thiago_simoes

Panama has been left out of the ALBA Games. Shocking, I know.

The women's team from Brazil in artistic gymnastics is allegedly having trouble with the altitude. It looks like they will not perform full difficulty tomorrow, which opens up a very interesting battle for gold in the all-around. Also, Flávia Saraiva will probably not perform on floor, so I believe Argentina's Dominici has a big chance to win gold, and I'll be super happy if this actually happens.

Because Central America has two other Games: 1) the Central American Games and 2) the Central American and Caribbean Games. I'm all in for the inclusion of Trinidad and Tobago, though. Cycling, field hockey and athletics would be a lot more exciting.

As I predicted, gold for our men's team in artistic gymnastics. The score was too low, but still enough for gold. Jossimar Calvo earned a deserved gold medal in the all-around competition. Also, I'm surprised at how valuable Julian Jato has become for Argentina. This is his first major competition as a senior gymnast, and he posted some of his team's highest scores. Funny thing is he's coached by Federico Molinari, who's also part of the team as a gymnast.

Silver for Aruba. Nice. Hope they earn their first ever gold medal this year.

TYC is not working for me, but there is another live streaming that works. http://www.boliviatv.bo/principal/tvenvivo72.php

In artistic gymnastics, men's team final and men's all-around final are contested on the same day of qualifications. I'm okay with qualifications also serving as team final (they do this at the Pan Am Games), but why the hell did they decide not to hold the individual all-around final on a different day? Could it be something related to empty seats in the arena? Did they have trouble selling the tickets for gymnastics?

I usually ignore football. The only reason I was remotely interested in the World Cup was to cheer for Egypt and Salah. The fact that he will most likely be out after this this match (whose moronic idea was this?) two weeks before the WC begins really pisses me off.

I was joking and you failed to see it. I wrote snowflake the same way I would write honey, dear or something like that. I was being sarcastic. You don't have to be insecure when someone is sarcastic to you. I'm not attacking you as a person, just joking around.

Man, get a grip. I'm just joking. You seem really insecure and borderline passive-aggressive. Anyway, you made a question, I answered your question, and that's it.

Relax, snowflake.

Sure.

You wrote that some people are "snowflakes" who can't take a different opinion, still you lose it when someone presents a different point of view. Typical.

When you are in a position of privilege, it's easy to call minorities "snowflakes" with feelings that can be easily hurt. When you suffer the consequences of hate speech, even when hate speech is disguised through "facts", you urge to make the world a better place for you to live, and this means not accepting any made up speech as factual truth (which, quite often, is not). The nazi tried to pass eugenics as the truth, and we all know the terrible consequences this has caused to the world. So, it is important to always pay attention to WHO is talking, and WHAT motivates the discourse which is being spoken/written/etc. And if one's "opinion" makes the world a bad place for another person to live, with all due respect, one can shove his/her opinion up his ass.

Completely disagree. They fight against white supremacists and neonazis. It's one thing to have free speech, it's another thing when your free speech hurts other people and promote, ultimately, segregation to the point where even a genocide could be "explained" through your beliefs. I've had enough of disgusting people who would recruit other people to harass, hurt and even murder black people, gays, lesbians, immigrants, jews and other minorities. They might use violence to achieve their goals, but we're not all supposed to be Gandhis and Mother Teresas when we are dealing with fascists.

This is why I said it was a prediction. A meteor could crash against the Earth tomorrow, who knows? Nothing is certain in life. Still, the quality of our gymnasts compared to the rest of the field makes it "safe" to assume they might do well.

Thanks for the explanation. Now I'm kind of sad because we don't have yet another day for resting in Brazil as well.

Not at all. Men's and Women's artistic team (2), men's rings (3), women's all around (4), women's vault (5), women's floor (6), balance beam (7) plus all 8 medals in rhythmics (AA, clubs, ribbon, hoop and ball, and 3 medals for the group routines). Plus, we will probably get 10+ gold and silver medals in rhythmics, artistic and trampoline. And these are only the "safe" bets. We might get surprise gold medals in men's artistic (especially on floor, vault and high bar) and even maybe trampoline.

Wait, are Pentecoste and Corpus Christi the same thing? Or are they related somehow? We have a number of national holidays each year related to religious things, but I'm agnostic, so I pay little to no attention about what they actually mean. All I know it that in two weeks I'll not work from Thursday to Sunday, so I'm super happy about it.

I have no idea what this is about, to be honest. We will have a national holiday about Corpus Christi in a week, but I have no idea what this one is about either. I just enjoy the day off.

The Asian Championships are over. This was the 4th edition of the junior championships, but only the second time ever when senior gymnasts also competed. China, Japan and Uzbekistan only sent gymnasts to compete at the junior division. The women's individual senior competition only had three competitors, and one of them only performed 3 skills and then fell off of the trampoline. This couldn't have been worse for the continent.

Asian trampoline gymastics qualifiers: Boys: Girls:

I'm really surprised with how strong our teams are in gymnastics (artistic and rhythmic, not sure about trampoline now that our best athletes have retired, basically). I predict something around 15 gold medals and 25 medals overall. A bold prediction, but they have enough potential to reach even more if everything goes right.

Well, in other news, I'm surprised with the women's artistic gymnastics team. Brazil will send the best of the best we have right now, considering Rebeca Andrade and Fabiane Valentim are recovering from injury. This team will easily finish first and has the potential to finish 1-2 in every apparatus, and also in the all-around competition. I expected a much weaker team, but they are going for it.

Thanks God I don't know who this guy is. Most commentators in Brazil have no idea what they are doing. Only Henrique Motta (artistic gymnastics), Lauter Nogueira (athletics), Silina Braga (diving) and Alex Pussieldi (swimming) really know what they are talking about. All the other ones, including 99% of football commentators, are a bunch of morons who should never, ever open their mouths on national TV.