phelps

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...

well, I guess many people are overestimating Japan's fighters chance to survive pressure... if we look at the Olympic Games in the last 20 years or so (since Sydney 2000), Japan always won only 3 or 4 gold medals in each of those Games, except for the extraordinary outcome in Athens 2004, when they won (thanks mainly to the 5 women's golds out of 7 events)... tbh, I'd be really surprised if they win more than 4 gold medals in total this time...

my picks: 2, 3 & 5...

I think the "games yes/games no" dispute and all the disappointment they gave to IOC after the pandemic started, would eventually have more influence... not so sure they would get all the favourable scores in judged sports like gymnastics, diving, skateboarding and surfing anymore... however, they still have a mighty squad in many disciplines and I think they will do well under any circumstance...

(in this order)

also the "perfect year" (or "Golden Slam", if you prefer) with 4 GS tournaments and the Olympic Gold medal (only time that happened, 1988, Steffi Graf) is something I'm sure he's thinking of...

considering what happened to Jon Rahm a few weeks ago, I'd say that not only he'll be fine, but also that we already have our Olympic gold medallist...

I think they will use the same list they used to allocate the spots, which is the IJF World Ranking List as of 28th June 2021...

or the next 2019 World Cup... for sure, when they lose an exhibition game, then the big tournament doesn't go that well... by the way, for those want to watch the full game, you can find it here:

2020/2021 Hockey season ended just a couple of days ago... but, hey, man! we're already into the new sason! KHL revealed their 2021/2022 schedule the new campaign will start on September, 1st with the classic season opener between last year's finalists, CSKA Moscow @ Avangard Omsk (in Balashika)... among the news, for the 1st time since the Lokomotiv's air disaster, a game will be played on september 7th, which this year marks the 10th anniversary... and it will happen because it was the Yaroslavl's team itself that asked to host a home game to celebrate that day as it deserves (they will host Dinamo Minsk)... more infos and details, here: https://en.khl.ru/news/2021/07/09/485903.html the full RS schedule, instead, is here: https://en.khl.ru/calendar/