thiago_simoes

I'm rooting for Japan. If Russia could beat Spain, Japan can do it. Enough of European teams advancing to the next stage. Also, if Japan advances, we'll have three teams (Japan, Croatia and Russia) that were long shots for the title advancing to the next round. Of course these teams have talent and heart, but also a nice share of luck, and that may help winning the title.

My latest predictions have been terrible. I've been so close to eating bagel. And to think I had the only perfect prediction on the first day and after that everything went downhill.

I can't believe it. Congratulations, Russia. Biggest shock of the tournament so far, even bigger than Germany not qualifying for the knockout round, in my opinion (they didn't look too hot before the tournament).

Nice to see Uruguay advancing. I'll always cheer for South/Latin America (except for one country with a bunch of dirty players in many sports, but I won't say its name because some idiot might take it personally and call me names in his/her own language). Now I hope Brazil goes home next, but I have mixed feelings about the next match. Part of me wants Mexico to win, part of me wants the team to somehow avenge the Olympic final in 2012. Still, I'd be happier, much happier, If Mexico won the tournament than any other team.

Too bad for Argentina. I was rooting for them, of course, but as we say in Brazil, they had the knife and the cheese on their hands and still didn't slice the cheese. I hope Messi sticks around for 2022. He deserves a better coach, a better team to play with, and a World Cup title.

[hide] Knockout Round June 30th - July 15th, 2018 16 Nations, Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Third Place Match and Final Round of 16 Date & Time Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 30th 2018, h. 17:00 (GMT+3) France 0 1 Argentina June 30th 2018, h. 21:00 (GMT+3) Uruguay 2 2 Portugal July 1st 2018, h. 17:00 (GMT+3) Spain 3 0 Russia July 1st 2018, h. 21:00 (GMT+3) Croatia 1 2 Denmark July 2nd 2018, h. 18:00 (GMT+4) Brazil 2 1 Mexico July 2nd 2018, h. 21:00 (GMT+3) Belgium 2 1 Japan July 3rd 2018, h. 17:00 (GMT+3) Sweden 1 1 Switzerland July 3rd 2018, h. 21:00 (GMT+3) Colombia 0 1 England [/hide]

Women's team: unless a miracle happens, no chance at all. Maybe not even in 2024. Women's team? No chance. Men's team? Pretty tough. I would say no chance, unfortunately. But it would be a nice surprise.

Not really the focus of the topic, but since we have a team event in artistic gymnastics, let me have some fun. Artistic Gymnastics Men's Women's For the 12th spot I tried something out of the box, and I know both Colombia and North Korea are long shots for a team spot, but anything can happen.

I don't care about him. My biggest beef is that you allow bestmen to stay around. He's a user who has called me a girl (it's not a problem being a woman, but this is not my gender identity), homo, made fun of me in the old forum whenever I referred to gay athletes... And he only gets 24 h bans? Really? You are the moderator, and I don't understand how you can keep reading the same complaints over and over again, and you still think doing nothing is the best way to ignore the situation.

Costa Rica!

As a drag queen said before, "sweetheart, let's get it together before you wanna read". As a gay man, I've been attacked numerous times by bestmen, and Sindo does nothing about it. Nothing. He's always given me the same old excuse, that it would make no difference to ban users because they can create new accounts, and for all that's worth, bestmen is still around with his questionable comments. I have my fair share of complaints about OlympicFan, but I decided to ignore him and never reply to what he writes. A few days ago, he made fun of Polish and Senegalese people in a humiliating way; curiously, he wrote a few moments ago that nasty people must lead miserable lives, what says a lot about him. Now, I replied to his nasty comment in a way that would subvert his own logic. I am always respectful and every time I criticize the results, I present my point of view. I never refer to specific users in any way that would make them feel bad or sorry about themselves. Besides, I've been around for a long time, even before the forum moved to this new format. You read ONE comment I make and you call me pontificatori. Well, we have a word for you in Brazilian Portuguese: cuzão. Have a nice day.

This is wrong. It should HUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUE.

Thanks for the info. Good luck to Mexico! I hope that an Olympic medal in gymnastics finally come your way. It was so close in 2014!

My beer is German and my cell phone is from South Korea. I was really torn...

Zahran! He's an excellent gymnast. He deserved a medal. I'm also happy for Slovenia. Teja Belak, Rok Klavora and Tjasa Kysselef have been around for, like, forever. It's great for them to get a medal. Hell, even Hribar got a medal, and I did not see that coming at all.

I said it twice before and I'll say it again: I expect Argentina to challenge for the title. I'm only sad because we'll see more of Maradona and I honestly can't stand him.

Argentina!

[hide] Knockout Round June 30th - July 15th, 2018 16 Nations, Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Third Place Match, Final Round of 16 Part #1 Date & Time Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 30th 2018, h. 18:00 (GMT+3) Uruguay 2 2 Portugal July 1st 2018, h. 21:00 (GMT+3) Spain 3 1 Russia [/hide]

First gold medal ever in gymnastics as well.

In 2013 we had a different situation. Spain sent their best gymnasts while Italy and France struggled with young and inexperienced gymnasts. This year the difference was minimal and Spain, quite frankly, only has two world class gymnasts (Abad and Zapata). Take, for example, the execution scores of Spanish athletes on floor (8.5 to 8.7) and compare to the execution scores of the top scorers from other nations (8.4 or less). You'll see that Spanish gymnasts were slightly overscored here and there, and this makes a difference in the end. The same thing happened with the women's team, when Spanish gymnasts got slightly higher execution scores than the rest of the field. It's nice to see Spain winning international medals again, but home advantage was too big to ignore this time.

I suspect Spain was helped by the judges in both events. "Normally" it would be unthinkable to see Spain earning gold in men's artistic gymnastics, or any team medal at all in women's artistic gymnastics.

Congratulations! It's nice to see Argentina emerging as the champion of the continent again!

If this is frustrating for me, I can imagine how the Polish feel.

Stupid match for Poland. I can't believe it.

I love Japan (I can speak some Japanese, actually), but my heart was with Senegal (I am an African-Brazilian man). Tough match to follow. The draw was bittersweet.