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[hide] Event & Date Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Men's 400m Freestyle Day 1 July 21st , 2019 Mack Horton Jack McLoughlin Sun Yang X Gabriele Detti X Danas Rapsys X Aleksandr Krasnykh Mykhailo Romanchuk Zane Grothe Any Other Swimmer Women's 400m Freestyle Day 1 July 21st, 2019 Kiah Melverton Ariarne Titmus X Li Bingjie X Wang Jianjiahe Boglarka Kapas Anja Kesely Simona Quadarella Katie Ledecky X Leah Smith Any Other Swimmer Men's 4x100m Freestyle Relay Day 1 July 21st, 2019 Australia Brazil X Canada France Great Britain Hungary Italy X Japan Netherlands Poland Russia United States X Any Other Nation Women's 4x100m Freestyle Relay Day 1 July 21st, 2019 Australia X Canada X China Denmark France Germany Great Britain Japan Netherlands Russia Sweden United States X Any Other Nation Men's 100m Breaststroke Day 2 July 22nd, 2019 Ilya Shymanovich X Yan Zibei Tobias Bjerg Adam Peaty X James Wilby X Nicolo Martinenghi Fabio Scozzoli Yashurio Koseki Arno Kamminga Anton Chupkov Kirill Prigoda Michael Andrew Andrew Wilson Any Other Swimmer Women's 100m Butterfly Day 2 July 22nd, 2019 Emma McKeon X Brianna Throssell Maggie MacNeil X Zhang Yufei Beryl Gastaldello Elena Di Liddo Svetlana Chimrova Erin Gallagher An Se-hyeon Louise Hansson Sarah Sjostrom X Kelsi Dahlia Katie McLaughlin Any Other Swimmer Men's 50m Butterfly Day 2 July 22nd, 2019 Nicholas Santos X Mehdy Metella Ben Proud Oleg Kostin Andrey Zhilkin Joseph Schooling Andrii Govorov X Michael Andrew Caeleb Dressel X Any Other Swimmer Women's 200m Individual Medley Day 2 July 22nd, 2019 Kaylee McKeown Sydney Pickrem X Ye Shiwen Siobhan-Marie O’Connor Katinka Hosszu X Rika Omoto Yui Ohashi X Kim Seoyeong Melanie Margalis Any Other Swimmer Men's 200m Freestyle Day 3 July 23rd, 2019 Kyle Chalmers Clyde Lewis Fernando Scheffer Sun Yang X James Guy Duncan Scott X Dominik Kozma Ketsuhiro Matsumoto Danas Rapsys X Mikhail Dovgalyuk Martin Malyutin Andrew Seliskar Townley Haas Any Other Swimmer Women's 1500m Freestyle Day 3 July 23rd, 2019 Madeleine Gough Kiah Melverton Wang Jianjiahe X Kristel Kobrich Sarah Koehler Anja Kesely Simona Quadarella X Mireia Belmonte Katie Ledecky X Ashley Twichell Any Other Swimmer Women's 100m Backstroke Day 3 July 23rd, 2019 Kaylee McKeown Kylie Masse X Taylor Ruck X Fu Yuanhui Simona Kubova Katinka Hosszu Margherita Panziera Natsumi Sakai Kathleen Baker Olivia Smoliga X Any Other Swimmer Men's 100m Backstroke Day 3 July 23rd, 2019 Mitch Larkin X Marcus Thormeyer Jiayu Xu X Apostolos Christou Any Italian Swimmer Ryosuke Irie Any Romanian Swimmer Kliment Kolesnikov Evgeny Rylov Matt Grevers Ryan Murphy X Any Other Swimmer Women's 100m Breaststroke Day 3 July 23rd, 2019 Jessica Hansen X Kierra Smith Shi Jinglin Arianna Castiglioni Alia Atkinson Reona Aoki Anna Belousova Yulia Efimova X Jessica Vall Tatjana Schoenmaker Lilly King X Micah Sumrall Any Other Swimmer Men's 800m Freestyle Day 4 July 24th, 2019 Jack McLoughlin Felix Auboeck Guilherme Costa Sun Yang David Aubrey Florian Wellbrock X Gabriele Detti X Gregorio Paltrinieri Henrik Christiansen Mykhailo Romanchuk X Zane Grothe Any Other Swimmer Women's 200m Freestyle Day 4 July 24th, 2019 Emma McKeon Ariarne Titmus X Penny Oleksiak Taylor Ruck X Any Chinese Swimmer Charlotte Bonnet Siobhan Haughey Katinka Hosszu Federica Pellegrini Femke Heemskerk Veronika Andrusenko Sarah Sjostrom X Katie Ledecky Any Other Swimmer Men's 200m Butterfly Day 4 July 24th, 2019 David Morgan Matthew Temple X Leonardo De Deus X Li Zhuhao Tamas Kenderesei Kristof Milak Federico Burdisso Daiya Seto Chad le Clos X Zach Harting Justin Wright Any Other Swimmer Men's 50m Breaststroke Day 4 July 24th, 2019 Ilya Shymanovich Joao Gomes X Felipe Lima X Adam Peaty X Nicolo Martinenghi Fabio Scozzoli Yashurio Koseki Kirill Prigoda Caba Siladi Michael Houlie Michael Andrew Any Other Swimmer Mixed 4x100m Medley Relay Day 4 July 24th, 2019 Australia X Canada X China Germany Great Britain Hungary Italy Japan Netherlands Russia South Africa United States X Any Other Nation Women's 200m Butterfly Day 5 July 25th, 2019 Brianna Throssell Yufei Zhang Franziska Hentke X Alys Thomas X Boglarka Kapas Suzuka Hasegawa Mireia Belmonte Katie Drabot Hali Flickinger X Any Other Swimmer Men's 100m Freestyle Day 5 July 25th, 2019 Oussama Sahnoune Kyle Chalmers X Pieter Timmers Marcelo Chierighini Breno Correia Duncan Scott Alessandro Miressi Vladislav Grinev X Vladimir Morozov Caeleb Dressel X Blake Pieroni Any Other Swimmer Women's 50m Backstroke Day 5 July 25th, 2019 Minna Atherton Kaylee McKeown Etiene Medeiros Chen Jie Fu Yuanhui Mie Nielsen Mimosa Jallow Georgia Davies Any Dutch Swimmer X X Allcja Tchorz Anastastia Fesikova Daria Vaskina Kathleen Baker X Olivia Smoliga Any Other Swimmer Men's 200m Individual Medley Day 5 July 25th, 2019 Mitch Larkin X Caio Pumputis Qin Hiayang Wang Shun Philip Heintz Max Litchfield Duncan Scott X Daiya Seto Jeremy Desplanches Chase Kalisz X Any Other Swimmer Women's 4x200m Freestyle Relay Day 5 July 25th, 2019 Australia X Canada X China France Hungary Italy Japan Netherlands Russia United States X Any Other Nation Women's 100m Freestyle Day 6 July 26th, 2019 Cate Campbell Emma McKeon Penny Oleksiak Taylor Ruck X Zhu Menghui Pernille Blume Charlotte Bonnet Siobhan Haughey Femke Heemskerk Ranomi Kromowidjojo Sarah Sjostrom X Mallory Comerford Simone Manuel X Any Other Swimmer Women's 200m Breaststroke Day 6 July 26th, 2019 Sydney Pickrem Kelsey Wog Shi Jinglin Ye Shiwen Molly Renshaw Reona Aoki X Yulia Efimova X Tatjana Schoenmaker Jessica Vall Lilly King X Micah Sumrall Any Other Swimmer Men's 200m Backstroke Day 6 July 26th, 2019 Mitch Larkin X Jiayu Xu Luke Greenbank Matteo Restivo X Ryosuke Irie Keita Sunama Radoslaw Kawecki Evgeny Rylov X Ryan Murphy Jacob Pebley Any Other Swimmer Men's Breaststroke 200m Day 6 July 26th, 2019 Zach Stubblety-Cook Matthew Wilson Qin Haiyang Marco Koch Ross Murdoch James Wilby Luca Pizzini Yashurio Koseki Ippei Watanabe X Dmitriy Baladin Anton Chupkov X Josh Prenot X Andrew Wilson Any Other Swimmer Men's 4x200m Freestyle Relay Day 6 July 26th, 2019 Australia X China Germany Great Britain Hungary Italy Japan Netherlands Russia X United States X Any Other Nation Women's 50m Butterfly Day 7 July 27th, 2019 Maggie MacNeil Penny Oleksiak X Emilie Beckmann Jeanette Ottesen Farida Osman X Ranomi Kromowidjojo Louise Hansson Sarah Sjostrom X Kelsi Dahlia Any Other Swimmer Men's 50m Freestyle Day 7 July 27th, 2019 Bruno Fratus X Ben Proud X Kristian Gkolomeev Maxim Lobanovskij Andrea Vergani Shinri Shioura Pawel Juraszek Vladimir Morozov Andrii Govorov Michael Andrew Caeleb Dressel X Any Other Swimmer Men's 100m Butterfly Day 7 July 27th, 2019 Vinicius Lanza Li Zhuhao Mehdy Metella Marius Kusch James Guy Laszlo Cseh Kristof Milak X Piero Codia Joseph Schooling Chad le Clos X Jack Conger Caeleb Dressel X Any Other Swimmer Women's 200m Backstroke Day 7 July 27th, 2019 Minna Atherton Kaylee McKeown Kylie Masse X Taylor Ruck Liu Yaxin Katalin Burian Katinka Hosszu Margherita Panziera X Anastasia Avdeeva Daria Ustinova Kathleen Baker Regan Smith X Any Other Swimmer Women's 800m Freestyle Day 7 July 27th, 2019 Kiah Melverton Ariarne Titmus Li Bingjie Wang Jianjiahe X Sarah Koehler Boglarka Kapas Simona Quadarella Mireia Belmonte Katie Ledecky X Leah Smith X Any Other Swimmer Mixed 4x100 Freestyle Relay Day 7 July 27th, 2019 Australia X Canada X China France Great Britain Hungary Italy Japan Netherlands Russia United States X Any Other Nation Men's 1500m Freestyle Day 8 July 28th, 2019 Jack McLoughlin X Sun Yang Jan Micka David Aubrey Damian Joly Florian Wellbrock Daniel Jervis Domenico Acerenza Gregorio Paltrinieri X Henrik Christiansen X Mykhailo Romanchuk Zane Grothe Jordan Willimovsky Any Other Swimmer Women's 50m Breaststroke Day 8 July 28th, 2019 Jessica Hansen Fanny Lecluyse Ida Hulkko Martina Carraro Benedetta Pilato Alia Atkinson X Yulia Efimova X Jessica Vall Sophie Hansson Lilly King X Any Other Swimmer Women's 50m Freestyle Day 8 July 28th, 2019 Bronte Campbell Cate Campbell X Etiene Medeiros Liu Xiang Pernille Blume X Femke Heemskerk Ranomi Kromowidjojo Maria Kameneva Erin Gallagher Sarah Sjostrom X Simone Manuel Abbey Weitzeil Any Other Swimmer Men's 50m Backstroke Day 8 July 28th, 2019 Mitch Larkin X Mikita Tsmyh Finlay Knox Jiayu Xu Jeremy Stravius Richard Bohus Shane Ryan X Robert Glinta Kliment Kolesnikov Evgeny Rylov Zane Waddell Michael Andrew Ryan Murphy X Any Other Swimmer Women's 400m Individual Medley Day 8 July 28th, 2019 Emily Overholt X Sydney Pickrem X Ye Shiwen Fantine Lesaffre Aimee Willmott Katinka Hosszu X Zsuzsanna Jakabos Yui Ohashi Mireia Belmonte Any Swimmer from USA Any Other Swimmer Men's 400m Individual Medley Day 8 July 28th, 2019 Thomas Fraser-Holmes X Maksym Shemberev Brandonn Almeida Philip Heintz Max Litchfield X Peter Bernek David Verraszto Daiya Seto X Lewis Clareburt Joan Lluis Pons Ramon Chase Kalisz Jay Litherland Any Other Swimmer Women's 4x100m Medley Relay Day 8 July 28th, 2019 Australia X Canada X China Italy Japan Russia South Africa Sweden United States X Any Other Nation Men's 4x100m Medley Relay Day 8 July 28th, 2019 Australia Brazil X China Germany Great Britain Italy Japan Russia X South Africa United States X Any Other Nation [/hide]

At least in diving, silver and bronze are still up for grabs and sometimes there are upsets of even the Chinese. The same countries win all the medals in synchronized swimming at every competition for over a decade now. It's not a good look.

I have a picture of me and my sister in front of that Buddha at Seoraksan that was just re-posted on facebook a couple of days ago. It's from 2012, although I've been there many times. I'm glad you had this opportunity, I really like Seokcho. It was probably my second favourite Korean city after Seoul (though Busan in summer is nice). It is absolutely lovely there in fall, if anyone ever has the opportunity. I've lived in East Asia since 2005, but I'll be moving away this summer (going to Egypt!). Such bad timing, with all these Olympics coming to this part of the world. I hope to get to Tokyo 2020, maybe as a volunteer.

1) Yeah, I know. But it was still sucky for those of us actually at the Olympics. 2) The course was technically good. I was just using it as an example of lack of personality.

My short review: I was excited for these WOG because I lived in Korea for a long time and witnessed the lead up to it first-hand. It really did seem like Korea and Koreans were really into it. I did get to go to these Games, my first one ever, but just the last weekend. Before that, just watching on my computer, I have to say it didn't feel as exciting as past ones. Even on screen there seemed to be a total lack of atmosphere. As others have said, the scheduling didn't help either. Nothing for hours and then 10 things at once. It just didn't make sense to me, either. Why was the women's gold medal hockey game at 1pm in the afternoon? Why was the final night of short track on Thursday instead of Friday (or Saturday), especially since that's the biggest sport in Korea. Putting qualification and finals in many snowboard and freestyle events ended with having disappointing finals. And I was getting really sick of seeing snowboarders, and to a lesser extent skiers, falling down and getting injured every single run during the cross races. It's the Olympics, not Death Race 2000. One example of how generic these Games were compared to others: on the slopestyle course in Sochi they put a big nesting doll for character. It was a great touch. I was hoping Korea would do something similar, maybe put one of the gates from Seoul in there. But there was nothing. No personality at all. Visiting was awesome, of course. I said in the 'experiences' thread that it did seem a bit bland and quiet, though. The volunteers were amazing! Transportation was efficient and there were no problems at all. I don't know if my past in Korea helped me, but I think it was pretty straight forward for everyone. I only went to the Gangneung "coastal" cluster, though. As a Canadian, it was overall good. I mean, we won the most medals ever for our country and most non-home golds. But it was also strange because we did so poorly in hockey and curling (well, our women's hockey team did fine, it's hard to get closer than the 6th round of a shootout). It's also weird because many of our favourites under-performed, while other athletes stepped up to glory. I looked at infostrada and while they got our total medal count pretty close (though totally underestimating the golds), many of the names were different than reality.

That price tag includes building the whole city, though. They were also building resorts, an F1 track and preparing for the arrival of a KHL team. This is why adding up the costs of the Olympics is always so difficult, because a lot of these projects sometimes would have been done anyway (i.e. new highways or train lines, like the KTX to the east coast in Korea). I do agree that people didn't want to host the Olympics after seeing these price tags, but it's really short sighted. It's like saying, "I'm never buying a house because my sister bought one for a million dollars and I don't have a million dollars!" Maybe you should buy a house, maybe you shouldn't. But you don't have to buy a million dollar house to be a home owner.

Some pics from around the park and city.

Curling: Men's semifinals (Canada v USA; Sweden v Swiss).

I'm sorry it's taken so long to post these, Korea gave me some mystery disease and I've been almost comatose in a fever dream for the last 4 days. Anyway, some pics from the Canada vs USA gold medal hockey game:

Just got back yesterday from Korea and will add pictures when I have a moment to put them on my home computer (working hard at my job now ) CAN v USA gold medal hockey game was exciting and never-raking. Not the outcome I wanted, but you can't get any closer than the 6th round of a shootout. Fans were fun, chatted with lots of people. Even met Cheryl Bernard, 2010 silver medalist in Curling! Men's curling semi-finals were good, too (saw 2014 champ Jennifer Jones, but she was running off somewhere, so no pic). Except, it's really hard to follow along without the overhead view. We were down close to the button, but it's really hard to tell what's going on with the stones in the house because of the angle. They would show one of the matches for 2-3 ends at a time on the big screen, so if the one I wanted (CAN v USA) wasn't shown it was hard to tell who was where. Again, not the outcome I wanted. Canada played horribly, and it was actually a really boring match, at least until the 8th end. The SWE-SUI game was much more entertaining. Again, the fans were great and chatted with lots of them. I also want to say the volunteers were great. From the train station to the city roads to the shuttles and entrances, security and venues, every single one was friendly and helpful. Many thanks to all of them! Having lived in Korea, I knew the transportation would be great and it was. However, the Olympic Park itself was a bit...sterile. There seemed to be very little atmosphere. I've never been to an Olympics before, but it seemed almost like a county fair, with temporary fencing in a parking lot, rather than a big event. Don't get me wrong, there was nothing wrong with any of it. I just expected... I don't know. More? There was nothing right outside the gate, for example. Just some new apartments (and older villas). We literally walked half a block down the road to a small kimbap restaurant and got food. Which is good, of course, considering the prices inside. I just expected the whole area to be in Olympics mode. But right when you walked outside the gate there was nothing (besides the shuttles). It was really cool, though, and I had an amazing time. I visited Canada House which was overpriced and busy, but fun. Saw lots more Canadian athletes and personalities there, including some of the women's hockey players (thought it was the wrong time to ask for a photo). I even ran into the Donald Trump and Kim Jung Un impersonators while waiting for my train back to Seoul! Pics to come.

Just got back from Korea with a nasty cold. Hope you're better.

Good game, OAR. Congratulations! Congratulations to Germany as well. Frankly, I'm just upset no one made a Stalingrad comment during the overtime.

Yeah, it was nice alright.

Whatever happens, it's been one hell of a game (especially the 3rd period). Also, Canada is redeemed a little bit now.

Goddamn it, Germany. You had it! A one goal lead with a PP with minute left! Nothing against Russia, btw. Just rooting for the underdog.

wow

Half of Team Korea was born and raised in Ontario.

The two Canadians Germans on a 2-on-1!

I'm behind! OMG!!!!!!!!!!

Damn. Frustrating, because if it wasn't a tied game late in the 3rd that would have been a penalty where the Russian got hurt.

I do want Germany to win because who doesn't like an underdog. But that would give them 15 gold which would break Canada's record. Soooooooo...

I think they're proving it (again) right here.

Switzerland: Oh good, we only have to beat Germany....oh crap. Sweden: Oh good, we only have to beat Germany...oh crap. Canada: Oh good, we only have to beat Germany...oh crap. Russia: Oh good, we only have to beat Germany...oh crap.

Just going to delete my post because it was a long screed on different definitions of 'cheating' and the majority of sport fans acceptance of it.