What other sports do you follow?

[bugylibicska]

Ireland beat Scotland 17:13 and won the 6 nations. Italy beat Wales and handed them the wooden spoon. France lead 16:3 against England after 37 minutes. If they win they get the 2nd place, if England win the 2nd place is theirs. Scotland finished 4th.

[Lorric]

France won it 33-31 with seconds on the clock. But I couldn't even enjoy it when we were winning because beating Ireland and France and not winning the Six Nations would just be incompetence. Could have won this match and had no Six Nations, no Triple Crown, no Calcutta Cup. Just the Millennium Trophy.

We're a very weird team. Almost anyone we play we have a very close game with.

[bugylibicska]

Mar.16. Las Vegas, Nevada: Tuivasa - Tybura, Moises - Riddell

Tybura submitted Tuivasa in the very 1st round, the Moises - Riddell fight was canceled, Riddell got injured and withdrawn.

[BurningStorm]

I was at the decisive handball game for the qualification of the Olympics, Germany - Austria 34:31. We are in. Croatia also made it. 10k spectators, it was loud, but I prefered the football atmosphere in the same city from one day before.

[bugylibicska]

Latest World Rugby Rankings (18/03/2024)

1(1) South Africa 94.54

2(2) Ireland 90.69

3(3) New Zealand 89.80

4(4) France 87.92

5(5) England 85.75

6(6) Scotland 82.82

7(7) Argentina 80.68

8 (9) Italy 79.41

9 (10) Australia 77.48

10(8) Wales 79.62

11 (11) Fiji 76.38

12 (12) Japan 74.27

13 (13) Georgia 74.02

14 (14) Samoa 72.23

15 (16) Tonga 71.57

16 (15) Portugal 70.28

17 (17) USA 67.94

18 (18) Uruguay 67.39

19 (19) Spain 64.37

20 (20) Romania 61.66

[amenina]

Paris 2024 basketball draws made yesterday

[Firnen]

With the 2024 Olympics approaching:

5 European countries have no Olympic medal.

Monaco
Malta
Andorra
Albania
Bosnia-Herzegovina

6 more European countries have no gold Olympic medal.

Iceland
San Marino
Cyprus
North Macedonia
Moldova
Montenegro

[rpo.castro]

With the 2024 Olympics approaching:

5 European countries have no Olympic medal.

Monaco
Malta
Andorra
Albania
Bosnia-Herzegovina

6 more European countries have no gold Olympic medal.

Iceland
San Marino
Cyprus
North Macedonia
Moldova
Montenegro

I thought "no Liechtenstein? All of their must be winter"

It is the only country to have won medals at the Winter, but not Summer Olympic Games. Liechtenstein has the most medals per capita of any country, with nearly one medal for every 3,600 inhabitants.
Wikipedia

[Lorric]

U18 Six Nations Festival is coming up soon. Here's something interesting, Georgia and Portugal got invited. So it's really an 8 Nations Festival this year. Everyone plays 3 games. England will play Wales (30th March), Scotland (3rd April) and Georgia (7th April). Italy is the host. A toe in the door for these teams, how will they do?

It'll probably be on that Six Nations U20 Youtube, it had the games last year.

They missed an opportunity here I think. 8 teams could have let you have a straight KO competition Rugby 7s style so everyone still gets 3 games.

[Lorric]

No stopping Max unsurprisingly. Sainz back with a bang in 2nd. Perez 3rd, excellent Norris 4th, highest McLaren start this season and outqualified his teammate on his home track. Russell 7th, Stroll outqualified Alonso with those two 9th and 10th. Hamilton not doing well so far this season in 11th.

[Lorric]

Max was stopped by his car catching on fire. I was annoyed how happy the commentator was about it. Race is poorer not richer without Max in it imo. Sainz swept to the win and a Ferrari 1-2 and Norris 3rd in a McLaren 3-4. Perez 5th. Hamilton picked the right race for a poor qualifying performance as his engine failed. Russell got swept up in Alonso's dirty air on the last lap trying to take 6th and went into the wall.

EDIT: Alonso was deemed at fault for this crash and got a 20 second penalty, dropping him to 8th.

[Lorric]

Women's Six Nations has started. England sweep aside Italy 0-48. This was despite a very early red and taking over 30 minutes for England to get their first score. But after finally breaking through with that, Italy's stiff resistance crumbled and the floodgates opened from there. They even scored a try with 13 vs 15.

Other scores:

France 38-17 Ireland
Wales 18-20 Scotland

[Lorric]

Sport is brutal. I've seen this 3 times recently, 2/3 going our way. The first was the U18 Six Nations Festival, the men beating Wales 36-35 going over for a try out wide, and despite the difficult kick, landing it with time up. The women did the same against Italy to get a 19-19 draw. The women are different. Men it's a 70 minute game. The women play two 35 minute games, so they'll play everyone unlike the men. They beat Ireland in a tough game 19-12, interestingly, time was up at 14-12, but rather than kick the ball out to win, England chose to keep going and scored for the 19-12. And then immediately had to face a fresh tournament hosting Italy. No coincidence I'm sure.

The final one was today. Our women's ice hockey team is playing in Division 1B. They were up against Poland and leading 2-1 when Poland got a powerplay with 59 seconds to go. So they pulled the keeper and went 6 v 4. Despite this we got a break on the empty net. It should have been a pretty simple finish, but she hit the post, and Poland went back up and scored. Then won in overtime. But we're doing far better than expected. We were on a big losing streak coming in, having lost the last 4 games from the last 1B and every friendly, and despite losing a friendly to Italy right before opening the tournament against Italy, beat them 1-0 to open the tournament. Poland was game 2, and these two teams finished 2nd and 3rd last year. So to have 4pts is well above expectations.

I also found out the men had played their first round of Olympic qualifiers in February. On home ice, it was total destruction, beating China 10-1, Serbia 11-0 and Romania 7-4. Surprisingly they were the only top seed to actually win their group and qualify for the final round. And due to the decision to exclude Belarus being made after this round, that meant an extra team, top runner up Hungary, got in. So I think with GB the highest ranked qualifier, they get to have another qualifier, Japan, in their group, along with host Denmark and Norway. The final round is 29th August. Ukraine was the other team to qualify.

Last thing to mention is the England women won game 2 in the Six Nations over Wales 46-10. The surprise so far is Scotland. I'm not sure if they went pro as well, but they beat the pro Wales 20-18, and then gave France a fight, leading 5-3 at HT and only losing 15-5.

[Lorric]

More results from these tournaments, in the ice hockey, in a 1st vs 2nd clash, Slovakia beat us 7-1. They're the relegated team and they're kicking everyone's ass, they beat Slovenia 4-0 and Latvia 7-1. We didn't have a dominant team in the division last year. It's about survival and bettering the 4pts we got last time for us now. Italy are in trouble having lost their first two games and not having played the Slovaks yet. They're in a bottom of the table clash with Poland, who have 2pts today...

28-6 win over Scotland for the U18 men and the women won both games today, they were losing 0-14 to Wales, but Wales' discipline then collapsed, allowing us to win 26-14. And then for the first time, a comfortable win, 27-5 over Scotland. France have won all 4 games and by convincing scorelines, every result of theirs better than every result of ours, so look likely to win this competition, but we'll see...

[bugylibicska]

Mar.30. Atlantic City, New Jersey: Brady - Luque, Weidman - Bruno Silva, Reyes - Ulberg

Buckley replaced Brady - who withdrawn with injury - and duly knocked out Luque in the 2nd round, Weidman won against Silva with technical decision in the 3rd round, the Reyes - Ulberg fight was canceled, will be rescheduled at a later date.
The big news is that Chimaev is back and will fight Whittaker on Jun. 22nd in Saudi Arabia.