Faramir

At this point I'd prefer a format like the new football's Champions League. No groups, 3 pots of 4 teams and you play against a team from each pot, and a single ranking. Or they could have 4 pots of 3 teams, so 4 matches in the first round instead of 5 (old format) or 4 (new format). At least the quarter finals pairing would be less random. Anyway, they wanted to avoid teams "choosing" their quarterfinals opponent in the last round but they gave a huge advantage to the 2 teams that play the very last match of the pool phase - they can potentially mix up the whole table at their liking with good calculations.

But in this case being 3rd is better, the Slovenian coach should have told the 3rd keeper to go taunt the referee after the final whistle just to be safe.

They are athletes, they don't give a shit about supporting Israel or not, but I bet they would have preferred to avoid being a target for a few kilometres long parade.

Exactly, I bet they could fit these 5 in a single boat

Spain, Germany, France and Portugal all in the top half

or Japan itself in the round of 16

Si vede che le importa del nuoto solo come mezzo per pagarsi gli studi. O che sa che qualcosa le avrebbe impedito di essere competitiva al di fuori dell'NCAA.

mi sa di sì ma non ho certezza.

No need to despair guys, wait for the draw , only the top 4 teams are seeded.

https://www.federnuoto.it/home/nuoto/news-nuoto/40800-olimpiadi-di-parigi-ecco-la-nazionale-di-nuoto-il-dt-butini-con-36-atleti.html proprio ora

The fun part about ITA-CRO is that if Croatian fans didn't keep throwing bottles and cups on the pitch there would have been 6 or 7 minutes of stoppage time instead of 8.

Are you intentionally disrespecting New Zealand by not mentioning the Maori speakers in NZ?

Although athletes like to spin it this way, no one is stopped for a missed test, there needs to be 3 in the span of 12 months or less

The wikipedia editor just randomly added "additional places" for AIN wrestlers. The Chinese gets Sidakov's quota (correct, and I think now certain since Chamizo has been told of that), Chamizo must hope that Belarus refuse to use the quota won at the European qualifiers. If they agree to send Yahor Akulich (which wikipedia places as the 18th wrestler - it doesn't make sense) then there is no hope for other reallocations.

Lyles is so unbearable with his pre and post race antics...trying to constantly remind you he's the "cool guy" and coming off as an arrogant and let's say not-so-smart weirdo.

Cuba lost so Serbia is the last qualified team

1. NO, all Russians should be banned since after 2014 for 20 years 2. NO 3. YES, unfair to anyone who hasn't qualified because of a Russian.

As an Internazionale fan I call him Dumbfries for a reason...

https://prod.server.tissottiming.com/file/0003170103020602FFFFFFFFFFFFFF02 yes, so none of the 2 is a "big underdog"

uh? you probably only took the times of the final where they disintegrated at last, Italy went 4:10 as well (but way less will be needed in Paris) there's nowhere near that difference between NZL and ITA. And in 2023 Balsamo was missing (+ Paternoster in bad shape), that they will improve on 2022 is quite sure to me. i mean, unless NZL can pull a Germany-in-Tokyo like performance I don't see them being that far.

big underdogs? Seems a little exaggerated, what time do you think New Zealand can set?

no drawing of lots for team events, unless there is a tie in the FIE ranking https://static.fie.org/uploads/33/169707-Documents for Paris 2024 ang.pdf And we flopped big time against Hungary in men's foil , so - in final and, unless something weird (like the USA flopping at the PanAmericans) happens, the Olympic table should be: - - - -

- in women's epee final waiting for the other zonal champs to define the ranking of course, but with today's results the Olympic table in women's epee should look like: 1st half: - two of / / 2nd half: - one of / / -

Event by event prediction? let's say yes. Number of expected medals prediction? Rough estimate without thinking too much, something like 1.3 golds and 3-3.5 medals