Quasit

You can pick 5 athletes/teams across all sports. Choose teams/athletes you think are the surest to win a gold medal by your knowledge. Let's compare how many you got right at the end of the Olympic Games. Please limit your picks to five so I can count them in! 1 - Sport - Athlete/Team 2 - Sport - Athlete/Team 3 - Sport - Athlete/Team 4 - Sport - Athlete/Team 5 - Sport - Athlete/Team -------------------------------------------- (8) National Team - Table Tennis - Men's Team (7) National Team - Artistic Swmming - Women's Team (5) National Team - Artistic Swmming - Women's Duet (5) National Team - Basketball - Women's Team (5) National Team - Table Tennis - Women's Team (3) Katie Ledecky - Swimming - Women's 1500m Freestyle (3) National Team - Water Polo - Women's Team (3) Lasha Talakhadze - Weightlifting - Men's +109kg (2) National Team - Artistic Gymnastics - Women's Team (2) Simone Biles - Artistic Gymnastics - Women's All-Around (2) Yulimar Rojas - Athletics - Women's Triple Jump (2) National Team - Rhythmic Gymnastics - Women's Group (2) Adam Peaty - Swimming - Men's 100m Breaststroke (2) Wang Zhouyu - Weightlifting - Women's -87kg (2) Li Wenwen - Weightlifting - Women's +87kg (1) National Team - Archery - Women's Team (1) Simone Biles - Artistic Gymnastics - Women's Floor (1) Simone Biles - Artistic Gymnastics - Women's Vault (1) Armand Duplantis - Athletics - Men's Pole Vault (1) Johannes Vetter - Athletics - Men's Javelin Throw (1) National Team - Athletics - Mixed 4x400m Relay (1) National Team - Basketball - Men's Team (1) Jessica Fox - Canoeing - Women's Slalom C-1 (1) Chloe Dygert - Cycling - Women's Road Time Trial (1) Cao Yuan/Chen Aisen - Diving - Men's Synchronized 10m Platform (1) Shi Tingmao/Wang Han - Diving - Women's Synchronized 3m Springboard (1) Shohei Ono - Judo - Men's -73kg (1) Ryo Kiyuna - Karate - Men's Kata (1) Dina/Arina Averina - Rhythmic Gymnastics - Women's All-Around (1) Janja Garnbret - Sports Climbing - Women's Combined (1) National Team - Swimming - Women's 4x100m Freestyle Relay (1) Jonathan Brownlee - Triathlon - Men's Race (1) Liao Qiuyun - Weightlifting - Women's -55kg (1) Kuo Hsing-chun - Weightlifting - Women's -59kg (1) Neisi Dajomes - Weightlifting - Women's -76kg (1) Yui Susaki - Wrestling - Women's Freestyle -50kg (1) Hassan Yazdani - Wrestling - Men's Freestyle -86kg Of course Russia will participate as ROC at the Tokyo Olympics.

@OlympicIRL I like the Rugby Sevens pattern.

Don't exaggerate, it's just football.

And not much happening in 90+ minutes. It's just about the tension.

Do you mean this?

Ah, that's basically what I do with vegetables. Guess I'm more a vegetable person but I have to say I do love apple ssamjang (Korean hot dipping paste that includes apples). Maybe you could also get into a rhythm with, dare I say it ... olives.

I'm jealous you guys eat so many fruits. I avoid so many of them because of texture and aftertaste unless I make a smoothie out of it or something.

A Danish online friend has told me the other day he's not willing to get vaccinated anymore (he wanted to before) because apparently a notable Danish doctor said something like "Young people, don't get vaccinated. We don't know what it'll do to you long-term." He didn't mention who this doctor was and how credible it is. Have you heard anything about it? But yeah, something like this can influence lots of people too.

A long shot but maybe in longer running events, you never know with the marathon.

It's rare for me but I'll be happy with any of those four winning.

You could argue that shared advantage is better than giving advantage to one team. Alternatively, you could have a host whose team is not qualified, then it'd be fair as nobody had an advantage.

Some dishes I made recently... If you have some ideas, I'm always open. As long as it's not too complex.

And in table tennis are amazing.

Silver platter for Turkey and Colombia and they have messed it up.

I'd say Aida can stay now.

One has to wonder how they defeated the Dutch 4-2.

It would be nice if Australia improved on the results from the Rio games (so winning more than 3 golds, 10 total).

I'd say Ukraine were the hardest opponent.

@Laraja What is the Aloha Cup and why wasn't it held this time but in 2019? Also, could it be some nations didn't take it seriously? The team results look strange, there's no way USA and Brazil are ranked that low but it was mentioned before some Brazilians abandoned early.

Thanks again for playing, @OlympicIRL. Was a nice evening. As for the quiz, with so much to follow this summer, I'm going into a "summer break" here but I may have a sports-only special before the Olympics (in hope to attract somebody new too ). That will still likely be part of Season 2. Regular quiz rounds (new third season) then sometime after the Olympics.

Yeah... nope. All of them were leaders in different crusades but only one of those in the third: Frederick Barbarossa. Pts. 250,000 Who died as army leader of the Third Crusade by drowning in the Saleph river? ♦ A: Louis VII ♦ B: Frederick Barbarossa ♦ C: Boniface of Montferrat ♦ D: Leopold the Glorious

@OlympicIRL Any preferred answer here?