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She suffered a patellar tendon tear. I imagine it should be quite painful and this must leave her out of any competition for a long time. Now, about Maria Portela... better late than never. But that didn't help at all. LOL. A very embarrassing ending for our judokas, but not one that was unexpected.

And I was wrong! Gold for BELARUS!!!

How did Litvinovich save that? Incredible! But Dong Dong will take gold. No question about it.

A medal for New Zealand! First ever in gymnastics! Woooow!

Rafael Macedo: hottest guy on the Brazilian team, worst athlete in our delegation. And, with this, I give up. This horrible Brazilian team got what it deserves.

And Maria Portela does it again: she always fights so hard and falls short in the end. Funny thing is that media in Brazil adores her. Everybody says how wonderful and awesome she is. But she can't win a single bout. NOT EVEN ONCE. I wish people put this kind of faith in me, seriously.

And a clear gold medal chance for Rebeca Andrade. You guys will understand on Sunday.

For a moment I thought Lavillenie was going to miss it, but he did well to clear the height.

Oof. What a fluke from D'Almeida. I can't blame him because this sport is basically non-existent in Brazil, but it was hard to watch.

To be brutally honest, this is true. In a few years, I can't see this sport being part of the Olympics anymore. There's a reason why FIG is pushing Parkour a little bit too hard down our throats -- in my opinion, the plan is to remove trampoline from the Olympics and add Parkour. For me, the sooner trampoline leaves the program, the better. It hurts to say this, but it adds nothing to the Olympic program. Rhythmic gymnastics at least does its own thing, but performing acrobatics on a trampoline, as hard as it actually is, just doesn't seem to be very exciting after you watch an all-around competition in artistic gymnastics.

Mas, ao mesmo tempo, apareceu uma inesperada no boxe, a própria Rebeca no individual geral, o Scheffer com a natação, o Cargnin... Até a Mayra não era apontada como super chance de medalha. Acho que se fizermos um balanço entre chances perdidas e surpresas, estamos mais ou mesmo no número de medalhas que eram esperadas. Pra mim, decepção mesmo só com o Taekwondo. Não eram apontados como fonte de medalhas, mas depois do último mundial dava pra esperar uma medalhinha, sim. Se em 2016 apareceu do nada, em 2021 poderia muito bem vir. Agora, eu tô pensando mesmo que pra chegar a 20 medalhas, ao menos um dos esportes sem medalha na história precisaria surpreender. Tiro com arco, tênis e handebol seriam gratas surpresas, mas muito difíceis. Bem, o tênis só precisa de uma vitória agora, né? Vai que elas estejam inspiradas...

Sim, verdade. Tinha esquecido. Estou bem preocupado com nossas chances de ouro agora. Vôlei, ginástica, boxe e canoagem são as maiores chances, não? Rebeca depende só dela pra levar o ouro, mas não sei se a confederação vai deixá-la arriscar tudo pelo ouro ou se vão se manter mais conservadores pra garantir uma medalha. Isaquias acho que é a melhor chance que nos resta. Volêi é sempre uma incógnita. Se vier um ouro vai ser lucro. E no boxe é quase roleta russa.

Acho que chegar a 20 medalhas está cada vez mais difícil. Já temos 7 + 1 garantida no boxe. As chances futuras: Ginástica artística: 1 com quase certeza absoluta (Rebeca no salto, e aposto em ouro), 1 com chances médias (Rebeca no solo), 2 bem difíceis, mas não impossíveis (Zanetti nas argolas, Flávia na trave) e 1 quase, mas não totalmente, impossível (Caio no salto). Eu diria que virão mais 2 aí: Rebeca no salto e alguma das outras chances vai se converter em surpresa. Boxe: Pelo menos mais 1 com a Beatriz. Canoagem: 1 quase certeza, e mais 1 provável. Atletismo: Pelo menos uma boa chance com o Piu. Vôlei e vôlei de praia: Difícil prever, mas penso que 2 medalhas. Skate: Acredito em mais 1 ou 2. Vela: Ficando difícil, mas ainda aposto em 1. Futebol masculino: O Egito pode surpreender, mas acho que dá pra passar. Se passar, penso que leva 1 medalha. Tênis: Não creio em medalha, mas vai que. Outras surpresas: Acho que não virão mais. Ou seja, precisaríamos converter todas as boas chances em medalhas, ou então torcer por mais algumas zebras que são bastante improváveis.

2 medals for Brazil is something that no one expected. Judo is our most traditional sport at the Olympics, but things weren't looking good. Cargnin had a very lucky draw and made the most out of this opportunity, and Aguiar is a beast and the first woman with three Olympic medals in individual events. The heavyweight judokas who were sent to the Olympics have always been overestimated and I thought that Beatriz and David were better options, but of course our federation would choose household names instead of bold choices. A team medal will be impossible now. I'm sad for Maria Portela, but she fails every time she has to rise to the occasion, so that's what you get in the end. I'm happy with our medals, but I'm also kind of sad because the team has no chance for a medal at all.

Rebeca ganhou mais de 1 milhão de seguidores em menos de 24 horas. Coisa de 16 horas na verdade. Incrível! Eu acho que ela está no caminho pra se transformar num fenômeno cultural do mesmo nível que a Daiane dos Santos foi.

Acho que sou o único aqui que adora o uniforme de 2020. Pra mim, é o mais bonito já criado até hoje.

Thank you! According to the official website, no changes have been made to her floor routine score. The deductions are correct: -0.3 after her first tumbling pass, because she stepped with both feet out of bounds, and -0.1 in her last tumbling pass, because she stepped with only one foot. EDIT: There was a change in score after her balance beam routine, but not floor. Brazil challenged the difficulty score on beam and it was raised in 0.1, and in the end this was enough to move Rebeca from what would have been a bronze medal position to a silver medal position.

I've tried my best to look at this competition from a neutral perspective. I have to say I'm surprised with a silver medal for Rebeca. She didn't lose the gold medal; she earned the silver medal. The same can be said about Lee: she won because she hit, not because Rebeca didn't perform her best routine. This is how this sport works and there's a strong mental game going on. Lee was stronger in the mental game and this deserves all the praise in the world. It's not fair to compare Lee to anyone else that came before her. She's the Olympic champion and she deserved it. Period. Now, Rebeca had an awesome day. Her uneven bars routine was one of the best she has performed in her life and much, much better than the one in qualifications. Her vault and her floor were not the best, but they still received strong scores. That silver medal is a huge accomplishment on itself and given how close the competition was, I'm really surprised Rebeca managed to win it. I believe Melnikova had a score on floor much higher than she actually deserved. She had several small mistakes that most people can't immediately see, but those who know about how gymnastics is scored can see. Urazova deserved the bronze medal, in my opinion, but it wouldn't have made any difference for Russia overall, so there's not much point in arguing about this. The thing is I've always thought Melnikova is overscored and today it wasn't any different. Anyway, I'm very pleased with the results, of course, and even though this was not a gold medal for Brazil, it was still our first medal. Our national program is miles behind the US and Russian programs, so the fact that we even got a medal at all is mindblowing for me.

I've been waiting 17 years for this moment. I still can't believe this is not a dream, and I can't stop crying.

Yes, I know this is weird, but every single gymnast knows that saluting before and after his/her presentation is mandatory. I know it's frustrating to lose a gold medal, but there are lots of deductions in artistic gymnastics related to amplitude, dynamics, angles... I'm not aware of all of these deductions, to be honest, because there are far too many and I'm not even close to be as experienced as a judge. You should know that hosting an event also increases the chances for bigger scores for the host nation. This is a sport judged by humans, and it's almost impossible to completely eliminate personal preferences and even bias. In 2008, the Chinese gymnasts also received some pretty high scores. Just remember, for example, that Cheng Fei got a bronze medal on the balance beam completely out of nowhere and I still can't understand how she was scored that number until today.

Maybe he was a bit over scored, but not much. His vault was high, distant from the table and his form is mostly very polished. The most apparent deductions I see are a slight pike off the table (-0.1), not hitting the center line/deviation in flight (-0.1), uncontrolled landing (-0.1) and large step (-0.3). There might be other deductions in dynamics and height that I'm not capable of correctly pointing out, and of course there was a penalty of -0.1 for stepping with one foot out of bounds. 14.7 is an acceptable score for that vault, especially because the same criteria seems to have been applied to everybody else. Xiao was so excited after his horizontal bar routine that he forgot to salute to the judges and took a penalty of -0.3 in his final score. It's almost unbelievable that an experienced gymnast would forget about this in his final routine at the Olympics. Seriously, China has to reexamine their coaching staff because they're definitely not doing their job very well.

In 2016 each routine received a maximum of 2.5 in bonus for mandatory skills, but since 2017 this bonus was reduced to 2.0. So, multiply 0.5 by six routines and you have 3.0 points less in bonus points compared to 2016. In 2016 the scores of the medalists were: Uchimura: 92.365 Verniayev: 92.266 Whitlock: 90.641 This year the scores were: Hashimoto: 88.465 (+3.0 = 91.465) Xiao: 88.065 (+3.0 = 91.065) Nagornyy: 88.031 (+3.0 = 91.031) It was actually harder to win a medal this time than it was in 2016.

Xiao had 0.5 less in difficulty than Hashimoto in the horizontal bar. The execution was similar: 8.366 for Xiao and 8.433 for Hashimoto. It all came down to who performed the most difficult skills and, in the end, Xiao lost. There was also a 0.3 penalty for Xiao, but penalties are always a fault commited by the gymnast himself. So, he only has himself to blame for losing the gold medal. China absolutely needs to improve the difficulty of their gymnasts' routines and hopefully do better next time. Let's stop the accusations without supporting evidence. Gymnastics is not skateboarding or surfing.

What a heartbreaking loss for Maria Portela. It looks like she always does everything she can but every single time she falls short.

Brazilians had a rough time during the first week of the 2016 Olympics, and many of our gold medal favorites missed the podium entirely. We know how it feels, Japan. We know it.