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A Paraguayan man won this year's South American marathon championships. I'm not sure what are his chances in a global event, but let's hope he can challenge for a top 10 finish.

Why removing Armenia and Belarus? Are they forbidden to compete at the Olympics in weightlifting?

And Braz is out. I know I should not expect anything from him, but somehow I believed he could at least go over 5.90 m. Silly me. Now it's time to focus my energy in men's shot put, our best medal chance here.

It's funny because this is not how things work in gymnastics. If one throws huge difficulty with a high fail rate, there's no way we can call this gymnast highly talented. Yamilet Peña (DOM) and Dipa Karmakar (IND) were butchered by media and fans alike because they had big vaults but very poor execution.

Thiago Braz is one never to be trusted. I still don't know how he was the Olympic champion.

Last time I seriously tried to cook something, I was at my mom's house and I forgot a pan with hot oil on the stove. When I came back, the flames were reaching the ceiling, and the path for me to throw the oil inside the kitchen sink was blocked. The only solution I found was to literally scream warning people to move out and threw the flaming pan out of the window. Thankfully no one was hurt, but my mom's neighbors laugh at me until this day.

Cienfuegos and Bigot are reason enough to convert me into an avid fan of men's hammer throw now.

[hide] Event Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Women's Team Day 1 October 8th, 2019 Canada China x France Great Britain Italy Russia x United States x Any Other Nation Men's Team Day 2 October 9th, 2019 China x Great Britain Japan x Russia x United States Any Other Nation Women's Individual All-Around Day 3 October 10th, 2019 Ellie Black Liu Tingting Tang Xijing Mélanie dos Santos x Giorgia Villa Angelina Melnikova Grace McCallum Kara Eaker Riley McCusker Simone Biles x Sunisa Lee x Any Other Athlete Men's Individual All-Around Day 4 October 11th, 2019 Deng Shudi x Sun Wei Kazuma Kaya Wataru Tanigawa Artur Dalaloyan x Nikita Nagornyy x Sam Mikulak Yul Moldauer Petro Pakhnyuk Lee Chih-Kai Any Other Athlete Men's Floor Day 5 October 12th, 2019 Tomas Gonzalez Xiao Ruoteng Emil Soravuo Giarnni Regini-Moran Artem Dolgopyat x Carlos Yulo Artur Dalaloyan x Nikita Nagornyy x Sam Mikulak Any Other Athlete Men's Pommel Horse Day 5 October 12th, 2019 Zou Jingyuan x Saso Bertoncelj Cyril Tommasone Max Whitlock x Saeedreza Keikha Rhys McClenaghan x Ahmad Abu-Al-Soud David Belyavskiy Lee Chih-kai Oleg Verniaiev Any Other Athlete Men's Rings Day 5 October 12th, 2019 Vahagn Davtyan Arthur Zanetti x You Hao x Ali Zahran Samir Ait Said Courtney Tulloch Eleftherios Petrounias x Marco Lodadio Denis Abliazin Ibrahim Colak Igor Radivilov Any Other Athlete Women's Vault Day 5 October 12th, 2019 Marina Nekrasova Shallon Olsen Yeo Seo-jeong x Maria Paseka Teja Belak Giulia Steingruber Jade Carey x MyKayla Skinner Simone Biles x Oksana Chusovitina Any Other Athlete Women's Uneven bars Day 5 October 12th, 2019 Nina Derwael x Mélanie dos Santos Becky Downie Elissa Downie Georgia-Mae Fenton Anastasiia Agafonova Angelina Melnikova Daria Spiridonova Riley McCusker Simone Biles Sunisa Lee x Any Other Athlete x Men's Vault Day 6 October 13th, 2019 Artur Davtyan Audrys Nin Reyes Shek Wai Hung Andrey Medvedev Wataru Tanigawa Kim Han-sol Yang Hak-seon Se Gwang Ri x Artur Dalaloyan x Denis Abliazin Nikita Nagornyy x Igor Radivilov Any Other Athlete Men's Parallel Bars Day 6 October 13th, 2019 You Hao Zou Jinyuan x Marios Georgiou Kakeru Tanigawa Yuya Kamoto David Belyavskiy Nikita Nagornyy x Ferhat Arican Oleg Verniaiev x Petro Pakhniuk Sam Mikulak Any Other Athlete Men's Horizontal Bar Day 6 October 13th, 2019 Artur Mariano Francisco Barretto Lin Chaopan Tin Srbic x Robert Tvorogal Bart Deurloo Epke Zonderland x Artur Dalaloyan Tang Chia-Hung Sam Mikulak x Any Other Athlete Women's Balance Beam Day 6 October 13th, 2019 Nina Derwael Ana Padurariu Chen Yile Li Shijia x Liu TingTing x Qi Qi Tang Xijing Mélanie dos Santos Sanne Wevers Kara Eaker x Riley McCusker Simone Biles Sunisa Lee Any Other Athlete Women's Floor Day 6 October 13th, 2019 Flávia Saraiva Brooklyn Moors Ellie Black Mélanie dos Santos Eythora Thorsdottir Denisa Golgota Angelina Melnikova Lilia Akhaimov Jade Carey x Simone Biles x Sunisa Lee Any Other Athlete x [/hide]

was so close. The Brazilian was scared as a cat. Poor guy. He's only 19, so he has a huge future ahead of him.

In 2016 the Brazilian finished fourth and Liu Hong won the race at the Race Walking World Championships. Hong was eventually disqualified for doping. Let's see what happens in a few years from today.

According to this link (in Portuguese), Brasil gave up the Olympic quota in women's K1.

Ignoring a couple of users goes a long way in keeping my sanity when I post here.

He only mentioned he would like teams to have a fixed order (2 men, 2 women, or 2 women, 2 men). This would certainly help understand who is ahead with real medal chances. The way this event is organized nowadays, potential viewers at home will be at loss. We are fans of sports and most of us consider this event a joke the way it is. Guess how casual viewers will feel...

What does it have to do with the comment about the 4x400? I think phelps has a really good point here.

Sure, the US has won the mixed 4x400.

I've developed a severe case of Azerbaijanitis. Every time I see a naturalized athlete competing for Azerbaijan, I immediately get sick in the stomach.

Another gold medal for Slovenia. They are on fire! Amazing competition for them!

It is. But do you want me to predict everyone who will probably get a quota? I'll try my best. Women's artistic gymnastics: Team (4 quotas): USA RUS CHN JPN GBR CAN FRA ITA GER NED BRA BEL Individual: AUS UKR ROU ARG HUN SUI MEX ESP KOR PRK SWE POR CRO SLO CZE POL INA UZB TPE EGY Men's artistic gymnastics: Team (4 quotas): RUS CHN JPN USA GBR UKR BRA SUI FRA GER NED ITA Individual: ESP KOR CAN TUR KAZ TPE HUN BLR ROU PHI ARM BEL

About what?

Yes, but the team competition is still restricted to 4 persons. So, it makes sense to have all-arounders 1-2 and the best combination in 2 apparatus (women's, or 3 in men's), instead of 3 or 4 all-arounders.

Do you mean ? has two medals in athletics in 1993 and 1995. I can't see such old results being modified. EDIT: gold medal in weightlifting is also from 1993.

Great information! Now, at least, we can rest assured that all of the the post-Soviet states have won gold medals at the World Championships in any sport. I was in doubt about and , but they all got gold medals too ( in athletics, in weightlifting, in wrestling and archery),

Gold medal for at the 2019 World Wrestling Championships. Not sure if this was their first ever gold medal, but it's still worth a shot.

What's the deal with the Andorran lady? I remember she won a medal at the World Cup. Is this important? I guess it is, but I'm not sure how seriously the competition is taken by canoeists.