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no idea...our media obviously only reported about Egonu (and they wrote she was carrying the Italian Flag, of course)...

sorry, my mistake...

I only found this in English (the article I read was in Italian...and I think it was a poor translation of the original interview made by the German-speaking newspaper Bern Zeitung)... https://www.theindianpaper.com/athletics-even-alex-wilson-doubts-his-huge-100m-time/

by the way, this is a clear proof of the Japanese hypocracy about the Games... the Olympics must go on behind closed doors, but their regular activity, Basketball National team warmup matches included, can be played with at least 50% capacity crowd...in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area, not on the Moon...

he's proven wrong even before saying that by the Japanese Prime Minister, by the IOC President (Olympic Champion in Fencing in 1976 himself) Bach and by the Emperor of Japan, Naruhito, who confirmed he's going to the Opening Ceremony in full support of the Olympic Games...

I think are not good enough in the starting pitchers' department (and relievers are also a bit suspect)... for sure, their bats will put on a show every time they play... I'm also curious to see if would match their Premier 12 level of play, even if they didn't start their campaign with the right mood (because of the covid cases within the team)...

bot sure which strategy Seattle would use, but if it was my choice, I'd go for a immediate hunt for the cup (without any fear to invest most of the salary cap on expensive veterans)... there are so many top class players available that would be senseless going only for a bunch of youngsters looking at a future that could never come... I mean, Rask (goalie), Giordano, Edler (D), Landeskog, Tarasenko, Killorn (or Coleman), Danault (F)...just to name 6 or 7 players that could make a team dream of the top of the rankings...

Paola Egonu (Volleyball) will carry the Olympic Flag at the opening ceremony on Friday... https://pledgetimes.com/tokyo-2020-the-italian-paola-egonu-will-carry-the-olympic-flag-at-the-opening-ceremony/

very interesting roster for Nigeria's team (men)... https://www.premiumtimesng.com/sports/nigeria-sports-news/474649-tokyo-olympics-nigeria-name-final-squads-for-basketball-teams.html

also the same Alex Wilson said in an interview that he's pretty sure he didn't run any record, most likely he wasn't even below the 10-sec mark (moreover, he confirmed he had a flyer and that there was no regular starting blocks)... basically, there is no chance for that clocking to be registered as official (unless someone is really corrupted at WA and EAA)...

yesss! 5 events: men and women's Sprint race; men and women's Individual race and Mixed Team Relay... 24 quota for men, 24 quota also for women (obviously)... now I hope our politicians won't start any stupid fight to host the sport and our NOC chooses the wonderful, unmatched landscape of the Dolomites to stage all of those races... I'm sure we already have the pictures of the Games, if not the pictures of the history of the Games... unfortuantely, those idiots of the IOC once again totally ignored Natural Track Luge, because Japan, USA and many others can add their most successful sport to increase their medal chances at their disposal (even if for a single edition of the Games), but Italy just can't...

talking of Japanese baseball... well, 3 of the 12 NPB teams are located in Tokyo and 3 more in the greater Tokyo Metropolitan area (1 in Yokohama, where the Olympic Baseball tournament will be staged)... and they all had 20% capacity crowd in their stadiums until last week (when the championship stopped to make room for the Olympics)... in the rest of Japan the allowed audience was even higher, up to 50% capacity (Fukuoka)... so, to me, it's only the usual hypocracy...it's the Japanese political forces of the opposing parties (and their supporters in the industrial conglomerates, like Toyota or Rakuten) trying to make the government look stupid and not taking care of the local population... they are pure shit (I'm well used to it, since it reminds me the exact behaviour of our politicians...but I never thought in Japan they were so similar to us)...

that's a bad loss for the Czechs (no chance their pair can play the tournament...they will have to replace him with a reserve, if they have one...and nothing will be the same)...

their Olympics is done and dusted...no matter if they got the virus or not, but right now no athlete can afford a 5 or more day-quarantine with no training and no chance of a good adjustment to the Japanese environment...

they have to be among the registered starters of the doubles tournament...

it's the RSA team official, meanwhile the players are the 2 cases "inside the village"... by the way, I'm not surprised at all that those cases are from countries like RSA (and the future ones would likely come from Nations with poor covid management)...

as bad as they can be, they will end up last like Italy's men's Eight in 2016 (always a late replacement for Russia)...

it's a fierce battle between and I'm gonna pick (gold in mixed archery, men's fencing, men's taekwondo) p.s. I think at least 8 or 9 (and maybe even 10) out of 11 gold medals in day 1 would eventually go to Asian Nations... the only "safe" non Asian gold medal should be the men's road race in cycling...

"the level of skills of two potential substitutes in the crew did not meet Games standards" aka, they failed the internal doping test...

meanwhile this time we're gonna get 2 hours of Tamberi...lucky guys we are!

naaaa... https://www.nbcsports.com/washington/wizards/team-usa-replaces-bradley-beal-keldon-johnson-also-adds-javale-mcgee

for those having problems with eurosport player / discovery+ and some random network errors, just switch the DNS to those of google or cloudflare (just make a quick research to find them)... they're also normally faster then those of the usual internet providers on almost every website...

where do you live now? if it's a Country where a local version of eurosport player/discovery+ apps are available, you can get that (I'm sure there will be multiple audio tracks in every feed, which makes it the same having the British rather than the Italian or Spanish version, for instance)... if you're in a place where no Eusp/D+ are available, then you "only" need a vpn and buy your subscription in a Country where they are available...

may I review my prediction? my new ranking... 1. covid19 2. covid20 3. covid21