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 will have 43 swimmers. It will be difficult to win 11 gold medals like in 2019, but is the best we have (minus Fratus).

 

Wrestling will have 10 athletes. After 3 medals in each of the last two editions, goal is to win 4 medals.

 

In Skateboarding, a very strong team with Pâmela Rosa/Rayssa Leal and Lucas Rabelo/Kelvin Hoefler (Street), Raicca Ventura and Augusto Akio (Park).

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Rhythmic Gymnastics groups:

 

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Individual quotas for Rhythmic Gymnastics:

 

2 (+1):

2:  

1:  

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2 hours ago, intoronto said:

It looks like the UWW has quietly moved a quota from women's 68 kg wrestling from to

Anyone know why? @vinipereira

 

I have no idea. Just last week Brazilian Wrestling posted that we were qualified for the WW 68 category, but after the Americas championship they changed to the WW 50 category.

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28 minutes ago, intoronto said:

Lol that was the reason ? Sad. So many big countries with totally useless Nfs.

Yes, they forgot to pay the US$ 1,5k fee and FIBA refused to accept their registration. Glad Brazil will be allowed now, I think it would be a disaster if we didn't participate.

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12 hours ago, intoronto said:

Looks like  is back in for the first 3x3 qualifying tournament

 

https://www.fiba.basketball/3x3Americup/2022/news/record-29-teams-from-17-countries-to-compete-at-fiba-3x3-americup-2022

Thank God, it was super embarrassing when your federation didn't pay the registration fee lol

 

(that's probably why the women's team have to compete in that qualifying group to advance to main draw?)

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12 hours ago, intoronto said:

Pan Am women's softball championships are in mid November, top 6 qualify (USA and Chile have already qualified). The tournament is being held in Guatemala, but no participation from them? Weird.

 

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I think this "WBSC" team is Guatemala but I'm not sure.

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15 hours ago, konig said:

did you expected this result in the medal table before the tournament?

With the strategy of sending the best athletes in many individual sports and not caring about team sports (except those wich gave quotas to Pan American Games), I fully expected Brazil to return to first place.

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It was kinda unnecessary for Brazil to send the best swimmers, we would get first place at the medal table either way. Also unecessary to send Isaquias Queiroz without training only to get a bronze medal.

 

Some questionable decisions from our commitee here, but in the end I hope we can improve a little our results at the Pan Ams compared to 2019.

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For all the great organization and venues here, I must say that the Athletics "stadium" is a little disappointing.

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2 hours ago, NaBUru38 said:

In other news, the South American games medallists will earn money: $UY 60,000 (US$ 1,500) for a gold, $UY 20,000 for a silver, and $UY 12,000 for a bronze. Teams will share twice the money (so $UY 13,000 each for the 8+1 rowing gold team). The current 33 medals are worth $UY 1.3 million (US$ 32,000).

That's great. I don't think Brazilian medalists will earn any money from this.

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9 hours ago, intoronto said:

Bolivia has 0 medals, after hosting the last edition. Pretty bad perfromance by them

And if I recall correctly they wanted to host the Pan Am Games. Improbable now with the current political climate.

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I didn't know Padel was a sport here and it's probably the first time ever I'm watching it

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@thiago_simoes some comments on the women's gymnastics competition?

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Finally some success for Brazil in Fencing with two team golds tonight.

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1 minute ago, LDOG said:

When was the last time Brazil lost a swimming relay in south american games?

In 2018 we lost both Men's 4x100 relays but we had a youth team then. Now Brazil had mostly the best athletes available (except for Olympic medalists Fratus and Scheffer), although many people think it would be better to send younger athletes to gain experience.

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6 minutes ago, dcro said:

But then again, such a medal haul is literally only possible in swimming and nowhere else.

Yeah, and the number also includes 5 Relay medals. A great feat, nonetheless.

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Swimmer Giovanna Diamante  won 10 medals here (8 gold, 2 silver), which makes her the biggest medalist ever in a single edition.

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Brazil won 58 medals in Swimming (34 gold medals out of 42 events)

 

Now that Swimming is over, in the next days I expect Colombia to get closer to Brazil in the medal count.

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At Brazil's headquarters in Asunción there's a big medal count. Each day (usually at night) there's a celebration where the medalists are presented and the count is updated.

 

 

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Some time today Colombia tied Brazil in golds (20) only to Brazil win +12 more in the next hours (mostly from Swimming, of course). This schedule is packed!

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goes 1-2-3 in women's Triathlon.

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A gold for Brazil in Weightlifting that is not from Fernando Reis (retired)

 

Hopefully Thiago Felix has a great future.

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Weird choice to have the Opening Ceremony at saturday, instead of using today as the first day of competition.

 

Anyway, Nathalie Moellhausen (Fencing) and Guilherme "Big Dog" Costa (Swimming) will be our flagbearers.

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Brazil is going with 464 athletes, a mix of young athletes with some more known names - including 8 Olympic medalists (Isaquias Queiroz and Ana Marcela Cunha among them).