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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.

Martina Dominici positive doping test at pan american championships. Bye bye Tokyo.

I mean, what are the regular afghan people doing about it? do they support taliban or what?

Without going into the details, Group F is basically a consequence of Portugal failing to top their qualification group (finished below Ukraine) and France not winning enough points in theirs despite topping their group. The seeding was based in qualifiers performance alone, not fifa or uefa rankings as usual. As for the R16 bracket... it was just bad luck that Group F is also the worst group to be placed into in that respect.

Santiago Lange & Cecilia Carranza and they will be selected this week without a doubt.

I said before the match that Denmark was going to beat Russia 200%, now I will say they will 300% beat Wales It's 1992 again.

Yes, I know but that game is played later. It's unlikely that Finland will get that result but they can't just assume that, much less in a sport like this where you're always one red card or one bad defense away from losing to minnow.

Don't see why people here think these teams would want to fix a result? Even with 4 points they are not certain to qualify + the 3rd here could play France/Germany so what does it matter? Both teams are probably happy to just make the round of 16.