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Let's hope USA's pitching would stay true against Japan while its hitting will improve as the tournament goes along. 

Another win for USA Softball as they win 1-0 over  

Terrible call to send that runner home.  Could have had 2nd and 3rd with no outs.  

Why do Mexico have two coaches with the same name

Am impressed by Zambia’s commitment to the offside trap, even though it has never worked once.

Approaching 1 am here in America. Enjoy the rest of the day everyone!! I will catch up on the soccer and softball games in the morning.

Full credit to team . That was a solid performance.
 
 and  do appear to be on a collision course for gold.

Approaching 1 am here in America. Enjoy the rest of the day everyone!! I will catch up on the soccer and softball games in the morning.

NBCSN just showed that short documentary right before the match here in America.

Italy is going with the Australian strategy. Get hit by a pitch at any cost!

Wow at this: China is the only Asian country to have won an Olympic medal in rowing 

I actually prefer softball to baseball.  It’s much faster, there’s fewer mass meetings, there’s no stepping in & out of the box, players are having fun etc etc.

1 hour until first pitch!!!

1 hour until first pitch!!!

Be warned ..... If you pass by the tennis venue during Tokyo olympics and are carrying a tennis racket ..... You may be press ganged into playing tennis at the Olympics . 
        .................by order of ATP 

We are also about 60 hours away from the first Softball matches!!

We are also about 60 hours away from the first Softball matches!!

This reminded me that in taekwondo there is a girl from Taipei called Su-Po-Ya which means "His Dick" in Spanish. 

Of all odd medal winners I've seen, the cake might be taken by this one I noticed when going to the modern pentathlon Wiki page  
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_pentathlon_at_the_2020_Summer_Olympics
 

Nice look at the Odaiba Marine Park & the rest of Tokyo.

I’ll always be partial to Rio’s lime green.
 
So far I’d uncharitably describe Tokyo’s look of the games as “discount PyeongChang”.

One week until the opening game!!!

Unfortunately will be rattling about in the stands & not snatched up by eager spectators.  

NBC will order FIBA/IOC to cancel the gold medal game. who cares about the rest of the world. no USA, no final.

I am thinking of creating a point system, to create a kind of a league counting all olympic sports results effecting in one table. My idea is this:

for every Olympic final teams will be awarded points as follows:
1st-25pts, 2nd-18pts, 3rd-15pts, 4th-8pts, 5th-5pts, 6th-3pts, 7th-2pts, 8th-1pt.

For sports that there is no official ranking for positions 5-8, teams that reached quarter finals will be awarded 5pts, as the 5th position takes.

In order to make it more "fair" I think to have a multiplier depending on each country's team size and population.

I will create an accumulate table containing both numbers and I will create one single ranking depending the positions of each country in those two categories. For example if country A is 5th in population but 10th in team size, that makes 15 in the final ranking. From that final ranking each teams points, in every final, will be multiplied as follows:

Teams ranked 1-20: x1
teams ranked 21-50:x2
teams ranked 51-100:x3
teams ranked 101-150: x4
teams ranked 150 and so: x5

Tell me what you think, and maybe someone has a better idea. Improvements needed, and maybe someone would like to help to the calculations. I never done it before, I believe I could make it!