phelps

My beer is German and my cell phone is from South Korea. I was really torn...

what about giving 30 spots to Europe + Brazil and Argentina and kill the rest of the world ? that would be fair I guess . why the rest of the world even exists ?!
 
btw I'm a big fan of Italy. I love Italy NT more or less the same as Iran but they deserve to "not qualify" when they picked someone like Ventura to lead the team.

the bronze medallist is Magnaldi, not Mignaldi...

Men's Cycling, Road Race
 
Jalel Duranti
Filippo Tagliani
Rafael Silva

Olympic Champion Kristina Vogel had an accident during Training and is seriously injoured. Details are not known, but it's supposed to be an injury at the spinal. The national Coach was quoted, that they are "very worried".

c'mon, man! 48.00 for Sahnoune is insane!

Season 5 was awesome, brought new life to the show after the slump in 4. It's good know that show can still have fresh storylines, even if we had to lose Tom in the process. Reds new (real) daughter is the bomb, can't wait to see more of her, she is already better than Liz 

Both most recent seasons of Homeland and The Americans are AMAZING! 

the only thing I can add it's that Tuba Yakan (TUR) is one of the finalists, since she was the girl who defeated Cardin in the early rounds (and the Spaniard Osorio ended up in 5th place, since she lost to Cardin in the bronze medal bout)...
no other news about Karate (just that Italy lost in round #1 against Greece in the women's -50kg)...

Neymar is simply disgusting...
call me a hater, but to me he's only the king of simulators...he's only good to dive and complain (without being right)...
today he should be already out since a long time...

I guess it's a disease that hits all the people playing football...
I still have to see a game where those who are winning close to the end of the match don't try any trick to waste time and take undeserved advantage off everything...

Even the Brazilian coach is good at diving. 

Neymar is simply disgusting...
call me a hater, but to me he's only the king of simulators...he's only good to dive and complain (without being right)...
today he should be already out since a long time...

just another strike for the kiss of death...

so, the European Champs 2018 are over...
 
Russia dominated from start to (almost) finish...
France were their closest rivals, but really far behind...but still, they were competitive and won medals in almost every discipline, which is more than expected...
Italy end up 3rd in the medal table despite the worst performance at a global championship since a very long while...but I hope this has been just a bad week, otherwise it would be scary in perspective...
6 different Nations won at least 1 Gold medal (which would be good, if only Russia didn't get Gold in half of the scheduled events) and 10 Countries are present in the overall medal table (which is not good...in recent years we often had more than that)...
 
2018 European Championships Final Medal Table
 
RUS,  6 / 2 / 3
FRA,  2 / 2 / 2
ITA,  1 / 4 / 3
EST,  1 / 2 / 2
GER,  1 / 0 / 2
HUN,  1 / 0 / 0
POL,  0 / 1 / 3
UKR,  0 / 1 / 1
CZE,  0 / 0 / 1
GEO,  0 / 0 / 1

for those looking for some streamings, the Catalan TV channels Esports3 and TAC12TV will offer a lot of hours of broadcasting from Tarragona (even if they're going to show only the usual things we probably have already on the Olympic Channel)...
http://www.ccma.cat/esport3/jocs-mediterranis/especial/4050/
http://www.tac12.tv/
http://www.tac12.tv/graella

@mrv86
thanks for your help with the final results...

naaa...personal feelings are not admitted here...
I mean...it was a nice moment of joy (until that shameful semifinal match against ARG) also for me and most Italian people...but, apart for that, we can't say that in general it was the most successful WC ever...

You are discriminating him for his teeth 

no, you're not the only one...
p.s. but I admit he's a great player...

Am I the only one who dislike Suarez? Gosh I really dislike that guy.

I hope that also the women's sabre team gets a chance...they've been good in the individual event and I think they deserve an important stage like the AG, where they could shine...