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A gold medal for ! In the end, it was a fun meet. Many "firsts" for a number of nations, surprising qualification for Costa Rica, solid results for Argentina despite not earning the Olympic qualification and a great meet for Brazil overall, with excellent performances from Rebeca Andrade and nice scores for Caio Souza. Mexicans must be disappointed with the results here, but it's not a secret that Mexico's best chance of qualifying is in group rhythmic gymnastics, so let's keep an eye on the event next weekend.

Oh, too bad about Magistrati. She's fantastic and I hope she keeps competing until 2024. She deserves to go to the Olympics. Now, about the scores, 50.833 is a respectable score, especially considering that the judges were extremely harsh with everybody on the uneven bars and floor. Alvarado had a great day, she did everything she could and no one could catch up. The fact that Magistrati, all the Mexican girls and the other Brazilians -- except for Andrade -- didn't beat this score is absolutely crazy, though. And I don't understand the way scores have been handled here. Scores in the floor finals today were much lower than they should have been! Let's wait for beam and uneven bars finals in the afternoon, but I already expect scores to be lower than what the gymnasts actually deserve...

No and no Rebeca Andrade in the finals. That means historic medals galore for other nations. First-ever gold medal for . First-ever gold medal in women's artistic gymnastics for . First-ever medal for . This is absolutely crazy, both Panama and Costa Rica with medals. It's the kind of thing that makes me smile and enjoy this sport even more.

Yes, please! I don't know why you still keep her around. I absolutely hate the way she controls things and her work in PAGU.

I strongly believe no one can even come close to this score. I'm still shocked neither of the other Brazilians scored more than that!!! But I'm happy! Yay for !

Not only qualified, she will also have a medal here! She's in third in the all-around competition!!!!!

50.501 for Escalera! Mexico got so close three times!!! Unbelievable!!!

50.367 for Briceño. qualified. I can't believe it!

50.466 for Paulina.

It looks like I celebrated too early. Paulina Campos now needs a great vault to qualify. She can still do it, but it will be close. Briceño also needs a great vault to reach Costa Rica.

Oh, Daniela Briceño and Paulina Campos will have a particular battle for the second quota. Anyway, it looks like Mexico will easily qualify here.

And the strict bars judges are at it again: all four of the Mexican girls had great routines but the scores are still quite low. At least they're consistently deducting everyone, so no bias here. But it's still weird.

I didn't expect anything from de Luna, honestly, so it was not a surprise for me. But Paulina Campos scored 52.7 in Mexico's selection camp, and that's counting a fall on the floor exercise. I'm not sure she's going to beat Dominici here, especially because the judges seem to be extra picky on bars, but she can definitely beat Alvarado. I expected Magistrati to actually score around what Dominici did, so now that the bar is set much lower than I anticipated, it's Mexico's quota to lose.

What a great surprise to see Alvarado ahead of Magistrati, even though will likely beat this score. Magistrati is the reigning South American champion in the all-around. Quite shocking, indeed!

Final scores for Argentina: Team: 149.533, which is more than enough for a team medal. Probably bronze. AA: Dominici: 52.400, which is also good enough for a bronze medal, at least. However, she has already qualified for the Olympics, and the first eligible gymnast to qualify is Magistrati, who scored 48.433. This should not be enough for the Olympic quota, unfortunately.

Yikes. 11.433 for Magistrati on vault. This pretty much ends her Olympic dream right off the bat. The door is wide open now for Guatemala and especially Mexico.

I'm not sure if this is the most logical thing to do. The team absolutely needs his score on rings. Maybe Nory could get this extra spot, I guess? Team line up: FX: Zanetti, Diogo, Caio PH: Diogo, Barretto, Caio SR: Zanetti, Caio, Diogo VT: Caio, Diogo, Zanetti PB: Caio, Diogo, Barretto HB: Caio, Diogo, Barretto Extra quota: Nory

Quotas are non-nominative because both countries qualified a full team at the World Championships. So, both and are free to send who they want to the Olympics with these quotas.

A great day for Brazil. Gold medals at the team and all-around events for the first-time ever at the Pan American Championships. Okay, I know this was the C-team from the US since their A and B gymnasts are competing at the Nationals right now, but I'm still happy Brazil managed to qualify one extra quota to the Olympics and win two gold medals.

With Jade out of the all-around competition, I believe Christal Bezerra will perform in the all-around. My best guess: Rebeca: VT, UB, BB, FX Lorrane: VT, UB, BB, FX Christal: VT, UB, BB, FX Julia: UB, BB Ana Luiza: VT. FX

Nope, he's not. He has a minor injury which should recover quickly. At least this is what the Brazilian Olympic channel reported. About today's results: I strongly believe that and cannot be beaten by any of the remaining gymnasts for the Olympic quota. Let's see what can do, but at this point I believe they can only fight for a team medal, and not for an AA medal or the Olympic quota.

Both Arthur Zanetti and Jade Barbosa got injured. I don't know why they keep pushing Jade into the teams. Her body just can't do gymnastics anymore. First-year senior Ana Luiza Lima will replace Jade. This will be her first competition, along with Júlia Soares and Christal Bezerra.

Reports from the women's training sessions at the Pan Am Championships: Mexico is looking much better than I anticipated. They can seriously fight for one of the Olympic quotas. Argentina once again was terrible on the balance beam. Everybody fell at least once. Magistrati is not a lock for the second quota, unfortunately. Guatemala looks promising. Execution is all over the place, but she has potential. Costa Rica is a big surprise. I believe one of the girls could even win a medal here. Brazil is very strong and I'm both happy to see the girls are doing well, but sad because we lost our chance to qualify a full team.

Welp. These scores are awful, except for Iordache's uneven bars score. The other girls who also qualified for the Olympics, like Ibrahim, Mohamed, Daries, Varinska, Castro and Holbura, all had terrible scores. Very disappointing so far.

Yup, I got the facts completely wrong. It was actually the Central South Asian Championships, and it was not in the mid-2000s, but instead early 2010s. I found the page with the results that I remember reading at the time.