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I recommend we could start put together the team rosters for major Luge nations. What I have for the moment:
 
Italy was already mentioned here
 
USA
Singles: West, Mazdzer, Morris (M)  // Britcher, Hamlin, Sweeney (W)
Doubles: Mortensen/Terdiman, Krewson/Sherk
 
Canada
S: Edney, Malik, Watts (M) // Gough, Apshkrum, McRae (W)
D: Walker / Snith
 
Austria
S: Egger, W. Kindl, X (M, last to be decided after Lillehammer) // Prock, Platzer, Egle (W)
D: Penz/Fischler, Steu/Koller
 
Germany
S: Loch, Langenhan, Ludwig (M) // Geisenberger, Eitberger, Huefner (W)
D: Eggert/Benecken, Wendl/Arlt
 
Could anyone put here some info on Latvia? Did not find anything recent on their federation site, even in Latvian
 
Any info on the composition of the Russia / OAR team? One can know for sure that T. Ivanova will not be included due to her Olympic ban, but nothing else

After tonight, I know watching Greco-Roman wrestling is not good for heart, back in London we had different set of rules. luck was a big factor in close matches, but now they changed the format which was very good in first place but with this they unleashed the monster , they gave a deadly weapon to the hands of their corrupt referees , they can give cautions whenever they want to whoever they want, it doesn't matter who is really active. they will caution whoever they want. there were so many controversial calls here, SO MANY. two of our wrestlers lost matches they should won only because they were "more" active. thanks to stupid UWW rules.

Thanks, I also congratulate to you for that 50 km walk win.
 
 
This, thank you. Perfect summary on my feelings about these Games.
 
8 golds (fabulously consistent) but missing some other "surprises" that occured every other olympics. 7 out of 8 golds are won by females with the only exception Áron Szilágyi. That's weak boys... very weak.

I really believed in the 3 womens gold for . And they did it! 
 
hckosice: I think many in Hungary have mixed feelings about Rio. (I mean the whole not only canoe kayak) On one hand, amazing performance from the 2 three-time champions (Kozak and Hosszu) and the fencing team (2 G 1 S 1 B), some positive surprises like the young swimmer Kenderesi (winning bronze medal in his first olympics after beating Phelps in the heats and semifinal) or the shot putter Anita Marton (first womens medal in athletics since 1968)
On the other hand:
- handball team did not qualify (neither W nor M)
- HUN swim team was about 35 strong, and many strong names who very expected to have a good performance (at least IV-V-VI place) did not even make it to the final, along them 2012 champion Daniel Gyurta
- Disappointing performance of the judo team (along with some referee "mis-judgement")
- Disappointing performance of the wrestling team (along with open _cheating_ by one of the referee's on a HU bronze match)
- Disappointing performance of the mens waterpolo team (for the second olympics V/VI place)
- Disappointing performance of the mens canoe-kayak team (see above)
+ this is not directly sports related: absolutely sub-par commentators on Hungarian public TV covering the OG, with exception of athletics and fencing and a few other disciplines. The guy who covered canoe-kayak sometimes had no clue about what is happening on the track...
 
But I personally would like congratulate to all Hungarian athletes who had a good performance at Rio, no matter what place or medal or whatever!

I really believed in the 3 womens gold for . And they did it! 
 
hckosice: I think many in Hungary have mixed feelings about Rio. (I mean the whole not only canoe kayak) On one hand, amazing performance from the 2 three-time champions (Kozak and Hosszu) and the fencing team (2 G 1 S 1 B), some positive surprises like the young swimmer Kenderesi (winning bronze medal in his first olympics after beating Phelps in the heats and semifinal) or the shot putter Anita Marton (first womens medal in athletics since 1968)
On the other hand:
- handball team did not qualify (neither W nor M)
- HUN swim team was about 35 strong, and many strong names who very expected to have a good performance (at least IV-V-VI place) did not even make it to the final, along them 2012 champion Daniel Gyurta
- Disappointing performance of the judo team (along with some referee "mis-judgement")
- Disappointing performance of the wrestling team (along with open _cheating_ by one of the referee's on a HU bronze match)
- Disappointing performance of the mens waterpolo team (for the second olympics V/VI place)
- Disappointing performance of the mens canoe-kayak team (see above)
+ this is not directly sports related: absolutely sub-par commentators on Hungarian public TV covering the OG, with exception of athletics and fencing and a few other disciplines. The guy who covered canoe-kayak sometimes had no clue about what is happening on the track...
 
But I personally would like congratulate to all Hungarian athletes who had a good performance at Rio, no matter what place or medal or whatever!

According to some stats from today, the last time the flag-bearer of Team HUN won a gold medal was in 1948!
After 68 YEARS Aron Szilagyi did it again!!!! 

YAAAAAS
 
Áron Szilágyi is 2 time OLYMPIC CHAMPION!!!
 
Hats off to our fencing team, amazing performances from them and there is still the team.
 
Emese Szász in Épée
Áron Szilágyi in Sabre
Géza Imre in Épée  Silver
 
 

Same for me, even during the ECh and Wch I supported her, also because she is from the Baltics (I like the Baltic states). But even more now, considering the situation with her opponent...
 
So go Hungary! Go Lithuania! :))

I think it's not an accident - even in Brazil they know that "Pole and Hungarian — two good friends/Polak, Węgier - dwa bratanki/Lengyel, magyar - két jó barát"

Dont worry. With a VPN account (about 7 or 8 euro for one month) everyone is able to watch the bbc internet streams (or any other freely accessible stream from public television websites). During the winter olympics of 2014 I mostly watched webcasts of Canadian public television as the Hungarian TV showed very little apart from the ice hockey tournament.
 
But for now they have two 0-24 HD channels (M4 Sport and M5) to show the Olympics plus a not yet told number of webcasts. But I think I will still need that VPN for next month to watch the BBC or Canadian Public TV web-casts