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All of my predictions are made under the assumption that Russia won’t be competing. Day 1 (July 27, 2024) Diving- Women’s 3m Synchronized Springboard Gold- Chen Yiwen/Chang Yani Silver- Sarah Bacon/Kassidy Cook Bronze- Pamela Ware/Mia Valee Fencing- Women’s Individual Epee Gold- Marie Florence Candassamy Silver- Sun Yiwen Bronze- Song Se-ra Fencing- Men’s Individual Sabre Gold- Áron Szilágyi Silver- Sandro Bazade Bronze- Eli Dershwitz If there’s a surprise medalist here, I’m going with Szabo. Judo- Women’s -48kg Gold- Natsumi Tsunoda Silver- Milica Nikolić Bronze- Shirine Boukli Bronze- Abiba Azuzhakynova Judo- Men’s -60kg Gold- Naohiso Takato Silver- Francisco Garrigos Bronze- Lee Ha-rim Bronze- Dilshot Khalmatov (Surprise medalist) Road Cycling- Men’s Time Trial Gold- Remco Evenepoel Silver- Filippo Ganna Bronze- Josh Tarling Road Cycling- Women’s Time Trial Gold- Chloe Dygert Silver- Marlen Reusser Bronze- Ellen Van Dijk Rugby Sevens- Men’s Tournament Gold- New Zealand Silver- Fiji Bronze- Australia Shooting- Mixed Team 10m Air Rifle Gold- China Silver- Korea Bronze- India Skatebording- Men’s Street Gold- Nyjah Huston Silver- Aurelien Giraud Bronze- Yuto Horigome Swimming- Men’s 400m Freestyle Gold- Sam Short Silver- Ahmed Hafnaoui Bronze- Lukas Märtens Swimming- Women’s 400m Freestyle Let’s try this again. Gold- Summer McIntosh Silver- Ariarne Titmus Bronze- Katie Ledecky Swimming- Women’s 4x100m Freestyle Relay Gold- Australia Silver- United States Bronze- Canada Assuming Ruck and Oleksiak are fully healthy. Swimming- Men’s 4x100m Freestyle Relay Gold- United States, with a massive split by Caleb Dressel Silver- Australia Bronze- Italy Medal Table After Day 1 3-2-2– 7 2-2-1– 5 2-1-0– 3 2-0-1– 3 1-1-1– 3 1-0-2– 3 1-0-0– 1 1-0-0– 1 1-0-0– 1 0-1-2– 3 0-1-1– 2 0-1-0– 1 0-1-0– 1 0-1-0– 1 0-1-0– 1 0-1-0– 1 0-1-0– 1 0-0-1– 1 0-0-1– 1 0-0-1– 1 0-0-1– 1 0-0-1– 1 0-0-1– 1

Thanks everyone for joining the thread. Feel free to make your complete predictions like @Josh but when you want to do it in certain sports only, that would be great as well!!!

Day 2 (July 28, 2024) Archery- Women’s Team Gold- South Korea Silver- Germany Bronze- Japan Canoe Slalom- Women’s K1 Gold- Ricarda Funk Silver- Jessica Fox Bronze- Mallory Franklin Former Olympic Champion Chourraut finishes in fourth. Fencing- Men’s Individual Epee Gold- Gergely Siklósi Silver- Davide Di Veroli Bronze- Romaine Cannone Fencing- Women’s Foil Gold- Alice Volpi Silver- Lee Kiefer Bronze- Arriana Errigo Judo- Women’s -52kg Gold- Uta Abe Silver- Distria Krasniqi Bronze- Diyora Keldiyorova Bronze- Amandine Buchard Judo- Men’s -66kg Gold- Hifumi Abe Silver- Yondoperenlein Baskhüü Bronze- An Ba-ul Bronze- Varga Margvelashvili Mountain Biking- Women’s Cross Country Gold- Pauline Ferrand-Prevot Silver- Puck Pieterse Bronze- Alessandra Keller Shooting- Men’s 10m Air Pistol Gold- Zhang Bowen Silver- Damir Milic Bronze- Ismail Keles Shooting- Women’s 10m Air Pistol Gold- Ranxin Xiang Silver- Anna Korakaki Bronze- Klaudia Breś Skateboarding- Women’s Street Gold- Rayssa Leal Silver- Momiji Nishiya Bronze- Chloe Covell Swimming- Men’s 400m Individual Medley Gold- Leon Marchand Silver- Chase Kalisz Bronze- Carson Foster Swimming- Women’s 100m Butterfly Gold- Maggie MacNeil Silver- Torri Huske Bronze- Zhang Yufei MacNeil always performs at major Championships, which is why I have her defending her Olympic gold. Coincidentally, this would be the same podium as last year, only change being Huske for second ahead of Yufei. Swimming- Men’s 100m Breastroke Gold- Adam Peaty Silver- Qin Haiyang Bronze- Nic Fink Assuming Peaty is healthy, he should take this one. Wouldn’t count out Haiyang though. Medal Table After Day 2 4-2-1– 7 4-1-2– 7 3-5-4– 12 3-1-3– 7 2-3-2– 7 2-0-2– 4 2-0-0– 2 1-2-2– 5 1-1-3– 5 1-1-1– 3 1-0-2– 3 1-0-0– 1 1-0-0– 1 1-0-0– 1 0-2-0– 2 0-1-1– 2 0-1-1– 2 0-1-1– 2 0-1-0– 1 0-1-0– 1 0-1-0– 1 0-1-0– 1 0-1-0– 1 0-1-0– 1 0-0-1– 1 0-0-1– 1 0-0-1– 1 0-0-1– 1 0-0-1– 1 0-0-1– 1

it wasn't just the final. we had two semifinals against China and in both of them some magic moments happened. the Chinese guy/girl just threw his/her leg to the air and 2+3+3+3+3+3 appeared on the scoreboard. refs removed some of them but still it wasn't a fair contest. there is something wrong and I seriously hope they fix it for the next days.

I must admit that the atmosphere is very pleasant, almost all the venues I saw were full. The Asian Games are certainly one of the best continental multi-sport events, the European Games can only aspire to come closer...

Qualifiers comparison Country Projected Qualifiers Qualifiers Romania 10 11 Netherlands 10 10 Australia 9 9 Great Britain 9 9 USA 9 8 New Zealand 5 8 Ireland 7 6 Germany 4 6 China 4 5 Italy 4 5 Spain 4 4 Switzerland 4 4 Lithuania 3 4 France 4 3 Croatia 2 3 Norway 1 3 Greece 5 2 Canada 1 2 Czechia 1 2 Denmark 3 1 Poland 2 1 Serbia 2 1 Austria 1 1 Bulgaria 1 1 Chile 1 1 Japan 1 1 AIN (BELARUS) 1 1* Mexico 0 1 South Africa 0 1 Belgium 2 0 Estonia 1 0 Moldova 1 0 Ukraine 1 0 Uzbekistan 1 0 As mentioned above the only big country level misses were New Zealand who significantly outperformed their world cup form and Greece who significantly under performed. The only other countries to be more than one away from what I projected were Germany who had a very good champs by their recent standards, Norway who had a couple of surprise qualifiers and Belgium/ Denmark who both underperformed by multiple boats. This could possibly end up playing in their favour with continental qualifiers though of course.

Connor Howe with a 1.42,34 in the 1,500 this early in the season (granted its was in Calgary, but should bode well for the upcoming season).

Yes. Amazing result. China did a good job but Korea is just amazing tonight. BTW just in case some of you guys don't know before, male Asian Games champions and Olympic Games medalists will be exempt from compulsory military service about 2 years. So basically male athletes may be more motivated than other countries.

7.01 in the men's 4*200m Free...it would have been bronze for them at the world champs, ahead of

Who would’ve thought our first gold medal would be from shooting

Yep.

Wouldn't be surprised to see Ruck get back close to her best now it looks like she's training at ASU.

As a biased Canadian, I think Summer uses Fukuoka as inspiration to be ready for the 400m in Paris. Also, she won't be peaking for the nationals like this year, she will be peaking for Paris. I will never underestimate Ledecky or Titmus and they can come out hard, too (as they did in Fukuoka) but I see Summer taking her WR back in this race, setting the tone for her domination over the week. And if she wins the 400m, I see her helping Canada stay on the podium for the relay later that night. But that depends more on the state of Ruck (and to a lesser extent Oleksiak who always rises to the occasion).

mixed Team Trap Gold: Italy 2 (Jessica Rossi & Massimo Fabbrizi) Silver: Slovakia 1 (Zuzana Rehak-Stefecekova & Erik Varga) Bronze: Great Britain 1 (Lucy Charlotte Hall & Nathan Hales) Bronze Medal match Great Britain 1 b. Great Britain 2 7-1 Gold Medal match Italy 2 b. Slovakia 1 6-5 (Shoot-Off) Full Result of the Qualification Round https://results.sius.com/DownloadFile.aspx?Championship=1305969c-ecd8-4e4c-b2ec-6d5327d1d2ee&FileName=Shotgun/TRMT/3_QUAL/Q200000TA2509230830.1.TRMT.0.001.pdf

Yeah, Jess had her baby, mentioned in commentary. Taylor-Brown has missed 2/3rd of the season so will need to show form early next year. Fiona Duffy the same, also long injury this year.

Chinese gymnasts in Asian Games will not attend WCH and I think Japan is the same. China send Men's A team(quota achieved before) and Women's B team to Asian Games. And I think Japan send both B teams to Asian Games.

Rumor has it that China officials on purposely reduce some participating events and athletes to release some pressure of organizing committee as it is biggest ever game. China even has lower athletes number than 2014 Asian Games in Korea and lower number than Thailand in this game.

I am in Hangzhou and trying very hard to buy tickets here but still only limited matches successfully bought. I basically watch 1-2 matches on court and rest time I watch cellphone. Every time that I failed I was thinking why there are so many people in China.

I just notice the Sheng wonderful performance in the 10m air rifle 253.3 and new world record, wow.

Time for a Haughey masterclass in the women’s 200m freestyle

Ji is today's hero in the pool; South Korea has prevented a Chinese clean sweep today

It was crazy. Right after Panipak's head kick annulled, Guo then racked 17 points in a few seconds. They need to address this issue as soon as possible

Qualification Rankings (Shotgun) updated as of September 25th, 2023

Décastar- Talence, France September 23-24, 2023 Full Results Women’s Heptathlon Emma Oosterwegel

5 medals for Iran so far. all of them in women's events that's not something you would expect of course that's going to change soon, even today. but still worth mentioning

has just won their first medal of the games . A 🥉 in Judo & are guaranteed a medal in Judo , which will be their first in AG 2023. With that 22 NOC has so far won a medal that is nearly 50% of total participating NOC . We are just in Day 2.

I'm watching my frist cricket match in my life I must admit that's really intuitive, so nicely to watch. Now please, show me a wicket

how come Running target events are in the program while the host country didn't even care to enter a team ?!

They will get this easily and so will China and probably Japan, with the last spot being decided between Netherlands and Canada.

It seems the chinese were aiming for Asian Games

becomes the third nation who didn't medal in 2018 to medal here.

I feel like she has a decent shot at being in the 4x100m relay based off her split in the 4x100m medley at this year's World's it was comporable to Rebecca Smith's time from Tokyo 2020 and at this point I'm not sure we have a 4th who can go under 54 seconds although Smith, Harvey and maybe even Jansen could do so.

I’ve been between jobs for a bit, but earlier this year I began a part-time job with a local youth skateboarding league in Southern California. I just realized one of the skateboarders will be competing in women’s park today. I’ll have to catch a replay, but kind of a neat/odd connection to the Games.

Right, Only two weeks after the event finished, here is my final update. I was going to include the next two best boats in each boat class but it looked chaotic and at least in 2019 although probably mostly pandemic related very few boats that narrowly missed out at worlds actually ended up qualifying for the Olympics. Hit rates Semi finals Finals Podium Winners Olympic qualifiers 122/144 (84.1%) 63/84 (75%) 32/42 (76.2%) 9/14 (64.3%) 91/114 (79.8%) So it held up quite well in terms of predicting medallists and winners so a similar type of ranking may well prove fairly accurate at least at predicting the podium at the Olympics next year. I fell one boat short of hitting my 80% target on qualifiers but sure we will round it up and say we sort of got there. Overestimating Greece's early season form and underestimating New Zealand probably were predictable errors and therefore incorporable into this ranking that probably cost me an extra one or two correct qualifiers.

Looks like there has been a couple of changes made to the entry lists for next week's competition: Men's Vault Specialist: Juancho Miguel Besana has been replaced by Fabian de Luna. Men's Horizontal Bar Specialist: Juancho Miguel Besana has withdrawn and no replacement announced as yet. Women's All-Around Individual: Anya Pilgrim has been replace by Stella Diaz Munez; Caterina Cereghetti has been replaced by Anny Wu; and Christina Zwicker has withdrawn and been replaced by Anastasija Ananjeva. Women's Balance Beam: Chan Cheuk Lam replaced by Hilary Heron.

I think Tarling wins gold in the men’s TT. Ganna silver and Remco bronze. I think Reusser wins gold in the women’s. Dygart silver and one of the Dutch women wins bronze

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B-Girl Medalists Gold- “B-Girl Nicka” aka Dominika Banevič Silver- “B-Girl Ayumi” aka Ayumi Fukushima Bronze- “B-Girl Syssy” aka Sya Dembele B-Boy Medalists Gold- “B-Boy Victor” aka Victor Montalvo Silver- “B-Boy Phil Wizard” aka Philip Kim Bronze- “B-Boy Shigekix” aka Nakarai Shigeyuki

Berlin Marathon September 24th 2023 Men's: Eliud Kipchoge, Vincent Kipkemoi Ngetich, Ronald Korir, Amos Kipruto, Philemon Kiplimo, Boniface Kimutai, Josphat Boit, Justus Kangogo Tadese Takele, Haftu Teklu, Andualem Belay Shiferaw, Deme Tadu Abate Amanal Petros Tadesse Abraham Okubay Tsegay Michael Somers Women's: Tigst Assefa, Zeineba Yimer, Senbere Teferi, Dera Dida, Workenesh Edesa, Helen Bekele, Fikrte Wereta Sheila Chepkirui Magdalena Shauri Charlotte Purdue Hitomi Niiya Delvine Relin Meringor Malindi Elmore Domenika Mayer Fabienne Schlumpf Angie Orjuela

Martina Sablikova won today (9th of July 2023) Women´s L´etape du Tour de France Always wanted to write something in the speed skating thread. So here I am

Yeah, it is like the Latin American sides in baseball: they export huge numbers of pros to the big leagues.

Also, the season is not quite over - two more Super League races to go, which most of the big names will be doing. Not your classic triathlon, but definitely relevant for relay legs.

Pan Zhanle becomes the first swimmer to ever go sub 22 (men’s 50m freestyle), sub 47 (men’s 100m freestyle), and sub 1:45 (men’s 200m freestyle).

World Rankings updated as of September 25th, 2023

in Gymnastics i see some really big names form China and Japan performing , so how come these players will play in WCH which will start in Sep.30 !

10 m running target team were seen crying when anthem was playing... You all know what that means...

Miami Dolphins have scored 70 points on the Denver Broncos and we still have 5 minutes left in the game

Boat spots won at the final regatta in 2021 4 3 2 1 New Zealand, mentioned above, qualified their men's eight. Lithuania got the men's quad when (not) Russia had a doping violation

I believe that selectors met this week to pick the men's squad for next month's event and assuming that they are running to schedule, the squad should be announced over the weekend after the appeal window closes later today. At the designated selection event held last weekend, neither Joe Fraser or Giarnni Regini-Moran took part - I think both are coming back from injury/illness. This left the path clear for Jake Jarman to be top scorer with 84.1. This included a 15 on floor and a 15.6 on vault but he still doesn't have the degree of difficulty on pommel or rings to be challenging the top performers. James Hall was the second highest scorer on 83.45 including 0.6 in penalties. His highlights were a 14.7 on p-bars and 14.0 on floor. Max Whitlock has staked his claim to get back on the team with a 15 on pommel along with a 13.9 on parallel bars and 12.9 on high bar whilst Courtney Tulloch is the other specialist who could make the team having scored 14.35 on rings and 15.1 on vault. Assuming everyone is fit and healthy, squad seems likely to be: Joe Fraser Jake Jarman Courtney Tulloch Max Whitlock Giarnni Regini-Moran Although that would be harsh on James Hall, it would maximise GB's prospects for making individual finals and by extension, their medal opportunities.