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That's why probably Simone Biles said she's taking a year off.... although she might still go to Montreal.... hopefully!

Now that Rio is Over ( :'( ) i'm looking into going to the Gymnastics world championships in Montreal next year. However i see that there is no team competition, only All Around and event Finals, and i also see that every world championship after olympic don't have team competition, any reason for that?

Ok Let's go sport by sport and summarize the games for USA Archery - Another silver in the Team Event, and finally Brady Ellison with good performance and a Bronze, after the London Failure Athletics - 32 Medals, 13 Golds. Surprising Performances from Galen Rupp, Matt Centrowitz, Clayton Murphy, Paul Chelimo, Ryan Crouser, Michelle Carter, 1-2 in Women's Long Jump, Men's Triple Jump, 1-2-3 in 100m Hurdles even without the WR holder Kendra Harrison, Even close for Few More golds with a barely miss by Sandi Morris, Chaunte Lowe and off course Allyson Felix. Badminton - Performed as expected i guess Basketball - as expected as well, 2 golds Boxing - Gold for Clarissa Shields, Silver for Shakur Stevenson and Bronze for Nico Hernandez, and probably performance equal to expectations Canoeing - Nowhere close in sprint, Finals in Slalom without real chance to medal, as expected Cycling - Gold and Silver in BMX, gold for Kirstin Armstrong in time trial, Mara Abbott close to medal in the road race but ran out of steam close to the finish line, and on the track silver for sarah hammer and the girls of the team pursuit. Again pretty close to expectations, i didnt think hammer could beat trott in the omnium. Diving - 2 Silvers and one bronze, David Boudia could've had a better last jump that would've given him a silver, and i hoped for few more medals from maybe Jessica Paratto or Kirstain Ipset Equestrian - 1 silver and 2 bronze, not really sure if could've won more medals, didnt really follow the competition Fencing - 2 Silvers and 2 Bronze - Definitely Massialas could've won gold, Homer was more of a surprise, also the teams that won bronze disappointed a little bit because i feel like they could've contended for gold Football - Big Disappointment with the loss in the quarters and the loss of what should've been an easy gold Golf - one medal for Matt Kucher Gymnastics - Another disappointment from the USA Men in the Team Event, but Leyva with 2 silvers and Naddour with the Bronze. On the flip side amazing performance from USA women, Simone Biles and Ally Raisman in the AA, and the vault and floor for biles, however bad beam routine from biles brings her only the bronze and Maddison Kocian winning the silver on the bronze. Overall Not bad performance with 12 Medals and 4 Golds Judo - Gold for Kayla Harrison, Silver for Travis Stevens pretty much to be expected. Need to develop the sport more because the potential is there but with Kayla going after Ronda to UFC it leaves a big void Rowing - Gold for Women's Eigth's, and Silver for Women's single sculls Rugby - Pretty Disappointing loss for the men against argentina that prevented going through to the second round, and the women did get to the quarters but couldn't beat New Zealand Swimming - 16 Golds, 33 Total , Dominating performance with Michael Phelps, Katie Ledecky, and Surprises by Ryan Murphy, Maya Di Rado, Lilly King, Simone Manuel Sailing - one bronze in the Men's Finn, one more medal that i thought we would get here. Shooting - Surprising Gold in the first day for Virginia Thrasher, but only bronze for Kim Rhode, and Corey Cogdell, and Vincent Hancock or Matt Emmons didnt even make it to the final Table Tennis - As Expected Taekwondo - one bronze, close to expectations tennis - Serena and the williams sisters lost early, Madison Keys got to semis but couldn't win the bronze, Steve Johnson and Jack Sock did win bronze in Men's Doubles and in Mixed Doubles all american final brought gold and silver and in the end 3 medals, one of each color Triathlon - Gold to Gwen Jorgensen, maybe expected but so much could've gone wrong Weightlifting - Assumed there wont be any medal but Sarah Robles definitely surprised and won a bronze! Volleyball - 3 bronze medals, and had a lot of potential for more, In the indoor side the women were top ranked and with brazil losing in the quarters i hoped for a gold, on the men side horrible start with losses to canada and italy, but great wins against brazil and france and then poland in the quarters gave hope, also leading 2-1 and 22-19 against italy gave hope, but loss and another bronze. On the beach side walsh/ross lost in the semis to agatha/barbara, dallhouser/lucena lost to the gold medalists in the quarters and gibb/paterson disappointed in the first round. Water Polo - Women with another gold, but men couldn't even get out of the first round, but i honestly didnt think they would, didnt really show much in a while Wrestling - Bad performance for Jordan Burroughs but 2 golds for Helen Maroulis and Kyle Snyder made up for it After everything, 121 medals and 46 golds, amazing overall performance, let's see what tokyo will bring

Thank You and definitely big congrats to Team GB (Always a soft spot for me since i love london so much) Couldn't you spare one medal and allow Sarah Hammer to win finally? sigh..... The world really should catch up, though i enjoy that kind of performance in the core sports Swimming, Track and Field, Women Gymanstics. I don't think i sang the Star Spangled Banner so much in my life!

hey we americans enjoy double standards na i think the rest of the world should step up in Diving and Table Tennis, badminton is already much more equal

Douglas is out, she was already brought just as a bar specialist and a novelty story, dont see her trying to make it to tokyo. Raisman will probably stay quiet until the 2019 worlds, however i dont think also that she will come back, not with finally getting an individual all around medal.

Hmm..... Golf - I would add some sort of a ryder cup event Water Polo - The OQT showed that there are really no more then 8 good teams, unless there will be more teams just no point of increasing it, i would even take away the automatic host quota for water polo, great britain and brazil showed very low quality past 2 olympics Tennis - even though usa won gold, silver i'd take out the mixed doubles, dont see value to event where you are not qualifying to , but just assigned to because you are there Weightlifting, Boxing - Take Out I would love to say make a normal football tournament with regular players but thats just not going to happen, but maybe if at least they remove the under 23 limitation then each team can bring who they can, so maybe the top players wont play but at least it will not feel amateur like. Diving - Remove china for unfairness ok no, but the lack of competition is really frustrating

oh didnt know it's windsurfing and i think golf should be more of a ryder cup type, maybe 8 countries with 4 players each or something like that

Isn't surfing what we have right now with the RS:X in sailing?

Kayla Harrison is going to UFC in the footsteps of Ronda Rousey, Maya Di Rado going to school even though her swimming career really just began. And why i have the feeling that Usain Bolt will pull a phelps and will come back for tokyo

Well i can summarize it with one word only DOMINATION, 46 golds, 121 total, unreal Swimming+Athletics+gymnastics produce most of the medals, however also some surprises , like sailing medal, like Thrasher with the first gold. Brady Ellison finally won a medal with a much better performance then London. Hard to talk about disappointments after winning so many medals but i do have to mention women's soccer, jordan burroughs in wrestling, gibb/patterson in beach volleyball, women's volleyball, though winning a medal, could've won gold and missed a huge opportunity, and off course the 400 gold that was taken from Felix on the line. Yet so many breakout stars to the world that surprised a lot of people, Ryan Murphy, Lilly King, Simone Manuel, Ryan Crouser, Clayton Murphy, Matt Centrowitz, and off course Simone Biles, who is amazing for 3 years already but first appearance on an Olympic stage. There's a lot more to stay, so probably later on i can write a more detailed sport by sport recap for USA

well if someone can help me out , how to download videos from nbcolympics.com while they are up there i can download a bunch, maybe all and share some (also there is the olympic channel starting tomorrow, maybe they will put the replays there? )

obviously... was a joke, i dont think there is more then a few players that were born elsewhere, wouldn't even be possible since the season will start few weeks later and it's the time for camps.However i think next time we will see more NFL players trying rugby like Nate Ebner did this year (and he was so dirty at times thinking that he is in the nfl)

well by the time 2024 comes around we will have a shiny new football stadium, need to use it for something......

oh totally, also dodgeball, mud racing and crossfit, it will not be the olympic games, it will be the american games

just wait, if the olympics coming back here in 2024, we are winning 200 medals and 100 golds! we will add sport like american football and lacross and hot dog eating contest too

YES!!!!! ANOTHER GOLD! and another gold for my neighbor!

haha, you must guys be loving this, the siver winning american got dq'd, so instead lagat got a bronze in his last race probably

CENTROWIZ!!!!!! OMG!!!!!!!!! USA WITH A 1500M GOLD!!!!!!!

i LOVE the USA Hatred, please, keep it coming, but i will keep looking at the medal table, see 14 more golds then the second place, and 40 more overall medals then the second place. That is the definition of Olympic DOMINATION. So keep it coming, this jealousy is fun!

and Muhammad! damn!!

Damn, Eaton! Clemens! Crouser!! awesome day

Really? because in london we got 110 medals and 46 gold, amount of gold that we wont get to this time, plus a very nice amount in beijing. And don't worry, NBC will again make them move the swimming finals to the morning just like in beijing

Obviously different teams, but how many times will the 7-1 be brought up in the next 3 days?

Will Claye is a great competition to him, i remember sitting in the first row in the Prefontaine Classic and seeing them beat each other last few jumps, it was a real classic between those 2 (and i was sitting right at the line of the sand)