thiago_simoes

22 hours ago, Monzanator said:

I'd say aerials or freestyle big air should be sports for you 

Oh, these sports are "boring" to me be because they are basically one single trick and nothing else. Of course, the skill they perform is difficult, but it doesn't quite look spectacular to me given that some artistic gymnasts can perform three somersaults and two twists after a few steps on floor.  And that's just one out of 4+ tumbling passes in one apparatus.

I never watch the Winter Olympics, but I'll force myself to follow the snowboard competition, or at least keep up with the results. And this might be a surprise for some people, since my favorite sports are artistic and rhythmic gymnastics, but I strongly dislike figure skating.

7 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Long story short: she was on the way from Austria (where she had been in quarantine until today) to Munich, to get tested three times there in the coming five days, starting today. Somewhere along the Austrian/Italian border (Vintl), the transfer we had booked for her (a minivan, her as only passenger) had an accident, a bad one, one might say. Sadly the driver didn't make it, and considering they hit a truck head-on, Bruna sitting in the back (to keep some distance) quite simply saved her life. Transported to the hospital by helicopter.

 

Broken arm, two broken feet and an unknown number of broken ribs seems to be the damage. Which, considering the gravity of the accident, is barely short of a miracle.

 

As for me, I'm at home in the Netherlands, which is where we are trying to get her as soon as possible (when medically allowed, of course). It has been a long day of back and forth contact with insurance and Brazilian federation and everything to see what can be done. But, again, the main thing is she's still with us.

I'm glad that you're okay and Bruna is alive, but I'm heartbroken. She is and always will be an Olympian in our hearts. My thoughts and prayers that @brunamourahas a speedy recovery. Força, Bruna! Vai ficar tudo bem, guerreira! Melhoras!

@heywoodu must be extremely happy and proud now. Congratulations, @brunamoura! So happy for you!

Three medals for  in the end: one from a 41 yo, another one from a 35 yo and a bronze medal in the men's 4x200 m relay. Thankfully, the relay team is very young, but we desperately need new faces in our swimming team. Our brighter days are gone and now we have to try everything. 

 

Finally a medal for us... But this is still very disappointing. If Nicholas somehow can't win gold tomorrow, this will be the worst short course worlds for Brazil in a long time.

Very bad event for the Brazilians. Most of our swimming team did not want to go to this event. They are exhausted after many competitions this year, and some of our most promising swimmers just skipped the event entirely. 

43 minutes ago, MHSN said:

and most importantly from a bronze in CJ

 

I think the lift was OK but well who I am. that could be a great result for 18 years old. hopefully he improves his Snatch , he needs that to compete for a real world medal (I mean a medal in total)

Yeah, I'm sure he's going to be one of the greatest in this sport if he keeps healthy. VERY impressive results for a 18 yo, and that lift was valid in my opinion. I don't see how his lift was turned down but Talakhadze's was accepted. Seriously. This looks like a political decision rather than a technical one, to be honest.

And another world record for Talakhadze.

Barely, this time. Maybe he's still human after all.

What the?! Alireza was robbed of a junior world record!!! 

Yaaay, a medal for Ziaziulin! He is SO unlucky that any medal at all is a blessing at this point!

And another medal for Brazil. Seriously, I still can't believe it!

This is getting insane. First-ever medals for ,  and , first medal in total for , first gold medal for , first medal for a female lifter from .

Seriously, what's going on?

A medal for Brazil! Now, that's one of the biggest surprises this year!

I know it's a small medal, but this sport is virtually nonexistent here. 

One of the apparatus broke and could not be replaced, so the Brazilian coaches had to hold on to the apparatus so the Brazilian gymnast could finish his routine.

Crazy.
 

Very biased scores against Brazil and blatantly favoring Argentina on the women's events. Argentina has the better women's team and I'm okay with they winning the gold medal, but definitely not with scores that they didn't deserve. It's like the judges absolutely had to make sure that Argentina would win no matter what. Seriously, this is one of the worst judged events I've taken note of.

EDIT: After I wrote this, one of the Argentinian girls had a bad performance on floor and basically threw out of the window their chances of winning gold. But, seriously, some scores are only 0,1 apart when they should have been at least 0,5 apart. 

A medal for !! First-ever in this sport!

In this never-ending year, tomorrow the South American Championships will begin. I'm not sure if this is a qualifying event for the 2022 South American Games, but I'm kind of expecting it to be since even  decided to send gymnasts this time. Color me surprised.

 will host the event and they are taking this very seriously with their best gymnasts. ,  and  will fight for some minor medals.  has a pretty decent line-up too with Perea and Chiriboga with a big chance of winning gold medals.

 decided to send two teams with up and coming gymnasts, so this will be the senior debut for all of them, except for Carolyne Pedro who is a veteran but had a very nasty injury and is now competing for the first time after going through the nightmare of a delicate surgery and a long time recovering.

I expect  to win at least five gold medals: women's team, all-around and uneven bars, men's rings and pommel horse. Women's vault could also go to Argentina, but Perea is the reigning Pan American bronze medalist so she has the edge here.

I'm very curious about what  has to show. Also, it's pretty sad that  will only send one gymnast, but at least there's some form of representation here.

Not sure where to post this, so I'll post it here.

Some curiosities about the gymnastics events at the Junior Pan American Games:

1)  and earned their first-ever medals in any gymnastics discipline at the Pan American Games. 

2)  earned their first medals in artistic gymnastics since 1979.

3)  got their first gold medal in gymnastics since 1999. Also, their first-ever medal in trampoline, if you don't count a medal in tumbling in 1955.
4)  and  got their first-ever gold medals in trampoline.

5)  got their first gold medals in individual rhythmic gymnastics.

6)  walked away without a medal in any gymnastics discipline for the first time.

7) This marks the first time that  gets a medal in women's trampoline.

In my opinion, the biggest surprises were:

 winning the most medals overall.
  and especially  winning gold medals.
 with a medal.
 in the top 10.

My biggest disappointments:

 not winning a gold medal. This was their chance.
 placing way lower than I expected.
 with only two medals in gymnastics. They could have won 2 or 3 gold medals here.
 not in the top 10, but of course that was to be expected.

2 hours ago, vinipereira said:

ends with a medal in every sport here except for 3x3 Basketball, Baseball, Softball and Bowling (the only sport we didn't participate).

Not only that: a medal in every discipline in gymnastics and cycling.

And for the fist time ever, we have one gold medal for each discipline in gymnastics! Seriously, a gold medal in trampoline is something I would never expect, especially because  and  sent their best gymnasts to the Games!

Both trampoline gymnasts from Canada fell off the apparatus after performing only 2 skills. Unbelievable.

I know Canada is not taking this event seriously, but this is tragic.

Very questionable gold medal for Mexico in group rhythmic gymnastics. One of the throws went straight to the carpet, with no catch at all. 

1 hour ago, vinipereira said:

Nice gold for Brazil in individual rhythmic gymnastics. Was this unexpected @thiago_simoes?

Yup. Maria Eduarda is great, but beating the Americans even with lots of mistakes? That's really surprising!

And I'm very happy with a gold medal for Argentina in gymnastics! Last time this happened at the Pan American Games was in 1999. Last century! Amazing result for the country!

The sheer lack of competence on all fronts in organization and broadcast of events is baffling.

This is how scores were displayed after group presentations in rhythmic gymnastics:

These were the actual scores, published HOURS later on the official website:

I've never seen anything like that in my life.