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Or because I’m surrounded by people with racial issues, and a false belief in populism. I’m pretty certain almost every sovereign nation is meddling in each other’s affairs. Right rather have a politically correct President than one who: has bragged about assaulting woman, caged children, banned people because of their religion, used business as a way to justify his denial in science, declared victory over our allies, blames everything on people he doesn’t like, talks with the vocabulary of a 5 year old, pulled my country closer to autocratic leaders, invited the Russians to meddle in our elections, went bankrupt multiple times, has denied facts throughout his term, created fake “fake news”, used race baiting as an excuse to bring back derogatory practices. 
He doesn’t seem to represent the average person, and he certainly doesn’t represent the America I know. Political correctness saves us from administrations like NAZI Germany, the USSR, military junta’s, and autocratic leaders.
I also don’t think that age determines a person’s knowledge on a subject. I am one of the kids in the state for knowledge in geography, politics, and history. Of course the older “wiser” generations use age as a way to justify a reaction against new ideas.

Or because I’m surrounded by people with racial issues, and a false belief in populism. I’m pretty certain almost every sovereign nation is meddling in each other’s affairs. Right rather have a politically correct President than one who: has bragged about assaulting woman, caged children, banned people because of their religion, used business as a way to justify his denial in science, declared victory over our allies, blames everything on people he doesn’t like, talks with the vocabulary of a 5 year old, pulled my country closer to autocratic leaders, invited the Russians to meddle in our elections, went bankrupt multiple times, has denied facts throughout his term, created fake “fake news”, used race baiting as an excuse to bring back derogatory practices. 
He doesn’t seem to represent the average person, and he certainly doesn’t represent the America I know. Political correctness saves us from administrations like NAZI Germany, the USSR, military junta’s, and autocratic leaders.
I also don’t think that age determines a person’s knowledge on a subject. I am one of the kids in the state for knowledge in geography, politics, and history. Of course the older “wiser” generations use age as a way to justify a reaction against new ideas.

Or because I’m surrounded by people with racial issues, and a false belief in populism. I’m pretty certain almost every sovereign nation is meddling in each other’s affairs. Right rather have a politically correct President than one who: has bragged about assaulting woman, caged children, banned people because of their religion, used business as a way to justify his denial in science, declared victory over our allies, blames everything on people he doesn’t like, talks with the vocabulary of a 5 year old, pulled my country closer to autocratic leaders, invited the Russians to meddle in our elections, went bankrupt multiple times, has denied facts throughout his term, created fake “fake news”, used race baiting as an excuse to bring back derogatory practices. 
He doesn’t seem to represent the average person, and he certainly doesn’t represent the America I know. Political correctness saves us from administrations like NAZI Germany, the USSR, military junta’s, and autocratic leaders.
I also don’t think that age determines a person’s knowledge on a subject. I am one of the kids in the state for knowledge in geography, politics, and history. Of course the older “wiser” generations use age as a way to justify a reaction against new ideas.

Guam takes the first gold medals of the games, winning both the men’s and women’s 10,000m

Week in Summer #12 - United States  
July 8th - July 15th
 
NOTE: What a week for United States Olympic Sports! I know I'm missing some stuff but this took me a very long time (mainly importing the photos). Still kicking away at my spreadsheet and trying to understand Qualification Systems etc. Woohoo for our win in Volleyball and Athletics this week! 
 
Archery
No archery events last week, but the Archery World Cup - Stage 4 | Berlin goes through July 16th to July 22nd. The US Recurve Men include Brady Ellison, Matthew Requa, Jack Williams, Alex Bourdage. The US Recurve Women include Mackenzie Brown, Amy Jung, Erin Mickelberry, Khatuna Lorig. According to the World Archery website Brady Ellison is not yet safe for Samsun (World Cup
Final) and will likely need a top eight finish in Berlin to make his ninth consecutive World Cup Final. 
 
 
Athletics
Athletics World Cup
The inaugural Athletics World Cup was held in London this past week and USA was able to come out in 1st place with 2019 points and winning $450,000! Eight nations competed which were China, France, Germany, Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Jamaica, Poland, South Africa, and United States.
 
100 Meters - Men
 
Kendal Williams was only 0.03 away from taking home the gold but nonetheless great effort by him!
 
100 Meters - Women

Ashley Henderson was able to beat Olympic Champion Elaine Thompson in a very close race!
 
200 Meters - Men

Ameer Webb was able to get 3rd place in the Men's 200 Meters
 
200 Meters - Women

Jenna Prandini snatched a 2nd place in the Women's 200 Meters!
 
400 Meters - Men

Great race for Paul Dedewo finishing in 1st place!
 
400 Meters - Women

Courtney Okolo finished in 5th place
 
800 Meters - Men

Clayton Murphy did a great job getting 1st place in the Men's 800 Meters!
 
800 Meters - Women

Giving us more points Raevyn Rogers was able to get 1st place!
 
1500 Meters - Men

Not his best race but Izaic Yorks was still able to finish in 4th place!
 
1500 Meters - Women

Rachel Schneider was able to get us a silver and she ran her Season Best!
 
110 Meter Hurdles - Men

Devon Allen gave us a bronze and got 3rd place with a time of 13.36!
 
100 Meter Hurdles - Women

Queen Harrison gave us another bronze with a time of 12.99
 
400 Meter Hurdles - Men

Kenny Selmon gave us GOLD and won the 400 Meter Hurdles!
 
400 Meter Hurdles - Women

Kymber Payne didn't have the best race but stayed close with 3rd and 4th place but ended up getting 5th.
 
High Jump - Men

Jeron Robinson won the high jump with a 2.30!
 
High Jump - Women

Vashti Cunningham was able to win the high jump with a gold!
 
Pole Vault - Men

Great win by Sam Kendricks with a score of 5.83!
 
Pole Vault - Women

Lot's of PB and SB for the women but Katie Nageotte was able to pick up silver!
 
Long Jump - Men

Zack Bazile was able to jump a 8.30 giving him the silver medal!
 
Long Jump - Women

Quanesha Burks was able to jump her was to 2nd with a 6.48!
 
Triple Jump - Men

Donald Scott triple jumped his way to silver with 16.73!
 
Triple Jump - Women

Keturah Orji was able to pick up 14.60 moving her to 2nd place!
 
Shot Put - Men

Nice job Darrell Hill getting 2nd place!
 
Shot Put - Women

Maggie Ewen ended up getting bronze with a score of 18.23!
 
Discus Throw - Men

Reggie Jager got 5th place in the Discus Throw
 
Discus Throw - Women

 
Discus Throw - Women

Valarie Allman ended up getting 3rd place!
 
4x100 and 4x400 - Men & Women
We ended up getting gold in both of these events for our Women and our Men!
 
Medal Table

 
 
 
Badminton
Toyota Thailand Open 2018
 
Women's Singles

Beiwen Zhang got matched up against Ying Li Chiang in the 1st round and beat her 2-0 (21-15, 21-14). In the 2nd round she got matched up against Dinar Dyah Ayustine and beat her 2-1. In the Quarterfinals she faced Akane Yamaguchi and beat her 2-1! Sadly in the Semi Finals Beiwen lost to Nozomi Okurhara 0-2. This didn't affect her World Ranking (12th) but did affect her World Tour Ranking moving her down 1 spot to 11th place.
 
Women's Doubles

Ariel Lee and Sydney Lee got beat first round pretty badly, but their ranking has been on a steady incline in both the World Ranking and World Tour Ranking (50th WR) (28th WTR)
 
Men's Doubles

Just like Ariel and Sydney, Phillip and Ryan Chew got beat 1st round against Xuanui and Ren but they did better than Ariel and Sydney. Sadly this brough them down 1 rating in both the World Ranking
and World Tour Ranking as they are now rank 51st for both.
 
 
 
Diving
FINA Diving Grand Prix 2018 #3 Bolzano (ITA)
 
3m Synchronized - Men

Greg Duncan and Grayson Campbell were able to pull out a 3rd place bronze for us in the Grand Prix!
 
3m Springboard - Women

Brooke Schultz was able to get 3rd place meanwhile Alison Gibson placed 6th.
 
10m Platform - Men

Jacob Cornish got a silver in the Grand Prix!
 
10m Synchronized - Women

Nice job Olivia and Katrina on getting the bronze for us in the Grand Prix stage 3!
 
 
 
 
Tennis
2018 Wimbledon Championships
 
Women's Singles - Serena Williams

In Section 7 Serena was able to get past A Rus, V Tomova, K Mladenovic, and E Rodina!
 

In the Finals bracket Serena made her way past Camila Giorgi and Julia Gorges before falling to Angelique Kerber in the Finals
 
 
 
Volleyball
2018 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup
 

We started off strong with a 3-1 win over Trinidad and Tobago. But our next match didn't go over so smoothly as we lost to Cuba 2-3 which put us in a tough spot as we needed a win over Puerto Rico to get back our 1st place. We ended up beating Puerto Rico 3-0 allowing us to get to 1st place in the group!
 

In the Quarterfinals we beat Colombia 3-0 which now allowed us to qualify for the Pan American Games! In the Semifinals we faced a bit of a harder match up against Canada but beat them 3-1. Finally in the Final game we beat the Dominican Republic 3-2! 
This was our 6th Pan American Cup win and we were able to defend our previous Gold in 2017! Let's hope 2019 goes smoothly aswell!
 
 
 

Unfortunately I think that’s true, although I got beat guys some pretty smart lads at the state geography bee in 8th grade. Damn fussa! Why did I get that question. There are as many smart Americans as ignorant Americans. 

Wait @konig I though you were from Uruguay, the capital of Brazil 

Obama by a marathon, I would’ve (was too young at the time) voted for Sanders because I’m more of a socialist.

Obama by a marathon, I would’ve (was too young at the time) voted for Sanders because I’m more of a socialist.

Surely they can, but as long as they're not, the winner is the one who wins the elections with the system that is in place. If you can only win the Olympic 400m gold medal by making a backwards somersault over the finish, that sucks, but if that's the rule beforehand, it's clear for everyone and the winner is the one who does that  

personally i'm for the president who reveals these secrets of UFO/Roswell ..etc

I’m sorry, but I disagree with you. We elected Clinton by a 3 million vote majority. Trump won because of an antiquated system that favors the right. Trump certainly doesn’t represent my interests. His America, is not my America. He’s made it clear that refugees are not welcome in America, so we refuse to welcome in my state. 

with 48 team format, they could qualify and everything is possible after that

I’m calling it, Turks and Caicos 2022 World Cup champions

France was the best team at this tournament. They had much more difficult path to the final than Croatia, their half of the draw was tougher. Having said that, they weren't better side today and the refferee helped them today. Great run for Croatia, but at the end of the day the best team during this month won the competition. 

Such a proud day to be British! I was one of those marching through London with 250’000 others! I hope Trump got the message that he and his policies are not welcome in the UK.
 
https://mobile.twitter.com/estherruthneica/status/1017745559640256512

Thier live-streaming “service” is about as good as an amateur home video. It’s run by volunteers who are working with almost nothing to create something, so kudos to them. I do intend to save and list the livestreams, just like I did with the Med. Games. I’m kind of hoping they show the spear fishing tomorrow.

There are 10 teams participating, from 6 countries (4 are the states of Micronesia). I try to find more links, once it starts. If I don’t find any, I’ll try to keep people informed on what’s happening.

Who’s ready for 2018 Micronesian Games . Streaming appears like it will be available on their website: here. Honestly, their website is better than the Mediterranean Games and CAC Games.

Here is the link to the offical website: Offical Website

Burghardt was a little bored today  
 
 

That's a good team play. Didn't enter at start, but still entered to get free GC points both individually and for team.

It's probably an anti-Slovak conspiracy indeed. Because countries like yours and mine are so significant, everyone wants to sabotage them  

yes I agree, today it was intentional