thiago_simoes

Serbia did their thing. No need to blame them. Brazil is doomed thanks to our own players, not because of the Serbians.

Right, but he's part Trump, part Hitler. He's been quoted (and recorded on video) saying that pretty women should be raped, that he raised his sons well so they would never date a black woman, that parents should be allowed to beat hard their male kids so these kids would not be gay in the future... And one of his sons, who has been elected senator, said that parents should have the right to kill a gay son. Bozo and his son are criminals. Sons, actually. There are two more, and they all take part in politics, unfortunately. Bozo does not even respect his own daughter. He said in a speech that she's the result of him being weak (like, he was weak when he had sex, so she was born a girl, not a boy). What a sick man.

Yes, I think so. His supporters seem to believe sports eat up a lot of public funds, so they are okay with the idea of not funding Olympic sports anymore (this would probably not affect football, since clubs manage their own income and use their own money to hire players). People around here are really dumb. You have no idea. For example, Bozo has been very vocal about even revoking labor rights and sharply decreasing income of families, and even so people think this is the best thing for the country and vote for him. Exactly!

More history in the making: at the 2018 YOG, Vietnam also reached the finals for the first time ever at an Olympic event.

Tables turned now with the fist medals. But cuts in funding are affecting Brazilian athletes as well, and if Bozo becomes the new president, we'll be doomed (he plans to extinguish the ministry of sports).

I remember you writing that Brazil was doing terrible during the first week of the 2016 Olympics, and now Argentina has not had luck in the first few days so far... Is this a curse for South American Olympic hosts?

Since the YOG topic is too crowded, I'll post it here both as a reminder to myself and as a way to keep people informed. Iran and Ireland reached for the first time ever the finals in artistic gymnastics at an Olympic event. Iran on men's pommel horse, Ireland on women's vault.

It's not long before you'll be able to sing Faroeste Caboclo by heart.

Great city with great people. Just take care with the taxi drivers. I'm amazed at how well you can spell Caraguatatuba and Taguatinga.

Buenos Aires is probably the best South American city I've visited. I was told to be careful because the city could be dangerous, but it was safe and relaxing all the way. Then I took a ferry ride to Uruguay so I could take my plane back to Brazil, and when I got to Montevideo, the taxi driver left me at the airport and then stole all my luggage.

Fun? But is it youth and urban too? Well, we could think about adding an event like this to the 2028 Olympics.

Why isn't gymnastics being streamed? Argh!

What a baffling performance from the Brazilian swimmer... It looks like he was never in the mental state to fight for a medal, despite starting on lane 5.

Yes! Finally they have a gold medal! Now I'm rooting for India!

First ever Olympic final in gymnastics for Ireland! Amazing result!

I trashed FIG for holding a team event, but now I kind of like this idea, to be honest. There's a senior team competition at the Winter Olympics in figure skating, so why not a team event in gymnastics?

Yes, this is it. I'm really surprised with the Iranian gymnast qualifying in 5th. This is the most unpredictable apparatus in men's artistic gymnastics, so there's a decent chance the Iranian boy can walk away with a medal.

I live in Santa Catarina, and this is the state in which Bolsonaro won with the largest margin among all states in the country. This is like living in hell.

My list of friends in Facebook went from around 1,100 people to 470 now. And I still think I'll have to double check about some people...

As I said before, I'm afraid of how people will react on the streets. I've seen two videos today of black people being assaulted, beaten and I've read about a man publicly stating he believes men have the right to beat their spouses. Bolsonaro is just the rotten face of what Brazil is, and there are 200 million reasons for me to worry.

I'd stay there all day, I'm sure!

Very few times in my life -- not even when my father died when I was a young child -- I've felt this hopeless, lost, afraid and confused. There's no point for me to cheer for Brazilian athletes anymore because they represent a nation I despise at the moment.

Some of the moves from the South African guy in breaking dance look like what I do in the morning when I search everywhere around my room trying to find my glasses.

The problem is not what he can do, but how his ideas make other people do what they do. Brazil is the most dangerous country in the world for LGBT people to live in. No other country registered such a high rate of crimes against LGBT people, and to top it off, homicide rates are among the highest in the world (and they are the highest in the world when it comes to gay and transgender people). In such a hostile environment, he adds fuel to the hatred against LGBT people. Last week, there was a huge protest on the streets against Bolsonaro, but a number of people in a subway platform chanted "faggots, take care, Bolsonaro will kill your kind". One of the major reasons for people to vote on him is that he promised everybody will be allowed to have a gun. Usually people think this will keep them safe, but in reality we'll have even more people murdering gays, transgenders, lesbians and women (Bolsonaro is also a misogynistic pig, for those who don't know already).

When the cauldron was lit, the opening they used to lit the flame was at crotch height and I could swear the guy would urinate inside the cauldron when the ceremony was over.