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Yeah, no possible result between Russia and Germany can leave them out. Amazing.

[hide] Knockout Round - Quarterfinals July 2nd - July 10th, 2021 8 Nations, Winners of each Quarterfinal will qualify for the Semifinals Quarterfinals Date & Time (GMT -3) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 July 2nd 2021, h. 18:00 Peru 2 1 Paraguay July 2nd 2021, h. 21:00 Brazil 3 1 Chile July 3rd 2021, h. 19:00 Uruguay 0 0 Colombia July 3rd 2021, h. 22:00 Argentina 2 1 Ecuador [/hide]

[hide] Knockout Round - Quarterfinals June 26th - July 11th, 2021 8 Nations, Winners of each Quarterfinal will qualify for the Semifinals Quarterfinals Date & Time (GMT +2, CEST) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 July 2nd 2021, h. 18:00 Switzerland 1 3 Spain July 2nd 2021, h. 21:00 Belgium 0 2 Italy July 3rd 2021, h. 18:00 Czech Republic 0 2 Denmark July 3rd 2021, h. 21:00 Ukraine 0 3 England [/hide]

Turkey won but looked absolutely terrible against maybe the weakest team among all the tournaments. Some crazy trivia: it was Uruguay's first official game against an european team since 1986 and we're talking about a team that used to play WCs and olympics regularly for decades.

My prediction ruined in the last fucking second of the match, of course.

Just learned that Muller has 0 goals in euros and this is I think his 4th tournament

Mirco Cuello (Boxing) Delfina Pignatiello (Swimming) Could be more since there are 2 boys in the preliminary squad of the Rugby sevens team

I wanted Korea in our group cuz it's almost a free pass to QFs thanks to points difference our team is also in very good shape lately.

It's impossible (or unhealthy) to play more than 3 rugby matches in two weeks using more or less the same players. Will never happen, unfortunately.

Out: men's football, basketball 3x3, weightlifting. In: men's futsal (12 teams). Use the rest to have more weights in taekwondo, boxing, wrestling, Karate (if reinstated).

Is it so terrible to misclick a flag by one place? I'd be more worried if it was Ivory Coast.

Athens, Roma, Tokyo (without a pandemic).

The midfielders are the only important part of croatian team, all the others have decent replacements.

Es que es simplemente una realidad, sin golpe del 55 se hubieran ganado más medallas en el 56. Y además (esto ya es una teoría mía), probablemente sin tantos golpes en los 60 y 70 no hubiéramos estado 50 años ganando casi nada en jjoo.

Nice video about all olympic medals in history with commentary and some additional peculiarities, to cheer us up a bit for next month.

And now I'm 400% sure they will beat Netherlands/Czechia Spirit of 1992 is here.

The best and worst part of these trials: watching that packed stadium and knowing that we won't have any of that in Tokyo. Japan really screwed up.

What about athletes from poor countries without funding for sport and, consequently, no chance to win medals? for example, some oppressed person from Yemen or Afghanistan that wants to make some statement.

I have answered: My posture is: As long as it's not an aggression towards another athlete or official, something impeding the normal running of the competition or something that breaks the law in the host country, you're free to do or say whatever.

I don't give a shit if Crimea is russian or ukranian or if Taiwan is chinese or not. The point I was trying to make is that the politics are already there at the olympics, even in the simple name of a team.

IMO you can protest anything you want, but whether something will come from it is a different issue.

We already have something very similar with the existence of a team called "chinese taipei", so...

Sports is so interwined with politics that anyone saying it should be apolitical is laughable. Also, people who want x to be apolitical usually have a very defined ideology: they are pro status quo almost always.

I have news for you: half of the other teams are having the same problem.

There is a preliminary list of 50 from which teams are supposed to select the 18 from but if they are given permission to select from elsewhere then yes, they can't withdraw.