What medal in Tokyo for someone NOT from your country would be the most fun for you?

[Makedonas 2,193]

  On 6/20/2021 at 4:29 AM, intoronto said:

Canada is in this event too but stories like these make me more interested.

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Not sure why I thought Canada didn't make it 

[NMQ 243]

Don’t know if fun is the word, but some athletes i like and want them to do well that I can remember now (among others):

 

Athletics:

 

 Allyson Felix (if qualified)

 Ivet Lalova

 Angelica Bengtsson

 Sam Kendricks

 Maria Lasitskene

 Yulia Levchenko

 Yaroslava Mahuchikh

 Airine Palsyte (if qualified)

 Mutaz Eza Barshim

 

Canoeing:

 

 Isaquias Queiroz dos Santos

 

Fencing:

 

 Ana Maria Popescu

 

Gymnastics:

 

 Larisa Iordache

 

Judo:

 

 Daria Bilodid

 

Swimming:

 

 Katie Ledecky

 Nathan Adrian (if qualified)

 Kliment Kolesnikov

 Yulia Efimova

 Simona Quadarella

 Sarah Sjostrom

 

Tennis:

 

 Simona Halep

 Iga Swiatek

 Daria Kasatkina

 Roger Federer

 Novak Djokovic

 Daniil Medvedev

 

If i had to choose only a few from this list, I'd say Felix and Federer winning golds, Efimova, Halep and Iordache winning a medal and Ledecky sweeping the 200-1500.

[hckošice 15,087]

Easy.

1st Mirela Demireva 

2nd Belinda Bencic,

3rd, as mentioned W Water Polo

 

 

and obviously

 

Finally medal (looking very promising this time)

 

and because we are one, whatever the maps show

 

[Fly_like_a_don 1,112]

  On 6/20/2021 at 5:51 AM, hckošice said:

Finally medal (looking very promising this time)

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Looked at Slovakian squad on wiki, sadly you guys have lesser medal chances than even Ecuador 

[hckošice 15,087]

  On 6/20/2021 at 6:10 AM, Fly_like_a_don said:

Looked at Slovakian squad on wiki, sadly you guys have lesser medal chances than even Ecuador 

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That is nothing new buddy, we knew it I told you last time, any medal would be fantastic, lets hope for at least one

 

but great for

[heywoodu 15,333]

Basically everyone who wins, who was not expected to win at all. Surprises  

 

Big names and people who already have a big list of major wins (especially if it already includes Olympic golds and such) generally don't do much for me, especially if it's athletes who were basically expected to win. Sports is emotion and emotion is often the biggest and best when someone surprises.

[Vektor 3,326]

Speaking of our women's water polo curse, there's another curse in team sports: Sweden in men's handball with 4 silver medals. So I hope that they will finally win that gold if they will be in the final again. 

[pdr4332 218]

Just from the top of my head:

 

-  winning the 100/200 sprint

- someone else than  winning one of the basketball tournaments

-  and  competitors in general of course not at the expense of  :D

[phelps 7,797]

there are a lot of athletes I like and support despite not being from my Country...

 

it's too hard to select a few, but this year there's 1 woman I'd really love to see on the Olympic podium:  swimmer Rikako Ikee (many people who know her story could also imagine why)

[heywoodu 15,333]

  On 6/20/2021 at 8:48 AM, phelps said:

there are a lot of athletes I like and support despite not being from my Country...

 

it's too hard to select a few, but this year there's 1 woman I'd really love to see on the Olympic podium:  swimmer Rikako Ikee (many people who know her story could also imagine why)

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Oh that would be awesome  

 

If I had the power, I'd trade any medal in swimming for a medal for Ikee!