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Pretty great performance from our male pentathletes so far, hopefully they will able to win a medal and an Olympic quota.

The new Puskás Aréna is almost completed, the opening match (HUN-URU) will be in November.

Brazil is throwing away their Olympic quota and Top8 placement against Czech Republic.

SVK-CRO basically confirmed that Croatia will take the 1st spot, and HUN-SVK will be incredibly important. The hype is real here, it's the most important match for the Hungarian football in this decade, even more so than the Euro 2016 play-offs against Norway, because of the 4 Euro 2020 games in Budapest.

Only the medalists can win quotas at the World Championships. For some reason UIPM decided that they will use world ranking for the reallocation, not the WCh results.

1 NOC can have 2 quotas per gender and Belarus' first quota was won by a different athlete, Prasiantsova, at the ECh.

+1 +1 French already has a quota, so the third WCh 2019 quota will be reallocated with the World Ranking in 2020

Spain hasn't been convincing in this entire World Cup, they might get destroyed against Serbia.

[hide] Second Round September 6th - September 9th, 2019 16 Nations, 2 Groups, the 1st and 2nd Nations from each Group will qualify for the Quarterfinals Group I Date & Time (GMT +8) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 6th 2019, h. TBD Poland 8 Russia September 6th 2019, h. TBD Argentina 25 Venezuela September 8th 2019, h. TBD Poland 20 Argentina September 8th 2019, h. TBD Venezuela 15 Russia Group J Date & Time (GMT +8) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 6th 2019, h. TBD Spain 5 Italy September 6th 2019, h. TBD Serbia 25 Puerto Rico September 8th 2019, h. TBD Spain 15 Serbia September 8th 2019, h. TBD Puerto Rico 7 Italy Group K Date & Time (GMT +8) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 7th 2019, h. TBD United States 2 Greece September 7th 2019, h. TBD Brazil 10 Czech Republic September 9th 2019, h. TBD United States 2 Brazil September 9th 2019, h. TBD Czech Republic 15 Greece Group L Date & Time (GMT +8) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 7th 2019, h. TBD France 5 Lithuania September 7th 2019, h. TBD Australia 20 Dominican Republic September 7th 2019, h. TBD France 2 Australia September 7th 2019, h. TBD Dominican Republic 15 Lithuania [/hide]

POL, CZE, RUS, and ofc SRB are all in the Top16. The Slavs are doing really well in China.

[hide] First Round September 20th - October 13th, 2019 20 Nations, 4 Groups, the 1st and 2nd Nations from each Group will qualify for the Quarterfinals Group A Date & Time (GMT +8) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 20th 2019, h. 19:45 Japan 10 Russia September 22nd 2019, h. 16:45 Ireland 6 Scotland September 24th 2019, h. 19:15 Russia 3 Samoa September 28th 2019, h. 16:15 Japan 15 Ireland September 30th 2019, h. 19:15 Scotland 10 Samoa October 3rd 2019, h. 19:15 Ireland 20 Russia October 5th 2019, h. 19:30 Japan 8 Samoa October 9th 2019, h. 16:15 Scotland 20 Russia October 12th 2019, h. 19:45 Ireland 15 Samoa October 13th 2019, h. 19:45 Japan 5 Scotland Group B Date & Time (GMT +8) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 21st 2019, h. 18:45 New Zealand 15 South Africa September 22nd 2019, h. 14:15 Italy 30 Namibia September 26th 2019, h. 16:45 Italy 15 Canada September 28th 2019, h. 18:45 South Africa 40 Namibia October 2nd 2019, h. 19:15 New Zealand 35 Canada October 4th 2019, h. 18:45 South Africa 10 Italy October 6th 2019, h. 13:45 New Zealand 45 Namibia October 8th 2019, h. 19:15 South Africa 35 Canada October 12th 2019, h. 13:45 New Zealand 20 Italy October 13th 2019, h. 12:15 Namibia 10 Canada Group C Date & Time (GMT +8) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 21st 2019, h. 16:15 France 15 Argentina September 22nd 2019, h. 19:15 England 30 Tonga September 26th 2019, h. 19:45 England 35 United States September 28th 2019, h. 13:45 Argentina 35 Tonga October 2nd 2019, h. 16:45 France 35 United States October 5th 2019, h. 17:00 England 10 Argentina October 6th 2019, h. 16:45 France 30 Tonga October 9th 2019, h. 13:45 Argentina 45 United States October 12th 2019, h. 17:15 England 3 France October 13th 2019, h. 14:45 United States 7 Tonga Group D Date & Time (GMT +8) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 21st 2019, h. 13:45 Australia 25 Fiji September 23rd 2019, h. 19:15 Wales 30 Georgia September 25th 2019, h. 14:15 Fiji 30 Uruguay September 29th 2019, h. 14:15 Georgia 30 Uruguay September 29th 2019, h. 16:45 Australia 5 Wales October 3rd 2019, h. 14:15 Georgia 7 Fiji October 5th 2019, h. 14:15 Australia 60 Uruguay October 9th 2019, h. 18:45 Wales 15 Fiji October 11th 2019, h. 19:15 Australia 30 Georgia October 13th 2019, h. 17:15 Wales 50 Uruguay [/hide]

lol, ESP-IRI 52-53 before Q4.

There's no way that this American team wins the World Cup, right? I mean, they might not even make it to the QF.

Holy shit, the drama. Well done, Brazil.

Um, Greece, wtf is going on?

Australia is having a pretty bad day against Senegal. Not a good sign for them before LTU-AUS.

Best: Helsinki 1952. I mean, it's pretty obvious, 16 gold medals, 42 medals, 3rd on the medal table. We won the football tournament with one of the most legendary teams ever in the history of sport (the Golden Team), dominated men's sabre once again with some true legends like Gerevich, won two gold medals in Gymnastics, four gold medals in Swimming. It's crazy how strong this team was. But if you want a modern example for the best Olympics, I would go with Barcelona 1992. 11 gold medals. 30 medals. Our two legendary swimmers, Egerszegi and Darnyi won 5 gold medals, plus for the first time ever we won the women's K4 in canoe sprint. Worst: Beijing 2008. 3 gold medals. 10 medals. Worst placement on the medal table (21st) in the history of the Summer Games. Unlike the two "best" examples, I watching these Games live and it was a disaster for us. We had to wait for the first gold medal for sooo long that at some point everybody started to worry that we might not win any. It was a huge relief for the country when Vajda won C1 1000m. But despite the overall performance we still had some great moments, Cseh had an amazing SOG, won 3 silver medals, and only peak Phelps was able to beat him. Our men's water polo team won for the third time in a row, partially thanks to the Serbian team's total collapse and inability to beat the Americans in the SF. And the C2 bronze medal was the most emotional moment ever for all Hungarians, because Kozmann was able to win a medal with his new partner Kiss just a few months after his former partner, two-time Olympic champion György Kolonics died from heart failure while preparing for the Olympics. We don't have a "worst" Winter Olympics for obvious reasons, and the best is clearly Pyeongchang 2018, because we won our first ever winter gold medal there.

That's funny considering that I had no idea what to expect from these teams (which is why I was last after D1)

Women's 3000m Steeplechase Zita Kácser 9:26.59 https://atletika.hu/live-results/538

Kácser Zita Olimpiai szintet (és országos csúcsot) futott 3000m akadályfutásban.

It certainly shows that I don't know much about the current state of international basketball.

Tunisia is doing really well against Spain, 42-39 at HF.

To be fair and to give you the full picture, the Hungarian broadcaster actually has free live streams for all the matches. So in case you have a Hungarian VPN, you can watch the matches live here: https://www.m4sport.hu/

Just to give you an idea how much FIBA succeeded at making this a "top worldwide sport event": the Hungarian broadcaster doesn't give shit about the matches of the first two days. Not even CZE-USA, because F1 is far more important. And this is in a country that was relatively close to qualifying.

Yay, Hungarian rowing is still a thing that exists! Too bad that we don't have another strong male lightweight athlete and Galambos will miss Tokyo because of that. And currently the Hungarian quota situation is pretty terrible in this sport.