Summer Universiade 2017

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USA easily beat Norway in a tuneup game in Men's Basketball

 

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Schedules per day can be found like this, without needing the awful Taipei 2017 website:

https://data.2017.gov.taipei/atos/prod/eng/zz/engzz_general-daily-competition-schedule-date=2017-08-19.htm 

Then only change the date at the end.

 

 

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USA Men's Volleyball team seems to be players from a variety of California division 1 schools and a couple players from Ohio State

Their women's team is from a variety of division 1 schools as well but from around the US

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but still no entry lists of the individual sports , this event is holy shit

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2 horas atrás, juddy96 disse:

Artistic Gymnastics entry lists are out which means @thiago_simoes can analyze and tell us who will win the medals, because he's rather good at that https://www.2017.taipei/atosLinks/51dc43ec-e628-4307-82e1-233305842972?00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000

 

In Men's Artistic: Muntean (ROU), Kardos (HUN), Georgiou (CYP), Davtyan (ARM), Arican (TUR), Tuuha (FIN), Phan (VIE), Kim (KOR), Kamoto and Nonomura (JPN), Verniaiev (UKR), and Kazachov (RUS) are the ones to watch.

In Women's Artistic, Rogers and Black (CAN), Bui (GER), Sasada and Teramoto (JPN), Iordache (ROU), Boczogo (HUN), Simm (GBR) and all the Russian girls (except maybe Akhaimova) will fight for individual medals. The field is not very deep this year, so maybe Martins (POR), Sajn (SLO), Eum (KOR), Cummins (RSA), Pena (DOM), and Urvikko (FIN) might land on the podium somehow, but I still doubt it. 

 

 

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2 horas atrás, juddy96 disse:

 

Petro Pakhnyuk transferred back to Ukraine?

 

He did. Azerbaijan was apparently not willing to fund his training anymore. Stepko was also affected by this, but he decided not to go back to Ukraine. Word of mouth says Stepko will join the Russian team. 

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1 hour ago, thiago_simoes said:

 

He did. Azerbaijan was apparently not willing to fund his training anymore. Stepko was also affected by this, but he decided not to go back to Ukraine. Word of mouth says Stepko will join the Russian team. 

 

Well I heard somewhere that this influx of foreign talent inspired some locals in Azerbaijan and now there are more true Azeri gymnasts than there was before. So maybe they just decided to let them go

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Organizing committee says Opening Ceremony, Closing Ceremony, Roller Skating, Badminton, Diving, and Fencing tickets are sold out. Gymnastics and Weightlifting are close to being sold out

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4 horas atrás, juddy96 disse:

 

Well I heard somewhere that this influx of foreign talent inspired some locals in Azerbaijan and now there are more true Azeri gymnasts than there was before. So maybe they just decided to let them go

 

You need around 10 years to make one athlete go from beginner to world class level in artistic gymnastics. I don't think Azerbaijan is looking strong in the junior division at the moment. And if you take a look at one Azeri gymnast who was actually born in Azerbaijan, Eldar Safarov, you will see that his level is extremely low. Also, Azerbaijan does not seem to be ashamed to get gymnasts from Russia in trampoline, or even from Turkey in rhythmic gymnastics. Really weird decision if this the motivation behind keeping Stepko out of the team.

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17 minutes ago, thiago_simoes said:

 

You need around 10 years to make one athlete go from beginner to world class level in artistic gymnastics. I don't think Azerbaijan is looking strong in the junior division at the moment. And if you take a look at one Azeri gymnast who was actually born in Azerbaijan, Eldar Safarov, you will see that his level is extremely low. Also, Azerbaijan does not seem to be ashamed to get gymnasts from Russia in trampoline, or even from Turkey in rhythmic gymnastics. Really weird decision if this the motivation behind keeping Stepko out of the team.

 

Yeah, hopefully Azerbaijan actually invests some good money and time into their own athletes now. I know Qatar does this, they have plenty of facilities and resources for their locals, even like having actual qataris team with Brazilians in Beach Volleyball