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Why Brazil? you ruined the olympics for one country

That mastkd article says Brazil chose -58kg M Is this somalian -58kg 100% sure?

wtf no Afghanistan??? what were they smoking?

From what I have read from journalists, the Davis cup rule is very lax and it allows for many exceptions. I think Pella will be able to get in that way (I hope not).

I'm so envious of all this, outfit for opening ceremony, outfit for daily life, outfit for going to the bathroom, etc Our athletes only wear the one jacket they're given for all ceremonies and that's it obviously cuz our NOC directives still live in the cave ages and don't have a clue about PR/image stuff.

I got mad when Schwartzman won Istambul last week, I hope he loses as early as possible in the remaining tournaments.

oh, I thought they were a big company or sth

I was going to say that, the Premier League has awful scheduling. wtf programming the title-deciders on different days.

Yet somehow here 30-something active users of a forum are able to keep track of it and we're aren't even earning money from it

I don't think that's the reason. The coach already didn't call him for the last qualifiers, I think he just doesn't like him.

Brazil long preliminary list (40 players) for Copa America, many shocking absenses.. Thiago Silva, David Luiz, Marcelo, Neymar (was expected)

They objective is a medal. If they can't beat at least one of those nations (and Angola), then there is no way they win one.

Terrible decision from Jordi Ribera! or maybe he doesn't rate Slovenia/Sweden?

Men's Draw: Group A Argentina Croatia Denmark France Qatar Tunisia Group B Brazil Egypt Germany Poland Slovenia Sweden

Clever choice from Brazil coach, he gave priority to having a QF against either an unexperienced or underperforming team instead of just beating Korea and Argentina to pass group. Strong feeling all medallists will come from group A.

Women's Draw: Group A Angola Brazil Montenegro Norway Romania Spain Group B Argentina France Netherlands Russia South Korea Sweden

I just hope to avoid Brazil in both if possible. Don't want to give them 2 easy satisfactions we are not going to win any matches anyway.

First leg Results of Copa Libertadores R16: Huracán 0 - 0 Atlético Nacional Gremio 0 - 1 Rosario Central Racing Club 0 - 0 Atlético Mineiro Sao Paulo 4 - 0 Toluca Deportivo Tachira 1 - 0 Pumas Independiente del Valle 2 - 0 River Plate Nacional 0 - 0 Corinthians Cerro Porteño 1 - 2 Boca Juniors

Schedule is finally out: http://www.rio2016.com/en/news/hockey-giants-set-to-renew-rivalries-as-match-schedule-unveiled-for-rio-2016-olympic-games

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Round 16 of Copa Libertadores are set, here are the match-ups: (In brackets the number of seed, the lower numbered team will play return leg at home, the seeds remain for the following rounds too) (1) Atlético Nacional - Huracán (16) (8) Rosario Central - Gremio (9) (4) Atlético Mineiro - Racing Club (13) (5) Toluca - Sao Paulo (12) (2) Pumas - Deportivo Tachira (15) (7) River Plate - Independiente del Valle (10) (3) Corinthians - Nacional (14) (6) Boca Juniors - Cerro Porteño (11)

Brazil will probably choose the group with Qatar in Men's and the group with Argentina in women's (unless NOR and KOR are in that group too).

The problem (at least with the volleyball uniforms) is that they look like training clothes rather than actual match uniforms.

If had their Hockey team I'd support them without a doubt like I always did, but in this case I'll just go with nearby