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[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 2 1 Argentina June 30th 2018, h. 21:00 (GMT+3) Uruguay 2 2 Portugal July 1st 2018, h. 17:00 (GMT+3) Spain 3 0 Russia July 1st 2018, h. 21:00 (GMT+3) Croatia 2 0 Denmark July 2nd 2018, h. 18:00 (GMT+4) Brazil 2 1 Mexico July 2nd 2018, h. 21:00 (GMT+3) Belgium 3 0 Japan July 3rd 2018, h. 17:00 (GMT+3) Sweden 1 2 Switzerland July 3rd 2018, h. 21:00 (GMT+3) Colombia 1 2 England [/hide]

According to the document the ranking should have started at the end of May. Well, I don't see any on the UCI website. You think it will be published monthly starting with last week of June?

It won't be the same as Women's World Cup is in 2018 and Eurobasket in 2019 and in men's it's World Cup in 2019 and Eurobasket in 2018.

So even if they lose the preQ, they'll start in OQT and even if they will be last, they will get place... that's one of the sickest things I saw in olympic qualification systems.

Let's suppose the World Cup and/or host (Japan) winner doesn't qualify to one of four OQT. How do they choose, from which OQT there will be three and from which two quota?

6:0 6:0 in tennis is "rowerek" in Polish, which is a diminutive for a "bicycle".

I've got many - right now I'm doing a Hungarian-Polish-English sport dictionary for my master's degree, so the topic is really interesting for me. For example searching for "scissor kick" in football (called soccer in AmE) in Hungarian I found word "ollózás", which means scissoring. I checked in Google, if ollózás is really, what I'm looking for and... well, it is, but among the movies showing such a spectacular kick there were some... lesbian intercourses. The one with "basket" ("kosz" in Polish) seems to be a case in many languages, for example "rzucić kosza" (throw a basket) means to score. As well as @Gianlu33 said about Italian, we also use "fight" in all sports. In field hockey the stick is called "laska", which is also popular word for an attractive, young woman (probably because of the slim shape of a stick, not only in field hockey, but also the one used by elder people to help at walking). The word "canoe" (not the kayak) is "kanadyjka" which means (written with capital - "Kanadyjka") the Canadian [woman, girl...]. The ski-flying hill is called "skocznia mamucia" which means "mammoth hill". Also the "body check" came to Polish in a form of "bodiczek" (in Hungarian it's also "bodicsek"). My theory (maybe someone might confirm) is it was used by Czechs and Slovaks, which are the most hockey nations in our region, in original, English form, but as it sounds very Czech/Slovak, we adopted it as the word of Czech/Slovak origin, which is (at least in Polish) important because of declination. In modern pentathlon, before the name "laser-run" was introducted we used the word "kombajn" in everyday talk (rather not in official press reports), because it sounds like a "combined" which was the name of the event of run and shoot. "Kombajn" is a word for a harvester machine. Also Russians used such a word (our languages are quite similar) and when I typed the Russian texts about competitions to Google Translate it translated as "food processor..." About such a funny stories as @hckosice said about hole, our biggest sport journalism legend, Bohdan Tomaszewski, once said about Irena Szewińska "Pani Irena nie jest już tak świeża w kroku jak kiedyś" which may mean to thing - "she's not as fresh in stride as earlier" (which is what he meant as she was a runner) or "she's not as fresh in crotch as earlier" (which is why the sentence is so funny). Another double meaning, also by Mr Tomaszewski, about our cyclist - "Ryszard Szurkowski - cudowne dziecko dwóch pedałów" - "Ryszard Szurkowski - a wonderful child of two pedals" ("pedał" is also a vulgar word for homosexual).

I see there is no league for Bracket, so I created one: 92982a4d

@mrv86 Do you know, how many teams qualifies to the Finals from the Salamanca tournament?

[hide] Preliminary Round June 14th - June 28th, 2018 32 Nations, 8 Groups, the 1st and 2nd Nations from each Group will qualify for the Round of 16 Group A Date & Time Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 14th 2018, h. 18:00 (GMT+3) Russia 3 0 Saudi Arabia June 15th 2018, h. 17:00 (GMT+5) Egypt 0 2 Uruguay June 19th 2018, h. 21:00 (GMT+3) Russia 2 1 Egypt June 20th 2018, h. 18:00 (GMT+3) Uruguay 4 0 Saudi Arabia June 25th 2018, h. 18:00 (GMT+4) Uruguay 2 1 Russia June 25th 2018, h. 17:00 (GMT+3) Saudi Arabia 0 2 Egypt Group B Date & Time Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 15th 2018, h. 18:00 (GMT+3) Morocco 1 1 Iran June 15th 2018, h. 21:00 (GMT+3) Portugal 0 0 Spain June 20th 2018, h. 15:00 (GMT+3) Portugal 2 0 Morocco June 20th 2018, h. 21:00 (GMT+3) Iran 0 3 Spain June 25th 2018, h. 21:00 (GMT+3) Iran 0 2 Portugal June 25th 2018, h. 20:00 (GMT+2) Spain 2 1 Morocco Group C Date & Time Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 16th 2018, h. 13:00 (GMT+3) France 2 0 Australia June 16th 2018, h. 19:00 (GMT+3) Peru 0 1 Denmark June 21st 2018, h. 16:00 (GMT+4) Denmark 1 1 Australia June 21st 2018, h. 20:00 (GMT+5) France 3 0 Peru June 26th 2018, h. 17:00 (GMT+3) Denmark 2 2 France June 26th 2018, h. 17:00 (GMT+3) Australia 2 1 Peru Group D Date & Time Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 16th 2018, h. 16:00 (GMT+3) Argentina 1 2 Iceland June 16th 2018, h. 21:00 (GMT+2) Croatia 2 0 Nigeria June 21st 2018, h. 21:00 (GMT+3) Argentina 1 2 Croatia June 22nd 2018, h. 18:00 (GMT+3) Nigeria 1 2 Iceland June 26th 2018, h. 21:00 (GMT+3) Nigeria 0 1 Argentina June 26th 2018, h. 21:00 (GMT+3) Iceland 2 2 Croatia Group E Date & Time Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 17th 2018, h. 16:00 (GMT+4) Costa Rica 0 1 Serbia June 17th 2018, h. 21:00 (GMT+3) Brazil 2 2 Switzerland June 22nd 2018, h. 15:00 (GMT+3) Brazil 3 1 Costa Rica June 22nd 2018, h. 21:00 (GMT+2) Serbia 1 1 Switzerland June 27th 2018, h. 21:00 (GMT+3) Serbia 0 2 Brazil June 27th 2018, h. 21:00 (GMT+3) Switzerland 2 1 Costa Rica Group F Date & Time Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 17th 2018, h. 18:00 (GMT+3) Germany 3 0 Mexico June 18th 2018, h. 15:00 (GMT+3) Sweden 1 1 South Korea June 23rd 2018, h. 18:00 (GMT+3) South Korea 2 2 Mexico June 23rd 2018, h. 21:00 (GMT+3) Germany 2 1 Sweden June 27th 2018, h. 17:00 (GMT+3) South Korea 0 2 Germany June 27th 2018, h. 19:00 (GMT+5) Mexico 1 2 Sweden Group G Date & Time Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 18th 2018, h. 18:00 (GMT+3) Belgium 2 0 Panama June 18th 2018, h. 21:00 (GMT+3) Tunisia 0 2 England June 23rd 2018, h. 15:00 (GMT+3) Belgium 2 0 Tunisia June 24th 2018, h. 15:00 (GMT+3) England 2 0 Panama June 28th 2018, h. 20:00 (GMT+2) England 1 1 Belgium June 28th 2018, h. 21:00 (GMT+3) Panama 0 1 Tunisia Group H Date & Time Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 19th 2018, h. 15:00 (GMT+3) Colombia 1 0 Japan June 19th 2018, h. 18:00 (GMT+3) Poland 1 1 Senegal June 24th 2018, h. 20:00 (GMT+5) Japan 1 1 Senegal June 24th 2018, h. 21:00 (GMT+3) Poland 2 1 Colombia June 28th 2018, h. 17:00 (GMT+3) Japan 0 2 Poland June 28th 2018, h. 18:00 (GMT+4) Senegal 0 1 Colombia [/hide]

A little bit to look in the future - Poland's women team will participate in one of the finals - two Polish newspapers wrote about their expected start in Februay 2019 in "II round of World League". As you can see, this sport is not very popular in Poland, even journalist from the most hockey powerful region don't know a lot about international competitions

Will the ranking be published every month or every week?

Tomorrow the mixed relays. As it was introduced to World Cup in 2013 I said the Irish pair should be strong in this event. It appeared that many nations, and Ireland among them, doesn't take it seriously. Let's see, what will be tomorrow.

Do we have some leagues for Bracket and Match Predictions?

https://live.ijf.org/gp_chn2018/live_video

One of the Polish webiste's is referring to the source close to FIVB saying, that the volleyball qualification system for Tokyo 2020 is going to change drastically. They say it's sure and it's been accepted by FIVB Board. Details: - September 2019 - 6 round robin tournaments of four with TOP24 in FIVB ranking participating (serpentine of course) - winner with the quota. - 5 continental quota - Host Is it possible to change it after the IOC confirmation?

I think it will be only second paid IF channel (after FEI TV).

Heh, I tried to join the old one (somebody put a pin code here, so I typed it). Now I'm joining the new one. Will my results from Doha and Shanghai be counted?

Thank's a lot!

Does anyone have the list of events in which athletes can earn points to the Olympic Ranking?

Skateboarding - not an official document, but the system is known: http://www.worldskate.org/

But we could update it as some new systems (and dates to those who we already know) would come.

Is anybody doing the qualification calendar? I have it, but in Polish and with focus on when Polish athetes can qualify. The only rankings that already started are Volleyball and Taekwondo, right? Or BMX Elite also counts from now on?

For now only Salma, but the other girl (also one) can qualify through ranking on 1st of July then your NOC (or rather federation, probably it will be coach's decision) have to choose one.

Quotas for girls' Modern Pentathlon/Tetrathlon: Alice Rinaudo*, Yewen Gu* , Salma Abdelmaksoud Martina Armanazqui** Emma Riff Anna Jurt * waiting for decision of NOC as their compatriots already have quota ** Host Country