#preOlympic

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Sophia Smith leads USWNT past Mexico for pre-Olympic win

The U.S. women’s national team gained some needed confidence in the first of two pre-Olympic friendlies this month. Sophia Smith’s second-half strike was all Emma Hayes’ squad needed to claim a 1-0 home victory over Concacaf rivals Mexico at Red Bull Arena. It marked the Americans’ eighth-straight win in all competitions. The Americans were held at bay in the first half with Smith being denied on…

[roseandsalt]

the streets (fstwt) are saying that the skam dance swap was actually usfs politicking with all the grace of an elephant

[latestnewstable]

Nigeria stun US basketball team in pre-Olympic friendly game

Nigeria stun US basketball team in pre-Olympic friendly game

Nigeria become the first African nation to beat the US basketball team, with a 90-87 win. Nigeria have pulled off one of the greatest upsets in international basketball history by stunning the United States in an Olympic exhibition game in Las Vegas, 90-87. On Saturday evening, Nigeria, with six NBA players and former NBA head coach Mike Brown at the helm, became the first African nation to beat…

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Juan Celaya and Yahel Castillo will represent Mexico in Pre-Olympic

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The couple made up of Yahel Castillo and Juan Celaya took the first position of a synchronized three-meter springboard, at the National Technical Control of Diving, held at the National High Performance Center, in the presence of Ana Gabriela Guevara, director of the Conade.

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The duo trained by Iván…

[dawnfacts-blog]

USA basketball women expand pre-Olympic training plans Reigning world champion and Olympic champion United States on Saturday unveiled an extensive training program for next year's Olympic Games in Tokyo with eight key players from the long-running dynasty team of the women's basketball team.

[mustafinaandhergirls]

Nabs is back training at Round Lake, Beefarm is training bars and Seda's winning medals... What World have I woken up in?

[the-torch-bearer]

[newsrustcom]

North Korea Agrees, Again, to Pre-Olympic Visit to South Korea

In an apparent move to soothe Pyongyang, South Korean officials appealed on Saturday to local news outlets, asking them not to carry speculative articles or dwell too much on controversial aspects of the North’s participation in the Games.

Also on Saturday, the International Olympic Committee began a meetingwith officials from both Koreas at the organization’s headquarters in Switzerland to…

[a2zsportsnews]

Australia’s Opals def China in pre-Olympic Games warm-up match, score, stats, news

Australia’s Opals have sent a brilliant pre-Olympic Games message, smashing fellow powerhouse China 94-66 in Melbourne. The Chinese, ranked No.2 in the world, came in at full strength with the Aussies missing their top WNBA talents like Ezi Magbegor. Yet the Opals upset the visitors after dominating from the opening minutes, in the first of two warm-up games as they prepare to finalise their…

[sandreeen]

goood when they touched on how marin was not okay during olympic season, my heart broke😭😭😭😭

[rmbaloncesto]

Luka is going to play with Slovenia at the preolympic (and hopefully olympics too if they qualify) and rick and donnie tagged along lmao

[viktoriakomova]

I think I remember seeing somewhere that the US only bids for preolympic worlds because the federation viewed those as the *important* ones? So like only bidding 1/3 of the time naturally diminishes their chances to get to host a worlds?

that makes sense

now can someone explain to me what makes for a competitive bid? cuz i feel like/i would assume that given the attendance stupid shit like the american cup gets, the US hosting worlds would be a huge draw and therefore a no-brainer decision? so like... do they just not bid? why dont they get it every time? what are the reasons for NOT bidding, like what costs are associated that wouldnt be counterbalanced pretty easily later on? 

(for the purpose of these questions, please imagine this is like pre-2016 and USAG isnt a notoriously evil embarrassment throughout the entire international olympic sports community lol)

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Dutee Chand says pre-Olympic training fraught with virus fears | Tokyo Olympics News

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NEW DELHI: After battling in court to be able to run and fighting discrimination when she came out as gay, Indian sprinter Dutee Chand now has to overcome the fear of training in a pandemic to maintain her Olympic hopes.

Chand, who was banned from competing internationally because of the hyperandrogenism gene condition, wants the Tokyo Gamesto go ahead even if she has not yet made the…

[en24news]

Pre-Olympic: Arizona expects possible wave of COVID-19

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Arizona health officials, who will organize in less than two weeks the Pre-Olympic Baseball Tournament of the Americas, they have said that state “can expect to have thousands, if not tens of thousands,” of confirmed cases of COVID-19 this year.

“And that’s just the tip of the iceberg,” he said. Christ facethe main health authority of that state of the US during a press conference on…

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[magdasabs]

This may be a silly question. But I'm a recent follower of woso (preolympics only). So i didnt understand the issue with Denmark not qualifying for the WC because they forfeited the first round match against Sweden.

So a forfeit counts as a 3-0 loss right. And then they lost the reverse fixture to Sweden. Why didn't they get into the playoffs for qualification? And wouldn't Sweden have beaten them anyways in the forfeited match? But all reports state that Denmark didn't make it only because of the forfeit.

Yeah, it's an issue with the reporting, they're just really trying to sell the story. The truth is we don't know what could've happened because they only lost the other game 1-0 but even if they'd won the forfeited one, they'd still be below Sweden because they drew another game. So a few things had to happen in another way for them to top the group, mostly it was just unlucky drawing Sweden.

And they did get into the play-offs! But there they met the Netherlands (you know, eventual SILVER medalists in that world cup) so they couldn't go to the World Cup.