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My old profile pic was 4 or the 5 female Brazilian gymnasts at the 2008 Olympics: Ana Cláudia Silva, Daiane dos Santos, Jade Barbosa and Laís Souza. Daniele Hypólito is someone I really despise, so I cropped her out of the picture. LOL.

Fratus!!! FINALLY!!!! He made everybody cry in Brazil!

Sim, na ordem em que postei. Salto masculino é complicado porque basicamente todo mundo tem chance. Ganha medalha quem cravar melhor os saltos. Só Asil e Shin partem de uma dificuldade maior, mas também têm mais chance de errar.

I still think it's the best Olympics ever, especially with the recent medal in Tennis, which is considered by Brazilian media as the most unpredictable in the history of the Olympic Games -- for Brazil, of course, since nothing could possibly top Steven Bradbury or Siranidis/Bimis.

Salto masculino: Shin, Asil, Nagornyy Argolas: Yang, Petounias, You Salto feminino: Rebeca, Jade e Yeo Solo feminino: Melnikova, Carey, Rebeca Trave: Chenchen, Xijing, Iordache

E a medalha mais improvável veio no tênis. Certamente foi uma grande ajuda pra ver se a gente chega a 20 pódios.

Last time I heard about Gazoz was when he lost the bronze medal match at the 2014 YOG. Now he's Olympic champion. Fantastic!

I won't spoil the surprise. I don't know why people are crazy over Skinner. I believe Yeo Seo-jeong will win the bronze medal, or maybe even Moreno or Olsen. Even Melnikova wouldn't be a surprise. Of course, Skinner is a huge threat for a medal, but Yeo will improve her difficulty and could very well even fight for the gold medal if she hits.

I've always thought it's weird to have this sport at the Olympics. It only became an official gymnastics discipline in 1999, and the following year it was included in the Olympic program. It might have made sense in the early 2000s with much harder skills being performed on a trampoline rather than in artistic gymnastics, but nowadays the level of difficulty in artistic gymnastics has blown the roof away, so why even keep trampoline as an independent discipline? It's not a bad sport in any way, but it just doesn't impress me anymore. I mean, there are much, much worse sports in the program, but I wouldn't be sad to see this one go.

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.