OlympicsFan

I feel the same. I can't really blame the IOC (since there were only 2 candidates), but i think it is weird that a country like Italy will host the winter olympics 2 times in such a short time. I would have preferred to see winter olympics in France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria or Sweden. Winter olympics in Chile, New Zealand or Poland also would have been interesting, but i guess those nations would never consider hosting winter olympics.

1) Austria was ok, of course Germany could have easily won if they would have played at their normal level or if the referee would have been remotely objective. 2) So you would favor Spain to qualify, doesnt mean that they deserve it more ... this word really doesnt apply here. You get what you deserve in sport if the referee is objective. If the referee is objective and you dont qualify, then it is your own fault and you simply didnt deserve anything else.

2) Thats what i mean, its too early to tell if she is a serious talent in the 100 breast. She is worldclass in the 50 breast already, but we dont know right now how much talent she has for the 100 breast. We also have to remember that Meilutyte became olympic champion when she was less than a year older than Pilato is now.

Why do they deserve it more than France for example? I think Spain was for example in London, but when was the last time that France qualified?

If Germany cant get at least a draw against a team like Austria, then they dont deserve to ever again be allowed back to Germany.

1) How can she be 13 when her birthday is January 18th 2005? 2) There are tons of athletes who are specialists in the 50 and completely hopeless in the 100, for example Conceicao, Medeiros, Johannson, Proud, Fratus, Govorov or Santos. It is in no way certain that she will ever become competitive in the 100 breast.

Germany is the best european team in mens sabre, so qualification shouldnt be too difficult. Globally only South Korea is better. Ebert should also have no problem qualifying as current world number 7, but her goal has to be at least a medal in Tokyo and at the moment she is still a bit away from being a serious medal contender.

Germany could lose 0:1 against Austria and still win the group ...

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.