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lol, Kácser almost got lapped in 3000m, Hungarian athletics in a nutshell.

The team event is gone forever. The best they can hope for is a mixed relay with the 2 male and 2 female athletes that are already qualified, similar to triathlon.

Looking at this competition I wonder how modern pentathlon would change if they would go back to having cross country instead of show jumping, like in the old days. This definitely makes more sense as the event type for pentathlon based on what the sport is intended to be, but they are moving in the other (wrong) direction with the current changes.

I guess a break doesn't mean anything anymore.

lol, first Vondrousova collapses and now Bencic.

WHAT THE FUCK

I don't know how, but we won against

More athletes from in the women's 100m final than from . Tokyo2020 continues to deliver.

There it is, can't win everything.

Wait... what? It's lottery in case of 3-3? What? It would even make more sense to have all of them on the mat for an epic group judo fight.

Reiner might have his Olympic gold from Tokyo after all.

I know Italy is tired of winning silver and bronze medals, but seriously, wtf. Korea wins, despite Italy leading by 11 in the middle of the match.

2-0 for and that's before Riner's match. is in big trouble.

Aaaand it's 2-2, huge mistake from the defense.

!!!!! 2-1 against with a couple of minutes left.

defeats for the bronze medal! What an awful Olympic Games for the Russians in judo.

Meanwhile 3rd and 5th places today for Berecz in Finn, he's still 3rd in the overall ranking. 3 more races... this will be incredibly close. Giles Scott seems unbeatable, but the fight for the podium is still open.

We are done for today and we won't win any medals tomorrow, so I want to compare the last few Games for us after Day 9. 2004: 2-4-1 (0-1-1 in swimming, 1-2-0 in fencing, 1-0-0 in shooting, 0-1-0 in weightlifting) 2008: 0-4-1 (0-3-0 in swimming, 0-0-1 in fencing, 0-1-0 in wrestling) 2012: 4-1-3 (1-0-1 in swimming, 1-0-0 in fencing, 1-0-0 in athletics, 1-0-0 in gymnastics, 0-1-1 in judo, 0-0-1 in wrestling) 2016: 5-3-4 (3-2-2 in swimming, 2-1-1 in fencing, 0-0-1 in athletics) 2020: 2-2-2 (1-1-0 in swimming, 1-1-1 in fencing, 0-0-1 in judo) So yeah, this ain't great, but I always thought that the second week is stronger for us this time. The problem is that I am not all that confident about how Canoe Sprint will go for us, we can easily end up with only 1 gold medal, and at that point we are looking at a repeat of Beijing. It's safe to say that this most likely won't be a great Olympic Games for , unless a miracle happens in the last 7 days and everything goes right for us, like in Athens. I would also like to say that the first thing I noted about Rio 5 years ago that Hosszú and Kozák saved us, and that if our Olympic team can't step up their game for Tokyo, the next Games won't go all that well for Hungary. Well, here we are, and it isn't going as well as Rio, this is what happens when we don't have that many world class athletes anymore at their best, we don't have Berki and Pars anymore, and Hosszú is also done collecting gold medals. We have very few events this time where we are among the favorites for the gold.

I think they are still on track to win 40+ gold medals, which should be enough. China can only beat them if they have a perfect SOG, and they have already lost a couple of "easy" gold medals.

And that bout was for nothing. Men's foil team is the Italians last chance.

Unbelievable bout from Battiston, 18-5.

So... what's going on, will there be any sailing today?

No surprises today in the QFs, we just can't beat Korea when Márton is injured and Pusztai isn't at her best. Maybe in Paris...

Milák did everything he could and even more, but Dressel is too strong. A great silver.

Come on Milák, we really need that second swimming medal, don't let this be another 4th place.