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Thanks everyone for joining the thread. Feel free to make your complete predictions like @Josh but when you want to do it in certain sports only, that would be great as well!!!

I wonder if Eddie Jones has booked his flight to Japan already… 🤦🏻

This is pretty awesome that small nations like Fiji Samoa and Tonga can be so good in a team sport. Respect i’ve just told my family i want a Fiji rugby shirt for Christmas hah

Flying Fijians 💪

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Looks like Fiji goes to the Last 8! Ha!!!

And how about Vollering in the time trial?

The weakest AUS team ever???

Both teams should play their best squads because it is better to qualify a year earlier than wait for the rankings outcome. But i think both will be in Paris in the end.

We will both qualify, one of our teams via ranking. This match is not that relevant imho

While watching a nice game of rugby SCO vs TGA, I was thinking about your comments here and I guess you are absolutely right about McIntosh chances vs Ledecky in W 400m free. 3.56.08 vs 3.58.73 on 2023 LC world lists is a big difference. So i have decided to upgrade McIntosh to silver and Ledecky gets bronze. The rest stays the same. Turling is close 4th in M time trial. AUS still beat ITA in m relay by a smallest difference possible. So it looks like that now: Day 1 Sat 27.07 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. Summer McIntosh CAN 3. Katie Ledecky USA McIntosh gets her first medal here, much better race for her than 2023 WCH (updated, because previously I thought it could be 2. Ledecky 3. McIntosh) 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. Medal table after Day 1 (14 events) 3-1-1---5 2-0-1---3 2-0-1---3 2-0-0---2 1-4-1---6 1-0-0---1 1-0-0---1 1-0-0---1 1-0-0---1 0-2-2---4 0-2-0---2 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

@Grassmarket have you seen it???? CONGRATS!!!

I made similar thread before Tokyo and my predictions were total disaster :-))) we will see if this time i will be better in this thing https://totallympics.com/forums/topic/2360-tokyo-2020-day-after-day-as-it-could-have-happened/#comments

Thanks a lot, this site rulez!!!

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