thiago_simoes

@MHSN, can please share again the link to the PDF file containing an all-time table with big and small medals earned at the World Championships?

According to the final nominative entries, Aprizal will not compete. No chance for Indonesia, then. I didn't make myself clear, I'm sorry. It doesn't make a difference if he falls on the pommel horse if he's trying to qualify through the all-around competition. Of course his final score would be lower, but at least he can make up for it on the other events. However, if he doesn't throw full difficulty on pommel horse, he will not qualify to the final. It's the World Championships. Not a moment to play safe or water down routines. It's all or nothing.

I am so surprised to see an athlete from The Gambia measly 0.20 of a second from a medal!

It doesn't make a difference if he falls. His best chance of qualifying is earning a medal on the pommel horse. I don't think he could qualify through the all-around, at least not now.

I realized that there is a big number of nations that could achieve a medal result for the first time at these Championships, so now I'm excited for the competition. has the biggest chance on pommel horse. I'd say that if McClenagham hits his routines twice in a row (qualifications and event final) he has a big chance (more than 80%) to win a medal. has a moderate chance on rings. Zahran depends on mistakes from major contenders and a perfect routine in the final, but he definitely has a chance. has a 50/50 chance of a medal in a number of events (rings, all-around, parallel bars, horizontal bar) but I'm not very confident that their time has come. I would love to be proven wrong. has an outside chance on men's vault. Pretty much like Egypt, they depend on other gymnasts faltering, but a medal is still within reach if everything goes right. has an outside chance on men's floor. This is one of the most unpredictable apparatus, so anything is possible. has low chances on men's vault. has very low chances in a number of events. But Georgiou won a medal at the European Championships and the European Games, so he's lucky this year. won a surprising gold medal at the Asian Championships on pommel horse, so it would be nice to keep an eye on this apparatus. also has a contender on the pommel horse. Keikha has the seventh best score this year among the competitors, and if he makes it to the final let's see what could happen. has low chances with Dominici and Molinari. is the most surprising nation here. Matvei Petrov (born in Russia) has this year's second-best score on the pommel horse (tied with McClenaghan), but he achieved this score in a very small competition and was never able to even come close to a big score again. Still, a distant possibility for a medal. is a long shot for a medal on the high bar. is an even longer shot for a medal on men's vault, but I'm not ruling them out as of yet. I would say Ireland has the biggest chance of a medal. Egypt and Dominican Republic winning medals is perfectly possible too, but it would depend on how other gymnasts perform. Iran, Chile and Turkey are long shots, but nothing impossible. Jordan, Cyprus and Guatemala are not really close, but on a perfect day they could come close to a medal or even get a bronze medal. Argentina and Lithuania would need major mistakes from a big number of contenders. Albania and Indonesia are hoping for a miracle, but we have seen miracles happen before (Vietnam, Puerto Rico, Armenia).

I don't know what is the deal with Paraguay. They seem to never invest in sports, and they haven't performed well even in football. Bolivia, on the other hand, apparently invests big money (well, as much as they can, at least) in a number of sports. Still, I see no chance for an Olympic medal for Bolivia anytime soon, unfortunately, but they are on the right track. Paraguay is not even close.

No gymnastics events, but of course this is to be expected. Only India and Sri Lanka have sent gymnasts to the current World Championships, and Bangladesh seems not to have any active gymnast representing the nation in quite some time. I think I've never seen gymnasts from any of the other nations that compete at these Games.

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!