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Japan is good in sailing?

I am very surprised by the french vault scores, maybe France has the potential to make the team final in Tokyo?

So in Italy your grades are decided by votes? Based on ... ?

Yes, of course, i should have said that i was only talking about the events they competed in today. Romanchuk, Paltrinieri and Detti are the guys to beat in 800/1500 on the way to Tokyo, as a german fan i hope that Wellbrock can also enter the conversation and tomorrow i hope for an interesting final between Quadarella and Köhler. Today it looked as if Quadarella is miles ahead based on the time, but i think tomorrow it will be closer.

What is a 10-star student? Both her and Quadarella have the potential to win medals at a global level in the future, although neither of them is close to being a favorite for a medal in 2020. Apart from Paltrinieri and Detti your best chances might be Miressi and Martinenghi.

Dont think any of the medallists today would currently be able to win a medal at world level. Dont see any of them winning a medal in 2020, maybe except for Russia in mens 4 x 100 relay.

3:53 is crazy fast.

I think GB, France, Italy, Switzerland and Russia can all go 3:56. I have to say that i am not happy at all with the first german rider, Leon Rohde gave up in both rounds after like 100 m (i am exaggerating a bit of course), this cant have been the plan.

Isnt that obvious? This is a track for sprinters, so the athletes are so fast that their times cant be measured. Of course i actually wanted to quote your comment about the russian time in womens team sprint ...

Not too surprising, given that this track (build for Chris Hoy) is said to be clearly in favor of sprinters and not endurance athletes.

Good time for Germany, considering that Hinze is only the 3rd option and that this is the first time that Welte and Hinze compete together. Maybe in Tokyo we will even see Grabosch and Hinze together. Also gutsy move by the german coaches to have Timo Bichler (born in 1999) in position 1, will be hard for him to make Rene Enders (probably the best athlete ever in position one of the team sprint) proud .

What do you guys think, which european championships records will go down the next couple of days? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_Championships_records_in_swimming I think on the men's side the 50 free, 200 back, 50 fly, 200 fly, 50/100/200 breast and 200/400 IM records might go down. On the women's side i would say the 50/100 free and 50/100 fly records might go down (all thanks to Sjöstrom).

Smart race by Italy, two medals for Italy in team pursuit in 2020? Could someone maybe tell me what happened with Viviani's teeth?

Wont bother to watch the clip, could you maybe express with words (as people usually do in a discussion) what your point is?

Both Denmark and Germany flopping hard. Germany has an excuse since Schomber and Reinhardt are ill/injured, but what the hell was going on with Denmark?

I think GB and Italy were both slower than at the world championships while Germany was more than a second faster. I am bit surprised that neither Brauße nor Knauer made the team, overall the german team is rather old. On the mens side i am very excited to see what the german team can do with two new riders (One of them being Domenic Weinstein, who is by far the best german athlete in individual time trial) compared to the team that rode 3:56 at the world championships.

Another tournament without the majority of top talents, France and Germany don't seem to care much about junior tournaments sadly. I think there are maybe 5-10 guys who have NBA potential, but noone with the potential to be a lottery pick.

Absolutely disgusting performance by the german team, no excuse. Given the way the german coach talked before this match i am not very surprised, they were already thinking about the final. In the end the only thing that counts is the gold medal final in 2020, they can't do anything between the olympic games that will gain the attention of the german public, they will have to be there when it counts in 2 years. It's time to finally win another gold medal after 2004, although the Netherlands won't make it that easy.

I know, those predictions are more my personal hope, i don't want any tourists to be nominated. I also predicted 1 (Pries) in BMX, although i think that Germany has a world silver medallist in freestyle BMX, but i don't rate this sport. The same is true for all the other new sports. Sadly i think that Germany will also qualify someone in women's mountainbike, men's beach volleyball, rhythmic gymnastics and trampoline.

Hopefully not.

Also France (men's 100 m, men's 800 m, men's 110 m hurdles, men's 3000 m SC, men's pole vault, men's triple jump, men's decathlon, women's triple jump). GB probably won't win much apart from sprints, women's 1500 m and maybe men's 20 km race walking/women's long jump, but that should be enough to win the medal table.

Haha, i like your humor! A cuban athlete not starting at EUROPEAN championships would devaluate the event ... Having one cuban athlete (Ortega) steal medals from EUROPEAN athletes at EUROPEAN championships is enough for me. Would be amazing if IAAF would never allow him to compete for Portugal, maybe then Portugal/Spain/Azerbaijan/Turkey/GB will realize that they have to develop their own athletes instead of just naturalizing as much foreign athletes as they can.

Archery: Optimistic: 6 athletes (both teams), realistic/pessimistic: 4 athletes (women's team and Kahllund) Artistic Swimming: 0 Athletics: Optimistic: 84, realistic/pessimistic: 70 Badminton: 0 Baseball: 0 Basketball: Optimistic: 12 (men's team), realistic/pessimistic: 0 Beach Volleyball: 4 (2 female teams) Boxing: Optimistic: 7, realistic: 4, pessimistic: 3 Canoeing - Slalom: 4 Canoeing - Sprint: 13 Cycling - BMX: 1 Cycling - Mountain Bike: 1 Cycling - Road: 6 (3 men, 3 women) Cycling - Track: 18 Diving: 7 Equestrian: 12 Fencing: Optimistic: 6 (men's sabre team, women's foil team), realistic: 4 (one team + one individual), pessimistic: 1-3 (at least one athlete in men's sabre or women's foil should qualify) Field Hockey: 36 Football: 18 (only the women's team) Golf: Optimistic: 2 (Schauffele + Masson), realistic/pessimistic: 1 (Masson) Gymnastics - Artistic: 10 Gymnastics - Rhythmic: 0 Gymnastics - Trampoline: 0 Handball: Optimistic: 28, realisitc: 14 (only men's team), pessimistic: 0 Judo: 10 Karate: 0 Modern Pentathlon: 2 Rowing: 36 (all boats on the men's side, no coxless pair/eight on the women's side) Rugby Sevens: 0 Sailing: Optimistic/realistic: 13, pessimistic: 11 (no Nacra) Shooting: Optimistic: 14 (in men's/women's air rifle the two talents Janssen and Ulbrich qualify), realistic: 12 Skateboarding: 0 Softball: 0 Sport Climbing: 0 Surfing: 0 Swimming: 29 Table Tennis: 8 Taekwondo: Optimistic: 6, realistic: 2-3, pessimistic: 0 Tennis: 5 Triathlon: Optimistic: 2 (Saller and Lindemann), realisitc/pessimistic: 1 (only Lindemann) Volleyball: Optimistic: 24, realistic/pessimistic: 0 Water Polo: 0 Weightlifting: Optimistic: 2, realistic/pessimistic: 1 (only Müller) Wrestling: Optimistic: 10, realistic: 7, pessimistic: 5 Total Sports: Optimistic: 32, realistic: 30, pessimistic: 28 Optimistic Total Athletes: 436 Realistic Total Athletes: 354 Pessimistic Total Athletes: 330 I think we will end up at around 380 athletes (hopefully not more).

Yeah, but if i understood the document correctly, the standards will be extremely high, my expectation would be something like 2.34 m in mens high jump.

As a german fan i expect 3-5 golds and 12-15 medals in total. Good medal chances: - Mens 10000 m - Mens 20 km race walking - Mens triple jump (if Heß is fit) - Mens decathlon - Mens shot put - Mens discus throw - 3 x mens javelin throw - Mens high jump - Womens 1500 m - Womens 5000 m - Womens 100 m hurdles - Womens 3000 m SC - Womens long jump - Womens triple jump - Womens 4 x 100 m relay - Womens heptathlon - 2 x womens discus throw - Womens shot put Small-medium medal chances: - Mens 1500 m - Mens 110 m hurdles - Mens 5000 m - Mens long jump - Mens pole vault - Mens 4 x 100 m relay - Womens 100 m - Womens 10000 m - Womens high jump - Womens javelin throw - Womens 4 x 400 m relay