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Nightmare scenario from a Chinese perspective but an absolutely amazing final.

Meanwhile 2-2 in the final between China and Japan with Japan coming back from being 0-2 behind.

And there is the first ever gold for the Philippines.

Gbagbi wins a bronze! Taekwondo never disappoints in diversity among medal-winning NOCs. Why not add one more weight to each gender? Wouldn't mind a team event either.

Lin/Cheng easily defeated the French Lebesson/Yuan 4-0 for bronze.

Denmark and Kuwait guaranteed medals!

That was extremely close. Did not expect this final to be that close and exciting.

Japan had the Koreans on the verge of losing in the SF. Just lost the shoot-off.

You're right, tie for 4th with Verrasztó.

Surprising but it has been a while since Chile won something.

I thought it might be interesting to see how the mood swings during these games so after every second day I'm adding a poll here. Choose a number between 0 and 10 and share your feelings towards the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. It should reflect on your mood. It doesn't matter if it's about the atmosphere, the organisation, results or all of it. If requested, I can also make the poll anonymous next time.

That depends on what you were hoping for. Someone expected 70 medals but that was never within reach. I would have said around 50 total - which is a considerable drop from Rio already - but now I'm at around 30-35. Many "flagship" sports are falling apart like rowing and athletics and I don't expect track cycling to save the medal count either. Gymnastics is also not great. Taekwondo looked very good a while ago but it is clear that many athletes train for this moment at the Olympics. So you can't go by world championship golds from two years ago either. Don't know about sailing and I don't care about equestrian. Also, for one of the "big guns", GB ignores many sports way too much. Handball, basketball, volleyball, water polo almost non-existent. Even a sport that has 18 medal events (wrestling), totally ignored, same can be said about fencing, badminton and sprint canoeing. Not even many tennis players to be seen. When some sports don't produce the desired results, it's good to have a backup. With cuts in funding because the results are not as good as you were targetting you'll just kill more sports. So yes, right now it does not look good. Ultimately, not every country can always have good results. There will always be a disappointment somewhere.

40 NOCs in the medal table already, which is 9 more than in Rio at this stage. The expected top-three countries are running away early. , and collecting more medals than five years ago at this early stage (USA 3-5-4, China 3-2-3 and USA 1-0-6). Especially impressive the Americans considering there were no medals won yesterday. Australia not yet able to get close to their superb start of 3-0-3 and also Italy having dropped slightly compared to Rio (2-3-2). Sweden with no medal yet when they had one gold and a silver in comparison. Very impressed by Tunisia and there are more chances left along the way. The Dutch team not looking like they will finish 5th in the medal table and 48 medals total. Have already blown some chances for that. Not to mention being unlucky with Covid in rowing. 4th place counter* (3) - (2) - (1) - and the Refugee Olympic Team *5th places in events that award two bronze medals

The expected final between Xu/Liu and Mizutani/Ito tomorrow in the debuting mixed doubles. Has taken the Japanese a bit more effort to reach the final. Xu/Liu should be the favourites regardless.

I see. That wouldn't stop me from supporting someone, although you gave a promise and if you can't fulfill that promise, then maybe you shouldn't marry. It's something they value in Japan.

So what's his story?

What a lift by Konnai. I would have probably dropped the barbell for safety reasons.

Korea undefeated since 1988 in Women's Team.

Nice final.

Szilágyi showed how it's done yesterday.

I don't know, I for one enjoy a lot of streams without commentary but just ambience and the sound of sports quite a lot.

Already 28 countries after Day 1 compared to Rio (20 countries and one event more back then). Having taekwondo early helps. Australia and USA with the worst start compared to Rio ( 2-0-1; 1-4-0) but no swimming finals have been held yet. On the other hand, China has started very well in terms of gold medal placing compared to 5 years ago ( 0-2-3).

Seto.

Wow, cool podium.

South Korea having some trouble in their sport as of late. They might also have a bad Olympics. Other than archery I don't see where a lot of other medals should come from...