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It wasn't a great Olympics for Iran, I was expecting more medals but less gold medals, so I can say I'm OK with our result 3 G, 2 S, 2 B. actually in term of quality of medals this is our 2nd best ever result after London 2012 with 7 gold medals. but we lost two of our serious gold medal chances before the start for stupid reasons and some of our medal prospects didn't even qualify for the games. so it was supposed to be a bad tournament even before the start. and the first week was mixed up with political stupid discussions. at least some better results in 2nd week erased all those bad memories.
 
but I was expecting 1 or 2 gold medals, while our biggest champion failed to repeat his gold from Rio, we had two completely surprising gold medal winners.
 
my country is going through a very tough time, these past 4-5 years were really hard for everybody including our athletes (that's why we had lots of athletes leaving the country), I believe most of our sport federations had something like 20% of the budget they had in 2012. (even though that hurt our minor sports even much more) so it was expected to not see an improvement from 2016. still adding Karate to the Olympics was supposed to be a big deal for us to make up for other sports problems.
 
still it was a great two weeks, another good memory of Olympics in my life to remember forever. I hope for no more global disaster to see Paris 2024 in a better situation.

vs felt more like a rugby match at times. I appreciated the Aussie enthusiasm.

France, Argentina and Germany in M USA in W all in last place of their groups afer 1st games. That´s something you really not see often....

An hundred years on from 1936 would be something I am not sure the IOC will go for. 

Don't think anyone will want India to host after the shitshow the 2010 Commonwealth Games were. The Olympics are double the size.

Australia has some super solid Gold medal favourites in Swimming
 
1. 4x100m W Relay.......miles ahead of the competition
2. 4x200m W Relay......again miles ahead of the competition
3. 200m Backstroke W.....Kaylee McKeown

Australia has some super solid Gold medal favourites in Swimming
 
1. 4x100m W Relay.......miles ahead of the competition
2. 4x200m W Relay......again miles ahead of the competition
3. 200m Backstroke W.....Kaylee McKeown

To take a break from the virus talk, here is a quick summary for the Asian countries so far, compared to 2016.
 
Of course they can add quotas from the world qualifier.
 
Nation 2020 2016            Kazakhstan 9 12 -3          India 9 3 6          Uzbekistan 7 11 -4          China 6 11 -5          Jordan 5 2 3          Australia 5 3 2          Chinese Taipei 4 2 2          Thailand 4 5 -1          Japan 3 2 1          Iran 2 1 1          Philippines 2 2 0          South Korea 2 1 1          Tajikistan 2 1 1          Mongolia 1 6 -5          New Zealand 1 0 1          Vietnam 1 0 1

Well India have a chance to make history.... No country ( after the women's have been added) has ever qualified a full 13 member team..... Kaz in 2016 got 12 and US in 2012 had qualified 12 .... Can India do 13 ..
 
... In my opinion we can easily qualify the two lighter weights in both woman ( sonia instead if sakshi) and men ( gaurav) ... It is the 81 and 91 men which is tough...... Sumit Sangwan ( in place of Naman) and? ...... Exciting prospect is Vijender ( Olympic bronze medallist of beijing) who turned pro and is now one of the leading middle weights in the world...... He has said that he is interested and has said if he is given exemption from camps he will be happy to fight for national selection....... Wow hope that happens as this is a chance to make history for India...... 

Thanks for the re-welcome....I forget about this site between Games...then return!  xxx

Pakistan getting cases somehow sounds more worrying than some other countries..