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@rajiv And Aussies are leading the medal table after Event #17 in our early Paris 2024 prediction polls So... no worries!!!

@Topicmaster1010 we will be waiting for version 2.0 in December with a great interest. But - for the time being - could you please share with us some info from time to time? Like, certain NOCs - which events they will qualify??? I know you have spent so much time on it already and don't want you to spend much time now again. So maybe you could start with some smaller NOCs, it won't take much time. Like e.g.

Good thing is we don't see 15 countries. 15 NOCs at the olympics, could you imagine that? Would be boring as hell.

Yes, you are 100% right. It seems to be eurocentric. What can we do to change the tide here? Firstly, I would invite You to join our voting if You wish. And i think a choice of events so far may be a factor here. And maybe (maaaybe) AUS has many golds in the olympic history, but they don't have that many events when they were GOATs. OR when they were popular's votes darlings. For example, i was pretty surprised that Matthew Mitcham has got only my wote in 10m Platform Diving competition... @dullard any thoughts on this???

Denis Kudla, USA is a LL and will play Safiullin today. No Kyrgios vs Rune battle in 3rd though... Good.

Personally I won't miss the guy. Not a fan, to say the least. Olivia Gadecki is through to the 2nd round. Polish roots I guess.

These are olympic champions in certain events. Imagine that all these champions are on the top of their game at the very same moment in time. Who would have won gold?

Nick Kyrgios won't play at AO 2023.

@Sindo could you put a link to this Topicmaster1010 post on the front page somehow???

Yo! Time for a snowboarding poll, dudes.

If you don’t mind , could you put here details about certain NOCs? e.g. How did you count it for Team Poland? What events are these 15 rowers for example???

@Topicmaster1010 oh sweet lord, what an effort! Respect. how much time does it take you to prepare sth like that???

LA 1984 day 2 summary Medal table (17 events) 6-4-4---14 4-2-3---9 3-1-0---4 2-1-2---5 1-5-1---7 1-3-1---5 0-1-2---3 0-0-3---3 0-0-1---1 0-0-1---1 Only 10 NOCs on the medal table after Day 2. How different this is these days...

Day 2 events : Cycling Track - Men's Individual Time Trial 1km 1. Sergei Kopylov URS 1.03.56 (FR1) 2. Maic Malchov GDR 1.04.17 (FR2) 3. Milan Hajek TCH 1.05.67 (FR3) In this event, times were better at Friendships but every track is different, so I don't know what times would these guys get in LA. Shooting - Men's 50m Rifle Prone 1. Petar Zapryanov BUL 599 (FR1) 2. Edward Etzel USA 599 (LA1) 3. Sergey Ivanenko URS 598 (FR2) Here we need a shoot-off between BUL and USA athletes. I said gold for BUL - USA was on home soil, but BUL athlete was more experienced. He already had medal in 1980 olympics. So maybe he could be better... Swimming - Men's 4x200m Freestyle Relay 1. United States 7.15.69 (LA1) 2. West Germany 7.15.73 (LA2) 3. East Germany 7.20.78 (FR1) M 4x200 free final in LA was a swim-for-ages!!! Check it out if you haven't seen it yet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4R0Mgiqs5g Swimming - Men's 100m Butterfly 1. Michael Gross FRG 53.08 (LA1) 2. Pablo Morales USA 53.23 (LA2) 3. Glenn Buchanan AUS 53.85 (LA3) This race was good as well. I wonder if Albatros would lose 4x200 if he didn't compete in 100 fly final on the same day before... Swimming - Men's 400m Individual Medley 1. Alex Baumann CAN 4.17.41 (LA1) 2. Jens-Peter Berndt GDR 4.18.29 (FR1) 3. Ricardo Prado BRA 4.18.45 (LA2) Swimming - Women's 200m Freestyle 1. Mary Wayte USA 1.59.23 (LA1) 2. Kristin Otto GDR 1.59.48 (FR1) 3. Cynthia Woodhead USA 1.49.50 (LA2) Swimming - Women's 200m Breaststroke 1. Larisa Byelokon URS 2.29.13 (FR1) 2. Sylvia Gerasch GDR 2.29.62 (FR2) 3. Anne Ottenbrite CAN 2.30.38 (LA1) Weightlifting - Men's 56kg (Bantamweight) 1. Naim Suleimanov BUL 297.5 (FR1) 2. Oksen Mirzoyan URS 295.0 (FR2) 3. Wu Shude CHN 267.5 (LA1) That is second LA-weightlifting Chinese gold lost in a row. This is quite obvious that 1984 boycott helped China a lot to shine on olympic stage for the first time. Anyway, Naim Suleimanov aka Suleymanoglu would get his first olympic gold here, this one for Bulgaria.

This 1976 boycott was not good. I don't think it helped the cause actually. And it gave a green-light for the 1980 and 1984 boycotts somehow... And you are right, Bayi would be a gold medal contender in 1976. It wouldn't be easy for Garderud and Malinowski to beat him in Montreal.

Updated after Event #207 (Poll #47). First medals for and in this series, Congrats!!!

Updated after Event #207 (Poll #47).

Results BOXING - Women's Middleweight 1. Claressa Shields USA 2. Lauren Price GBR 3. Nouchka Fontijn NED 3. Li Qian CHN (T) BOXING - Women's Lightweight 1. Katie Taylor IRL 2. Kellie Harrington IRL* 3. Estelle Mossely FRA 3. Beatriz Ferreira BRA (T) DIVING - Women's 10m Synchronized 10m Platform 1. China 2. Malaysia 3. Canada Thanks for voting!!!

Updated after Event #5 (Poll #4).

Results M Moguls 1. Mikael Kingsbury CAN 2. Alexandre Bilodeau CAN (T) 3. Walter Wallberg SWE (T) W Moguls 1. Justine Dufour-Lapointe CAN 2. Perrine Laffont FRA 3. Hannah Kearney USA (T) Thanks for voting!

Day 2 events, partial. 15. SWIMMING - Men's 100m Breaststroke 1. Adam Peaty GBR 2. Andrius Sidlauskas LTU 3. Nicolo Martinenghi ITA 16. SWIMMING - Men's 400m Individual Medley 1. Leon Marchand FRA 2. Daiya Seto JPN 3. Duncan Scott GBR 17. SWIMMING - Women's 100m Butterfly 1. Margaret Macneil CAN 2. Torri Huske USA 3. Emma McKeon AUS

@Belle please don't turn your back on us. Terribly sorry for this handball thing. It was stupid. This particular thread doesn't make any sense without news about from you.

MEDAL TABLE on Day 2 (Event #17) 3-0-1---4 2-1-1---4 2-0-0---2 1-3-2---6 1-3-0---4 1-2-2---5 1-2-1---4 1-1-0---2 1-0-2---3 1-0-0---1 1-0-0---1 1-0-0---1 1-0-0---1 0-1-1---2 0-1-0---1 0-1-0---1 0-1-0---1 0-1-0---1 0-0-2---2 0-0-1---1 0-0-1---1 0-0-1---1 0-0-1---1 0-0-1---1 0-0-1---1 0-0-1---1

Thanks for voting! Our results are: SWIMMING - Men's 100m Breaststroke 1. Adam Peaty GBR 2. Andrius Sidlauskas LTU 3. Nicolo Martinenghi ITA First gold for Team GB! And first medal for Lithuania in Paris, next one in Women's 100m Breast??? SWIMMING - Men's 400m Individual Medley 1. Leon Marchand FRA 2. Daiya Seto JPN (T) 3. Duncan Scott GBR (T) Allez Les Bleus! First gold for the hosts in these polls!!! No medal for USA in this event is quite a surprise imo. I think Carson Foster may be the strongest opponent for Marchand and should get a medal. SWIMMING - Women's 100m Butterfly 1. Margaret Macneil CAN 2. Torri Huske USA (T) 3. Emma McKeon AUS (T) First gold for CAN! Macneil in comfortable lead, but there was a close battle for positions 2nd to 8th.

I'll stick to Tanzania but I'm afraid there won't be so much to write about them here. And you wrote that second NOC for one user is possible... What do you think - is CYPRUS suitable for this thread???