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Lebedev has decided (or someone higher up did ) that he won't go to the Olympics because he feels that guy from Dagestan with his completely idiotic "fans"/coach/etc should have won the fight. http://olympics.nbcsports.com/2016/05/31/viktor-lebedev-wrestling-olympics-russia/

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Jan Hudec switches to the Czech Republic http://olympics.nbcsports.com/2016/05/30/jan-hudec-czech-republic-canada-switch-alpine-skiing-winter-olympics/

Clearly you have been paying attention to the wild cards?

How do you guys keep track which matches you have predicted? I remember now why tennis contests always confused me so much, because first there is a part of the men's/women's QF's posted, later there are some more posted and I have to go back several pages to see if I already predicted the other one or not and so on

[hide] Men's Singles Quarterfinals Central European Summer Time (GMT +2) Date and Venue Athlete 1 T1 T2 Athlete 2 June 2nd 2016, h. 13:00, Court Philippe Chatrier, Paris [1] Novak Djokovic x x Tomas Berdych [7] June 2nd 2016, h. 13:00, Court Suzanne Lenglen, Paris [13] Dominic Thiem x x David Goffin [12] Women's Singles Quarterfinals Central European Summer Time (GMT +2) Date and Venue Athlete 1 T1 T2 Athlete 2 June 2nd 2016, h. 15:00, Court Philippe Chatrier, Paris [1] Serena Williams 2 0 Yulia Putintseva June 2nd 2016, h. 15:00, Court Suzanne Lenglen, Paris Kiki Bertens 0 2 Timea Bacsinszky [8] Men's Singles Semifinals Central European Summer Time (GMT +2) Date and Venue Athlete 1 T1 T2 Athlete 2 June 3rd 2016, h. TBD, Court TBD, Paris TBD TBD June 3rd 2016, h. TBD, Court TBD, Paris [3] Stan Wawrinka 3 2 Andy Murray [2] Women's Singles Semifinals Central European Summer Time (GMT +2) Date and Venue Athlete 1 T1 T2 Athlete 2 June 3rd 2016, h. TBD, Court TBD, Paris TBD TBD June 3rd 2016, h. TBD, Court TBD, Paris [4] Garbine Muguruza 2 0 Samantha Stosur [21] Men's Doubles Semifinals Central European Summer Time (GMT +2) Date and Venue Athlete 1 T1 T2 Athlete 2 June 3rd 2016, h. TBD, Court TBD, Paris TBD Ivan Dodig [3] Marcelo Melo [3] June 3rd 2016, h. TBD, Court TBD, Paris [5] Bob Bryan [5] Mike Bryan 2 0 Lukasz Kubot [9] Alexander Peya [9] Women's Doubles Semifinals Central European Summer Time (GMT +2) Date and Venue Athlete 1 T1 T2 Athlete 2 June 3rd 2016, h. TBD, Court TBD, Paris Barbora Krejcikova Katerina Siniakova 0 2 Ekaterina Makarova [7] Elena Vesnina [7] June 3rd 2016, h. TBD, Court TBD, Paris Margarita Gasparyan Svetlana Kuznetsova 0 2 Caroline Garcia [5] Kristina Mladenovic [5] [/hide]

Correct: http://m.hln.be/hln/m/nl/1306/Olympische-Spelen/article/detail/2718549/2016/05/29/Kogel-door-de-kerk-skiffeur-Hannes-Obreno-gaat-naar-Rio.dhtml Belgian federation had an extra meeting to publish their decision as soon as possible.

Netherlands: Men: Niek Kimmann Twan van Gendt Jelle van Gorkom Women: Laura Smulders Merle van Benthem No surprises there.

Pacquiao already said he won't try to qualify anyway. Dutch Peter Müllenberg said he's not afraid at all of the pro's. "Our pace is way too high for them. By the time we finished our fight, they barely warmed up. We can take all of them."

Horrible decision... Obviously pro boxers should be allowed to compete in the Olympics, because it's a joke that there is still a sport where pro's simply can't compete. But this is way too fast...they should have implemented this for 2020, for all kinds of reasons...fairness, safety, and so on.

So Muguruza is the first semi-finalist. Very interesting developments in the women's field, great to see some new names reaching high levels instead of always and ever the same few names. I'm guessing Serena will keep messing everyone around for a while, but it'd be nice to see how it goes when she's gone. At least it's more interesting than the men with usually the same names

USA: Angelica Delgado (52) Marti Malloy (57) Kayla Harrison (78) Nick Delpopolo (73) Travis Stevens (81) Colton Brown (90) http://www.teamusa.org/News/2016/June/01/Meet-The-2016-US-Olympic-Judo-Team

Konrad Niedzwiedzki was hit by an agricultural vehicle last weekend during a training ride near Groningen (NED). He suffered 7 broken ribs, a punctured lung and a couple more injuries, but is expected to be able to join his team when they have a training camp in Inzell in July http://www.omropfryslan.nl/nieuws/640494-poolse-schaatser-met-fiets-aangereden-door-landbouwvoertuig

It's women's tennis, every random thing can happen with every random player at any random moment

What's happening with Dutch sports? Now all of a sudden we have a woman in the quarter finals of a Grand Slam

You have no idea how much I love this idea! We do the same thing on the Dutch forum (the one where I got the idea for the "supporting small nations" thread) and it's always a lot of fun, especially because it gets people interested in sports they'd otherwise never follow So yeah, I'm absolutely in and I'll do my best to come up with some questions as well

Agreed about the lights so they can keep playing for longer If they have it around enough courts, it'll actually make a significant difference, unlike one or two roofs.

I hope they postpone it even longer, there's no reason to add it. Just like at Wimbledon, all it does 95% of the time is making sure we can see a crappy match between a top-5 player and someone who has no chance against him/her. It would only help when we've reached the finals, but yesterday and today it wouldn't have made any serious difference.

Then you can play 7-8 matches, 10 if you're lucky, during the entire day Really, that's not going to help in any significant way considering there are full tournaments in men's singles, men's doubles, women's singles, women's doubles, mixed doubles, boys doubles, boys singles, girls doubles, girls singles, wheelchair men's singles, wheelchair men's doubles, wheelchair women's singles, wheelchair women's doubles

One roof? Then what? Or do you mean a roof over all 15-20 courts? Because that'd be the only thing to actually make a significant difference.

Robin Haase being Robin Haase He was playing Gonzalo Lama, who was making noise like an overacting combination of Sharapova and Larcher de Brito. Haase was probably a little sick of that and decided it'd be a good idea to give a shout as well The result: one point awarded to Lama Oh Robin, why? https://streamable.com/1fe1

They don't really have criteria for the road race, it's just up to the coach who he selects

Why would they give a prize to someone who has no reason to be in the Olympic road race instead of giving the spot to someone who actually has a reason to be there?

Dutch men's road team: Steven Kruijswijk Wout Poels Tom Dumoulin Bauke Mollema Seriously, what on earth is Kruijswijk doing there? Such a typical move, "Kruijswijk had a great Giro, let's select him for the Olympics", which is a 10000% different kind of race...Robert Gesink should have been there in his place without any doubt.