Dunadan

you can eat all the fries you want, I'll never support a team who advanced thanks to a robbery (not a dubious call, a plain robbery). PS: I warn you that I'll also hate France men's volleyball team until they get rid of Ngapeth, a criminal who should rot in jail, it makes me puke to see him free to play.

France winning this would be very unpleasant, go Argentina. AUS-CZE 33-30 at half time.

What do you mean, that white men are better suited to rule and those countries not run by white men would be better places to live if they were run by white men?

I hadn't noticed that there was a user from Niger, great news for the forum.

First, Argentina is my second team Second, I agree...congrats to me

Don't college athletes already get a scholarship and an easier path to get a degree if compared to normal students?

Turkey is not confirmed as host yet. Confirmed hosts so far for continental QTs are: Germany, Canada, China for men, Dominican Republic and Thailand for women.

Poor Turkey And I doubt they will qualify for the Olympics.

2-1 Serbia But what a huge mistake by the referee at 20-18 of the third set

I'm pleased that Italy didn't beat Spain now.

The draw for the qualifiers is tomorrow Australia / Germany / GBR vs. Italy / Chile / Russia Spain / Ireland / India / China vs. Korea / Belgium / USA / Canada

Netherlands / India / Germany vs. Pakistan / Austria / Russia* GBR / Spain / New Zealand / Canada vs. Malaysia / France / Ireland / Korea * Egypt decided to withdraw

Australia win 3-0 and they're qualified

I suggest you have a look at which stage of the qualification process we reached in every sport to see how many quotas countries are projected to have at the end, Italy has qualified 4 teams, that's where "a lot of quotas" come from (and in volleyball, water polo, softball France can't compete with Italy. You can compare it in M football for example, and there France won the quota while Italy failed as host...). Pointing out that trap is a disaster is not whining (unlike what I read from you everywhere), it's the truth since we're almost at the end of the qualification with no quotas and this is a very strong event for Italy. PS: I'm not "you Italians"...

Do you understand that it doesn't make sense to always compare France with every other country in every sport? Italy is expected to do better than France in shotgun, would you be ok with France only qualifying one team in handball because anyway it's more than Italy?

Yes but they decrease every month. As I understand it, they lose 1/12 of their value every month. If I am right, for example De Filippis' silver at the WCH (which was worth 1800 points) will become only 300 points by next May (not counting performance score). Gold at the WC final in October would be 500 points. Gold at the World cup in April would be worth almost 1000 points. So yeah, if he continues to shoot like this he'll get the quota but imo it's not safe at all.

Last WCH, medal for De Filippis last ECH, medal for De Filippis last World Cup, medal for De Filippis How the hell can he not be considered medal candidate?

I'm not so sure (unless you know the system enough to do the calculations), I know the ranking points will decay but I don't know at which rate...I fear that by next May the points earned until now will be worth very little if compared to those given at the World cups in March/April and if there is a surprise winner there who is not qualified yet De Filippis may be in trouble

Destroyed as expected

I can't believe this, I lost count of how many times they missed the quota by one place.

I voted total medals, I look at total medals first as I feel it's a better indication of a country's overall performance (a points table is even better, as someone else already pointed out). And I don't think that opinions on this are influenced by people playing along the problems of their countries. The difference between gold and another medal in a single competition in many sports is minimal and luck or chance plays a much bigger part than corruption or mismanagement. India seems to have the best rifle/pistol shooting team right now, next year they might end up with 5 gold medals or with 5 medals but no gold, it wouldn't change much in evaluating their federation's work. And in my opinion, especially in "situational" sports, the difference between medal and no medal is as big as the difference between gold and no gold even for athletes and NOCs.

There is no wild card...Slovenia and Croatia will play at the OQT as the top 2 non qualified european teams in the ranking.

It's live on Rai Sport. Quota for San Marino and Russia.

I thought you were a real fan of South Tyrolean sports. Federica Sanfilippo, Nicol Delago, Emanuele Buzzi, Riccardo Tonetti, Omar Visintin, Edwin Coratti, Samuel Costa, Tania Cagnotto, Simone Giannelli...just so you know a few more athletes to support even if they don't have German sounding names.