Clue: The US began strong in the sport, became weak for a very long time and recently gained strength again.
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The U.S. has had 6 appearances in the World Cup.  The best finish was in 1930 when the U.S. reached the semifinals.
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Russia is one of my favorite , its obvious that they will be competing for the  gold medal at least . I would put Finland on 2 nd place and Belarus on 3rd . Belarus is very strong and potential . So called "dark horse"  . You never know what to expect from them , despite recent loss to Sweden . Its because Belarus ruled by dictator like in Soviet Union times .  Lukashenko said " You have to get a medal  " .
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Swiss please.\n\n\n...
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The tournament is still young. There still might be an upset.\n\nThe strong teams, however, are damn good. So an upset might be hard to acomplish. Be patient my friend. The tournament has just begun....
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Correct answer should be E
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It depends.  The Olympics aren't something to be won overall.  Each individual part of the Olympics will have its own winner.  They won't all be won by the same country.  But I do hope that the U.S. will win a lot of the events! :)
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old easy riddle. block of ice.
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Woooo! I'm actually amazed by your comments, listen before moving to the Us I love this country for everything from sports to economics and even politics. if you are a voter please try and make sure that better people rule your country, it will be a nice start! I was saddened by the decline in result of your basket ball team but you almost make me regret it. You one of those guys thinking that your country is actually bigger than the world, well watch out we will be surprised sooner than you believe. now let talk soccer, you might be better than you were 20, 10 5 years ago but please you rank 4th and what else anyway let's see what you will do against Italy the 12th ranked country and Ghana the 50th ranked team. Just think and tell what quality opponents you played against the past 10 years and remind us the scores also. shoot, you can not even play base ball against others nations and suddenly you are good in soccer, pleaeaeaeaeazzzzzzzzzzzzz
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The correct answer is B.
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Let's keep it very simple. US 94 they did not qualify, France 98 it was at home (they did not have to eliminate), Japan-Korea 2002 well come back to reality, eliminatory rounds for 2006 they had problems to qualify (still in reality) so chances to win?? lets stay in reality almost none.
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3 teams got to the end at the same time, the hippies were last.  It was a non-elimination leg so they are still in though.  I was first, na-na-na-na-na---na
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Nope, not getting back to glory days\nb
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I think your intuitions are right about how Americans can't handle facing up to the fact the team USA really sucks.  (I mean the USA CZE match yesterday was a humiliation for all Americans)  But on the other hand, most other countries have been playing soccer for many generations more than Americans have.  The highschool I went to started their soccer program in 1992, and youth soccer in my town didn't start until 1995!  So if you look at it that way, it's amazing that the USA was able to send a team to the WM at all, and maybe in 2 or 3 more generations, they will actually be able to score a goal there.
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Strategy.\nBut he didn't win in/at Waterloo, Belgium !\nYeah !\n;-)
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I think that this team is a lot more balanced, and contains players who are a lot more committed than the previous Olympic team. However, the other international teams are also growing stronger in leaps and bounds. I have confidence that Team USA can bring back the Olympic title, though I think they will need more preperation time before the Olympics to really develop a good team spirit and to fully integrate into an effective team.
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None. Two odds make an even
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A.\nB or D.  Probably D.\nC.\nA.  Because you'd want to read a lot of newspapers, magazines, browse the Internet.\nA.\nA.  If they are talking about what I think they are talking about.  We have an Atlantic, a Pacific, and a Central command in the military, no north and south.  But since Mexico has borders on the Gulf (attached to the Atlantic) and the Pacific, maybe all three.\nD.\nA or C.  Definitely not B or D.  I'd say C, but I don't know a huge heck of a lot about Madison.\nB.  I'm only guessing here, but I know that A is not illegal.  The others are all about various dollar amounts, and there might be a limit.\nD.  Althought truthfully, the Korean War, the war in Vietnam, and the stuff we did in El Salvador, Nicarauga, Iran/Iraq, and Africa was mostly about throwing surrogates of the US and USSR against each other.\nB and C, I think.  Look up naturalization.  Of course, you could just arrange to get born here.\nD.  None of these really.  The opposite of of defending our interests is globalizationism.\nA and C. \nC.\nTraditionally, the campaign begins long before any of those things.  How can the people in New Hampshire have any idea of who they will vote for if campaigns haven't started?  People are talking about whether Hillary will run for the Dems now, or will it be that governor of Arizona, and everyone knows McCain will run, but does Rice have any interest, and does Jeb Bush have a chance in '08, or will the nation every trust another Bush in the White House?\nB.\nA.  Freedom of religion, speech, assembly and to petition the government for redress.\nC.  Tough one.  The CIA does have to report to the President, and its budget is known, even if its operations aren't.  Here's the problem, though, the CIA conducts operations that net it money.  And it uses that money to supplement covert operations.  \nC.