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Vinci was a surprise though, and Bartoli was also in a Wimbledon final and former top 10 player, plus Lisicki always did well at Wimbledon and reached some QF and SF there before making the final in 2013. I still think Pennetta-Vinci was more surprising than Bartoli-Lisicki.

Thank you for this but are you sure that Teltsidou will miss out in women's 70kg? It looks like there are extra spots and she will get one.

Thank you, hopefully Petrounias can qualify first. He just needs a high score at Doha World Cup, something similar to what he achieved at European Championships this year and he will be in. If he qualifies for Tokyo then I think he will definitely win a medal. He's in good shape now that he's fully recovered from injuries. Colak was good in 2019 and 2020 but didn't do well at this year's European Championships. Still I think he can win a medal in Tokyo too.

Really? What about Pennetta vs Vinci at the 2015 US Open?

I am absolutely heartbroken and won't be able to sleep tonight (I'm already not sleeping and it's super late here). Maria was so close to making the final. She had match point This really hurts, but what an amazing run it was from her. Hopefully she can build on this and not be too hard on herself.

https://www.fina.org/competitions/15/fina-olympic-games-artistic-swimming-qualification-tournament-2021/results?discipline=&event=a8e510dd-f161-4273-aeb4-85b879a78e48&unit=team-technical-prelims We see after Day 1, Greece has the edge over France and USA, but it's still very close

They're counting both of them if you look at this week's rankings. Wow.

I guess I'll stick with my prediction of 8 for now. Probably sounds too optimistic but whatever. Of course if Petrounias doesn't qualify I will say 7. Tentoglou looking like he has a better chance at winning a medal than Stefanidi at this point, but hopefully both can do it. We don't have any clear medals in sailing but we have a few contenders and I feel like someone will come home with a medal. And at this moment I think we have a better chance of getting a medal in tennis than we do in shooting. I still think Gkolomeev will win a medal in the men's 50m freestyle. I feel like karate it depends who qualifies this weekend. Wrestling I think Prevolaraki has a really good chance at getting a bronze or something, and I'm starting to think we might win a rowing medal in the men's single sculls with Stefanos Ntouskos. If I had to predict our eight medals I would say: Gold: Eleftherios Petrounias (gymnastics) Silver: Kristian Gkolomeev (swimming) Silver: Stefanos Ntouskos (rowing) Silver: Miltiadis Tentoglou (long jump) Silver: Stefanos Tsitsipas (tennis) Bronze: Ekaterini Stefanidi (pole vault) Bronze: Vasileia Karachaliou (sailing) Bronze: Maria Prevolaraki (wrestling) Of course I will probably be wrong. In London I thought we would win 6-7 medals and we won two. I thought we would win 3-4 in rowing including gold from Giazitzidou/Tsiavou but we just got bronze from them and no other rowing medals. Also thought Gianniotis would definitely win a medal in marathon swimming and he got 4th. Then in Rio I thought we'd win 5-6 and we got 6. Didn't expect 3 gold though. I thought at most two (Petrounias and Stefanidi) but Korakaki surprised.

Looks like our guy Iakovidis might make it in men's 96 if China and Belarus don't select that weight, and if Venezuela and Colombia get banned. Russia, Albania, and Iran can't select that weight because they are limited in their team size due to penalties. But there are five Chinese men in first place and they can select four, so what are the chances that they don't select this guy? Belarus has three guys in fourth place and can only select one. People are very upset with Pyrros Dimas because he decided to not send a team to the 2019 World Championships and they feel that it hurt our qualification chances.

Yes I just saw that each nation is limited to four men and four women, and China has all their women in first place except for 59kg, so surely they won't be allowed to accept that quota which should help Benteli's chances even more. It would be really great if she could make it. We haven't had any female weightlifter at the Olympics since 2008. And we are in danger of not qualifying anyone in weightlifting for the first time ever (or at least in many decades) which would be a shame considering we used to be one of the top countries in the sport not too long ago.

In women's 59kg, Konstantina Benteli can qualify? She is 12th on the list but if Vietnam and Colombia get disqualified then she moves up to 10th. Japanese girl already in top 8 so don't need host quota. So Benteli would get the European quota? Can someone verify because I'm not too familiar with this process. Thanks in advance.

Seems like it's almost harder to qualify for the Olympics than to win a medal in karate

I have no words! So proud to have two players in the semifinals. What a dream!

What do you mean??? I didn't see anywhere that she withdrew?

Seems like we might have more than 32 female triple jumpers in Tokyo

Greek team Men: Panagiotis Kapsalis (Men's Kata) Georgios Tzanos (Men's +75 kg) Christos-Stefanos Xenos (Men's -67 kg) Dionysios Xenos (Men's -75 kg) Women: Eleni Chatziliadou (Women's +61 kg) Vasiliki Panetsidou (Women's -61 kg) Maria Stoli (Women's -55 kg) Georgia Xenou (Women's Kata) Chatziliadou is the defending world champion. She only didn't qualify by ranking because she had some injury problems and missed a lot of events. Now she just came back and won bronze at the European Championships this year. She won medals at the last two World Championships and the last three European Championships. Really hoping she can qualify because she's a big medal hope for us in Tokyo, and obviously this will be her only chance for the Olympics as karate won't be part of the Olympic programme again. With the Xenos brothers, it's a big risk. Christos usually competes in -60 and Dionysios in -67. Dionysios just won gold at the European Championships in -67. I understand our federation wanted both to have chances to qualify, but having them both move up in weight classes is risky to try to qualify both when Dionysios alone in -67 would've had a better chance even if it meant Christos couldn't participate. Panetsidou has competed her whole career in -68 kg and now lost weight to compete in -61 kg. Just a few weeks ago she won silver at the European Championships in -68 kg so it will definitely be interesting to see how she does in this new weight category. Tzanos has a few European titles and a lot of other medals from the European Championships but really did nothing in recent years until he won bronze at the European Championships this year. Kapsalis, Stoli, and Xenou I think have no chances unfortunately, but I'd be happy to be proven wrong about them It would be a massive failure if we don't qualify anyone. There are so many athletes at this event that it's going to be hard for us to really expect 3+ quotas imo. If we get 1-2 I'll be satisfied.

I'm biased but considering our team did better than France and USA at the 2019 World Championships, and we have basically the same team with all these teenagers who surely have improved in the last two years, I'd like to think we have the best chance of the three countries to take that final spot. Qualification has been a disaster for us and we're on track to have our smallest Olympic team since 1992 or 1988, so having our team qualify would be extra nice. Besides, France and USA will get to make it in 2024 and 2028 anyways. Let us make it this time since we aren't hosting anytime soon

We should qualify the duet and the team is about 50/50 also. We have such a young team. Two girls born in 2003 and two born in 2004. Italy for example only has one athlete born later than 1996 on their team.

The 1st round could've gone either way, even the Olympic Channel commentators thought so. You really think Greece has any influence in boxing? Lol.

Sakkari makes history by becoming the first Greek woman to make it to the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam. She was previously 0-2 in fourth round matches and Eleni Daniilidou was 0-3 in fourth round matches.

Nikoleta Pita lost No Greek boxers going to Tokyo. Third Olympics in a row that we failed to qualify anyone in boxing. We had three boxers within one win of making it to Tokyo. I really thought at least one of them would win. Tsanikidis having to withdraw due to injury was a huge disappointment. He had the best chance to qualify of all our boxers.

So we have a junior competing at a Grand Slam for the first time since 2016, and she is already into the third round! She had two big comeback wins in the first two rounds. Hopefully she can successfully transition to the pros

Waiting for them to screw up women's water polo and get Greece in at the last minute (we're the alternates if someone withdraws)

If they don't want to have 17 teams in those two relays, then they should invite the Swiss and Irish swimmers (perhaps only those not qualified in other events) from the relay teams to compete in individual events. As I mentioned before, it reminds me of the Kristel Vourna situation from 2016 where they invited her, revoked the invitation, then re-invited her (only after they faced backlash for it). Having at most 3-4 additional swimmers in Tokyo really isn't going to kill them.

Are any of the Irish and Swiss swimmers qualified in individual events at least?