LDOG

When the draw came out I thought our team had gotten a good group in comparison but now it's become the hardest group by a margin.

Probably in all other tournaments.

Brazil basketball throwing away a decisive game as usual

[hide] Knockout Round - Semifinals July 2nd - July 10th, 2021 4 Nations, Winners of each Semifinal will qualify for the Final, Losers will play in Third-Place Match Semifinals Date & Time (GMT -3) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 July 5th 2021, h. 20:00 Brazil 2 0 Peru July 6th 2021, h. 22:00 Argentina 3 1 Colombia [/hide]

[hide] Knockout Round - Semifinals June 26th - July 11th, 2021 4 Nations, Winners of each Semifinal will qualify for the Final Semifinals Date & Time (GMT +2, CEST) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 July 6th 2021, h. 21:00 Italy 2 1 Spain July 7th 2021, h. 21:00 Denmark 1 1 England [/hide]

+9 for Lithuania during Doncic rest lol he has to play all remaining 20 minutes if they want to win.

With Romero and Guido Rodriguez from the start we beat Colombia easily. I'm 100% sure. With other players we'll suffer again.

Counterchoke.

"Top ten chokes in sport history" Someone make a youtube video.

I hope Lithuania wins because I REALLY don't want Slovenia in our group. Our team has much better guards than LTU but Doncic would wreck us.

Denmark has players with great stamina and a very very clear game plan, things England has not faced yet (and I don't have much hope they will face later vs UKR, but football can surprise). They are technically inferior to english attackers, but I'm very sure they can compete.

And now 500% sure they will beat ENGLAND. It's cøming høme.

General India will win 7 or more total medals, surpassing their highest ever number for a single edition. Philippines or Malaysia will win their first olympic gold medal. Sweden will win more gold medals than Norway. The number of gold medals won by Brazil will be equal or lower than the number of gold medals won by all other south american nations added up. Athletics At least 2 world records will be broken in field events (including Decathlon & Heptathlon). Field Hockey At least one medal match will finish without any goals scored from penalty corners. There will be medalists from at least 3 different continents between both events. Handball At least one group (in either men's or women's competition) will finish with no team with zero points (=all losses, no draws or wins). A non european team will make it to semifinals (men's or women's). Judo Japan will win at least 7 gold medals. Surfing At least one medalist (men's or women's) will be a surfer that didn't take part in any stage (contested prior to the 2020 Olympic Games) of the 2021 World Surf League.

This is not like flipping just two coins though. Switzerland's 100% conversion against France evened out today and they lost as a consequence

Yes, and Argentina in 1990. Those are the only two I can remember. Edit: and in 2018 it was forcefully going to happen since Russia also had won in pso the previous round.

It's almost impossible to win two shoot-outs in a row. Law of football confirmed.

Our final team of 22, as FIFA has now allowed: Unfortunately, the coach of the senior team called 9 U24s for the Copa America so those are all apparently "unavailable" (despite some of our opponents will have players doing a "double"...). And there is also a dozen or so other players that were denied by their clubs: no players from Boca or River is telling as well as the fact there is only 1 overage played (a GK). My expectations are very little so I can't really be disappointed.

Serbia with another sleepy performance.... let's see if they wake up at the end like yesterday.

Better than a draw, just make a poll and let users pick one or two team sports. Just please no monstruosity like the 2012 "men's field hockey + women's football" contest, that was... not good. I prefer to have a single normal contest even if some sports will be left out.

Both formats are terrible. I'd rather not have any contest for team sports if it's gonna be like that. But it's just me.

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.