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Only people happy with this: - The owners of those clubs. - Plastic fans from USA, China, India and all those countries with a lot of money but nil tradition in the sport.

I voted USA but who knows honestly. Only men's cycling road race is more unpredictable.

Quotas for and in men's.

As I said, our two "qualified" women won't compete, they only have those privileged places because they won medals in Lima, which was million years ago. This decision would be fair in many other sports which have functional IFs and stablished calendar of competitions, but not in the mess that has been AIBA last few years.

Heat? It's a completely average 22°C day today

No, it's cancelled.

Our two female boxers supposedly qualified in this ranking are suspended for doping (until May) and said they will turn pro and not represent Argentina in amateur boxing anymore.

Where is this ranking?

Jamal Murray is out in case Canada qualifies in basketball.

We're not even top 8 anymore but that's a debate for another day anyway, I care more about olympics than about football since many years ago.

This will be the first time since I follow games that we will go with nothing but outside chances. Very grim looking. It's also telling that it's pretty much the same people that had chances 5 years ago, only that older and in decline. We haven't been able to develop a single new world class athlete. Even Chile has bigger chances than us, embarassing.

The thing is, they did this survey right when Japan is having another peak, just like in january. Of course opinion against will be higher in the middle of a peak... PS. the "peak" in Japan is a laughable (for a country of +100M) 2000 daily cases.

Surely won't be a local decision if it's cancelled because majority has stopped giving a crap about covid here, unfortunately. Table tennis qualifier being held when there is absolute peak cases is proof.

Baseball and softball have higher chances than football.

Our country is devastated and covid gave our sport the coup de grace. It will be as I say. Maybe 2 at best.

0-1 (in a team sport). Nothing more.

Just as expected Japan with Bahrain together and Egypt (=IHF) with both of them and Portugal just in case

Evaluating the situation in each group... A: Should be Portugal v Serbia all the way to the end, likely the decision will come down to the very last game. B: Should be Spain v Sweden all the way, don't see the other teams challenging, not even Greece. They can get a point or two from the big kids but struggle too much to score. C: I don't see Italy or Switzerland dropping a single point to all the other (awful) teams, so everything should be decided in the h2h games. D: France is not playing great but they will easily qualify since all the other teams are close in level and will keep getting points off each other. I would bet Ukraine for 2nd but a finish surprise is not off limits. E: Easy for Belgium, Wales & Czechia kinda won't care since both are guaranteed play-off places through Nations league. F: Denmark most in form team in Europe right now, will easily qualify. Scotland v Austria for 2nd place. G: Despite slipping against Latvia still think Turkey will take this group. I think the dutch will go to play-offs, Norway doesn't look good at all. H: All teams are very inconsistent, think Croatia will just barely take it at the end. Russia for 2nd. Slovakia and Slovenia are too dependant on 2-3 players, they are one injury away from dropping points to the likes of Cyprus and Malta. I: England easily. Hungary and Poland for 2nd place, right now I see Hungary better. J: I find it hard to believe that Germany won't take first place against these uber weak opponents. Hopefully with a new coach they will turn a page. Still think Romania will take 2nd here, don't see Armenia or Macedonia being consistent enough. Iceland is too weak at the moment.

This was the definition of "pecho frio".

It's amazing how the russians are just mocking everyone with these anthem proposals. And to be fair, they are right in doing so since the imposed sanctions are a complete joke (in the sense of being less than a slap in the wrist) to begin with.

She and her husband live and train in Ukraine since start of pandemic. I guess it makes sense to change back sport nationality if you will live there now.

Doha 2064, Argentina qualifies in archery, diving and badminton. Mark my words.

I said it last december They should fire De Boer soon and hire Ten Hag or Bosz.

Both teams play bad, it's just the dutch have an awful coach on top of that.

I don't understand why they can't play the home games. From what I understand the clubs from Germany have freed all players now (and the prohibition was for travel to UK only anyway). Edit: oh I guess there's some restriction placed on Slovakia by Germany?