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LOL no. The same nations will win other things as usual

I'm not 100% behind IOC changes either (those mixed events are mostly unnecessary and will only be good for the top nations anyway), but at least they're trying to add new things (and nothing extremely radical like what happens on YOG). For some opinions here, it looks like 3 or 4 more women's events will completely ruin the Winter Olympics

It was taking too long before the "women are destroying the Olympics!!!" comments to appear

Some notes: - First competition of the Games will be a Softball match on the Wednesday before the Opening Ceremony; - Football, Archery and Rowing also will start before or at the day of the OC; - It looks like the first medal will come from Shooting, as usual; - Taekwondo will be held on the first 4 days of the Games starting on Saturday, rather than on the last days like in the previous Games. Maybe they changed this because Karate will happen on the days that Taekwondo used to be held; - There will be a Cycling event every single day of the Games, in order: 2 days of Road, 2 of MB, 1 of Road (Time Trial), 2 of BMX, 2 of BMX Freestyle and 7 of Track (which will now have events until the last Sunday); - I think Basketball, Handball and Volleyball all have switched the day of Men's and Women's final. Men's will be on the last Saturday and Women's on Sunday. Beach Volleyball remain the same but finals will be later than usual (last Friday for Women's and Saturday for Men's); - Premilinary rounds and Finals of a given Wrestling category will be played in different days.

Congrats France

Today it starts the Men's and Women's Sitting Volleyball World Championships in the Netherlands. The finalists in both tournaments will qualify for Tokyo 2020. Useful links: official website I facebook page I results (men's / women's)

A silver and a bronze for Brazil + good results in some events. Good participation considering I expected nothing.

Women's Volleyball +12 +12 +12 +12 +12 For NORCECA, only 1 spot remain, and Puerto Rico, Cuba, Mexico and Trinidad and Tobago should play a qualification tournament to determine the last qualifier. But for CSV I don't think a tournament will be necessary? The qualification system for Volleyball states: As Peru is already qualified for being the host, I think the obvious choice is to give Argentina the direct slot. The only other nation that could be invited to play this tournament is Chile, but I don't think they're interested - they didn't even participate at the South American Games.

Women's Rugby Sevens WR World Cup 2018 San Francisco (USA) - 20 July 2018 - 22 July 2018 Totallympics Results Thread

Well, I agree, but between here and there I think there's a possibility to at least create a good group of players. What I do not believe, not in the slightest, is that Brazil can win the World Championship. We didn't with far better teams, so it will be hard to even reach semifinals now. USA and China are the favourites IMO. And while we depend a lot on top players, most of the previous generation is gone anyway (as you know, Jaque just announced her retirement from the national team, and Garay asked to not be called), so we have to find a way to work with what we have at the moment.

Brazil was destroyed by Dominican Republic at the semifinal. This team is embarrassing and I hope none of these players gets called to the main team (except, of course, the ones that are greatly missed: Dani Lins and Thaísa). Anyway, Dominican Republic and USA will fight for gold and I don't wanna brag but...

Semifinals this Friday: vs vs All 4 are qualified for the Pan American Games. and will play for 5th place and the winner will also qualify.

Of course it's the back, why would they do a different design just for the silver medal? Anyway, I think they're cool.

And Canada just won against Dominican Republic, joining Brazil is semifinals - which means both teams are now qualified for the Pan American Games.

Why the commentator has to say "punto VIVA. VIVA: estamos de tu lado" after every damn point? Poor guy...

Yes, but because of the defeat to Cuba, USA will have to play Quarterfinals - as well as the 2nd ranked teams Colombia, Puerto Rico and the loser of Canada vs. Dominican Republic. As the best 1st place teams, Brazil and the winner of Canada vs. Dominican Republic have qualified directly to the Semifinals.

https://youtu.be/wEqbWSg7T_s

Not only we had problems with the rain yesterday (3 to 4 hour delay), but also 3 matches ended 3-2, which of course was terrible for the organization. The last match of the day (Peru vs Dominican Republic) started way past midnight, and ended past 2AM local time. Two kinda surprising results: Mexico 3-0 win over Argentina, and Cuba 3-2 win over USA - I know the americans are here with a B team, but it's been more than 10 years that Cuba won against them!

Brazil lost 2 sets to Colombia! I think Dominican Republic has a better chance at the title - maybe USA even though they're also with a B team.

Apparently this channel is streaming the matches: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHX-VqQKfOI Brazil vs Colombia more than 2 hours delayed because of rain and water on the court.

Well, of course. I don't think she's a player for the A team yet, but could work in a competition like that. Zé Roberto already said he wouldn't have a problem to see her join the team, but it goes beyond that. FIVB still hasn't allowed her to participate in international competitions, but is studying her and other cases. How long this will take is still uknown at the moment, and as some players like Tandara already said they're against the idea, I don't know if she's has a real chance to join the team.

Apparently you have to pay 13 dollars to watch the matches The first 5 teams will qualify for the Pan American Games. Brazil and USA are with B teams here, although Brazil has two Olympic champions that are returning after a long period of absence: Dani Lins (pregnancy) and Thaísa (hard injury that made her stop for more than a year). I'm curious to see in what shape they are since I feel we really need them for Worlds, especially Lins.