kungshamra71

One interesting fact: one of our team members that is playing in this match (andre martins) is currently unemployed

what? this is 3x speed? it lasted so long!! hehe

Well I can't talk for the Brazilians, but here in Portugal we have really friendly relationship with Brazil, usually people here cheer for them on competitions (and I remember people really got happy for Brazil when it was announced that Rio would organize the Olympics ) Probably it's because we speak the same language

Hum, what?

If Portugal can't win, then I'm gonna cheer for our friendly brother, "país irmão": Go Brasil!!!

What the hell was that from the Algerian GK??

I hope your prediction is correct!!

What about women singles?

"Brilliant" draw for our tennis players..... Not that I would expect much, we're nothing in tennis after all, but for our best tennis player to play at the second round with Djokovic.... Oh well, at least (if he passes the first round) he will go down to the best in the world

Ok, I found a more accurate photo of the coloured statue (this one is quite different and the colours are more similar to my flag )

So in fact they did light the statue for both of nations, and both of country's media thought it was only for their own? hahaha I wonder how many more Presidents or Premier visited Rio yesterday with the same flag colours

Are you sure it was Italy's? Yesterday they light the Cristo Redentor with the Portuguese flag colours due to our President official visit to Rio de Janeiro... Cristo Redentor pinta-se com as cores de Portugal

For Ronaldo is easy: - besides the fact the team would never allow him to play (he has competitions where he needs to play in Real Madrid); - besides the fact he just played for a month in Euro 2016 until the final; - and besides the fact he is injured; our coach would never even call him. Why? Because (and I agree with this policy) our national olympic coach built a team (a young team) since 2/3 years ago, with which he intended to play the Euro U-21 (he ended 2nd) and to play the Olympics. It was a good idea, as we had a great team, but when the time for calling the players for Rio, some players were unavailable due to their participation in Euro 2016, and the rest of them were just forbidden to join the olympics by their own clubs. It was such a riddiculous thing that by the time our coach was announcing the players for Rio, he received a SMS from a team denying one of his players....

Not sure about that.... Portuguese team at least is made 80% of players that never had a spot in a national team (the portuguese teams didn't let the good young players play the Olympics...) Still, it's the first time Portugal is in an Olympic tournament since 2004, so I hope they can at least perform a decent match

I don't get it, why dropping? If there are political issues between the two countries, wouldn't be better to let them face each other? It's an opportunity for the nations to clash between each other without violence... This way it just seams iranians are running away from Israelits

So, I'm a bit confused now, is Efimova now allowed to compete in Rio? And what about Stepanova of athletics (the whistleblower), is she definitely banned?

Goal at 20 seconds, unbelievable!!!

Here we have the games only showed on a paid channel.... But in contrast, the commentator knows all the players names, it's well informed and we can watch it on web or mobile besides tv

Vuvuzelas would be much better than their screams..... had to turn off the sound

Table Tennis will start today (3rd) at 12h00 (I guess Rio's time). Boxing, Wrestling and Taekwondo I don't like it and I don't follow so I don't know

And it seems Hungarian and Polish are being watched very closely by the Germans

Another bad news for olympic tennis.... Stan Wawrinka pulls out of Rio Olympics due to back injury

" At #IOCLuxuryLodging we believe a bed is not vital for sleep. Fine tuned athletes can sleep standing up. " Hahahahahaha!

Talking about sailing and disaster..... https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/aug/01/olympic-sailing-ramp-in-rio-de-janeiro-collapses

My thoughts as well Anyway, I prefered to stayed like this, that way you can more easily notice my nation's flag hahaha