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Not even the right wing business papers here describe Boric as communist, they only mention that the communist party is in the coalition. I'm going to guess this is the usual: wanting social welfare = communism = bad

If confirmed, a decent leverage to use against FIFA's biennal WC plan

0-3 vs Morocco in October 2019 , Algeria's unbeaten streak is currently at 25, otherwise CAF and FIFA would be posting about a new record everywhere. As you see it's counted in FIFA ranking so an official match, with the same coefficient of a friendly

No way, the loss in the last African Nations Championships counts

Mesdames et messieurs, welcome to the first edition of the Urban Circus Games.

The draw will be redone at 15:00 CET

They forgot to remove the teams from the same group and had drawn Villarreal-Man United at first

Well, this is what always happens when one nation=one vote (see the FIFA biennal World Cup idea).

The basic principle of considering the sum of scores over x shots remained the same in those events, even with the elimination format. Now, all of a sudden, a series of 10.7-miss-10.7-miss-10.7 is considered better than one of 10.5-10.7-10.5-10.7-10.5. Consistency is thrown out of the window in finals, there is literally no difference between scoring 0.1 less than your opponent and missing the target.

Wtf I hadn't read that, what kind of drugs do they use at the ISSF

I read only skeet and trap but there's three one-by-one eliminations rounds with 4 people instead of only one round with 6 though. Seems way worse, I don't like both the dividing people in 2 semifinals and the restarting from zero twice.

Full top 5 by each voter from each country nowhere to be found yet, after a day? Clearly rigged then.

In men's epee- there are too few quotas, too many competitive athletes and teams (probably at least 20 teams could challenge for medals on a good day). Reducing the number of teams there is even more ridiculous. But for the rest, which is still 10 out of 12 events... The Swedish claim that "many world class fencers failed to qualify with this system and this is bad" and then proceed to suggest a system where way more world class fencers would be cut. Almost all top fencers who failed to qualify this time - which is the only time with a full programme of 12 events- did so because of compatriots ahead of them in the ranking, how many countries with a "world class fencer" in an event failed to qualify ? Let's see, looking at the ranking at end of the OQR. W Foil: no country with a top 30 fencer failed to qualify M Foil: the only non qualified with a top 30 fencers was POL (Siess #21) W Epee: GER had Ndolo at #25 M Sabre: no country with a top 30 failed to qualify W Sabre: ROU had Pascu #16, ESP at #24. An average of 1 country with a top 30 fencer non qualifying in that event (notice: all of them European) is not that bad. Secondly: what would change if the qualification system really had as priority the individual qualification, and not giving free spots for diversity's sake * ? Let's give a spot to the top 34 fencers (max. 3 per country) and consider a team qualified only if they have 3 fencers qualified, and see how many spots the so called "top teams" would lose: none, instead they would have taken more spots- FRA in place of HKG in W epee, KOR instead of HKG in M foil and so on. 7-8 teams per event would qualify in this case, with some other countries qualifying 2 individuals. * Like in the Swedish simulation, where plenty of Africans who barely scored 1 point in world cups would qualify, because yeah more countries.

Playing at home Portugal will be quite a big favorite...the only hope is a huge brawl in the semifinal with Turkey, with a few injured and a few sent off.

So? Nowhere in this case the BBC says that it's clear murder and corrupted judges ruled the guy innocent. Quite weird to attack them for an article which is pure news and quotes, it doesn’t even contain any opinion or suggestion by the author

Where does it says that?

Googled the Italians and this must be the only sport where they go from trash singing/dancing reality tv shows to (try to) become an Olympian. Usually it's the other way around, first they become Olympians and then cash in by making appeareances in reality shows.

Because they count them, unlike others.

The Verona Arena will host the Paralympics opening and the Olympics closing cerimonies, not the Olympics opening.

True, she's not disappeared, she's probably in a Room 101 until she changes her mind, and will reappear soon saying her profile got hacked and 2+2=5. Nothing to see, move on.

This would be comical for how it is written, if her situation wasn't so worrying. Speaks volumes on how China doesn't give a shit about international authorities and consider them too weak and dumb to act, if anyone still had doubts after the last couple of years

It looks like he's gone mentally in the last couple of months, just repeating the same two sentences with a tired/bored attitude, like he has something else to worry about. If that is the case and the problem can't be solved soon, it's better to part ways now. Not qualifying will greatly tarnish his legacy, it's a shame that can't be forgiven for an Euro win.

Firing Mancini is the only way to have a chance, he either started smoking a lot of weed before the matches or had a stroke. Or he was injected a dumbing microchip with a vaccine.