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Tokyo 2020 Day after Day as it could have happened


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Highlight for The Netherlands on the 9th day: Marit Bouwmeester in the Laser Radial. 

 

But there is so much more: the final of the 50 freestyle for men and women. Probably without Dutch participation, but who knows ... on the women's side we still have 2012-Olympic champion Ranomi Kromowidjojo and on the men's side Kenzo Simons broke the World Junior Record last december. Hopefully he qualifies already for the 2021-Olympics. 

 

Both Dutch hockeyteams normally will make their appearance in the quarterfinals. The women will be the clear favourite for gold, on the men's side I expect Germany and Belgium.

 

And as icing on the cake the 100m men! WOW!

 

Altogether a nice day!

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While waiting for the Silverstone race I made this set of stats - how would the olympics men's swimming look like if only people born in 2000s participated? A lot of new names here, but some familiar ones, too. I wonder which one of them would medal in Tokyo. Kristof Milak obviously, but who else? Winnington? Urlando? Grgic? Minakov? Ishikawa?

 

Source: Fina rankings LC from March 2019 to March 2020 period

 

Men

50 free 1. Artem Selin GER 2. David Curtiss USA 3. Vladyslav Bukhov UKR

100 free 1. Andrei Minakov RUS 2. Kliment Kolesnikov RUS 3. Lewis Edward Burras GBR

200 free 1. Elijah Winnington AUS 2. Kieran Smith USA 3. Luca Urlando USA

400 free 1. Elijah Winnington AUS 2. Marco de Tullio ITA 3. Gabor Zombori HUN

800 free 1. Franko Grgic CRO 2. Ilia Sibirtsev RUS 3. Thomas Neill AUS

1500 free 1. Franko Grgic CRO 2. Alexander Norgaard DEN 3. Huy Hoang Nguyen VIE

100 back 1. Kliment Kolesnikov RUS 2. Thomas Ceccon ITA 3. Nikolay Zuev RUS

200 back 1. Kliment Kolesnikov RUS 2. Jan Cejka CZE 3. Daniel Martin ROU

100 breast 1. Michael Houlie RSA 2. Vladislav Gerasimenko RUS 3. Reece Whitley USA

200 breast 1. Shoma Sato JPN 2. Josh Matheny USA 3. Daniel Roy USA

100 fly 1. Andrei Minakov RUS 2. Kristof Milak HUN 3. Shinnosuke Ishikawa JPN

200 fly 1. Kristof Milak HUN 2. Luca Urlando USA 3. Federico Burdisso ITA

200 IM 1. Carson Foster USA 2. Tom Dean GBR 3. Jacob Rolland Foster USA

400 IM 1. Apostolos Papastamos GRE 2. Yuki Ikari JPN 3. Ilia Borodin RUS

 

Not many medals for USA - this is a very first thing to notice here. But it doesn't mean much - these stats are just for fun.

 

I don't have rankings from August. If there are any significant changes, it could show how different teams worked during pandemics.

 

#TeamMoura-heywoodu

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And women - olympics for 2000s, stats the same: March-to-March

 

50 free 1. Gretchen Walsh USA 2. Maxine Parker USA 3. Qingfeng Wu CHN

100 free 1. Taylor Ruck CAN 2. Freya Anderson GBR 3. Penny Oleksiak CAN

200 free 1. Ariarne Titmus AUS 2. Junxuan Yang CHN 3. Freya Anderson GBR

400 free 1. Ariarne Titmus AUS 2. Ajna Kesely HUN 3. Bingjie Li CHN

800 free 1. Jianjiahe Wang CHN 2. Ariarne Titmus AUS 3. Lani Pallister AUS

1500 free 1. Jianjiahe Wang CHN 2. Delfina Pignatiello ARG 3. Ajna Kesely HUN

100 back 1. Regan Smith USA 2. Taylor Ruck CAN 3. Minna Atherton AUS

200 back 1. Regan Smith USA 2. Kaylle McKeown AUS 3. Taylor Ruck CAN

100 breast 1. Runa Imai JPN 2. Evgeniia Chikunova RUS 3. Tes Schouten NED

200 breast 1. Evgeniia Chikunova RUS 2. Anastasia Makarova RUS 3. Mei Ishihara JPN

100 fly 1. Margaret MacNeil CAN 2. Anastasiya Shkurdai BLR 3. Torri Huske USA

200 fly 1. Suzuka Hasegawa JPN 2. Regan Smith USA 3. Lillie Nordmann USA

200 IM 1. Alex Walsh USA 2. Kaylee McKeown AUS 3. Runa Imai JPN

400 IM 1. Emma Weyant USA 2. Anja Crevar SRB 3. Alba Vazquez ESP

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2 hours ago, CCB said:

Highlight for The Netherlands on the 9th day: Marit Bouwmeester in the Laser Radial. 

 

But there is so much more: the final of the 50 freestyle for men and women. Probably without Dutch participation, but who knows ... on the women's side we still have 2012-Olympic champion Ranomi Kromowidjojo and on the men's side Kenzo Simons broke the World Junior Record last december. Hopefully he qualifies already for the 2021-Olympics. 

 

Both Dutch hockeyteams normally will make their appearance in the quarterfinals. The women will be the clear favourite for gold, on the men's side I expect Germany and Belgium.

 

And as icing on the cake the 100m men! WOW!

 

Altogether a nice day!

 

Agreed on all of this, plus I'll start following beachvolleyball RO16 'today'. Hopefully with Dutch male and female duos still competing.

 

I've been loving this thread! Every night I check out the schedule for the next day and I already look forward to seeing everyone's reactions and predictions.

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6 hours ago, rafalgorka said:

Day 9, Sunday,

That would be one of the most entertaining days for me.

 

1. Last swimming finals (I hope Paweł Juraszek will make it to the 50m free final),

 

2. Athletics - my beloved high jump (no serious Polish contenders, but at least Mutaz has a Polish coach - and I am so happy to see Gianmarco Tamberi back after this terrible injury - I wonder what he could have achieved and how high he could have jumped if it hadn't happen to him - but he's back and still capable of doing big things)

100m semis and final (hopefully without Justin Gatlin and Christian Coleman)

and yes, 800 semis - and 400m hurdles semis may be interesting, too - a very strong field here these days

 

3. First individual gymnastics apparatus finals (Nina Derwael winning gold on bars I hope)

 

4. Tennis - men's singles final (Novak Djokovic (I like the way he plays, I don't like some other things about him and his team members) vs Stefanos Tsitsipas I hope, that would be very entertaining)

and mixed doubles final maybe (there are not many mixed doubles pairs playing in Grand Slams with both players from one country - so this tournament is very open competition and a really hard-to-predict one). I would advice Łukasz Kubot and Iga Świątek to focus on it and maybe something spectaculiar will happen. But it;s a bit of wishful thinking again I'm afraid - Polish players haven't shown much in the olympics yet, even Agnieszka Radwańska imploded heavily both in 12 and in 16).

 

5. Equestrian cross country in eventing (i like to watch this in the olympics very much - but I don't understand why they don't let the riders start with dressage results in a reversed order - it is very interesting already, but maybe maybe it would be even more interesting with this change)

 

6. Golf - final round, especially if there would be 2-3 players with similar score after first 3 days (I wonder how many top players would show up in Tokyo - I think more than in Rio, but sadly still there would be some significant absentions). Adrian Meronk in top 30 would be a very good result for us. Maybe they would show him on tv here a few times, which would make golf more popular in Poland. That would be nice.

 

7. Volleyball - men's - POL vs CAN - the last match in the group stage. I hope we would secure a QF spot before and it will not be an all-or-nothing game. Because otherwise... well, it will be 9 a.m. Japanese Time - and sadly Polish athletes have some history of bad olympics performances before noon  - still can't figure out why ;-)

 

8. Beach volleyball - 1/8 finals with one or two Polish pairs probably

 

So it's a long day. But very entertaining.

 

With golf it's important to remember how popular golf is in Japan - which means a lot of top golfers are sponsored by Japanese companies who want publicity in their home country.

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Day 10 events to watch for me are gymnastics finals, athletics, badminton finals, women’s football semis, sailing medal races, weightlifting finals, wrestling finals & maybe some baseball, beach volleyball, cycling track, equestrian

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My 10th day would be look like this:

- artistic gymnastics apparatus finals day 2

- athletics - from finals most interesting for me is 3000m steeplachase but also men's hammer qualifications should be like this because of Pawel Fajdek, will he finally advance to the olympic final for the first time in his life or again not?

- badminton finals

- cycling track - my favorite kind of cycling (yeah, I know, it's strange) so I definitely would watch every day of competition

- equestrian - end of eventing (for me most interesting) competition

- sailing - 49er and 49erFX medal races

- shooting - men's rapid pistol final - it's my favorite kind of pistol/rifle events

- wrestling - first finals but also other event in my favorite greco-roman and also some women's competition

 

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Day 10 Monday 

 

Bad thing : swimming has finished 

Good thing : no more athletics vs swimming schedule collision. 

 

I would definitely watch:

 

- athletics (Hammer qualifications with Paweł Fajdek, M long jump and 3000 steeple finals, W 100 hurdles final) 

 

- gymnastics - second day of ind. aparatus finals

 

- equestrian - eventing jumping. 

 

And beach volleyball, men's singles badminton final and start of sprint canoeing. 

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day #10

 

first in line for me, obviously, the last day of the Fencing competitions (men's Team Foil)...

then, Athletics (men's High Jump, women's Triple Jump and of course the men's 100m dash above all), the end of the Swimming program (men's 1500m especially...no need to say why?) and Golf (men's final round)...

not to be forgotten, Sailing (finals of the day, but also the Nacra 17 fleet races) and Badminton (men's semis and women's medal matches)...

 

day #11

not to be missed: the first Wrestling finals (and the men's GR -97kg prelims, hopefully with the great new "Italian" Nikoloz Kakhelashvili), the end of the Shooting program (with the 2 most exciting events of them all, the men's Rapid Fire Pistol and 3-Position Rifle), Sailing (men's 49er and women's 49er FX medal races), Athletics (my personal highlights of the day being the women's 100m HS + the men's Long Jump and 3000m Steeplechase finals) and the start of Flatwater Canoeing and Track Cycling programs (women and men's Team Pursuit qualifiers above all)...

 

then, gotta find some place also for the other finals of the day, especially the men's singles in Badminton, the men's Rings in Gymnastics (with our Marco Lodadio) and some Team Sports reaching the "hot" stages...

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