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I always enjoy Euro/World Cup because every match can be decisive, but yeah...the boring part is exactly why I just really can't care for club football

General Will the European Union (without GB) win at least two times as many medals as Great Britain? Will a football, water polo or field hockey gold medal be decided after their respective kind of shoot-outs? Athletics Will at least two teams be disqualified in either the men's or women's 4x100m finals? Will the USA win all three medals in the women's 100m hurdles? Badminton Will a non-Asian nation win a gold medal? Boxing Will a gold medal bout be decided by TKO? Canoeing Will any nation win a gold medal in both slalom and sprint canoeing? Cycling Will any nation win a medal in both the women's and men's road races? Will either the men's or women's time trial be decided by less than 10 seconds? Will a third and final heat be needed in both the men's and women's individual sprint events? Equestrian Will any nation medal in both the jumping, eventing and dressage events? Gymnastics Will Simone Biles win at least four total medals? Will China win both gold medals in the trampoline events? Wrestling Will Russia win more freestyle gold medals than Japan?

Hold your hats! Good that you reminded us, let's take some time to think of some good stuff

Thanks, I had completely forgotten that I ever read about them Well, they never competed in official IBU competition on snow I think, so we might see a first time about that coming from Brazil next season (or the season after that)

Time for a shower and then it's time to see some Portuguese asses kicked by some Croatian boots

Nah, that's France and their stupid hands goal against Ireland

Very succesfully indeed By the way, do you remember any black biathlete, ever? I don't

Germany Men: Tony Martin Simon Geschke Emanuel Buchmann Maximilian Levy Women: Lisa Brennauer Trixi Worrack Romy Kasper Claudia Lichtenberg Yes, that is indeed Levy the track cyclist, to create extra space in the strong sprint squad. Whether or not he will start in the road race "will be decided shortly before the race". http://www.rad-net.de/nachrichten/bdr-schlaegt-olympia-strassenfahrer-vor;n_39341.html

Big hit between Williams and other Williams, ouch

Wow, good goal for McAuley! Only negative thing about it is that it's in the wrong one

She's 18?! I had totally missed that I thought she was like 25 or something..well alright then, she's going for sub-11 if IAAF rules don't change

Swaziland's 200 meter runners (W + M) were getting closer to the standards, but Masenjwa got DSQ'ed in the semi's and whatever happened to his team mate, no idea..

Family of Yuliya Nesterenko?

Van Gestel/Van der Vlist (NED) beat Davydova/Schypkova (UKR) in the final and apparently take the Olympic quota

Wow, she's going fast now.. I'm just throwing it out there: she'll run sub-11:10 this year

100+ entries in most events, 192 swimmers in the men's 100m backstroke

Well I think that's quite a good approach and actually it's basically the same approach I use For example take the women's 800m freestyle swimming. Katie Ledecky and so the USA has of course a huge chance to win the gold, but obviously she won't win all three medals Of course when people disagree (like we already saw about men's field hockey) we can find something in the middle because after all, it'll be a Totallympics team effort

Only 2:02 800m heat for Semenya Tomorrow is the final, want to bet? I say she goes under 1:55 The winner gets one internet point

20.05 200m semi for Van Niekerk at the African Champs, that's promising!

SWITZERLAND

Yes, the first option you mention is what I mean Since we're going for a total medal table, it's not so much about which individual athletes win the medal, but mostly about the total chances per nation per event. Let's just take a random example (don't mind the numbers, it's just an example): Men's 100 meters Bolt (JAM): 40% chance to win Gatlin (USA): 40% chance to win Gay (USA): 20% chance to win This would result in Jamaica having 40% and USA having 60% chance to win, thus USA being above Jamaica (even though Gay has less chance than Bolt). So in short: Which athletes we predict isn't so important, the big thing is which nations we predict so we can get a total medal table.

10.03 and a German record for Julian Reus, meaning yet another nation is getting close to the sub-10 club

Oh come on Kuba, you really had to make that goal right when I was gone for 60 seconds to pee?

Meanwhile there's great news coming for the future of Brazilian male biathlon, I'm just waiting to hear if it can be "released" to the public yet, but it already makes me happy