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Third title for Petar Mitsin, this time in the 400 free with a new Junior World Record of 3:44.31 He beat Mack Horton's junior record from 2014. This is the first time Bulgaria has any kind of world record in swimming. If that dumbass Antoni Ivanov hadn't been suspended, we could have had a men's relay at the Olympics...

For Bulgarian players, there are 3 clear superstars - Kaziyski, Sokolov and now Nikolov. Kaziyski was the best player in the world for a number of years, but hasn't played for the NT for over a decade now, because he has beef with the federation. Sokolov has gotten older now and for many years all expectations were on him to bring success to the NT. But when the other players weren't at his level, even his 20+ points per game were leading to defeats. And people were getting frustrated with him, because he was playing amazing for his clubs, the MVP and so on, but things weren't working out for the NT, so they thought he was holding back, or relaxing, when in the NT. Nikolov right now is on track to being one of the biggest stars in volleyball. He has the talent to be the new Kaziyski. Atanasov for me is an above average player. His attack is very good, but his receiving and defending are abysmal. He has a good serve, but doesn't have the confidence to perform it. More often then not it leads to errors or just an easy pass over the net. There has been one final, this is the last chance push to have Kaziyski return for the Olympic qualification and play with Nikolov and Sokolov in one team. But i have learned over the years to not have my hopes up.

A hundred bucks, that Cavendish cancels his retirement now, or they retroactively give him the win from yesterday. It would be too good, if he goes out without breaking Merckx's record.

Another pathetic year in VNL, but at least we are not relegated.... There is no other team, that has such a drastic change of performance, after they changed the format of this competition. When it was the old World League we were regularly playing the finals. They switched it and we are always bottom 3-4 teams now. Yes, we are having worst teams/players than before, but i never knew how home dependent we were to get wins. In the WL it was 6 home and 6 away matches, which apparently was a big advantage to us.

As this thing is coming to an end, i'll make a quick medal summary for the BG performance, compared with the previous EG. 2015 Baku - 10 medals (1-4-5) 2019 Minsk - 18 medals (3-7-8) 2023 Krakow - 12 medals (3-4-5) 2015 - (1-4-5) Badminton - (1-0-1) Sambo - (0-1-1) Shooting - (0-1-0) Volleyball - (0-1-0) Wrestling - (0-1-3) 2019 - (3-7-8) Aerobic Gymnastics - (0-1-0) Boxing - (1-1-1) Judo - (0-1-0) Karate - (1-0-0) Rhythmic Gymnastics - (0-3-2) Sambo - (1-0-1) Shooting - (0-0-2) Wrestling - (0-1-2) 2023 - (3-4-5) Badminton - (1-0-0) Boxing - (2-1-1) Karate - (0-1-0) Kickboxing - (0-1-2) Shooting - (0-1-1) Taekwondo - (0-0-1) Given that our 2 best sports, rhythmic gymnastics and wrestling, along with sambo, weren't on the program, i'd say it's a much better performance, than expected. It could have been our best EG, as 3 of our silver medals were very close loses too. Going in, the most important sport was by far boxing, because of the quotas and the team delivered. I believe we can earn 3-4 more in the WQT. Kostadinova in shooting and Goranova in karate were reliable as usual, one of the very few names in our sports, which can perform at big events. I'm very pleased with our athletes in fencing and taekwondo, there is definitely an upward trajectory there. Unlike boat sports like canoeing (and rowing), where it is Val Gardena downhill. We have some medals in kickboxing, but that's....whatever. There were like 50 categories and you had to win one match for a medal..

After years of anticipation, Alexander Vezenkov is finally joining Sacramento Kings, after dominating the Euroleague last season! The first Bulgarian in NBA since 1985.

We won our first gold 30 minutes earlier in boxing

Expected loss for Morejon, but i didn't expect him to make the final either way. Orie much more active and controlling in the match. Morejon has potential, but he lacks in the thought process. Jumps in recklessly, leaves his defense wide open, was lucky he didn't land on the floor at the end of the match.

Very, very tough match between the big guys now. Could go either way.

Still better than X AE A-XII Musk

@OlympicIRL Quick off-topic How to you pronounce "Aoife" ? It's "Ifa" or "Ifie" right? I have 2 Irish colleagues with that name and we have calls from time to time. I don't want to butcher their name

Yeah, from all the polish boxers, the women's heavyweight was the best match for them by far. I too think she was a bit better and should have gotten a near win.

So, what is the deal with France. Don't they have guaranteed host quotas, or the IOC forced them to earn it?

Can someone explain the rules of fencing to me again. I saw a dozen times in our match against Hungary, fencer A' light blinking first, but then fencer B got the point?

33 nations with gold medals and we are not amongst them Looks like the Stoevi sisters in badminton will be our best hope. I'm less confident in one of the boxers.

Tokyo numbers of 1 man and 2 women have been equaled, so the minimum expectations have been achieved. We still have 1 more category, but chances there aren't big. I'm confident we can get a couple more quotas from the 2 WQT.

Kamenova got the win , but not in the fight style i like. Don't like her figure skating pirouettes and smiling, when getting pound by the Pole.

Drabik losing is bad news. Now the judges would be "pressured" to have a hosts win in the next match against Kamenova..

Expected loss against Guruli. Rado Rosenov as a smaller guy was always going to be at a disadvantage against the Georgian and his wider reach, but feel like the judges screwed him in the first round..

Serra looks very impressive. We are heading for 2 very interesting 1/2 at 51 kg.

Turkey seems unable to lose a match today.

I meant non-traditional in the last 20 years or so

Didn't know her tbh, so did some research and she has been IBO, WBF, WBA Intercontinental champion, so not maybe not that big of a surprise after all.

After Hungary, now and Belgium get a quota from the not so traditional boxing nations.

Eccles make the first big comeback today and beats her neighbor from at 66. gets the other quota, so how about that.