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I don't follow this sport so I'm confused now: if he's a repeated doper, why has he not been banned for life?

Nothing about Bolsonaro is funny. Nothing. 5 years ago he was considered a (bad) joke, ranting nonstop about a non-existing communist threat, and now he's very close to becoming the president for the next four years. He's publicly stated he believes (pretty) women should be raped, women should earn less than men, black people and native Brazilians are lazy and should be killed, gay people should die... Basically, he should be jailed for even opening his mouth, but somehow he's running for president and many, many people are ignorant enough to vote for him. In fact, I fear for my life if he ever gets elected. Now, about the other politicians... Temer is as dirty as one can be. He's currently the illegitimate president after a coup d'état, and that says a lot. In short, the coup happened so he could sell for cheap (I'd say give) our oil to the Americans. Of course there's more to it, but it's too long (and boring) to explain. I'm a professor in a federal institution (basically, federal schools and colleges are usually the best in the country) and we've suffered huge losses of maintenance money, so we're screwed for the next years thanks to this coup. Haddad is not a bad politician, but he is from a party I sincerely hope will not elect a president in the next 30 years, since we've seen numerous scandals of corruption regarding this party. Haddad has good ideas, but he should never have run for president in the first place.

My comments about the opening ceremony: The good: it was a nice idea to take the ceremony to the streets and they made good use of the obelisk. I also liked the fact that athletes from every nation paraded together, and that the ceremony was short. Not charging for tickets was also a great move. The official song is nice too (for the first time a song for the Olympics doesn't bore me to death before it's over the first time I listen to it). The bad: the parade of flags was rushed to the point we could barely see the athletes, the costumes used by the dancers were terrible, the lighting was bad overall and sometimes we could barely see what was going on. The ugly: the camera angles were annoying, the whole "this guy, olympian, one bronze medal" thing was annoying, the pillow fight when athletes were marching in made no sense at all, the Olympic cauldron looked like an urinal. Overall, not a bad ceremony, but a terrible job from the director.

I understand he had to speak to the crowd in front of him, but I cringed when I realized there was little to no simultaneous translation during the transmission. I only realized it midway through his speech (it's a good thing I'm Brazilian and our language is so similar to Spanish I could understand everything). But I can imagine what it's like listen to this guy speaking without a single clue about what's going on.

I recognize some ideas from Brazilian carnival (the parade of samba schools): The inflated ball thing that the singer stood on before the parade of nations. The idea of letting rowers go up the obelisk vertically:

How about saying that Bolivia won the gold medal in men's football at the inaugural edition of the Youth Olympics? There's always something nice to say about one nation. It looks like they looked up the article about the country in Wikipedia and came up with something in literally 30 seconds. "Landlocked? Oh, this will do." Yikes.

Some of the comments by the official commentators made me cringe, like stating that Bolivia is one of the two landlocked countries in South America or that the United States do well at the Olympics but they don't perform well at the Youth Olympics. I mean, is this the best they could say about these nations? Really?

Whoever made the choice to film the parade of nations through this angle should be fired immediately.

I edited my comment. I see some good points now that I would like to see at the "big" Olympics. For example, I really liked the fact that all of the athletes paraded together and taking the opening ceremony to the streets is actually a brilliant idea. But the angles and the lighting are putting me off.

What the hell! I didn't know Swaziland is now Eswatini!

It's so nice that a gymnast carried the flag of Canada!

EDIT: I'll write about my impressions once the ceremony is over. I spoke... wrote too soon.

Podium training in gymnastics is underway and I'm even more disappointed with the female athlete from Brazil than I've been before. I expected a less than stellar performance, but speaking about stars, she's as close to being one as Icarus is close to planet Earth (hint: it's the most distant star from Earth).

I'm still amazed they qualified a gymnast! Even semi-decent nations in this sport with good results in recent women's artistic gymnastics competitions like Kazakhstan, India, Chinese Taipei and Indonesia failed to qualify a girl for the YOG.

Well, he did win a medal at the World Championships, so the guy deserves some credit. Still, I have to say I laughed hard at your post.

Jesus Christ, you got to be kidding me...

Brazil Vinicius Lanza: 100m, 200m medley, 200m butterfly Caio Pumputis: 100m, 200m medley, 200m breast Luiz Altamir Melo: 200m butterfly e 200m freestyle Etiene Medeiros: 50m back Guilherme Guido: 50m, 100m back Felipe Lima: 50m breast Larissa Oliveira: 100m freestyle Nicholas Santos: 50m butterfly Breno Correia: 200m freestyle Cesar Cielo: 50m freestyle Matheus Santana: 50m freestyle João Gomes Júnior: 100m breast Guilherme Basseto: 100m back Manuella Lyrio: 200m freestyle Fernando Scheffer: 400m freestyle Daiene Dias: 100m butterfly Guilherme Costa: 1500m freestyle Marcelo Chierighini: 100m freestyle Leonardo Santos: 400m medley Brandonn Almeida: 400m medley

I have to say it's a bad thing for these nations to compete together in men's artistic gymnastics. I'll try to explain in detail. First, The 2012 Olympic vault champion is from South Korea, the 2016 Olympic vault champion is from North Korea. These gymnasts work great as individuals, but they could never compete together in the same team. At the 2020 Olympics, teams will be composed of four gymnasts, and these gymnasts have to perform 18 routines during the qualification stage: 2 gymnasts will perform 6 routines, and 2 other gymnasts will need to perform on three apparatus each. Vault specialists perform usually on one apparatus: vault (or maybe two, vault and floor) and it's virtually impossible for a team to have two vault specialists if they only perform on vault (or vault and floor). Second: there's a chance we can have one gymnast from and two gymnasts from competing in vault finals at the 2019 World Championships. I'd say there's a 10% chance for this to happen, but 10% still beats zero. However, If they compete in the same team, only 2 gymnasts per nation can advance to the finals, so one of them will have to sit out, which is bad for these nations. Third: has a real chance to qualify 4 gymnasts in a team and 1 gymnast as a specialist, and has the chance to qualify 1 gymnast as a specialist. The thing is: both and could qualify 1 gymnast each as a specialist, but if they join forces, they would only be able to qualify 1 specialist (I mean, there's still, technically, a chance for them to qualify 2 specialists, but this would be a lot harder if they work together instead of competing separately). It would slightly make a difference in women's artistic gymnastics, though. If North and South Korea join forces, they could realistically try to qualify a full women's team since major nations like Romania and Germany are struggling with their women's programs and will have trouble qualifying a full team for the 2020 Olympics. The problem for Korea is that there are many programs on the rise, especially Brazil, France, the Netherlands and Argentina.

Hamza Hossaini from earned the bronze medal on vault at the Paris World Challenge Cup. This is Morocco's first medal at an official FIG event. Morocco now joins Algeria, Egypt, South Africa and Tunisia as the only African nations to win a medal at the FIG World Cup.

Third world medal for Ana Sátila, and now a golden one! It's incredible how 5 years ago virtually no one in Brazil knew that canoeing was even a sport, and now we have 14 medals at the world championships and three Olympic medals when we count both sprint and slalom events.

Thank you Poland for winning gold and denying this awful Brazilian team that supports a misogynistic, racist and homophobic presidential candidate the world title. #EleNão

The Pan American Championships are underway. Yesterday, three sets of medals were awarded. finished 1-2-3 in the team event. Canada had the bronze medal in the bag, but disappointing routines with the ribbon killed their chances. This is pretty much what happened last year: stellar routines with hoop, ball and clubs, and then a total meltdown with the ribbon. It must be frustrating for Canadian gymnasts. Laura Zeng (USA), Marina Malpica (MEX) and Natália Gaudio (BRA) were the medalists in the all-around competition. In the group all-around event, took gold with a spectacular routine in 5 hoops (19.800) and a great routine with balls and ropes (18.400). had two great performances (19.000 and 18.400) and took silver. had a spectacular routine in 5 hoops (19.800) and a not quite spectacular routine with balls and ropes (16.500), earning the bronze medal. Today we'll have event finals.

As far as I know, nations that finished 1-6 in the team event qualify 2 gymnasts, and the 4 best gymnasts from non-qualified nations in the individual all-around event qualify as an individual (1 per nation). The host nation, according to the Spanish version of the official qualification document, will receive additional quotas (in the plural) if not qualified otherwise, so I'm pretty sure they qualified at least one individual gymnast, but I'm still not sure whether the plural means that they qualified a full group or they can qualify a second individual gymnast.

In rhythmic gymnastics, qualified nations are: Individual: (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (1) (1) (1) (1) Groups: and three other groups (complete results are nowhere to be found at the moment). I believe will also receive one quota in individual and maybe one for the group event as well.

I'm so sorry. I'm sure he/she had a good life with you and your family.