thiago_simoes

I don't think I could be any more heartbroken than I am now. 4th place tied with Italy, but tie-breaking rules gave us nothing and awarded Italy another medal. I'm really tired of following this sport. Guess it's time for me to "retire" from following gymnastics once and for all.

I agree. Some Wikipedians are hard to deal with, and I have to confess that I've wanted to abandon the project entirely a number of times before. If one user is supported by other users, especially administrators, there's not much one can do.

The senior Polish group won a gold medal at a World Cup stage this year, but I get your point. When it comes to World Championships, World Games or the Olympics, this is a first for Poland, and very, very impressive. Now, about her chances for Paris... I think they're slim. I didn't even try to understand the qualification system for Paris, but I think that her only chance to qualify will be at the 2024 European Championships. Not the best case scenario for a first-year senior. Also, she looks clean and strong, but she's scoring 30/31 (which is awesome for a junior gymnast) but the best senior gymnasts are scoring 34/35. Only time will tell what else she will be able to achieve, but don't get your hopes up until 2025.

I still can't believe nothing was broadcast in rhythmic gymnastics.

Watch out for a contributor named "buidhe". He wanted to delete my contributions to the Rhythmic Gymnastics Grand Prix article and I had to create new articles and delete old ones because it was not up to the standard he demanded. I'm definitely not going to contribute anymore to obscure articles.

History for Brazil with a gold medal on 5 hoops today! And Japan is the 18th nation to get a medal this year. However, with two stages to go, I don't think last year's record (a whooping 21 nations) will be broken.

Does anybody know where I can get the directives/rules for the Rhythmic Gymnastics Pan American Championships? On Twitter, a reliable account mentioned that the team event (the most important event for the World Championships, since top 3 teams qualify more than 1 gymnast to Worlds) will count the 8 best scores, but team events usually count the 10 best scores. This changes things quite a lot.

A medal for Egypt!!! YAAAAYYY!!! After getting so close in 1950 and 2021 in the senior division, FINALLY a medal! First-ever medal for an African nation!

A little late to comment here, but I'm super excited with the results. An all-around bronze medal for Brazil in such a strong field is nothing short of fantastic. Spain, China and Mexico are the only really strong nations missing here, so it was a very respectable field. This marks the first time a nation not from Europe or Asia earns an all-around medal at the FIG World Cup. It took 40 years for this to happen, but it finally did. Besides, 13 different nations got medals in the first stage, which is an all-time record for a single stage of the World Cup. I'm confident we'll see many more nations earning medals, such as Mexico, Azerbaijan, China, Spain, France and Ukraine. However, I'm not sure we're going to see new nations earning medals this year (Turkey is the only one I could think of, but they will need luck, while Lithuania, Armenia, Montenegro and Australia are very long shots).

No idea. I believe it will be similar to Rio's program, though, since switching beam and floor was very unusual in Tokyo.

I'm not old enough to have seen Pele playing, so I was only able to follow the non-player Pele. Not my favorite person. He always denied and undermined racism in Brazil, he apparently denied the recognition of one of his kids, he never stood against the military dictatorship in Brazil, and more recently he was neutral in a very tumultuous election for president, not standing against Bolsonaro. He might have been a great player, but not the kind of person I would like to have around and chat for a while. Still, may he rest in peace.

Messi deserved this so much! But since Argentina is Brazil's biggest rival in the continent, I'm a little bummed. LOL.

Oh, what a heartbreak. I wanted Morocco to win so bad. To make things worse, all that's left is for Argentina to win tomorrow.

I have nothing against Croatia, of course, but I've been against this Croatian team way before they tied and eventually defeated Brazil in a penalty shootout. I really dislike the way they are playing, their lack of ambition, the way they spend most of the matches defending and just waiting for a chance to score. Of course it must be thrilling for Croatians, but I really hate it. Also, I hate to admit it, but France is the only team that proved their worth for me, since losing with the reserve team is way more acceptable than what happened to Argentina: suffering a defeat with the main team. I am happy for Morocco, but I can't see they beating France. Besides, now they seem to be more confident, but they used the "let's defend and hope for the best" tactic way too often, which is not great.

I have no doubts Argentina will win the tournament now. It will be very interesting to see which team will advance tomorrow, but I believe it will only be a formality to see which one will finish second or third, at this point, since neither look good enough to beat Argentina, but also not bad enough to lose to Croatia.

I'm surprised he sounds nothing like someone from Portugal. I thought he would have at least a hint of Portuguese accent, but nope. Brazilian Portuguese through and through.

He's not that bad. He's been criticized here by people from nations which have not even qualified, or left much earlier than Brazil. He has amazing qualities as a coach, and he is human, so he has the right to be pissed off with that team that has not been accurate when shooting to the goal. Questionable substitutions aside, he's been a very good coach and even gathering together a team with people who think so differently (i.e., douchebag Neymar and Richarlison) without internal fights is nothing short of a miracle.

Amazing! for the win!

National identity is indeed extremely complex. We can see some Portuguese flags on balconies and windows in Rio de Janeiro, but if you ask most people how they feel about Portugal, most would say they'd rather want Portugal to lose. Same thing with Latin Americans when Spain was defeated; I saw lots of posts on social media mocking Spain coming from Latin Americans. Funny thing is that Portugal apparently has a large number of people who support Brazil, watch Brazilian soaps and TV series, but everything that comes from Portugal is virtually unknown in Brazil. And God forbid you mention to a Brazilian that Portuguese spoken in Portugal is the "correct" way to speak.

Annnd it's over for ...

and ...

I heard my neighbors screaming in joy and I was wondering what the hell was going on. Then I turned the TV on and I saw that tied the match.

You mean Argentina losing to Saudi Arabia is less surprising than this?

Ugh, I really can't stand this Croatian team. Morocco has no chance to take the World Cup, and I'll never root for Argentina and Portugal, so... I guess I'll support the Netherlands now?

His substitutions were nonsense. Morocco has shown that a defensive team can get lucky, and here we are. The referee being the 12th man for Croatia of course didn't help.