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Great final Losonczi vs Cengiz. One of the best of all WCH. 

Here you go, if you can open it
 
https://www.trtspor.com.tr/canli-yayin-izle/trt-spor-yildiz/

Vinesh Phogat becomes the first Indian women to win multiple World Championships medal. 

Pole dancing should be added next after breakdancing. Viewership among youth will reach 100%.

And before tiktok it was snapchat, before that Instagram, before that twitter, before that Facebook, before that chat rooms and before all of them video games and before that even TV was being talked about as a reason for ‘the youth’ being less interested in sport
 
People have more choices than ever before but sport and the Olympics is still huge
 
 

Olympic Tournament should have 16 teams not 12

While this is super true, the fact that core Olympic events are getting cut down or even dropped, things like skateboarding and breakdancing are getting their place, sorry but watching 10 year olds getting 3/10 at most and winning gold is ridiculous, the annoying attempt to be liked by “young generations “ is ruining the games

Unpopular opinion: I find karate much more interesting to watch than judo. 

I actually really like kata's inclusion. It's very different from anything else in the Olympics.

I think it was the flag of the La Rioja province in Northern Spain. 

Let's be honest. Relays are a waste of quotas, which are already being cut anyways. Should be 12 at max, because the rest tends to be utterly non-competitive.

The funny thing is that Turkey is kind of a newcomer, but a medal was not actually something unexpected. In fact, I expected a lot more from them. This bronze medal is still a historic achievement, but given the quality of their gymnasts, they could have walked away with four medals instead of one. A lot of missed opportunities here, for sure.

I'm actually a lot more impressed with Armenia. Turkey spends a lot of money on gymnastics, but Armenia indeed has a small program with little hope of success. The fact that one of their gymnasts got a medal is mindblowing.

Really cool to see Ferhat win a medal. There is still hope for small aka new gymnastics nations

About the finals: I totally get you. It's the weirdest edition of the Olympics I've ever witnessed. As a silver lining, at least, after years of the same old countries on the podium on the women's side, we finally had a big diversity of nations with a medal: Brazil, Japan, Great Britain, Italy, Belgium and South Korea, along with Japan, ROC and China, as expected. On the men's side, it actually felt like something was missing. Verniayev was out due to doping, Uchimura had a terrible performance, Nagornyy was mostly disappointing, the Swiss didn't even qualify for the finals, the Ukrainians had the worst possible Olympics in their lives, the Turkish performed badly in the finals -- except for Arican -- and, of course, Dalaloyan was injured and did absolutely everything he could, but still it felt like he's capable of a lot more. 

About Brazil: Rebeca got two medals, one of them gold, and both Zanetti and Nory failed, so I'm not only happy; I'm overjoyed. I'm only sad for Flávia. Of course she didn't deserve a medal here, but she works so hard and I hope she gets at least a medal at the World Championships before retiring. Maybe her foot will heal quickly enough for her to be able to go to the World Championships this year...
 

I forgot there were still 3 QFs left. They will be included in tomorrow's update.

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

Nice, a medal for Turkey. After all the bad luck from the previous day, it's good to see they have a medal now.

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 

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 

Men's Individual Recurve
Final Results     Mete GAZOZ     Mauro NESPOLI     Takaharu FURUKAWA       Gold Medal Match     Mete Gazoz   6 - 4  Mauro Nespoli    Bronze Medal Match     Takaharu Furukawa   7 - 3  Tang Chih-Chun    Full Brackets Here Ranking Round Results Here

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 

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 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.

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