopot Serbia 3 0 Estonia August 26th 2017, h. 20:30, Ergo Arena, Gdańsk / Sopot Poland 3 0 Finland August 28th 2017, h. 17:30, Ergo Arena, Gdańsk / Sopot Finland 0 3 Serbia August 28th 2017, h. 20:30, Ergo Arena, Gdańsk / Sopot Poland 3 0 Estonia Pool B Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 August 25th 2017, h. 17:30, Azoty Arena, Szczecin Slovakia 2 3 Czech Republic August 25th 2017, h. 20:30, Azoty Arena, Szczecin Germany 3 1 Italy August 27th 2017, h. 17:30, Azoty Arena, Szczecin Italy 3 1 Slovakia August 27th 2017, h. 20:30, Azoty Arena, Szczecin Germany 3 0 Czech Republic August 28th 2017, h. 17:30, Azoty Arena, Szczecin Slovakia 0 3 Germany August 28th 2017, h. 20:30, Azoty Arena, Szczecin Czech Republic 1 3 Italy Pool C Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 August 24th 2017, h. 17:30, Tauron Arena, Kraków Bulgaria 2 3 Russia August 24th 2017, h. 20:30, Tauron Arena, Kraków Slovenia 3 1 Spain August 26th 2017, h. 17:30, Tauron Arena, Kraków Russia 3 1 Slovenia August 26th 2017, h. 20:30, Tauron Arena, Kraków Bulgaria 3 0 Spain August 28th 2017, h. 17:30, Tauron Arena, Kraków Slovenia 2 3 Bulgaria August 28th 2017, h. 20:30, Tauron Arena, Kraków Spain 0 3 Russia Pool D Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 August 25th 2017, h. 17:30, Spodek, Katowice Netherlands 3 1 Turkey August 25th 2017, h. 20:30, Spodek, Katowice Belgium 2 3 France August 27th 2017, h. 17:30, Spodek, Katowice Belgium 3 0 Turkey August 27th 2017, h. 20:30, Spodek, Katowice France 3 0 Netherlands August 28th 2017, h. 17:30, Spodek, Katowice Netherlands 1 3 Belgium August 28th 2017, h. 20:30, Spodek, Katowice Turkey 0 3 France [/hide]

Never thought i would say this in a swimming thread but... i'm expecting 3 medals and 3 new national records

That chilean is cuban? He has cuban sounding name.

They are not doing their job correctly then seriously, without Juantorena, Zaytsev and Birarelli Italy is much weaker.

Italy won't play their best team here, I don't see them challenging any top position. Winner will be France or Serbia, maybe Russia could win too if they have a good week. Poland I feel will dissapoint. Germany with Grozer comeback is a nice bet for dark horse.

No objective criteria, just a mix between Ranking and Commercial interest decided by fih executive board. As you can see in women's for example, belgium was picked above better ranked spain and korea just because they are a bigger market for hockey.

Needs for either a) Trinidad to reach the final of CAC games and Argentina of the SA games or b) make the final of SA games themselves.

^That and also New Zealand men and Italy women have qualified for the world cup. It is also noteworthy Chile women team making a big upset by beating USA in semifinals, but it wasn't enough since they had to win the cup to qualify for WC, a real pity for a team that has progressed a lot lately. IMO they deserved better luck at world league. Next up european top divisions starting on Friday.

wow that's quite the aggressive journalism. Here if a commentators says something like that he would probably never again get an interview from that athlete, even if the performance was trash they have to say "oh you still did your best effort, thanks for giving us a minute of your time, etc" I guess dutch people are more open to criticism in general though.

4th actually-

Probably they were too embarassing marks for him to show.

South American record actually

Semenya looked like she didn't give two fucks for some 1300mts haha

Yesssss Rojas

BMX still with 0 votes despite @heywoodu said he liked it

Best (none of them a "gold medal moment" curiously, just the ones that made the most impact on me) 1) Argentina - Serbia CG Basketball 2004 (I always post the same whenever these threads come up ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVpefP_uIac 2) Argentina - Brazil Volleyball 2000 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IvqTdBuwzU 3) Del Potro - Djokovic Rio 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoHBw-zj0cs Worst 1) Medal-less in 1976 & 1984 2) football gold lost in the last minute with a dumb off-side trap (Atlanta 1996) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiUlc4eda5s 3) The football disaster of Rio

Volleyball, Handball, Hockey, Fencing, Archery. Football is my favorite in truth but not in any olympic context.

Floorball has zero chance, only one continent is competitive in it and it has big domination of one country.

u don't know who is Tsipras?