thiago_simoes 1,359 Posted August 3, 2021 #561 Share Posted August 3, 2021 47 minutes ago, George_D said: this rule is ridiculous. It can deprive a medal from an athlete that deserves it To be fair, this is how it's done in swimming, anyway. I prefer 2 per country instead of 3 per country. In my opinion, athletes don't represent themselves; they represent nations. That's why you have one football team, one handball team and so on, instead of two or three teams by the same country. The fact that even 2 per country are allowed, and that a nation has a chance to win gold even if one of their athletes fail, is already a big privilege in my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,560 Posted August 3, 2021 #562 Share Posted August 3, 2021 1 minute ago, dcro said: Srbić did it. Not that impressed by the Japanese but alright. To be fair, the Japanese did a lot more different things than Srbic with the same thing but 25 slightly different variations Which he did perform nicely, so a medal is definitely deserved. If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thiago_simoes 1,359 Posted August 3, 2021 #563 Share Posted August 3, 2021 1 minute ago, heywoodu said: To be fair, the Japanese did a lot more different things than Srbic with the same thing but 25 slightly different variations Which he did perform nicely, so a medal is definitely deserved. Absolutely deserved medals, but I'm not that impressed with any of the medalists. Half of the finalists fell. A kind of bad ending to this edition of the Olympic Games, unfortunately. heywoodu 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,560 Posted August 3, 2021 #564 Share Posted August 3, 2021 1 minute ago, thiago_simoes said: Absolutely deserved medals, but I'm not that impressed with any of the medalists. Half of the finalists fell. A kind of bad ending to this edition of the Olympic Games, unfortunately. I felt like a lot of these finals were sort of...underwhelming, to be honest. At least I'm glad Biles got an apparatus medal! Didn't think I'd ever say that until last week, but now I really am thiago_simoes 1 If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thiago_simoes 1,359 Posted August 3, 2021 #565 Share Posted August 3, 2021 13 minutes ago, heywoodu said: I felt like a lot of these finals were sort of...underwhelming, to be honest. At least I'm glad Biles got an apparatus medal! Didn't think I'd ever say that until last week, but now I really am About the finals: I totally get you. It's the weirdest edition of the Olympics I've ever witnessed. As a silver lining, at least, after years of the same old countries on the podium on the women's side, we finally had a big diversity of nations with a medal: Brazil, Japan, Great Britain, Italy, Belgium and South Korea, along with Japan, ROC and China, as expected. On the men's side, it actually felt like something was missing. Verniayev was out due to doping, Uchimura had a terrible performance, Nagornyy was mostly disappointing, the Swiss didn't even qualify for the finals, the Ukrainians had the worst possible Olympics in their lives, the Turkish performed badly in the finals -- except for Arican -- and, of course, Dalaloyan was injured and did absolutely everything he could, but still it felt like he's capable of a lot more. About Brazil: Rebeca got two medals, one of them gold, and both Zanetti and Nory failed, so I'm not only happy; I'm overjoyed. I'm only sad for Flávia. Of course she didn't deserve a medal here, but she works so hard and I hope she gets at least a medal at the World Championships before retiring. Maybe her foot will heal quickly enough for her to be able to go to the World Championships this year... heywoodu and merlinsbeard 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George_D 874 Posted August 3, 2021 #566 Share Posted August 3, 2021 22 minutes ago, thiago_simoes said: To be fair, this is how it's done in swimming, anyway. I prefer 2 per country instead of 3 per country. In my opinion, athletes don't represent themselves; they represent nations. That's why you have one football team, one handball team and so on, instead of two or three teams by the same country. The fact that even 2 per country are allowed, and that a nation has a chance to win gold even if one of their athletes fail, is already a big privilege in my opinion. So the same should be in athletics also Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thiago_simoes 1,359 Posted August 3, 2021 #567 Share Posted August 3, 2021 8 minutes ago, George_D said: So the same should be in athletics also Well, this is what I think that should be done, but of course it's just my opinion and I'm sure a lot of people will not agree with me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 13,267 Posted August 3, 2021 #568 Share Posted August 3, 2021 Men's Parallel BarsFinal Results ZOU Jingyuan 16.233 Lukas DAUsER 15.700 Ferhat ARICAN 15.633 Final Results Here Qualifiers Results Here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 13,267 Posted August 3, 2021 #569 Share Posted August 3, 2021 Women's Balance BeamFinal Results GUAN Chenchen 14.633 TANG Xijing 14.233 Simone BILES 14.000 Final Results Here Qualifiers Results Here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monzanator 3,598 Posted August 3, 2021 #570 Share Posted August 3, 2021 Really cool to see Ferhat win a medal. There is still hope for small aka new gymnastics nations merlinsbeard 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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