But if they fail to repeat the trick in the pool stages, they are likely to meet England in the quarters - or Argentina, who beat them twice four years ago.
In a simple calculation, the researchers figured that the swimming pool trick would need at least 10 times more shear stress than is realistically achievable from a person running.
You can also shoot hoops, throw darts, or practice trick shots in pool by yourself, provided you have the necessary equipment.
Whoever wins three or more tricks wins the pool and, for winning all five tricks, gains an extra chip from each opponent.
That, they felt, explained how turtles were able to perform their head-in-a-pool trick, but not why.
Last year they banned the pooling trick, requiring each trust product to be tied to a discrete set of loans.
Pubs where locals are attuned to the peculiar non-Euclidian tricks of the pool table cushions and know which punters like to be left in peace with their pint.
As Europe wrestles with its great predicament, Hollande faces charges that he is a "dangerous" tax-and-spend Keynesian out to reverse the fiscal and monetarist rigour of the Germans and trick them into pooling eurozone debt by issuing eurobonds.
Even if the footage is visceral, red in tooth and claw and occasionally romantically anthropomorphised it's a far and superior cry from watching a killer whale king-of-the-ocean performing lame pool tricks in exchange for a dead fish.
But it's also the end of all those sweet and precious moments that make my heart sing -- the sticky faces grinning ear to ear as they eat a giant snow cone, the look of concentration on their faces as they build a sand castle just so, the Mommy, look at me-s as they show me the latest trick in the swimming pool.
His home looks like the meth dens Jesse once frequented: boarded up, vandalised and deserted, but for the skateboarders doing tricks in the empty pool.
