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Olympic Channe will stream it

Mexico confirmed a delegation of 634 competitors. Names probably to come in the following days
 
Today ends the period to register athletes, so probably tomorrow we could have news about size of other teams.

I’m trying real hard to lose apparently

Algeria will be next team to break European domination! Africa is the best! Oh wait...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Sorry, I do not remember who decides to boycott which thing  

We played with our food too much, damn Trinidad and Tobago! It’s only the World Cup of dopers because we’re selling them the drugs. After today’s sale I expect Nigeria to Argentina 120-0 

Which is why we choose to skip this one, right @Gianlu33 and @phelps and @Dunadan and @Pabloffo and @Olympian1010? 

Of course, we decided to boycott this.  

it's Olympian1010  he voted  for    as winner of WC

Post of the month.

An image of the Iceland defense today in the match.

Another let down from Argentina (allthough I'm happy for Iceland here). Their issue remains that if Messi has a day off, the entire team has a day off. They're too reliant on him.

Congratulations for Iceland, the match is even better than i expected, well........im starting to believe that this team dont pass the first round.

Iceland!

1 week to go and the official site still very poor
no list of athletes no live scoring  no  news ...

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