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You support them Anything you want really, you can follow their Olympic qualifying, post any news you find or come across , maybe take a look at local media even On a Dutch forum where this idea comes from, someone is contacting the Swaziland Olympic Committee for example (unfortunately they're not responding yet), but those are all kinds of things you can do And during the Olympics of course you'll keep us posted on the awesome results of the Micronesian heroes

I don't think that really goes as a an exotic nation in sports, but I'm open for discussion

Swimrankings.net is perfect if you want results of European swimmers https://www.swimrankings.net/index.php?&language=de When were these German nationals and where can I find the results? Apparently Swimrankings isn't 100% perfect because for Gose I don't see any sub-58 100m yet

No 4x100 free women, cause "they're too skinny", according to the coach.

Northern Ireland, Iceland etc....where is ours? Oh wait

Let's just be smart and agree with this then On to more athletics

I'm guessing he'll go for a 10th place finish or something Smart from Kimetto and Kipsang to pull out, it's not like they'd be realistic favourites anyway in my opinion.

It's especially a huge shame Jared Tallent gets robbed by a dirty cheat AGAIN. It happened in 2008, 2012, probably some more times I'm forgetting and now that asshole is back, it happens again... As the entire race walking community said yesterday: Schwazer's win meant a really, really black day for the sport. Yesterday was one of the worst days in history of race walking.

In which sports could Swaziland realistically have a chance of receiving a wild card in case they apply?

And there was the extremely weird fall of Marquez and Dovizioso, which was just funny to see Unfortunately after that it was such an incredibly boring race...well for the 1st place it was boring after 5 seconds Moto3 was ok, Moto2 was "meh"..

I didn't check results yet, but I suppose Herlings won everything in MX2 again while drinking some coffee, baking a cake and reading the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy during the race?

Well that would be just wonderful

Do you have a source or link for that? It would be cool to read

And a big shame for the other Italians in the team. Their gold medal is now being looked at in a bad way because of asshole Schwazer.

Reserving 47 separate posts for athletics? That means the results will only be posted in the first 1-2 pages of each thread so all the rest of the threads remain available for discussion instead of being spammed full with results?

Alex Schwazer (ITA) posts 3:39 in the 50k at the Race Walking World Team Championships in his very first race after his 4 year doping ban. Horrible day for athletics.

With Ahn and Wild not being typical "bought" athletes, by the way, but more like athletes that were left hanging by their own countries and then picked up by smart Russians Anyway, I'm curious if there will be names in the interview. If not, meh. If there will be, at least one or two wouldn't be surprising at all..

Luckily we don't have enough way too complicated situations in the qualification for all sports yet

[hide] Preliminary Round May 6th-March 17th, 2016 16 Nations, 2 Groups, 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Nation from each Group will qualify for Quarterfinals, 8th Nations from each groups will be relegated to IIHF Men´s Division I Group A World Championships 2017. Group A Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 May 6th 2016, h. 16:15, VTB Ice Palace, Moscow Sweden x x Latvia May 6th 2016, h. 20:15, VTB Ice Palace, Moscow Czech Republic x x Russia May 7h 2016, h. 12:15, VTB Ice Palace, Moscow Switzerland x x Kazakhstan May 7th 2016, h. 16:15, VTB Ice Palace, Moscow Norway 1 Denmark May 7th 2016, h. 20:15, VTB Ice Palace, Moscow Latvia 3 Czech Republic May 8th 2016, h. 12:15, VTB Ice Palace, Moscow Kazakhstan 6 Russia May 8th 2016, h. 16:15, VTB Ice Palace, Moscow Norway 1 Switzerland May 8th 2016, h. 20:15, VTB Ice Palace, Moscow Sweden 3 Denmark May 9th 2016, h. 16:15, VTB Ice Palace, Moscow Latvia 5 Russia May 9th 2016, h. 20:15, VTB Ice Palace, Moscow Sweden 1 Czech Republic May 10th 2016, h. 16:15, VTB Ice Palace, Moscow Switzerland 2 Denmark May 10th 2016, h. 20:15, VTB Ice Palace, Moscow Kazakhstan 2 Norway May 11th 2016, h. 16:15, VTB Ice Palace, Moscow Switzerland 2 Latvia May 11th 2016, h. 20:15, VTB Ice Palace, Moscow Sweden 5 Kazakhstan May 12th 2016, h. 16:15, VTB Ice Palace, Moscow Czech Republic 3 Norway May 12th 2016, h. 20:15, VTB Ice Palace, Moscow Russia 5 Denmark May 13th 2016, h. 16:15, VTB Ice Palace, Moscow Czech Republic 5 Kazakhstan May 13th 2016, h. 20:15, VTB Ice Palace, Moscow Denmark 2 Latvia May 14th 2016, h. 12:15, VTB Ice Palace, Moscow Norway 3 Sweden May 14th 2016, h. 16:15, VTB Ice Palace, Moscow Russia 4 Switzerland May 14th 2016, h. 20:15, VTB Ice Palace, Moscow Kazakhstan 3 Latvia May 15th 2016, h. 16:15, VTB Ice Palace, Moscow Denmark 3 Czech Republic May 15th 2016, h. 20:15, VTB Ice Palace, Moscow Switzerland 2 Sweden May 16th 2016, h. 16:15, VTB Ice Palace, Moscow Russia 4 Norway May 16th 2016, h. 20:15, VTB Ice Palace, Moscow Denmark 2 Kazakhstan May 17th 2016, h. 12:15, VTB Ice Palace, Moscow Czech Republic 3 Switzerland May 17th 2016, h. 16:15, VTB Ice Palace, Moscow Latvia 1 Norway May 17th 2016, h. 20:15, VTB Ice Palace, Moscow Russia 2 Sweden Group B Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 May 6th 2016, h. 16:15, Arena Yubileyni, Saint Petersburg United States x x Canada May 6th 2016, h. 20:15, Arena Yubileyni, Saint Petersburg Finland x x Belarus May 7th 2016, h. 12:15, Arena Yubileyni, Saint Petersburg Slovakia x x Hungary May 7th 2016, h. 16:15, Arena Yubileyni, Saint Petersburg France 1 Germany May 7th 2016, h. 20:15, Arena Yubileyni, Saint Petersburg Belarus 2 United States May 8th 2016, h. 12:15, Arena Yubileyni, Saint Petersburg Hungary 6 Canada May 8th 2016, h. 16:15, Arena Yubileyni, Saint Petersburg Finland 3 Germany May 8th 2016, h. 20:15, Arena Yubileyni, Saint Petersburg France 2 Slovakia May 9th 2016, h. 16:15, Arena Yubileyni, Saint Petersburg Belarus 5 Canada May 9th 2016, h. 20:15, Arena Yubileyni, Saint Petersburg Finland 2 United States May 10th 2016, h. 16:15, Arena Yubileyni, Saint Petersburg Slovakia 2 Germany May 10th 2016, h. 20:15, Arena Yubileyni, Saint Petersburg Hungary 2 France May 11th 2016, h. 16:15, Arena Yubileyni, Saint Petersburg Slovakia 1 Belarus May 11th 2016, h. 20:15, Arena Yubileyni, Saint Petersburg Finland 2 Hungary May 12th 2016, h. 16:15, Arena Yubileyni, Saint Petersburg United States 3 France May 12th 2016, h. 20:15, Arena Yubileyni, Saint Petersburg Canada 4 Germany May 13th 2016, h. 16:15, Arena Yubileyni, Saint Petersburg United States 2 Hungary May 13th 2016, h. 20:15, Arena Yubileyni, Saint Petersburg Germany 2 Belarus May 14th 2016, h. 12:15, Arena Yubileyni, Saint Petersburg France 4 Finland May 14th 2016, h. 16:15, Arena Yubileyni, Saint Petersburg Hungary 2 Belarus May 14th 2016, h. 20:15, Arena Yubileyni, Saint Petersburg Canada 3 Slovakia May 15th 2016, h. 16:15, Arena Yubileyni, Saint Petersburg Germany 2 United States May 15th 2016, h. 20:15, Arena Yubileyni, Saint Petersburg Slovakia 3 Finland May 16th 2016, h. 16:15, Arena Yubileyni, Saint Petersburg Canada 5 France May 16th 2016, h. 20:15, Arena Yubileyni, Saint Petersburg Germany 2 Hungary May 17th 2016, h. 12:15, Arena Yubileyni, Saint Petersburg United States 2 Slovakia May 17th 2016, h. 16:15, Arena Yubileyni, Saint Petersburg Belarus 1 France May 17th 2016, h. 20:15, Arena Yubileyni, Saint Petersburg Canada 3 Finland [/hide]

Gracias, I just came to this thread right now to post her name

Patrick Ekeng (CAM) died aged 26 today after collapsing during a match of his Dinamo Bucharest team..

I realize I even mentioned Paulo Duncker, the field hockey player who was even born in Brazil - but mostly grew up in the Netherlands - and now competes for Brazil. Completely forgot that of course he shouldn't even be in this thread...you know, born in Brazil, competing for Brazil

Did Brazil buy these field hockey players? You mean the two brothers who have a Brazilian mother and the player who was actually even born in Brazil and therefore already had a Brazilian passport?

Thanks, that's 2 points instead of 1 though (and not her last chance because she still had a full day of a chance in the 2nd stage ) Just kidding with you of course, not trying to mess with the story because it's still absolutely awesome that she now qualifies as the very last ranking qualifier