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A little fun fact before we start tonight matches. Bulgaria has drawn Luxembourg 3 times in a World Cup qualification group, and every time we have qualified for the World Cup, so France and Netherlands better look out.

Ah yes, those talented young drivers, that buy their place in F1, who doesn't want more of them.

Fast start for all big nations today - Italy, Spain, Iceland.

The match just started

Well he tried in F3000/GP 2 in the past, which didn't go that well for him. Granted that was 10 years ago and he is a completely different driver today, i think F E is a good transition for him. Who knows, if he has a great couple of seasons, maybe he can get a place in F1. PS. F E is the future and it doesn't matter if we like it or not, it is going to stay.

J.M. Lopez won his third consecutive WTCC title this weekend, to the surprise of no one. I'm really interested to see him move to the single-seater again, as he is going to the Formula E for the new season.

Sit down junior, Tony Cairoli will finally have his 9th after these two disappointing years.

Yup, one of the best stages this year, along with the last 2 mountains in the Giro. Quintana pushed but Froome didn't budge, but what will tomorrow's stage show. And what a fantastic ride by Orica, it could be their best GT ever. The Yates brothers are shaping to be an elite GT riders for the future, just amazing by Simon today. And of course a well deserved victory for Gesink.

Can you give a full list of the top international goalscorers?

Nice win for Conti, don't judge. Deserved to have a moment, after all the work he did for Ulissi in the Giro.

Yeah, i know Wanderer and/or LDOG are busy, but not one contest result after 2 weeks.

Very interesting qualification in SA so far, very balanced teams.

That slovenian girl is cute. PS. I watched some of her recent clips, very intelligent girl.

New world rankings are out after Rio. So they are now not counting the continental championships, but continue that idiotic World Cup?! FIVBs rankings are going the way as FIFAs rankings, as being completely pointless. But the worse part is that FIVB uses them for many draws, tournaments, shenanigans..

New format for the Champions League confirmed from 2018/19. Top 4 nations get 4 guaranteed spots in the group stage.

Salzburg finding a way to lose again. This team is cursed to lose in the CL qualifiers.

Those buildings shouldn't fall like that.

Is this real, China getting sanctioned for weightlifting? No way Jose.. Losing 3 golds, that is a first, too bad they will get aways only with that.

Of course i have an opinion, but like others, it is wargely effected by my personal feelings about some sports. Without having the backstage information about profits, attendancies, on air viewership etc. any suggestion i make will be purely on my fan's perspective. Like i've said in the sailing thread i have no idea why this sport needs 10 set of medals, as i don't know the differences between the Fin, RX, Lazer etc. classes and why all of them should be in the Olympics. But after me, another 5 people will enjoy sailing and know everything about it. Same with taekwondo, for me it was such boredom to watch even the little that i did in Rio. But others may like it more than other combat sports like wrestling/judo/fencing etc. Some people say ditch mens football because it is a junior competition, but it had the best attendance in Rio and i'm fairly sure it had bigger TV ratings than 70% of other sports. It is football, you can't just get rid of it. One thing that should happen for me is increasing the volleyball / basketball field to 16 teams. Those two team sports are too popular to have only 12 teams and with 16 days it is possible to support 16 teams and still keep the 6 matches per day schedule. Also, like i've said in the 2020 thread i hate the double standards the IOC has. They have blabbered for some time, that the Games shouldn't become too big, and "we will control the number of athletes and categories" and put rigorous qualifying standards and whatnot and then go ahead and bring in new sports that no one really wants or have absolutely no international competition to support an Olympic inclusion. If there is one thing a would suggest, it's stop cutting down traditional Olympic events, either entirely from the programm or by stripping their participation to 10-15 people in discipline / categorie...

I will summarise this topic for everyone: My country sucks at this sport or i have no interest in it -> remove said sport from the Olympics My country is good at this sport or i have interest in it -> expand this sport into more categories and athletes/matches /thread

Valverde must be an alien. It is not physically possible to be in form from february to september and at 36 non the less. He is doing his third GT of the year and was again in the front on that brutal last climb. If he manages another top 10 finish, i just can't with this guy.

It is funny how the IOC have talked about containing the Games from becoming "too big" with thousands and thousands of athletes and put rigorous standards and cutted categories to the bare minimum of 10 or so athletes, but then continue to bring in new sports and existing ones wanting more and more events.

I bet the IOC will make the stupidity of taking out 2 mens categories, as to fill in another 2 womens. Womens boxing hasn't developed enough competition to support another 2 weight classes.

12 set of karate medals, what a joke... Talk about inflating the host country's medals possition, a Japan?

Yay for the medal, boo for the equal scores wih Spain, that is such BS. These girls deserved the medal so much in their final tournament after all their sacrifises over the past 2 Olympic cycles!