- Women’s Basketball: There were many Croatian athletes on hand at the London Basketball Arena to see Croatia take on the Czech Republic including the Men’s handball team, tennis players Marin Čilić and Ivan Dodig, and Zoran Primorać. Croatia got off to fantastic start, leading 10-0 after just four minutes. The Czechs started to hit their shots and went on a run of their own to go up 22-19 at the end of the 1st quarter. Croatia went into the half down 39-45 and it was clear that their biggest problem was the number of second and third chances they were giving up. The Czechs started on top again in the third. Antonija Mišura came off the bench and provided some much needed energy on both ends of the court. The Croats started hitting shots and upped the intensity as they took the lead mid-quarter. They went into the final quarter up 60-57. The Czechs started to show their superiority in the first five minutes of the 4th, pushing to an eleven point lead, and leaving the Croatians wondering what went wrong. There would be no answer to the Czechs run and the game finished Czech Republic 89, Croatia 70. The Czech coach called a timeout with 1.6 seconds remaining which appeared to get under the skin of a few players but the game ended without incident. Sandra Mandir led the team with 20 points and added 6 rebounds. Croatia has been outscored 79-32 in the fourth quarter, perhaps a sign of their inexperience at the highest level. Croatia must win their final two games to have a chance at advancing to the quarterfinals. They play fellow bottom-dwellers Angola in their next game.
Rowing: The “Young Guns” finished first in their semifinal heat of the quad sculls and posted the fastest time overall, putting them in a great position going into the final. Russia led for the first 1200 meters before Croatia overtook them and never looked back, winning their heat by over two seconds. The final is on Friday at 5:10 AM EST, but the replay can be seen online and it’s one you won’t want to miss. The Young Guns are favorites to win Croatia’s first gold medal since 2004, with Germany being the most likely to overtake them.
- Women’s Handball: Croatia’s women’s handball team earned a huge victory Russia in their third game of the group stage, upsetting Russia and winning 30-28. It was all Russia early on as they surged ahead to an 8-3 lead midway through the first half. Croatia closed the deficit and never looked back. They held on to a slight lead all the way until the buzzer, with Russia nearly pulling off a dramatic comeback towards the end. Andrea Penezić led the way for Croatia, using her height to shoot over the defense and tally 10 goals. Croatia has all but clinched a quarterfinal berth and play Montenegro in their penultimate group game on Friday. A win in that would put them in fantastic position to finish second in the group, and put them in the hunt for a medal.
- Tennis: Marin Čilić and Ivan Dodig defeated the Swedish duo of Johan Brunstrom and Robert Lindstedt 6-3, 6-2, in the round of 16 of men’s doubles. The Croats had just one break point in the first set, and they took it. The second set was a walk in the park for the pair as they broke the Swedes twice and only lost seven points on their serve. They are now in the quarterfinals, just one win away from playing for a medal. They will play the Feliciano Lopez and David Ferrer of Spain. Ferrer is ranked 5th in the world for singles, Lopez 29th. The match will be played on Thursday at 9:00 AM EST.
“This is without a doubt the best match that we’ve played together. Everything fell into place, we served well, capitalized on our chances and deserved to win. The fans gave us exceptional support, cheering for us from the beginning to the end. They were loud and motivated us to victory.” – Dodig
- Sailing: Tonci Stipanović was in command of the sea Wednesday, finishing third in the fifth race and winning the sixth. He is in third in the Laser with five races remaining, just seven points out of first. Luka Mratović is in 23rd in the RS-X after four races. Pavle Costov and Petar Cupać are in 16th through six races in the 49er. Tina Mihelić is in 20th through six races in the laser radial.
HAET I am not agaisnt the whites (or any other race) I am not trying to justified any kind of genocide, the only point that I want to put over the table is that the decreassed in the white share of population (Share not absolute population) is a complex demographic, economic and social process and not a zionist( or whatever you want to believe) plan to become the whites in minorities in theirs contries. If you want to debate and defend your point is ok, but instead you just call me pathetic and genocide criminal make you look like a fool 11 years old.
Haet be proud to be a Croat and work towards a stronger Croatia. These Nazi’s that you follow do not given a care about us. They will use us for their purposes and then classfiy us as being inferior. They follow a belief that Western Germanic Europeans are superior. Don’t follow something that makes you a lesser person. Show up in Eastern Germany in those right-wing towns and see what they say to you.
HAET what do you pretend kill every daré not white who moves into your country.
Europe is experementing a reverse colonialism process, the North African people moves to france because they have several links as a legacy of the colonial age that makes easy the adaptation.
Japan is a Island far away of Africa, have a extremly difficult writting System (kanji + hiragana + Katakama) and a interesting but sectarian culture there the main reasons for why Japan is not a popular choice for migrants.
You seems to forget that your people (the croats) are migrants too, Argentina, Chile, Brazil even my country Colombia received your people wide open when they decided to move overseas in order to pursuit a better life.
@Haet
I live in a mixed neighborhood. The brothers dont fuck with the Croat. What I am trying to get across is that I don’t think us Croats will fall for this. You guys really are young and do not remember the Yugo secret police and ethnic intimidation that was throw at us. You think some Somalis will scare us ?
@Dukic dude check out the dutch womens field hockey team.
@Elvis, good. You have the heart to become a MANTRA THINKER!
You think that Misura chic could be a Croatian spy in Sweden?
Fighting against the genocide of my people, against the genocide of people who look like ajme antonija, is just “politics”???
@HAET
When they come to Croatia I will be ready.
Elvis, if the federal government forced your kids to be bussed into a black neighborhood school (at gunpoint), and bussed in black kids to your neighborhood, and forced your neighborhood to become more diverse (i.e. less white) with all their bullshit government “programs”, what would you have done? Kept your kids in that neighborhood and have them brainwashed in school to be anti-white and pro-miscegenation?
ajme antonija is soooooo beautiful! fuck politics. look at her!
@Elvis, you keep changing the subject. All this mass third world “immigration”/colonization and integration/”assimilation” is being forced on EVERY white country and ONLY white countries. This is a clear program of white genocide. Why won’t you “stand your ground” as a white man?
@HAet
The problem was not the busing itself but the fact that those white kids ran to the burbs instead of standing their ground. Croats stand their ground.
@Haet
I understand your concern however where do we rank on the racial totem pole. We aren’t considered number one are we?
I have friends of many European nations but to tell you the truth I would not feel comfortable in a room full of Nordics. I am a Dinaric Croat and so are my people and we will always fight for what is ours forever. If the west is to limped wristed what can we do for them?
@Anonymous, was forcing white kids to be bussed into blacks schools (in some cases at gun point) “freedom of assocation”? Is Obama and Holder saying a California neighborhood is “too white” and forcing integration there “freedom of association”? Is pouring hundreds of millions of foreign races into EVERY and ONLY white countries “freedom of association”? Is banning anything ‘whites only’ “freedom of association”? Why is Croats being forced to live and integrate with non-Croats within Yugoslavia considered wrong, but my people, the white race, being forced to live with foreign races EVERYWHERE we exist on this planet is not wrong?
I dont think you answered the question
Elvis, stop living in 15th Century. When it comes to “affirmative action”, “protected “minorities”, which countries are supposed to become multiCULTural and Die-verse, the difference between a “Nordic” and a Croat becomes moot.
@Anonymous, if Hitler sent every male Jew to a West African nation, and sent every female Jew to an East African nation, and these Jews were give “freedom of assocation”, this wouldn’t have resulted in the complete genocide of Jews? Well, they can marry who ever they want, right? Pouring hundreds of millions of third worlders into EVERY and ONLY white countries and forcing integration and “assimilation” results in less and less and less white children. But Africa will still be filled with African children, and Asia will still be filled with Asian children. Stop justifying white genocide, that’s a warning to you, it is a crime.
@HAET
Do you think those Nordics welcome you with open arms?
@HAET
Let work on Croatia First and expanding her borders. We cannot get involved with the Wests mistakes. Where were they when the Ottomans were at our door? Listen Skrewdriver has been dead for a long time now. I am not a vassal of the West.
So you believe in a totalitarian governement rather than a free society where people can make voluntary associations?
Elvis, yes, both my Parents are Croatian and were born in Croatia. “For the economy” is no justification for genocide. Japan has one of the top economies in the world and have had low birth rates for decades; yet NOBODY is demanding Japan accept millions of third worlders and “assimilate” with them until Japanese children become minorities and worse in their own countries. Japan can solve their low birth rate problem with just one generation having more babies – and those babies will be Japanese/Asian because Japan is 98% Japanese. However, there are already enough non-whites in white countries to “assimilate” our race out of existence or at the very least, make white children minorities everywhere they exist on the planet. Non white “immigration”/colonization of white countries must be stopped and segregation must be started (i.e. the opposite of the ongoing program of white genocide).
Croatia beat Hungary 26-19 in an Olympic men’s handball Group B match on Thursday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@HAET
There is truth to what you say. These migrants have been let into Western Europe for economic reasons according to them. Cheap labor and support for a declining birth rate. How can we convince Western women to have at least 3 children each?
Also, when has Western Europe ever given a fuck about Croatia?
@Denis
You got it.
@HAET
Are you Croatian?
Anonymous: “I gotta side with Angelina. Were all human beings and to hate other people just because they aren’t in your arbitrarily drawn country lines is irrational. Were all part of the human race”
So then the Olympics shouldn’t exist because nations are just arbitrarily drawn lines based on “hate”? Drinking the multiCULTist Kool-Aid?
Do me a favor, go to any Asian or African country and start preaching that they must accept millions of foreign races and “assimilate” with them until their kind becomes a minority in their own country and eventually extinct because “we are all part of the human race”, and anyone who objects to this OBVIOUS program of genocide is just an “irrational hater”.
@Zach,
Welcome to the team buddy! Excellent stuff on the olympics, day in day out. Team CroatianSports will give you a nice vacation after the olympics.
@Elvis,
We are opening to writing about anything croatian related. However, we dont have the man power to cover everything. Please feel free to write about hockey or any other sport and we would be glad to post it.
As far as Angelina, she shouldnt really stick her nose into everything, but at the same time, the croatian coach shouldnt make comments like this out loud. In front of the team in private is one thing but out in the media is another thing. Its like the Armenians saying something about the Armenian genocide after they beat Turkey. I’m not saying that the coach said something invalid, just saying that it shouldn’t have been said.
Angelina should go back to living in her bubble! Are we medal prospects for the handball and water polo?
Oops, 6-4, 6-4 loss.
Well fought!
Hopefully Cilic and Dodig work better in doubles against the master Spaniards than individually.
“Nothing will spoil this day for us. We showed that we are better than Serbia on neutral ground. I can’t help but feel that this victory reminds me of the film “Oljua” (name of the operation carried out by Croatian soldiers to claim back territory from Serbs during the war in 1995),” said Goluza.
-nothing wrong here Angelina.
It’s not about hate Mr. Anonymous. Its the will to survive.
I gotta side with Angelina. Were all human beings and to hate other people just because they aren’t in your arbitrarily drawn country lines is irrational. Were all part of the human race
Off topic but how about some hockey.
http://www.northjersey.com/sports/164701426_Clifton_s_Anthony_Yelovich_to_play_pro_hockey_in_Croatia.html
I would advise Angelina to mind her own business. Her being a muslim and pro-Bosnia gives her no right to comment on our affairs.
http://www.croatiantimes.com/news/Sports/2012-08-02/28716/Angelina_Jolie_offended_by_Croatian_handball_coach_statement
Mandzukic scores for Bayern
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRu8BaUOA10