LDOG

One more lesson for totallympics euro-users that "europe > everything else" isn't always true.

There is no country that will participate in all 7 team sports (or 8 if you consider beach volleyball another team sport). Mostly because USA, China, Japan and Australia all happen to suck at handball PS: Except for host Brazil, obviously.

I only have one wish: be in group D (away, away from Brazil reach, like in the world cup ).

I know Algeria are not easy, but I'd take them over Colombia or Portugal. Denmark and you is kind of 50/50 though.

wtf are these pots? we could get a group with Iraq, Fiji and Algeria or a group with Nigeria, Portugal and Germany.

I forgot to ask this the other day: has it happened before at the olympics that father and son compete in the same olympics? because in our team there is Santiago Lange (Nacra) and his two sons Yago and Klaus (49er). I would think only in shooting, equestrian or sailing this is possible.

I was going to say the same as bestmen. D option would be fantastic for an Argentina olympics

Strongly cheering against Spain just so our traitor player doesn't play the olympics.

Why you write this post, what a mufa muuuuuufa

I know that, I'm just counting all the quota we have, even if provisional. I will remove them if at the end they are rejected. And for me it's not a stupid decision, I'm tired of sending a bunch of people that end in last place or abandon the race. We should have harder standars in all "mark" sports, if it were up to me.

If it's of any consolation, I think this is the most talented Junior team of all our history. I predict at least 3 of these players will be in olympic squad.

I was already opening the champagne bottle.... We can never win a medal

I already said this in the old forum, but I'm quite confident Brazil will win at least 10 golds. - at least 3 volleyball events - 1 swimming (possibly the women marathon) - 1 Sailing (host always seems to win at least 1) - at least 2 in Judo - at least 1 in Boxing (maybe more, this ALWAYS happens in boxing) - 1 Men's Football (something can happen, but they will have the most complete team for sure) - 1 or 2 between: Gymnastics, Canoeing Sprint, Modern Pentathlon, Tennis Doubles, Shooting, Athletics

Very strong rumors that the 3 overage players for the olympics will be Geronimo Rulli (GK, Real Sociedad), Ramiro Funes Mori (CB, Everton) and Mateo Musacchio (CB, Villarreal). I agree that we needed two defenders since it's the weakest line of our U23 team. I would have chosen a midfielder instead of a goalie though, but it's not that bad. I will make today my prediction for the 18 player list (not what I would pick, it's what I think the coach will select) let's see how many I get right at the end this list is assuming all the clubs agree to release the players however:

BTW Bautista shouldn't be confused with his younger brother Francisco, who won gold in Nanjing and a bunch of windsurf youth world ch. medals.

The selection in men's rsx was through accumulation of points in three specific tournaments (the last one was world cup Miami I think) and Saubidet simply had better results and was selected. For other categories like nacra or 49er there wasn't any selection because we have one boat that is far better in level than the others, so there is no point. In those categories, the people who got the quota will represent Argentina automatically.

Use Google please.

BTW this tournament was selective for our RSX women and Maria Celia Tejerina won the place. So now all our team representatives are confirmed.

Yes, NZ was with full team, but I wouldn't look much into friendly tournaments of this sport, they produce too many unusual results. I remember for example last year in November our women's team played friendlies with China and India and tied both, then our U21 team played them and won 5-0 and 3-0 respectively...

We need 3503403430 shots to score a goal, I'm tired and bored of this team and coach.

MEN'S CONCACAF/CONMEBOL PLAY-OFF Knock-Out Round 2 Nations, Home/Away Matches, Winning Nation will Qualify to the Men´s Olympic Football Tournament 2nd Leg Result (2) United States 1 - 2 Colombia (3) (Half-Time Score: 0-1) 29th March 2016, h. 20:30 (GMT -5), Toyota Stadium, Frisco Following Nation Has Qualified for Men´s Football Tournament at the Summer Olympic Games 2016 Colombia

Iraq, Syria, UAE and China qualified for next round. They will be joined by Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan, Iran, South Korea, Japan, Thailand, Qatar and Australia.

African junior Championships were last week, teams qualified for Junior (U-21) World Cup are South African & Egypt Men (Egypt won the final 3-2), South Africa & Zimbabwe Women (SA won all matches round robin).

Fortunately Lebanon made a favor to everyone and failed to beat Myanmar (even with 10 additional minutes ). China is about to qualify too... ($$$$$)

I predict Syria, UAE, Iraq and North Korea will advance to next round as 2nd placed teams. I don't see Jordan not losing in Australia and I think China won't beat Qatar (I'm assuming Qatar will play with their best team...). Iraq will beat Vietnam and I think North Korea may drop points in Philippines, but will still advance.