vinipereira 3,072 Posted October 15, 2023 #21 Share Posted October 15, 2023 Apparently is the first landlocked nation to win gold at the World championships. Roamingrover86 and maestro 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rybak 2,761 Posted October 15, 2023 #22 Share Posted October 15, 2023 2 minutes ago, vinipereira said: Apparently is the first landlocked nation to win gold at the World championships. And they first pair which directly qualified to Paris Olympics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoversaBR 281 Posted October 15, 2023 #23 Share Posted October 15, 2023 I think it's the worst Duda match I've ever watched. Well, we can't win everything, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh 6,185 Posted October 15, 2023 #24 Share Posted October 15, 2023 Men’s Medalists Gold- Ondřej Perušič/David Schweiner Silver- David Åhman/Jonathan Hellvig Bronze- Michal Bryl/Bartosz Łosiak Women’s Medalists Gold- Kelly Cheng/Sara Hughes Silver- Ana Patricia Silva Ramos/Eduarda Santos Lisboa Bronze- Taryn Kloth/Kristen Nuss rafalgorka, Roamingrover86 and maestro 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,990 Posted October 16, 2023 #25 Share Posted October 16, 2023 13 hours ago, Josh said: Clancy/Mariafe are the reigning Olympic silver medalists, and are a top ten team, how was a win against them gonna be “easy” ? (Not unless you’re Duda/AP ) I feel bad for Menegatti, she carries her team. Wonder what she’d be able to do with a better defender. Same with Latvia, but to a lesser extent. Samoilova has moments of brilliance, but sometimes struggles to sideout, and can also become error prone during crucial moments (Cheng/Hughes QF: *11-13, Samoilova missed serve, and then she gets aced to end the match). Graudina rarely has bad matches, always a beast on sideout. for what I saw in the last couple of seasons, the Australian duo is highly overrated they won silver in Tokyo and it was one of the biggest surprises of the Games, I don't think they are better than many other teams that didn't get a top result yet (like the Italians, for instance...but not only them) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,990 Posted October 16, 2023 #26 Share Posted October 16, 2023 (edited) 11 hours ago, vinipereira said: Apparently is the first landlocked nation to win gold at the World championships. yes, the best results before this week were 2 silver medals by the men and 1 silver medal by the men meanwhile no women from a landlocked Nation have ever reached the GMM and except for the bronze medal in 2004, no players from a landlocked Country (both men and women) have ever reached the medal matches at the Olympic Games Edited October 16, 2023 by phelps Josh and maestro 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh 6,185 Posted October 16, 2023 #27 Share Posted October 16, 2023 12 hours ago, phelps said: for what I saw in the last couple of seasons, the Australian duo is highly overrated they won silver in Tokyo and it was one of the biggest surprises of the Games, I don't think they are better than many other teams that didn't get a top result yet (like the Italians, for instance...but not only them) Five (four if you take out the event in Torquay where a lot of the top teams weren’t competing) Elite 16 medals in the last two years isn’t good enough for you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,990 Posted October 17, 2023 #28 Share Posted October 17, 2023 12 hours ago, Josh said: Five (four if you take out the event in Torquay where a lot of the top teams weren’t competing) Elite 16 medals in the last two years isn’t good enough for you? I'm not saying that they are "weak", I just think there are at least 6/7 pairs that in their best moments are better than them (and Menegatti & Gottardi are one of them, even if so far they have shown to be mentally too fragile to get the results they technically could) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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