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I was paid off by the Saudi’s to predict them winning . In all honesty I made my predictions before I did my research, like a dummy. But I am gracious for the award, I like come from behind victories anyway

Provisional Standing after Day 2 available here
 
Tiger Soccer Award  @sounak (11 points out of 15 maximum)
Walk of shame  @Gianlu33 @NikolaB @rybak (amazing effort to collect one pity point)

,  and  tomorrow.
 
Supporting ,  and  (in that order) for the tournament in general.

Competition Schudule: http://www.tarragona2018.cat/content/uploads/2018/06/HORARIOS-COMPETICION-TARRAGONA-2018_ESP.pdf

I've got many - right now I'm doing a Hungarian-Polish-English sport dictionary for my master's degree, so the topic is really interesting for me. For example searching for "scissor kick" in football (called soccer in AmE) in Hungarian I found word "ollózás", which means scissoring. I checked in Google, if ollózás is really, what I'm looking for and... well, it is, but among the movies showing such a spectacular kick there were some... lesbian intercourses.
 
The one with "basket" ("kosz" in Polish) seems to be a case in many languages, for example "rzucić kosza" (throw a basket) means to score.
 
As well as @Gianlu33 said about Italian, we also use "fight" in all sports.
 
In field hockey the stick is called "laska", which is also popular word for an attractive, young woman (probably because of the slim shape of a stick, not only in field hockey, but also the one used by elder people to help at walking).
 
The word "canoe" (not the kayak) is "kanadyjka" which means (written with capital - "Kanadyjka") the Canadian [woman, girl...].
 
The ski-flying hill is called "skocznia mamucia" which means "mammoth hill".
 
Also the "body check" came to Polish in a form of "bodiczek" (in Hungarian it's also "bodicsek"). My theory (maybe someone might confirm) is it was used by Czechs and Slovaks, which are the most hockey nations in our region, in original, English form, but as it sounds very Czech/Slovak, we adopted it as the word of Czech/Slovak origin, which is (at least in Polish) important because of declination.
 
In modern pentathlon, before the name "laser-run" was introducted we used the word "kombajn" in everyday talk (rather not in official press reports), because it sounds like a "combined" which was the name of the event of run and shoot. "Kombajn" is a word for a harvester machine. Also Russians used such a word (our languages are quite similar) and when I typed the Russian texts about competitions to Google Translate it translated as "food processor..."
 
About such a funny stories as @hckosice said about hole, our biggest sport journalism legend, Bohdan Tomaszewski, once said about Irena Szewińska "Pani Irena nie jest już tak świeża w kroku jak kiedyś" which may mean to thing - "she's not as fresh in stride as earlier" (which is what he meant as she was a runner) or "she's not as fresh in crotch as earlier" (which is why the sentence is so funny).
Another double meaning, also by Mr Tomaszewski, about our cyclist - "Ryszard Szurkowski - cudowne dziecko dwóch pedałów" - "Ryszard Szurkowski - a wonderful child of two pedals" ("pedał" is also a vulgar word for homosexual).
 

Oh!! In the US, we tell kids to shag the balls (which means retrieve them from outside or off the field) in youth sports. Apparently, and this is according to some visiting British football coaches, it has a very different meaning in the UK 

For those interested, a certain Brazilian biathlete got a chance to 'train' at the shooting club in my small town today  (with my dad, a military guy, who she very clearly outshot on the targets  )
 
 

btw a bit weird..but well, let´s go. During the PyeongChang Olympics Women´s Ice Hockey final our consultant of the commentator when speaking about one nice shot and goal said one memorable sentence - "She did it perfectly, what a shot it was, look, how she find a hole between her legs."  ofc he immediately realized what he said but it was too late practically the whole nation still remember it and is still used as a common joke
 

It started!
This is how you picked for the opening match:
50
1
TIE: 2
 
Results will be a bit late

Group A
 Russia - Saudi Arabia 5:0 (2:0)   
Goals: 12. Gazinskiy 1:0, 43. Cheryshev 2:0, 71. Dzyuba 3:0, 90+2. Cheryshev 4:0, 90.+4 Golovin 5:0
 
Yellow Cards: Golovin - Al Jassim.
Officials: Pitana - Maidana, Belatti (all ARG), 78.011 attendance
 
Russia: Akinfeev - Fernandes, Kutepov, Ignashevich, Zhirkov - Gazinskiy, Zobnin - Samedov (64. Kuzyaev), Dzagoev (24. Cheryshev), Golovin - Smolov (70. Dzyuba)
 
Saudi Arabia: Al Mayouf - Al Burayk, Om. Hawsawi, Os. Hawsawi, Al Shahrani - Otayf (64. Al Muwallad), Al Jassim - Al Dawsari, Al Faraj, Al Shehri (72. Bahebri) - Al Sahlawi (84. Asiri)
 

Not a problem, thank you so much for telling me, mate!
Sorry my mistake!

Just wanted to let you know that you used Greece’s flag for Greenland on the group B pool. Not that I’m that offended or anything, just don’t want it to discredit your work

Maybe with 48 teams in the World Cup we could have more unusual tournaments.
Maybe half the tournament in Spain, the other half in Morocco but the final in Paris?
Or half in Argentina, half in Colombia, final in Sao Paolo?
Half in India, half in China, final in Hong Kong?

NFL Coming back with 2 great teams (Chargers season ticket holder right here), new Soccer stadium, Lakers on the rise again, World Cup, OLYMPICS (with plenty of events coming up as tests) , I LOVE L.A
 
But i do agree that things have to be done together, not just one city, kinda like what stockholm 2026 doing with sigulda, to not build a sledding track, it will be harder on fans, but easier on economy

I'm sorry but no, more billions of dollars in spending, more white elephant stadiums, more controversy, would they put the money in? Sure, but why? you don't have enough unused stadiums from South Africa? you will have plenty from russia, qatar.
 
World Cup (and olympics) should be in places with proven sports culture, so yes, smaller countries will be blacklisted but it will curb spending that can shut that smaller country down.
 
FIFA (and IOC) should have a list of approved locations where their travelling carnival can go to (you wont get white elephants in England, Spain, Germany, France, Italy, Brazil)
 
This insane spending on events need to stop just to show who's bigger
 
 
I see you are from L.A like me (where from btw?) We are very fortunate to live in a place with amazing sports infrastructure that no other place really have, let's enjoy what we have and bask in the glory of the upcoming sport goodness coming to USA

Less than 24 hours to start

Morocco would be more exciting (also more problematic, but who cares)...

No, I think people just don’t see them winning, but more likely getting 2nd, 3rd, or 4th

Very happy for my second silver medal in a row and happier that I still first in the general standing (thanks to @Dunadan's absence)
 
Great job @Wanderer (keep the pace with the results and the schedule it's quite demanding) and congrats to @dcro
 
About the tennis contest I already told my opinion and I have been the only one to speak so I think that this should be the only tennis contest for this year.

Pretty sure it’s a rule that every team needs at least one American player.

It's a bit surprising that many countries like  or even  don't have a proper idea of their youth athletes. May be as things get more clear within a month with all qualifiers  we could expect Joshmaartini007 to predict a medal tally for the games

Let's allow Australia and other Oceanian nations to take part in Asian qualifications  
 
For me it should be like this:
 
1. Host country - Japan
2. Winner of WC 2019
3. Runner-up of WC 2019
4. Bronze medalists of WC 2019
5. Winner of Asian/Oceanian QT
6. Winner of American QT
7. Winner of African QT
8. Winner of European QT

The Italian delegation by sport can be found here: http://www.tarragona2018.coni.it/it/discipline.html
There are 27 Olympic medallists: Basile and Giuffrida (judo), Galiazzo (archery), J. Rossi and Pellielo (shooting), Paltrinieri (swimming), Longo Borghini (cycling), Pizzo (fencing), Chamizo (wrestling), Battisti and Venier (rowing) and a lot of water polo players, both men and women, who were at Rio 2016.
It looks like a very serious delegation.
 
There's also a detailed calendar (in Italian) by date and sport: http://www.tarragona2018.coni.it/it/programma-gare.html
(I have no idea where to find a detailed calendar on the official site of the Games)

Things left to do for peace in the world:
 
Agreement between Armenia-Azerbaijan
Agreement between Russia-Ukraine
Agreement between Georgia-Russia
Agreement between Israel-Palestine
Defeat ISIS in the Middle East
End of local wars in Africa
Overthrow communism in Cuba and Venezuela
Uncensorship internet in China
 
Did I miss something? What do you think, anything of this is possible?
 

oooh those conflict will never finish , i don't believe on peace