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Should have focused less on the peroxide heads and more on the football

I am not denying that, and it's also not the point.

Sure, because Brazil has a way higher 'peak' than Croatia. As in, if Brazil really gets going, they can utterly destroy everyone, just like France. Croatia doesn't have that 'peak', but a team doesn't need to have that to be a big danger. And come on, boring, not boring, whatever. If you reach the World Cup final, and the next time you're in the semi's after kicking Brazil out, you are very well capable of kicking Argentina and the Netherlands out as well, no question about it.

Or Germany to Japan. Or Spain to Japan. Or Brazil to Cameroon. Or France to Tunisia. Or Portugal to South Korea. Or Spain to Morocco. But yeah, in terms of betting odds, nothing comes close to Saudi Arabia beating Argentina

That partially depends on the outcome of NED - ARG

Yes, because underestimating opponents is totally not a thing. Any player who feels like they're playing for a spot in the final when playing the quarter final is ignorant.

No way Not even in the top-5 I think.

And off she goes for kickboxing training immediately after the last penalty. Seriously, I do NOT envy her sparring partner of today

To be fair, at least taking Richarlison out made sense. He was entirely invisible today, sadly..

But can also not get a very important and 100% useless yellow

She was working during the first and second halves (but with the TV on in the bike shop), then rushed home after that and got here just in time for the start of extra time. And then Brazil scored and jeeeeeesus Her plate with the dinner nearly ended up on the walls.

Dumbest guy of the week scores

Can't say it's boring because especially with this play, it constantly feels like every goal would be the golden goal, but it's not fantastic

Ronaldo forgot the anthem

Brazil - Netherlands has plenty of rivalry as well, so let's go

Dutch reporter at the stadium being asked about whether or not the number of Brazilian fans there is starting to increase significantly: "Well...I kind of see the same people here as I've seen in the past weeks, when these same people were wearing Belgian shirts, or Senegalese shirts. Now they're wearing Brazilian shirts." Oh wow, they also just repeated some moments from BRA - CRO in 2014, I had totally forgotten about that absolute bullshit penalty for Brazil

Linn Svahn with the fastest qualifying time in her first race in well over 1,5 years: http://live.fis-ski.com/cc-2463/results-pda.htm

Still a bit odd, because why not show the loss against Ghana, or against Japan earlier this year, or some of the many other losses in the past years? Oh well, North Korea being North Korea I guess, who knows

Time for the 'Mute tab' thing on the browser (I am generally just as destructive as our Slovak friend, but especially on my work laptop the volume is sometimes rather high when forgetting to turn it down after a call, so yeah....not healthy )

Belgium does actually have their own biathlon range with 15-16 targets nowadays, since either last year or this year, so they really are working on something good at least, combined with getting half-Belgians to compete for them With Lie, Cloetens, Claude and Langer Belgium potentially has quite a decent team for a mixed relay.

But with just as much French as Belgian blood, like Lotte Lie with Belgium-Norway.

And not with shooting luck or something, but the very fastest skiing time of all, with only one other girl within 20 seconds of her and only four other girls within a minute

Just a little sidenote: for Brazil I'm 99,99% sure it's just for the free IBU money one (read: the federation) gets for starting a race and they don't at all care about the results (at least the shooting part, I suppose they simply use it - other than for the free money - to get some more racing rhythm for the cross-country races) Could well be the same for other small nations of course, but that I don't know.

And this military service, what does it consist of? No way somebody is able to be a full-time military person and also a full-time pro athlete, so they have to do a couple of trainings per year or so, or mostly marketing work?

Is that an actual obligation if you want to be a Slovak biathlete?