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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

Well, Belgium has a province named Luxembourg, and yet they are not bitching about that to

Greece and Macedonia agreed with something, USA and North Korea agreed for somethings tonight as well, what is going wrong with this world?  We miss only an agreements between Armenia-Azerbaijan and Russia-Ukraine

Not if the vote goes my way

I'm amused with Greenland hosting the event.

Portuguese delegation is going to be announced tomorrow...
But from what I know Silver medalist in London (k2 1000) and triple European Champion Fernando Pimenta (K1000) will be In canoe sprint.
Also 12 times European medalist and Bronze in Rio Telma Monteiro is expected to be in Judo -57. 
5th placed in Rio João Pereira is also in the list for Triatlon... 
 
This are the big names known so far for the Portuguese delegation. Some more will probably be in the list.

It's always fun to see athletes switching over to compete in different sports, especially from smaller nations. Tuvalu had a former footballer competing in the javelin at the Commonwealth Games.

Well. They have just as many players based in Denmark as we have, so I'm on team Iceland as well (after Denmark and Sweden, of course  )

So.... 7-1 never forget?  

You can find different viewpoints of the same scene here:
 
https://twitter.com/fabreinbold/status/1005533097549598726