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It's not just the latest continental championship that counts, it's the average of the last two actually (with the older one counting at only 50%). You can find the calculations on page 3 of this document.
 
This means continental points aren't so straightforward. For example, if Germany wins this eurohockey beating the Netherlands in the final, the dutch will still be "Euro 1" because they won the 2017 edition while Germany finished 4th.
 
In Asia the calculation is even more complicated because they count 3 championships for their continental points (they also count asian Champions trophy). I don't know if India will keep Asia 1, but in worst  case I think they would lose it to Malaysia (Japan won't, as they don't have great points from before).
 
As Asia 2 they would be losing 45 points. Honestly I don't think both England and Germany can pass them.
 
PS: by the way, I think FIH has the best world ranking system out of any team sport international federations. It's not absolutely perfect but mostly everything is weighted pretty well, many IFs should copy it.

It's not an excuse. I was just giving an explanation of what they were probably thinking. You are from a multi-cultural, multi-racial country so these things are very ingrained into your education. These guys on the other hand likely don't even think they did a racist gesture, to them it was just a celebration. Also, I think you overstimate how well-informed some people are towards these sensitive issues. Not everyone is well educated about it. The three players who did the gestures are not particularly smart guys, must I add.
 
 
 

It's not an excuse. I was just giving an explanation of what they were probably thinking. You are from a multi-cultural, multi-racial country so these things are very ingrained into your education. These guys on the other hand likely don't even think they did a racist gesture, to them it was just a celebration. Also, I think you overstimate how well-informed some people are towards these sensitive issues. Not everyone is well educated about it. The three players who did the gestures are not particularly smart guys, must I add.
 
 
 

For everyone wondering about the forum’s favorite international leader:
 

Thanks all gods we won this weekend...

Doped medalist in... bowling (!)
 
Puerto Rico loses the doubles gold and individual bronze.

Doped medalist in... bowling (!)
 
Puerto Rico loses the doubles gold and individual bronze.

Doped medalist in... bowling (!)
 
Puerto Rico loses the doubles gold and individual bronze.

Haha Poland team is so easy to hate, douchebag captain, douchebag coach, naturalized super player, money to buy stuff from FIVB all the time, etc  
 
They are like the bad guys from any american sport movie.   

Our table tennis team is fighting with all their heart but Jha is simply too strong for anyone.  

Going into the 200IM final in swimming, 2 Americans and 2 Canadians had about the same entry times (2:11's).  The difference is the Americans actually performed at that level here, getting gold and silver, while the Canadians were 3/4 seconds behind that, getting 3rd and 4th.  
 
I think this is what's most frustrating as a Canadian sports fan.  It's not that we don't have great athletes, because we do.  It's not that they don't win, because they do.  But, generally speaking across all disciplines, Canadian athletes under perform in big competitions.  For years, Canada led the way in 4th and 5th place finishes at the SOG and WOG.  Canada had the lowest World Championship to Olympic medal conversion rate for decades.  
 
It's not about the winning.  And lord knows, I'm not criticizing athletes who do things I can't dream of.  I'm just saying, as a Canadian, it's tough watching my peers just shrink under pressure time and time again.  It's a national pysche thing.  We just don't have the killer instinct, as a nation.  
 
Hence, 223435 silver medals here, and top 10 medals in the Olympics but only 20th in gold.  
 
Edit: I just want to say that I said the part about Olympic medal ranking randomly.  But I just looked it up, and in Rio, Canada was really 10th in total but 20th overall.  That worked out!
 
Edit 2: At the last 2 SOG, 62% of Canada's medals have been bronze, while only 14% have been gold.  

Her times were simply terrible, she almost got beaten by a 35 year old that just traveled from Korea...
 
The ignorant journalists will say she's great and bla bla but I know that it was a very bad competition from her (and I know that she also thinks that even if she won't say it openly).

El Salvador, aparently, is the strongest country of the continent of Body building with two golds.........all of that "sport" is bizarre.

Haha Poland team is so easy to hate, douchebag captain, douchebag coach, naturalized super player, money to buy stuff from FIVB all the time, etc  
 
They are like the bad guys from any american sport movie.   

No way they drop baseball, it's just too big in the continent.
 
 
What I read is that Chile will include rink hockey, polo and expand the water ski program while they will remove pelota.

No way they drop baseball, it's just too big in the continent.
 
 
What I read is that Chile will include rink hockey, polo and expand the water ski program while they will remove pelota.

To sum up... 
 
Poland has to win one set tomorrow. Argentina has to win two. The rest will be all head-to-heads: SRB v ITA, NED v USA, RUS v IRN, BUL v BRA.

Haha Poland team is so easy to hate, douchebag captain, douchebag coach, naturalized super player, money to buy stuff from FIVB all the time, etc  
 
They are like the bad guys from any american sport movie.   

Lol our female karateca is so bad. She got punched in the face like a hundred times by the brazilian woman, it's cruel to say but it was a bit funny to watch.

To sum up... 
 
Poland has to win one set tomorrow. Argentina has to win two. The rest will be all head-to-heads: SRB v ITA, NED v USA, RUS v IRN, BUL v BRA.

OMG Kenia Lechuga won the gold out of nowhere in rowing. Insane final 200m from her, she was 3rd and not even in the picture before that.
 
What a disappointment to lose this one...

OMG Kenia Lechuga won the gold out of nowhere in rowing. Insane final 200m from her, she was 3rd and not even in the picture before that.
 
What a disappointment to lose this one...

Battle for the 6th place on the "super saturday" 
 
We still have 8 solid chances of gold:
 
-Men's hockey (should be a win in any normal day).
-both trinquete in pelota (should be two easy wins).
-1500m free W swimming (should be easy).
-lightning medal race (2 point advantage over Brazil, which means they have to beat them or they lose it).
- lightweight single sculls W and the 8 (both should be very close though). 
- men's football final (it's Honduras but you never know at this level).
 
Other than this we also have 3 other finals in pelota (2 which are even, one impossible) and the team final in racquetball (quite hard). Also, I don't have a precise idea of the chances of our lightweight fours in rowing.
 
Oh, and I have simply no clue who is supposed to win in bodybuilding.
 
 
Now  I think their remaining chances are the 4 speed skating, Alvear in Judo, 2 in compound archery and the road races in cycling? Don't know what their chances are like in Wrestling and Karate...

It's much more similar to bandy and football (soccer) than it is to Ice Hockey.

The girls are particularly prone to making silly technical fouls. The men's game flows quite a bit more.  
 
About penalty retaking, just know that 95% of the time it's because it hit the foot of a defender, which isn't allowed.