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The women's trampoline final was pretty good, but the men's final was a disaster. I can't believe Adorno lost a medal thanks to a silly mistake! At least Venezuela got a medal. They deserved one in gymnastics.

Mara Colombo seems to be a really nice person. She's crying and celebrating for winning a medal. How nice! Very beautiful moment. Got a tear in my eye here. Love her attitude.

Any streaming for the trampoline final? EDIT: Never mind. It's live now on TYC. Link for anyone interested: https://www.tycsportsplay.com/evento.php?11726-Juegos_Odesur__Gimnasia_Trampolin

Russia won both group all-around and team event. It's funny that every time I rant about how unfair this sport is, it involves Russia winning the gold medal when they did not deserve it. Such a shame.

I don't like the idea of mixing senior and junior scores in a "team". We already have a team event, and it is supposed to combine the 10 best scores from 3 or 4 senior individual gymnasts. This is how the team competition works. UEG wanted to change things and they have created a confusing, unwanted event.

Last year the team event combined the scores of senior individual gymnasts and junior group gymnasts. This year I have no idea about how the format works.

What a naive mistake to have the sixth hoop inside the competition area. They really lost their focus after many mistakes. Poor girls. At least they seem to take it lightly in the end, which is nice. Mistakes just happen, and you have to move on.

I'm hopeful for a gold medal on women's trampoline, but not much else. In three days rhythmic gymnastics will begin and we'll be back on track, I suppose.

LOL at Spain receiving 19.200 for their group routine. If there's a sport where hosting the event gives scandalous scores to a nation, this sport has to be rhythmic gymnastics.

WHAT? I have to see this. What the hell?

Very few medal events today, but it's an important day for Bolivia. They have their best chance yet to win a gold medal in racquetball.

I have a doubt: the technical regulations state that each tournament will only be competed with a minimum of five different countries. Only four nations sent teams for women's volleyball. Will it really award medals?

Interesting. But I'm hopeful for more gold medals: in rhythmic gymnasts, we won 61 out of 63 possible gold medals at the South American championships from 2010 to 2017, and we are expected to win all 8 gold medals here. This must help.

21 out of 42 total medals in artistic gymnastics for Brazil, 10 of which were gold medals. I guess it was a good competition for us.

My dream podium has become a reality on men's vault: Zanetti, Rostagno and Aguero. To be honest, I'd actually switch Luis Porto and Zanetti, but a gold medal is still a gold medal, so I'm okay with that. Rostagno and Aguero are two of my favorite gymnasts on vault, so I'm reeeeally happy they won a medal. Now I hope that Fuenmayor wins a medal as well, and it will be the perfect competition.

I believe one of the other sports is Athletics, right? What's the third?

And we also had bad moments in the all-around competition. Caio counted two falls (he would have won gold if he had fallen just once) and Flavia counted one (she would have won gold if she had not fallen). Also, Zanetti had to count one fall and failed to qualify on floor, and he would probably get a medal if he had qualified. It's always hard to predict anything and 15 gold medals seem a lot, but on paper I knew we could realistically win 20 gold medals if we were absolutely lucky every day. This is still technically possible if we win 5 gold medals tomorrow + 8 gold medals in rhythmics + 1 gold medal on trampoline, but highly unlikely, of course.

Yes. What's their best chance? Boxing?

Swimming. Men's 50 m freestyle.

Gold for Suriname!

So far, my prediction about 15 gold medals for Brazil in gymnastics is going strong. 6 out of 9 possible gold medals until now, and we have a good chance to win all five gold medals tomorrow, plus all eight events in rhythmic gymnastics. But I'm sure someone will "amarelar" at some point (i.e., crumble under pressure), so I'll not keep my hopes too high.

What happened to gymnastics? It was supposed to begin one hour ago.

Thank you for the link. So, Sri Lanka has qualified a girl in Artistic Gymnastics! I was wrong about the previous results. Nice to know such a small nation was still able to qualify!

Yes! Dominici won! What an amazing battle for gold, and I'm glad it was Dominici who ended up on the top of the podium. She's the one who was not afraid to risk it all today and I'm sure Argentina must be really proud of her. I'd dare say she's the best female Argentine gymnast ever, and I hope she achieves great heights at the world championships. Now, about mocking and making fun of gymnasts... I'm 99.99% sure our gymnasts would never, ever do that. They're very professional and supportive, and they are taught to always respect other gymnasts. This unacceptable behavior must have come from Brazilian fans. And, yes, gymnastics fans in Brazil are the worst, as @vinipereira said (thanks for leaving me out of this bunch). I used to be part of many groups about artistic gymnastics on Facebook, but the behavior of other fans was so toxic I left all of them and decided to follow the sport on my own. I apologize for the behavior of other fans, and I can assure you the gymnasts, and true fans, like me, love and support Argentine gymnasts (and all other gymnasts). Time to celebrate! Congratulations to Dominici! I'm really, really happy for her! Parabéns!

As I said yesterday, our women's artistic team is way below full potential. Enough for the gold medal, I'm sure, but I believe Dominici will take gold in the all-around.