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I can perfectly see Canada upsetting Morocco and Croatia.

I already know one thing: Qatar will be the last place with 0 points and at least -7 GD

With all respect, I think this was literally the easiest group we could possibly get.

Now that we are good again give me

Tunisia qualifies by beating Mali with a ridiculous own goal. Pain. Well, I guess we need a few more punching bags for pot 4 (or 3?).

Didn't you make a post shitting on him when the play-off draw was made? lol

My 3 cents: 1. Egyptian fans also used lasers all game during the first leg. 2. But not THIS many lasers. 3. No idea how the stupid ref allowed the PSO to be held just like that. Should have stopped it.

It was all prepared in order to boost the ratings of an otherwise forgettable ceremony with no standout movies in contention.

Yes, but Costa Rica has to beat them by 6 goals.

Mexico can still be in pot 1 if they win their last game, Netherlands doesn't beat Germany in a friendly and (most importantly) Portugal loses. Ofc the chance of Portugal losing is like 10% but it's still there.

I didn't watch it but just wanted to point out that literally nobody I know who watched it liked Licorice Pizza. Never seen so much concensus on one movie inside my social circle lol No clue if they are all being snobish or got bored or what (I vaguely know what the movie is about), just that fact caught my attention.

I watched so few of these movies.... Just the Almodovar one, the italian one, a bunch of the animated ones at home and Dune at the cinema ()

Please, anything but shooters earning a place due to placing 5th in one random world cup stage.

Canada is qualified dude, don't sweat it. There is simply no way Costa Rica can overcome the +9 GD lead you have over them.

Basically you need a shock elimination from one of Morocco, Nigeria or Portugal now. And to win the two remaining games against minnows so you don't drop further

Finally we have the same world cup appearences as Italy. And we even gave them a big handicap by withdrawing from 3 You're next, Germany (?)

Since I think this is one of the very few chances we have to make an "imaginary podium", I'm full team Pareto here despite the japanese is objectively the best in the category. Unlike several on the list Paula was also world champion and has an additional olympic bronze medal.

I would agree to the point he makes about collective responsibility if it was a democracy we were talking about.

Your move, fly_like_a_don. Time to one up with the human right abuses accusations.

Italy will finally win the gold. The young generation lead by Michieletto will do it. -Russia will not play. -France will not win two in a row. -Brazil is still competitive but in decline. -Poland... not betting on them at OG anymore. -USA I feel doesn't have good enough youth talent. -Argentina, Iran, Slovenia, Serbia don't have enough depth.

Although Netherlands is the greatest team in women's hockey olympic history I voted Australia because I can't stand to see them with the same votes as Zimbabwe's flukey gold medal win. they are clear for 2nd place, extremely dominant in Atlanta and Sydney.

I mean, with all the sanctions and companies leaving they have nothing to lose by taking those planes.

To elaborate: with other sports, like team sports for ex, I feel there is an aesthetic element that plays prominently at the moment of valuating old time athletes and teams. Not sure if this can be applied to mark sports (can someone run 1500m more "beautifully"?). For example, if we did a football world cup poll Brazil 1970 would probably rank pretty high because it's concensus that they played the most beautiful football despite the fact that they would get battered by France 2018 if they were to play.

I voted Paavo Nurmi but polls for "mark" sports are difficult to measure because many people will simply vote for the current WR holders. And there are perfectly good arguments to just do that. How to decide...

In ARG... Football >>>> Basketball, Tennis, Auto Racing, Rugby, Boxing >> Volleyball, Hockey, Handball, Futsal > Polo, Athletics, Swimming Everything else is simply not on TV except for olympics/pan am games. This is strictly about popularity/TV ratings. If it's about participation numbers the scene changes a bit (for ex. Gymnastics has a good number of people that practice). There are also sports that are popular in particular regions or provinces. Examples: Rink Hockey in San Juan, Cycling in the west/northwest in general, Softball in Entre Ríos, Ski in the south, etc. As I mentioned in page 4 the official national sport is Pato, but it's virtually unknown among the general public and doesn't have any TV coverage.