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is a surprise, somehow. I knew that it was considered to be the 3rd/4th team in Europe, but honestly I didn't think it could had beaten both Italy and Netherlands.

Russia must battle, Italy must win otherwise lots of people here will end up saying that when we face a true team we lost and will start making comparisons with football team (...) . I personally think Italy will win, or at last, will play very well, but the match will quite surely be very long

There’s no New Zealand in jumping group G?

Now that the prediction contest of WEG is almost finished, let me reveal you that the reason I have that very low amount of points is due to the fact that I wanted to join as most as possible the spirit of the eventing, so I worked as the points were given as negative ()

Congrats to and for reaching the full olympic quota at the first attempt if also had done it, then it would had been incredible, since they already did it in sailing

Give me the job because I can cook very well and I’ll bring cake to work once a week In science it is all about motivation letters and references. If you’re not in good relationship with your previous employerS (because if you are at the beginning and have worked only for one person, then shame on you), and feel silly in writing things like “I have made important choices in my MSC that drove me here”, you are condamned. Probably I am, because I feel very very silly

How I hate writing motivation letter for job applications

It is just indoor even last year it was scheduled Or maybe, since snow volleyball is starting in January 2019, we are going to make a fusion of the venues

And with this, it is over year 2018 for Italy as regards direct olympic qualification. Definitely not good, with 0 in shooting and equestrian, and only 2 in shotgun. I dreamt of Italy qualifying in jumping here at Tryon, but there are still mechanisms to be fixed. I hope things will go better next year

http://worldtour.2018.fivb.com/en/news/2018-2019-fivb-beach-volleyball-calendar-maps-out?id=78934 Here is the provisional calendar of 2019 WT which will be important in obtaining ranking points for olympic qualification. It is also stated in the article that the 2019 World Preolympic will be played in China ( ) but still it hasn't been defined the date.

I hate admitting it, but FIFA is definitely better when organizing tournaments. Even FIBA is becoming smarter, even if, at least in Europe, we have this thing of carrying points from round to round.

Now the FIVB press office sucks or there is a problem in all NOCs hiring people for public communications p.S I think FIVB is not that good, definitely

@Wanderer when using the R with wrong unities

How it is counted for the ranking? Like negative points? I mean, if you finish 1st you get 1 point, if second 2 points and so on?

Is this counting for team jumping final ranking?

https://www.oasport.it/2018/09/volley-mondiali-2018-cambia-il-regolamento-della-seconda-fase-novita-sulle-seconde-classificate-chi-si-qualifica-alla-final-six/ According to OASport, rules for qualifying for Final Six changed in part. In fact, it was previous decided that to qualify at final six were the winners of the four pools of the second phase, plus the best second placed in the Italian part AND the best second placed in Bulgarian part. Now, it looks like that the two best second teams will be qualified to final six, regardless of where they played in the second phase.

[hide] Second Round September 21st - September 23rd, 2018 16 Nations, 4 Groups, the 1st Nation from each Group and 2 best 2nd placed Nations between all Groups will qualify for the Third Round Group E Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 21st 2018, h. 17:00 Netherlands 1 3 Russia September 21st 2018, h. 21:15 Italy 3 0 Finland September 22nd 2018, h. 17:00 Netherlands 3 1 Finland September 22nd 2018, h. 21:15 Russia 2 3 Italy September 23rd 2018, h. 17:00 Russia 3 0 Finland September 23rd 2018, h. 21:15 Italy 3 0 Netherlands Group F Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 21st 2018, h. 17:00 Brazil 3 0 Australia September 21st 2018, h. 20:30 Belgium 1 3 Slovenia September 22nd 2018, h. 17:00 Australia 1 3 Belgium September 22nd 2018, h. 20:30 Slovenia 1 3 Brazil September 23rd 2018, h. 17:00 Slovenia 3 0 Australia September 23rd 2018, h. 20:30 Belgium 0 3 Brazil Group G Date & Time (GMT +3) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 21st 2018, h. 17:00 United States 3 1 Canada September 21st 2018, h. 20:40 Bulgaria 3 2 Iran September 22nd 2018, h. 17:00 Iran 1 3 Canada September 22nd 2018, h. 20:40 Bulgaria 0 3 United States September 23rd 2018, h. 17:00 United States 3 0 Iran September 23rd 2018, h. 20:40 Bulgaria 3 1 Canada Group H Date & Time (GMT +3) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 21st 2018, h. 17:00 Serbia 3 1 France September 21st 2018, h. 20:40 Poland 3 0 Argentina September 22nd 2018, h. 17:00 Serbia 3 1 Argentina September 22nd 2018, h. 20:40 Poland 3 1 France September 23rd 2018, h. 17:00 France 2 3 Argentina September 23rd 2018, h. 20:40 Poland 3 1 Serbia [/hide]

My eurosport player account says that you're wrong, unluckily

Thanks I really hope that, as usual, sportitalia won’t be the only to broadcast

Two questions: 1) do you know if IJF will stream on its YouTube channel? 2) what about the draw of the categories? I couldn’t find them

I would wait for saying that Italy is going to final. We have faced mid level teams and in some cases we were distracted, so the real test starts now. Only Slovenia, whose level is rising up and up again was nearly a top team ( Giani ). Italian team is definitely one with great talent, but what happened right now is just what should have happened. Usually when the ball becomes harder and hotter, Italian teams fail, (especially women’s volleyball team). However, I really hope you are right

Never underestimate Velasco

Slovenian defense

I think this is somehow due not only to the costs, (which is, in any case, the most important problem), but also to the technological development. For example, taking the case of Italy, you can now go from Naples to Turin by train in nearly 6 hours (900 km), without special issues due to planes. Special trains for the athletes may reduce this to nearly 5 hours. And we're talking of nearly 900 km, from the very north of Italy to the south. This thing surely makes a national olympic "cost effective", but in some way also put the games in closer contact with people. I don't think this kind of solution is going to be that bad. If everything will go as planned, next year Naples will host Universiade, and sports will be played throughout all the region. This means that Caserta Royal Palace, that is one of the most important monument in Italy, will host archery. I'm happy with it and I would be even happier to host the Olympic games there, because it unifies the sport with our national treasures.

I'm not very expert of equestrian, but I think that without the fourth rider the eventing will be more lottery than ever. To win, a nation won't just need the best riders, but the best riders in their best days. Obviously, both Germany and Great Britain will be two serious contenders, but definitely not the only. At least in theory.