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Italy being a disappointment once again. I had much more hope in Spalleti's hiring, but he hasn't brought any fresh ideas so far..

The "good" news for Bulgaria continue, as our only quota in Canoeing, Yoana Georgieva is with stopped competing rights. She hadn't been found in December for a doping test, when she has allegedly been at University. Afterwards she has been tested 8 times, all of which negative, but nevertheless she is not allowed to compete or train currently. A hearing will be scheduled, but the chances everything is sorted out in time don't look good imo.

We just can't catch a break.. one of the few good athletes we have in athletics

All my prayers are going to Switzerland. Sweden would have also been good, if they didn't plan having events in another country....

Do we have the record number of pitch invaders already at this tournament? Unpopular opinion, but i think not showing them, just encourages people to try even harder to "cheat the system" and "outsmart" the TVs. It's like a cat and mouse game. If they air it like something usual and without much importance, the novelty factor and interest would wear off quickly and people wouldn't have fun with it.

I know it's not the most trustworthy place, but Wiki has us receiving both FS125 and GR130 quotas from reallocations? Someone know where this is coming from and any truth to it?

So, the first week is going to be even more crowded, given that athletics airs 6-7 hours a day, while swimming is around 3.5 hours. Just make it 3 full weeks for Pete's sake!

^ If anyone still had doubts about the quality of these Euro Champs

From time to time you hear such stories and it's always baffling how top athletes can get big injuries from everyday home life. Huge blow to the UK. They will have a good substitute, but not on Archibald level good.

I can't get one correct match score at this Euro Had Portugal winning 3:1, but that is not happening too.

There is no reason to have this event, not this week, not this month, but this year as a whole... It's a complete joke and devalues the European Championships. The swimmers don't want it, the fans could care less, most TVs don't show it... You can name it "Random Belgrade meeting number 4" and hardly anyone could tell the difference. Swimming has one of the worst Governing bodies, when it comes to organising their events and calendar.

Most people thought this would be the dullest match of the first round and a probable 0:0, but it turned out to be one of the most interesting. Georgia should have equalised at the end.

To add to this weird diplomatic conversation, that is happening, i think we have a pretty good vibe with Romania in present days. Definitely bonded much more in the last 15 years in our quest to be equally screwed by "EU Proper". I think we have only 2 bridges between us, but the traffic is like for 5. Every weekend i see dozens of Romanian cars, when i drive to the countryside house. If i had to rank the relationships between the neighbours (both people ones and political ones). Excellent: Greece Romania Pretty decent: Serbia Moderate to low issues: Turkey Abysmal hating: Macedonia.. The Black sea is pretty chill too.

First thing i thought, when he made the first miss was "Lukaku is going to fumble a hundred situations in a tournament yet again, isn't he "

Thanks! Unfortunately we won't get any additional woman's quota. I would have preferred it over Ivanov's in the super-heavyweights, who has no chance to medal. But still, a plus one is a plus one.

What the heck is going on today

Do we know the women reallocations?

To think our NT made 0:0 with Romania and 1:1 with Slovenia 10 days ago, while Romania are demolishing Ukraine and Slovenia drew with Denmark

So? For most of these athletes it's going to be a once in a lifetime experience, even for those in their 2nd, 3rd OG it's going to be unique riding a boat through Paris. How is this worse than standing in the stadium for 3 hours.. Unless you have starts on Saturday morning/day, there is no reason not to attend the opening ceremony. The question is how many boats will they use for the French, US, China etc. delegations?

Really weird how this is their first Euro since 2000, but in the meantime they have qualified to 4 World Cups, which is supposed to be much, much harder.

Rudiger already busting people's fantasy teams. Like myself...

It's been 5 years now, can't this guy just move on to a different site

And i was thinking it would be a tough match for Germany, given that the opener is always a more nervous one.

The name wasn't the problem, unlike the structure, calendar, marketing, participations and everything else..

Whoever beats the Africans in the 10 k gets my praise.