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U-17 World Cup will be expanded and the next FIVE editions will be staged in Qatar (boys) & Morocco (girls)
 
 

Looks like the footballing days of Quincy Promes are now really over  
 
He has been convicted in the Netherlands a while back and is wanted here (stabbing his cousin, importing 1400kg of coke, just your regular Tuesday), but has been playing for Spartak in Moscow for quite a while now (and is important there). Recently they went on a training camp in Dubai, he got involved in an accident there and got arrested  And the best, there's an extradition treaty between them and the Netherlands since a while, so it's basically a matter of finalizing the formalities and he'll be sent here and straight to prison for several years  
 
Of course the footballing days of this example of being ultra dumb are over then, so when he gets out, one can only assume he'll become some wannabe drill rapper and end up getting shot over a drug deal or something, but who knows  

Sparta Prague lost the first match against Liverpool 1-5, they're now 4-0 behind after less than 20 minutes. Only 9 goals needed and they kick Liverpool out  

Shanne Braspennincx, reigning Olympic keirin champion, has retired due to a lack of motivation.
https://nos.nl/artikel/2510803-olympisch-kampioene-braspennincx-stopt-met-baanwielrennen-plezier-is-weg

Another case of contamination by boyfriend.
Rule #1 for athletes who want to use any banned substsnce: don't be single and make sure your partner is ready to take the blame.

No, I very much do not like Djokovic, but the heart reaction is simply because it's an awesome surprise: a player from outside the top-100 beating one of the players who always win the big events, I don't see how that isn't cool  
 
Same with the Grand Slams in the past eternity or so. The wins of Sinner, Alcaraz, Medvedev, Thiem were awesome, instead of always Djokovic, Nadal or Federer (and the hype that goes with it, that always goes along the lines of "wow, Nadal/Djokovic/Federer wins historic 532th Grand Slam title, he is for sure the GOAT!", year after year....you know, media people, at some point it's just not special anymore).
 
 

Luca Nardi defeated Djokovic at Indian Wells 

I hope that works out and we'll see a Slovak hockey team in LA 2028  

Egypt killed the games .. they are weak in athletics which be held in Ramadan so ghana managed everything to give the win to egypt 

Well yeah, but not in this case. I’m pretty sure most of the top 49er/49er FX duos are competing, there may be some names missing (due to injury and other factors) but a quality field nonetheless. 
 
I don’t follow sailing either, so take all of this with a grain of salt. This is all from the research I’ve done 

I would assume so, but aren't there some sports where world championships in/around Olympic years have a lot of top athletes passing on it?  
 
Nice to know, thanks! Don't think I'll be watching it when NOS shows it, because I just can't follow sailing, but who knows  

Roest didn't even come anywhere close, Stolz confirms the hype with 'ease'  

Roest needs to make up 33.38 seconds on Stolz in the 10k  
 
I mean, with the race of his life it's possible, but yeah....not likely. Ghiotto will need the race of his life for bronze, I thought he'd be a bit closer...

Ghiotto once again with a great 10k, destroying Nils van der Poel's TR  

Gold for Mauritius in the men's road race, with a massively disappointing result for Eritrea, that only gets a bronze even though with Kudus, Mulubrhan and Arefayne they had three of the main gold medal favourites.
https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/jeux-africains-2015-de-brazzaville--/2024/result

Weren't there sometimes 4-5 competitors in the year that Tongan oil guy who later bought his way into the Winter Olympics qualified in taekwondo?  

So many global top-20 athletes not even qualifying is honestly more of a failure of the Olympic taekwondo format than a failure of, in this case, the Greeks...

John Heymans has been talking about how he wrote a computer script to qualify for the Olympics in only 4 races
https://www.runnersworld.com/nl/nieuws/a46591071/heymans-olympische-spelen-chatgpt/
 
Basically, he expected he'd run around 13:15, and he was going entirely for the world ranking qualification pathway instead of the time limits. He entered all athletes who ran 13:15 in the past 5-6 years, ran their results through his script to basically see how many points they got in which races. Some more statistical analysis and stuff was done on the data, and in the end the script gave him a handful of races as best options to score an optimal amount of points...which is what he did, and so he rose on the world ranking all the way to a qualifying spot with only 4 races  
 

So many global top-20 athletes not even qualifying is honestly more of a failure of the Olympic taekwondo format than a failure of, in this case, the Greeks...

Gold for Mauritius in the men's road race, with a massively disappointing result for Eritrea, that only gets a bronze even though with Kudus, Mulubrhan and Arefayne they had three of the main gold medal favourites.
https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/jeux-africains-2015-de-brazzaville--/2024/result

Difference between  Lollobrigida (4th) and  Han (5th) after 4 distances: 0.01 seconds 

Hi Group,
 
I wasn't sure where best to post so thought I would chuck it in here.
 
I'm new to this forum from the mighty GB. I just wanted to say how much I rate this page and was blown away by the work that has gone into making it what it is today.
 
I have a love for virtually all summer Olympic sports and have been checking in regularly to see how the shape up for Paris is looking.
 
If there is anything I can do to help out let me know.
 
 

Hello,
 
I'm back here hope you've been well in these, let's say, 4 years

Didn’t even know that this was a thread, I’ll start to share some of the food that I make here soon 
 
No judging me please 

Might result in the Olympics being cancelled.