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I think Anna Gasser is also doing some nice "stunts" in big air. In the end those events will always look less spectacular on the women's side.

Great result for Germany in women's snowboard slopestyle, silver medal for Annika Morgan (born in 2002, she will be able to compete the next 2 years as well at junior level). I don't think Germany ever won a medal in that event, alongside with Leilani Ettel who won bronze in the halfpipe at the junior world championships last year, Germany finally has some hope in freestyle snowboarding. It took Germany very long to develop talents in the new freestyle skiing/snowboard events, but better late than never ... In women's slopestyle/big air/halfpipe snowboarding Germany has Annika Morgan, Leilani Ettel and Kona Ettel (born in 2007, 4th at the world rookie finals this year) and in women's slopestlye/big air/halfpipe freestyle skiing Germany has Lisa Zimmermann and Sabrina Cakmakli who both won junior world titles a couple of years ago.

Ever heard of Chloe Kim? Murase is a great talent, but many japanese talents start to stagnate at a rather young age, she still has a long way to go if she wants to challenge Chloe Kim. Edit: Happy about the results of men's snowboard slopestyle?

Thats the obvious comparison (Zverev/Svitolina), sadly ... At least Zverev is 3 years younger and maybe Lendl can turn him around. Zverev recently was much worse at masters, so maybe he will be better at slams finally.

Apart from this golden generation Germany also has Marie Gülich (drafted in the first round of the WNBA draft this year) and Satou Sabally (PAC 12 freshman of the year this year), i think Germany has a bright future in this sport. Marie Gülich + Satou Sabally + Nyara Sabally should be special.

Crazy that Auger-Aliassime was drawn to Shapovalov! My first round highlight, even ahead of Dimitrov vs. Wawrinka. I think Felix has a nice chance to advance if he isn't too tired by now.

If i counted correctly, then the number of medals already secured by nation looks like this: Russia 7 Thailand/Kazakhstan 5 England/India 3 Uzbekistan/Cuba Brazil/Philippines/USA/Hungary/Egypt/Ukraine/Japan/Bulgaria/Puerto Rico/Ireland/Germany/Canada/Jordan Surprised that France and Italy haven't secured any medals so far.

Apart from Popp absolutely horrible results once again for Germany. Her goal clearly has to be the gold medal, considering that she won a bronze medal last year. I think she is the only german female boxer who has a chance at qualifying for Tokyo.

Don't know who Lopez is (isn't there a race walker with the same name?), so can't judge how realistic it is for him to lose that much ... (of course it depends on how long the time trial is, you said nothing about the distance after all ...)

It depends on the sport of course. Tickets for athletics and swimming will be expensive, but for other sports there will be tickets for 50 € or less. Marathon should also be a highlight and probably free. The biggest highlight of course will be the country itself (mainly the food and the nature), i hope that i will have enough time to travel the country for a bit after the end of the olympics.

Will/would be my first olympics, i hope to start a tradition ... Paris 2024 and Los Angeles 2028 will be amazing for sure. I just hope that some of the following cities will get olympics in the near future: Budapest, Shanghai, Moscow, Mexico City, New York, Hong Kong, Singapore, Berlin, Toronto, Montreal, Saint Petersburg, Melbourne, Chicago There are other cities that i would love to host the olympics, but they probably can't afford it: Madrid, Rome, Johannesburg, Cape Town, Lima, Santiago, Casablanca, Buenos Aires About women's balance beam final: I will try to get tickets for that session, but of course it also depends on the schedule, there are other events that have a higher priority for me, so if they take place at about the same time, i won't go to the balance beam final. Let's hope that the balance beam final won't be in the same session as men's floor final, otherwise tickets could be very hard to get.

What does "too german" even mean? His goal is to finish top 10, seems doable to me. Would be nice if Buchmann or Schachmann would develop into serious top 10 contenders at the Tour.

Completely unrealistic, in 2050 it will be so hot everywhere around the world that wearing black will basically be suicide ...

Because of one meet? I think she for example set a PB in the 400 free this year. The majority of swimmers miss their taper from time to time. I too expected the chinese swimmers to be faster here, but in the end they still won gold and silver comfortably. Right now my predictions would be: 200 free: Medals for Ledecky, Titmus, Ruck 400 free: Gold and silver for Ledecky and Titmus, bronze between 5 or 6 swimmers, currently i would favor Bingjie/Smith/Kesely for bronze. 800 free: Gold for Ledecky, rest of the medals between 7-8 swimmers. Ledecky is 9 seconds faster than everyone else this season, the rest of the top 9 are within 6 seconds. 1500 free: Same as in the 800 free.

Good to hear. In my opinion the best solution always would have been to set up refugee camps in nearby peaceful countries, but apparently many western countries weren't willing to pay the billions necessary to do that. The goal always should have been for those people to return back home once the war is over.

German team: https://www.dosb.de/sonderseiten/news/news-detail/news/75-athletinnen-und-athleten-fuer-buenos-aires/?no_cache=1&tx_news_pi1[controller]=News&tx_news_pi1[action]=detail&cHash=0187ea3cf3d3010aa6353a02850529fc Badminton: 2 (1/1) Basketball 3x3: 4 (4/0) (Only the women's team) Beach volleyball: 2 (0/2) Archery: 2 (1/1) Fencing: 2 (0/2) Golf: 2 (1/1) Judo: 1 (1/0) Canoeing sprint: 3 (2/1) Athletics: 20 (14/6) Modern pentathlon: 1 (0/1) Cycling BMX: 4 (2/2) Rhythmic gymnastics: 1 (1/0) Wrestling: 1 (1/0) Rowing: 3 (1/2) Shooting: 4 (2/2) Swimming: 8 (4/4) Sailing: 3 (2/1) Speed skating: 1 (1/0) Sport climbing: 1 (1/0) Tennis: 1 (0/1) Table tennis: 2 (1/1) Artistic gymnastics: 2 (1/1) Taekwondo: 1 (1/0) Triathlon: 2 (1/1) Diving: 2 (1/1) Medal contenders: 14 yo Clea Reisenweber in women's archery, Alexander Czysch/Marie Scheppan/Nick Schmahl/Leni Freyja Wildgrube (all athletics), Lara Marie Lessmann (BMX), Anna Janßen/Maximilian Ulbrich (shooting), Celine Rieder (swimming), Vanessa Beckstein (taekwondo), Elena Wassen (diving), Rudolf Molleker (tennis) Don't see any way for Germany to win as many medals as in 2014 (25), but this team should win more gold medals than in 2014 (2). Positively surprised that Molleker will compete there, negatively surprised that Isabel Gose won't (although understandable since she already competed at the junior and senior european championships this year).

Wow, thats even more than the amount of people killed in Chicago over a normal weekend.

Completely different situation. Germany already took half of Syria in, what about the US?

Not surprised that it was correct, time was always on her side. Maybe you would like to take the same bet for Svitolina now?

Is 400 m hurdles the most competitve event right now? Samba, Warholm, Benjamin ... I think there is still a chance that none of them will win gold in this event in Tokyo. Who would you guys consider the 10 biggest favorites (male or female) for Tokyo right now?

Wasn't she number 1 back then ... the odds can't have been very good? Probably would have been better to invest all that money into the greek government bond ...

Very good to take it that early, right now i would almost say that the odds are 50/50. Don't know if the bet was already up earlier but in my opinion even at the start of the year i would have taken the bet for the same odds (if i would bet money).

It's beginning ... https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1005725/south-africa-farm-seizures-white-farmers-cyril-ramaphosa-anc I hope Russia opens its doors for all south african farmers and all other western countries should open their borders for south african refugees. If certain people in South Africa want to turn this beautiful country into a shithole like the rest of the continent, there won't be anyone able to stop them.

I really enjoyed watching athletics and swimming at the 2014 edition. Many of the medal winners are competitive at the senior level now: Swimming: Romanchuk, Rylov, Chupkov, Watanabe, Zhuhao, Kenderesi, Scott, Chalmers, Duo, Quadarella, Szilagyi Athletics: Lyles, Thebe, Sibanda, Kejelcha, Lysenko, Bukowiecki, Halasz, Naser, Herman, Levchenko Tennis: Rublev, Khachanov, Ostapenko, Kasatkina (interestingly enough none of those 4 won an individual gold back then: Kasatkina lost in the 3rd round against Parazinskaite from Lithuania, Ostapenko lost against Buayam from Thailand in the second round, Khachanov lost in the quarterfinal against Yamasaki from Japan and Rublev won the bronze medal, losing against Majchrzak from Poland in the semifinal) I hope that we will see many breakout performances again this time and of course i am looking forward to see some of the "stars" like Kolesnikov, Milak and Harimoto.

About Friedrich sweeping the sprint events: Emma Hinze would have done the same in 2015 if her teammate Pauline Grabosch wouldnt have won the 500 m time trial in a junior world record time, 0.07 seconds ahead of Hinze. I am sure that Gros would have also swept the sprints last year with a better partner in team sprint. For me the really impressive thing wasn't the fact that she swept the sprints, but the fashion she did it in. She won both races in the sprint final by more than half a second and in the keirin final she also won by a landslide. It was just crazy to see how superior she was to all the other talents out there. Last year she already won bronze in the sprint, only losing to Gros in the semifinal. I am really excited to see which athletes will compete for Germany in the (team) sprint/keirin in Tokyo. Welte probably has a safe spot in the team sprint, but right now i hope that Grabosch and Friedrich will compete in the sprint and keirin. Emma Hinze is also in the mix, but she is the oldest one among those 3 and clearly needs a huge jump in her development if she wants to qualify for Tokyo.