Dunadan

Colbrelli got a defibrillator implanted...that bars him from being deemed fit to compete by the Italian NF and NOC.

On 3/30/2022 at 1:06 AM, MHSN said:

my favorite group

 

and the winner of (75% chance WAL or SCO wins this play offs and I love to play each of them)

 

 

48 minutes ago, orangeman said:

I never really got that argument anyway.  North and South America are one continent, but Europe is not just a peninsula of the Eurasian continent?  You can even throw Africa in there since the Sinai Isthmus is the same as the Panamanian Isthmus.  And let's not even get into cultural differences.  Besides, Europe gets more quotas than Europe anyway.  

As we also often see in Olympic qualification, the number of federations is vastly different and it happens that it would be similar if you divided the world in 4 zones instead of having some with 10 teams and some with 50...Europe (and South America, which will get to qualify at least 60% of their teams next times) get more teams but remember what was happening when, with the old FIFA ranking until 2018, the coefficient of a zone was determined by intercontinental games, results were so one sided in favor of UEFA and CONMEBOL against the rest that they had to introduce a completely made up minimum that in practice was giving N. American, Asian and African teams 3,4, sometimes 6 times the number of points that they earned "on the field"  

I expect   to be drawn in group A

E Nicolato per prima cosa cosa ha dato la colpa al campo in cattive condizioni 

The new world ranking (a more normal one, without that stupid points decay) was certainly meant to be used for qualification - see https://www.issf-sports.org/news.ashx?newsid=3700

Non essendoci riusciti in circostanze molto più favorevoli e con rose migliori negli anni passati, e con un allenatore che già mette le mani avanti lamentandosi dei pochi giovani fenomeni a disposizione (perchè ovviamente nazioni come Polonia e Svezia che ci sono costate le ultime 2 qualificazioni olimpiche hanno una marea di giovani titolari in campionati top) mi sembra molto ottimista pensare di qualificarsi stavolta.

Ma tanto è sempre la solita cantilena, tentare di dare colpe al "sistema", ai club, a chiunque per giustificare un'eliminazione con la Macedonia del Nord dopo aver fallito un girone con squadre mediocri.

Oh please, they have been missing from fencing wc in 4 weapons out of 6 since Tokyo, with a couple of appeareances in the other 2, nothing in shooting wc, gymnastics wc, karate series A and PL, Judo ...all sports with a world cup style circuit...have they been in covid lockdown for huge outbreaks for the past 5 months or so?

Idiot Mancini, if you have your tax dodging problems on your mind have the decency to leave in November at least.

Worse than Ventura

China is barely partecipating - or being completely absent- in many international summer sports anymore in the last months, is it all due to covid? Not really believable 

29 minutes ago, intoronto said:

https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/mens/worldcup/qatar2022/media-releases/procedures-for-the-final-draw-for-the-fifa-world-cup-qatar-2022-tm-released

 

Wow...all Euro playoff winners will be in pot 4

The link says only one in pot 4, the team from Ukraine path which won't be decided by next week and so can't be placed by ranking+ 2 teams from intercontinental playoffs

It's the best series imo - trying to guess the winner before the qualification even starts. I think it was mentioned yesterday that people would choose who they hope will win rather than who they think will win...but that always happens, even if you start doing the polls with 100 days to go.

7 hours ago, heywoodu said:

And related to this question: when will there be a draw?  

 

I want to know who will play in the Netherlands and if there is any chance for a -  match, that'd be awesome to go to  

on Thursday, 17 March, at 19:30 CET

Let's not conveniently forget that Russia was not a normal country in good standing with the IOC and the sports world for other well known matters, and on the verge of being outright banned since 2016. So allowing athletes to compete as independent = no difference at all from the previous situation at the most important competitions, all sports WCh and Olympics, where this was already happening. Not to talk about some specific sports when they were well past that point.

What to do if the current situation will drag on for years is a more difficult decision, I guess Europeans kicking out Russia and the more friendly Asians welcoming them, in a Israel case in reverse, to start a reintegration in the sports world. But who knows, Russians can start some other shit in the meantime.

There are more professional Lithuanian track and field athletes and rowers than basketball players? That's surprising

I and my clone  broke the forum 

Already a +3000% increase in the number of medals from the previous partecipation, the greatest home boost in the whole Olympic/Paralympic history?

12 minutes ago, Illya said:

Is Ukraine the first reserve?

By world ranking, Ukraine was the first team which missed out. But we'll have to see if there is a new host that's not already qualified.

The format has been changed, since now they are looking to host the WCh in several countries...six pools of 4 teams each, then directly to the knockout phase with the top 16 (including the four best third placed teams). From 3 pool stages to 1, with a maximum of 7 matches played in total by the finalists.  it's unclear if the pools will stay the same, with another team in place of Russia, or there will be another draw

Chinese Foreign Ministry contributing to spread a hoax and calling on biolaboratories being subjected to multilateral verification must be one of the candidates for the troll of the year award.

20 minutes ago, Fly_like_a_don said:

If Russian skaters want to represent other nations they should but I only request them to choose exotic nations like        etc

Or Eritrea.

6 hours ago, Makedonas said:

@Dunadan Is there anywhere I can see full results? Thank you.

Of Junior

Euros? https://www.fencingtimelive.com/tournaments/eventSchedule/1BCE3C2034BB45CAB4B6529663B44FCE#today

And Cadets (under 17) starting today:

https://www.fencingtimelive.com/tournaments/eventSchedule/3BAB6182B150494A84D26017BC6224A8#today

27 minutes ago, amen09 said:

Mamma mia 

He is dead 140 years ago  

It's going too far 

 

 

Surely they checked with the interested university...oh wait, we can't declare Europe drunk anymore if we check. 

2 hours ago, phelps said:

tell me this is a joke! 

 

that must be a joke! 

 

OK...that's beyond my resilience...I just give up...

Reportedly, other countries'federations had also agreed to not show up if they were to face Russia. And then Russia retired in the middle of the competition, just before the semis.