VolleyRuller96

Cuba vs. Brazil was intense! 3-2 and 27-25 in tie-break
Another good day for Africa.
Hosts won 3-2 over , and some good news for @thepharoah as defeated 3-1 and is now surely qualified to the next round!
In group D, shockingly won 3-1 over

This is fantastic. Thanks for sharing. And we can actually get results since 2004, not just the last 5 years. Of course I had to search for gymnastics disciplines. 


 
As I suspected:

1) Artistic gymnastics is by far the most popular discipline;
2) Interest in artistic gymnastics has grown steadily, especially in the last 5 years;
3) Rhythmic gymnastics is the second most popular discipline;
4) Interest spikes to the roof around the time of the Olympic games;
5) Virtually no one cares about trampoline gymnastics.

Now, the world map:


 
I'm honestly surprising at how popular rhythmic gymnastic is in some parts of the world, especially countries with zero tradition in the discipline such as Mongolia, Australia, New Zealand, Peru, Paraguay, Ecuador, DR Congo, South Africa, Angola, Namibia and Algeria.

Trampolining (yellow) is the most popular discipline in Great Britain and, surprisingly, Hungary.

Aerobics (green) is the most popular discipline in Indonesia.

Acrobatic gymnastics (purple) is the most popular discipline in Portugal, Morocco, Mozambique and Madagascar.

All the rest is either blue (artistic gymnastics) or red (rhythmic gymnastics).



Finally, the places of the world where the search interest reaches the maximum value (100) per discipline are:

Artistic gymnastics:
Rhythmic gymnastics:  
Trampolining:
Aerobic gymnastics:
Acrobatic gymnastics:

Cuba vs. Brazil was intense! 3-2 and 27-25 in tie-break
Another good day for Africa.
Hosts won 3-2 over , and some good news for @thepharoah as defeated 3-1 and is now surely qualified to the next round!
In group D, shockingly won 3-1 over

This is how Google's Search Engine Metrics calculate the popularity of some of the Olympic Team Sports for the last 5 years, the results seem pretty realistic, but I wonder what Totallympics users think of their accuracy

Some quick side notes:
 
1) I decided not to include football, because it would surely take the 1st place in 99% of countries
2) This is a list mostly of summer sports, but I also included Ice Hockey, because other not included summer team sports like field hockey turned out to be barely noticable on the graph.
3) For the "Breakdown by sport" part I decided not to included data from smaller countries, because it was more difficult to tell different shades of colors apart.

If you're interested, you can check the interactive version here: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?cat=20&date=today 5-y&q=%2Fm%2F018w8,%2Fm%2F03tmr,%2Fm%2F07_53,%2Fm%2F03krj,%2Fm%2F0crlz You can customize time range, check out the results from your own country or any other country (and even from small regions in each nation)  Overall pretty interesting tool

Info:


Time graph - here is a overwiew of how the popularity changed through time. You can easily tell when important competitions took place for each sport, and how it boosted its popularity. To the right is the average popularity each sport enjoyed during the last 5 years. Basketball is easily the most popular sport, then volleyball, then Ice Hockey.


Breakdown by region - This shows what sport was the most popular in what country in the last 5 years. Color depth represents advantage of interest over 2nd most popular sport. (I recommend visiting the Google Trends page, because some countries are barely visible on the map. Also, it provides deeper insight - if you hover your mouse over a country, you can get data about all the other sports.)



Breakdown by sports - finally here is a series of maps that provides information on how popular the sport is in a given country. Color depth represents popularity - the more deep the color, the more popular is the sport. As I said before, I did not include smaller countries, with low ammount of search info, because it would make it more difficult to view the map. The details on some maps are already hard to notice... Once again, I suggest clicking the link to get more in-depth information.

BASKETBALL

ICE HOCKEY

VOLLEYBALL

HANDBALL

WATER POLO

3-2

3-0

3-2

3-0

How is that even possible I'd understand Australia or New Zealand but...Vanuatu ?

Fair assesment. 
Poland is too good to use all those 'aids'. 

There was an equality parade yesterday in Bialystok, and of course, because it's Poland, it was invaded by hordes of uncivilized, barbaric animals which call themselves "True Patriots" Highlists include : A man using his own infant son as a shield from the police, four chavs assaulting and beating a crying girl, and six od them attacking and robbing a teenager.

There was an equality parade yesterday in Bialystok, and of course, because it's Poland, it was invaded by hordes of uncivilized, barbaric animals which call themselves "True Patriots" Highlists include : A man using his own infant son as a shield from the police, four chavs assaulting and beating a crying girl, and six od them attacking and robbing a teenager.

I think so, at least in summer disciplines.

We're not even entered to next ECH qualifier (very few nation is).

FINAL COMPETITION STANDINGS
 
1.   RUSSIA
2. UNITED STATES
3. POLAND
-------------------------------------
4. BRAZIL
5. FRANCE
5. IRAN
7. ARGENTINA
8. ITALY
9. CANADA
10. JAPAN
11. SERBIA
12. BULGARIA
13. AUSTRALIA
14. GERMANY
15.   PORTUGAL (R*)
16. SOUTH KOREA
 
* R = Relegated

Promoted to next year's VNL: SLOVENIA

I can’t even with this one: 
 

http://www.elahmad.com/tv/bahrain-sport.php
 
Here's a link for Bahrain Sport channel which broadcast the tournament 

Competition day 1 RESULTS

I never heard about this , Bahrain's main football stadium is also in Riffa and our players never had such problems. if there was mistreatment we would hear about this. and this is the 3rd time in 2 years for this group of players to play in Bahrain. Bahrain also hosted 2017 Worlds U19 and 2018 Asian U20 !! they never had problems (and actually won both tournaments)
Bahrain was a state of Iran not long time ago, the majority of people there are kind to Iranians (actually most people there have Iranian heritage) but they make it hostile situation sometimes. mostly for football matches (and again we got Bahrain for FIFA WCQ in yesterday draw)

2nd Group Stage DAY 2 RESULTS
 
1st to 8th Place Games






9th to 16th place games
 

We have a thread about our favorite sports, about scandals, about budgets for sports in our nations but surprisingly I didn't find a thread where we could share the best funny moments from our favorite sports

So let me start with something which maybe isn't a clear SPORT fail, but...

It was the year 2017, and our women's volleyball team trained before the start of  European Championship, which were held in and . Our national Volleyball Association wanted to demonstrate the distance between Warsaw and Baku, and decided to show it by  using a map of Europe.

Which, according to them, looks like this:



Once again, the year was 2017

This little gem (the biggest international football loss ever):
 

Yeah, I agree with hockey system, but not the divisions but women's groups - A with top 8 countries and B with lower 8 countries - TOP 4 from A goes to QF, next 4 plays with top 4 from B for the remaining four places in QF, last four from B plays for 13-16.

And South Korea's women's water polo team of course

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!
 
Fantastic ! Amazing! No words for this team 

Historic victory for Peru over China in women's junior volleyball WCH

33 new identified bodies buried at Srebrenica today . 24th anniversary of the genocide.