OlympicsFan

You completely change your tune on Germany after ONE game? You should at least wait until after the game against Japan tomorrow. Nyara Sabally might miss the rest of the tournament and I am not sure if 20 year old Frieda Bühner will continue to play like an WNBA all star.

Hopefully getting beaten by Marchand will motivate him. I think retiring now would taint his legacy a bit. I think Phelps got motivated by losing to Le Clos in 2012.

Number of top 8 finishes after day 5: Men: 12 11 9 8 7 7 7 6 4 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Women: 18 13 8 7 5 4 4 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 Overall: 30 22 15 14 12 12 10 10 9 5 5 4 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1

Absolutely insane meet for Germany. Already 6 national records, maybe 3 more will follow (mixed medley relay, women’s 800 free and men’s 200 back). If Gose‘s improvement in the 800 free translates, she could win a medal in the 800 free and maybe even break the European record (8:14.10) by Rebecca Adlington from the 2008 Olympics. Edit: After day 5 Germany has already as many top 8 finishes as at the last 2 Olympics combined.

You sound like a drama queen. Milak could definitely contend for a medal in the 100 free in 2028. Maybe Padar as well (not sure if you rate the women’s event as highly). This was the first 100 free final for a German man in 32 years and I still loved it, although I might have to wait another 32 years for another chance to witness a German medal in this event.

Amazing night of swimming. One of the greatest sessions ever, Marchand with one of the greatest individual sessions ever and Pan with one of the greatest individual swims ever. Winning the most competitive event by 1 second is insane.

German swimmer Melvin Imodou missed gold in the 100 breast by 0.08 seconds, which is certainly worse.

Just read about the captains points. Completely stupid idea. Prediction contests should only be about who has the most correct predictions, otherwise you might as well call it „lottery“.

A user named „yamatake“ on SwimSwam predicted his medal. Apparently his coach Norimasa Hirai has had medal winning athletes (Kitajima, Hagino) at every Olympics since 2004. https://swimswam.com/2024-olympic-previews-the-skys-the-limit-in-400-im-for-marchand-but-battle-brews-for-3rd/ https://swimswam.com/storied-coach-norimasa-hirai-suspended-six-months-by-japanese-swimming-federation/ https://swimswam.com/storied-japanese-coach-niro-hirais-suspension-lifted-olympic-coaching-still-possible/

Just looked at the medal table at the 1992 Olympics: 82 medals 29 medals 29 medals 27 medals 22 medals 20 medals 19 medals 15 medals -> Germany with more medals than Japan, Great Britain, Italy and the Netherlands combined …

Meanwhile Nemour qualified first in uneven bars and probably top 5 in all-around.

Titmus, Ledecky and Fairweather were all almost exactly 2 seconds slower than their best time this year. McIntosh on the other hand went a best time, so she seems to be in a better shape than at trials. The same is true for Gose (and Madden) who set a German record. I think in a „normal“ pool Märtens and Titmus both would have been at least very close to the world record. I think the women‘s times would have been something like: Titmus 3:55 McIntosh 3:56 Ledecky: 3:58 Fairweather 3:59 low Gose/Madden 3:59 high/4:00 low Still surprising that Gose (and Madden) were so close to Ledecky and Fairweather.

I see that you weren’t familiar with the work of the Guardian before …

Nothing sadly. The obvious stupidity of people who think that British or American athletes are any cleaner than Chinese athletes just disgusts me.

German top 8 finishes/finals after day 1: 7 German top 8 finishes/finals in 2021 in total: 8 German top 8 finishes/finals in 2016 in total: 7 German top 8 finishes/finals in 2012 in total: 7

She is a convicted cheater, unlike the Chinese swimmers. Surprisingly the Australian team welcomed her back with open arms. Really inspiring that she came back faster after she stopped doping … makes you question why she did it in the first place? Obviously she is faster without doping …

Individual finals after the first 4 events (men’s 400 free, women’s 400 free, women’s 100 fly, men’s 100 breast): 6 6 5 3 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 Germany with more finals than all the remaining European countries combined. -> Germany confirmed as a new swimming superpower Too bad that it will rapidly go downhill from now on …

That will obviously never happen. If you want fair Sport, you should demand that doping becomes legal.

You should wait with your judgement until after his first swim. Marchand, Fallon and the Japanese guys also didn’t swim so far.

You should tell WADA about it, obviously they don’t haven’t heard about it.

Sad to see that China didn’t refuse to stand on the same podium as notorious cheater Shayna Jack.

They should also boo Australia (Shayna Jack) then.

How so? McIntosh won’t be in the 800 free and the gap between Titmus and Ledecky wasn’t noticeably bigger than expected in my opinion. At 2023 worlds Titmus was also 3.4 seconds faster in the 400 free, but then lost the 800 free by more than 5 seconds. I would still go with: 1) Ledecky 2) Titmus 3) Pallister/Li/Quadarella/Maybe Gose

He went on to „inspire“ Dwain Chambers, Linford Christie, Chijindu Ujah and Victoria Ohuruogo, to name a few. Remind me who inspired GB to go from completely irrelevant at the Olympics to top 3 within a decade. Was it all that magic juice from Team Sky?

Great to see 8 different nations in the semifinal. I don’t know much about fencing, but I would have expected at least one out of China/Japan/USA making a semifinal.