JoshMartini007

What is this, the Mediterranean Games?

I think so, we still have plenty of chances. My original prediction was around 25 medals and I don't see why we can't reach that.

Hoping for 3-5 medals tomorrow.

Gold is probably out of reach, but a medal is possible. So is fourth

Now that we are done a full week, let's compare our performance relative to 2020. Sport 2020 2024 Athletics 6 - Canoeing 2 - Cycling 2 - Diving 1 1 Fencing - 1 Football 1 - Gymnastics - 1 Judo 2 1 Rowing 2 - Rugby Sevens - 1 Softball 1 - Swimming 6 5 Tennis - 1 Weightlifting 1 - Total 24 11 Obviously some sports (athletics, canoeing, cycling, weightlifting) haven't started or barely started so there isn't much to comment. Additionally, softball isn't held this time, but the medal won at rugby sevens sort of replaces that. One thing I've noticed is we've won medals in four sports (fencing, gymnastics, rugby sevens, tennis) in which we didn't medal in 2020. In diving, we already matched our performance in 2020 so anything more in the individual events would be a bonus. In football, we've reached the quarterfinals and are still in the hunt for a medal. The match against Germany will be tough, but if we can beat France then we have a chance. Even if we do fail we also have a chance in basketball so we may end up matching our team sport medals Judo unfortunately will likely see a decrease in medals won. There's still the mixed team, but I don't fancy our chances. Rowing we only have one boat remaining in the medal hunt so we are going to perform worse than expected. It will be worse if our women's eights fail to medal too. With some medal chances tomorrow I feel confident we will at least match our swimming total. McIntosh has replaced our relay team dropping to fourth. Things were looking a bit dicey, but medals from Kharun and Masse has turned this into an okay showing. Personally I was expecting 6-8 medals.

Since the program is different relative to 2020, I usually like to compare to which events have been completed in both editions. Using the current completed events, Canada in 2020 would have had 1G-3S-3B. We are down one medal. Unsurprisingly, swimming is behind. So is judo, but they could go even once the program is completed.

Women's team gymnastics is another low chance. We could have a repeat of the 2022 World Championships where everyone else choked.

Hoping for 1-2 medals on Day 4, but we could end up with 0 or maybe 5

I agree, the logical thing to do was to either deduct 3 points or actually disqualify us. FIFA just assumed France would get the job done and eliminate us, forgetting that Canada actually has a decent record at the Olympics (unlike the World Cup). Of course, we still need a win against Colombia to advance. Then our quarterfinal opponent will likely be Germany.

Soccer Canada coaching staff (and maybe executives) are going to get cleaned out. I wonder how long Toronto FC keeps John Herdman. Right now he denies everything, but only time will tell. Now that Canada has a path to the knockout round I wonder if FIFA regrets only deducting six points. I imagine the other teams will be unhappy should we end up winning a medal.

Assuming you are in Toronto 5am makes the most sense, both swimming and gymnastics start. As a west coaster I'll probably start 5:30am Pacific, maybe a little earlier to watch a little bit of fencing.

I forgot Smith was doing the 100m butterfly so she's probably out of the relay. MacNeil and McIntosh would have to pull double duty with only around 1 hour rest. I feel confident MacNeil will, but I'm not 100% sure on McIntosh. She has a long schedule, but she does have a day off on the next day so it's possible. Overall the heat will probably be Oleksiak/Harvey/Douthwright/Ruck and then drop the slowest 1 or 2 for MacNeil/McIntosh for the final.

She probably just hedged her bets. The relay team is chosen just before the event based on their current form. With Oleksiak/Ruck/MacNeil/McIntosh/Douthwright/Smith as other options for Canada there was a non-zero chance she may have been left out of the relay if she regressed from the Canadian Trials (or the others improved). Now that she's officially on the relay team dropping the 400m free was a no brainer.

I guess she's going all in for the 4x100m relay

How big are these boats or are we going to be on two/three boats?

I mean there aren't many ways to say "if the opposing team is in this position during a free kick, this is about to happen" without the next question being "how did you know that?"

They must have known. The spying would have been ineffective if they weren't sharing the results with the players.

What a joke. The information must have been pretty bad and likely more heads will roll in the coming months. What are FIFA's rules relative to espionage? I hope this doesn't lead to a disqualification

Should have invested in stealth drones

Football tends to be hit or miss with ticket sales at the Olympics. You have a pre-opening ceremony match between two non-European teams (requires a long trip), in a city away from Paris at 5pm local time where people may have just gotten out of work.

Honestly, I'd give all eight teams a decent chance for a medal.

I think it's only archery, equestrian and shooting where the best athlete in the world could be female (ignoring artistic swimming and rhythmic gymnastics). After that the only Olympic sport that might have a chance would be sailing and even then it might take a once in a century performance on the right boat.

What a game for Brazil, there might be something to this team...

Those are compensated by men's football, water polo and Greco-Roman wrestling. What causes there to be more men than women is athletics and swimming

I'm quite sure there are still more males than females at the Olympics. This is like in 2012 where they claimed that all nations had a female athlete when in reality the final 3 nations which never had a female entered one.