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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.

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

It's not so much of an "invitation" but more like any member federation of FIH can participate in world league as long as they pay the entry fee I think. Next stop is in (only for ladies) with the home team and . 3 spots to take, I'd say it should be very close between them but with Switzerland as outsiders (first time they participate in women's IIRC).

Happy for Wawrinka, deserved title. I like Djokovic but winning a GS with 3 walkovers would have been a bit too much.

^He has some trace of his slavic accent in the spanish part and he mixed a few words with italian I think (the demonyms, he said "cino" and "serbo" instead of "chino" and "serbio"), but other than that, is good.

2-2 haha Well, there were too many missing players in attack to expect a good performance from our team. Hopefully they will stop getting injured when they have to play for NT...

^also Bulgaria against familiar rivals France and Sweden once again.

Yes, I was using that as part of my point, since Indonesia is a fast-growing economy. He only got there because of the $$$ and as soon as it stopped he's out. I don't even mean countries in utter poverty. Obviously no one is going to take car racing in Central African R. I'm talking about Argentina/Uruguay or the smaller european countries. With all respect Argentina has a much bigger car racing culture than Mexico, Venezuela or Colombia, yet...

I'll believe this the day I see a F1 driver from a broke country It's all about money. The indonesian driver was replaced by a french because his government stopped financing him lol. Argentina had a lot of drivers in history and we have had 0 since 2001 (our big economic crack) what a coincidence.

Never said Lopez was good, I didn't even mention him in my post. But anyway, he could have been the best driver in the universe and still wouldn't get into F1 because no private money whatsoever is put into sports in this country. F1 is more about the "show" than any other motorsport class.

F1 is a load of shit, 95% car 5% driver and you can only get in if you are from a rich country and have a sponsor willing to pour millions into these old men's bank accounts.

The Prague rounds of world league are over and the qualifier teams decided... In men's the home team is surprisingly eliminated at the expense of lower ranked Ukraine and Italy (the latter with a bunch of argentine players in the squad). In women's no real surprises as Czechia, Ukraine and Poland advance, though the "surprise" in this case would be Poland (the highest ranked team of all round 1) having trouble to beat the likes of Lithuania and even losing to Ukraine. Next up is.... - Glasgow tournament (only for men), where the home team should win. Second quota looks open between and . Completes the field for which just participation will be the achievement. - Accra tournaments for african teams (men and women)... where men and women should take the only place in round 2. - Antalya tournament (only men) in which should destroy the competition, second place and round 2 quota will be fought between and curious debutant which I suspect will maybe have some pakistani/indian/malaysian reinforcements.

Del Potro already climbed from 147 to 63, one more win and he is top 40.

I'm sorry guys, but you'll have to wait until Wanderer has a bit of free time. I postponed a lot of stuff to be able to enjoy the olympics and now I have to catch up (remember is not summer here, so I can't have any vacation for the moment). It is what it is.

Finally reaches top of the table. Hopefully to never let it go until the end. Now there are three relatively easy fixtures coming: vs (away), (away) and (home). We need 9/9 or 7/9 and Russia will be almost there.

The road to India/England 2018 has started a while ago (before the olympics actually) with the early rounds of FIH world league. Currently the first european stages are underway. Lots of debutants in both gentlemen and ladies, especially from Asia. The most "exotic" additions seem to be on the men's side: Some of them never before I had even seen playing this sport.

It's the same as those fake north korea news during the world cup...

Well, some countries have been qualifying teams for CL since forever and their leagues haven't got much better in level (Greece, Turkey, Russia, Switzerland, Netherlands). The only country that increased the level of their league over the last 20 years is Portugal I would say... and Ukraine, but in a lower scale. I think other factors are more important than CL money.... economy of the country, level of investment in football, etc

I like this new format, right now there are too many punching bags in CL.

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