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YES. BEST NEWS SO FAR!!!!!!!!! This is better than 10 medals for Serbia

Zimbabwe can still make 6 goals, so don't worry. 

and Pokemon Go

Basically each and every IOC member just does what the bosses want, so no way they'll vote no  
 
You should have seen the Agenda 2020 Session, literally every of the 40 or so proposals had 100% "YES" 

No. Four gymnasts permorm on each apparatus, but only the best three results are counted for the team. If only three permorm, then all performances count. Kind of same as in equestrian team events.

Apparently there are some Pokémon you can only catch in South America, so yeah, no choice  

I saw ( if I understand it at all - my Russian is not good at all ) that they had something like last big training and Stretovich was better.

Lol, we are now using twitter posts of Australian diver to see which nation is in which building.
 
Detectives at work.

The nerd in me screams "I WANT THOSE" 

You mean none live outside the Olympic village? How about the USA men's and women's basketball team living on their cruise ship?  

A TRUE WHEN FINALLY A LIST OF COUNTRIES WITH QUOTAS BY THE NUMBERS GOOD! ASHAMED TO 3 DAYS!

Check Unibet

This is my complete schedule here:
 
Aug 3rd 13:00 - 18:00 Football (FB001) Women's Preliminary Round
SWEDEN  X  SOUTH AFRICA
BRAZIL  X  CHINA
Aug 4th 15:00 - 20:00 Football (FB005) Men's Preliminary Round
HONDURAS  X  ALGERIA
PORTUGAL  X  ARGENTINA
Aug 6th 10:30 - 11:30 Shooting (SH010) Women's 10m Air Rifle Final
Aug 6th 12:00 - 16:00 Basketball (BK001) Women's Preliminary Round
TURKEY   X   FRANCE
CHINA  X  CANADA
Aug 6th 17:30 - 20:00 Football (FB010) Women's Preliminary Round
SOUTH AFRICA  X  CHINA
BRAZIL  X  SWEDEN
Aug 7th 10:45 - 16:30 Tennis (TE006) Men's and Women's
Individual and Doubles 1st Round
Aug 7th 17:00 - 21:15 Field Hockey (HO007) Men's Preliminary Round
GREAT BRITAIN  X NEW ZEALAND
BRAZIL  X  BELGIUM
Aug 8th 12:30 - 16:00 Handball (HB009) Women's Preliminary Round
ARGENTINA  X  NETHERLANDS
ANGOLA  X  MONTENEGRO
Aug 9th 16:00 - 18:20 Artistic Gymnastics (GA009) Women's Team Final
Aug 9th 20:30 - 00:20 Volleyball (VO012) Men's Preliminary Round
CUBA  X EGYPT
BRAZIL  X  CANADA
Aug 10th 15:30 - 19:20 Beach Volleyball (BV014) Men's Preliminary Round
BRAZIL  X ITALY
NETHERLANDS  X POLAND
Women's Preliminary Round
BRAZIL  X  SPAIN
COSTA RICA  X VENEZUELA
Aug 11th 12:30 - 16:00 Canoeing Slalom (CS005) Men's Canoe Double Semifinals and Final
Women's Kayak Semifinals and Final
Aug 11th 17:30 - 20:00 Rugby (RU012) Men's 5th to 8th Placement and Medal Matches
Aug 12th 15:30 - 18:10 Judo (JU014) +78kg Women's and +100kg Men's Finals Aug 13th 08:00 - 14:00 Badminton (BD007) Singles, Doubles and Mixed Doubles Preliminaries
Aug 14th 10:00 - 13:00 Table Tennis (TT023) Men's Team Quarter Finals Aug 14th 20:20 - 22:30 Athletics (AT005) Women's Triple Jump, Men's 400m, Men's 100m Finals
Women's 400m, Men's 100m, Women's 1500m Semifinals
Men's High Jump Preliminaries
Aug 15th 09:00 - 11:40 Open Water Swimming (OW001) Women's Final Aug 16th 09:00 - 10:40 Canoeing Sprint (CF002) Men's C1 1000m Final
Men's K1 1000m Final
Women's K1 200m Final
Women's K2 500m Final
Aug 16th 19:00 - 21:00 Weightlifting (WL023) Men's +105kg Final Aug 17th 16:00 - 19:00 Wrestling (WF002) Women's Freestyle 48kg, 58kg, 69kg Finals
Aug 18th 15:00 - 17:00 Basketball (BK057) Women's Semifinal
Aug 18th 15:00 - 20:00 Field Hockey (HO042) Women's Gold Medal Match
Aug 18th 10:30 - 11:30 Athletics (AT014) Women's Pole Vault, Men's Hammer Throw, Women's 5000m, Women's 4x100m Relay, Men's 4x100m Relay Finals
Men's 4x400m Relay, Women's 4x400m Relay Heats
Aug 20th 12:00 - 16:00 Cycling Mountain Bike (CM001) Women's Cross Country Race
Aug 20th 17:30 - 20:00 Handball (HB044) Women's Gold Medal Match
Aug 21st 10:45 - 16:30 Athletics - Marathon (AM002) Men's Marathon
 

Well fantastic that the chiefs can decide how the athletes actually feel about that 
 
It's like me telling you: "No, you don't want to watch the Olympics, you don't like it, so instead, you can cook dinner."

Well fantastic that the chiefs can decide how the athletes actually feel about that 
 
It's like me telling you: "No, you don't want to watch the Olympics, you don't like it, so instead, you can cook dinner."

Netherlands 
 
Gold - €30.000
Silver - €22.500
Bronze - €15.000
 
Kazakhstan apparently pays €183.000 for a gold medal  

Or "who is next in line gets the ticket"? 

If the USA wins 137 medals I'll eat my socks. 

Really?

I follow this sport quite closely for a number of years. One must only look at the videos from the Romanian nationals and the difference between Iordache and Ponor is clear. Iordache is not steady and has not taken part in any other competition in 2016 besides the Romanian nationals. She is not ready to compete. I wish Romania had other choices besides Ponor and Iordache, but Holbura, the third best gymnast at this point who is not injured, was not able to win a gold medal in an event with junior gymnasts, the Gymnasiade. What could she do at the Olympics? Not much, I guess.

And the fact that you are Romanian does not mean anything about how much you know about Iordache. I'm Brazilian, but don't ask me about football. I know nothing about this sport. 
 

It's complicated
 
Basically since the players are divided to 13 groups in this edition, the round of 16 will contain 13 players (no best runner-up thingies here). 3 empty position are byes and considered empty groups.
 

So the first seed will always be in Group A and the second seed in Group P. 3rd and 4th seeds will be drawn into Group E or L. And BWF allocate the bye to position B, F, and O. So no Group B, F, or O in the singles... (More details: http://system.bwf.website/documents/folder_1_81/Regulations/Olympic-Games/Part III - Section 5B - Olympic Games - Regulations for Badminton Competition - Rio 2016.pdf)

http://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20160729_02404396
 
Tom Goegebuer has been staying on his strict diet in the past weeks, is what this brand new news article says...being the Belgians neighbours, I'll be cheering for him in Rio 

ESA is not European neither, unless you mean the European Space Agency. 
 
Don't seek a conspiracy everywhere

Anoshina from Russia

Wow, for a moment I thought his name was Swimmer and that he was a swimmer, that would have been awesome
 
His name however is Aminath Shajan, which is nice too