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Wow great move from Chinese wrestler against the American just 2 seconds before the end. This might be very important for the gold medal count at the end of the olympics

Congrats to Sanchez, well deserved I am not sure but I think she opened Croatian flag after winning, does anybody know why that is?

I really like kumite, they should stop the match less just like taekwondo and I think watching karate will be much more enjoyable than Judo

Great performance from Stevenson, he easily beat Taha. Unfortunately even though I was hoping the other result, it was expected. I believe Petriashvili's gold is not certain, the Iranian and Stevenson seem very strong, Petriashvili did not look that good.

By the way, I hope it will be even better in Paris, we will come with a team this time and hopefully get more medals, but I don’t measure success with medals for now for us, first we need to build the culture in this sport to be consistently successful, so joining with a team and making finals should be the priority.

I’m not sure if we are spending a lot of money, gymnastics is still pretty new and no sport other than football and basketball in Turkey systematically gets a lot of money. It would be much higher compared to Armenia though, I agree. I think we suffered from lack of olympic culture in gymnastics in this olympics. Other than Arıcan, all of our gymnast attended an olympics for the first time. So although I think we really missed a lot of opportunities I can see why our gymnast could not perform at their best except Arıcan.

Turkey should be 7, we were 6 yesterday and today we lost a boxing qf

He did not look great neither physically nor performance-wise. Both Yasemin and Alperi could have beaten her if they believed from the beginning of the match. I think Alperi did not lose any point to her other than cautions.

Adem Inceredible first vault, he was so close to the gold medal and he messed up in the easier one, really saddening

Why would he want to lose in a world championship final?

Wow this indifference to wrestling in the forum is frightening. Comgratulations to Lopez, he is incredibly fit and strong, I would say even more fit and stronger than 2016. This is incredible for a 39 years old. Cuba had an amazing day with two finals, 60 kg was real surprising.

Crazy performance from Mete, so proud of him, still cannot believe he gets the gold, I think he was less excited than I was during the finals

That is fair but I did not like how Bosnian guy fought either. He was constantly kicking below waist and Recber had injuries due to that. I do not think it was innocent from his side. All in all I would very much like Bosnia to win their first medal but we needed this medal as well, so I hope they get another chance.

What is wrong with Recber?

Wow, incredible incredible performance from our women, congratulations, I hope it continues, as a nation our main characteristic is to slow down and relax after successes, I hope it does not happen this time.

Great performance from our gymnasts, we did not even have any finals in our history, now we have 7 in one olympics, it is really great, I hope we can win at least one medal to make it even more amazing

Yes 67 will stay and 61 will go

For Turkey, I think it will be 12-15 which is a great jump after 2012, most will be bronzes though.

I understand from our news that one of our quota is also taken back due to doping related issues so we will be able to have 2 quotas only now. Actually we lost not 1 but 2 quotas bevause we were also going to get Vietnam’s quota in women 49kg. That is sad but nothing to do.

Where do you see the results

Him winning is not enough, he has to score really high, I believe more than 15.330 which rareely happens even for great athletes such as Petrounidas. But he did it in European Championships so I would say he has 50% chance

Yes it is literally an olympic gold or not for Petrounidas and Greece. Although it will reduce İbrahim Çolak’a chances at olympics I still suppprt Petrounidas. An athlete this good should be at the olympics.

As you can see I am using “If”, I have no idea medically and I am not outright against transgender to compete with women. But if they have an advantage due to biology I do not think they should be able to

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If they have a certain big advantage against other competitors, they are doing harm though, don't they? I do not watch weightlifting a lot anymore since you do not know who will be doped and at least 25% of all medal winners will be. So I feel that I am deceived. It is very similar in this case, they are not biologically women, they can have much more testosterone than other athletes. So, they would have huge advantage against others. If we allow this I do not see why we do not allow men who wants to compete in women competitions? What is different between a man who identifies as a woman and a transgender in this sense?