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I remembered this video about her from last year. Interesting how she says that Olympics seem so distant to her.

Yes, she is very good but unfortunately her horse Cassidy can get "hot" in front of big crowds. Such thing happened in Aachen this month when they got "only" 71% (there's more in the bag for them). Deodoro arena should be less intimidating than Aachen, so hopefully she'll be able to show her potential. On a good day she should get technical score of 76-77% I think, what is a very good standard. But, yeah, because of Cassidy's hotness her scores are harder to predict (within the last year her scores ranged from 64% to 79%).

We'll take a look at few memorable Olympic performances while doing a countdown to Rio (8 days to go btw ). We start with Nicole Uphoff (GER) and her legendary horse Rembrandt, and their individual gold medal winning performance from the 1992 Olympics. This was the fourth Olympic gold medal for this combination. Although Nicole was only 25 at the time, she decided to end her competitive career quite early for a dressage rider (1996 Olympics were her last big competition). Nicole & Rembrandt were often described as a "living work of art", and you can very much see why is that in this video.

Thankfully I didn't start to do that (yet). But I usually make a plan of events to follow before each day.

Unless you plan every minute of each Olympic day. For example: "Oh, looks like I can watch two heats of men's single sculls before the other event starts."

Knoll already withdrew before. Hard to imagine that she'll be back, although she might get a medal is she does so who knows.

Golf looks cool now.

Already two nations got their first London 2012 medal because of weightlifting disqualifications. Indonesia and Cameroon. Ironically, even Bulgaria got a medal.

Decently up to date only if we ignore the flags they use for Hong Kong and Rwanda.

Giving Moldova their first Olympic gold medal.

What an awesome teammate...

OMG, does that mean that Martin will also have to stay at home?

I don't know the answers for those two. I think Switzerland will still be eligible to find replacement for doubles, if they want to.

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It looks so real.

[hide] Men's Tournament - Preliminary Round August 6th - August 14th, 2016 12 Nations, 2 Groups, 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Nations from each Group will qualify for Quarterfinals Men's Tournament - Group A Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 August 6th 2016, h. 09:00, Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro Serbia 1 Hungary August 6th 2016, h. 11:40, Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro Greece 6 Japan August 6th 2016, h. 20:50, Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro Brazil 2 Australia August 8th 2016, h. 13:00, Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro Serbia 3 Greece August 8th 2016, h. 19:30, Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro Japan 4 Brazil August 8th 2016, h. 20:50, Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro Hungary 3 Australia August 10th 2016, h. 09:00, Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro Australia 4 Japan August 10th 2016, h. 10:20, Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro Greece 2 Hungary August 10th 2016, h. 19:30, Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro Brazil 5 Serbia August 12th 2016, h. 19:30, Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro Greece 3 Brazil August 12th 2016, h. 20:50, Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro Hungary 7 Japan August 12th 2016, h. 22:10, Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro Serbia 4 Australia August 14th 2016, h. 17:00, Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro Australia 2 Greece August 14th 2016, h. 18:00, Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro Serbia 7 Japan August 14th 2016, h. 20:30, Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro Brazil 5 Hungary Men's Tournament - Group B Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 August 6th 2016, h. 10:20, Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro United States 2 Croatia August 6th 2016, h. 13:00, Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro France 3 Montenegro August 6th 2016, h. 19:30, Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro Spain 2 Italy August 8th 2016, h. 09:00, Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro Croatia 2 Montenegro August 8th 2016, h. 10:20, Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro Italy 5 France August 8th 2016, h. 11:40, Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro United States 0 Spain August 10th 2016, h. 11:40, Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro France 3 United States August 10th 2016, h. 13:00, Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro Montenegro 1 Italy August 10th 2016, h. 20:50, Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro Spain 2 Croatia August 12th 2016, h. 09:00, Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro Croatia 0 Italy August 12th 2016, h. 10:20, Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro Spain 3 France August 12th 2016, h. 11:40, Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro United States 2 Montenegro August 14th 2016, h. 15:30, Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro United States 2 Italy August 14th 2016, h. 16:50, Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro France 5 Croatia August 14th 2016, h. 19:30, Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro Montenegro 1 Spain Women's Tournament - Preliminary Round August 9th - August 13th, 2016 8 Nations, 2 Groups, All Nations will qualify for Quarterfinals Women's Tournament - Group A Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 August 9th 2016, h. 10:20, Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro Italy 5 Brazil August 9th 2016, h. 13:00, Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro Russia 2 Australia August 11th 2016, h. 09:00, Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro Russia 5 Brazil August 11th 2016, h. 10:20, Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro Italy 1 Australia August 13th 2016, h. 10:20, Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro Russia 1 Italy August 13th 2016, h. 11:40, Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro Australia 5 Brazil Women's Tournament - Group B Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 August 9th 2016, h. 09:00, Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro China 3 Hungary August 9th 2016, h. 11:40, Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro Spain 2 United States August 11th 2016, h. 11:40, Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro China 4 United States August 11th 2016, h. 13:00, Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro Spain 2 Hungary August 13th 2016, h. 09:00, Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro China 3 Spain August 13th 2016, h. 13:00, Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, Rio de Janeiro Hungary 1 United States [/hide]

I think Vesely's and Federer's quotas will go to Khachanov (RUS) and Stakhovsky (UKR), though I'm not sure how it works. Can a nation get two "ITF places" in a same event? Khachanov would be the second Russian with ITF place.

Elizabeth opened Montreal Games so she was there.

This is crazy, and it's athletes who pay the price. Yes, these teams got their Olympic places, but 10 days before competition. They will basically compete as tourists, because how on earth are they supposed to prepare in 10 days! Looks like 18th July entry deadline means nothing to IOC.

What a joy for Italy.

WA updated the list and now we do have instead of

Didn't you hear that judo is Putin's favourite sport? Of course IJF will favour him.

Modern Pentathlon -1 +1

This quota already went to Latvia it seems. At least they are getting the job done. http://olimpiade.lv/lv/jaunumi/zinas/diskvalificeti-krievijas-modernas-pieccinas-sportisti-startes-r-nakonecnijs-1068