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Lee Chih Kai

Miss Carey was so overscored in that second vault

Yulo

I don't think 7 quotas it's possible since continental championships is only open to: 1) NOCs with a max. of 5 athletes qualified (team + World Cup) or 2) NOCs with a max. of 3 individual athletes. Therefore, for nations that have qualified a team of 4, the max. quotas is 6. For nations that haven't qualified a team, the max. is also 6 in theory, but won't happen to any nation now since none will qualify 3 individual athletes in apparatus finals.

3/4 athletes of Brazil had a fall in horizontal bar, I believe

Also Onder Ahmet in Parallel Bars, right? (although final it's not a sure thing yet)

I'm glad Brazil didn't qualify a full team: 1) we can focus on the girls that actually have a shot at a good result in Tokyo instead of worrying about old/injured athletes that add nothing to the team; 2) maybe something will change in our gymnastics federation that surely is one of the worst in Brazil - the disaster today wasn't simply a matter of "bad luck", but also has to do with the terrible planning this confederation has.

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[hide] Event Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Women's Team Day 1 October 8th, 2019 Canada China X France Great Britain Italy Russia X United States X Any Other Nation Men's Team Day 2 October 9th, 2019 China X Great Britain Japan X Russia X United States Any Other Nation Women's Individual All-Around Day 3 October 10th, 2019 Ellie Black Liu Tingting Tang Xijing Mélanie dos Santos Giorgia Villa Angelina Melnikova Grace McCallum Kara Eaker Riley McCusker X Simone Biles X Sunisa Lee X Any Other Athlete Men's Individual All-Around Day 4 October 11th, 2019 Deng Shudi Sun Wei X Kazuma Kaya Wataru Tanigawa Artur Dalaloyan X Nikita Nagornyy X Sam Mikulak Yul Moldauer Petro Pakhnyuk Lee Chih-Kai Any Other Athlete Men's Floor Day 5 October 12th, 2019 Tomas Gonzalez Xiao Ruoteng Emil Soravuo Giarnni Regini-Moran Artem Dolgopyat X Carlos Yulo Artur Dalaloyan X Nikita Nagornyy Sam Mikulak Any Other Athlete X Men's Pommel Horse Day 5 October 12th, 2019 Zou Jingyuan X Saso Bertoncelj Cyril Tommasone Max Whitlock X Saeedreza Keikha Rhys McClenaghan Ahmad Abu-Al-Soud David Belyavskiy Lee Chih-kai X Oleg Verniaiev Any Other Athlete Men's Rings Day 5 October 12th, 2019 Vahagn Davtyan Arthur Zanetti X You Hao Ali Zahran Samir Ait Said Courtney Tulloch Eleftherios Petrounias X Marco Lodadio Denis Abliazin X Ibrahim Colak Igor Radivilov Any Other Athlete Women's Vault Day 5 October 12th, 2019 Marina Nekrasova Shallon Olsen Yeo Seo-jeong Maria Paseka X Teja Belak Giulia Steingruber Jade Carey X MyKayla Skinner Simone Biles X Oksana Chusovitina Any Other Athlete Women's Uneven bars Day 5 October 12th, 2019 Nina Derwael X Mélanie dos Santos Becky Downie Elissa Downie Georgia-Mae Fenton Anastasiia Agafonova Angelina Melnikova Daria Spiridonova Riley McCusker Simone Biles X Sunisa Lee X Any Other Athlete Men's Vault Day 6 October 13th, 2019 Artur Davtyan Audrys Nin Reyes Shek Wai Hung Andrey Medvedev Wataru Tanigawa Kim Han-sol Yang Hak-seon Se Gwang Ri X Artur Dalaloyan X Denis Abliazin X Nikita Nagornyy Igor Radivilov Any Other Athlete Men's Parallel Bars Day 6 October 13th, 2019 You Hao X Zou Jinyuan X Marios Georgiou Kakeru Tanigawa Yuya Kamoto David Belyavskiy Nikita Nagornyy X Ferhat Arican Oleg Verniaiev Petro Pakhniuk Sam Mikulak Any Other Athlete Men's Horizontal Bar Day 6 October 13th, 2019 Artur Mariano Francisco Barretto Lin Chaopan Tin Srbic X Robert Tvorogal Bart Deurloo Epke Zonderland X Artur Dalaloyan Tang Chia-Hung Sam Mikulak X Any Other Athlete Women's Balance Beam Day 6 October 13th, 2019 Nina Derwael Ana Padurariu Chen Yile Li Shijia Liu TingTing Qi Qi Tang Xijing Mélanie dos Santos Sanne Wevers Kara Eaker X Riley McCusker Simone Biles X Sunisa Lee X Any Other Athlete Women's Floor Day 6 October 13th, 2019 Flávia Saraiva Brooklyn Moors Ellie Black Mélanie dos Santos Eythora Thorsdottir Denisa Golgota Angelina Melnikova Lilia Akhaimov Jade Carey X Simone Biles X Sunisa Lee X Any Other Athlete [/hide]

Groups for the Americas pre-qualifying tournaments. So basically a mini-South American championship for 1 spot since USA is already qualified (slight advantage for Argentina since they play at home). Canada easily will be first in the other group with Puerto Rico in good shape to take the last spot.

Ana Sátila (who opted for the canoe quota) has been chosen by the brazilian federation as our representative in both C1 and K1 in Tokyo (source). The same does not apply to Pedro Gonçalves (Men's K1), who will have to win the selection event next year.

Honestly I don't enjoy many routines today because of that (not only in groups, but individual too). It's just skill after skill after skill, and many times they have nothing to do with the music (or aren't even remotely synched).

Proving once again that artistry means very little for this sport (even more now).

So Japan will probably get their first Olympic medal in rhythmic gymnastics in Tokyo. This reminds me when China got their first ever medal (and, to date, the only one) in rhythmics at the Beijing Olympics, in one of the most controversial results of this sport. It was the last day of the Games, and in order to China to achieve 100 medals in the table, a medal for the team all-around was required. At the time, there were many comments saying that the judges felt so pressured (to say the least) that they gave China the silver, denying Italy (which ended 4th) a medal, even though they had an iconic routine (below) - which is one of the most memorable of all time IMO. Italy won silver in the World Championships prior to the Games while China was 9th, improving over 2 points in each routine for the Olympic Games. After the Olympics scandal, Italy went to win gold at the 2009 Worlds (reparations?), while strangely enough China didn't even participate. They never again reached the Olympics/Worlds podium.

Brazil is in.

Why would any nation send their best team when this team will easily earn a quota for said nation via ranking? Brazil for instance will get 2 pairs each gender in the rankings, so we sent a team that I think is not even eligible for Olympic participation (Angela/Carol), just to participate I guess?

Tonight a minute's silence was held before the Series B match between Operario and Ponte Preta in tribute to Rodrigo. Huk's team won 2-1.

Indeed. I will never forget the conversations we had in our group during Olympics. For some reason, I remember when he sent me a message at the first day of the Games saying there was no food at the Shooting venue where I was going to watch a final (he was there since the preliminary round). Seems like a silly memory, but shows how nice he was. The Rio 2016 days are even more bittersweet now.

It is with great sadness that I share the news that our dear friend Rodrigo Huk (@hukbrazil) has passed away at the age of 25. As a young journalist, he worked for the website Surto Olímpico at the 2016 Rio Olympics, being one of the Totallympics members to attend those Games. An extremely humble and sensible guy, he was beloved and admired by the members of our brazilian sports group, leaving great memories for everyone who knew him. Huk will be greatly missed.

[hide] Knockout Round September 10th - September 15th, 2019 8 Nations, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Bronze Medal Match and Gold Medal Match Bronze Medal Match Date & Time (GMT +8) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 15th 2019, h. 16:00 France 1 Australia Gold Medal Match Date & Time (GMT +8) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 15th 2019, h. 20:00 Argentina 1 Spain [/hide]

The men's outfits are okay, but the women's are a bridge too far...

[hide] Knockout Round September 10th - September 15th, 2019 8 Nations, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Bronze Medal Match and Gold Medal Match Semifinals Date & Time (GMT +8) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 13th 2019, h. 20:00 Argentina 1 France September 13th 2019, h. 16:00 Spain 1 Australia [/hide]

[hide] Knockout Round September 10th - September 15th, 2019 8 Nations, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Bronze Medal Match and Gold Medal Match Quarterfinals Date & Time (GMT +8) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 10th 2019, h. 19:00 Argentina 10 Serbia September 10th 2019, h. 21:00 Spain 17 Poland September 11th 2019, h. 19:00 United States 6 France September 11th 2019, h. 21:00 Australia 9 Czech Republic [/hide]

[hide] Second Round September 6th - September 9th, 2019 16 Nations, 2 Groups, the 1st and 2nd Nations from each Group will qualify for the Quarterfinals Group I Date & Time (GMT +8) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 6th 2019, h. TBD Poland 1 Russia September 6th 2019, h. TBD Argentina 17 Venezuela September 8th 2019, h. TBD Poland 7 Argentina September 8th 2019, h. TBD Venezuela 11 Russia Group J Date & Time (GMT +8) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 6th 2019, h. TBD Spain 11 Italy September 6th 2019, h. TBD Serbia 15 Puerto Rico September 8th 2019, h. TBD Spain 3 Serbia September 8th 2019, h. TBD Puerto Rico 9 Italy Group K Date & Time (GMT +8) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 7th 2019, h. TBD United States 9 Greece September 7th 2019, h. TBD Brazil 2 Czech Republic September 9th 2019, h. TBD United States 9 Brazil September 9th 2019, h. TBD Czech Republic 4 Greece Group L Date & Time (GMT +8) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 7th 2019, h. TBD France 3 Lithuania September 7th 2019, h. TBD Australia 14 Dominican Republic September 7th 2019, h. TBD France 5 Australia September 7th 2019, h. TBD Dominican Republic 17 Lithuania [/hide]