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Peru 2-0 Chile so far. Peru's second goal is one of the most bizarre things I've seen in football in a long time. The goalkeeper from Chile is such a big, big, big moron, and all of the defenders are completely useless. Unbelievable.

The website only shows results for the all-around competition in gymnastics, and this is okay (albeit a little bit lazy) for all events except for vault. This means that there's no way to know who qualifies for the vault final when the qualifications are over. What a shame.

At this point, each side says what's best for them. In Brazil, people say that Agüero intentionally stepped on Daniel Alves' foot before he was elbowed, so they think Agüero should have been sent off and no penalty occurred at all. I believe this specific case is open for debate, but in the end it's all part of the game, I guess. Argentina has Messi, so they shouldn't be grasping at straws once again after not reaching the final. In my opinion, Argentina needs a new coach, someone who is able to completely change the mood of the players and control their clashing personalities.

Qualifying a team is definitely not impossible, but very unlikely. It will mostly depend on how Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Brazil, Italy and Japan perform. I would say that at least two of these teams need to have a huge breakdown, and Romania must have a good day, in order for them to qualify. This is, like, a 5% chance. Of course Romania can always surprise, but I'm very skeptical.

I only watched the last 20 minutes of the match. If Argentina was screwed by the VAR, this is a huge shame.

I'm not a fan of football, but I like Messi and he deserves better. It's terrible that he failed to win a major tournament with the national team once again.

No chance in hell. I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but a team medal is impossible (I strongly believe Romania will not even qualify a women's team).

I believe that in special cases (injury is one of them) nations can name another gymnast. Can anybody confirm this? It would be awesome to see Moreno competing, though.

Not really. He didn't even qualify for the rings final at the 2015 World Championships. Petrounias was on fire and he was the clear favorite for the gold medal in 2016. I hope neither Zanetti nor Petrounias win the gold medal in 2020, though. We have new specialists arising and it's important to have variety among the champions.

Thank you for the link. Very poor field in women's artistic gymnastics too, except for Russia, Japan and Italy. All the other teams are average at best. Surprisingly, Indonesia has a decent gymnast (Rifda Irfanaluthfi) who could seriously win a medal. How awesome would that be? The men's side is slightly better when it comes to good teams, with Russia, Ukraine, Japan as the top teams. Mexico, Chinese Taipei, Turkey and Uzbekistan have some good gymnasts too.

Keep an eye out in gymnastics. It's not impossible for Saeid Reza Keikha to challenge for a medal if he qualifies. Winning medals in gymnastics at the Olympics is easier than at the World Championships, in my opinion. You have a smaller pool of gymnasts competing at the Olympics, so any mistake from the big names can drastically increase chances for smaller nations to win medals. This is what happened to Ude from Croatia in 2008, and with all three medalists from Brazil in 2016.

Now, I'm curious about the disciplines. Two in trampoline, one in artistic gymnastics and one in trampoline, or two in artistic gymnastics?

I found the original file on FIG's website. I'm baffled at how poor the competition in rhythmic gymnastics is going to be. Italy will send Alessia Russo, of all people! What the hell? Soldatova, Zeng, Meleschuk and Pazhava are the only top notch gymnasts, while Evchik, Moustafaeva and probably Gergalo and Budginas could challenge for medals. Russia seems not to care about this competition anymore. Since 2013 they only send their B/C level gymnasts, except that Mamun actually became the Olympic champion but no one would ever say that in 2013, and even Russia thought she was second-rate. I love Soldatova, but this probably is the last nail in her coffin regarding her chances for an Olympic spot.

Thank you, but I the link is not working.

Do we have a list of gymnasts?

Artistic gymnastics and group rhythmic gymnastics are empty. We barely have 5 women and 5 men who are healthy and competitive enough right now in artistic gymnastics, so why the suspense? The group in rhythmic gymnastics not being decided is understandable because they are trying different combinations and severely increasing the difficulty, but artistic gymnastics should be a no brainer. And finally Thiago Monteiro was not selected for the table tennis team. I always complain whenever he is included, but the thing is he always earned a medal. Now it looks like he has finally called his quits, and I'm okay with that. Bring on the new guys (though Jouti is not really new, but this competition will be a great experience for him).

Here are some statistics about the European Games in all gymnastics disciplines (not just artistic gymnastics). At the 2015 European Games, 20 nations earned at least one medal in gymnastics. At the 2019 edition, 8 more nations earned medals for the first time (Armenia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Finland, Lithuania, Poland and Sweden). In total, 28 nations earned at least one medal in gymnastics out of 50 participating countries. This means 56% of the nations which have took part at the European Games achieved at least one medal result in gymnastics. This is a much bigger number compared to other continental Games, especially considering that there have been only 2 editions of the European Games. Event First held Number of editions with events in gymnastics Participating nations (including defunct teams) Nations which earned at least one medal in one of the gymnastics disciplines Percentage of medalists in gymnastics European Games 2015 2 50 28 56% Asian Games 1951 (gymnastics events since 1974) 12 50 13 26% Pan American Games 1951 17 42 13 31%

He has slowly but steadily improved over the years. Now he is a real challenger for a medal at Worlds, especially considering he got 14.4 today with a couple of noticeable mistakes that he can (and probably will) eliminate until World Championships come.

It is. He could very well challenge for a medal at the World Championships.

And the surprises keep on coming in gymnastics. Wow!

HUGE surprises in gymnastics today, so far. It's like everyone who had bad luck before these Games finally had a good day in their lives. I'm especially happy for Belak and Alistratava.

Diogo had a very noticeable mistake that cost him 0.3, so the result was fair. To be honest, I didn't expect a medal at all for Diogo on rings, let alone a silver medal. Congratulations to Felix Dolci and Canada! And, yes, the expectations are quite different between men and women. The finalists on rings all had difficulty scores that ranged from 4.4 to 4.8, while at the senior World Championships the finalists all have difficulty scores between 6.1 and 6.5.

Finally, Varinska! Finally! Yeees!

Wait, what? Ude is a medalist at the Olympics and Worlds on pommel horse, okay. Seligman won a couple medals at the European Championships on pommel horse, okay. But Moznik and Srbic were world medalists on horizontal bar. Besides, there's nothing wrong with being good in one or two apparatus.

I see what's the point of your comment (acrobatic gymnastics), but I guess no one expected Belarus to win two gold medals in this disciplube. Also, amusingly, Belarus has never won an international medal in aerobic gymnastics in any event (at least that I know of).