OlympicsFan

Yeah, so Germany vs. Romania if Romania draws against France, otherwise Germany vs. France and Spain vs. Romania.

Thank god thats only one match ...

I pray that Italy won't host any senior tournaments any time soon.

Good performance, although she is already 14 years old and it's not an olympic event.

Expected gold for Germany despite Hartung being not really in shape. Would be very important for this team to qualify, otherwise Germany might be again without a single qualified team in Tokyo. I hope that Ebert and the men's sabre team will qualify for Tokyo, but for that especially Ebert will have to perform much better at the world championships.

If Spain wins at least 4:0 and Romania and France draw, then the semifinals will be Spain vs. France and Germany vs. Romania?

Interesting performance by Germany in women's foil. In the semifinal Golubytskyi was completely hopeless and in the final it was Hampel who was completely hopeless. If Golubytskyi can get close to her best shape again, then Ebert/Sauer/Golubytskyi could be a very dangerous team.

To be fair Germany was missing their best/2nd best athlete (Kleibrink) in the final. Of course this doesnt chance the fact the individually France is clearly stronger than Germany.

The irony of someone from Italy writing something like that ...

1) Italy is a horrible side, they play extremely unfair. 2) I dont see how Brazil could knock out France to be honest.

I think everyone would have preferred to see an english victory, but in the end they were just too stupid. France wasn't really convincing, but i guess if you miss two penalties and still win, you deserved it. I wonder what happened with England after the first 20 minutes ... first they played great football and then they suddenly stopped ... On the french side i thought that Ikone was their best player, while Dembele was absolutely atrocious. On the english side i liked Henderson and Foden, but Wan-Bissaka and Maddison not so much.

I dont think that Poland or Belgium are better than Germany, but the groups are still very unevenly distributed. France, Italy, England and Spain are the 4 best team here and they all could field a great team at the olympics next year unlike all teams from group B. The 4 european spots at the olympics should have gone to 4 out of France (Dembele, Mbappe, Pavard, Diallo, Coman, Ndombele, Hernandez, Konate, Zagadou, Upamecano, Dagba, Diaby, Lafont, Karamoh, Kamara, Guendouzi, Aouar), Italy (Chiesa, Zaniolo, Kean, Donnaruma, Pellegrini, Tonali, Cutrone), Portugal (Felix, Guedes, Dalot, Neves, Fernandes, Dias), Netherlands (De Ligt, De Jong, Van de Beek, Bergwijn, Kluivert), Spain (Rodri, Ceballos, Merino, Reguilon, Fornals, Roca, Ruiz, Asensio, Vallejo, Diaz, Olmo, Angelino, Torres, Zubeldia, Alena, Soler, Oyarzabal) and England (if they were eligible?) (Rashford, Sancho, Alli, Foden, Hudson-Odoi, Loftus-Cheek, Alexander-Arnold, Wan-Bissaka, Sessegnon, Gomez, Maddison, Winks, Rice, Abraham, Lookman, Solanke, Davies, Nelson). If Germany qualifies, then they will basically have no exciting players at the olympics, because Havertz won't play.

It's a shame that at least one out of Germany/Denmark/Austria/Serbia will qualify for the olympics.

What a magic tournaround by Ebert against Palumbo ...

You are way overestimating this team ... They are extremely effectiv and Denmark wasted some chances, i would still say the next two matches are 50/50 for Germany. Edit: Also there arent as many players missing as in the past, only Sane, Werner, Havertz, Kehrer and Brandt. France and England are missing way more players.

1) What BMI are you currently at? 2) How much of an effect did losing weight have on your running performances?

GB has a clear advantag in mens track events, it will be hard for Germany to make up for that in field events. I think 50 athletes achieving the standard would be very good for Germany, the best case would be around 60 athletes.

I dont think that Germany is favorite in that group. The german coach also considers Serbia the favorite in this group. This is the worst german U21 team since at least 2007.

USA will obviously have the most athletes with the standard, but which nation will have the second most (only counting 3 max per event)? GB?

2nd place behind ... ?

Very surprising final, but that happens almost everytime at FIFA junior tournaments. Of course we would have had a very different final if France/England/Italy/Brazil would have competed with their best players.

I pray that Warholm wont win a medal in Tokyo.

Either the ticket prices are different in the US or you just have too much money ... In Germany you have to pay over 900 € for one single athletics/swimming session category A and for one single session category B you also have to pay more than 600 €. For a single semifinals/finals session in fencing category A (2 semifinals and 2 finals per weapon) you have to pay more than 100 €. For rowing and other less sports the prices are decent, but i hesitate to pay that much money for one single athletics/swimming session, especially Germany will only be represented in a fracture of the finals contested during that session. Right now i think that i will try to get tickets for the opening ceremony, one swimming session, one athletics session, 1 or 2 rowing sessions, at least one track cycling session, one gymnastics session, one basketball session and maybe one archery/shooting session and/or one slalom canoeing session.

I have to say that the schedule is very bad for german fans ... June 29: Swimming women's 1500 m freestyle final and rowing women's double sculls final at the same time June 30: Swimming men's 800 m freestyle final + swimming men's 200 m breast final + swimming 200 m women's fly final and rowing men's lightweight double sculls final all at the same time June 31: Swimming men's 200 m IM final and rowing men's single sculls final + rowing men's eight final and shooting women's 25 m air pistol final all at the same time August 02: In the morning: Swimming men's 1500 m freestlye and shot put women's final at the same time In the evening: Gymnastics women's uneven bars final and men's high jump final + women's triple jump final at the same time August 03: Around noon: Shooting men's 25 m rapid fire pistol + track cycling women's team sprint final at the same time In the evening: Eventing team and invidual final + women's 5000 m final and women's discus throw final at the same time August 04: Athletics women's 200 m final and gymnastics women's balance beam final at the same time August 05: Athletics women's 3000 m SC final and equestrian individual jumping final at the same time August 06: Swimming men's 10 km open water and athletics men's shot put final at the same time August 08: Equestrian jumping team final + athletics men's javelin throw and women's high jump final at the same time It will be very hard to find a schedule, especially because i have no clue how long it will actually take to get from one venue to another ...

I agree with you, very surprisng result, the same is true for Japan - Argentina. A lot of former superpowers like Australia, Japan, Brazil or Germany seem to struggle, while new superpowers like the Netherlands, Spain or Italy seem to emerge. I just looked at the draw and this seems to be the first draw in a long time that isn't rigged. France has to face Norway in the group phase and then probably USA in the round of last 8! Pretty tragic that the 2 favorites will probably face off that early in the tournament. Also Germany will have to win the group ahead of Spain, otherwise they will be eliminated in the round of last 16 against USA. I just looked at the draw and the semifinals should be Norway/England vs. USA/France and Germany/Sweden/Canada vs. Brazil/Netherlands/Japan. If everything goes according to plan, then the final should be USA/France vs. Netherlands and the european olympic spots should go to Norway/England, the Netherlands and France or Sweden/Germany. I just don't understand why Europe only gets 3 spots at the olympic tournament ... there are 12 spots and 6 out of the 10 best teams in the world are from Europe ...