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And Sampaoli was the biggest one 

Messi doing the best Maradona impression for sure.
 
Let's hope Morocco has anything left in the tank for the second SF

all received their first round locations: https://www.fiba.basketball/basketballworldcup/2023/news/world-cup-destinations-confirmed-for-usa-slovenia-and-canada

Rumored Argentina starting 11 vs. Australia
 
Emiliano Martínez; Molina, Otamendi, Romero, Acuña, De Paul, Enzo, Mac Allister; Lionel Messi, Julián Álvarez, Ángel Correa or Papu Gómez or Paulo Dybala

Rumored Argentina starting 11 vs. Australia
 
Emiliano Martínez; Molina, Otamendi, Romero, Acuña, De Paul, Enzo, Mac Allister; Lionel Messi, Julián Álvarez, Ángel Correa or Papu Gómez or Paulo Dybala

Today 33 years of the fall of the wall of Berlin and defeat of the communism in the hands of freedom.

@George_D @Makedonas we have a Greek derby between Gkountoura and Georgiadou in the quarterfinals in Algiers  
 
more surprising results...
 
 Martina Criscio beat first Olga Kharlan in rd #2 and then  Misaki Emura in rd #3 
 Caitlin Maxwell upset no.2 seed  Anna Bashta in the first round 
 
in the top half of the draw we have a double  vs  fight (Criscio vs Balzer and Battiston vs Rifkiss...it's destiny, nowadays  ), meanwhile in the bottom half of the draw we have the Greek derby and the young Briton Maxwell facing  Lucia Martin-Portugues.
 
shame on the organizers for not setting up any live stream...

becomes the first Americas team to qualify.

Uruguay 

Bolsonaro supporters have blocked 270 federal highways in Brazil (+many others smaller roads), and yesterday they blocked the main entry to our biggest airport (some flights were cancelled). Police initially did nothing, but now is stopping the protesters.
 

Final Standing is available here
 
  maestro   Pablita   Herberth10   
 
It will be a very short presentation of the three medallists. Congratulation to all three medallists of this prediction contest. @maestro with the gold medal, @Pablita, with the silver medal and @Herberth10 with the bronze medal.

has officially announced that they want the 2036 Summer Olympics and become the FIRST COUNTRY to file the official application. Other countries, such as  are still the potential candidates as they have filed the official application yet. 

I did it!

I am planning a trip to Paris 2024 olympics. Paris will be the best chance for me to enjoy it on the scene. The one and only summer olympics in Europe in near future, so it's really best chance by far.
 
I start the topic now, but obviously it will be more active in the coming months or even years.
 
However, I'm always interested in your comments, I know some of you have been to the olympics before, so I'm curious how to organize such a trip, how to enjoy it the best possible way.
 
Hopefully covid pandemics will be over then (I'm not so sure about it though, sadly) and the spectators will be allowed. The biggest problem will be - how to get tickets for some "golden circle" events?
 
Anyway, Paris 2024 - here we go!
 

Guan Chenchen is retired and going to university right now. I think her choice is good for her because she is just 18 and her height and size is bigger than Olympics. Xiao Ruoteng is under recovery from surgery and also keep training. His status is quite good and expected back on major events next year.

Yes. 7 women and 8 men are currently training in France. All of them will go to Liverpool and the final list will be decided 24 hours before the match. Zou Jingyuan's PB is back so he will be selected. Yang Haonan will be absent due to injury. 
 
Men's training list: Zhang Boheng, Sun Wei, Yang Jiaxin, You Hao, Zou Jingyuan, Si Cong, Su Weide, Yin Dehang
Women's training list: Tang Xijing, Ou Yushan, Luo Rui, Wei Xiaoyuan, Zhang Jin, He Licheng, Sun Xinyi
 
The order of the list alway indicates something in Chinese culture. So if no sudden injury, the top5 of each will be selected.