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The judges seem more excited than most athletes. Nice for them to have their moment to shine
 

Well, the schedule of these Games is very "tight", so I guess some athletes had to skip the ceremony.
 

Am I the only one noticing some similarities with the Rio opening ceremony? Especially regarding the design and overall elements (like the stage with singers/dancers/climbers at one side and the place where the flag will be raised at the other)?
 
Anyway, even with some technical issues (lighting and the projection of the images could be better) they're doing a good enough job.
 

Reports are saying that Kazakhstan's Olympic medalist, Denis Ten, has tragically passed away following an attack in Almaty. If true, this is devastating 
 

Reports are saying that Kazakhstan's Olympic medalist, Denis Ten, has tragically passed away following an attack in Almaty. If true, this is devastating 
 

Reports are saying that Kazakhstan's Olympic medalist, Denis Ten, has tragically passed away following an attack in Almaty. If true, this is devastating 
 

Reports are saying that Kazakhstan's Olympic medalist, Denis Ten, has tragically passed away following an attack in Almaty. If true, this is devastating 
 

Reports are saying that Kazakhstan's Olympic medalist, Denis Ten, has tragically passed away following an attack in Almaty. If true, this is devastating 
 

Reports are saying that Kazakhstan's Olympic medalist, Denis Ten, has tragically passed away following an attack in Almaty. If true, this is devastating 
 

Because the men’s basketball final is always such a great match xD

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.
 

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
 

Women's Handball and Volleyball finals are more exciting (to me) than Men's. So maybe for some people the Men's events are better, but not for everyone - I know for a fact that sports fans in Brazil care more about Women's than Men's, and that's a big market if we're talking about Volleyball.
 
+ (i'm just fishing here) maybe the time difference favours the Men's events finals to be held on Saturday? (for America viewers, I mean?)
 
Maybe they could create a rotation system, but there's no reason to be so mad at this decision.
 

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.
 

France is the 5th country after Uruguay in 1930, Italy in 1938, England in 1966 and Brazil in 1970 to score 4 goals in the FIFA WC final, there only one country that scored more, Brazil 5 goals in 1958
 
That 5-2 BRA-SWE final in 1958 is the final with the more goals scored 7

More european stuff added to calendar woohoo how exciting.

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...
 
 

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

https://youtu.be/wEqbWSg7T_s
 

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

I think some sailing qualifiers already happened.
 
And Virgin Islands already well over their team size in 2015 

Coincidentally you opened this thread three days to the exact date the Toronto 2015 games started (with water polo matches),great timing

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.