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Best Moments of Tokyo 2020
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Here are my best moments from these games.

 

Artistic gymnastics 

:ROC ROC winning gold in both team all around competitions. 

:ITA Ferrari taking silver in floor exercise at her fourth olympics, after tearing her achilles in 2017. She had finished fourth three times before, in floor exercise in both 2012 and 2016 and in team all around this year.

 

Athletics

:ROC Lasitskene winning gold in high jump, after being denied the chance to compete in 2016.

:USA Seidel winning bronze in marathon. According to our commentator here, Seidel was working two jobs to fund her olympic preparation, as a barista in a coffee shop and as a babysitter.

 

Fencing

:ROC Pozdniakova becoming the first right-handed fencer to win gold in women's individual sabre and adding another gold in team sabre, following the steps of her father.

:FRA Brunet taking a silver and a bronze after her Rio heartbreak.

:EST Estonian gold in women's team epee.

:HUN Szilagyi winning his third consecutive gold in men's individual sabre.

 

Judo

:FRA France stopping Japan's dominance with a gold medal in the mixed team event.

 

Rowing

:ITA Italy, :FRA France, :NED Netherlands winning the medals in the insane women's lightweight double sculls final. 

 

Shooting

:SMR San Marino's historic medals.

 

Swimming

:USA Shields taking a gold medal in the medlay relay after mental health issues and suicide attempt.

:USA Sullivan winning silver behind Ledecky, after overcoming mental health issues as well.

 

Water polo

:SRB Serbia's great team concluding their journey with another gold medal.

 

Wrestling

:ROC Sadulaev beating :USA Snyder for gold.

:ROC Naifonov winning a bronze medal. When he was 7 years old, he was held hostage in Beslan school siege and his mother died there.

:USA Maroulis winning a bronze medal, after fighting PTSD.

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After a long delay, for which I apologise, I have now prepared the lists for the remaining days. I have mentioned medals won by the athletes on that day.

 

1 August

 

:ESP Alejandro Abrines, basketball

:TPE Chen Szu-Yu, table tennis team

:GER Tina Punzel, diving 3m springboard

:BRA Duda, beach volleyball

:USA Stuart McNay, sailing 470

:CHN Sun Jiajun, swimming 4x100 medlay relay

:ITA Nicolo Martinenghi, swimming 4x100 medlay relay, won bronze

:ROC Elena Vesnina, tennis mixed doubles final, won silver

 

2 August

 

:GRE Stylianos Argyropoulos-Kanakakis, water polo

:USA Skylar Diggins-Smith, basketball

:JAM Tajay Gayle, athletics long jump

:FRA Prithika Pavade, table tennis team

:ARG Rosio Sanchez, field hockey

:BRA Izabella da Silva, athletics discus throw

:JPN Yuka Ono, canoeing

 

3 August

 

:MEX Eduardo Aguirre, football

:AUS Nick Kay, basketball

:CAN Derek Gee, cycling team pursuit

:FRA Mickael Mawem, sport climbing

 

4 August

 

:MEX Gabriela Agundez, diving 10m platform

:GBR Luke Patience, sailing 470

:ESP Adrian Ben, athletics 800m

:AUS Genevieve Gregson, athletics 3000m steeplechase

:NED Stella van Gills, field hockey

:SLO Spela Perse, open water swimming

 

5 August

 

:IND Anshu Malik, wrestling 57kg

:USA Tim Federowicz, baseball

:PUR Franklin Gomez, wrestling 74kg

:CHN Shanshan Feng, golf

:USA Nick Martinez, baseball

:CAN Georgia Ellenwood, athletics heptathlon

:CAN Anicka Newell, athletics pole vault

 

6 August

 

:ITA Antonella Palmisano, athletics 20km walk, won gold

:SRB Maja Ognjenovic, volleyball

 

7 August

 

:ESP Dani Ceballos, football, won silver

:AUT Andreas Graf, cycling madison

:CHN Guo Qiqi, rhythmic gymnastics team

:USA Sydney McLaughlin, athletics 4x400m, won gold

:NED Laura de Witte, athletics 4x400m

:POL Karol Zalewski, athletics 4x400m

 

8 August

 

:MNE Stefan Vidovic, water polo

:USA Aja Wilson, basketball, won gold

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  On 7/19/2021 at 10:45 PM, thiago_simoes said:

I believe that :BRA Nicole Pircio, rhythmic gymnast, also celebrates her birthday on that day.

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She does, I just include in the list athletes who will compete on their birthday. I left her out because rhythmic gymnastics start later on.

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  On 7/17/2021 at 4:51 AM, Makedonas said:

Athletes from Greece but representing other countries:

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I was searching yesterday and randomly found these athletes with greek roots.

 

:USA Nefeli Papadakis, who will compete in judo, at the 78kg category. She has said that her grandparents were immigrants to the US and includes them in her role models.

 

:CHI fencer Katina Proestakis, who will compete in foil. She will become the second ever female fencer from Chile to compete in the olympics, first to do it in foil. She is 19 years old and is no7 in junior ranking. She will look to become the first female fencer from Chile to win an olympic bout, though that will be difficult, as in fencing experience is very important. I know she has been living in the US for some years now, but I couldn't find what her relation to Greece is. 

 

Of course, in addition to these, :USA Helen Maroulis will compete in wrestling, at the 57kg category. She will be returning to the olympics five years after her historic gold, beating :JPN Yoshida in the final and ending the 89-match winning streak the Japanese was running at the time.

 

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On 29 July

 

:IND Shamsher Singh, field hockey

:KOR Kang Baek-ho baseball

 

Athletes that might compete

:CHA Marlyse Hortu, archery

:POL Slawomir Naploszek, archery

It looks like that the first knockout round in individual archery competition will be spread in three days. If that's the case, then I should have put :POL Sylwia Zyzanska in the list of athletes that might compete on 27 July, not in the one of those certainly competing.

 

:KAZ Abikhan Amankul, boxing 75 kg, round of 16 day, might have a round of 32 match.

:USA Nicole Melichar, tennis doubles, semifinals of doubles and quarterfinals of mixed doubles on that day.

 

On 30 July

 

:BRA Luiza Campos, rugby sevens

:MOZ Daizy Nhaquile, sailing laser radial

:USA Ariel Aitkins, basketball

:VEN Eliecer Cancelo, volleyball

 

Athletes that might compete

:RSA Martin Binedell, swimming 200 backstroke

:SUI Roman Mityukov, swimming 200 backstroke

Final of the 200 backstroke on that day.

 

:ZAM Avell Chitundu, football, team needs to qualify to the quarterfinals.

:SLO Darko Jorgic, table tennis, will need to make the final.

:FRA Nassira Konde will be on the french roster for rugby sevens as a reserve. 

:SRB Nina Stojanovic, mixed doubles semifinals if she teams up with Djokovic.

 

On 31 July

 

:FRA Leonie Periault, triathlon mixed relay

:GER Hanna Granitzki, field hockey

:JPN Natsuha Matsumoto, field hockey

:USA Jordyn Poulter, volleyball

 

Athletes that might compete

:MNE Danijel Furtula, athletics discus throw, has to make the final

:GER Michael Jung, equestrian eventing, dressage part for some on that day. 

 

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26 July

 

:ROC Aleksandr Askerov, sailing RSX

:ROC Evgeniya Ivavona, water polo

 

Athletes that might compete.

 

:CAN Nicole Hare, rowing four

:POL Olga Michalkiewicz, rowing four

Repechage on that day, not sure they will compete.

 

:JPN Hiroyuki Ikawa, skeet, has to make the final to compete on that day

:KAZ Anastassiya Lavrova, table tennis, will need to win two matches in previous days

 

27 July

 

:AUS Kiana Elliott, weightlifting 64kg

:BRA Carolina De Oliveira Saad Gattaz, volleyball

:ROC Violetta Kolobova, fencing team epee

:MGL Onolbaataryn Khulan, basketball

:BUL Linda Zechiri, badminton

:POL Sylwia Zyzanska, archery

 

Athletes that might compete

:POL Natalia Partyka, table tennis, needs to make it to round of 16 to play on that day

:DEN Carina Cassoe Kruth, equestrian dressage, Denmark will need to qualify for dressage team grand prix special

 

28 July

 

:AUS Emily Chalker (Smith), field hockey 

:GBR Susannah Townsend, field hockey

:CAN Matt Mullins, rugby sevens

:CHN Chen He, sailing finn

:FRA Frank Ntilikina, basketball

:JPN Keisuke Osako, football

:ROC Veniamin Reshetnikov, fencing team sabre

:RSA Matthew Sates, swimming 200 individual medley

 

Athletes that might compete

:AZE Loren Alfonso Dominguez, boxing -81kg

:JOR Odai Al Hindawi, boxing -81 kg

It's round of 16 on that day and they might have to play and win a round of 32 match.

 

:HUN Bence Majoros, table tennis

:POR Tiago Apolonia, table tennis

They need to reach the quarterfinals to play.

 

:ROC Olga Frolkina, basketball

Semifinals for 3x3 tournament on that day.

 

I hope I haven't missed someone.

 

 

 

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I tried to make a list of athletes competing on their birthday for 24 and 25 July.

 

On 24 July.

 

:AUT Louisa Altenhuber, lightweight double sculls

:SWE Rebecka Blomqvist, football

:CUB Daniella Fonseca, table tennis

:ITA Gianluca Galassi, volleyball

:GBR Jacob Draper, field hockey

:AUS Jack Hargreaves, rowing four

:ZAM Fikile Khosa, football

:NED Malou Pheninckx, field hockey

:ROU Sonia Ursu, basketball 

 

Also, it is possible that tennis player :USA Marcos Giron will play on that day, but draw for tennis isn't out yet. First round is on 24-25 July.

Rowers :CHN Liu Xiaoxin and :GER Oliver Zeidler will have repechage of their events on that day.

 

On 25 July, apart from :ROC Maksakova in equestrian dressage.

 

:BAH Joanna Evans, swimming 400 free

:SRB Bianca Busa, volleyball

:ARG Julieta Lazcano, volleyball

:CHN Liu Yunchen, badminton

:POL Piotr Myszka, sailing RSX

 

Also, the first round of women's 51kg in boxing is on that day. :CAN Mandy Bujold might compete, I say might because some will have a bye in the first round and I'm not sure how this will be decided.

In tennis, :GRE Maria Sakkari and :AUS John Peers might play their first round matches depending on the draw.

 

 

 

 

 

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  On 7/7/2021 at 12:38 PM, Oldira said:

Shouldnt swimming be 10? Hill,McSharry,Walsh,Ryan,Greene and Wiffen. Plus the 4 x 200m Relay?

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You are allowed to bring up to two relay only swimmers for each qualified relay. 

In Ireland's case and supposing the medlay relay won't swim, you have one relay team and the two relay only swimmers, who will be McGeever and McMillan.

The other two spots in this relay team must be filled by swimmers who have qualified individually. 

Hyland might have been given an invitation to swim the 200 fly with an OST, as his 1.56.55 best time is very close to the 1.56.48 OQT. If that's the case, he and Ryan will swim in individual events and can complete the lineup for the relay. The total swimmers, though, will be nine and not ten.

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Hello everyone. A nice topic to start posting here.

 

  On 6/29/2021 at 2:44 PM, dodge said:

 

:GRE - Rowing - Maria Kyridou/Christina Bourbou (womens pair) - Gold

 

 

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For Greece, Fani Tzeli will be competing in tae kwon do, along with the rowers. Tzeli won bronze in 2018.

 

I'll try a different approach and I'll go by sport.

In swimming, there are a lot medalists from 2018, who are going to Tokyo. I'll name a few. The events mentioned are those in which they got the medal in 2018, not (necessarily) the ones they are swimming this time.

 

:HUNHungary

Milak 200 free gold, 400 free gold, 200 fly gold, 100 butterfly silver

Kesely 200 free gold, 400 free gold, 800 free gold

 

:AUSAustralia

McKeown 50 backstroke gold, 100 backstroke silver, 200 backstroke bronze

Hodges 100 breaststroke silver

 

:RUSRussia

Minakov 50 butterfly gold, 100 butterfly gold, 100 freestyle gold

Kolesnikov 50 backstroke gold, 100 backstroke gold, 200 backstroke gold

 

:ITAItaly 

Burdisso 100 butterfly bronze, 200 butterfly bronze

Ceccon 50 free gold, 50 backstroke silver, 100 backstroke bronze, 200 IM silver

De Tullio 400 free silver, 800 free bronze

 

:CZECzech Republic 

Seemanova 50 free gold, 100 free gold, 200 free bronze

 

:ISRIsrael

Gorbenko 200 IM gold

 

:USAUSA

White 200 backstroke bronze

 

:FRAFrance

Duhamel 200 IM bronze

 

:CANCanada

Knox 200 IM bronze

 

Probably, there will be more who will compete in relays, plus those who didn't win a medal back then, but will swim in Tokyo.

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