Dunadan

Yes, it's written in the qualification system (the pdf file is in the first page of this thread)

Every NOC with at least 1 man and 1 woman in the ranking round will "participate" in the mixed team event (but only 16 mixed teams will advance to the ko round).

[hide] Knockout Round June 30th - July 15th, 2018 16 Nations, Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Third Place Match and Final Semifinals Date & Time Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 July 10th 2018, h. 21:00 (GMT+3) France 2 1 Belgium July 11th 2018, h. 21:00 (GMT+3) Croatia 1 2 England [/hide]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_2018_Summer_Youth_Olympics#Qualification

[hide] Knockout Round June 30th - July 15th, 2018 16 Nations, Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Third Place Match and Final Quarterfinals Date & Time Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 July 6th 2018, h. 17:00 (GMT+3) Uruguay 0 1 France July 6th 2018, h. 21:00 (GMT+3) Brazil 1 2 Belgium July 7th 2018, h. 18:00 (GMT+4) Sweden 1 1 England July 7th 2018, h. 21:00 (GMT+3) Russia 0 2 Croatia [/hide]

The rules were changed in May 2017 (so 2 months before the start of the pools later won by Austria and Lithuania), on the CEB website you can also download the letter sent to all federations on 11 May 2017: http://baseballeurope.com/download/utejudyj1494602776.pdf/European championship seniors 2017-2019.pdf

[hide] Knockout Round June 30th - July 15th, 2018 16 Nations, Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Third Place Match and Final Round of 16 Date & Time Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 30th 2018, h. 17:00 (GMT+3) France 1 0 Argentina June 30th 2018, h. 21:00 (GMT+3) Uruguay 1 0 Portugal July 1st 2018, h. 17:00 (GMT+3) Spain 2 0 Russia July 1st 2018, h. 21:00 (GMT+3) Croatia 1 0 Denmark July 2nd 2018, h. 18:00 (GMT+4) Brazil 2 0 Mexico July 2nd 2018, h. 21:00 (GMT+3) Belgium 3 0 Japan July 3rd 2018, h. 17:00 (GMT+3) Sweden 1 1 Switzerland July 3rd 2018, h. 21:00 (GMT+3) Colombia 1 2 England [/hide]

You're mixing things up...Naples will/should host the next Universiade (because the original host Brasilia withdrew), the next Mediterranean Games will be in Algeria.

Yes, it's working.

The "Unread content" tab doesn't work anymore, at least for me.

You brought this as "proof" but now you are saying that it is irrelevant. For me it's an absurd claim. In the first tournament Italy was helped by referees, in the second tournament there was nothing irregular or shady involving Italy. No, I was only trying to see if you are consistent. I personally prefer to accept the official count and don't consider any WC a joke but if I had to follow your logic I could find something very shady about many tournaments, for example involving Brazil and Germany(which I pick ed because your original comment was about the teams with the higher number of titles won) -1954 would be a joke for the doping scandal (http://www.worldsoccer.com/columnists/keir-radnedge/west-germanys-culture-of-doping-kept-under-wraps-341986) and biased refereeing in the final: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_FIFA_World_Cup_Final#Controversies - 1962 would be a joke because the Brazilians corrupted officials in order to have Garrincha in the final after he was sent off in the semifinal End of the discussion on my part.

You'll get rid of it in the next Olympic cycle, when it will be replaced by mixed skeet

I ask for proof for your claim that Germany invaded Austria to help Italy win the World Cup, like you suggested here: Plus I asked before if there was any other World Cup that you considered a joke...If Italy is only 2 times champion, how many World Cupshave Germany and Brazil won in your opinion?

If you want an honest discussion, provide serious proof to back the claim that the 1938 WC win wasn't legit.

So you realized that what you wrote was bullshit and now you are trying to act like a troll to hide the fact that you were wrong. Very smart, but it would have more honest to just admit that you were wrong.

You wrote that the first two Italian wins were a joke, so you will surely provide some proof about 1938, right? And out of curiousity, is there any other World Cup win that you consider a joke?

Not match fixing?

The VAR called the head referee to review on that Ronaldo episode...If you know the VAR protocol, this automatically means that the VAR thought it was a red card episode...it's not his fault if the head referee wrongly decided to show only a yellow card to Ronaldo.

Trivela Quaresma!

And this is why the VAR should have the power to overrule the head referee.

Probably I should report this post...anyone who reads this but doesn't know the background could eat too many tortellini to improve his swimming abilities and die of overdose.

Thanks, but the original post was obviously a joke that no one would have taken seriously.

I only ask for consistency...I did not receive any explanation about the deletion of my post and honestly it's difficult to miss that it was a joke identical to dozens/hundreds of posts in this forum...from now on I will report them all expecting them to be deleted.

One of my posts got deleted...surely it was a mistake, considering that there are several of almost identical posts written by another user on this thread, and none was deleted so I'll repeat my opinion. Given his big performance and PB improvement here, Sahnoune should be heavily suspected of doping.

Great outcome if it ends 6-1 Belgium-England will be the last match of the group stage, they will know the composition of the Knockout Round bracket and there's a high chance that both would prefer being second in the group if Brazil win theirs. Now Belgium and England are tied in points, goal difference, goals scored...the next tiebreaker is fair play points (England has 2 yellow cards, Belgium 3).