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Even Gary Neville said there was no way this was a penalty, that says quite a lot. Although not sure this was the worst decision, there was also the free kick at the end of the match, where an English player (Stones? Not sure) pulled Aké down.....and got a free kick for doing so (followed by a yellow for Van Dijk who protested that decision, as he as captain should be allowed to do, the whole point is that captains can go to the referee instead of just everyone). Not to mention several moments where an English player went down, grabbing his face or something, despite nothing really being hit (definitely not the face). Oh well, the main problem was of course still that the team simply wasn't good enough and wasted the few chances they had. Like a very promising attack ending because a simple pass goes in between Simons and Dumfries and an Englishman picks it up

Well, vamos España And this referee, jesus christ on a stick. Although of course the Dutch team is also simply not good enough.

Ref also missed basic maths I think? 2 minutes added time, what the hell

This referee must be somewhat confused?

Ouch, Kane kicks Dumfries and hurts his own foot.

Bellingham lays down because...someone took away his ball.

Well, yeah, he is. Both are, very clearly, there are two mentally very clearly unstable people (which is not really their fault, they're old!) running for freaking president. But that isn't stopping anyone

So it's not even coincidence, that's cool

Hence 'usually', Beijing was the exception Most won medals for Canada at Winter Olympics: 2022: Bronze 2018: Gold 2014: Gold/silver 2010: Gold 2006: Silver 2002: Gold/bronze 1998: Gold 1994: Silver 1992: Silver 1988: Bronze Anyhow, awesome to see they reached the semi's here, too bad Argentina is just...well, a different level, I suppose, I would have loved to see Canada win the match.

Except for the winter, where bronze is usually not the main colour for Canada

Ugh. Sports and their weird rules

Wait, what? Isn't he liked 10th in the world or so?

If track is a thing for them, alright. But if an athlete would only do the road race plus the time trial, I'd assume any athlete would prefer going for both than only for the road race (especially from the countries that refused a time trial spot, other than Australia the "participating is more important than winning" motto applies to basically all of them). It's 8 days later like you said, not like the time trial is going to mess up someone's road race chances (especially since as far as I know, it's not like you're obligated to stay in the village in the mean time). Anyhow, as long as the choices were made by the athletes and not the NOC's, alright

To be honest, for most of those countries you can genuinely wonder: why? Unless for some odd reason the riders themselves decided that.

Let's go

Wait, a single ranking will be made based on matches played against entirely different opponents? That's hilariously ridiculous

Vingegaard wins the sprint, although Pogacar clearly had an issue with his bike/gears.

Roglic goes down.

What a counter by Vingegaard

Missing deciding moments in the race to show Bardet high fiving fans, ok thanks.

@Rigters Any chance you happen to be Dutch former footballer Maceo Rigters? Welcome!

Aaaaand it's gone. IOC has now blocked Luiten from participating, because his spot was already filled in by someone else and they refuse to either undo that or allow the extra spot. International Golf Federation tried to get an exception with the IOC, but they refused. Only option now seems to be CAS. All thanks to the Dutch NOC in the end.

Navas was so lucky to not have a red card check there...he nearly broke Rabiot's leg there.

Oh, well that is fantastic

Yeah, let's say when looking at how many countries there are were at least a few people have heard of the name, Antetokounmpo would probably be number one indeed. Although in most countries I do think a large majority of people have no idea who he is, but of course that's the same with everyone who is not like Usain Bolt or Michael Phelps or nowadays possibly (just possibly) Simone Biles. Keep in mind generally a majority of people just don't really follow sports besides the one or two that are most popular in their country (in many cases football, annoyingly ).