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Possibilities If Ireland win and Sweden doesn't: -Wales vs Northern Ireland -France vs Ireland -Croatia vs Portugal -Germany vs Slovakia If Sweden wins and Ireland doesn't: -Wales vs NI -France vs Belgium -Croatia vs Portugal -Germany vs Slovakia If both Sweden and Ireland win: -Same as above (depends on goal difference who is second) but Belgium is eliminated. If neither Ireland or Sweden win: -Croatia vs Portugal -France vs N. Ireland -Germany vs Slovakia -Wales vs Turkey

This guy's name (dzuzsdszszazakdsaszak) reads like someone who messed with their keyboard hungarian and polish are best languages.

I didn't expect USA to be so weak, this was the easiest game we've had in years.

Women's Field Hockey FIH Champions Trophy 2016 Day 3 Results Australia 1 - 2 Argentina Netherlands 4 - 1 United States New Zealand 1 - 0 Great Britain Round-Robin Provisional Standing after Day 3 Nation Pld. W D L GF GA GD Pts. Netherlands 3 3 0 0 12 3 +9 9 Argentina 3 2 1 0 8 4 +4 7 Australia 3 1 1 1 6 5 +1 4 New Zealand 3 1 0 2 4 9 -5 3 Great Britain 3 0 1 2 2 5 -3 1 United States 3 0 1 2 4 10 -6 1

Good, we have almost the same team as the PanAmerican Games. I was worried the guys couldn't get the same horses. Only Biraben's horse Abunola is missing, hopefully it's because this is a better horse.

It's the first day of winter so where will you go? nowhere, just stay at home with the stove close by.

Semifinals Picks Count TEAM 1 DRAW TEAM 2 TOTAL 1 0 33 34 10 3 21 34

Poland was intelligent to not score another goal, second place in this group is much better

[hide] Knockout Round June 16th - June 26th, 2016 8 Nations, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Bronze Medal Match and Gold Medal Match, winning Nation will become Men's Football CONCACAF/CONMEBOL Copa América Centenario 2016 champion Semifinals All times are Eastern Daylight Time (GMT -4) Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 June 21st 2016, h. 21:00, NRG Stadium, Houston United States 0 2 Argentina June 22nd 2016, h. 20:00, Soldier Field, Chicago Colombia 1 2 Chile [/hide]

But futsal or beach players would never make the association football team (or even play for a club). Rugby 7s and union instead have a lot of crossover. Bryan Habana for example will play the olympics, ask him if olympic gold would mean more than his world cup title.

^it's always a matter of perspectives, of course. But my criteria to define prestige here is seeing if it is important to everyone involved in said sport. Example: in Gymnastics, the olympics is the most important competition for every single top gymnast, not even one of them will be absent except for injuries. Meanwhile in Golf or Tennis a lot of top players are dropping out, something they wouldn't ever do for a major or GS, therefore, it's not the most important competition in those sport. Same goes for boxing or rugby 7s regardless of the small differences, the best pros or union players could be in Rio if they wanted, but in majority they won't be.

Rugby - sevens is seen as a phase to develop young players skills for many top nations of the sport. Some players become specialists in sevens, but most often it's because they weren't good enough to become top players in the XV game. Boxing - top boxers become pros in most countries. Cycling Road - Tour de France, Giro, etc are more important. I would also say that men's basketball is starting to take the football path, in a few olympic cicles we could end up with a youth tournament while the world cup gains the most relevance (such is the plan of NBA).

I predicted 1-0 for Albania my only highlight prediction of this euro. I think they have a chance of going through, they will finish above group C 3rd very likely (don't see Northern Ireland getting a point out of Germany) and their other chance is group E and hoping the other Ireland doesn't defeat Italy (I think Belgium will beat Sweden easily). EDIT: oops, I forgot they have 3 points and not 4, surpassing N. Ireland will be difficult cuz they need Germany win at least 4-0.

Fiji have been the best in sevens for decades even above nations like Australia or NZ that invest more than anyone else in this sport, I don't see any reason for that to change soon.

Well, I won't complain that much. One less strong opponent for our team

Final Spain 22 - 19 Samoa

Samoa imposing their physicality, too much for Spain.

Women's Field Hockey FIH Champions Trophy 2016 Day 2 Results United States 1 - 4 Argentina Netherlands 2 - 0 Great Britain Australia 3 - 1 New Zealand Round-Robin Provisional Standing after Day 2 Nation Pld. W D L GF GA GD Pts. Netherlands 2 2 0 0 8 2 +6 6 Argentina 2 1 1 0 6 3 +3 4 Australia 2 1 1 0 5 3 +2 4 Great Britain 2 0 1 1 2 4 -2 1 United States 2 0 1 1 3 6 -3 1 New Zealand 2 0 0 2 3 9 -6 0

Time for the final Go Samoa

Semifinals Spain 17 - 12 Russia Samoa 26 - 14 Germany

Quarterfinals Results Ireland 7 - 12 Spain Russia 14 - 12 Canada Hong Kong 12 - 31 Samoa Germany 26 - 0 Chile Semifinals Spain - Russia Samoa - Germany

Semifinals Prediction Design available here.

You MUST hide your post. To do that, you have only to delete the space between the bracket "[" and the text "hide" in "[ hide]" at the beginning of prediction post. Do the same at the end of prediction post with "[ /hide]" too. PREDICTION DESIGN Start Copying Here [ hide] Knockout Round June 16th - June 26th, 2016 8 Nations, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Bronze Medal Match and Gold Medal Match, winning Nation will become Men's Football CONCACAF/CONMEBOL Copa América Centenario 2016 champion Semifinals All times are Eastern Daylight Time (GMT -4) Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 June 21st 2016, h. 21:00, NRG Stadium, Houston United States Argentina June 22nd 2016, h. 20:00, Soldier Field, Chicago Colombia Chile [ /hide] End Copying Here

Provisional Standing after Day 15 available here.