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Oh, right, it's Shatilov who lives in Uzbekistan. My bad here. Dolgopyat is from Ukraine. It makes things even more absurd because Ukraine didn't win any medals in gymnastics for the first time in history. I remember when Maksyuta also competed representing Israel. It's crazy how they just handle free passes to gymnasts from Ukraine.

Don't forget Dolgopyat, who is actually Uzbek and even lives in Uzbekistan according to information from one website I read. Poor Uzbekistan was robbed of an Olympic gold medal here, if you ask me. The same happened when Chusovitina represented Germany in 2008, in my opinion.

Believe me: I'm not one to defend Ashram, but she worked hard for the results and she deserved it. The fact that some of the Russians are trying to make it look like she didn't deserve the gold medal is ridiculous. Now, please, read this: https://www.nbcolympics.com/news/rhythmic-gymnastics-101-scoring It's also important to consider that we're discussing an all-around competition, and performance on all 4 apparatus count. Her performance on ribbon might not have been excellent, but the drop only cost 0.3/0.5 depending on how many steps she took to get to the apparatus. This is a very small penalty in a sport where scores in 1 single apparatus can go up to 24/25 points. and Olympic medals are decided with combined scores around 100 points. You can complain about the Code of Points -- I do this all the time -- but you can't just say that she didn't win the gold medal in a fair way. Also, take a look at he body difficulty skills compared to Dina Averina's:

LOL, I'm sorry to also come here and burst your bubble, but I now laugh at how we thought we could have won a medal in karate two years ago. I was somewhat also confident back then. Fast forward two years and we didn't even qualify anyone.

Okay, let's check how many I got right. "Safe" medals Artistic gymnastics: 1 medal --> 2 medals (1 more than what I predicted) Athletics: 1 medal --> 2 medals (1 more) Boxing: 1 medal --> 3 medals (2 more) Judo: 1 medal --> 2 medals (1 more) Sailing: 1 medal --> 1 medal Skateboarding: 3 medals --> 3 medals Sprint canoeing: 2 medals --> 1 medal Surfing: 2 medals --> 1 medal Volleyball and Beach volleyball: 2 medals --> 1 medal Likely, but definitely not easy: Football: 1 medal --> 1 medal Taekwondo: 1 medal --> No medals Swimming and Open water swimming: 2 medals --> 3 medals (1 more) Unlikely, but feasible medals Cycling: 1 medal --> No medals Fencing: 1 medal --> No medals Slalom canoeing: 1 medal --> No medals Tennis: 1 medal --> 1 medal Nearly impossible medals Archery: 1 medal --> No medals Table tennis: 1 medal --> No medals Wrestling: 1 medal --> No medals All in all, I'm happy with my predictions. The medals which I thought were nearly impossible were, indeed, impossible. Among the unlikely medals, we got 1 out of 4. Among the likely medals, we got 4 out of 4, but only because we got one more medal than I expected in swimming, while in taekwondo our best finish was 5th. Still close. Among the safe medals, I got every sport correctly, and actually two more medals than I had originally predicted. Major surprises for me: artistic gymnastics, boxing, tennis and swimming Major disappointments: fencing, cycling, volleyball/beach volleyball and taekwondo

It looks like that lost gold medal in trampoline that you said no one would remember after three weeks will indeed be remembered for the rest of our lives.

What a disappointing last day. Two silver medals and Canada got ahead of us... But we still have many reasons to celebrate. This was our best performance in total number of medals. In Tokyo, Brazil earned 21 medals compared to 19 in Rio, our previous best performance. We also tied our best performance in gold medals, 7, the same number we reached in Rio. 12th place is our historical record, while 13th in Rio was our previous best. We had our worst ever performance in beach volleyball, without earning medals. Volleyball only earned one silver medal, which is very disappointing. Judo brought home two medals, the lowest number in a long time. We had huge expectations in skateboarding, and even though we got three silver medals, it still feels kind of a letdown. Only one medal in surfing is also less than we expected. We were hopeful for medals in cycling, fencing and tennis for the first time. That only happened in tennis, and definitely not in the way we expected. Women's artistic gymnastics bringing home two medals, one of them gold, is a dream I was afraid I would never see becoming true. Three medals in swimming, one of them gold, is also something no one was expecting. Two medals in athletics was an interesting result. Boxing was our biggest surprise here, with three medals. No one expected that. Overall, a very interesting edition of the Olympics for Brazil. We reached our best ever result even though our athletes choked in a lot of events. It's kind of unreal. If we had better performances from some of our athletes, we could have earned at least 5 more gold medals. But I'm pretty happy the way it is. It's just too bad that in Paris we will be unable to reach these results.

No gold medal for Russia in rhythmic gymnastics!!!! Justice was served!!!! Congratulations, Bulgaria!!!

Russia with mistakes AGAIN. The day has come. The end of an era.

Belarus with two mistakes. What a choke.

Bulgaria might have won gold!!

Italy might have lost their medal here. Not as strong as it could have been. Too bad. I was rooting for them.

This score is absurd. They deserved less.

Russia with a mistake!

Japan got completely lost this year. They had such awesome routines...

Bulgaria with a great but not excellent routine. Bummer.

The Somali refugees with silver and bronze. What a pity that they couldn't represent Somalia, though...

Gauzy, just like Hugo Calderano, is extremely unpredictable, but very talented. I would love them to try to play doubles tournaments together.

I wonder if this has anything to do with the low number of European teams allowed to qualify. However, at the same time, they are supposed to be the best of the best, still they have lost every single time in 7 years.

I wouldn't go as far. Although two gold medals is certainly a big achievement, both of his gold medals might be seen as at least a bit controversial, in my opinion. I certainly wouldn't have awarded him either. There were better gymnasts in those finals.

I couldn't stop crying, but for a completely different reason.

You can count me as the worst predictor here.

Not a fan of either France or ROC, but it's a harder pillow to swallow to see France as Olympic champions.

"only" needs to win the men's and women's tournament in Paris. And if we use the same system the US uses on medal tables -- most total medals first -- Brazil leads the overall medal table with nine total medals against eight from the United States.

3 gold medals in one day! It's true!