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China falling hard without getting banned.

Well, even if Spain can't do it I'm pretty sure that Italy or Turkey will jump in. 2013 were supposed to be held in Greece but they withdrew.

I like that "private party" feeling of the Mediterranean Games And I think this time it will be much better than Mersin...

With IOC allowing a whole bunch of sports to be added in 2020, the thought of removing sports is plain silly to me. And I don't see the point in saying that sport should be out because someone doesn't like, doesn't understand or doesn't follow it (or even because their nations are not good at it!). Olympics are not made for one person's liking, there's something for everyone.

Apart from Dutch winning nothing, biggest surprise is Germany not winning gold in team eventing. They made mistakes on cross-country course which perhaps cost them gold. That cross-country course was beautiful and properly tough. Really, really amazing cross-country day it was.

What about skateboarding. Park competition and street competition? I guess surrounding is really important

As true Olympic lover there is no sport I wouldn't watch at all, even though I don't like some of them.

I think I only realized now how extraordinary it is that Lemaitre got a medal.

Perhaps the main reason is that they didn't compete much earlier this year. People were starting to think that Americans can threat them in dressage after excellent build up and it happened as Dutch looked bad for their standards. Jumping also didn't go well at all. Jur Vrieling got disqualified in first round for the overuse of whip. Maybe that's why they couldn't win a medal because they had only 3 riders in final round.

If Dutch had a bad sport then that's equestrian, no medals after getting 5 medals in Olympic events at 2014 WEG.

Flame is gone

"sex success" guy is back

Even at closing ceremony our commentators can't stop talking about Bolt and Phelps...

They probably bought some Canadians

Parade of athletes was never this long at the closing ceremony

This flame is hypnotic indeed

Palau time Palau had reasonably successful games. 5 athletes competed in 4 sports. Medals were always impossible, but some decent results were achieved (for the first time in history a Palauan athlete advanced from first round, and that happened twice!). ATHLETICS Rodman Teltull advanced from preliminary round after winning his heat with 10.53 (only 0.01 outside of his own NR). In his quarterfinal race he finished 8th out of 9 with 10.64. CANOEING - SPRINT Marina Toribiong was the first Palauan kayaker at the Olympics. She competed in both women's K1 events and qualified for semfinals in 200m sprint. SWIMMING Shawn Dingilius-Wallace and Dirgulbai Misech competed in 50m races, finishing 72nd and 65th, respectively. Both of them broke national records. WRESTLING Florian Temengil competed at his second Olympics (first were in 2008). He was defeated by Hungarian wrestler Ligeti in the round of 16 via technical superiority. Temengil will be the Palauan flag bearer at the closing ceremony.

I'd say this was a realistic expectation in the end. Athletics is the only sport where we exceeded my expectations (didn't think that 3 medals were even possible)

Nice No, it's not supposed to hurt them. Safety is the paramount of FEI so bridles are always checked after each ride. And the goal is to achieve movements with soft contact with bridle (softer contact = better scores) Ah yes, now I remember that I combined slalom with eventing too And we should know relatively soon if SVK will get the Games

This is nice. Siueni Filimone will carry flag. That's their 100m runner who advanced from preliminaries but couldn't start in heats because he got injured right at the end of his preliminary run.

Fiji will have their own athlete as a flag bearer! So this means that they gave up on idea of leaving Rio completely before closing ceremony because of zika, malaria, superbug, etc etc

Btw, I didn't have feeling that you watched equestrian events

Enjoy!

Last thing to see is whether the USA will reach 100 Last 10 minutes of Rio 2016 competition to start

Sinković brothers will carry the flag