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China didn't seem to do veeeery well. He was good, though not as good as I would've expected.

Noooo! Austrian gymnast just 0.045 behind the British gymnast. Brutal.

What the hell was this score for the British guy? No. Just no.

The Spanish boy did a FANTASTIC job now on the trampoline. Clean execution, high jumps, difficult skills. He got it all. I hope he earns a medal.

In the end, everybody seemed to be overscored a little bit. I'd say they nailed the results. No question about the top 3. The podium was absolutely right. By the way, they have been doing an incredible job with the scores so far. Things were a little bit loose on vault, but since everybody was judged under the same criteria, the end result was perfectly right.

What a shock. I thought Briones had absolutely no physical capacity to smile. So he does have a bit of a soul inside of him...

This is it. Medal for Norway. Very well done!

There's a real chance Norway will get a medal. This could be their first Olympic medal in gymnastics in almost 100 years. The last one was in 1920.

Really sad. I was hoping he could pull up a surprise and get a medal.

It's very interesting to see New Zealand, Norway and Argentina in a final in artistic gymnastics. Very unexpected. Vault scores seem to be too high. They should have been 3 to 4 tenths lower, actually.

Romanian guy totally overscored in the first vault. Poor execution in the first vault, but a very difficult one. Second vault had a fall. Poor guy.

The trampolinist gymnast from China won the gold medal even with a fall. I hate it when something like this happens. She had the best execution by far, but in my opinion a fall should heavily affect one's score, regardless of how well they have done in their routines.

Wow, this is surprising. Very sensible decision. And Iran has achieved many great results in recent years. Off the top of my head, I can say Iran has three bronze medals at the Asian Artistic Gymnastics Championships, one bronze medal at the Asian Acrobatic Gymnastics Championships, and other non-medal results such as a seventh place at the World Aerobic Gymnastics Championships and, as you said, the fourth place at the Asian Games. It's just a matter of time before Iran earns a medal at the World Championships at this point. In less than five years, probably.

Thank you for the explanation. It was really comprehensive. And as a side note, the International Gymnastics Federation is quite pleased with Bouhlouzadeh as a picture with him on the podium is on the front page of their website (and here is the link to the full article about yesterday's finals).

@MHSN I have two kind of random questions: what's the order of surnames in Iran and which one is the most important? For example, Portuguese and Spanish speaking nations usually construct names like this: first name + name of the family of the mother + name of the family of the father. But the most important surname is different: In Spanish speaking countries, a "shorter" version of one's name is first name + name of the family of the mother, while in Portuguese speaking nations it is first name + name of the family of the father. I'm asking this because I updated wikipedia and I credited the medal to the Iranian gymnast as Reza Hajlari, but someone changed it to Reza Bohloulzade.

Silver for and their first ever medal at the YOG.

And Brazil shockingly lost in beach volleyball. Our chances for a gold medal are getting slimmer and slimmer...

Amanar? Really? Well, Romania might not be nearly as doomed as I thought. Golgota might save the day if she recovers on time.

4 days to go and still no gold medal for Brazil. I think our best chance will be in women's beach volleyball, boxing or futsal, or maybe a miracle in artistic gymnastics (especially men's horizontal bar, which is not so much a miracle if Kitazono makes a mistake). Anyway, I was expecting only 5 or 6 medals, so I'm happy we've earned 7 already, but I'd be shocked if we don't get at least one gold medal.

4-1. They might qualify in the end.

She did. Indeed, I believe she deserved the bronze medal, not silver. She had A LOT of technical mistakes, especially late turns and need to reposition her hands during her grips. 8.1 in execution was too much, but not a big deal. She deserved a medal for sure and her routine was very difficult, but execution was all over the place.

Panama 1-0 in Futsal.

Villa was so nice to Klimenko now. This final was amazing. This is the kind of stuff I was expecting!

Klimenko hit. FINALLY. The battle for gold will be very interesting.

This means Diogo Soares will also make it to parallel bars final. Interesting. And definitely a huge achievement for Serbia.