LDOG

Lmao Italy's absolutely battering Brazil and the big crowd in Mendoza is loving it with very loud anti-brazil songs and "ole"s 

qualified.

10 minutes ago, JoshMartini007 said:

Do you know if they are awarding points as usual or like they do with the women's event (since they are doing a 7th & 11th place matches). If it is the latter then Samoa in third & Australia in eighth would be enough

Yes, it's probably like the women's given this: 

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43 minutes ago, Benolympique said:

What is the scenario for Australia to qualify?

Australia qualifies with a semifinal finish or with Samoa not winning the tournament. 

Go Spurs go  

Now I may feel like watching NBA again.

 qualified too.  

Before the last stage, the last olympic quota is up for grabs: 

 125

 116

 116

will stay as core team after finishing higher than . 

30-70 in favor of public would be ideal. Enough to prevent clown acts from winning but also to not see a quality crowd favorite like Finland lose.

8 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

Europeans have garbage taste. My family is convinced xenophobia is responsible for

Every time they send Flamenco-like music they get trounced.

They should just accept at this point they have to embrace the latino reggaeton-type trash in order to have a chance 

Para sumarle al día: Sasia tiró 20.74 que es record sudamericano sub 23.  

O sea, ni Lauro ni los brasileros tiraron eso a su edad. 

qualified for OG.

Do these small sports really think the wisest decision is taking money from those shitty streaming services that nobody will buy? 

Yes, YT is no money but long term your sport is going to lose a lot of casual audience forever....

2 hours ago, rybak said:

Polish judokas didnt win any fight till now, im dissapointed

Same for us, but I don't really care  well, maybe about the waste of taxpayer money. 

2 hours ago, phelps said:

and here we go...Tita & Banti out of the medal race for the first time since ages!   

 

the magic has gone...

Sorry if I sound like a broken record but...

Gimson-Burnet: “We’ve had a whole week of our conditions. We had the one windy race at the start, but it’s generally been light air since and we worked on that quite a lot this winter, so we’re quite happy that the pace has been good. We’ll take that (winning the Palma and Hyères world cups in April)."

“I think it’s still quite open (the class). We’ve had our breeze this week, but I’m sure if we’d been foiling the Italians would have been equally as strong. Last year was quite breezy (series) and we foiled in almost every regatta. This year, so far, has been quite a light airs year - every dog has its day."

I was not surprised Argentina did well for the same reason. 

8 minutes ago, NearPup said:

Reducing the number of teams that get to compete at a high level isn't going to improve the situation. If anything it will further increase the gap.

I know this coming from a nation that has perennial token participation in several team sports: losing 3 million games to top teams doesn't make you any better. Work on grassroots level and internal competition are much more decisive factors.   

Once that is in place, victories at higher levels come by themselves and after that the right to be part of the elite of the sport in question.

1 minute ago, JoshMartini007 said:

They will be 12 team tournaments

 

I'm still hoping for a proper 2nd division series, but I know the reason for the contraction is due to costs and a second division series would be held at a loss.

Well, I don't think it's too bad. What is the W-L record of teams like Kenya, Japan, Canada this season? Something like 5-45? 

Few years ago they were always decent but now they seemingly can't challenge anyone. We already saw Wales and Scotland getting cut after basically losing every game they played.   

It's like sevens is becoming less and less competitive every year (or have the top teams improved too much?).

 won.  

Is men's World Series next season going to have 12 team tournaments (ala Olympics) or they stay with 16 teams but with just 12 of them being core teams?

Calendar and venues of the games. 

Unfortunately Argentina won't play anywhere close to my city until semis (should they reach them), so I'll try to get tickets for ISR vs COL or ENG vs URU instead. 

U20 world cup draw  

Group A  

Group B  

Group C  

Group D  

Group E  

Group F  

FIFA confirmed  will host U20 World Cup. 

Julia Ituma, volleyball player from Italy.

Apparently suicide. She was 18. 

4 hours ago, Cinnamon Bun said:

Many true sports entertainment wrestling fans like myself watch wrestling for the storylines that are created and, particularly with the European wrestlers, to watch big beefy men beat the shit out of each other. As for Gable, he hasn't wrestled a match since he signed and has hardly been featured. WWE clearly don't think he's ready, and think sending him down to their developmental brand (NXT) will waste his marketability potential and ruin how he comes across to fans. Maybe that's why he's been allowed to go back to traditional wrestling, to hone in his skills more and improve on a more relevant stage. 

Hone what skills? Smashing a chair on someone's head? C'mon it's just choreography 

1 hour ago, dcro said:

They've passed on the women's event each time.

 

And the men's team is just too competitive to reject an Olympic spot, wherever it may come from.

Yes, but "finish top 4 of world series" is an objective criteria, being "too competitive" isn't.  

Where's that competitiveness line drawn exactly? 6th in the world? 8th? 10th? 12th? 

Their women's team would have legitimate reasons to complain if the decision to take one continental quota but not the other is purely discretional. 

I'd guess there is an established secondary criteria but so far no official word about it (unless I missed something?). Men's team failing to secure a world series quota is a first time after all.  

Why would South Africa take the african quota in the men's competition but skip the women's?

31 minutes ago, phelps said:

so, sooner or later it had to happen...

 

better now than in more important regatta.

 

 Caterina Banti & Ruggero Tita lost their first event since the 2020 Worlds (in January 2020)  

 

and they lost in style, they didn't even make the podium (they finished 4th) and got beaten by not 1, but 2 different Italian crews... 

focusing on the America's Cup boat definitely doesn't have a good influence on Ruggero Tita's performance on the Nacra boat.

 

Hope he won't sacrify an (easy) Olympic back-to-back to pursue the dream of a trophy Italy will never be capable of winning.

It's not that, I think I've mentioned this a few times in the past: the wind was light during all week and they are exceptionally good with stronger winds. 

The british said so in the winners interview after the regatta.