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They announced a line up of UK presenters yesterday and the press release said "every minute" ofaction would be available on the Eurosport App and Discovery Plus. "Europe wide" was mentioned quietly at the bottom so don't know if it applies completely yet

Yeah, Csaba Sós said that he wants to give every eligible athlete a chance to gain some "Olympic experience". I think this has always been our mentality in sports where the qualification isn't as crazy hard and not really an achievement itself. I have seen a few naysayers who think that it's a waste of money, and while that's a fine argument against it, honestly, there are far worse cases where we throw money out of the window for sport events, like the crazy expensive World Aquatics Championships, or any of our new venues like the "largest handball arena in Europe" that nobody really asked for here, but we are still building it for ECh2022 and to rival with Cologne for the Champions League Final 4 hosting rights. Compared to all of that waste and corruption, at least the extra money we are spending on a larger Olympic team is for the athletes who worked hard over the years. 

Ok, Spain. 5-0, onesided deserved win. Nice and all, but hey ! come and try the same result in Ice Hockey !
 
 
 
 
 

We scored two goals today, tying Portugal now, can we beat them ?

Please stop this madness!
 
I was thinking long and hard about writing this post for a number of days but decided to do it anyway, with view to the Tokyo Olympics and the discussion threads which hopefully will be very active.
 
Simply put, there should be a part of this forum where discussion is restricted to sport related discussion even though politics and/or social activism and sport cannot always be strictly separated. There should be a separate thread (e.g. "Social activism at the 2020 Olympics" or "Social activism at the UEFA Euro 2020" or similar) where these discussions can take place, or (the admittedly toxic) Politics Thread should also be used for that purpose.

More often than not, above mentioned political/social discussions have been nothing more than sterile, uproductive mud-slinging, or periodic exposition of each other's views talking past each other. The only result is the ruination of the threads where they occur, potentially causing users who dont want to participate in or even reading such discussions, to avoid the (sport / event related) threads concerned.

On a personal note moreover, there are a number of us whose (mostly psychological but sometimes also physical) wellbeing is directly impacted by the political situation in our respective countries, and some of us may not want to read about all this sh*t even on a sport related thread in a sport forum.

In this forum in particular, most of similar discussions usually (but not always) involve one particular nick (everyone knows who), versus other people trying to convince him/her, or arguing with him/her. These efforts are more often than not, unproductive, and lead to the aforementioned result.
 
Before anyone starts yelling "censorship" or "cancel culture", I dont want to censor anyone, just propose to have its own topic(s) for this kind of discussion.
And during the Olympics, to have the sport/discipline related threads for ontopic posts and not for lengthy discussion about whether is good or not good to speak/otherwise act by athlete X about cause Y, or whether cause Y has or hasn't any merit. 

Please stop this madness!
 
I was thinking long and hard about writing this post for a number of days but decided to do it anyway, with view to the Tokyo Olympics and the discussion threads which hopefully will be very active.
 
Simply put, there should be a part of this forum where discussion is restricted to sport related discussion even though politics and/or social activism and sport cannot always be strictly separated. There should be a separate thread (e.g. "Social activism at the 2020 Olympics" or "Social activism at the UEFA Euro 2020" or similar) where these discussions can take place, or (the admittedly toxic) Politics Thread should also be used for that purpose.

More often than not, above mentioned political/social discussions have been nothing more than sterile, uproductive mud-slinging, or periodic exposition of each other's views talking past each other. The only result is the ruination of the threads where they occur, potentially causing users who dont want to participate in or even reading such discussions, to avoid the (sport / event related) threads concerned.

On a personal note moreover, there are a number of us whose (mostly psychological but sometimes also physical) wellbeing is directly impacted by the political situation in our respective countries, and some of us may not want to read about all this sh*t even on a sport related thread in a sport forum.

In this forum in particular, most of similar discussions usually (but not always) involve one particular nick (everyone knows who), versus other people trying to convince him/her, or arguing with him/her. These efforts are more often than not, unproductive, and lead to the aforementioned result.
 
Before anyone starts yelling "censorship" or "cancel culture", I dont want to censor anyone, just propose to have its own topic(s) for this kind of discussion.
And during the Olympics, to have the sport/discipline related threads for ontopic posts and not for lengthy discussion about whether is good or not good to speak/otherwise act by athlete X about cause Y, or whether cause Y has or hasn't any merit. 

Please stop this madness!
 
I was thinking long and hard about writing this post for a number of days but decided to do it anyway, with view to the Tokyo Olympics and the discussion threads which hopefully will be very active.
 
Simply put, there should be a part of this forum where discussion is restricted to sport related discussion even though politics and/or social activism and sport cannot always be strictly separated. There should be a separate thread (e.g. "Social activism at the 2020 Olympics" or "Social activism at the UEFA Euro 2020" or similar) where these discussions can take place, or (the admittedly toxic) Politics Thread should also be used for that purpose.

More often than not, above mentioned political/social discussions have been nothing more than sterile, uproductive mud-slinging, or periodic exposition of each other's views talking past each other. The only result is the ruination of the threads where they occur, potentially causing users who dont want to participate in or even reading such discussions, to avoid the (sport / event related) threads concerned.

On a personal note moreover, there are a number of us whose (mostly psychological but sometimes also physical) wellbeing is directly impacted by the political situation in our respective countries, and some of us may not want to read about all this sh*t even on a sport related thread in a sport forum.

In this forum in particular, most of similar discussions usually (but not always) involve one particular nick (everyone knows who), versus other people trying to convince him/her, or arguing with him/her. These efforts are more often than not, unproductive, and lead to the aforementioned result.
 
Before anyone starts yelling "censorship" or "cancel culture", I dont want to censor anyone, just propose to have its own topic(s) for this kind of discussion.
And during the Olympics, to have the sport/discipline related threads for ontopic posts and not for lengthy discussion about whether is good or not good to speak/otherwise act by athlete X about cause Y, or whether cause Y has or hasn't any merit. 

The result of Sun Yang’s retrial is now known. He is banned until May 2024.
 
https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/summer/aquatics/sun-yang-2nd-cas-hearing-may-1.6075430

Sbornaia felt apart... direction Siberia
 
Live Standing
9
3 (5:4)
3 (1:2)
3 (2:7)

are qualified for Olympics in Men's event 

Na jó, most már lemegyek hídba. Íjászatban is kvalifikáltunk.

Balogh Mátyás kvótát szerzett íjászatban. 1996 óta ez az első magyar kvóta íjászatban. 
 
  Rio Tokyo Diff Archery - 1 +1 Athletics Marathon/RW 8 2 -6 Badminton 1 2 +1 Boxing 2 1 -1 Canoe Slalom - 1 +1 Canoe Sprint 15 17 +2 Cycling Mountain Bike 1 2 +1 Cycling Road - 1 +1 Diving 1 - -1 Fencing 9 10 +1 Gymnastics Artistic 2 1 -1 Gymnastics Rhythmic - 1 +1 Handball - 14 +14 Judo 8 7 -1 Karate - 1 +1 Modern Pentathlon 4 4   Rowing 3 1 -2 Sailing 5 4 -1 Shooting 8 4 -4 Swimming Marathon 3 2 -1 Table Tennis 3 5 +2 Taekwondo - 1 +1 Tennis
2 3 +1 Triathlon 4 4   Water Polo 26 24 -2 Weightlifting 1 1   Wrestling 8 6 -2   114 120 +6
  Athletics 11 6 -5 Swimming 34 22 -12   159 148 -11

Let alone a head of state or government or a ruling party and the ideology represented by that party.

Let alone a head of state or government or a ruling party and the ideology represented by that party.

Let alone a head of state or government or a ruling party and the ideology represented by that party.

I would even say : because people don't necessarily equal their country. 
Which may be quite a surprise for some guys here on this forum. 

Just from the top of my head:
 
-  winning the 100/200 sprint
- someone else than  winning one of the basketball tournaments
-  and  competitors in general of course not at the expense of  :D

I have a few:
 women's water polo (I'm sure everyone on this website secretly wants them to break the 4th place curse)
 
 Simona Halep - tennis (I love to watch her play and I know it is so important for her)
 
 Zorana Arunovic - shooting (For the amazing career she's had, it is crazy that she never won any Olympic medal)
 
 Novak Djokovic - tennis (It is crazy that in his career so far he only won one bronze. Of course I want Tsitsipas to win gold but I'd also like to see Djokovic win silver or bronze )
 
 Darya Klishina - long jump (I always wanted her to win an Olympic medal)
 
 Mariya Lasitskene - high jump (She deserves an Olympic medal in her career)
 
 Kendra Harrison - 100 hurdles (I thought she was so unlucky in 2016 that she missed the Olympics despite breaking the world record a few weeks prior)
 
 Helen Maroulis - wrestling (Of course she is half Greek, and she was going to compete for us after not being selected for London but there were some delays in her paperwork, anyways she won gold for USA in 2016 and they named the main square after her of the town in Greece where her grandparents live)
 
 Alex Kesidis - wrestling (He is also Greek and actually his brother competes for Greece and was in the qualifying tournaments but didn't make it to Tokyo)
 
 Orlando Ortega - 110 hurdles (His coach is Greek)
 
 women's basketball (Their coach is Greek. She was born in Canada but her parents are Greek and she used to play professionally in Greece so she is quite well known in Greek basketball)

This seems to be a good opportunity for me to make a "Hungarian medal chances per day" post, I wanted to do this anyway at some point. I am only mentioning events where a medal wouldn't be surprising (in my opinion). Probably my most "controversial" decision is that I am leaving women's 200m IM off, I think it would be surprising if Hosszú wins a medal in that event. 
 
Events with our best chances are in bold.
 
July 24 - Day 1 (1)
Fencing, men's individual sabre, Áron Szilágyi / András Szatmári  
July 25 - Day 2 (3)
Swimming, women's 400m IM, Katinka Hosszú Fencing, men's individual epée, Gergely Siklósi Shooting, men's 10m air rifle, István Péni  
July 26 - Day 3 (1)
Fencing, women's individual sabre, Anna Márton / Liza Pusztai  
July 27 - Day 4 (0)
 
July 28 - Day 5 (3)
Swimming, men's 200m butterfly, Kristóf Milák / Tamás Kenderesi Fencing, men's team sabre, Hungary Judo, men's 90kg, Krisztián Tóth  
July 29 - Day 6 (1)
Swimming, women's 200m butterfly, Boglárka Kapás  
July 30 - Day 7 (0)
 
July 31 - Day 8 (2)
Swimming, men's 100m butterfly, Kristóf Milák Fencing, women's team sabre, Hungary  
August 1 - Day 9 (0)
 
August 2 - Day 10 (1)
Shooting, men's 50m rifle 3 positions, István Péni  
August 3 - Day 11 (5)
Sailing, men's finn, Zsombor Berecz Canoe Sprint, men's K1 1000m, Bálint Kopasz / Ádám Varga Canoe Sprint, women's K1 200m, Dóra Lucz Canoe Sprint, women's K2 500m, two Hungarian boats Wrestling, men's Greco-Roman 77kg, Tamás Lőrincz  
August 4 - Day 12 (3)
Wrestling, men's Greco-Roman 67kg, Bálint Kopasz Wrestling, men's Greco-Roman 87kg, Viktor Lőrincz Swimming, women's 10km, Anna Olasz  
August 5 - Day 13 (4)
Athletics, women's heptathlon, Xénia Krizsán Canoe Sprint, men's K1 200m, Sándor Tótka Canoe Sprint, women's K1 500m, Danuta Kozák / Tamara Csipes Swimming, men's 10km, Kristóf Rasovszky  
August 6 - Day 14 (1)
Modern Pentathlon, women's, Michelle Gulyás  
August 7 - Day 15 (5)
Water Polo, women's, Hungary Modern Pentathlon, men's, Ádám Marosi Canoe Sprint, women's C2 500m, Hungary Canoe Sprint, women's K4 500m, Hungary Wrestling, men's freestyle 65kg, Iszmail Muszukajev  
August 8 - Day 16 (1)
Water Polo, men's, Hungary

Olasz Anna kvótát szerzett nyíltvízi úszásban. 
 
  Rio Tokyo Diff Athletics Marathon/RW 8 2 -6 Badminton 1 2 +1 Boxing 2 1 -1 Canoe Slalom - 1 +1 Canoe Sprint 15 17 +2 Cycling Mountain Bike 1 2 +1 Cycling Road - 1 +1 Diving 1 - -1 Fencing 9 10 +1 Gymnastics Artistic 2 1 -1 Gymnastics Rhythmic - 1 +1 Handball - 14 +14 Judo 8 7 -1 Karate - 1 +1 Modern Pentathlon 4 4   Rowing 3 1 -2 Sailing 5 4 -1 Shooting 8 4 -4 Swimming Marathon 3 2 -1 Table Tennis 3 5 +2 Taekwondo - 1 +1 Tennis
2 3 +1 Triathlon 4 4   Water Polo 26 24 -2 Weightlifting 1 1   Wrestling 8 6 -2   114 119 +5
  Athletics 11 6 -5 Swimming 34 22 -12   159 147 -12

Everyone booing during Flower of Scotland can fuck right off  

Schick the goal machine version 3.0

Semis are tonight, final is tomorrow night.

I still think that we will win more medals compared to Rio, but less gold medals. Right now I would predict 4 gold medals for Hungary, 2 in canoe sprint, 1 in swimming and 1 in wrestling. But I expected around 5 gold medals from both London and Rio, so what do I know. 

It would be fantastic, but unlike Men, a medal from girls would be a real surprise and a result above expectation. But my whole prediction is above expectation, so why not :D ?

Gold to Lőrincz Tamás in Greco-Roman 77kg, He is the current world champion and he dominated the last European Championships in April.
Regarding swimming, I'll have to correct you : 2 Milák , 1 Hosszú, Silver for Kapás, Bronze for Hosszú in 200 I.M. and Razovszky in Open Waters