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Oof! I've always wondered why the Indian fans here are so upset about the CWG. I'd be ashamed if Brazil took part in an event where everyone accepts the queen of another country as their ruler. It's even more shameful when Indians are accusing their former colonizers of being unfair to them.

will not send any women to Worlds. Baffling decision, especially considering Nina Derwael is the reigning World and Olympic champion. Flávia Saraiva will also miss Worlds, but Rebeca Andrade will very likely attend, thankfully. She has resumed training and is preparing for Worlds.

You're right: 13.525 is not a score that would even qualify her for the event finals at the World Championships, but it's still decent enough and on par with what's expected at a World Cup stage. However, the most important thing is: the potential to improve her difficulty is HUGE. Her execution is very good and she can become a real threat for a World medal in a few years. Voinea is probably the most exciting, talented and promising junior gymnast in the whole world, but she always performs poorly in competition. I don't understand why.

I'm checking the results here.

What a horrible broadcast of the Mersin World Challenge Cup. The schedule with 10 finals in 1 day is a mess, and the broadcast suffers because of the terrible organization. Anyway, good news is that a female gymnast from won a medal at the World Cup/World Challenge Cup circuit for the first time ever.

I forgot to mention yesterday that I was very impressed with . The men performed beautifully last year at one of the World Cup stages, and now they have a girl with decent skills. I believe that Serbia will qualify a gymnast for the first time to compete in Paris, maybe even both a man and a woman.

Well, it's over. What a rollercoaster ride the whole Tokyo experience has been. Best ever edition of the Olympics and Paralympics for Brazil, despite severe cuts in funding and total lack of support from the government -- our government is so insane and absurd that the minister of Education mentioned a few days ago that disabled kids only "get in the way", and thankfully he received a big backlash for this ignorant comment. I'll probably go back to following only gymnastics now, because I definitely need a break from this chaotic routine of following roughly a dozen of different sports at the same time. It's been fun, I have to say, but my attention span is too short to focus on many sports at the same time.

Any word on how they are going to deal with quotas in gymnastics? Brazil was supposed to receive an extra quota in rhythmic gymnastics after being forbidden to enter Guatemala, and there should be plenty of extra quotas left in trampoline -- which should be offered to Canada if there's interest, of course.

Yep, lots of free passes here and controversial decisions -- always beneficial to Japan, of course -- at the 2020 Olympics. I hope they never host anything related to the Summer Olympics again while I'm alive. It's easier for me to be elected the most handsome man in the world than it is for all of this to have been a mere coincidence.

With no sports where athletes receive subjective scores, it's hard for Japan to keep pushing for a higher place on the medal table. I mean, except for Equestrian. My point is: no surfing, skateboarding or gymnastics to artificially increase their medal tally this time. Not one single gold medal earned by the Japanese in these sports at the 2020 Olympics was deserved, in my opinion.

Now all that's left for Brazil are the marathon events and the bronze medal match in badminton. I know Vitor is the reigning World bronze medalist, and I had high hopes before the event, but somehow I think he had a much better chance of beating the guy from than the guy from . I have little to no hope of a medal in the final day, what is a shame because we have won more than one medal on every single day of the competition so far.

The Koper Challenge Cup is underway. I'm very impressed with William Emard.

Of course we had to lose the gold medal by 0.004. Of course.

A medal for ! I'm surprised! After I didn't expect any new countries to win medals for the first time, especially because in 2016 and 2012 only one new country earned a medal in each edition: in 2016 and in 2012.

The fact that Brazil qualified 2 athletes for a final with only 4 persons and got one of them disqualified and the other one did not finish is really something else.

Wait, what happened?

It's so nice to see one swimmer from the city I used to live in, Joinville, earning a medal in swimming! Beautiful team work!

The definitive registrations are still being updated at the FIG website. According to the directives, this process should have been completed about one month ago, but here we are and they're still updating the list. Probably the only notable change has been the inclusion of .

1 - I was tempted to give it a 10, but since we could have walked away with 10+ gold medals easily but lost some important chances, ending up with 7 gold medals, I will give it a 9 out of 10. Still, the best Olympics ever for Brazil, no question about it. But it could have been even better. 2 - There has never been an official goal, but the unofficial goal was to reach 20 medals and we reached 21. So, I believe everything went well, maybe even better than expected. 3 - The biggest surprise has to be a bronze medal in tennis. It's not like we didn't expect a medal -- we did, but with Soares/Melo. Stefani/Pigosi winning a medal was not part of anyone's plans. As far as disappointments go, volleyball/beach volleyball with only 1 silver medal has got to be the biggest villains. But maybe surfing and skateboarding could also be seen as disappointments. We expected 2 more medals in surfing and at least 1 gold medal in skateboarding. We could have earned 3 to 5 more medals in these sports, but our athletes fell short. 4 - Artistic gymnastics will be the sport that will receive the most funding, I'm sure. It has received lots and lots of money in the past, but now it will be even more. Our junior female gymnasts are not good, though, so we need all the money in the world to help them grow.

Only now I noticed this thread. Here we go again. I'm already excited for Paris!

Definitive registrations have been updated for the World Championships. To see the file, go here, click on "show files" then on "definitive registration". It's nice to see that Syria, Serbia, Luxembourg and, especially, Bangladesh are sending gymnasts. Syria is not really a surprise, though, since they have a good vaulter that lives and trains in the United States. However, I'm very intrigued about Bangladesh. I didn't expect them to send any gymnasts. I'm kind of sad about Malaysia and Indonesia missing out entirely, unfortunately. Also, a question for our members: why won't Spain send any women to the World Championships? Spain competed with a full team at the Olympics and Popa could even challenge for medals. What happened?

Gordo e desengonçado do jeito que eu sou, se eu tentar um movimento, caio e saio rolando no chão feito croquete no óleo quente...

Completely unrealistic, but you never know when FIG is going to do something stupid. It's basically the Homer Simpson of international federations: if you watch long enough, you will see it doing something really stupid. I just mentioned floor and vault because there's no way FIG would remove pommel horse and parallel bars, so floor and vault are the apparatus that are "repeated" in women's artistic gymnastics, so I guess it would be somehow easier to justify their exclusion because they would still be part of the Olympic program, but restricted to women, instead? Anyway, just a bunch of crazy theories that won't happen... Hopefully.

Yes, but I learned to quickly see their names in the quoted posts and just stop reading and moving on. In 2013 (I can't believe I've been around for so long) there was a Polish user named Pavlo and he was the first person I consciously learned to ignore. Then he vanished, I think, or he changed his name here and became a better person, who knows? But ever since we got the ability to ignore some users, it's great because I can't even see when they quote me, and this makes all the difference. This has made this forum a much better place to visit, in my opinion.

Believe it or not, I had never heard about this podcast before you mentioned it here. I listened to one of the episodes and their complete disdain for Max Whitlock made me roar with laughter. They claimed he deserved to be deducted in every single skill he performed in the final and I just couldn't help but laugh hard. Great people!