thepharoah

Lucky you.
 
Here is a little bit more - with the inside stories from Florent Boas, Media Manager.
 

https://www.uipmworld.org/news/uipm-2021-pentathlon-and-laser-run-world-championships-be-held-cairo-egy
 
Egypt will host 2021 WCH instead of Belarus 

so the quarters are set right now , all matches well take place on Wednesday : 
 
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3 seemingly predictable matches and one great match between Spain and Norway. And sadly the most likely upset is on  v  because Sweden is beatable, but I really don't want to see Qatar in the Top4. Denmark and France should march on easily unless a miracle happens. 

Croatia was the biggest disappointment of this tournament, they even struggled against Angola and couldn't beat Japan! if I remember correctly they beat Qatar only because their GK saved 5-6 7m throws.
 
Almost the same team finished 2nd in the European Championship a year ago !

Marta Kostyuk isn't wasting her time in the quarantine 

Nah, it wouldn't!

Oh neat, Denmark - Egypt is one of the two quarterfinals that will be on ESPN+ in the US.
 
It would he really exciting if Egypt was able to continue its run.

Qatar was basically a European team both times it qualified.

btw we didn't pass Slovenia just because of their coach mistake , they made use of our disastrous mistakes at 1st half and every team plays with an empty net during suspensions so we just made use of their mistakes at 2nd half they were clueless at offence yet we could have even finished this game really earlier if we didn't miss all these chances IN front of goalkeeper especially from left wing we missed a lot of easy goals from left wing so i think the better team passed at the end of the day 

Our team has been in Cairo all tournament but we've avoided all injuries, covid, stomach-aches, nuclear bombs and the 10 plagues. 

Egypt to quarters 

Draw. 
 
I predicted Egypt to win, but they missed two easy 1v1 shots in the last minute and allowed the draw.  I'm so angry.   
  
Egypt has advanced to QFs, they will do it in first place if Russia wins.

Congrats to Egypt they are my favorite team for the single reason of having this event in middle of a pandemic ! (even though I always like non-Eruopean teams to achieve something in Handball)
 
even though they were upset at the end for losing 2 goals lead in the last minute. but they will regret it only if Sweden and Russia end up in a draw (unlikely)
 
I know nobody wants to play Denmark but even winning this match most probably wouldn't help Egypt topping the group.
 
Egypt was down by 5 goals at some point in the second half but a series of stupid mistake by the Slovenians helped Egypt to come back.

Cross-country skier Nikolay Chebotko () has died in a car crash.

Greek Olympian Leonidas Pelekanakis lost the battle with Covid-19 today. He was 58, heathly and athletic.
 

ahh I remember being so frustrated, our team also tied Russia in the 2nd game but then fell apart for the final games and even failed to beat KSA which would have qualified them for the next round.

Croatia led 18-13 at the half but lost 29-30. It was their first game of the championships.
 
Btw, Croatia was down 8-10 to Saudi Arabia at half-time in the second game as well I can only speculate they totally wanted to sneak thru the two weakest teams in their first two games with minimal effort.
 

BTW Argentina defeated Croatia back in 2003 WCH, it was Croatia only loss as they defeated all other teams and won the tournament 

BTW Argentina defeated Croatia back in 2003 WCH, it was Croatia only loss as they defeated all other teams and won the tournament 

I cant believe the triumph against Croatia, historical and close to a miracle.

Argentinaaaaaaaaaaaaa

This is fairly typical... Our teams (but handballers in particular) are always far from their best when playing against lower ranked teams. Back in Rio, they actually defeated both gold and silver medalists, but lost to Poland and Qatar.
 
With 32 teams on board from now on, I guess it is bound to reoccur more often in the future...

Not really, they need to beat a Denmark team that (probably) will already have secured 1st place and hope Argentina lose to Qatar. Both things are perfectly possible. 

Argentinaaaaaaaaaaaaa