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Today Bolivia was defeated 0-32 against Venezuela and 0-35 against Argentina in Water Polo. Will we see other similar results for the host nation in team sports?

 

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Valéria Kumizaki (Karate) will be the brazilian flag bearer.

 

Spoiler

 

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I hate medals with "irregular" shape. These particularly look cheap

 

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Brazilian athletes starting to arrive at the village.

 

Nice touch from the organizers with the nation's name at the building

 

Spoiler

 

 

 

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1 hour ago, thiago_simoes said:

 

Not at all. Men's and Women's artistic team (2), men's rings (3), women's all around (4), women's vault (5), women's floor (6), balance beam (7) plus all 8 medals in rhythmics (AA, clubs, ribbon, hoop and ball, and 3 medals for the group routines). Plus, we will probably get 10+ gold and silver medals in rhythmics, artistic and trampoline. And these are only the "safe" bets. We might get surprise gold medals in men's artistic (especially on floor, vault and high bar) and even maybe trampoline.

 

 

You're too confident about the women's team. How are the chances that they screw up at least one of those finals? Or considering how lucky we are, that one of the girls gets injured?

 

Same for all the gold medals in Rhythmic Gymnastics - Gaudio can drop the ball in the middle of her routine or something

 

I guess it can happen, but I wouldn't call it a safe bet.

 

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18 hours ago, thiago_simoes said:

 

I'm really surprised with how strong our teams are in gymnastics (artistic and rhythmic, not sure about trampoline now that our best athletes have retired, basically). I predict something around 15 gold medals and 25 medals overall. A bold prediction, but they have enough potential to reach even more if everything goes right.

 

You're crazy

 

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I think it will be something like this:

 

1. Colombia

2. Brazil

3. Argentina

4. Venezuela

5. Chile

 

6. Ecuador

7. Peru

8. Paraguay

9. Uruguay

10. Panama or Bolivia (really don't know if they have many chances for gold)

 

Brazil can be 1st, but definitely don't have the advantage of last time (in 2014, we won 32 gold medals combining Athletics and Swimming, which won't happen this time).

 

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1 hour ago, thiago_simoes said:

 

Thanks God I don't know who this guy is. Most commentators in Brazil have no idea what they are doing. Only Henrique Motta (artistic gymnastics), Lauter Nogueira (athletics), Silina Braga (diving) and Alex Pussieldi (swimming) really know what they are talking about. All the other ones, including 99% of football commentators, are a bunch of morons who should never, ever open their mouths on national TV.

 

 

Don't be so dramatic

 

There are good commentators in Football (some are REALLY bad like Ronaldo, though). And while I agree these commentators of your list are really good, they're not the only ones. For instance, you left out one of my very favourites, Marco Freitas (volleyball).

 

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19 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

Some of those seem odd, as they offer Qualification for the 2019 Pan Am Games

 

I think only those will offer qualification (and Brazil is sending athletes in all of them): Athletics, Bowling, Cycling, Field Hockey, Handball, Karate, Modern Pentathlon, Rugby Sevens, Shooting, Swimming, Triathlon, Wrestling.

 

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Brazil is sending 315 athletes to the Games, only the 7th nation in number of athletes. The relatively small number of athletes is due to the fact we're only sending athletes for 33 of the 46 sports, and that includes only a few team sports. The main goal is to achieve qualification for the Pan American Games next year in many sports.

 

Unless something changes at the last minute, Brazil won't participate in:

Basketball
Beach Volleyball
Equestrian
Football
Futsal
Pelota Vasca
Racquetball
Speed Skating
Squash
Tennis
Volleyball
Water Polo
Waterski

 

The no participation in Beach Volleyball bugs me a little. They could send some youth pairs to gain some experience in multi-sports games.

 

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Just remembered the elections in Brazil are on October 7th, which completely ruins my plans of going to BA on the 5th. Now I will probably arrive on the 8th

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On 05/05/2018 at 18:19, konig said:

By the way: which team will send brazil to this games in swimming?, Argentina will send a VERY SMALL and youth team of only 8 swimmers.......

 

I posted here, youth team with 20 swimmers.

 

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@thiago_simoes any news about which team Brazil is sending in Gymnastics?

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As predicted, Brazil is sending a mostly "A" team in Athletics, maybe because we're not that good in this sport. However, this time the list has "only" 38 athletes (in 2014, our team was close to 70):

 

Men's

100m - Vitor Hugo dos Santos
200m - Aldemir Gomes da Silva Junior
400m - Lucas da Silva Carvalho
110m hurdles - Eder Antonio Souza
110m hurdles - Eduardo dos Santos de Deus
400m hurdles - Marcio Soares Teles
400m hurdles - Hederson Estefani
3000m steeplechase - Altobeli Santos da Silva

High jump - Fernando Carvalho Ferreira
High jump - Talles Frederico Silva
Long jump - Alexsandro Melo

Long jump - Paulo Sergio Oliveira
Triple jump - Almir Cunha dos Santos

Triple jump - Mateus Sá
Pole vault - Augusto Dutra Oliveira

Discus throw - Douglas Junior dos Reis

Hammer throw - Wagner Domingos

Hammer throw - Allan Wolski

Shot put - Darlan Romani

Decathlon - Felipe Vinicius dos Santos

 

Women's

100m - Rosangela Santos
200m - Vitoria Rosa
400m - Geisa Coutinho
10000m - Tatiele Roberta de Carvalho
100m hurdles - Fabiana Moraes
High jump - Valdileia Martins
Long jump - Eliane Martins
Long jump - Jessica Carolina Oliveira
Triple jump - Nubia Soares
Pole vault - Juliana de Menis Campos
Discus throw - Andressa de Morais
Discus throw - Fernanda Borges

Hammer throw - Mariana Grasielly
Javelin throw - Laila Ferrer
Javelin throw - Eloah Scramin

Shot put - Geisa Arcanjo
20km Race Walk - Erica Rocha de Sena
Heptathlon - Giovana Aparecida Cavaleti

 

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I think that was the first Netball match I've watched, and I enjoyed quite a bit. Great game by Jamaica!

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Fantastic gold for India in women's double trap!

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1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

Do people in South America really care about the South American Games? I mean, at the time of the European Games really nobody did apart from a few die hard fans, and it never felt like a major competition.. 

 

No, and even for a nation that is hosting I don't think is THAT important (unless you're Bolivia and can really have an improvement over the last editions). But like @carivan said, the Pan Ams matter a lot, much more than the European Games, of course.

 

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2 hours ago, konig said:

Is an unacceptable understimation of this tournament from the Brazilian NOC......but is just my opinion.

 

Well, there are pros and cons. As a sports fan, I would love if Brazil went ahead with our A team in most sports, but that's not realistic for this competition. So I think it's a good decision to send our best in sports where were are not that great (like Fencing, Field Hockey, Rugby, etc), and send young athletes (who can gain experience in a multi-sport competition) for the sports we have a better level.

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Official recommendation from our Olympic Committee to all federations is to send young athletes to all sports, although that's not an obligation and some sports might send the "A" team (unlikely for the big sports except maybe Athletics), especially the ones where Brazil is not that good like Fencing. Our young Judo team was announced:

 

Men's

Robson Penna (-60kg)
Michael Marcelino (-66kg)
David Lima (-73kg)
Tiago Pinho (-81kg)
Giovani Ferreira (-90kg)
Leonardo Gonçalves (-100kg)
João Cesarino (+100kg)

 

Women's

Larissa Farias (-48kg)
Larissa Pimenta (-52kg)
Gabrielle Gonzaga (-57kg)
Gabriella Moraes (-63kg)
Bruna Campos (-70kg)
Laislaine Rocha (-78kg)
Luiza Cruz (+78kg)

 

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Thought it as a good idea to open this thread since we're already talking about the Games in other topics.

 

BTW, here's Brazil team for Swimming (20 under-20 athletes):

 

Men's
André Luiz Souza
Breno Correia
Bruce Hanson Cruz Almeida
Fernando Scheffer
Gabriel Fantoni
Guilherme Costa
Kaue da Silva Carvalho
Marco Antonio Ferreira Jr
Matheus Gonche
Yuri Querino

 

Women's

Ana Carolina Vieira
Beatriz Dizotti
Beatriz Lysy
Bruna Leme
Camila Melo
Clarissa Rodrigues
Fernanda Goeij
Gabrielle Roncatto
Luanna Oliveira
Rafaela Raurich

 

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South American Games 2018

 

Cochabamba (BOL) - 26 May 2018 - 8 June 2018

 

 

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1 hour ago, mrv86 said:

And Mexico added Basque Pelota (4 events), while Canada added Women's Baseball.

 

I don't know if they are good, but the sport is popular in that country, so maybe they're expecting a medal. Remember Peru is far from being competitive even at this level.

 

I think they're expecting gold in Men's Singles squash, plus some outside chances in Karate and Surf.

 

Maybe they can also win one of the long distance events in Athletics, but probably they will end with the least amount of gold medals won by a host nation in quite some time.

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30 minutes ago, mrv86 said:

 

This is only the "bonus" sport/event that PASO has been giving to host countries since 2007. Shouldn't be on the program tough, this "sport" is full of dopers.

 

So Peru chose this? Didn't know they were good in Bodybuilding.

 

I remember Brazil went with Futsal in 2007 which was a good choice (gold), but it was only ONE event.

 

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Somehow the official site thinks that athletes from Venezuela are from Cote d'Ivoire

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