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The Italian team is terribly unpredictable and inconsistent. In addition, Greece plays very poorly here. In the friendly match before the Olympics, we also won by a large margin against Greece. Now Greece must win against France by at least 5 goals to advance from the group? As of now: - Italy: +3, - France: +1, - Greece: -4. Of course, assuming that Italy loses in the last match against Spain in regular time.

Only an Italian can lead 25-17 in men's epee and lose. We are the biggest suckers of these games + the worst form in the entire 3-year cycle. The entire staff from sabre and men's epee to be replaced.

La nostra scherma in questi giochi è senza speranza. Siamo nella condizione peggiore dell’intero ciclo.

2nd Olympics in a row, when we have much worse results than at the World Championships. Here, basically everyone fails, except for the gold medalists in the team epee women. Women's foil out of shape, men's epee out of shape. I don't believe in the men's team foil. What's the point of dominating the World Championships and then getting beaten at the Olympics. For now, 4 medals is a disaster and a result worse than in Tokyo. Unfortunately, fencing will ruin these games for us. 4 medals without Russia's participation is a disaster.

Vekic has been stable at a high level for two big tournaments at row.

So generally only football is popular in your country?

Me too. In the past you would find out about the results of the games from printed newspapers + possibly teletext. Now everything is on the internet. About 20 years ago, when I was traveling with my father around Europe in the summer, in almost every country I would buy the local sport newspaper to read about the results. Well, maybe not in Hungary, because you have a very difficult language :P

Is there much government-free press/TV etc in Hungary?

I will be happy with 10 gold medals for us. Comparing with Tokyo is a little wrong, because then we won 5 gold in athletics - 2nd week of competition. Now this result is impossible to repeat.

What is being written about this situation in your country? Is Algeria conservative country?

I've never liked women with tattoos, and now, unfortunately, they're becoming more and more common. When I was younger, they were rare.

I have always think that Budapest with an LGBT-friendly city.

Congratulations to the USA. They were better in every way. For us, silver is a defeat. In a competition without Russia, this 2nd place is the worst possible for us. On top of that, without an individual medal. I expected more from Cerioni, because Kiefer is great but I thought that at least we had a better team.

Fine. Abbiamo troppi 4° e 5° posti, troppo poche certezze per le oro prima della partenza, che deludono. L'argento nel fioretto in questo campo è un fallimento. Il posto peggiore possibile. È chiaro che la scuola americana di fioretto attualmente è migliore e Cerioni non può cambiarla.

È un bene che Bellandi e de Gennaro abbiano vinto l'oro, altrimenti sarebbe stato duro. Dopo la gara individuale prevedevo problemi con gli USA. Gli USA hanno una grande stella: Kiefer + gli altri sono più in forma di noi. Cerioni mi ha deluso moltissimo.

Our foil fencers are out of shape here. No individual medal, now a defeat in the final. A low win against Japan in 1/2. Too bad. If we win some unexpected gold, then in a moment one of our sure bets will fail, of which we don't have many. So far only Ceccon has fulfilled the role of favorite. Overall, fencing is in big minus, apart from one gold in epee. You can't have a good Olympics in the top 7-8 in the medal table if you only have 2-3 sure-fire gold medalists, and 1 of them fails.

Bellandi can't compete with Wagner, who fortunately lost to the Israelian girl in 1/2. In any case, 1 medal - even gold is a big disappointment for us considering 3x 5th places.

We failed 2 races in walking.

Oggi vorrei fare riferimento al 6 agosto 2021, quando a Tokyo abbiamo vinto 3 ori

Paolini gioca praticamente ininterrottamente da giugno, sia nel singolare che nel doppio. È simile qui. Penso che sia meglio che le rimanga solo il doppio con Errani, perché lì anche l'oro è una possibilità. Nella partita contro la slovacca la stanchezza è stata la ragione per cui Jasmine ha giocato così male.

Exactly. Olympic boxing with this judging is a farce and every serious country should stop financing this circus. You spend money and then lose to someone in the 1st round, who knows why or you will be forced to fight a man who was supposedly raised to be a woman. Btw., and if he told me as a child that I was the King of England, that means that I would actually be the King :P

Semenya somehow didn’t give up when she was supposed to win gold in 2016.

Inizio terribile, ma ora 2 ori. Ora prendere 3 nel fioretto donne. Inoltre Musetti in semifinale nel tennis maschile. Peccato che la semifinale non dia più il bronzo.

In the DDR there were also women born who became men by taking doping and what about that?