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Nah, the 4 teams are already decided. UAE or KSA don't have the level in the long run to push them out. I had hope for a new team with Uzbekistan but it seems they are also weaker than previous years. Probably the 5th team will lose to Honduras or something.

Lots of goals today in Europe, higher than 3 per match average. Group 4 is the most exciting for me 4 teams with equal chances to qualify, group 9 is close too but Croatia is a step above the others. Asian qualifiers are boring, always the same results and the teams never improve their level.

I will only buy tickets for serious events, nothing mixed between countries or between disciplines.

The list says "Badminton 3x3", I think it's Basketball 3x3 and Badminton separately. Also isn't Hockey actually Hockey 5s?

CAMPEOOOOOOONES CAMPEOOOOONES See Messi that's how it's done (?)

Today will start the last stage of World League round 1 in Peru. It seems that PAHF also decided that it will double as the South American Championship.... so it will also be the first time Argentina will not win it Curiously, men will not participate, guess they had enough hockey for this year?... the women's team will be present though. We will also have absolute debut in Hockey for if i'm not mistaken. BTW i'm surprised by how developed the peruvian federation is in terms of social media: they have Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube channel and in all of them they post content regularly there will be even livestream available for this tournament (!). It's much better than what I have seen from chilean, uruguayan or brazilian federations who in theory should be more interested in Hockey than Peru... One quota available in Men's and two in Women's. Not much mystery here, should win both tournaments and should take 2nd quota in W.

More round 1 of world league this week in Mexico. Unfortunately, Panama pulled out of both competitions (here we go again with the last minute withdrawals... FIH should impose sanctions), so we will have 4 and 3 team tournaments M&W respectively. Apparently both will give only one quota for round 2... even though the numbers for round 2 don't add up, I assume FIH does this because of some rule that says they can't give more than 1 for tournaments with less than 5 teams? I guess they will pick the highest ranked not-qualified teams to complete the field for next round. & men and & women should compete for the place. I think Mexico will take both.

Women Roller Hockey World Championship started yesterday in Chile. @phelps?

Well, purely in terms of "nationality" clearly for me it's more american than mexican... but the thing is that the concept of "association" included in the rules pretty much leaves everything up to subjectivity (how can you measure "association"?). And yeah, I personally associate this band with Mexico more than USA, because the most relevant musician in it is mexican.

It's the same with the 2 argentines mentioned in part 4, those TUE were from 2010 and 2014.

^Chance for Budapest is 0,00000001%

Final Standing available here. rybak OlympicIRL LDOG Congratulations to OlympicIRL who once again achieves a high position in a Hockey contest. Silver for rybak who had a big final sprint in semifinals/medal matches. Water Polo results... in a few days. PS. Please people, in the future read the rules more carefully. Some of you predicted draws (?) or outright wrote the word "penalties" (without any number) in knockout matches. This obviously is not valid. Also, some of you predicted exact results (like 3-1, 5-3) which isn't valid in this contest, but in these cases I just counted the goal difference.

Final Standing Rank User Nation Total 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 TB 1 OlympicIRL 539 44 52 61 40 67 54 43 53 43,75 31,25 4,5 25,5 10 10 2 rybak 535 53 37 57 44 45 48 30 45 27,5 37,5 25,5 25,5 22 38 3 LDOG 531,75 46 44 59 40 59 57 37 42 45 38,75 15 15 24 10 4 ady48 530,5 43 39 67 29 61 63 31 49 43,75 37,5 4,5 28,5 10 24 5 valtellina 528 42 42 55 36 57 52 35 43 36,25 36,25 3 28,5 26 36 6 Pavlo 518 45 54 52 44 62 62 43 45 30 27,5 4,5 15 24 10 7 africaboy 514,5 41 43 66 28 62 62 28 40 36,25 28,75 4,5 27 24 24 8 amen09 513,25 44 40 51 28 51 49 41 41 46,25 30 4,5 25,5 38 24 9 MCMXC 512 49 43 51 33 60 49 36 49 35 27,5 3 28,5 22 26 10 Forzazzurri 509 32 49 63 29 59 44 34 41 31,25 33,75 13.5 25,5 36 18 11 juliosilva 507 45 48 64 41 62 62 29 40 26,25 31,25 3 25,5 4 26 12 Crolympic 506,5 42 44 66 35 61 59 33 48 36,25 38,75 1,5 24 10 8 13 SteveParker 506 39 55 54 29 46 48 29 16 33,75 41,25 16,5 28,5 34 36 14 suchyy7 504,5 41 44 49 43 60 49 32 45 45 - 25,5 27 22 22 15 varnoldr 495,5 38 42 67 37 63 54 41 50 - 35 1,5 15 34 18 16 tuniscof 494,5 41 44 61 34 55 36 44 41 36,25 27,5 3 25,5 24 22 17 Henry_Leon 490,25 43 52 50 26 55 48 42 38 43,75 27,5 4,5 16,5 22 22 18 vinipereira 488,5 40 42 58 43 47 49 29 49 45 27,5 - 27 10 22 19 Ufilov 487,75 40 33 55 48 58 58 21 45 46,25 32,5 1,5 25,5 6 18 20 Pabloffo 486 55 47 56 24 51 47 39 37 25 35 15 27 8 20 21 bestmen 480,75 36 42 50 39 55 70 29 23 35 26,25 15 16,5 24 20 22 dcro 480,25 50 61 53 31 47 50 34 42 37,5 28,75 13,5 16,5 8 8 23 Dolby 479,25 47 41 57 32 53 63 28 35 35 23,75 15 25,5 4 20 24 Dunadan 477 45 40 55 30 54 62 36 49 - 30 15 27 10 24 25 mrv86 463 44 36 62 27 59 52 36 40 25 27,5 3 25,5 22 4 26 Federer91 446 45 50 53 30 60 49 32 33 - 30 3 27 10 24 27 heywoodu 440,5 50 42 50 43 58 53 35 47 35 27,5 - - - - 28 tirtha22 436,5 57 26 45 30 58 52 35 45 - 27,5 15 - 38 8 29 titicow 432,5 37 37 58 24 60 55 42 39 - 47,5 - 27 6 - 30 James 427 46 24 48 29 43 25 40 39 15 27,5 1,5 27 26 36 31 Otilio 426,5 58 48 54 28 59 50 36 56 37,5 - - - - - 32 Pablita 423,25 39 38 57 26 54 37 30 42 - 31,25 4,5 16,5 24 24 33 vlad 405,5 51 47 53 33 48 42 25 36 - - 1,5 27 22 20 34 yellowviper2001 401,5 39 39 54 24 53 57 33 38 - - 3 13,5 26 22 35 Adriano 399 38 31 25 41 41 37 22 52 - 25 - 15 36 36 36 Akin Baddy 396,5 50 45 51 25 55 40 46 39 - - - 13,5 10 22 37 GoPoland 382 54 45 65 36 48 45 44 45 - - - - - - 38 gubchandrolai* 380,25 50 44 52 44 54 37 35 34 - 28,75 1,5 - - - 39 See-ya 380 40 41 67 34 58 55 46 39 - - - - - - 40 OlympicsFan 379 42 41 64 37 63 55 34 43 - - - - - - 41 The Protagonist 371 57 45 49 32 61 55 32 40 - - - - - - 42 pjwasz 364 44 38 53 36 43 55 28 32 - 20 15 - - - 10x8 43 hckosice 364 41 43 63 29 56 48 37 47 - - - - - - 10x7 44 wpwells 362 49 33 67 27 60 53 32 41 - - - - - - 45 gvaisakh 355 42 48 55 36 55 57 30 32 - - - - - - 46 Gianlu33 354 41 42 60 32 61 55 23 40 - - - - - - 10x9 47 shrikant 354 42 42 59 35 54 52 35 35 - - - - - - 10x8 48 Dimast 335 39 40 53 44 34 56 35 34 - - - - - - 49 ChandlerMne 334 40 38 72 25 59 44 27 29 - - - - - - 50 ritesh 329,75 - - - 28 59 48 39 47 26,25 27,5 1,5 25,5 8 20 51 Agger 326 29 42 57 42 50 42 28 36 - - - - - - 52 hoversaBR 321 44 29 60 36 46 43 30 33 - - - - - - 53 FC Mezhgorye 301 35 41 45 29 37 30 45 39 - - - - - - 54 Il_qar 298 58 26 27 36 41 41 35 31 - - 3 - - - 55 Danylove80 290 43 33 27 26 27 51 47 36 - - - - - - 56 Wanderer 238 - - - 39 60 55 37 47 - - - - - - 57 KaewThailand 232 33 22 16 31 28 44 28 30 - - - - - - 58 sanjaydas 140 30 13 13 30 12 20 22 - - - - - - - 01: Group Stage, August 6th 02: Group Stage, August 7th 03: Group Stage, August 8th 04: Group Stage, August 9th 05: Group Stage, August 10th 06: Group Stage, August 11th 07: Group Stage, August 12th 08: Group Stage, August 13th 09: Quarterfinals, August 14th 10: Quarterfinals, August 15th 11: Semifinals, August 16th 12: Semifinals, August 17th 13: Medal Matches, August 18th 14: Medal Matches, August 19th *= using Jolly Mistakes are always possible. If you have any complaint, please PM me

Has Karlovic refused or retired from playing Davis Cup?

If Wanderer doesn't do it in the next few days, I'll post the results of some of the remaining olympic contests (probably water polo and Hockey).

I join in.

There are rumors that he played today because he got an injury yesterday and can't play another single.

They play for Italy because they don't have any chance for their native country, not because of love for their nonno, let's be honest. But anyway the main issue I have is that I really don't get why these countries do it in the long term... when the players retire they leave nothing behind, since it's an artificial team without a serious development structure to back it up. And also some other more "ethical" considerations, like "do the victories taste the same that way?" or "do they have equal merit as those countries who breed their own players?"

Ok, seems is gonna get through this round at least Pella surpassed my expectations.

He completed the poker of incredible wins in the span of July-September (Stan, Djoko, Nadal, Murray) Too bad all our other players are too weak and out of shape, this could have been the year to win Davis Cup.

where you found that info? is there for other countries?

It would be more useful if they released a list with all the athletes that took TUE during olympics, so we can see if USA is particularly taking advantage of it or not.

No. Not even host of finals is decided yet.

World League group 1 Schedule:

Fake mercenary team of defeated. Avoided Brazil in 1/16 most probably too.