LDOG

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.

Nope, Emiliano Grillo withdrew today.

These games are almost meaningless, there will be semifinal and final after this. Given the dutch are weak this tournament won't have any serious match until the final.

Confirmed Flag bearers will be Santiago Lange and Cecilia Carranza (Sailing).

[hide] Knockout Round - Round of 16 June 26th - July 11th, 2021 16 Nations, Winners of each Round of 16-matches will qualify for the Quartfinals Round of 16 Date & Time (GMT +2, CEST) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 26th 2021, h. 18:00 Wales 0 2 Denmark June 26th 2021, h. 21:00 Italy 2 0 Austria June 27th 2021, h. 18:00 Netherlands 2 1 Czech Republic June 27th 2021, h. 21:00 Belgium 2 1 Portugal June 28th 2021, h. 18:00 Croatia 1 2 Spain June 28th 2021, h. 21:00 France 3 0 Switzerland June 29th 2021, h. 18:00 England 1 1 Germany June 29th 2021, h. 21:00 Sweden 0 0 Ukraine [/hide]

Hungary woooo

You mean Portugal?, Ukraine is qualified already.

Honestly feel like Hungary could have made more damage if they weren't so focused on just defending their lead...

Oh my, is this really happening?

mmm if I had to write it in english it would be something like "the check-oh" haha we have a funny guy in our tv that narrates all the games of the team and when Loser scores a great point he sometimes says "why do they call him loser? he's a winner!" (he says winner in english) this guy has many other catch phrases like that when he's narrating games, really wholesome fellow.

Final Roster

Groups B and E going down means we'll have Belgium v Portugal/France in next round.

We're entering the period in which if you get a sickness (from covid to anything more serious) you say bye bye to medals, unless you're part of a team sport squad.