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I hope that we qualify in mens single, mens lightweight four and maybe also womens eight, but i only expect our mens lightweight four to qualify.

No, matches have been (re)started. Nothing unexpected happened, so you didnt miss anything. Lisicki is already out against some no-name, Wawrinka and Muguruza both dropped the first set.

I think Babos can at least reach the match against Serena, but probably she will have no chance to beat her. Begu has a better draw and seems to be in a pretty good shape (like all romanian girls), so i wouldnt call her a possible upset, especially because she is seeded. I just noticed that the same is true for Cibulkova, so you probably cant call her a possible upset either ... The most interesting players for me will be Chirico and Cirstea. Before australian open i expected Crawford to go pretty deep but she really let me down, i think the same might happen with Chirico. I will also have a look at Stephens and Keys (who have a lot of potential but finally need to take the next step) and of course my favorite players (Ostapenko, Beck, Safarova, Gavrilova, Zverev and Kyrgios). Kvitova has often a very slow start, i wouldnt see it as a bad sign. Kerber had a match point against her in the first round of the australian open and then went on to win everything. I think Kvitova might need faster conditions, so she has to hope that the rain will stop soon, the same might be true for Kerber, so i wouldnt bet anything on Kerber winning against Bertens, especially because Kerber still isnt 100% fit after her shoulder injury and Bertens just won Nürnberg. I am not so sure about Coric winning easily against Fritz, both players didnt look so good recently, but Coric should be more experienced. Fritz on the other hand did pretty good at the australian open, so i can see him beating Coric here. The biggest advantage for Coric might be that Fritz doesnt seem to have a lot endurance, so Coric probably "only" needs to take the match to a 5th set and then Fritz would probably fall apart.

Group B is clearly stronger in my opinion. In group A Brazil and Russia should finish top 2, ahead of Japan and South Korea. On the womens side USA should win the group, China/Serbia should finish 2nd and 3rd, but the fight for the 4th spot could be very open, i still would put my money on Italy. I think the fight for the 2nd spot in group B will be most interesting, everyone will try to avoid Russia/Brazil in the quartefinal. On paper Russia, Brazil and USA are the clear favorites in my opinion, but it would be cool to see one out of Italy/Serbia/Netherlands on the podium. I think its safe to say that only 3 european teams will reach the quarterfinal, which is fair, considering the strength of Brazil/USA/China/Japan/South Korea, but in my opinion the tournament wouldve been more interesting with 2 out of Turkey/Germany/Thailand/Dominican Republic instead of Cameroon and Colombia. Edit: Its really sad to see how weak Cuba has become, in the past Cuba was a real powerhouse in volleyball.

It really hurts that we didnt qualify in mens C2 1000, because we are the defending olympic champion and since 1988 we always won a medal in this discipline (gold in 1992, 1996, 2004 and 2012). I cant say that its really shocking, Kuschela ended his career and Kretschmer was injured all the time. Sadly we couldnt compete with our best boat (Rebstock/Brendel), because Brendel already qualified in C1 1000m. We will send a very small team with only 11 athletes, but the good thing is that all of our athletes have a realistic chance to win a medal. Our goal should be to win 4 golds (mens C1 1000m, mens K2 1000m, womens K2 500m and womens K4 500m) and 6 medals in total (mens K2 200m, mens K1 1000m, mens K4 1000m).

Good joke, i really love your sense of humour! This is the perfect end to this "discussion".

I really dont want to discuss this with you, we will never agree. I wouldnt call those jumps normal. 1) Its her biggest improvement since 2013 and much bigger than her improvement from 2014 to 2015 2) Its still very early in the season, so its very likely that she will further improve this year 3) Most importantly: There is a huge difference between improving from 58.04 to 56.81 (2012 to 2013) and improving from 55.97 to 54.82 (2015 to 2016). Normally the jumps get smaller when you get older, but with her it seems to be the other way round. 4) What happened to her in 2014? 5) She turns 22 in less than a month, thats not really young for a female athlete. A one second jump wouldve been normal for a 18 or 19 yo girl maybe but not for a girl turning 22 this year. Last year she was 45th in world ranking, with her time of 54.82 she wouldve been 17th last year (less than 0.5s outside the top 10), which is also a "remarkable" improvement. You probably know what i generally think about canadian athletics/swimming and i know that you will never agree with me on this topic, so we really dont need to fight this out again and again. I wont be surprised by any canadian athlete showing huge improvements this year (i was absolutely not surprised to see such huge improvements by Oleksiak, Acevedo or Masse), so this was probably the last time that i wrote something concerning this topic. As a canadian fan you will be very happy with the results in Rio, you will win at least 10-12 medals in athletics/swimming and at least one gold medal.

A lot of interesting matches in the first round, especially on the womens side: Coric-Fritz, Chung-Halys, Pospisil-Berdych, Granollers-Fognini, Dimitrov-Troicki, Rosol-Wawrinka, Verdasco-Johnson, Svitolina-Cirstea, Kerber-Bertens, Friedsam-Kasatkina, Görges-Konta, Siegemund-Bouchard (my personal highlight), Osaka-Ostapenko, Stosur-Doi. I think Chirico, Cibulkova, Cirstea and maybe even Babos might surprise a lot of people here. On the mens side the same is true for Kyrgios, Pouille and Cuevas. On the womens side the part of the draw between Kerber and Kvitova looks pretty open, although Bacsinszky, Keys and Kvitova are pretty safe to make the quarterfinal in my opinion.

Thanks, its funny that you think that i dont know about her progression.

[hide] Preliminary Round June 10th - June 22nd, 2016 24 Nations, 6 Groups, 1st and 2nd Nations from each Group and 4 best 3rd ranked Nations between all Groups will qualify for Round of 16 Group A Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 June 10th 2016, h. 21:00, Stade de France, Saint-Denis France 2 0 Romania June 11th 2016, h. 15:00, Stade Bollaert-Delelis, Lens Albania 0 2 Switzerland June 15th 2016, h. 18:00, Parc des Princes, Paris Romania 1 2 Switzerland June 15th 2016, h. 21:00, Stade Velodrome, Marseille France 3 0 Albania June 19th 2016, h. 21:00, Stade Pierre-Mauroy, Lille Switzerland 1 3 France June 19th 2016, h. 21:00, Parc Olympique Lyonnais, Lyon Romania 2 1 Albania Group B Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 June 11th 2016, h. 18:00, Nouveau Stade de Bordeaux, Bordeaux Wales 1 1 Slovakia June 11th 2016, h. 21:00, Stade Velodrome, Marseille England 2 0 Russia June 15th 2016, h. 15:00, Stade Pierre-Mauroy, Lille Russia 1 1 Slovakia June 16th 2016, h. 15:00, Stade Bollaert-Delelis, Lens England 2 1 Wales June 20th 2016, h. 21:00, Stade Geoffroy-Guichard, Saint-Etienne Slovakia 1 2 England June 20th 2016, h. 21:00, Stadium Municipal, Toulouse Russia 1 2 Wales Group C Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 June 12th 2016, h. 18:00, Allianz Riviera, Nice Poland 2 0 Northern Ireland June 12th 2016, h. 21:00, Stade Pierre-Mauroy, Lille Germany 3 1 Ukraine June 16th 2016, h. 18:00, Parc Olympique Lyonnais, Lyon Ukraine 1 1 Northern Ireland June 16th 2016, h. 21:00, Stade de France, Saint-Denis Germany 2 1 Poland June 21st 2016, h. 18:00, Parc des Princes, Paris Northern Ireland 0 2 Germany June 21st 2016, h. 18:00, Stade Velodrome, Marseille Ukraine 1 2 Poland Group D Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 June 12th 2016, h. 15:00, Parc des Princes, Paris Turkey 1 1 Croatia June 13th 2016, h. 15:00, Stadium Municipal, Toulouse Spain 3 0 Czech Republic June 17th 2016, h. 18:00, Stade Geoffroy-Guichard, Saint-Etienne Czech Republic 1 2 Croatia June 17th 2016, h. 21:00, Allianz Riviera, Nice Spain 3 1 Turkey June 21st 2016, h. 21:00, Nouveau Stade de Bordeaux, Bordeaux Croatia 0 2 Spain June 21st 2016, h. 21:00, Stade Bollaert-Delelis, Lens Czech Republic 1 2 Turkey Group E Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 June 13th 2016, h. 18:00, Stade de France, Saint-Denis Ireland 1 2 Sweden June 13th 2016, h. 21:00, Parc Olympique Lyonnais, Lyon Belgium 2 1 Italy June 17th 2016, h. 15:00, Stadium Municipal, Toulouse Italy 2 1 Sweden June 18th 2016, h. 15:00, Nouveau Stade de Bordeaux, Bordeaux Belgium 2 1 Ireland June 22nd 2016, h. 21:00, Allianz Riviera, Nice Sweden 1 2 Belgium June 22nd 2016, h. 21:00, Stade Pierre-Mauroy, Lille Italy 2 0 Ireland Group F Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 June 14th 2016, h. 18:00, Nouveau Stade de Bordeaux, Bordeaux Austria 2 1 Hungary June 14th 2016, h. 21:00, Stade Geoffroy-Guichard, Saint-Etienne Portugal 2 1 Iceland June 18th 2016, h. 18:00, Stade Velodrome, Marseille Iceland 1 1 Hungary June 18th 2016, h. 21:00, Parc des Princes, Paris Portugal 1 1 Austria June 22nd 2016, h. 18:00, Stade de France, Saint-Denis Iceland 1 2 Austria June 22nd 2016, h. 18:00, Parc Olympique Lyonnais, Lyon Hungary 1 2 Portugal [/hide]

Sage Watson improved her PB by more than 1s already this year, sadly i cant say that i am surprised ... Olympic years are really horrible in this aspect, too many athletes think they can get away with anything, hopefully this wont be the case.

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[hide] Knockout Round May 19th - May 22nd, 2016 8 Nations, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Bronze Medal Match and Gold Medal Match, winning Nation will become Men's Ice Hockey IIHF World Championship 2016 champion Quarterfinals Moscow Standard Time (GMT +3) Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 May 19th 2016, h. 16:15, VTB Ice Palace, Moscow Czech Republic 2 United States May 19th 2016, h. 20:15, VTB Ice Palace, Moscow Canada 2 Sweden May 19th 2016, h. 16:15, Arena Yubileyni, Saint Petersburg Finland 3 Denmark May 19th 2016, h. 20:15, Arena Yubileyni, Saint Petersburg Russia 8 Germany [/hide]

Wow the syrian guy improved his own NR by 5 cm! I am very happy that Syria found such a great athlete, they need all the good news they can get.

I guess we have a very different approach. I think music is (also) about expressing your "feelings" and normally there is one language that is best to express your feelings, so you normally use that language. I think for the same reason there are very few authors who write in more than one language and most authors settle for only one language at some point in their life. I think that there is one language that is best to express what you think and you should stick with that language. They probably grew up speaking spanish and yoruba in Cuba and when they came to France they also started to learn french, so in my opinion it seems as if they dont really have a "connection" to the english language so i am a bit surprised that they still use it for their songs. In general i think that for example german artists should sing in german, because english songs often sound pretty "random", most german artists cant express what they really think/feel in english and if you have to focus on the pronunciation it becomes even more complicated.

Is this your favorite song by them/why did you pick a song in english? Are all of their songs in only one language or do they also have some songs where they sing in more than one language? I understand that they sing in french, spanish and yoruba, but do you know why they also sing in english?

Cool song, how did you discover it? It reminds me almost a bit of gospel music, but the video makes me a bit "scared" to be honest ...

Are you gonna pick a song for Norway? Norway has really produced great songs in 2015, i actually really liked this song, although it might be too mainstream for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAF75z1k9LI This one is also by Kygo and quite good in my opinion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91_hze0rfwU Edit: This also wouldve been a good choice for USA in my opinion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RNftSQj4cM Edit again: I think all of this is probably off-topic and isnt really part of the contest, so i wont "spam" this thread any more. One last song that couldve been nominated for Germany: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEh0NRIpxrI

I heard this song before ... Did they have other successful songs or were they a "one-hit-wonder"? I think this song has been used in tons of movies, but i never realized that it was created by a finnish band. Edit: When i am done watching the video, it shows "Pillowtalk" by Zayn in the bottom right corner, this song has one of the "best" music videos ever ... and Jimmy Fallon also did a lip sync battle with it.

No, to be honest ... Is he famous internationally? I really never heard of him/her/them ... Sorry ...

Interesting, so no Adele (When we were young), Ella Eyre (Together) or James Bay (Let it go) fans in the jury? I wouldve given you 12 points anyway, but why didnt you chose "Keeping Your Head Up" instead?

Of couse i know some of those bands, especially Nightwish, but i was talking about pop music. The other scandinavian countries have great pop/electric/house artists, so why does Finland have an other "style", why doesnt Finland have any/many great electric/pop/house artists? Do you have any idea?

Scandinavian countries have a lot of great artists, especially considering their size. Sweden of course is the number 1 among scandinavian countries, but even Iceland produced some great artists. I always had the feeling that the same isnt true for Finland, do you agree or could you name some really good finnish artists/bands?

Shock ... I really like the song, i think it has more "meaning" than 99% of all other pop songs. Is Lukas Graham at the moment the most popular "artist" in Denmark? By the way: Nigeria and Belgium have also some very interesting songs. I dont like the "competition format", but i love to discover new artists, so if someone finds "interesting" songs from "exotic" countries then please post them or send me a PM. Edit: Most famous "cuban" song ever?

Question for Denmark, why not this song? https://youtu.be/bmQteGYBQQc Norway also wouldve had a very good song: https://youtu.be/6QKnOrhjd1s I wouldve like this song for Germany: https://youtu.be/jGflUbPQfW8 Or this one (i hope at least one of them wouldve been allowed ): https://youtu.be/bvC_0foemLY Australia also wouldve had a great song: https://youtu.be/-rSKN5lmYQU USA should have nominated this song in my opinion: https://youtu.be/RgKAFK5djSk Or this one: https://youtu.be/XlcMnhNN5oY Sweden could have nominated this song: https://youtu.be/Lrr7thWou8I Overall its great to see that many countries have amazing artists, especially Canada has become a music "superpower" in the last couple of years in my opinion. Question to the competition master: Can i also reserve countries (for example Germany and Australia) even if i dont participate?