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Same is true for the polish guy in the 50 free. Two known dopers allowed to compete in that event. I think swimming is the sport where it is the easiest to get away with doping (maybe except for weightlifting).

Ultra weak level of competition in many events so far, except for women's 100 m hurdles, women's high jump, men's long jump and men's hammer throw. Winning marks in many events (for example men's/women's 100 m, women's 400 m, women's triple jump) are embarrassing.

German channel ZDF will have an internet live stream for all events as far as i know. I also think you can watch everything with Eurosport player?

Extremely disappointing that we won't have a prediction contest for open water swimming. There are a dozen prediction contests for football every year but no prediction contest for open water swimming despite there only being a world championship every two years.

When will the prediction contest for the aquatics world championships be released? Competitions start on sunday ...

What kind of track is this???? The times in the U23 team pursuit were completely insane! France on the women's side and Russia + Belgium on the men's side with absolutely freakish improvements.

[hide] Event & Date Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Women's Epee Individual Day 1 July 18th 2019 SUN Yiwen Any Athlete from Estonia VITALIS Coraline X CANDASSAMY Marie-Floren. KONG Man Wai Vivian NAVARRIA Mara X FIAMINGO Rossella KANG Young Mi CHOI Injeong Any Athlete from Poland POPESCU Ana Maria X KOLOBOVA Violetta HURLEY Courtney HURLEY Kelley Any Other Athlete  Men's Sabre Individual Day 1 July 18th 2019 APITHY Bolade BAZADZE Sandro HARTUNG Max SZILAGYI Aron Any Athlete from Iran CURATOLI Luca OH Sanguk X KIM Junho GU Bongil IBRAGIMOV Kamil RESHETNIKOV Veniamin X DERSHWITZ Eli X Any Other Athlete Women's Foil Individual Day 2 July 19th 2019 THIBUS Ysaora EBERT Leonie DI FRANCISCA Elisa ERRIGO Arianna X VOLPI Alice X AZUMA Sera JEON Hee Sook DERIGLAZOVA Inna X IVANOVA Anastasia KOROBEYNIKOVA Larisa BOUBAKRI Ines KIEFER Lee Any Other Athlete Men's Epee Individual Day 2 July 19th 2019 PEREIRA Yulen BOREL Yannick X Any Athlete from Hungary SANTARELLI Andrea X MINOBE Kazuyasu KANO Koki ALEXANIN Dmitriy PARK Sangyoung X Any Dutch Athlete BIDA Sergey HEINZER Max NIKISHIN Bogdan HOYLE Jacob LIMARDO GASCON Ruben Any Other Athlete Women's Sabre Individual Day 3 July 20th 2019 QIAN Jiarui SHAO Yaqi BERDER Cecilia BRUNET Manon PUSZTAI Lisa MARTON Anna X Any Athlete from Italy KIM Jiyeon EGORIAN Yana VELIKAYA Sofya X POZDNIAKOVA Sofia KHARLAN Olga X Any Athlete from USA Any Other Athlete Men's Foil Individual Day 3 July 20th 2019 LE PECHOUX Erwann KRUSE Richard CHEUNG Ka Long FOCONI Alessio X GAROZZO Daniele X AVOLA Giorgio CASSARA Andrea Any Athlete from Japan HEO Jun CHEREMISINOV Alexey SAFIN Timur IMBODEN Race X MEINHARDT Gerek MASSIALAS Alexander Any Other Athlete Women's Epee Team Day 4 July 21st 2019 China Estonia France X Germany Hong Kong Italy X Korea Poland Russia Ukraine USA X Any Other Team Men's Sabre Team Day 4 July 21st 2019 France Germany Hungary Iran Italy X Korea X Romania Russia X USA Any Other Team Women's Foil Team Day 5 July 22nd 2019 France X Germany Italy X Japan Korea Poland Russia USA X Any Other Team Men's Epee Team Day 5 July 22nd 2019 China Denmark France X Hungary Israel Italy Japan Korea X Switzerland Ukraine Russia X USA Any Other Team Women's Sabre Team Day 6 July 23rd 2019 China France X Hungary Italy X Japan Korea Russia X Ukraine USA Any Other Team Men's Foil Team Day 6 July 23rd 2019 France Germany Hong Kong Italy X Japan Korea Russia X USA X Any Other Team [/hide]

Did you only count 2 athletes per event? If not, then I don't think this is right for Germany: Men: Poul Zellmann (200 free) Florian Wellbrock (400 free, 800 free, 1500 free) Ruwen Straub (1500 free) Christian Diener (200 back) Marco Koch (200 breast) Maximilian Pilger (200 breast) Marius Kusch (100 butterfly) David Thomasberger (200 butterfly) Philip Heintz (200 IM & 400 IM) Women: Leonie Antonia Beck (400 free & 800 free) Sarah Köhler (800 free & 1500 free) Lea Boy (1500 free) Celine Rieder (1500 free) Laura Riedemann (100 back) Angelina Köhler (100 butterfly) Franziska Hentke (200 butterfly) -> 16 athletes in total (+ Selin and Schwarz, so currently 18 for Germany)

Athletes who hit the qualification times at european junior championships: Men: Artem Selin 50 free (21.83) Robin Hanson 200 free (1:46.93) Sven Schwarz 800 free (7:53.74) Ilia Sibirtsev 800 free (7:53.34) Aleksandr Egorov 800 free (7:52.83) Andrei Minakov 100 butterfly (51.66) Apostolos Papastamos 400 IM (4:15.18) Women: Giulia Salin 800 free & 1500 free (8:29.19 & 16:13.59) Beril Boecekler 1500 free (16:21.39) Viktor Mihalyvari Farkas 1500 free (16:26.03) Daria Vaskina 100 back (1:00.17) Erika Gaetani 200 back (2:10.28) Anastasyia Shkurdai 100 butterly (57.39) Evgeniia Chikunova 200 breast (2:21.07) Not sure if some of them (Minakov, Vaskina, Shkurdai, Chikunova) didn't already hit the qualification times earlier ... ? Boekecler, Gaetani and Chikunova (all born in 2004) must be among the youngest "qualified" athletes on the women's side, while Minakov, Selin and Schwarz (all born in 2002) must be among the youngest "qualified" athletes on the men's side. I think this as well shows that the qualification time for women's 1500 free (and also women's 800 free and women's 200 back) is way too soft ...

Looking forward to this, i hope that a lot of championship records will be broken. I am a bit sad though that some of the big names will be missing.

What exactly do you mean by that? As far as i can tell those 2 teams haven't met in this tournament and before yesterday Thole/Wickler hadn't lost a set.

Don't see the problem to be honest, we have other great sports now like breakdancing or climbing, let's just hope that race walking will follow soon.

Caught for what? It is obvious that she is a more masculine version of Semenya, but IAAF thought that it is ok for someone like her to run the 400 m while Semenya shouldn't be allowed to run the 800 m.

45 medals should be the minimum, i hope for 50. - Archery: I would say 0-2 (women's team + women's individual) - Athletics: How do you get 7 medals as maximum? 2 x men's javelin, men's discus, men's high jump, men's 20 km race walking, men's decathlon, women's 1500 m, women's 5000 m, women's 100 m hurdles, women's 4 x 100 m relay, women's long jump, women's triple jump, women's shot put, women's discus throw, women's heptathlon, women's javelin throw - Boxing: How do you get 2 medals as maximum? Apetz, Wahner + at least 2 medal chances on the men's side - Equestrian: How do you get 6 as maximum? 2 x eventing, 3 x dressage, 2 x jumping - Fencing: How do you get 3 as maximum? Men's sabre, men's sabre team, women's foil - Golf: I would say 0-0 ... - Rowing: I would say 2-6 or 2-7 (men's quadruple sculls, women's quadruple sculls, men's eight, men's single sculls, men's lightweight double sculls, men's four, women's double sculls) - Shooting: I would say 1-5 or 1-6 (2 x men's rapid fire pistol, men's trap, women's 50 m 3 positions, 1-2 x women's 25 m pistol + mixed events ...) - Swimming: I would say 1-7 or 1-8 (men's 400 m, men's 800 m, men's 1500 m, men's 10 km open water, men's 200 IM, men's 200 breast, men's 100 fly, women's 200 fly + maybe women's 1500 free or women's 10 km open water) - Tennis: I would say 1-3 or 1-4 (Zverev (it is best of 3 after all), Kerber, mixed doubles, women's doubles (Kerber + Görges) + maybe men's doubles ...) - What about gymnastics? Women's uneven bars, women's balance beam ...

Yeah, their relay is pretty good, but a medal would be a major surprise. Even if the US drops the baton as usual, Japan + GB are clearly better individually and Canada + Jamaica + China + Turkey + South Africa + France + Netherlands are all on at least the same level individually (in my opinion), so i think even making the final would be quite a success for Brazil.

I didn't say that they have a shot at winning gold in 2020, but they have been world-class in the past and i believe that they could get there again. No other country has a better shot at winning gold in field hockey and ice hockey. I see no way that Canada, Sweden, Czech Republic or Russia (maybe they have a tiny chance on the women's side some day) will win gold in field hockey in our lifetime. I think we can also agree that Argentina, the Netherlands, Australia, Spain, Pakistan, India, Zimbabwe or New Zealand won't win ice hockey gold anytime soon ... I would say USA has the best chance ahead of Germany and Russia/Canada. Germany might have a shot to win hockey gold in 2022 if all the big nations compete without their NHL players and if for some reason Draisaitl, Grubauer, Kahun and Seider will play for Germany.

Agree, completely ridiculous. As far as i know his PB wasn't even 21 m+ before Rio and then he suddenly improved by more than 1.5 m in 3 years in his mid 20s. I don't really see how brazilian athletics got crazy good? In 2016 they had Braz da Silva and Murer as medal contenders, now those 2 are gone and they only have Romani as medal contender (+ maybe a small outside chance in women's triple jump). 2015: 20.90 m at the age of 24 2016: 21.02 m at the age of 25 2017: 21.82 at the age of 26 2018: 22.00 at the age of 27 2019: 22.61 at the age of 28

It's not like Klosterhalfen ran 8:29 already 2 years ago as a 20 year old ...

Deserved win for Sweden. It was time for them to finally beat Germany. I hope this means that german television won't show women's football at the olympics and will instead focus on other sports.

In women's K1 i didn't find Funk, Fox, Franklin or Jones on the results sheet. Didn't they participate? The same in men's C1: Didn't find Tasiadis, Anton, Burgess or Westley on the results sheet ... !?

Great results for Germany here, qualifying shouldn't be a problem for Dogue and Schleu.

Germany was close in 2018, only losing against Russia in last minute. I also believe that USA has the potential to win hockey gold on the women's side.

Then it was really unexpected ... Still, where can we see the results and why don't you at least post the medallists here if you know the results? I guess Italy finally figured out how to translate their results on the womens side to the mens side. A lot of nations failed to do so in the past. Japan has been dominating on the mens side but is rather weak on the womens side, Romania has also historically been much weaker on the mens side and the same is true to some extent for the US.

1) Where did you find the results (on the official website it only says "Results coming soon")? 2) Why do you consider this result VERY surprising? I think everyone who follows gymnastics should have expected Italy to finish at least 4th. They had amazing results at european level recently (at least on the womens side) and have even overtaken GB + Japan isnt that strong on the womens side. I would have favored only the US, China and Russia over Italy without knowing anything about the actual teams. So do you know more about the actual teams or did you miss the development Italy has shown recently on the womens side?

1) Which swimmer could win 10 medals? 2) Maybe by this logic team sports are less interesting concerning the medal table, but there are people that prefer to watch sports based on personal interest and not based on how important a sport is for the medal table. Personally i prefer watching handball or basektaball instead of sprint canoeing, although Germany always wins tons of medals there. I also dont think that anyone would say that canoeing is more interesting than basektball, handball or volleyball.