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it's the RSA team official, meanwhile the players are the 2 cases "inside the village"... by the way, I'm not surprised at all that those cases are from countries like RSA (and the future ones would likely come from Nations with poor covid management)...

as bad as they can be, they will end up last like Italy's men's Eight in 2016 (always a late replacement for Russia)...

it's a fierce battle between and I'm gonna pick (gold in mixed archery, men's fencing, men's taekwondo) p.s. I think at least 8 or 9 (and maybe even 10) out of 11 gold medals in day 1 would eventually go to Asian Nations... the only "safe" non Asian gold medal should be the men's road race in cycling...

"the level of skills of two potential substitutes in the crew did not meet Games standards" aka, they failed the internal doping test...

meanwhile this time we're gonna get 2 hours of Tamberi...lucky guys we are!

naaaa... https://www.nbcsports.com/washington/wizards/team-usa-replaces-bradley-beal-keldon-johnson-also-adds-javale-mcgee

for those having problems with eurosport player / discovery+ and some random network errors, just switch the DNS to those of google or cloudflare (just make a quick research to find them)... they're also normally faster then those of the usual internet providers on almost every website...

where do you live now? if it's a Country where a local version of eurosport player/discovery+ apps are available, you can get that (I'm sure there will be multiple audio tracks in every feed, which makes it the same having the British rather than the Italian or Spanish version, for instance)... if you're in a place where no Eusp/D+ are available, then you "only" need a vpn and buy your subscription in a Country where they are available...

may I review my prediction? my new ranking... 1. covid19 2. covid20 3. covid21

if he's now faking his PCR tests, I wonder how many doping tests he cheated on...

it should be on July 21st at 3.30 p.m. Tokyo time...

yes, it's "adaptive"... by the way, it doesn't require a super-wide bandwidth to work at max rate, the problem is that it's not working the same way on all devices... basically, if you want to be sure at 100% to reach always the top picture quality, you must have an apple tv 4K (last and forelast generation)... in particular, it doesn't work well at all on the android tv/android box devices and on the amazon firesticks (even if on this last device the reports are controversial, some people can see the streams at 1080p/50fps, but many others can only go up to 720p/25fps -which is my case, despite I have a 1 GB FTTH broadband connection and my devices are all connected with cable, no wifi)... moreover, some streams are actually uploaded at 25fps frame rate by discovery*, so, it's not up to your device/internet connection...it's their fault... *here in Italy, they only kept 25fps streams for all the euroleague/eurocup games without Italian teams on the floor, for instance... or for some more sports with minor interest in the average spectators (very exigent people like me don't count at all in Italy, as we're such a minority)... our main tv/tech forum is full of people complaining against discovery, but it looks that they don't care at all...

Bradley Beal (men's Basketball)... and he might not be the only one...

the are so many very predictable gold medals in these Games that really it's not worth the effort to amke a short list... I think we're close to the 10% of events of the entire Games being "not that open/interesting/exciting" in terms of the Country taking the gold medal home in the end...

Italy don't have any safe medal, despite having many events where not coming home with a medal would be extremely disappointing... if he wasn't stopped by mononucleosis, I'd have said that all 3 Paltrinieri's races in swimming would have been safe medals, but now...it's not the case anymore... in fencing and shotgun shooting, we should medal in most of the events, but it's all but a lock... however, I'm quite optimist...we're gonna hit the target as said by our NOC's president for sure...

consequence of the pandemic restrictions to travel, I guess... they had to miss too many tournaments and gave up too many points in the last few months (and they weren't that good to get any exempt from the national policy about that)... luckily, at least their women were so high in the standings that could save their quota places...

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no, it won't, because they will be encrypted for sure (while the good old BBC Olympic channels were Free to Air and available for basically everybody who could reach the 28.2 East orbital position)... by the way, it's confirmed that once again we won't have the Olympics on the Sky Italia TV channels E1 and E2...they just don't want to pay an extra cent for that... meanwhile the Games will be available on the E1 and E2 channels on the OTT platforms, from DAZN to Timvision to Discovery+ and Eurosport Player apps (but those 2 are obvious, as it's the same company)...

David Goffin (Tennis), because of the ankle injury that made him miss also Wimbledon...

https://totallympics.com/topic/8323-injured-athletes-who-will-miss-tokyo-2020/?do=findComment&comment=394649 she is going to be replaced by Vanessa Ferrari in the team event, while Lara Mori will replace Ferrari as Individual quota place (Floor)

Giorgia Villa, Artistic Gymnastics (sprained left ankle)

so, it will happen in the semifinal bout (which will be the true final) then... p.s. Abe no.4 is a shame, it's senseless...

tomorrow at noon there will be the official presentation of the Eurosport Italian offer... however, I don't expect anything special...actually I don't think there will be any tv channel except for the regular E1 and E2 available...in particular, I don't expect any 4K coverage in Italy (Eurosport TV channels are part of the sky Italia basic package and it's unclear even if they will show any Olympic picture -in 2018 they didn't, as sky ITA didn't want to pay any extra amount of money for the Games)...

men's +100kg: Riner, Bashaev, Tushishvili & Harasawa (in this order) women's -48kg: Bilodid, Tonaki, Krasniqi & Pareto (in this order...Pareto is more a hope than a true prediction, however) side poll... can't wait for the Abe vs Lombardo matchup in the men's -66kg gold medal bout, the highlight (my personal highlight, at least) of the whole judo tournament... then, Tato Grigalashvili (men's -81kg)...the most exciting judo player pound for pound in any gender right now...