LDOG

33 minutes ago, konig said:

In person is "muy piola", i have a barbecue with him and Diego Giacomini in 2019.

Lol aren't them at odds now? Just like with Maslatón.  

These "liberals" split up every two seconds  just like the marxists.

2 minutes ago, Adriano said:

In Poland big cities votes for centre/left. Small villages and poor regions for right.

Yes, in europe in general and the USA it's the other way around. 

Just now, Grassmarket said:

 Leftist voting tendency = 

Poor, isolated regions. 

In latin america at least it's 100% like that.   

Those are hard facts, then some people will explain it saying "it's because they are ignorant and dependant on social welfare" while others will say "because only leftist policians care about them". You decide your interpretation.

4 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

Ah yes, those magical last minute electronic vote swings from the always-last-to-declare leftist strongholds. They’re becoming quite the global phenomenon.  

Poor, isolated regions = leftist voting tendency.  

Is not magical at all in my view....

The other day I heard a journalist say our entire sports budget is the same as the budget of brazilian swimming. 

An additional problem besides traveling costs was that many windows clashed with decisive stages of european leagues which made many teams play some pro league games with B/C squads.  

If you check the schedule for this year it's all compressed in November-February (when many european leagues do a long winter stop) and then straight to June when all european leagues are over.  

Tbf with team sports, it's only volleyball and water polo that have that problem, the rest are perfectly fine as they are (in the sense that all have at least one competitive enough team per continent). 

Women's football tournament is still not ideally shaped but since football is such a popular sport and women's game is evolving fast I'm sure even the most uncompetitive confederations will improve drastically in the next few cycles. 

3 hours ago, hckošice said:

now, this is plain stupid.

I read the PR statement from this group of people and it seems their request centers around the anti-government interference rule that FIFA has, which is a fair reason but in practice FIFA has been notoriously inconsistent at enforcing in the past, turning a blind eye to several cases.

49 minutes ago, Dragon said:

"A group of Iranian soccer and sports personalities" with the assistance of the law firm Ruiz-Herta and Crespo of Valencia, Spain

FIFA will throw that paper to the bin as soon as it arrives.

1 hour ago, Dragon said:

A formal request has been sent to FIFA to suspend Iran’s Football Federation with immediate effect, and therefore effectively ban them from the 2022 World Cup.

Sent by whom?

Llegamos a las 200 medallas? Apuestas? 

Vamos 185.  

Ya tenemos aseguradas 7 mañana: 2 en waterpolo, 2 en Squash, 1 en Tenis, 1 en beach voley, 1 en handball.

Faltarian 8. Va a haber competidores en: 

- Un bronce de beach voley.

Atletismo:

- dos chicas en 3000m obstáculos.

- Salto con garrocha masculino. 

- 800m masculino.

- 800m femenino.

- maratón masculino.

- Disco masculino.

Ciclismo:

- Keirin masculino (dos ciclistas tenemos). 

- Madison femenino. 

- Madison masculino. 

Viendo marcas es improbable que se consiga medalla en 800m y en el disco. Y en el ciclismo no tengo idea del nivel de nuestro Madison femenino (pero supongo debe ser muy pobre). 

Yo creo que nos vamos a quedar a una o dos de las 200. 

22 hours ago, LDOG said:

Well, 10 golds in a day is great despite one or two screw ups. 

 

I'd guess we should win between 5 and 10 more in the last 3 days. There seem to be a lot that will be 50/50 chances, though I have no idea of our level in things like Bochas and Squash (it looks like there was good performance in both today).

Ok, it looks like my prediction will fall short. 6 golds today. I didn't expect this many golds in athletics after years of very poor performances.

2 hours ago, bestmen said:

The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution that condemns #Russia's "illegal so-called referendums" in regions within #Ukraine's internationally-recognized borders, and demands it reverses its annexation declaration.

In favour: 143

Against: 5

Abstentions: 35

 

 

 

7 months have passed and it looks like Venezuela still hasn't paid the debt fee to the UN in order to be allowed to vote again 

I should have predicted Brazil... I'm so stupid, why do I keep trusting Italy?

Objectively speaking Beijing, but Athens has a special place for me so I can't vote another.

Well, 10 golds in a day is great despite one or two screw ups. 

I'd guess we should win between 5 and 10 more in the last 3 days. There seem to be a lot that will be 50/50 chances, though I have no idea of our level in things like Bochas and Squash (it looks like there was good performance in both today).

I'd like to think this can't possibly be true but in the women's skeet competition there are only 4 shooters and in 4th place after 75 plates there is bolivian that so far scored... 1 point.  

53 minutes ago, JoshMartini007 said:

Any chances for ? I'm not seeing it unless they can luck out in wrestling?

Jair Tjon En Fa is not here I guess? He would be a clear medal chance in cycling.

Edit: of course he's not here, track cycling World Championship going on right now...

Today is one of the days with the most clear gold medal chances for  I believe (probably together with the following day). 

The two "easiest" golds (men's hockey and K1 1000) and quite a few others that will be very contested. 

2 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

I don’t follow international handball too much outside of various multi-sports games, but the women’s side in South America seems pretty open behind Brazil.  all registered relatively close results in games against each other, or at least there didn’t seem to be a more dominant side following Brazil. Any thoughts/analysis from our South American users, or those more knowledgeable on handball? Trying to figure out if  getting the Pan Am quota is a surprise.

We're playing with a B team (no players from european clubs).

CHI/PAR/URU are all around the same level. They seem to beat each other alternatively all the time. 

12 minutes ago, dcro said:

How good was Paraguay? Any chance they upset Brazil for the Olympic qualification?

Absolutely 0 chance. They beat our team because our team is trash and the girls have negative rugby IQ. 

54 minutes ago, mrv86 said:

Wow  54-1  in women’s handball

With Argentina it was 48-1.

I watched a bit of it, even caught their only goal.

They remind me when I played youth school handball and once we had to play a team from upper category who had all +1.85m guys, we lost like 30-1 and I scored the only goal. Never been prouder of myself in sport