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Lanzini out of World cup, Diego Simonet out of panamerican championship, we finish 4th at south american games, del Potro trounced by Nadal, volleyball team keeps losing... What a day

I don't get why our ukranian didn't compete in the mixed (one of many things i didn't understand in our delegation..) I think that taking here the absolute best athletes in every sport (and assuming the other countries remain the same) we would have won 14-18 more gold medals (5 or 6 in swimming, 2 or 3 more in kayak, 4 in Basketball, 1 in mens rugby, 1 or 2 more in shooting and 1 or 2 more between equestrian/athletics/judo). In 2014 we had the best athletes for everything that wasnt the team sports.

Poor Bolivia they would be 8th if we didn't steal half of their racquetball team

I didn't get why you understimate Venezuela. Their sport doesn't really depend on their economy that much, it's always heavy state support and their government isn't really cutting spending like in Brazil or Argentina.

Now I remember why I don't like Nadal...

2014 panamerican championship.

She must have been a disaster, otherwise it's hard to believe.

Lmao for a brief moment the official site showed that our high jumper had cleared 2.30 and I thought since when do we have a Barshim but nah, it was a mistake, just 2.25

We are still waiting for the golds in pelota. Venezuela please stop winning

[hide] Women's Singles Semifinals Part #2 Date & Time (GMT +2) Athlete 1 T1 T2 Athlete 2 May 7th 2018, h. TBD (15:00) [13] Simona Halep 1 2 Garbiñe Muguruza [3] Men's Doubles Semifinals #2 Date & Time (GMT +2) Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 May 7th 2018, h. TBD (12:00) [8] Nikola Mektic [8] Alexander Peya 2 1 Pierre-Hugues Herbert [6] Nicolas Mahut [6] Mixed Doubles Final Date & Time (GMT +2) Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 May 7th 2018, h. TBD (12:00) [1] Gabriela Dabrowski [1] Mate Pavic 2 0 Latisha Chan [2] Ivan Dodig [2] Women's Doubles Semifinals Date & Time (GMT +2) Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 May 8th 2018, h. TBD Eri Hozumi Makoto Ninomiya 0 2 Hao-Ching Chan [8] Zhaoxuan Yang [8] May 8th 2018, h. TBD [6] Barbora Krejcikova [6] KaterinaSiniakova 1 2 Andrea Sestini Hlavackova [2] Barbora Strycova [2] [/hide]

[hide] Men's Singles Semifinals Part #1 Date & Time (GMT +2) Athlete 1 T1 T2 Athlete 2 May 8th 2018, h. TBD (11:00) Marco Cecchinato 0 3 Dominic Thiem [7] Women's Singles Semifinals #1 Date & Time (GMT +2) Athlete 1 T1 T2 Athlete 2 May 7th 2018, h. TBD (11:00) [13] Madison Keys 0 2 Sloane Stephens [10] Men's Doubles Semifinals #1 Date & Time (GMT +2) Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 May 7th 2018, h. TBD (11:00) [12] Feliciano Lopez [12] Marc Lopez 2 0 Oliver Marach [2] Mate Pavic [2] [/hide]

I was actually thinking of Subirats in the butterfly, but after posting I remembered he retired. So yeah.

After streak of 37 sets won straight at RG, Rafa loses one!

Yes, but that doesn't mean Brazil is better in every swimming event... I think that with everyone's A team and compared to the results of this games, Brazil would gain golds in men's breaststroke + medley and female free short distances but would lose the golds in female breastroke and men's butterfly (possibly the female 200fly too). And the female medley would become 50/50. So, all in all the results wouldn't change much.

Only judo would be a radical increase. Volley is just 4 medals anyway and I think the swimming golds wouldn't increase if Argentina also takes the best team. Actually I think you would have 1 or 2 less.

Ok, but that's just one sport. If anything, the other nations are reducing the gap in most sports. I only see Judo as one where Brazil could still sweep most golds assuming everyone came here with the best.

[hide] Men's Singles Quarterfinals Date & Time (GMT +2) Athlete 1 T1 T2 Athlete 2 May 6th 2018, h. TBD (11:00) [1] Rafael Nadal 3 0 Diego Schwartzman [11] May 6th 2018, h. TBD (11:00) [3] Marin Cilic 1 3 Juan Martin del Potro [5] May 5th 2018, h. TBD (11:00) Marco Cecchinato 0 3 Novak Djokovic [20] May 5th 2018, h. TBD (11:00) [7] Dominic Thiem 2 3 Alexander Zverev [2] Women's Singles Quarterfinals Date & Time (GMT +2) Athlete 1 T1 T2 Athlete 2 May 6th 2018, h. TBD (11:00) [1] Simona Halep 2 0 Angelique Kerber [12] May 6th 2018, h. TBD (11:00) [3] Garbine Muguruza 2 1 Maria Sharapova [28] May 5th 2018, h. TBD (11:00) Yulia Putintseva 1 2 Madison Keys [13] May 5th 2018, h. TBD (11:00) [10] Sloane Stephens 1 2 Daria Kasatkina [14] Mixed Doubles Semifinals Date & Time (GMT +2) Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 May 5th or 6th 2018, h. TBD (11:00) [1] Gabriela Dabrowski [1] Mate Pavic 2 1 Katarina Srebotnik Santiago Gonzalez May 5th or 6th 2018, h. TBD (11:00) [8] Anna-Lena Groenefeld [8] Robert Farah 2 0 Latisha Chan [2] Ivan Dodig [2] [/hide]

Probably people that use the phone and aren't very skilled at copy-pasting with it? I don't know. Maybe it's plain lazyness.

Well, at least we have the excuse that we are missing half of our starters.

Athletics, weightlifting, rowing, handball, swimming.... Judo, hockey, tennis are only saved by the good results, because if not... I don't know if there is a single federation that is well managed in Argentina... maybe volleyball? No clue

It's unfortunate but gymnastics was one of those federations that seems stuck in time, with the same "dictator president" for 30 years, never improving anything, etc. It's changing now but they will need for the new people to be honest if they want to get out of the hole.

Normally, only medals won at games. Only exceptions are given for athletes that didn't participate at pan american games but had good performance at a world championship or something equivalent.

Because Grozer doesn't play. And Germany is nothing without him.

I think south american medals won't matter anymore for that. I read that now only panamerican medalists or olympic level will receive money.