NearPup

Mexico is North American, not South American.

Not even a chance in women’s football?

Germany beating Sweden but finishing last in their group while Sweden wins the group? Obviously everyone predicted this. Must be pretty rare for the team to fonish last in the group to have beaten the group winner.

France Denmark was a real snoozefest. Neither team looked very convincing during the group phase.

I actually think the highlight of the day for me was Saudi Arabia beating Egypt. I expected Saudi Arabia to be the worst team in the tournament, so seeing them snatch a win was quite nice. Seeing Russia crash land back to Earth was less nice. Group B was way more entertaining than it had any right to be. Iran and Morocco certainly did well, I actually think Morocco played better than Spain today. I don’t think our winner is coming from either one of these groups.

Argentina really didn’t deserve to be seeded...

Probably someome who has never watched a Football match.

Peru deserves to lose based on just that.

Gotta say, so far I am very happy with the VAR system. It’s exactly what I was hoping to see.

Honestly, I’m always happy to see a player miss a penalty when they do some silly stop and go before kicking the ball. To me that’s poor sportsmanship. Rooting for the draw to really complicate the group.

Well, both teams deserved to lose. I guess it’s good at least one of them did?

, and tomorrow. Supporting , and (in that order) for the tournament in general.

Well, they *are* part of North America, at least geographically (and I would argue culurally as well since most of their polulation are Inuit).

I mean Qatar is hosting 2022...

Pretty sure it’s a rule that every team needs at least one American player.

I mean they do that in skating

They are honestly better tham half the core teams. Unfortunetly for them promotion is really fluky.

All the bids we have have glaring flaws, even Calgary currently plans to hold ski jumping and nordic combined in Whistler along with some ice events in Edmonton. At least Sion had excelent venues for most sports, and while St Moritz was out of the way it has *the* venue for sliding sports.

Sion had the best bid IMO, it’s a real shame to see them withdraw. At this rate whichever bid from either Calgary or Western Europe remains standing will just win by default.

Listen, if someone fron the Israeli team got busted for doping during the WBC it would have counted as an Israeli doping case even though most of the players aren’t Israeli citizens. Sports are arbitrary sometimes. It’s also not much of a scandal because literally nobody cares whether Algeria has 0 or 1 dopping case this year except for you.

Well no. He runs for the UK.

Well this continues the FIVB’s long and proud tradition of making unspeakably terrible qualification systems...

CBD doesn’t cause impairment. It’s very much not THC.

I mean whatever, it’s probably no more advantageous or dangerous than the antiinflammation drugs that are kosher with WADA (which is what CBD is useful for).

I’m not that shocked Yates blew up tbh. The thord week of a grand tour is hard and he was untested.