thepharoah

Hungary still holds a chance , if Egypt and Brazil won continental qualifications which won't be easy anyhow , i even still predict Tunisia to win the next African championship as they will host it , so even Egypt a top 8 finish is something necessary for olympic qualification , cuz now we have another chance to qualify , basically ofc one of top 7 teams here will win the next European championship , so if we lose the next african championship in Tunisia we'll have Asian and Americas 2nd place in the Olympic qualification much better ofc than having 2 European teams

top 8 here we go thanks Norway

Egypt defeated Tunisia 30-23 it could have been more , but i'm still satisfied with this goal difference , now we should wait for Norway to defeat Hungary with 6 goals which i doubt , or 5 goals if Hungary doesn't score more than 24 goals , Brazil defeated Iceland to guarantee finishing 9th , overall we'll finish 10th which records our best result since 2001 , so yes overall i'm satisfied with our participation , better to come in our home in 2021

hopefully Chinese lifters are also among this target group by IWF

This's simply disastrous for Thai weightlifting and ofc most logically if they're banned from Tokyo 2020 , they won't be either allowed / they won't be intersted in hosting an Olympic qualifying event

Apparently Serena was leading 5-1 in the 3rd set and 40-30 on Serve , but still she lost 7-5 she lost 4 match points , WOW i really regret not watching the 3rd set , but i couldn't wake more for sorry

Novak and Nadal were very lucky in this AO , i think no doubt we'll have final of both players in , Women's Semis Pliskova will play Osaka and Kvitova will play Collins , will we have an all Czezh final

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Bassam isn't only Iraqi , his father played for Iraq NT

That's really sad news and for sorry at most all the passengers on these planes are died , may God protect and save them

France and Germany officially qualify to Semis before the last match

i don't think that's the strategy , we can't crush Tunisia , they know us very well and we even could lose the match , it's an African derby no matter who's better , the better team on the ground wins the match , but hopefully that will happen

we perfectly defend today , but offence hasn't come yet

the referee

Again Ahmed Khalil comes as a subistute and scores a penalty he reminds me of handball players in this tournament

And a penalty for UAE like i expected , 3-2 for the host

Matthew Ryan qualified Australia through Penalties

Penalties between Australia and Uzbekistan

i have the same question too , but if they're just saving energy in today's match with a good offensive team , then the players are somehow silly , so i don't think that's the real case , this's the worst Japan vs. KSA match i've ever seen and the worst edition of Japanese teams since 2000 , i've never seen also Japan defending to this limit even in the WC and even against Brazil , yet they lose heavily , but they play football , they create chances , Japan lost to Belgium in the WC , because they wanted to win the match , not to go to extra time . i really regretted watching the 1st half and i took the right decision i think to watch the completion of another Japanese Nishikori match against Busta, playing and fighting really hard to win the match

Dramatic end to the match , Busta was leading 8-5 , then a very controversial point for Nishikori which was difinetely the line man's fault who called the ball out and it wasn't , busta wouldn't have been able to reach the ball , but it was his right to reply the point , after this point Nishikori won 4 consecutive points on the tie break and won the match , for me that's the best match so far i've seen here

Great fighting spirit and great Match between Nishikori and Busta , almost 5 hours since the start of the match

Serena wins next match against Pliskova

3 times Halep hits the ball in the net in the same way and the ball finds its way on Serena's ground

we already have 4 breaks in Busta vs. Nishikori match and we're still 3 all in the 1st set not sure if it's an ATP or WTA match