thiago_simoes

Man, this is a joke. A complete joke. They are crazy enough to think Mustafina would place ahead of Biles on the Balance Beam. They can't be serious. At all.

And what can you do with this information other than coming here and stating that you know more than everybody? I'm looking for facts, and then maybe I could agree with you. After what I've SEEN, though, Ponor is the only female gymnast in Romania who could go to the Olympics without embarrassing herself and her country.

I follow this sport quite closely for a number of years. One must only look at the videos from the Romanian nationals and the difference between Iordache and Ponor is clear. Iordache is not steady and has not taken part in any other competition in 2016 besides the Romanian nationals. She is not ready to compete. I wish Romania had other choices besides Ponor and Iordache, but Holbura, the third best gymnast at this point who is not injured, was not able to win a gold medal in an event with junior gymnasts, the Gymnasiade. What could she do at the Olympics? Not much, I guess. And the fact that you are Romanian does not mean anything about how much you know about Iordache. I'm Brazilian, but don't ask me about football. I know nothing about this sport.

Iordache had no chance of getting a medal. Ponor will not get one either, but at least she will probably make it to the balance beam and floor finals.

She was injured for a long time and is still not ready to compete at her best. Ponor is in better shape now.

In 1998 a Danish athlete earned gold at the Junior Europeans. I can't remember his name, though.

Axelle Klinckaert from Belgium is injured and will miss the Olympics. Such bad news...

The US will win gold, Russia and China will battle for silver and bronze. If one of these teams faulter, Great Britain, Japan, Canada and Brazil are too close to call which team could win a medal.

It almost looks like they decided to select only English gymnasts, and Purvis is Scottish, so he had to stay out. Seriously, though, I can't see Brinn contributing to this team as much as Purvis could. Weird (and possibly political) decision. The women's team is definitely not my favorite team, but I will not comment any further.

There may be a surprising medal in women's artistic gymnastics (Flávia Saraiva on the balance beam, or maybe Rebeca Andrade in the individual all-around), and also in modern pentathlon (Yane Marques). I'm not getting my hopes up, though.

I thought this was Nauru's first ever medal at a World Championships event, but I was wrong. The old version of the thread about nations which have never won a world championships medal states that nauru won a medal as early as 1999. http://web.archive.org/web/20150413205532/http://www.totallympics.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=3970&extra=page%3D1

Olsen and Rose Woo are first year senior gymnasts. They are great.

This is the best possible team for Canada and a shoe-in for a top 6 placement. On paper, only Russia, China, Japan, Great Britain and the USA are ahead of Canada now. Brazil and Germany are roughly on the same level, I think. It will be interesting to see if Italy, the Netherlands, France and Belgium can challenge for the top 8. Maybe the Netherlands can make it ahead of Germany, but I doubt Italy, France and Belgium can make much of an impact at this point.

Since 2014 alternates are awarded team medals at the World Championships, and I'm 99% sure this works for the Olympics as well.

Congratulations, Chile! Once again, the winner!

Who is the alternate? I'm curious because if the US wins a medal at the team event, the alternate will be given a medal as well.

Both Kaya and Kameyama will miss the Olympics! Wow! I didn't see that coming! It makes sense since Japan wants the Olympic gold medal on the team event so bad, and both Kaya and Kameyama are specialists. But still, both had a shot at an individual medal... Oh, well. And I'm so happy to see Teramoto, Murakami and Miyakawa made the team! Best female Japanese team in ages!

Yes, I mostly agree. Individual: * * * * * Russia (Kudryavtseva and Mamun) * * * Belarus (Staniouta) and Ukraine (Rizatdinova) * Georgia (Pazhava) Group * * * * * Russia * * * Belarus * * Israel, Italy, Spain * Blugaria

7-0! As a Brazilian, I can only say that this only proves that no matter how hard life has been on you, there will always be someone who will have it harder.

It's nice that he will have his Olympic chance. I hope Wammes also gets a spot, despite being really troublesome for the federation in 2012.

I don't think Ukraine has a chance of getting a medal at the group event, but we will see. Right now, I would say Russia, Belarus, Israel, Italy and Spain will fight for a place on the podium and Bulgaria is a dark horse. Ukraine and Japan will likely make the finals, but a medal is a bit too much at this point.

Yes! I was really rooting for Italy. This is their first ever gold medal at the Aerobics World Championships. Amazing feat!

So, now Israel is a strong contender for an Olympic medal, and I can't say I'm surprised. They have been very consistent for a number of years now, and they seem to be in their best shape ever, so it will not be a surprise if the group earns an Olympic medal. I'm surprised Russia had two mistake-laden routines. I wonder if Belarus can take advantage of eventual mistakes and finally earn an Olympic gold medal. Time will tell. And what sad news about the Bulgarian girl. I'm happy they got a medal, though. And I hope the girl survives.

There are new versions of the Code of Points for 2017-2020. On the women's side there are many changes and all of them are very substantial. We will usually see lower scores from now on. On vault, Dipa Karmakar will benefit A LOT from the changes.

I've looked into the issue. If machine translations of documents in Slovenian are to be believed, he competed representing club Sokol, a notable club for Slovenian athletes. So, he was decidedly not representing (or not wanting to represent) the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the time. There has been a notable case of an Austrian gymnast who represented an American club at the early Olympics, and even his individual medals are counted for the United States instead of Austria. So, the focus is on representation rather than nationality. Though I have found absolutely no official confirmation on the subject, some sources claim that FIG transferred the medals from the 1911 Worlds earned by Bohemia to Czechoslovakia, and in every source I could find Vidmar's medal is credited to either Serbia, Slovenia or Yugoslavia. No source at all credits his medal to Austria, Hungary or the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Besides, Vidmar was a Lieutenant and he joined the Serbian rebel army in 1912, so he had much stronger ties with Serbia, an existing territory at the time, rather than Austria-Hungary. This is a complex issue and I've tried my best to find all the information about this. The medal table from the link I've posted is the most complete one I can find (though they credit a bronze medal to Slovenia in 2002 when in fact it was a silver medal, but this is a very minor mistake). I have enough reasons to believe they may have had access to official information. Their medal table in Rhythmics is also the most complete one in the history of the sport. Besides, this is as close to official information as we can ever get and I doubt the FIG could shed a light on this issue. They seem not to care about past results, which is a shame.