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fixing info on "joke sports" - changing to "these sports" as there may be joke sports not listed. Also, reordering to clarify swimming is not a joke sport but that the issue is the number of varieties
|Men's Handball
|Men's Handball
|Will heavy underdogs [[Tunisia]] overperform in Group A? Group A should perhaps be dubbed the "Group of Left", since the other five teams are Sweden, Iceland, and Argentina, where same-sex marriage is legal, and increasingly atheistic Great Britain and France.
|Will heavy underdogs [[Tunisia]] overperform in Group A? Group A should perhaps be dubbed the "Group of Left", since the other five teams are Sweden, Iceland, and Argentina, where same-sex marriage is legal, and increasingly atheistic Great Britain and France.
|Tunisia went 2-3 in the group stage, becoming just the second African team ever to advance to the quarterfinals. They will face Croatia, the winner of Group B.
|Tunisia went 2-3 in the group stage, becoming just the second African team ever to advance to the quarterfinals. They then lost to Croatia, the winner of Group B.
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|[[Joke sports]]
|[[Joke sports]]
|Will underperforming countries pad their medal totals by excelling in non-serious sports like [[badminton]] and many varieties of [[swimming]]?
|Will underperforming countries pad their medal totals by excelling in many varieties of [[swimming]] and in non-serious sports like [[badminton]]?
|The United States has won 10 gold medals in joke sports; atheistic Great Britain has won one.
|The United States has won 10 gold medals in these sports; atheistic Great Britain has won one.
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