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Can’t see the Swiss take over 10 medals to be fair

Ah right, that one injury again..

This is extremely annoying.

All in all solid tournament. Too bad Switzerland could not be the big surprise after solid games VS Germany and Italy. Happy Spain won and almost as happy this England did not win given the tactics they used.

Yeah, the rest of the race is a formality now.

Well, I mean Geraint is continuing while having COVID. So it isn’t like he isn’t feeling anything from it at all.

Yeah, most likely it will be fine or more or less being at 118% instead of 120%. So a minor inconvenience at worst. At least if illness will not be more serious, that is.

Only 2.5 weeks. He’s not out because he has covid but because of fitness, so that could be troubling nonetheless. Hope he can recover in time.

Yeah, the rule is silly, but last few years this has been a penalty in different cases.

Well, at least won’t have to consider my loyalty next Sunday.

Basically there is a clear top 11 with Korea an Canada and It is between them and maybe Germany and Netherlands who will not make the top 10. My guess: 1. US 2. China 3. GB 4. France 5. Japan 6. Italy 7. Australia 8. Netherlands 9. Germany 10. South Korea

I try to watch as little reruns as possible, only weightlifting and some boxing probably.

At least North Macedonia now have a proper Macedonian medalist in Georgievski

07:30-09:00 - Going to the supermarket, cleaning the house, watching some stuff (first week), last five days just watching stuff mostly 09:00-23:00 - Watch sports 23:00-00:30 - Checking some news on lesser sports/group phases/tennis matches and all, watching the late night talkshow about the Olympics And in between giving some attention to my partner.. if there is enough time for that.

From a television perspective I don't mind 9 AM games, but being the first to play in the final round is also a big issue.

I would have preferred Marring over Buijs personally. Although I'm afraid we won't qualify for the KO phase anyway.

I always get this feeling of large anti-British sentiment within Dutch social media and I don't really know why. And Portugal and Spain with football and the obvious stuff against Belgium, Germany and Russia, those I can at least understand.

17 hours minus whatever time I need to clean the house and do shopping every day. Probably around 15. Few events that I can't be bothered with. Mostly Boxing, Artistic swimming, Equestrian Dressage, Golf and Wrestling, as well as the newer show sports like BMX Free and Skateboarding. Breaking idk but probably don't care. Looking forward to W Volleyball, Decathlon and Heptathlon, Sports Climbing and the Cycling Road Races.

If you are dominant, you are dominant. Women's Basketball is a KO format, but no way anybody but USA will win it. There are some sports that are never locks though. Like Taekwondo, individual Archery, Tennis, Boxing..

They made a clear statement back in whatever, 2018, when the decision was made a year after he went free from his crimes. We don't know exactly whatever happened exactly, it seems to be some case of grooming and drugging which makes a single year sentence sound pretty light to me, then again there must be some reason it isn't rape under dutch law, it's not like people are getting raped left, right and center here (which some people seem to think now, just as much as that we are all racist because of the Sinterklaas traditions) Even under British law he woul have served 4 years and been free in 2020, then he could technically still have appeared. I don't think of athletes as some sort of saints and that's just how it is. There has been a football player here who killed a child because he drove way too fast on the highway while drunk, but he is still playing football just as much in some eastern country as well. If there is a standard I would say that's up to the IOC to decide, not to our NOC. Otherwise I do not see a difference between them participating in any other tournament the last 6 years rather than the Olympics. If the IOC says 'we do not stand for this conduct and this is not in line with Olympic guidelines' or something like that, I can totally agree with that, but I don't think it is for the NOC to decide on history outside of the sport if someone should not represent a country at the Olympics when they did represent the same country at numerous other tournaments. In the end, it is just clickbait the media kicks on. Otherwise this should have come up somewhere prior in the past six years. Not going to root for him or whatever. At the Olympics I am more inclined to root for Dutchies than others, but there have been more cases of Dutchies I definitely won't root for and this is just another one. I just hope this won't lead to extra backlash on our other athletes, which I see some people doing on reddit already. They don't have anything to do with this or the decision that has been made by the NOC.

Isn't that like 90% of the sports? Shows sports are basically category 3, most of athletics and cycling is category 2 and all combat and ball sports as well as archery are category 1. The only thing that doesn't fit the bill is shooting, sailing, weightlifting and golf (and maybe athletics field/combined events as well as mid-long distance swimming), of which 2 out of 4 I wouldn't exactly call predictable anyway. Weightlifting and Sailing (as well as field events and mid-long distance swimming) tend to be the more predictable sports where there is often a clear winner however.

Oh yeah, forgot about Marchand because he may well be not doing that one. Not really considering Watanabe, but he could be up there indeed.

Keirin is such a lottery that I can see Lavreijsen not win it definitely. I can’t really remember a top international Keirin performance by Finucane, she will win the sprint (and battle the team sprint out with the Germans) but I can’t see her take the Keirin from the likes of Friedrich, Andrews and Bayona.

Only 2 men, but that’s more than enough.

With GB out of the picture I think Women’s Football is also pretty likely, but not really a lock. Can’t see anybody from Europe beat them, so it comes down to Canada, USA and Australia. Of which I can only see USA doing it. Considering Netherlands, I think individual sprint for Lavreijsen and Karolien Florijn in the W1x are the closest to a lock we will get.