De aquí y de allá (SPA-ENG)

From here and there

Sundays are usually days of lots of sport, with a variety of options to watch and analyze, not to mention when, in addition to everything that the Sunday sports calendar implies, the Olympic Games are added.

All this is even more complicated since I have my son, his wife, and my small and only grandson visiting me for a few days at home. Somehow, we have to share things and if there is something I have to leave aside, it is not my grandson, who lives 2,000 km from here and I see him only a few times a year. Like all children, he has the bad habit of growing up and it is not pleasant to miss the few opportunities to accompany him and enjoy his love and joy.

But yesterday morning he went to see a children's play and between lighting the fire and putting the meat on for a good barbecue, I was able to watch the Formula 1 race, not continuously, but enough to enjoy this rebirth that has several teams fighting for supremacy. I hope that at least for a while it continues in this way, evenly and with possibilities of victory for several, it is much more entertaining and captivating. The only negative thing was finding out in the afternoon that the result I saw when the checkered flag fell was not the one that was left, due to a silly mistake by the Mercedes team, George Russell's winning car was disqualified for not having the regulatory weight and therefore Louis Hamilton, his teammate, inherited the first position. I like it better when the winner wins, whatever team it is, and not a change due to penalties, which there are many lately. This is mainly due to the fight between several competitors, which causes errors that lead to clashes and even abandonments. The authorities get involved, sometimes correctly and other times seeing bad intentions when sometimes it is just a fight for the place. Nobody is perfect.

Then we moved on to local football, after the break for the Copa América, the local championship returned, and thanks to my grandson, I didn't see anything, that way I only found out through the networks that my beloved Lobo Platense lost in a crushing way by 4 to 1 against none other than our classic rival. It saved me unnecessary suffering.

In the afternoon there was a playground, mates, and biscuits so I didn't see anything about the Olympics, only a summary in the evening where I found out about the great performance of the national shooter who will compete today in the final of the 10-meter air rifle, a great performance so far that has already assured him the Olympic diploma. We all here hope that perhaps he can aspire to a medal, although his performance has been brilliant in every way competing against true champions of the specialty.

On Saturday I was able to see something else, the lionesses playing their women's hockey match against the United States, an American classic that was resolved in favor of ours by a score that was more comfortable in numbers than in play. Then, or rather before, I was able to watch some football, where our team recovered from the bad experience of the unexpected and controversial defeat in the first round against Morocco by 2 to 1. The big surprise was to see our team first in its group since in the second round they beat Iraq by 3 to 1 and unexpectedly Morocco lost to Ukraine and since in the first round Iraq had beaten Ukraine, everyone had 3 points, but our team is at the top of the classification by goal difference. Incredible; of course, everything will be resolved tomorrow when the group stage ends.

Another painful defeat, although predictable, occurred in volleyball where Argentina succumbed to the North American power by 3 sets to 0, our team fought, but it was not enough, anyway, not everything is lost and passage to the next round seems possible.

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We continue tomorrow.