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Dutch 15 year old swimmer Liesette Bruinsma broke the S11 50m freestyle world record yesterday in Dordrecht (NED). Her swimming in S11 means she is blind...what did she get as reward for breaking the WR? A coupon for the local cinema 

Deal  

Oh, really? I didn't know this incident. Also, he has a Dutch wife and two children (a daughter and a son). His father was minister of state in the cabinet of Turgut Özal (1983-1987).

some similitude of the quarter finalists:
 
Poland - Portugal   the first letters "PO"
 
Wales - Belgium   the third letter "L"
 
Germany - Italy   the last letter "Y"
 
France - Iceland  again "an"
 
it gives  Polyan
what that means , is it the sign ?

What a philosophical teacher  

okay so let´s go as promised,
 
ATHLETICS
 
Will we have in Rio at least one World Record in Athletics events?
Will be Ethiopia the best African Medal Nation in Athletics?
Will we have in all 3 Race Walking Rio Events at least 10 disqualified Competitors during the races ?
Will any Nation from another Continent upset the Europeans Athletes winning Gold medal in either mens or womens Javelin Throw Event?
Will we have at least one athlete who will fall in 110m Hurdles mens Final or 100m Hurdles womens final?
Will we have at least 1 clean sweep podium?
 
ARCHERY
 
Will at least one medal match (Final or Bronze medal game) in mens or womens singles decided by a shoot off?
Will Europe win overall at least 3 medals in archery at Rio 2016?
 
BADMINTON
 
Will we have in Rio at least one set which will end by at minimum result 30-28?
Will Europe win at least 2 Gold Medals in Badminton at Rio Olympics?
 
BASKETBALL
 
Will USA Mens and Womens Teams win all their matches in their respective Rio Tournaments?
Will the mens Final Match end by at least 20 points Margin?
Will we see in womens tournament at least one dunk?
 
BOXING
 
Will any country win at least 3 gold medals?
Will at least 1 match in mens tournament be ended already during the first round?
Will we have at least 2 countries which will win at least 2 medals in womens Boxing?
 
CANOEING SLALOM
 
Will any country win at least 3 medals?
Will at least 1 athlete miss a gate in mens C1 Final?
Will the mens K1 Final end without any penality of the finalists?
Will be the margin between the bronze medalist and 4th ranked athlete in womens K1 higher then 1 second?
Will be at least 1 racer in C1 (Heats, Semifinals or Final) reach a better time than the winner of mens K1 Final?
 
CANOEING SPRINT
 
Will any country win Gold in Kayak and Canoe event?
Will at least 2 non european countries win a medal in canoeing Sprint in Rio?
Will at least one boat starting in outdoor lanes (1 or 9) win Medal in Canoeing Sprint?
 
ROAD CYCLING
 
Will the mens road race event gold medal be contested in a bigger group sprint (at least 10 Riders)?
Will be a crash during womens road race event?
 
TRACK CYCLING
 
Will the winner of mens or womens Omnium win at least 3 of the 6 Omnium events?
Will we have a world record already in the qualification races of mens 4000m Team Pursuit?
 
BMX CYCLING
 
Will at least 3 different continents win medals in BMX Cycling in Rio?
Will we have a crash in the mens or womens Final race?
 
MTB CYCLING
 
Will be the final margin between the winner and second in mens cross country higher than 1 minute?
Will at least 2 countries win at least 2 medals in MTB Cycling in Rio?
 
DIVING
 
Will China win all Synchronized events in Rio?
Will any diver got 0.0 during the Rio olympics?
 
EQUESTRIAN
 
Will we have a jump off in individuals and team jumping events?
Will A Athlete from Gold Medal winning Dressage Team also win a gold in individual event (In other words will a athlete win both dressage events)?
Will the leader of eventing after the dressage part still in the top 10 of the provisional standing also after the cross-country part?
 
FENCING
 
Will both epee individual gold medal matches end after extra time?
Will at least 2 countries win at least 3 gold medals?
 
FIELD HOCKEY
 
Will any of the medal matches (Gold or Bronze medal match) in mens Tournament end after a penalties session?
Will the womens tournament end by 3 countries from 3 different continents in the medal podium?
 
FOOTBALL
 
Will we have a match with at least 2 red cards during the mens tournament?
Will we have in womens final a european Country?
Will we have at least 1 own goal in one of the play-off matches (Quarter Finals, Semifinals, Bronze Medal Game or Final) of mens tournament?
 
GOLF
 
Will we have at least 1 hole in one in Rio Olympics mens or womens Tournaments?
 
GYMNASTICS ARTISTICS
 
Will at least 1 gymnasts fall from the apparatus during the mens Pommel Horse and Horizontal Bars Finals?
Will a gymnast from the womens team all around gold medal country win at least 1 other gold medal on apparatus events?
 
GYMNASTICS RHYTMICS
 
Will all medals be won only by countries from ex-USSR?
 
GYMNASTICS TRAMPOLINE
 
Will any athlete fall from the trampoline during the Rio Olympics competitions?
 
HANDBALL
 
Will at least 2 different countries score at least 40 goals during the olympics mens tournament?
Will be at least 1 match in womens tournament decided by a penalty session?
 
JUDO
 
Will be at least 3 mens Gold medal matches decided by a ippon?
Will be at least 1 womens category where both bronze medalists will won their bronze medal matches by "winning by decision" flags method?
 
MODERN PENTATHLON
 
Will be the leader after the fencing part still be in top 5 also after the riding part?
Will the first athlete starting for the combined part also win the gold medal in either mens or womens event?
 
ROWING
 
Will any country win at least 4 Gold Medals?
Will more countries win medals in Rowing than in London 2012?
 
RUGBY SEVENS
 
Will all mens tournament medals be won by Oceanian representatives?
Will at least 1 match of the womens tournament end by a tie?
 
SAILING
 
Will be at least 1 gold medal winner be decided already before the medal race?
Will be a boat ranked 10th before the medal race win at least one medal race?
 
SHOOTING
 
Will be at least 1 country repeat their gold medal in the same event as in London 2012?
Will be at least 3 shotgun gold medal matches decided by a shoot off?
Will at least 1 shooter win 2 gold medals?
 
SWIMMING
 
Will we have at least 1 world record alsready in heats or semifinals?
Will a country win all 3 mens or all 3 womens relays?
Will we have at least one false start in the finals?
Will a country win at least 2 medals in marathon Swimming?
 
SYNCHRONIZED SWIMMING
 
Will the same countries which will be in the duets podium win also the teams event medals?
 
TABLE TENNIS
 
Will at least 3 European representatives advance to the Quarterfinals in both mens and womens singles?
Will the womens Team event Gold Medal Match end by 3-0?
 
TAEKWONDO
Will a Asian Country win the Taekwondo medal table in Rio?
Will less countries won medals in Taekwond than in London 2012?
 
TENNIS
 
Will at least 1 unseeded player reach the semifinals either mens or womens singles tournament?
Will be both mixed doubles medal matches decided by a super tiebreak?
 
TRIATHLON
 
well at least 1 easy question
 
Will Richard Varga be leading the race after the swimming part (In other words will be Varga the first athlete leaving the water)?
Will we have at least 1 athlete lapped in both Triathlon events?
 
BEACH VOLLEY
 
Will we have at least 1 All Brazilians Gold medal match?
 
VOLLEYBALL
 
Will at least one set of the mens tournament end by a result at minimum 35-33?
Will all womens semifinals end by a 3-0 score?
 
WATER POLO
 
Will Serbia lost at least 1 match in the mens tournament?
Will at least one 4th ranked team after the preliminary round upset in the womens tournament winning the QF match and qualify for the semifinals?
 
WEIGHTLIFTING
 
Will any lifter leading after the snatch bomb out in the clean and Jerk?
Will China win the weightlifting medal table?
 
WRESTLING
 
Will at least 1 gold medal match in mens wrestling end by a fall?
Will at least 1 athlete win a medal match by forfait of his opponent?
Will at least 1 Gold medal match end by Technical Fall?
 
GENERAL
 
Will we have more countries winning medals than in London 2012?
Will be the olympic flame light by Pele?
Will be hckošice happy to see Slovakia finally after 8 years win a summer olympic gold medal?
 

I'm afraid I must agree with our Danish friend here 

im in the olympics 

Former Dutch international Pierre van Hooijdonk on TV now: "Look, Slovakia is not one of the favourites, but they are a dangerously slippery banana peel."  

Women's rugby is so competitive.

You see? Ireland is uniting everyone, because the Netherlands joins Portugal in being with Ireland today  

what a circus
 

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

I think now is not time for so good shape. Competiton in canoeing is at the end of Olympics. If they are now in very good shape, no way that for 50 days they will be in very good shape. Only Hungary is able for this. They are always in good shape

Yeah, like people are happy about Qatar 

and btw congrats in volleyball, just finished the match SVK - NED 1-3

43rd place in the 100m fly heats  

http://www.microplustiming.com/fin2016/indexNU2016_242526_06_Roma_web.php

well, the Gold medal chances won't be influenced that much because France is still the strongest team by far, even if they should drop to the second place of the WR...
what would change a lot are the chances of the other teams to get the other medals, especially Italy and Ukraine, who are at the moment the most credited teams to win the Silver medal in Rio (and having France in the same half of the draw would make that impossible for Italy, for instance)...
in my opinion, with France in the bottom half, that one would be slightly stronger than the top half (because Switzerland, despite their 6th place in the WR, is a very strong team, with very strong individuals like Heinzer and Kauter), but in this particular event all the 7 teams behind France are very, very close to each other, so I think that it's almost impossible to make a prediction here...I wouldn't count out of the medal chances even Venezuela...
by the way, I think that tonight France are going to win Gold without too many troubles...I'd be very surprised if Italy can even get close in the score at the end...

you should ask user from Algeria to make for you some of his famous aplications with cats

I guess because they are so good at handball that sometimes they forget a little and we must forgive them this
 

Only when it's in South Korea  

They (CZE) will go to international court against UCI because of the Sábliková affair,
 
in fact CZE was the whole time as they wrote assured she is qualified because she won a place in time trial during last years world champs, but CZE failed to qualify a quota in world ranking. 
 
now they were surprised that she isn´t among the invited athletes, so they asked UCI for ia wild card for her, but UCI apparently answered shortly No, we will not answer you by phone, UCI will invite athletes only according to our methodics, we are starting to send letters for the invited NOC´s, if you´ll receive a letter with inviatation CZE will participate, if you´ll not receive any letter it means you are not invited.
 
the czech side is mainly complaining about the very poor communications from UCI, they said UCI didn´t wanted to talk with them about it, they litterally said that they (UCI) behave brutally, that the discussion with them is not cultivated, their lawyers answered only with harsh statements. In principle, they (UCI) wrote to them that it is a only czech problem that they failed to qualify via Ranking and then they lost the time trial quota for Sábliková and that they are not interested and absolutel don´t care about their problems, " 
 
well after all the bombarding mails and very hard letters from slovakians after UCI didn´t awarded the wild card for Sagan I´m not surprised that UCI are a bit sensitive with calls, letters, messages from federations of ex-czechoslovakia
 
so in fact Sábliková and CZE NOC is going to international arbitration court.

WOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOO!!!! Thank you Robbie Brady . Wonderful team performance! Yessss, we are through!!!

by the time all these calculations will be over, we will have new list of doped lifters