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The most astonishing result yesterday was the 8th place for Aizanat Murtazaeva in women's epee. Why? She was born on 23 September 2001!

Very impressive by England, they are currently the most successful country at youth level, although France is producing the better individual players. I dont think that England will become much better at senior level though ...

Not long ago ... here is a hint: The player who beat the world number 1 (6:4 6:0) was from Estonia ...

I completely missed that Shane Perkins now competes for Russia ... when i read "Maximilian Levy won gold in mens keirin ahead of Shane Perkins from Russia", i thought that it must be a mistake ...

Which events?

France is super strong, GB weak as always and the team pursuit times are suspiciously fast. The german sprint coach has obviously gone mad, there is no other explanation for why he didnt use Grabosch in the final. With Grabosch instead of Welte, Germany should dominate team spring again very soon. Hard to see Germany not winning the team sprint gold in 2020 on the womens side, the men on the other hand are still shit, something finally has to happen. A decade ago Germany dominated this event, now they are an outsider at best for medals at the global stage, of course Bötticher retiring didnt help either, without all his injuries he could have become an absolute legend.

I dont care about compound, because its not olympics, but the recurve result is great and very surprising. Will this event be olympic in 2020? Also congrats to Italy, they again did the impossible. Their individual archers arent top class, but their team is always super competitive. Russia also was surprisingly good.

That might be true, but when i decided to participate, i also decided that i will only consider german-language songs. If everyone picks english songs, this competition makes no sense in my opinion. I also could have picked songs by Robin Schulz, Felix Jaehn, Zedd and so on ... but then this competition comes just down to "who wins" and i then i wouldnt be interested in it anymore, i think the aim should be to pick: - lesser know artists from your home country that most foreign/non-german people would otherwise never hear of - songs in the country's own language, because language is the key to understand other cultures and maybe some people will see that german can be a very nice-sounding language too For example, this used to be one of my favorite songs when i was young and i still like it, but how exactly does it "represent" Germany? It could be from artists from any other country and you wouldn't hear the difference, so what is the point of entering it as a german song in a competition ... ? I also could have picked this song, but it would have been the same problem ...

Sorry, i completely forgot about it, now its sadly too late. I hope you guys will have a lot of fun (as you always do) and may the best song win ... Maybe i will participate for the first time next year ... This was my early favorite to represent Germany by the way:

Iran is doing great, Mexico is always very good at junior level, so this is an impressive result. I am surprised that Spain won against France and even more surprised that England had to go to penalties to beat Japan, without Sancho, they are clearly weaker. I think Brazil should win this, England is probably the second best team, followed by Spain, Mali and Iran.

Very good result for Germany, although Brazil will absolutely annihilate this team, which of course isnt surprising, considering all the missing players (especially Moukoko).

What a surprising result!

Wow ... the level is absolutely atrocious, especially on the womens side. Where are all the elite gymnasts? None of the top american, chinese, russian girls compete + i think the best british girls are missing (i might be wrong) + no Iordache. In the end at best 10% of the medallists are really top 3 in their event at the moment. Especially in womens beam the level is shockingly bad. Normally even top qualifier Tabea Alt should have struggled to make the final. I dont remember it being that bad 4 years ago. Those world championships are a joke, which is sad, because the canadian crowd and organizers deserved better.

Is it possible for me to represent Australia too? If not, then i would like to switch nationality and represent Australia instead of Germany.

What a shocking result in mens U23 road race. I was absolutely sure that Kämna will win the gold. He must feel devastated now, he threw away a safe gold in the time trial for this ...

Ok, sorry didnt get it, belgium people probably just have a different sense of humor.

And that is because european nations normally dont compete with their best teams + african age cheating. England is really strong this time, its hard to not see them winning the whole thing, probably only France or Brazil can stop them. I got used to never see Germany competing with the best team at junior tournaments, but this time its even more annoying, because i really would have liked to see 12 year old Youssoufa Moukoko play against the best international talents, i think he could have shocked the world, considering his performances at german U17 level. Mbom, Batista-Meier, Früchtl and Evina are also very special talents, overall this age group is the best since the "1996 age group" (Brandt, Dahoud, Tah, Werner) in my opinion.

Groups for FIFA Men's U17 world championships in India, beginning October 6th: Group A: India, USA, Colombia, Ghana Group B: Paraguay, Mali, New Zealand, Turkey Group C: Iran, Costa Rica, Germany, Guinea Group D: North Korea, Brazil, Spain, Niger Group E: Honduras, Japan, France, NEW CALEDONIA Group F: Chile, England, Iraq, Mexico Surprising that Argentina and Nigeria didnt qualify, Italy and Portugal are two other big nations that are missing. In the semifinals we should have: Brazil/Spain vs. England USA/Colombia/Ghana vs. Germany/France Very "weird" draw, the winner of group A doesnt have to face any other group winner until the semifinal, while probably only one out of Germany/France will be able to reach the semifinal (if they win their groups). In my opinion the title should be between England, Brazil, France and maybe Spain, but with all the age cheating in african nations, you never know ... Germany is missing many top players, like Christian Früchtl (second goalkeeper for Bayern München, after Neuer got injured, biggest goalkeeper talent Germany produced in a very long time), Youssoufa Moukoko (only 12 years old, but arguably the best player in the german U17 league), Franck Evina (doenst have the german passport yet), Manuel Mbom (injured, best german defensive midfield talent, described as new Yaya Toure), Oliver Batista-Meier (best german talent in the offensive midfield, but still U16 and DFB basically never nominates younger players ... ). So basically the 5 biggest talents are missing. There are 4 or 5 other talents who should have been nominated (according to most people who follow the german U17 Bundesliga), but werent nominated for one reason or the other, for example Jesaja Herrmann, Marcel Zylla or David Philipp.

I think my comment was pretty clear ...

Just sad that 2 of the last 3 major time trials werent real time trials (Rio and Bergen). Tony Martin is still good enough to medal at real time trials, but his reign is over. Dumoulin will dominate for a couple of years, although he looks really weird on his bike. I hope that Kämna will be good enough by 2020 to take the olympic gold from him.

Germany in.

Interesting that Kämna couldnt even be bothered to compete in the time trial, otherwise he would have completely annihilated this field. Now he basically has to win gold in the road race ...

The top 2 in mens skeet are both only 22 years old, which is very surprising, because normally shotgun events are dominated by older athletes.

I am surprised that Germany won, but not too much. Of course France was missing many good players, but its not as if Germany wasnt missing top players as well (Nowitzki, Kaman, Zipser, Kleber, Pleiß, Zirbes, Mushidi, Wagner). I hope that Germany will loose by less than 15 against Spain.