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That's true, except for judo (where they didn't win medals anyways but had two 5th places)

7 boats for Greece, 4 for boys and 3 for girls. A lot of new names for boys so I'm not sure what to expect there, but for the girls there are people in each boat that won medals at the European Juniors last year and/or World U23s this year so I have high expectations there (of course I don't know about their opponents but I think we should win medals in all three: JW1X, JW2X, JW4-, and at least some golds). However, there was a covid outbreak in the Greek training camp last month so I'm not sure what condition these athletes are in and who else we could have sent. About half of the rowers from the training camp aren't even going to Plovdiv so I'm not sure if that's because they tested positive or other reasons. I guess we'll have to wait and see what happens.

With 13 medals, Turkey won their most total medals ever. Obviously 3 in karate made the difference but what really stands out is the fact that it seems all of their medals were won by actual Turks. In previous Games, about half of their medals came from naturalized athletes that have nothing to do with Turkey. I don't think it says much because Turkey still has a lot of naturalized athletes, they just didn't win medals this time. But I hope that this can be a lesson to all of these countries (Turkey, Azerbaijan etc) that you don't need to naturalize athletes to win a lot of medals. Turkey had their best Olympics ever without naturalized athletes winning medals. Maybe now they can realize that they will be successful by developing their own talents instead of just ruining the Olympic spirit and buying medals. I know I sound like a broken record about this but I am very against these bought athletes who win medals for countries they are not from and don't have connections to other than money. Also it would be interested if someone made a table of medals won like this and also what the medal count would look like without these. For example Azerbaijan won 7 medals in Tokyo. 3 from Ukrainians and 1 from a Cuban.

Why, is Vlachos going to leave? That would be such a shame, I really like him and believe in him. I only disagree with his decisions to not bring Nikolaidis to some tournaments but he is still young and I think soon he will join the team. I know there was also some controversy about dropping Gounas from the team this year but with Olympic and World League medals, I think Vlachos gets a pass from criticism.

I think I remember in 2008 Nikolaidis won a silver on the last Saturday of the Olympics? And sometimes we had the rhythmic group on the last Saturday as well, but yeah other than that I think just marathon runners with no chance of medals. I think in 2012 we had Lebesis in the men's javelin final on the last Saturday of the Olympics if I remember correctly, and Periklis Ilias in the men's cross country cycling race which was on the last day of the Olympics. But again, not people with big chances for medals or anything.

I thought the same about us winning in karate, Eleni Chatziliadou was 2018 world champion and we won 5 medals in May at the European Championships (including one from Chatziliadou). All 5 of our European medalists were at the Olympic qualifying tournament a few weeks later and none of them qualified for Tokyo

In 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016 Greek women won the same amount of medals as Greek men. This time Greek men won 4 medals and Greek women on 0 medals. First time since 1988 that Greek women didn't win any medals. We had Stefanidi get 4th in pole vault, Sakkari in mixed doubles 5th, Bourmpou/Kyridou 5th in rowing, Korakaki 6th in two shooting events, Tzeli 7th in taekwondo, Teltsidou 7th in judo, Drisbioti 8th in 20km walk, Kyriakopoulou 8th in pole vault, Ntountounaki 9th in 100m butterfly, Karachaliou 9th in sailing etc. We are similar to Canada in a way, based on what @JoshMartini007said, because we also are generalists and don't focus on specific sports. All 4 of our medals this year were in different sports. In Rio we won 6 medals all in different sports except 2 shooting medals which were from the same person. In London and Beijing we also did not win more than 1 medal in a single sport. In this way I think Greece and Canada are similar.

1. She got 6th place. 2. Korakaki got 6th on Day 7, but Ntouskos won GOLD on that day. 3. Day 10 we did get two medals, gold from Tentoglou and bronze from Petrounias. 4. I was wrong about Day 16

Well I was somewhat close with these. Petrounias got bronze, Ntouskos got gold, Tentoglou got gold. Gkolomeev was 5th, Tsitsipas lost in the round of 16, Stefanidi got 4th, Karachaliou got 9th, Prevolaraki lost in the round of 16. Bonus was that we won a medal in men's water polo which I did not expect.

These were too optimistic in the end. No medal in sailing (best results were 8th and 9th), no medal in shooting (best results were 6th and another 6th), no medal in swimming (best results were 5th and another 5th), and only two in "others," but we got another two 4th places in athletics, 5th in rowing, QF in tennis, 7th in judo, 7th in taekwondo, another two 8th places in athletics...

Both of these happened and were fun, silver in water polo and gold in rowing

Congratulations to Serbia on another gold medal. I am proud of our team. I think we had some chances to win gold. We conceded two penalties and had a low % conversion with the exclusions and missed some opportunities, but it's okay. Silver is still a great result for our team and I think this can be the start of many medals for Greece because our team is so young compared with other big teams. For example our oldest player (Fountoulis) is 33. Serbia has 7 players older than him. Serbia's youngest player (Jaksic) is 24. We have 4 players younger than him. Hungary and Croatia for example also have very old teams compared with Greece. I am optimistic about the future

I agree, usually we don't have any events the last two days of the Olympics or we only have events with no chances of medals, so this was cool. Had our team lost in the quarterfinals like they usually do, we would not have had any events the last two days at all.

So in the end we got 4, but Petrounias and Tentoglou did win medals. Although we didn't win as many as I would have liked, we were pretty close and I think these were decent Games for us. We had many young athletes come very close to winning medals and I think Paris 2024 and Los Angeles 2028 will be very very good for us!

At least some of these happened...

^And some more: Kynigakis (22) finishing 5th in the men's 10km swim marathon, amazing result for his age and it looks like we found the new Gianniotis. Filtisakou (20) finishing 29th in the women's 20km walk is also impressive. A year ago I never would've expected her to make it to the Olympics so that's a nice surprise. I hope she can continue to improve. Plus an amazing performance from our men's water polo team to secure a medal. We are pretty young too, I hope this will be the first of many. Also she's 37 so not young, but great result for Drisbioti finishing 8th in the women's 20km walk. She was 15th in Rio and hasn't ruled out Paris. Would be difficult but I'd love to see her improve there too. Still sad that our artistic swimming girls didn't get to compete, but they are very young. Most of the girls are teenagers still. So we end with 4 medals. It could've been better but also could've been worse. I am proud of so many of these results (also Stefanidi 4th and Kyriakopoulou 8th). I think 2024 and 2028 will be really great for us. I'm excited for those Games.

And gold for Ivet Goranova in karate! Best Olympics for Bulgaria in a long time! Congrats!

So true! I remember a Serbian friend saying so in 2016 when Djokovic went out early and some of the Serbian teams in team sports (men's water polo, women's basketball, men's basketball) were doing very poorly. They ended up with 8 medals including 4 from team sports.

Well I got 2/3

Well to be honest I thought we had to beat Hungary to win a medal, and that if we lost to you then we would have finished 4th. But now that we are in the final as the underdog I think we have a chance and there's no pressure on us. We will see...

Greek water polo player Stylianos Argyropoulos celebrated his 25th birthday on 2 August, when Greece beat USA 14-5

I am so proud of this team. Thank you to all of the kind Hungarians on here who are congratulating us and wishing us luck for the final. We appreciate it and we hope that Hungary doesn't get 4th place in both men's and women's. I will cheer for your teams. This means so much for us honestly. Water polo really isn't a big sport in Greece to be honest, just in a few coastal towns outside Athens and a couple of islands the sport is popular, and in the rest of the country no one really plays it. But this is a big result for us and people are getting excited about water polo throughout the country (it also helps that this is the only event for Greece left in the Olympics after the women's race walk which will end within the next two hours). In our 16th Olympic appearance in men's water polo we finally got a medal. Those of us who follow our national team have been waiting many years for this and we have been disappointed many times but eventually we finally did it. I know this might be a surprise for some people (and to be honest even we are surprised because we expected to be disappointed again), but our team really deserves it. People might not be used to seeing our team win medals and do well (though we had a few good runs in 2004-2005 and 2015-2017), but on paper we should be achieving such results. We have many good, talented players and it never made sense how our national team just couldn't achieve these big results with the players we have. Especially since our club teams typically do very well and also our national team players who play for other European clubs outside Greece. Now we get the chance to go for gold! It will be very difficult but we definitely have a shot. No Greek team in any team sport has ever won gold at the Olympics, so this will be really special.

We are struggling so much on offense and so many of our key players with fouls and exclusions

Still sad that this was the last 50km race. I wish we could get rid of the mixed relays and surfing and sport climbing, skateboarding, 3x3 basketball and other ridiculous events that have no business in the Olympics

No surprise Papamichail is at the very bottom. Not that he was going to be close to a medal anyways, but he had to do a 10 day quarantine because someone near him on the plane tested positive so he was unable to properly train for this the last two weeks.