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Does anyone (from Italy) know why Italy competed with a completely new women's team here? They had a completely different team at junior worlds earlier this year. Did they want to give their "reserve" a chance to compete at the international level?

Very impressive week by Kevric in women's artistic gymnastics. She won 4 out of 6 possible golds and it very well could have been 6 out of 6. The women's team missed gold by only 0.8 points and in the vault final she only missed gold by 0.016 points. Difficult to say where she is at compared to the best talents in her age group, but she for sure is one of the best talents Germany has produced in a long time.

Crazy level in women's 800 free. Gose finished 5th with a time that would have been enough for silver in 2022 and for bronze in 2021. Europe is getting killed here. I have hope that it will be different next year in a different time zone, but Europe definitely has a lot of catching up to do. European gold medals in olympic events on the women's side: 1 European gold medals in olympic events on the men's side: 7

Germany still on track, good to see. Hopefully they achieve their goal of not qualifying a single athlete for the olympics. List of the olympics in the past 50 years where Germany didn't win a single medal: 1976 2016 2020 I don't see how they will win any medal next year. In 1988 Germany won 8 medals while no other nation won more than 5 ... Noone seems to be bothered by this federation burning threw millions of euros without producing any results.

Very surprsing result in women's 200 back. I was sure before the start of the competition that bronze would go to White or maybe Masse, but the chinese won a very surprising bronze. At least her time was decent, but normally there should be multiple american women who can go faster than 2:06.7.

He went from being completely irrelevant to one of the fastest all time within one year. If you would have asked experts about the favorite in the 100 fly before the start of the year, they probably would have mentioned 50 other guys before they would have mentioned Grousset. With the olympics being in Paris he has to be the favorite. I wonder what he could have done in the 50 free. I think he would have won silver if he would have competed.

You could argue that longevity is also part of the game ...

France is saving Europe. Golds in olympic events: France: 4 Rest of Europe: 4

Crazy that O'Callaghan has more golds than the US. Marchand and Qin both have as many golds (relays excluded) as the whole american team (relays included). Also Tunisia (Hafanoui) and South Africa (Schoenmaker) both with as many medals as Germany and South Korea combined. The Cayman Islands (Crooks) and Hong Kong (Haughey) both with as many individual finals as Spain.

The time isn't terrible for her age, the two girls ahead of her are both 1 year older. She would be 38th in the american all-time rankings for 13/14 year olds. She has until next year to improve on that ranking. For comparison some of the other girls on that list: 2:18.57 Kate Douglass 2:18.42 Summer McIntosh 2:18.21 Kathleen Baker 2:18.20 Sydney Pickrem 2:17.75 Nathalie Coughlin 2:17.64 Maya DiRado 2:17.48 Claire Weinstein 2:17.21 Elizabeth Beisel 2:17.19 Ariana Kukors 2:16.96 Bella Sims 2:16.28 Regan Smith I think her problem is that slovakian coaches don't know how to produce world-class swimmers and by the time that she will be old enough to go to college, it will probably already be too late for her (since she wasted multiple years of development). For her the best would probably to go to Hungary or even GB. Those two nations know how to produce world class swimmers in the IM. Sadly that doesn't seem like a very realistic option for her, unless her parents are rich ...

Thanks. Very promising generation on the women's side for GB and Germany. Romania also has a lot of good talents and Italy is doing a good job on the men's side + Jackl of course has to be mentioned. We might see some of them at the olympics next year already. Especially Blocksidge and Jackl aren't far away.

I think Kamminga will be too old, he was already slower this year than he used to be. This year he was lucky that the level wasn't too high. Especially Martinenghi wasn't at his best. I don't see Peaty competing next year. I think it will be Qin for gold next year and then two younger guys (Martinenghi + X) for silver and bronze. Steenbergen is on a very good trajectory, currently i would only favor O'Callaghan and the second australian (Jack) over her. Schouten could win 2 golds or nothing at all (if Chikunov will (hopefully) still be banned). The 200 breast field looks much weaker right now.

Completely stupid rule. They should have learned during the pandemic that shaking hands is very unsanitary and can lead to the spread of disease. Also if they want to appear like a gentleman's sport, they should maybe punish the athletes for screaming and jumping around after every hit + i don't really have the impression that many athletes have a lot of respect for the referees (especially if they don't judge in their favor).

Does anybody have the results (times) for women's 200 IM?

The Netherlands with as many medals as Germany, Hungary, South Korea, Brazil combined ...

Always knew that he was a great guy. He is an olympic fencing champion after all.

I think you don't understand what the plan is ... They try to become so bad that their funding will be completely cut.

So far everything is going according to plan for german fencing. Hopefully they won't mess it up in the remaining competitions.

Insanely lucky day for me in the swimming prediction contest or maybe it is a miscalculation? Not sure how i was able to make up so much ground in one day.

Interesting that the US has more individual finals in olympic disciplines than France, GB, Canada and Japan combined. Australia has as many individual finals in olympic disciplines as Germany, Italy, Hungary and the Netherlands combined. The Netherlands has as many individual finals in olympic disciplines as South Korea, Brazil and Ukraine combined.

Insane progression by the chinese guy at a relatively high age.

Crazy performance so far. I thought that 1 medal by Schouten would be possible, but now it is already 3 and Korstanje might win one as well. I don't see Kamminga doing anything next year, but the other two could repeat in Paris.

Great 1:44.79 by Märtens in the 200 free. The more i watch swimming the more i realize that it is completely absurd that there are olympic events in different strokes. There should only be freestyle (individual and relays). All other strokes are basically: Let's find out who can swim the fastest while not using the fastest technique possible ... pure insanity.

I thinks it will be very different next year. Different time zone + the american talents will all be more mature. I think both China and Australia will clearly drop off next year.

I am still shocked, but good for you. A shame that you didn't enter the prediction contest.