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Definitely not a safe medal, in my opinion. She's been showing signs of inconsistency and there's also big pressure from Fan Yilin and Sunisa Lee, so all it takes is a Russian having a good day and poof, no medal for Belgium.

Women's artistic gymnastics team - USA Women's artistic gymnastics all-around - Simone Biles Women's artistic gymnastics vault - Simone Biles Women's artistic gymnastics floor - Simone Biles Rhythmic gymnastics all-around - One of the Averinas

1) Men's surfing 2) Women's skateboarding 3) And I'll be very bold here and mention women's artistic gymnastics, a discipline in which Brazil has never won a medal before. Yes, it might not make sense now, but I hope it will make sense on August 2.

Not as lifeless as the one from the 2011 World Championships, but still, by far, my least favorite venue in the last 5 editions of the Olympic Games.

Gymnastics: Artistic: Takeru Kitazono Diogo Soares Tang Xijing Amelie Morgan Alba Petisco Zeina Ibrahim Milka Gehani Nazli Savranbasi Rhythmic: Khrystyna Pohranychna Yelyzaveta Luzan Lidiia Iakovleva Tia Sobhy Maria Eduarda Arakaki Trampoline: Ivan Litvinovich Jessica Pickering

Em 2020 o calendário tinha caído exatamente em todos os meus dias de férias. Daria pra continuar trabalhando e assistir a tudo numa boa. Mas aí teve o adiamento, claro. Mas não estou reclamando. Seria impossível os Jogos acontecerem sem vacina.

I absolutely love the tracksuit and for the first time in my life I want to buy an official uniform from Brazil.

It would be very, very hard to earn a medal in the all-around competition. Two Americans, one Russian is the most likely podium. I can definitely see Rebeca Andrade or Iordache getting into the mix if anyone faulters, but it's still going to be something very unlikely to happen. I'd say 5% chances for Iordache. Beam is a lot more unpredictable and anything can happen. Iordache has not displayed consistency on beam in the last few months, but if she hits two times in a row, who knows? I would say a 5-10% chance here for a medal. My contenders for a medal in the AA final: Biles 98% Lee 80% Listunova 60% Melnikova 50% Yushan 50% MDJDS 20% Andrade 20% Iordache 5% Murakami 5% Gadirovas 5%.

Humm, obrigado. Sou assinante, sim. Então acredito que ao menos as reprises dos eventos serão mostradas integralmente. Por enquanto, os dois eventos que mais aguardo são a final do individual geral feminino, numa quinta às 8 h da manhã, e a final de salto feminino que acontece num domingo às 5 h 45. Essas duas eu faço questão de ver ao vivo. O resto vou ter que me forçar a ver gravado mesmo...

Também não lembro bem como foi a cobertura em Pequim, mas tenho quase certeza que não começaram às 22 h e certamente não seguiram até 11 da manhã. Alguma ideia sobre como o SporTV vai cobrir os Jogos Olímpicos? Eu só pretendo virar as noites nos dias de classificação de ginástica artística e dormir normalmente nos outros dias. Em agosto eu volto a dar aulas presencialmente e precisarei acordar às 5 h, então não posso simplesmente bagunçar meu relógio biológico assistindo aos Jogos Olímpicos, infelizmente. No meu mundo ideal, o SporTV vai transmitir todas as provas completas em que o Brasil medalhar ao longo da manhã e da tarde do dia seguinte, mas talvez eu esteja pedindo demais...

I can't believe how dumb the Italian federation is for allowing the national championships to happen a few days before the Olympics. Why? There's no explanation for that. And why not adding Elisa Iorio to the team? She could contribute more than Ferrari in team finals, in my opinion, even though a team medal for Italy was going to be next to impossible, anyway. I don't understand the logic behind this team, but let's wait and see.

Have you watched any of the Chinese girls? Have you watched Sunisa Lee? Even the gymnast from Chinese Taipei now has a 6.5 D start value. Who would have predicted that? Certainly, not me. In my opinion, Biles is not the favorite for the gold medal. Yes, she's the favorite for a medal, but I strongly believe one of the Chinese girls could win gold and even Lee could sneak ahead of Biles, and she could realistically end up without a medal even if she hits. This is not being a hater; this is being logical. Can Biles win gold? Yes. Will she? I'd say no. Besides, results from 2014 and 2015 mean nothing in this sport. You should have known that. No one in their right minds would put Schaffer, former beam world champion, as a contender for anything, for example.

If the Chinese girls hit, Biles will not win gold. Her beam routine is difficult, but it's not just a matter of her performing it well and the gold is hers. I'd say right now she's the favorite for a bronze medal. Definitely not gold. Also, scores in national US competitions are a joke and should never be taken seriously.

I thought I would be happy with any result, but I got really sad after England lost. Funny thing is that my neighbors were also cheering for England and I could hear lots of screaming when Italy lost their penalty chances, but yesterday literally no one cared about BRA x ARG. Anyway, congratulations, Italy! A deserved win!

I was right. First-ever medal for at the World Cup series. Vedeneeva was absolutely on fire and took home 4 out of 5 possible bronze medals. As expected, Russians took gold and silver in every individual event.

It seems that "macaco", or "monkey" in Portuguese, is trending on Twitter. Monkey emojis and mentions of the band Arctic Monkeys are also more common. If I understand things right, it's because Latin Americans, mostly Argentinians, are being racist to Brazilians after Argentina won the Copa America final. Seriously? What a shame.

I'm 13 days older than you, so that probably makes me the oldest person in this forum, I guess?

Yes, his tactics didn't work and I think it he will take this loss very seriously, even though there's no big pressure from media and fans now because of what I posted a few moments ago. The only TV channel which broadcast the match, though, is right now blaming him. The only person I like from this national team is Tite; he's intelligent, hard-working, humble and very talented as a coach. I don't think he "lost". It was not Brazil's title to lose. Our players were not up to the task and Argentina was simply better. We all knew it from the very beginning. Brazilian media should praise Argentina for winning instead of trying to make it look like Tite lost an "easy" trophy.

And the "Neynight" is over. Congratulations, Argentina! Thank you for making Neymar cry. This tournament ended on such a high note I could not even ask for it to be better.

It's funny how Brazilian media was like "Argentina has the better player, Messi, but Brazil has the better team" before the match, but then Argentina scored and it was not even a goal by Messi. LOL. And pretty much like in every other edition of the Copa America, most people in Brazil seem not to care about this tournament in the slightest. Here in Rio the local match involving team Flamengo drew A LOT more attention and talk than the Copa America final. In fact, some people are not even aware of this tournament, despite Rio hosting the final match. Anyway, I wanted Argentina to win right from the start because despite what Brazilian media says, Argentina has the best player *and* the best team of this tournament. And the Brazilian team losing the tournament would also mean a political loss for Bolsonaro, since he wanted Brazil to host the tournament so people could turn a blind eye to his wrongdoings for a while. It backfired in a very satisfying way.

Weird. I wonder who's injured.

Members of the Brazilian group: Beatriz Linhares Déborah Medrado Geovanna Santos Maria Eduarda Arakaki Nicole Pircio Seriously, choosing Nicole Pircio is the biggest mistake our federation could have made. Not only she did not help the group qualify in any way, every time she performed in recent years, she screwed up badly. It only shows how our federation lacks transparency and chooses girls based on unclear and very questionable criteria. Horrible decision. Such a shame.

Yes! Thank you for this comment. Mere seconds before the (undeserved) penalty, one very tall Danish player tackled one of the English players inside the penalty area. I was baffled a penalty was not called. Anyway, as it has been said here, it might not be the way we wanted this result to be achieved, but it was a deserved result. England and Italy are the two teams I wanted to reach the final stage, and I expect a great match to be played. I'm just slightly more inclined to cheer for England, but the final result will almost be irrelevant to me. I'm just happy these teams will play in the final.

Brazil will send its biggest team ever to an edition of the Olympics not staged in Brazil. But literally the only sports I care are artistic gymnastics and rhythmic gymnastics, so I'm kind of disappointed that our women's team failed to qualify. Still, 12 gymnasts is a very good number and I can't complain much. Most surprising qualifiers: men's handball team. This is weird because they were supposed to qualify easily at the Pan Am Games, but they failed to qualify after Chile played a great match. It was highly improbable for Brazil to even have another chance of qualifying, but after a combination of results from continental qualifiers around the world, Brazil was allowed to play the Olympic qualifier and they managed to qualify in the end. Most disappointing non-qualifier: women's basketball team. They should have qualified easily, but failed miserably. Actually, Brazil didn't qualify in basketball in any way, and this might be the first time in a long, long time we won't send a basketball team to the Olympics. Such a shame.

Well, Martinez more than made up for conceding a goal. It's gonna be a great match between Brazil and Argentina.