Dunadan

Semifinals: ITA-CHN (China favourite, very difficult for Italy) and SRB-NED (Serbia in final 99% sure)

I can't understand the Serbian coach, totally inconsistent .

Nations League is not included in the current ranking, the last update was published after the 2017 World League/GP

That would be good news, I don't think they can find a method which is worse than the current one.

I'm glad to hear that

I have no idea, FIVB didn't give any info about that.

2018 WCH will obviously replace 2014 WCH, for the rest I've read that the VNL should not count...I guess we will know it only when FIVB release the update.

Volleyball, new document (September 2018) http://www.fivb.org/en/volleyball/FINAL_2018_09_23_Tokyo2020_QualificationSystem_Volleyball_eng.pdf

It's official, here the document from FIVB: http://www.fivb.org/en/volleyball/FINAL_2018_09_23_Tokyo2020_QualificationSystem_Volleyball_eng.pdf It's going to be a disaster for European teams, looking at the World Ranking probably we will have a group with Italy and Netherlands and another one with Serbia and Turkey

Shameful judging in the dunk contest in favor of the Argentinian boy, the Russian was clearly the best...kick this sport out of the Olympics as soon as possible!

There was a draw and Japan got Italy and Serbia, probably the worst possible outcome for them. They didn't choose anything.

Having representatives from countries in which human rights are not respected is exactly the point of a council like that, it would be useless otherwise.

Seeing today's results, I think there's no medal race but only a final race with all participants and no double points.

Spanish court authorises release of Operacion Puerto blood bags to Italian Olympic Committee

[hide] Third Round October 14th - October 16th, 2018 6 Nations, 2 Groups, the 1st and 2nd Nations from each Group will qualify for the Semifinals Group G Date & Time (GMT +9) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 October 14th 2018, h. 19:20 Japan 0 3 Serbia October 15th 2018, h. 19:20 Italy 3 0 Japan October 16th 2018, h. 16:10 Italy 3 0 Serbia Group H Date & Time (GMT +9) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 October 14th 2018, h. 16:10 China 3 1 United States October 15th 2018, h. 16:10 Netherlands 1 3 United States October 16th 2018, h. 19:20 Netherlands 1 3 China [/hide]

Italy will play on Monday and Tuesday, despite the fact that a different order of matches was written in the original schedule http://japan2018.fivb.com/en/schedule#/d20181014

Draw results: POOL G:Italy-Japan-Serbia POOL H:Netherlands-China-USA

So Japan is 2nd and Serbia 3rd and if the official site is right about how the draw is held, we have these possible groups: 1) and 50% chance 2) and 25% 3) and 25%

Italy starting the match with their best lineup against USA...they'll end up getting a group with Serbia and China as a reward if they win the pool. Meanwhile episode 4 of the TV series "Masters of Tanking, 2018 edition" is going on.

Italy finally qualified after defeating Russia 3-1.

Yes, age is catching up on me

Best placement in the 5000m elimination http://www.worldskate.org/news/42-discipline/speed/2968-bayog2018-ladies-and-gentlemen,-please-stand-up-for-the-olympic-champions.html Did they mention that both gold medals were already decided before the final?

Looking for results I've realized that they are called "b-boys/girls" in senior competitions as well. Apparently the discipline itself is called "b-boying".

[hide] Second Round October 7th - October 11th, 2018 16 Nations, 2 Groups, the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Nations from each Group will qualify for the Third Round Group E Date & Time (GMT +9) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 October 7th 2018, h. 10:40 Mexico 0 3 Serbia October 7th 2018, h. 13:25 Germany 1 3 Brazil October 7th 2018, h. 16:10 Netherlands 3 0 Puerto Rico October 7th 2018, h. 19:20 Japan 3 1 Dominican Republic October 8th 2018, h. 10:40 Germany 0 3 Serbia October 8th 2018, h. 13:25 Mexico 0 3 Brazil October 8th 2018, h. 16:10 Netherlands 3 0 Dominican Republic October 8th 2018, h. 19:20 Japan 3 0 Puerto Rico October 10th 2018, h. 10:40 Mexico 0 3 Dominican Republic October 10th 2018, h. 13:25 Netherlands 2 3 Brazil October 10th 2018, h. 16:10 Germany 3 0 Puerto Rico October 10th 2018, h. 19:20 Japan 0 3 Serbia October 11th 2018, h. 10:40 Mexico 0 3 Puerto Rico October 11th 2018, h. 13:25 Germany 3 1 Dominican Republic October 11th 2018, h. 16:10 Netherlands 1 3 Serbia October 11th 2018, h. 19:20 Japan 1 3 Brazil Group F Date & Time (GMT +9) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 October 7th 2018, h. 10:40 Turkey 1 3 Russia October 7th 2018, h. 13:25 Bulgaria 0 3 United States October 7th 2018, h. 16:10 Italy 3 0 Azerbaijan October 7th 2018, h. 19:20 China 3 0 Thailand October 8th 2018, h. 10:40 Bulgaria 0 3 Russia October 8th 2018, h. 13:25 Turkey 1 3 United States October 8th 2018, h. 16:10 China 3 0 Azerbaijan October 8th 2018, h. 19:20 Italy 3 0 Thailand October 10th 2018, h. 10:40 Turkey 3 1 Azerbaijan October 10th 2018, h. 13:25 Bulgaria 1 3 Thailand October 10th 2018, h. 16:10 Italy 3 1 Russia October 10th 2018, h. 19:20 China 2 3 United States October 11th 2018, h. 10:40 Bulgaria 3 2 Azerbaijan October 11th 2018, h. 13:25 Turkey 3 2 Thailand October 11th 2018, h. 16:10 Italy 0 3 United States October 11th 2018, h. 19:20 China 3 1 Russia [/hide]

Some info about broadcasting: https://www.olympic.org/news/you-want-to-follow-the-youth-olympic-games-here-s-a-24-7-guide