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Despite ranking says otherwise, I think the women's final will be way tougher for Argentina.

Injured.

Realistic remaining gold medal chances for Argentina... 2 in swimming (800 & 1500 Free W) 3/4 in pelota 2 in rowing (LW single sculls women & Double sculls men). Could be more if, as konig suggested, some of our rowers didn't take the heats seriously. 2 in hockey 2 in football (both teams in final) 1 in Judo (48kg) 2 in sailing (RSX men & Lightning) Except for the women's football all these chances are above 50%. Will this be enough to beat Colombia? We'll see.

I don't think it's about communication access, it's just that some countries are less sensitive to racial issues due to demographic or cultural reasons. Russia and Serbia aren't exactly a melting pot of races in the way the US or western Europe are currently (yes, I know that Russia is huge but most of the players are ethnic russians). The more contact you have with people from other races, the more sensitive to these issues you are.

I'm not sure he was mocking Korea, it could be a reference to them going to Tokyo. Still racist, but a bit less insulting. Some of the players of our handball team made the same gesture the other day while on the podium. In some countries, in particular those that don't have a significant asian population in them, that gesture isn't really thought as offensive (It's wrong, but I'm trying to give some context).

He's been garbage for 4 years. I think he doped in 2015, he's never been close to those times before or after that year.

Wow our rowing is a DISASTER. All terrible results except the 2 gold favorites (W single LW and M double sculls).

As stated in the first post Pato is the official national sport. It's like Polo but with players passing a big ball and trying to score by throwing it through a ring (think something like Quidditch from Harry Potter but with horses instead of magical broomsticks). However, this sport is not popular at all, I'd say 99% of the people in Argentina don't know it even exists. Only football is really popular. Then a bunch of sports all with more or less equal following but insignificant compared to football. They vary in popularity according to current success.

4:06:something from a month ago.

This was the most disappointing gold, pretty weak time.

rsx M: 1. ARG 2.MEX 3.USA 4.BRA 5.ARU Rsx W: 1.ARG 2.BRA 3.PER 4.MEX 5.USA 49er: 1.BRA 2.ARG 3.CAN 4.USA 5.URU 49er FX: 1.BRA 2.USA 3.ARG 4.CAN 5.PER Laser: 1.GUA 2.USA 3.BRA 4.ESA 5.PER Laser Radial: 1.URU 2.USA 3.CAN 4.ARG 5.GUA Kite: 1.BRA 2.URU 3.USA 4.MEX 5.CAN Nacra17: 1.USA 2.ARG 3.BRA 4.URU 5.PER Sunfish: 1.CAN 2.BRA 3.USA 4.PER 5.ECU Snipe: 1.USA 2.BRA 3.URU 4.CUB 5.ARG Lightning: 1.ARG 2.CHI 3.BRA 4.USA 5.ECU

She looks latin so probably her family name was Humaña at some point and since there is no ñ in english it was left like that.

2-0 at 40 min mark.

Yes, it would if I didn't make a mistake. Canada would climb above Italy, Chile and South Africa, even if the latter wins the african qualifier.

Canada leads USA 1-0 at half. A win here would be huge for Canada's ranking according to my calculations.

Lol the stadium announcers in swimming "lane number 6 from Bahrain" (?)

They aren't, the official site is wrong. The truth about any hockey schedule is always here: https://tms.fih.ch

Sailing is already supposed to go on until saturday. Am I looking at a different schedule?

Yeah, what handball goalie uses a shirt instead of a sweater?

Brazil also needs a "normal" champion in the European championship. I would bet for Egypt any time if the match wasn't played in Tunisia.

Brazil 9th place at the WCh saves them from being completely out of the olympic race: only the 2nd place of americas will participate in final olympic qualifiers.

And that's it... Brazil will lose the handball.

Same result they had against Argentina at HT. Seems they have increased their level a lot with the spanish coach.

Looking at the results site the sailing races have been going on for like 6hs already. They must be doing the fucking Volvo ocean race at this point.

No, ball. She finished 9th in qualifications of ball (she made two horrible mistakes), so we were talking here that maybe Argentina would take out the other gymnast who qualified 8th to let her participate (since she clearly is much better). Thiago thought they would do it, I thought not due to "respect" for the other girl or something. I was right and I think it must be that our coaches see this competition as just experience for these girls.