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I think that’s still a grey area...I think we might see them as well in 2021 or 2023. It is a highly complicated situation for both though. However, the Holy See is in a much better position.

https://zenit.org/articles/athletica-vaticana-in-montenegro-for-games-of-small-states-of-europe/
Here’s the only article I could find in English. But they also posted it on Athletica Vaticana’s Facebook page!

We can take Vatican City  off the “Unaffiliated” list as they’ve just confirmed their first participation in this year’s Games of the Small States of Europe  

We can take Vatican City  off the “Unaffiliated” list as they’ve just confirmed their first participation in this year’s Games of the Small States of Europe  

another fun fact never scored a single goal in their last 4 matches in final fours semifinals/bronze medal matches 2014 and 2015 !!!

I really like how your keeping track of these “lesser” nations by the way. Keep it up!

Fair enough! I’ll just base it off their full approval for 2021.

Ya, in hindsight South Korea naturalizing half a dozen player was a really good idea. Not only did it get them some better players but it seemed to help improve their existing players, too.

Well  has to play qualifying against Belarus and Austria. Because China is in.
I’m of two minds about this. A team that loses 8-0 to Croatia should not be competing at the Olympics. But China is a huge market for ice hockey, and I love the sport, so hopefully it can help there.

Honestly I’m looking forward to China being embarrassed lol. The federation is apparently intent on not naturalizing any players 

Well  has to play qualifying against Belarus and Austria. Because China is in.
I’m of two minds about this. A team that loses 8-0 to Croatia should not be competing at the Olympics. But China is a huge market for ice hockey, and I love the sport, so hopefully it can help there.

POWER RANKING
Edition 7
23rd May 2019 (Quarterfinals)
 
In our seventh Power Rankings of the 2019 Worlds, the Russians keep top spot after defeating the Americans in the quarter-finals. Canada sits second and the Czech Republic is third.   1 RUS Should we name a city after Gusev or just an airport?  2 CAN Paul Henderson wants Stone’s autograph 3 CZE The good news is they won’t use Gretzky in the shootout 4 FIN Manninen shoots the puck a lot better than Sakari Lindfors 5 SWE The King is dead, but he still looks great in a suit 6 GER During the second intermission, we ate too much bratwurst 7 USA Our moms still think we’re great 8 SUI Why does Tissot have to be so damn accurate? DEAD !!! 9 SVK Switzerland? We’re here if you need to talk... 10 LAT You look back and wonder: “What if we had more drums?” 11 DEN GB, congrats, and we can’t wait to beat you 9-0 again 12 NOR Cross-country skiing is more fun – even in May 13 GBR Is Ben Bowns Bigger Than The Royal Baby? 14 ITA As a team, we want to go eat gelato now 15 FRA Voltaire stated: “3-0 is the worst lead in hockey” 16 AUT The scandalous video also shows our PP going 2-for-22     Click here to check out the previous editions of the Power Rankings. Edition 1 (Day -1) Edition 2 (Day 3) Edition 3 (Day 5) Edition 4 (Day 7) Edition 5 (Day 9) Edition 6 (Preliminary Round Last Day)

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Oh I wasn’t sarcastic  I want Canada to go down. We can avenge Switzerland  

This is great news, one last competitive world cup before the madness takes over.

POWER RANKING
Edition 5
18th May 2019 (Day 9)
 
It’s hard to argue with perfection. In our fifth Power Rankings, the Russians retain first place after beating Latvia for their fifth straight win. Canada jumps up to second place and Sweden is third.   1 RUS
Ovi shed his precious blood for our win
2 CAN Why are the people in Ottawa crying? 3 SWE He isn’t married to Kate Middleton, but he is Prince William 4 USA The key was to visualize Denmark’s net as the Grand Canyon 5 FIN Olkinuora kept a clean sheet – the Brits, not so much 6 SUI It’s hard to dislike Sweden, but we dislike Sweden 7 CZE When Frolik scores, it’s nice. When Gudas scores, it’s NASTY! 8 SVK Bondra scored! We're the champs! 9 GER Canada’s good for a team with no McMarninnon 10 LAT Wes hates blowings firsts periods leads! 11 DEN Clearly, these Americans walk and eat healthy 12 NOR Our generous welfare state provided a goal for Italy 13 FRA Does anyone remember the words to the Marseillaise? 14 AUT We yelled: “You can’t beat us!” Norway yelled: “Bull!” 15 GBR Will Team GB Keep Calm and Remember Agincourt? 16 ITA Tardelli ! Grosso ! Miceli !     Click here to check out the previous editions of the Power Rankings. Edition 1 (Day -1) Edition 2 (Day 3) Edition 3 (Day 5) Edition 4 (Day 7)

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All the 19 proposed new flags have been added. Thank you to you for reporting and to @vinipereira for realizing them !

We've partnered with the Univ. of Tokyo and JAXA to launch the “G-SATELLITE Go to Space” project. Carrying GUNDAM, this is the first time a satellite commissioned for the Games will orbit the earth
 

this system is stupid , it should be 4 groups including Asia Africa Oceania

Final Results (Night Session):
 
Group A
Slovakia - Germany  2-3  (0-0, 2-1, 0-2)
23:54 Marc Michaelis (Eisenschmid)  0-1
28:30 Andrej Sekera (Cernak, Tatar)  1-1
29:55 Libor Hudacek (Panik, Tatar)  2-1
58:08 Markus Eisenschmid (Seidenberg, Kahun)  2-2
59:33 Leon Draisaitl (Tiffels, Kahun)  2-3
 
Group B
Russia - Italy  8-0  (4-0, 4-0, 2-0)
00:31 Nikita Zaitsev (Gusev, Kucherov)  1-0
08:30 Dinar Khafizullin (Gusev, Kucherov)  2-0
13:15 Yevgeni Kuznetsov (Barabanov)  3-0
16:14 Alexandr Ovechkin (Kuznetsov)  4-0
20:18 Yevgeni Kuznetsov (Ovechkin, Orlov)  5-0
26:03 Ilya Kovalchuk (Kuznetsov)  6-0
33:41 Yevgeni Dadonov (Kucherov, Gusev)  7-0
36:25 Mikhail Grigorenko (Barabanov)  8-0
44:52 Nikita Kucherov (Khafizullin, Zaitsev)  9-0
45:27 Yevgeni Dadonov (Kovalchuk)  10-0

POWER RANKING
Edition 3
14th May 2019 (Day 5)
 
In our third Power Rankings of 2019, Russia leads the parade after its 3-0 blanking of the Czech Republic. The Finns drop to second and the U.S. is third.   1 RUS Russian goalie never breaks 2 FIN Mr. Larkin, it was a privilege to serve as your pylons 3 USA DeBrincat is one cool cat 4 SWE Time for Nylander to renegotiate 5 SUI Take it easy on that bottle, Fiala! 6 GER Like the Flyers, we will use ALL the goalies 7 CAN When you leave it that late, it’s called puckrastination 8 LAT 65 is also how old that Italian goalie feels now 9 CZE Voracek was transfixed by Malkin’s freshly shaved cheeks 10 SVK Hockey is more fun when Getzlaf takes five for kneeing 11 DEN We’re one step closer to beating Canada 47-0 12 FRA When in doubt, ask yourself: “What would Antoine Roussel do?” 13 NOR [Insert melting polar ice cap metaphor here] 14 AUT The hills ain’t alive with the sound of music 15 ITA Forget about the Goths – Rome was sacked by the Latvians 16 GBR The Queen is gonna go full Daenerys   Click here to check out the previous editions of the Power Rankings. Edition 1 (Day -1) Edition 2 (Day 3)

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Ok.
 
So after a couple of minutes I think I am now back to my normal heart bite This was one hell of a match. With everything, totally bad defense, plenty of goals, some more and some less controversial calls (but this happen in almost every matches so...I´mnot going to blame everything on the referees...yeah, but still that call for Černák wasn´t really something so extreme to call it 1 and half minute to go in a so important match at such tense score, because there were also some other maybe bigger fauls during the match that wasn´t even noticed...but, yeah, as I said, let it be, we know the refs sucks everywhere )
 
Let search for positives, even if this defeat is really but really hard and will take some time (if even) to swallow...so the first positive, we scored 5 goals to Canada lol, this is really unbelievable, but it happened for the first time in hoistory we scored more than 4 goals to Canada...and we still lost Interesting is that before the tourney our biggest force was the defence, especially the penalty killing, where we were arguably one of the best in the world, but we had huge troubles in offensive side, our shooting efficiency was so miserable, that we were affraid if we´ll be able to score more than 1-2 goals per match...but now lol, itś the absolute opposite, we scored 11 goals in 3 games against all big favorites of our group but man we really suck in PK it looks like every penalty for us finish by a conceded goal lol..
 
Now, let´s hope our team staff will be able to recover and rise the heads up of our players,because yes we lost and in a very cruel way, but the tournament is still long, we played all favorites of our group, now we still have 4 games to play, and now we will be the favorites, so we will need to be mentally strong and fly on the ice like we did in these three games.
 
 
And PS.: I am (and I´m not alone) absolutely disgusted by the behavior of some fans after the game, trust me, this wasn´t representative of all Slovak Hockey fans (I even suspect it was some football fans actually). I want to present all sincere appologize to my Canadian friends on this forum for the absolutely inadmissible booing during the anthem.
Our players and commentators already made it too in our TV. I assure you it was only aminority of total idiots who did that. Our normal fans are really happy that we can host this amazing festival and congratulate to Canada for the win and thanks for the match guys. we love you

DAY 4 HIGHLIGHTS
 
Group B
Central European Summer Time (GMT +2)  
Russia 3 - 0 Czech Republic
Period-by-Period: 1-0, 1-0, 1-0
May 13th 2019, h. 16:15, Ondrej Nepela Arena, Bratislava       Goals: 14. Andronov (Khafizullin, Nesterov) 1:0, 33. Gusev (Kucherov) 2:0, 60. Zaitsev 3:0  

I know Italy is not top team, but this is joke how they play

Helloooo everybody,
Yesterday I spend the whole day in the Košice fanzone and it was something absolutely FANTASTIC ! Despite everything there being too much expensive, the atmosphere was just epic, I spend the day drinking hectoliters of beer with and fans.  Especially the finns are incredible, they invaded Košice, did anyone stay in Finland ? because it looks like the whole country population came to Slovakia, you can not find a place in the pubs or pubs beer garden, you see only Suomi jerseys everywhere 
 
and finally, the evening program and the WIN over USA !!! OMG, what a absolutely insane atmosphere it was, I lost my voice. It was just unreal performance and efforts from our guys.
 
Thank you guys ! Thank you so much for yesterdays experience.

Lukas Bauer has accepted the job as Polish men's team head coach. The deal runs until 2022 WOG.