Dunadan

congrats to Dr. Eufemiano Fuentes...just another triumph to be added to his palmarès...

1) It's not important;
2) it's a title so if you want to be pedantic every word except prepositons, conjunctions and articles should be capitalized

As someone here would say:
"I was 99% sure about this 
This was so expected  twice in a few days "
 
I hope they reach the final and lose 2-3 with a wrong call on the match point. 
 
 

As someone here would say:
"I was 99% sure about this 
This was so expected  twice in a few days "
 
I hope they reach the final and lose 2-3 with a wrong call on the match point. 
 
 

The formula for women is almost identical. The difference is that in the 2nd round there will be 2 pools of 8 teams instead of 4 pools of 4. Top teams will play 13 matches.

I highly doubt that happened on purpose. actually I'm quite sure about that. I watched the entire game, nothing suspicious. if they wanted that they could easily miss those free throws at the end. but they made both. of course that was stupid to let Belgium to score in only 1 second to go but that was just a stupid defensive mistake. they were down by more than 10pts most of the 2nd half if they wanted to lose by +8 intentionally that was no problem for them, they didn't need that last basket from Belgium.

I haven't watched the draw but the FIVB has been using some "tables" lately to determine the order of matches, for groups of 3 teams (like the Nations League Final Six) it's always:
team1 v. team3
team2 v. team3
team1 v. team2
and in this case we already knew that team1=ITA and BRA.
It's similar for groups of 4 teams, as you can notice in the previous round the order of matches is the same for every pool.

I haven't watched the draw but the FIVB has been using some "tables" lately to determine the order of matches, for groups of 3 teams (like the Nations League Final Six) it's always:
team1 v. team3
team2 v. team3
team1 v. team2
and in this case we already knew that team1=ITA and BRA.
It's similar for groups of 4 teams, as you can notice in the previous round the order of matches is the same for every pool.

http://www.uci.org/road/events/2018-uci-road-world-championships-tirol-innsbruck

From what I can understand from our team, during the tournament someone (I assume some FIVB officer or FEVA officer) told them otherwise. As I told before, during the match the press officer from FEVA (who has direct communication with players) was doing commentary in our tv and he spoke as if the match didn't matter beyond winning 2 sets. Then I tweeted to this guy who in turn (after getting angry with me) messaged the players and said that they were in "bewilderment" about this. 
If this was all fake, then they are very good actors tbh.
 
Ps. Luciano de Cecco blocked me on  Twitter because of this loooool. I can't believe a player of his status would be so touchy about some random comments on social media.

France would be better off if points counted before victories, imo they would even have a chance to advance with only 5 victories and 18 points in total.
 
 
FIVB is incompetent, but for me now everyone is exaggerating in trying to promote their interests (or maybe they are just very stupid, I don't know). 10 days ago I heard Velasco complaining because all results was carried over and now I read here that after the loss against Japan, Argentinians claimed that they didn't know that they had to win 
 
Anyway it looks like FIVB sent a letter to all teams 2 days ago because some of them asked to clarify, so now there is no more room for misunderstandings. The guy who took this pic is not very tech-savvy but it is readable and point 1. is clear: " the first point of the Team classification criteria for all FIVB competitions  is the number of victories "
 

FIVB site always said: "The four pool-winning teams of the second stage will access the third stage, together with the top two of the second ranked teams." (http://italy-bulgaria2018.fivb.com/en/competition/formula,and in the picture you can read "1st place + two best 2nd advance"). For me the part that I quoted was media speculation.

I think he's still recovering from an old injury...
Chiara Soldi (commentating the finals on PMG/Youtube stream) said she's talked with him and he promised to be on the mat for the Premier League Final in Tokyo, but she didn't say anything about the reason why he's not in Berlin this week...

With the conclusion of 2018 Women's World Cup, the 13 out of 16 tickets for the 18th FINA World Championships at Gwangju (KOR) - 2019 are decided:
 
1st criteria: 2018 FINA Women’s Water Polo World League Super Final (2 tickets): 1. USA, 2 Netherlands
2nd criteria: 2018 FINA Women's World Cup (4 tickets): 2.Russia, 3. Australia, 4 Spain, 5. China (1. USA already qualified) 
3rd Continental criteria
2018 LEN European Championships (3 tickets): 2. Greece, 4 Hungary, 6 Italy (1 Netherlands, 3 Spain and 5 Russia already qualified)
2018 Asian Games (2 tickets):  2. Kazakhstan 3. Japan (1. China already qualified)
Oceania (1 ticket):  New Zealand (Australia already qualified)
Africa (1 ticket): South Africa

as far as I know, A = yes, B = no...but I'm gonna try and check out deeper in the rulebook if there's something about that...
 
Edit: I just read the entire rulebook, and there's no reference to the medals not being awarded in competitions with less than 3 entries...therefore, I suppose that also in the women's LW Pairs USA and Italy will get their honors, despite this event is definitely a farce (well, not that the 3-crew races are really a serious thing)...

It's obvious that the Indians have discovered a new substance that slows the aging process, and they are using it to win medals in junior shooting...that's disgusting, I hope they are caught and banned!!!!!!!!
Wake up sheeple!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's obvious that the Indians have discovered a new substance that slows the aging process, and they are using it to win medals in junior shooting...that's disgusting, I hope they are caught and banned!!!!!!!!
Wake up sheeple!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's obvious that the Indians have discovered a new substance that slows the aging process, and they are using it to win medals in junior shooting...that's disgusting, I hope they are caught and banned!!!!!!!!
Wake up sheeple!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.volleybalkrant.nl/nieuwsbericht/15992/gepubliceerde-kwalificatieproces-tokio-2020-onjuist

There will be much more than 4 teams in the mixed events (2 teams qualified directly + every country that can form a team with shooters qualified in individual events, max. 2 teams per country)

Gabon and Bolivia have already been mentioned and shouldn't be on the list.
 
If you count the IFBB World Championships (Bodybuilding and Fitness, results by year here
https://ifbb.com/contest-report-2018/) the following have won at least a gold:
Iraq
Oman
Libya
Malta
Iceland
 
 
 

+ if we count wushu and bowling
( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wushu_Championships and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WTBA_World_Tenpin_Bowling_Championships_medalists) 
Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Puerto Rico also won a gold

I removed all non-Olympic events that I could. For clarification weightlifting was left as is while in karate I only removed the lightest weightclass as I cannot combine the two heavier weightclasses.
 
Medals Lost (at least 10)
- 45
- 43
- 36
- 26
- 20
- 19
- 18
- 18
- 16
- 13
- 12
- 12
- 11
- 10
- 10
 
Unsurprisingly Indonesia was hit the hardest, losing 45 medals, but still sitting in 11th on the medal table. Overall Southeast Asia took the hardest hit. Thailand lost half its medals and also dropped out of the top 10 and is sitting in 15th. Malaysia lost 18/20 medals. Bahrain and Kazakhstan have both moved into the top 10 (8th and 10th respectively). Japan despite being a distant second only lost 13 medals. North Korea is the only nation in the old top 10 to lose fewer than 10 medals (2 lost). The following nations which won medals no longer have any; Afghanistan, Cambodia, Unified Korea, Laos and Myanmar.
 
Top 10 (G-S-B)
1. 77-49-37
2. 36-36-57
3. 21-29-32
4. 11-7-7
5. 11-6-13
6. 9-14-9
7. 8-11-8
8. 8-3-5
9. 6-11-9
10. 6-9-23
 

Which is why in 2015 I put them in 2nd place in a ranking of worst nations in the Olympic history  (thanks to a lot of statistics from sports-reference.com)
https://frontpage.fok.nl/special/717955/7/1/50/de-slechtste-landen-ooit-op-de-olympische-spelen.html

Birthplace alone doesn't define nationality, but kindly check the birthplace and biography of the people you were referring to...a Yemeni-Qatari is not African (and he wouldn't be African even if all of his teammates were Kenyans who switched allegiance to Qatar at the age of 30).