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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 ...

Can't say anything about Prestige since i couldn't watch it so far, but i only read good things about it. Gladiator without a doubt is a good movies (Great score, good actors (Joaquin Phoenix and Russell Crowe), interesting story and great settings), but there are some things that prevent it from being near the top of my list: a) Too many historical inaccuracies b) It wasn't really thought-provoking in my opinion and that's what a movies has to have in my opinion to be considered one of the best ever, otherwise it is just "plain" entertainment I could watch Requiem for a Dream, Beasts of the Southern Wild, American History X, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Breaking the Waves, Brokeback Mountain, Cloud Atlas, Magnolia, Memento, Lost in Translation, Her, Seven, American Beauty, A Serious Man, Blade Runner: 2049, Dogville, Life is Beautiful, The Seventh Seal, Inception, Moonlight, Manchester by the sea, Matrix, Nocturnal Animals, The Machinist or Shutter Island multiple times and always discover some new "angle", but that is not really possible with Gladiator in my opinion. If it's "only" about entertainment, then i would rather watch movies like City of Good, The Godfather, Scarface, Goodfellas, The Revenant, The Green Mile, Pulp Fiction, The Big Lebowski, Schindler's List, The Pianist, Forrest Gump, Rain Man, Kill Bill: Volume 1, Hacksaw Ridge, Inglourious Basterds, Fight Club, Once Upon a Time in America, Deadpool, Departed, The Usual Suspects, Saving Private Ryan, all of the Lord of the Rings movies, some of the Star Wars movies, Apocalypse Now, Batman Begins or The Dark Knight.

Sadly only the first one so far, the other ones aren't available on Netflix or Amazon Prime. I have to say that this is now top 3 in my favourite computer-animated movies only behind Up and Toy Story, but ahead of Shrek.

I can't believe how unlucky Germany is ... The women finished 3rd just to have to face Mexico for an olympic spot.

Thanks, although i don't think that City of God or Black Mirror are american productions. About your recommendations: Saw all of them already except for Sunset Boulevard. Shawshank Redemption was great, probably in my top 20, Gladiator was also good and is probably in my top 100. I didn't like Gangs of New York though. Sadly in Germany many of the movies i would like to watch (12 Angry Men, Andrei Rublev, North by Northwest, The Best Years of Our Lives, Dr. Strangelove, Leon: The Professional, Ex Machina, Persona, The Prestige, Metropolis, Philadelphia, Some Like It Hot, Stalker, Room, Mulholland Drive, Taxi Driver, Trainspotting, Song to Song, The Thin Red Line, Vertigo, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Warrior, Wild Strawberries or To Kill a Mockingbird) are hard to come by (on Netflix/Prime) unless you are willing to buy them. Thankfully nowadays only very few good movies are released every year, so i have enough time to catch up without my "to-watch list" getting longer and longer every year.

Just watched Black Mirror Season 1 Episode 3 for the first time. I have watched a lot of other Black Mirror episodes before and almost all of them are really "disturbing"/unsettling (in a good way) in my opinion. I can clearly recommend this show for everyone who hasn't watched it already. Movies i watched recently that i can recommend: The Machinist The Green Mile City of God How to Train Your Dragon Nocturnal Animals Nightcrawler

Any livestream? Based on the world rankings it looks as if Germany is in a very good spot to finish top 6 or at least top 8 in qualification. Do you agree?

Where did you get that information? On the IAAF website it says that his best time before this year was 1:20.51, which would mean that he improved his PB by more than 3 minutes. Did he already go faster than that before last weekend? In the end it doesn't really matter whether he improved his PB by 3 minutes or "only" 2 minutes and 34 seconds. Taking such a huge chunk off your PB in one single race at the age of 27 when you were already close to world class before that is very suspicious in my book. For reference: A guy improving from 1:20 to 1:17 is roughly equivalent to a woman improving from 11 seconds to 10,6 seconds in the 100 m sprint. If a woman would do that (especially at the age of 27) there would be no doubt in most peoples mind that something fishy was going on.

Same for the german men, absolutely abysmal performance ... Do you know when the women's qualification will take place? My picks: or or or The match between GB and Japan will be the most important one. If GB eliminates Japan, there is a very good chance that at least 2 out of Italy/China/France/India will miss out. I think even if Italy will be eliminated by China they still have a realistic chance to get in. Japan has a shot at eliminating GB and i would favor Italy over GB/France/Taipei/India/Canada/Russia.

I think it's surprising because Italy is the current world champion? and the german guys only started competing together a couple of weeks ago. I would say that considering their age and the fact that they just started competing together, they are only gonna get better. The same should be true for Oliver Zeidler. I think women's double sculls is the biggest question mark, this could have been a fluke performance. The 6 boats that won medals here + men's quadruple sculls should be medal contenders at the world championships and the olympics. I would say Zeidler, the men's eight, the men's lightweight double sculls and the women's quadruple sculls have a very good chance of medalling at those events and one or two out of women's double sculls, men's four and men's quadruple sculls will hopefully medal there too. The last time that Germany won more than 4 medals in rowing at the olympics was in 2000!

Sadly they are useless in every sport except for distance running ...

So you predicted that the worst team here would win by 3 goals ... ?

Nice to see that even native? speakers have problems with spelling sometimes ...

Very weird time by the italian guy, he improved his PB by more than 3 minutes ... Let's pray that he will never win any medal!

Great thread! It's a bit early to speculate since we don't even know which athletes will compete, but i will still name my current favorites: - Thomas Röhler (javelin throw) - Isabell Werth (dressage) - Michael Jung (eventing) - Christian Reitz (rapid fire pistol) - Angelique Kerber (tennis) I think Röhler will be around for another olympics, the same should/could be true for Jung and Reitz, so i would probably go with Werth/Kerber for the opening cermony and the other one of those 2 for the closing ceremony or someone who did exceptionally well at the olympics (maybe/hopefully someone like Florian Wellbrock, Max Hartung, Stefan Bötticher or Alexander Zverev).

I don't think all-black suits Germany. I like all-white, but normally many nations have white jerseys, so all-white jersey would lead to a lot of confusion probably. I think white-gold-black-red jersey suit Germany and no other nation (except for Belgium) could have similar jersey, but this retro style just shows a lack of creativity in my opinion. On the other hand this design might bring the german team some luck, since i think that this design was inspired by the men's 1990 world cup jerseys.

Very good world championships for Germany and the Netherlands, GB a bit disappointing. The Netherlands are showing great progress and they could have easily won the medal table. From a german perspective the results in men's eight, men's single sculls and women's quadruple sculls were expected, but the gold medals in women's double sculls and men's lightweight double sculls were rather surprising. In my opinion 6 medals in olympic disciplines should always be the goal for Germany at world championships and olympic games. The men's quadruple sculls result was rather disappointing from a german perspective, i hope that they can turn it around again.

The german jersey looks very retro, i don't really like it though ...