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That's because a world quota was awarded before the continental, so ultimately it's the same mistake I pointed out.

I strongly support continental representation (of at least 1 team) at the olympics so yeah, that's the only mistake in my view.

The only mistake was giving a world league quota before continental championships. Never give world quotas before continentals.

It matter if ITA draws or loses because in that case they would be 2nd simply on points.

Taken from FINA RULES ON THE PREVENTION OF THE MANIPULATION OF COMPETITIONS: PMC 3 VIOLATIONS PMC 3.2 Manipulation of Competitions Directly or indirectly contriving or attempting to contrive the outcome or any other aspect of any Competition with the goal of obtaining a Benefit for oneself or for others. The definitions are a bit vague, but still broad enough that they could punish if they wanted to.

It won't happen because it's simply not something that Italy can sell as believable to anybody. The other results here and CRO-FRA men, although unlikely, were all within the margins of "possiblity".

[hide] Main Round January 20th - January 25th, 2020 24 Nations, 4 Groups, the 1st and 2nd Nation from each Group will qualify for the Quarterfinals Group 1 Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 21st 2021 Hungary 2 Brazil January 21st 2021 Spain 1 Germany January 21st 2021 Uruguay 20 Poland January 23rd 2021 Germany 4 Brazil January 23rd 2021 Poland 1 Hungary January 23rd 2021 Uruguay 25 Spain January 25th 2021 Spain 3 Hungary January 25th 2021 Poland 5 Germany January 25th 2021 Brazil 20 Uruguay Group 2 Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 21st 2021 Croatia 9 Bahrain January 21st 2021 Denmark 7 Qatar January 21st 2021 Japan 1 Argentina January 23rd 2021 Qatar 4 Bahrain January 23rd 2021 Argentina 1 Croatia January 23rd 2021 Japan 10 Denmark January 25th 2021 Denmark 2 Croatia January 25th 2021 Argentina 1 Qatar January 25th 2021 Bahrain 1 Japan [/hide]

[hide] Main Round January 20th - January 25th, 2020 24 Nations, 4 Groups, the 1st and 2nd Nation from each Group will qualify for the Quarterfinals Group 3 Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 20th 2021 France 14 Algeria January 20th 2021 Portugal 3 Norway January 20th 2021 Switzerland 2 Iceland January 22nd 2021 Norway 13 Algeria January 22nd 2021 Iceland 3 France January 22nd 2021 Switzerland 4 Portugal January 24th 2021 Portugal 2 France January 24th 2021 Iceland 3 Norway January 24th 2021 Algeria 6 Switzerland Group 4 Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 20th 2021 Sweden 5 Belarus January 20th 2021 Rus. Fed. Handb. Team 2 Egypt January 20th 2021 North Macedonia 5 Slovenia January 22nd 2021 Egypt 7 Belarus January 22nd 2021 Slovenia 2 Sweden January 22nd 2021 North Macedonia 7 Rus. Fed. Handb. Team January 24th 2021 Rus. Fed. Handb. Team 1 Sweden January 24th 2021 Slovenia 1 Egypt January 24th 2021 Belarus 2 North Macedonia [/hide]

He was their best player by a margin. Was doubled the mark on him on the second half.

Ok, I think Africa is justifying the 7 places. Even lower teams are tougher than I thought.

Our team played a horrible half, zero interest in defending anything and hit like 4 crossbar in attack. Hopefully a change of mood soon.

To be precise it says "% of people that believe vaccines are safe".Also, the stats are from 2018 so I guess they mean vaccines in general not covid. In any case I highly doubt Japan has only 35% people that take vaccines. Also, below it says 7% choose to not vaccinate their children in Japan. That seems like a very low % if it actually was that literally only 35% of people there accept to vaccinate at all.

You don't need to vaccinate every single person to end a pandemic. Those percentages are still insignificant for this purpose.

Japan bought 60 million doses from Astrazeneca and they will arrive by February. Yet some people in this forum are sure the games will be cancelled

I think they should count only if everyone edits in time. Otherwise some users will start with a handicap.

What a mess, I'm sorry for Egypt. What was supposed to be a big event with packed arenas and the best players is now a souless, empty farce of a WCh.

IHF wouldn't announce participation of team if they didn't already get confirmation from them. They are not mentally challenged lol.

[hide] Preliminary Round January 13th - January 19th, 2021 32 Nations, 8 Groups, the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Nation from each Group will qualify for the Main Round Group A Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 15th 2021, h. 19:00 Germany 20 Uruguay January 15th 2021, h. 21:30 Hungary 16 Cape Verde January 17th 2021, h. 19:00 Cape Verde 23 Germany January 17th 2021, h. 21:30 Hungary 18 Uruguay January 19th 2021, h. 19:00 Uruguay 1 Cape Verde January 19th 2021, h. 21:30 Germany 4 Hungary Group B Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 15th 2021, h. 19:00 Spain 4 Brazil January 15th 2021, h. 21:30 Tunisia 2 Poland January 17th 2021, h. 19:00 Tunisia 1 Brazil January 17th 2021, h. 21:30 Poland 6 Spain January 19th 2021, h. 19:00 Spain 10 Tunisia January 19th 2021, h. 21:30 Brazil 3 Poland Group C Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 15th 2021, h. 16:30 Qatar 10 Angola January 15th 2021, h. 19:00 Croatia 10 Japan January 17th 2021, h. 16:30 Qatar 7 Japan January 17th 2021, h. 19:00 Angola 13 Croatia January 19th 2021, h. 16:30 Japan 1 Angola January 19th 2021, h. 19:00 Croatia 2 Qatar Group D Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 15th 2021, h. 19:00 Argentina 16 D. R. Congo January 15th 2021, h. 21:30 Denmark 10 Bahrain January 17th 2021, h. 19:00 Argentina 4 Bahrain January 17th 2021, h. 21:30 D. R. Congo 23 Denmark January 19th 2021, h. 19:00 Bahrain 8 D. R. Congo January 19th 2021, h. 21:30 Denmark 7 Argentina Group E Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 14th 2021, h. 19:00 Austria 3 Switzerland January 14th 2021, h. 21:30 Norway 3 France January 16th 2021, h. 19:00 Austria 2 France January 16th 2021, h. 21:30 Switzerland 6 Norway January 18th 2021, h. 19:00 France 4 Switzerland January 18th 2021, h. 21:30 Norway 4 Austria Group F Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 14th 2021, h. 19:00 Algeria 5 Morocco January 14th 2021, h. 21:30 Portugal 1 Iceland January 16th 2021, h. 19:00 Morocco 12 Portugal January 16th 2021, h. 21:30 Algeria 6 Iceland January 18th 2021, h. 19:00 Portugal 5 Algeria January 18th 2021, h. 21:30 Iceland 15 Morocco Group G Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 13th 2021, h. 19:00 Egypt 9 Chile January 14th 2021, h. 21:30 Sweden 5 North Macedonia January 16th 2021, h. 19:00 Egypt 3 North Macedonia January 16th 2021, h. 21:30 Chile 14 Sweden January 18th 2021, h. 16:30 North Macedonia 1 Chile January 18th 2021, h. 19:00 Sweden 1 Egypt Group H Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 14th 2021, h. 16:30 Belarus 2 Rus. Fed. Handb. Team January 14th 2021, h. 19:00 Slovenia 8 South Korea January 16th 2021, h. 16:30 Belarus 1 South Korea January 16th 2021, h. 19:00 Rus. Fed. Handb. Team 1 Slovenia January 18th 2021, h. 16:30 South Korea 5 Rus. Fed. Handb. Team January 18th 2021, h. 19:00 Slovenia 2 Belarus Top 3 Place 1st Place 2nd Place 3rd Place Nation Denmark Spain Norway [/hide]

I wouldn't say it's late, well, it depends on how many people they plan to vaccinate before July. In any case, I think as long as the athletes can train the games will absolutely happen.

Can someone explain to me what is that top 3 prediction box in handball contest or what am I supposed to do with it?

I don't think USA will be able to assemble that team for Tokyo Also, for our team there are missing some players that would 100% be in the list (it doesn't matter anyway, just pointing it out).

I'm sure they will beat at least one big team, because they always do that. But I don't know what else.

The team has great guards but 0 presence in the paint because we have only one good tall guy, so if they aren't scoring 3s like crazy we can't beat any elite team. That's why I said "depends on the day".

Little chance in both. Depends on the day, but I wouldn't bet money in either.

I don't want to talk about results and particular players so, to sum up in one sentence: IRL because they aren't good enough, GB too much youth and not as much talent as in the past.