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True. You are 100% right. And I didn't forget Turling surely. Let's say he is currently 4th in my predictions. He's the one to watch next season for sure. If people get interested in this thread, when we finish day 16 I can come back to square one and update all these predictions according to all suggestions and comments we will hopefully see here

@dullard can you please remind me this Italian swimming site with all the top lists and stats, I somehow lost it...

Coming next on Day 2, Sun 28.07 15. ARCHERY - W Team 16. CANOE SLALOM - W K1 17. FENCING - M Epee Ind 18. FENCING - W Foil Ind 19. JUDO - W -52kg 20. JUDO - M -66kg 21. MOUNTAIN BIKE - W Cross-country 22. SHOOTING - M Air Pistol 23. SHOOTING - W Air Pistol 24. SKATEBOARDING - W Street 25. SWIMMING - M 400m IM 26. SWIMMING - W 100m Fly 27. SWIMMING - M 100m Breast

Thanks for your comment! You are probably right. My explaination for 2. Ledecky 3. McIntosh would be: Ledecky uses her experience in the final, not chasing Titmus too hard from the beginning and concentrating on beating the Canadian. And McIntosh will be nervous as hell, not as much as in the 2023 WCH final but still... Fortunately, this time she gets bronze. But no worries - SPOILERS ALERT - McIntosh will not leave my Imaginary Paris olympics without gold... :-) Gold for AUS in 4x100m relay - because Chalmers won't be too far away when he starts the anchor leg and he will do his magic trick again... Anyway, Aussies on the top of the medal table after Day One. Congrats! Best result for POL - hmmm.. 5th place in Mixed 10m Air Rifle Shooting event...

Ok, so day 1 is done and dusted. I am very interested in your comments, predictions, thoughts and critics. But please remember: 1. i am doing this just for FUN, this is just a joke and i don't have much time for some research so it will be pretty random 2. i am obviously not an expert in any olympic sports and i don't know much about 75% of olympic sports, either so I will focus on the recent WCH results, world rankings and some personal sympathies 3. please please - don't be too harsh on other users in the comments here Now i will wait if anyone wants to join this thing with his/her own predictions and i will do Day 2 when I find some free time

Medal table after Day 1 (14 events) 3-1-1---5 2-0-1---3 2-0-1---3 2-0-0---2 1-5-0---6 1-0-0---1 1-0-0---1 1-0-0---1 1-0-0---1 0-2-2---4 0-1-0---1 0-1-0---1 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 0-0-1---1 0-0-1---1

1. DIVING - W Synchro 3m Springboard 1. China 2. United States 3. Great Britain Similar results to 2023 WCH, but this time USA will be able to repeat their qualifying score in the final 2. FENCING - W Epee Ind 1. Marie-Florence Candassamy FRA 2. Vivian Kong HKG 3. Alberta Santuccio ITA Candassamy, current World Champion and no. 1 in world rankings, winning gold on home soil in style. Allez Les Bleus! 3. FENCING - M Sabre Ind 1. Sandro Bazadze GEO 2. Eli Dershwitz USA 3. Aron Szilagyi HUN Bazadze making revenge for the 2023 WCH final 4. JUDO - W -48kg 1. Natsumi Tsunoda JPN 2. Assunta Scutto ITA 3. Shirine Boukli FRA 3. Milica Nikolic SRB Tsunoda coming from behind with an ippon in the final seconds, a final for the ages 5. JUDO - M -60kg 1. Ryuju Nagayama JPN 2. Francisco Garrigos ESP 3. Dilshodbek Baratov UZB 3. Balabay Aghayev AZE 2nd gold for JPN, Nagayama instead of Takato in the olympic tournament turns out to be a good choice 6. ROAD CYCLING - M Ind Time Trial 1. Remco Evenepoel BEL 2. Tadej Pogacar SLO 3. Filippo Ganna ITA Day 1 is pretty good for current World Champions, so Evenepoel gets gold as well. But it is very close race, all three medalists within 15 seconds 7. ROAD CYCLING - W Ind Time Trial 1. Chloe Dygert USA 2. Demi Vollering NED 3. Grace Brown AUS First gold of the games for Team USA 8. RUGBY SEVENS - M Tournament 1. Fiji 2. New Zealand 3. Argentina Aaaaand Fiji wins again, never underestimate the heart of the champion, they say... Ireland 4th after last-minute try by Argentina 9. SHOOTING - Mixed Team 10m Air Rifle 1. China 2. India 3. Iran Iran hard-won bronze against hosts 10. SKATEBOARDING - M Street 1. Aurelien Giraud FRA 2. Nyjah Huston USA 3. Gustavo Ribeiro POR And 2nd gold for France on Day 1, no surprise here as well 11. SWIMMING - M 400m Free 1. Ahmed Hafnaoui TUN 2. Samuel Short AUS 3. Lukas Martens GER This time Tunisia gets gold from Lane 4, not 8 12. SWIMMING - W 400m Free 1. Ariarne Titmus AUS 2. Katie Ledecky USA 3. Summer McIntosh CAN McIntosh gets her first medal here, much better race for her than 2023 WCH 13. SWIMMING - W 4x100m Free Relay 1. Australia 2. United States 3. China Aussies with WR, obviously 14. SWIMMING - M 4x100m Free Relay 1. Australia 2. Italy 3. Great Britain Chalmers denying Ceccon by 0,01 sec. GBR didn't get DSQ this time. But US did.

Any ideas, folks?

Day 1 Sat 27.07 1. DIVING - W Synchro 3m Springboard 2. FENCING - W Epee Ind 3. FENCING - M Sabre Ind 4. JUDO - W -48kg 5. JUDO - M -60kg 6. ROAD CYCLING - M Ind Time Trial 7. ROAD CYCLING - W Ind Time Trial 8. RUGBY SEVENS - M Tournament 9. SHOOTING - Mixed Team 10m Air Rifle 10. SKATEBOARDING - M Street 11. SWIMMING - M 400m Free 12. SWIMMING - W 400m Free 13. SWIMMING - W 4x100m Free Relay 14. SWIMMING - M 4x100m Free Relay

Day by Day predictions, probably all wrong.

I think it is very possible that and will meet in the final again

Oh, that was a great match.

Time for RSA vs SCO a good moment to remind me one of my fav tv commercials ever 😉 ladies and gents, Faf de Klerk https://www.tiktok.com/@worldrugby/video/6745409146230787334

M Long Jump 8.27 (32) Q 2023.07.01 - ... Q Wayne Pinnock 8.54 (1) Q Miltiadis Tentoglou 8.52 (1) Q Yu-tang Lin 8.40 (1) Q . Sreeshankar 8.37 (1) Q Jianan Wang 8.34 (1) Q Tajay Gayle 8.27 (2) Q Carey McLeod 8.27 (3) M Triple Jump 17.22 (32) Q 2023.07.01 - ... Q Jaydon Hibbert 17.70 (1) Q Hugues Fabrice Zango 17.64 (1) Q Lazaro Martinez 17.51 (1) Q Andy Diaz Hernandez 17.43 (1) *** Q Cristian Napoles 17.40 (2) Q Yasser Mohammed Triki 17.32 (1) Q Almir Dos Santos 17.24 (1) Q Donald Scott 17.22 (1)

M High Jump 2.33 (32) Q 2023.07.01 - ... Q Mutaz Essa Barshim 2.36 (1) Q Gianmarco Tamberi 2.36 (1) Q JuVaughn Harrison 2.36 (1) Q Tobias Potye 2.34 (1) Q Luis Enrique Zayas 2.33 (1) Q Hamish Kerr 2.33 (1) M Pole Vault 5.82 (32) Q 2023.07.01 - ... Q Armand Duplantis 6.10 (1) Q Ernest John Obiena 6.00 (1) Q Kurtis Marschall 5.95 (1) Q Christopher Nilsen 5.95 (1) Q Sam Kendricks 5.95 (2) Q Ersu Sasma 5.90 (1) Q Thibaut Collet 5.90 (1) Q Zach McWhorter 5.86 (3) - KC Lightfoot 5.85 (4) Q Bo Kanda Lita Baehre 5.82 (1) Q Claudio Michel Stecchi 5.82 (1) Q Piotr Lisek 5.82 (1) Q Emmanouil Karalis 5.82 (1) Q Sondre Guttormsen 5.82 (1)

Yes, thank you! I forgot it existed. The only thing I would add here in this thread is the names of the ahletes from the NOCs where max quota is exceeded.

Yeah, that was pretty awful for ARG But i have a feeling your team will bounce back and match against JPN will be very exciting 2022 Football World Cup didn't start well for ARG and then... I don't say ARG will win the whole thing here ofc but i think they will show some good rugby here against JPN...

All this work you guys are doing here is simply excellent. I can't find anything like Road To Paris lists on WA website yet. Maybe we could work together and do sth like this here? To begin with we could scroll down all the pages in this thread and make the Q lists event by event. Maybe when the Diamond League ends or sth... We could split it for few parts and ask few users to do it. I could do M field events for example... Sth similar for swimming would be very useful as well.. what you think?

Watching the Monday Day 3 evening session again to refresh some Budapest memories (Swoboda 100m SF/F story) and i have one question about M triple jump - will Andy Diaz be eligible for ITA in Paris?

This weekend Rugby WC and US Open tennis. Maybe Basketball WC and Vuelta but i won’t find time for that i’m afraid. Next week off-sport: a family trip to Jordan 😉 and after that lots of sports and hopefully back to Imaginary Games Polls if anyone is interested.😉 And more and more Paris scheduling, qualifying and results simulations… 😉

BTW, Polish users. FRA vs NZL on Polsat Sport Fight TV channel tonight

Rugby World Cup Time! 💪 Beer is cold, snacks are ready! C’mon guys, entertain us!!!

Hey, Polish users? Do you know who will be broadcasting rugby WC this year in Poland? I would like to watch it online… 😉

Be careful with many SPOILERS in this thread. I am trying to do this simulation - day by day - according to the 2023 WCH results mainly, sometimes latest WCH results (2022 equestrian), some other major events (M Golf - Masters, Tennis - French Open) or some main series (rugby sevens) So there may be some fresh WCH results here sometimes (e.g. rowing WCH soon), be careful!

Day 1 Sat 27.07 1. DIVING – Women Synchro 3m Springboard (2023 WCH) 1. China (Chang Yani, Chen Yiwen) 2. Great Britain (Yasmin Harper, Scarlett Mew Jensen) 3. Italy (Elena Bertocchi, Chiara Pellacani) 2. FENCING – Women Epee (2023 WCH) 1. Marie-Florence Candassamy FRA 2. Alberta Santuccio ITA 3. Mara Navarria ITA / Sun Yiwen CHN 3. FENCING – Men Sabre (2023 WCH) 1. Eli Dershwitz USA 2. Sandro Bazadze GEO 3. Ziad El-Sissy EGY / Aron Szilagyi HUN 4. JUDO – Women -48kg (2023 WCH) 1. Natsumi Tsunoda JPN 2. Shirine Boukli FRA 3. Wakana Koga JPN / Assunta Scutto ITA (Abiba Abuzhakynova KAZ 5th) 5. JUDO – Men -60kg (2023 WCH) 1. Francisco Garrigos ESP 2. Dilshodbek Baratov UZB 3. Giorgi Sardalashvili GEO / Lee Ha-rim KOR 6. ROAD CYCLING – Men Ind. Time Trial (2023 WCH0 1. Remco Evenepoel BEL 2. Filippo Ganna ITA 3. Josh Tarling GBR 7. ROAD CYCLING – Women Ind. Time Trial (2023 WCH) 1. Chloe Dygert USA 2. Grace Brown AUS 3. Christina Schweinberger AUT 8. RUGBY SEVENS – Men (2022-23 Seven Series) 1. New Zealand 2. Argentina 3. Fiji 9. SHOOTING – Mixed Team 10m Air Rifle (2023 WCH) 1. China (Huang Yuting, Sheng Lihao) 2. Iran (Shermineh Chehel Amirani, Amir Mohammad Nekounam) 3. France (Oceanne Muller, Romain Aufrere) 1 SKATEBOARDING – Men Skeet (2023 WCH) 1. Aurelien Giraud FRA 2. Gustavo Ribeiro POR 3. Ginwoo Onodera JPN 1SWIMMING – Men 400m Freestyle (2023 WCH) 1. Samuel Short AUS 2. Ahmed Hafnaoui TUN 3. Lukas Martens GER 1 SWIMMING – Women 400m Freestyle (2023 WCH) 1. Ariarne Titmus AUS 2. Katie Ledecky USA 3. Erika Fairweather NZL SWIMMING – Women 4x100m Freestyle Relay (2023 WCH) 1. Australia (Mollie O’Callaghan, Shayna Jack, Meg Harris, Emma McKeon) 2. United States (Gretchen Walsh, Abbey Weitzeil, Olivia Smoliga, Katie Douglass) 3. China (Cheng Yujie, Yang Junxuan, Wu Qingfeng, Zhang Yufei) 1 SWIMMING – Men 4x100m Freestyle Relay (2023 WCH) 1. Australia (Jack Cartwright, Flynn Southam, Kai Taylor, Kyle Chalmers) 2. Italy (Alessandro Miressi, Manuel Frigo, Lorenzo Zazzeri, Thomas Ceccon) 3. United States (Ryan Held, Jack Alexy, Chris Guiliano, Matt King) Day 2 Sun 28.07 1ARCHERY – Women Team (2023 WCH) 1. Germany (Katharina Bauer, Michelle Kroppen, Charline Schwarz) 2. France (Audrey Adiceom, Lisa Barbelin, Caroline Lopez) 3. Mexico (Aida Roman, Angela Ruiz, Alejandra Valencia) 1 CANOE SLALOM – Women K1 (2023 WCH) 1. 2. 3. 1 FENCING – Men Epee (2023 WCH) 1. Mate Tamas Koch HUN 2. Davide Di Veroli ITA 3. Romain Cannone FRA / Ruslan Kurbanov KAZ 1 FENCING – Women Foil (2023 WCH) 1. Alice Volpi ITA 2. Arianna Errigo ITA 3. Martina Favaretto ITA / Lee Kiefer USA 1 JUDO – Women -52kg (2023 WCH) 1. Uta Abe JPN 2. Diyora Keldiyorova UZB 3. Amandine Buchard FRA / Odette Giuffrida ITA JUDO – Men -66kg (2023 WCH) 1. Hifumi Abe JPN 2. Joshiro Maruyama JPN / Yondonperenlein Baskhuu MGL (3rd) 3. Walide Khyar FRA / Vazha Margvelashvili GEO (5th) 2 MOUNTAIN BIKE – W Cross-country (2023 WCH) 1. Pauline Ferrand-Prevot FRA 2. Loana Lecomte FRA 3. Puck Pieterse NED SHOOTING – Men 10m Air Pistol (2023 WCH) 1. Zhang Bowen CHN 2. Damir Mikec SRB 3. Kiril Kirov BUL 2SHOOTING – Women 10m Air Pistol (2023 WCH) 1. Jiang Ranxin CHN 2. Anna Korakaki GRE 3. Li Xue CHN 2 SKATEBOARDING – Women Street (2023 WCH) 1. Rayssa Leal BRA 2. Chloe Covell AUS 3. Momiji Nishiya JPN 2 SWIMMING – Men 400m Ind Medley (2023 WCH) 1. Leon Marchand FRA 2. Carson Foster USA 3. Daiya Seto JPN 2 SWIMMING – Women 100m Fly (2023 WCH) 1. Zhang Yufei CHN 2. Maggie Mac Neil CAN 3. Torri Huske USA 2 SWIMMING – Men 100m Breaststroke (2023 WCH) 1. Qin Hayang CHN 2. Nicolo Martinenghi ITA / Arno Kamminga NED / Nic Fink USA Day 3 Mon 29.07 2ARCHERY – Men Team (2023 WCH) 1. Korea Republic (Kim Woo-jin, Kim Je-deok, Lee Woo-seok) 2. Turkey (Mete Gazoz, Ulas Berkim Tumer, Abdullah Yildirmis) 3. Japan (Takaharu Furukawa, Junya Nakanishi, Fumiya Saito) 2 ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS – Men Team (2023 WCH) 1. 2. 3. 3 CANOE SLALOM – Men C1 (2023 WCH) 1. 2. 3. 3 DIVING – Men Synchro 10m Platform (2023 WCH) 1. China (Lian Junjie, Yang Hao) 2. Ukraine (Kirill Boliukh, Oleksiy Sereda) 3. Mexico (Kevin Berlin, Randal Willars) EQUESTRIAN – Eventing Team (2022 WCH) 1. Germany 2. United States 3. New Zealand 3EQUESTRIAN – Eventing Individual (2022 WCH) 1. Yasmin Ingham GBR on Banzai du Loir 2. Julia Krajewski GER on Amande de B’Neville 3. Tim Price NZL on Falco 3 FENCING – Men Foil (2023 WCH) 1. Tommaso Marini ITA 2. Nick Itkin USA 3. Kyosuke Matsuyama JPN / Enzo Lefort FRA 3 FENCING – Women Sabre (2023 WCH) 1. Misaki Emura JPN 2. Despina Georgiadou GRE 3. Theodora Gkontoura GRE / Yoana Ilieva BUL 3JUDO – Women -57kg (2023 WCH) 1. Christa Deguchi CAN 2. Haruka Funakubo JPN 3. Lkhagvatogoogiin Enkhriilen MGL / Jessica Klimkait CAN / Hasret Bozkurt TUR (5th) JJUDO – Men -73kg (2023 WCH) 1. Nils Stump SUI 2. Manuel Lombardo ITA 3. Soichi Hashimoto JPN / Murodjon Yuldoshev UZB 3 MOUNTAIN BIKE – Men Cross-country (2023 WCH) 1. Tom Pidcock GBR 2. Sam Gaze NZL 3. Nino Schurter SUI 3SHOOTING – Men 10m Air Rifle (2023 WCH) 1. Victor Lindgren SWE 2. Yang Haoran CHN 3. Frantisek Smetana CZE 4 SHOOTING – Women 10m Air Rifle (2023 WCH) 1. Han Jiayu CHN 2. Wang Zhilin CHN 3. Mehuli Ghosh IND 4SWIMMING – Women 400m Ind Medley (2023 WCH) 1. Summer McIntosh CAN 2. Katie Grimes USA 3. Jenna Forrester AUS 4SWIMMING – Men 200m Freestyle (2023 WCH) 1. Matt Richards GBR 2. Tom Dean GBR 3. Hwang Sun-woo KOR 4 SWIMMING – Men 100m Backstroke (2023 WCH) 1. Ryan Murphy USA 2. Thomas Ceccon ITA 3. Hunter Armstrong USA 4SWIMMING – Women 100m Breaststroke (2023 WCH) 1. Ruta Meilutyte LTU 2. Tatjana Schoenmaker RSA 3. Lydia Jacoby USA 4 SWIMMING – Women 200m Freestyle (2023 WCH) 1. Mollie O’Callaghan AUS 2. Ariarne Titmus AUS 3. Summer McIntosh CAN (Siobhan Haughey HKG 4th) Day 4 Tue 30.07 ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS – Women Team (2023 WCH) FENCING – Women Epee Team (2023 WCH) 1. Poland (Renata Knapik-Miazga, Magdalena Pawłowska, Martyna Swatowska-Wenglarczyk, Ewa Trzebińska) 2. Italy (Rossella Fiamingo, Federica Isola, Mara Navarria, Alberta Santuccio) 3. Korea Republic (Choi In-jeong, Kang Young-mi, Lee Hye-in, Song Se-ra) 4JUDO – Women -63kg (2023 WCH) 1. Clarisse Agbegnenou FRA 2. Andreja Leski SLO 3. Szofi Ozbas HUN / Joanne van Lieshout NED 4 JUDO – Men -81kg (2023 WCH) 1. Tato Grigalashvili GEO 2. Matthias Casse BEL 3. Takanori Nagase JPN / Lee Joon-hwan KOR 5 RUGBY SEVENS – Women (2022/23 Seven Series) 1. New Zealand 2. Australia 3. United States 5 SHOOTING – Mixed Team 10m Air Pistol (2023 WCH) 1. India (Esha Singh, Shiva Narwal) 2. Turkey (Sevval Ilayda Tarhan, Yusuf Dikec) 3. China (Jiang Ranxin, Zhang Bowen) 5 SHOOTING – Men Trap (2023 WCH) 1. Giovanni Cernogoraz CRO 2. Marian Kovacocy SVK 3. Khaled Al-Mudhaf KUW 5SURFING – Men 5SURFING – Women SWIMMING – Women 100m Back (2023 WCH) 1. Kaylee McKeown AUS 2. Regan Smith USA 3. Katharine Berkoff USA 5SWIMMING – Men 800m Free (2023 WCH) 1. Ahmed Hafnaoui TUN 2. Samuel Short AUS 3. Bobby Finke USA 5 SWIMMING – Men 4x200m Free Relay (2023 WCH) 1. Great Britain (Duncan Scott, Matthew Richards, James Guy, Tom Dean) 2. United States (Luke Hobson, Carson Foster, Jake Mitchell, Kieran Smith) 3. Australia (Kai Taylor, Kyle Chalmers, Alexander Graham, Thomas Neill) 5TABLE TENNIS – Mixed Doubles (2023 WCH) 1. China (Wang Chuxin, Sun Yingsha) 2. Japan (Hina Hayata, Tomokazu Harimoto) 3. Hong Kong (Wong Chun-ting, Doo Hoi Kem) / China (Kuai Man, Lin Shidong) 5 TRIATHLON – Men Ind