thiago_simoes

Atrocious scores. It's unbelievable how bad balance beam finals have been in the last few years.

The report lists silver for Turkey and Austria. The medal table lists silver for Austria and bronze for Turkey, but this is wrong. Source in Turkish confirming the silver medal: https://www.haberler.com/30-dunya-universiteler-yaz-spor-oyunlari-12219678-haberi/ Source in German confirming the silver medal: https://sport.orf.at/stories/3050925/

A medal in gymnastics for Brazil! Now, that's unexpected! And I'll never agree with the way tie breaks work on vault. The final score is based on an average of two vaults, but the tie break drops the score of the lowest vault and considers the execution score of the highest scored vault. This means that one great vault + one bad vault is better than two good vaults. This makes no sense. But a medal is a medal, so I'm happy with that.

One Swiss gymnast got injured and instead of providing a stretcher as soon as he got injured, it took ages for one to arrive. Bad organization from the medical staff.

American Samoa, Cook Islands, Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Tonga recently joined FIG (this year, I guess, or last year), so it's not impossible for gymnastics to be added soon to the program. It's only a matter of which discipline(s). Rhythmics? I don't see it mostly because of the price of the apparatus. But Australia and New Zealand are terrible at rhythmics, so the smaller nations might have it in the future. Aerobics is a lot cheaper, but Australia and New Zealand are very far ahead of the rest of the competition, so I believe they would never be allowed to compete. Parkour will probably be included at the Olympics before 2032, so it would be better for federations to stop fighting and prepare their gymnasts as soon as possible.

I'm looking forward to the day gymnastics will be included in the program. I'm not hopeful for artistic gymnastics, of course. It would be amazing if they ever consider parkour in the future. Neither Australia nor New Zealand have a strong background in parkour, so all of the Pacific nations could start on the same level. Let's hope for the next edition.

Why do you guys think there's a "robbery" going on? I don't trust CONMEBOL, and I don't trust CBF either, but why bother fixing results in such a competition with low importance for Brazilians? I mean, the Copa America title is worth nothing in Brazil, really, since people never care about this competition. Brazilians only care about the World Cup title. Everything else is just small and unimportant, and the mostly empty stadiums are clear signs of how little the Copa America means around here (of course the tickets are also too pricey, but a gigantic number of people simply don't care about this event). Besides, the level of the competition seems to be quite low, so it's almost inconceivable for me to think about fixed results. Anyway, I believe Messi was deservedly sent off, and it takes balls for the referee to do this. Of course most people will complain because Messi has an almost unstained record when it comes to red cards, but I would have sent him off too if I were the referee.

He got into a stupid argument with a Chilean player, they tackled each other for a bit and the referee sent both off.

The last 20 minutes of the first half were disgusting. I was all in for Argentina's revenge, but things didn't turn out to be very pretty. Chile and Argentina couldn't help but fight all the time, Messi was sent off, arguments erupted every five minutes... I know there's a lot of money to be earned by finishing third, but it's disgusting to see players fighting each other instead of playing football. Even when Brazil was 7-0 behind Germany at the 2014 World Cup, our players never resorted to violence or tried psychological tricks on German players.

Only 25 minutes after the start of the match and Argentina is already 2 goals ahead of Chile. It looks like they will get revenge somehow today.

Mokosova is still to perform on bars and beam, right? She has no chance on bars, but beam has been so chaotic in recent years that literally anyone who qualifies for the final has a chance of earning a medal.

I know Russia sent their B/C team, but I'm still surprised they lost to Japan. Nabieva was very surprising, though. I expected a lot less from her. And with all due respect, it pisses me off to see Ferlito with an international medal again. I really dislike her (for being racist).

This is why I believe tennis (and golf) should not be part of the Olympics. Or any multi-sport event, for that matter.

I would like to see Greenland competing.

3-0

Yes, his scores are good, but not great. This would be only third at the junior world championships, for example, and this is a senior competition. But his best chances are on vault, this is why I want to know how he performed his second vault.

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.