vinipereira

Yes, good for her, especially considering is her debut year as a senior. Unfortunately, she had a fall performing on the beam, which was by far her best chance of a medal.

Of course our main hope for a medal is out injured (Rebeca Andrade). She now has missed the Youth Olympics, Pan American Games and 2 World Championships because of injuries - her only big competition was, of course, the Rio Games. Honestly, I'm not sure if she will come back from this. At least she will always have the home Olympics to remember...

We'll have a new All-Around champion after a decade!

Wrong. She speaks portuguese (not perfect) in all interviews.

Isadora

2 medals for Brazil, one in a non-Olympic event and the other in a non-Paralympic event. But still, good result for us.

Ana Sátila

I thought so. Even though this is the biggest sports page in Brazil, the article uses as source only 1 person. Even if the matter has been discussed/approved, we must wait official confirmation. Anyway, if somehow this is real, I guess this mixed-nations teams wouldn't really be a threat for a medal, right?

I'm in!

I might be a little late to the party, but have you guys seen that maybe Equestrian will have Teams with athletes from different nations in 2020? From what I understood, athletes from nations that haven't qualified a full team will have a chance to take part in the team events, being part of mixed-NOCs groups. The information was "confirmed" by a FEI member (Luiz Roberto Giugni, former president of the brazilian federation), who says this will definitely happen in 2020. Article (in portuguese).

Rio Velodrome will host the 2018 Para Cycling Track World Championship.

https://www.paralympic.org/news/mexico-city-2017-world-championships-postponed

Night of tests at the Olympic Park for the music festival.

I'm going to Rio tomorrow and I'll have the opportunity to revisit the Olympic Park since I'll attend the Rock in Rio music festival this weekend. I found this video images from this week: From the video, we can see some things about the Rio venues: The Rio Olympic Arena (Gymnastics), formerly HSBC Arena, is now called Jeunesse Arena. It's probably the most used venue of the Park, there's sports and other big events regularly there. It's possible to see the damage at the roof of the Velodrome after the fire some months back. The repairs will cost "only" 200,000 reais (about 65,000 dollars) and will be paid with part of the money the music festival will bring - they will pay aproximately 1 million reais, which will also be used to transform the Carioca Arena 2 in a training center as a legacy for brazilian sports. The Cariocas Arenas will hold the Game XP (a big eSports event), which will happen at the same time as the music festival. The Future Arena (Handball) is still there, unfortunately. It was supposed to be desmantled already, but the new projection is for the next year. The Aquatics stadium "skeleton" is also there. Both pools (competition and warm up) were dismantled many months ago and will go to other states that don't have 50m pools. Unfortunately no one seems to be interested in the "junk" of metal around it - so far that the idea of dismantle the arena might be scraped in favour of doing another thing using the structure (a smaller football field, a recreational aquatics center, among other ideas, have been suggested, but nothing concrete so far). The Tennis Center hosted some beach volleyball matches this year and I hear is in talks to host future ATP events in Rio.

Man of the match:

Somehow the official site thinks that athletes from Venezuela are from Cote d'Ivoire

Del Potro

49er World Championship Gold: Dylan Fletcher-Scott Stuart Bithell Silver: James Peters Fynn Sterritt Bronze: Benjamin Bildstein David Hussl 49er FX World Championship Gold: Jena Mai Hansen Katja Salskov-Iversen Silver: Martine Grael Kahena Kunze Bronze: Alexandra Maloney Molly Meech

Silver and bronze

Crowd (and commentators) really didn't like azerbaijani athlete win over the dutch.

Mayra Aguiar

Yes, only 5 points separating the 2nd from the 8th team

Suddenly things get interesting in South American qualification with Paraguay win over Chile. Chile won the last two Copa América and had a good campaign at the Confederations Cup, but somehow can't translate that sucess to the qualifiers.

[hide] Event and Date Gold Medal Winne Silver Medal Winne Bronze Medal Winne Athletes Women's Individual Hoop Day 1, August 30th, 2017 Arina Averina Dina Averina Linoy Ashram Katsiaryna Halkina Alina Harnasko Katrin Taseva Neviana Vladinova Linoy Ashram Kaho Minagawa Arina Averina Dina Averina Viktoria Mazur Laura Zeng Any Other Individual Ball Day 1, August 30th, 2017 Arina Averina Dina Averina Katsiaryna Halkina Katsiaryna Halkina Alina Harnasko Katrin Taseva Neviana Vladinova Alexandra Agiurgiuculese Sabina Ashirbayeva Arina Averina Dina Averina Anastasiya Serdyukova Any Other Individual Clubs Day 2, August 31st, 2017 Dina Averina Arina Averina Katsiaryna Halkina Katsiaryna Halkina Alina Harnasko Katrin Taseva Neviana Vladinova Linoy Ashram Arina Averina Dina Averina Viktoria Mazur Laura Zeng Anastasiya Serdyukova Any Other Individual Ribbon Day 2, August 31st, 2017 Arina Averina Dina Averina Neviana Vladinova Katsiaryna Halkina Alina Harnasko Katrin Taseva Neviana Vladinova Eleni Kelaiditi Linoy Ashram Alexandra Agiurgiuculese Arina Averina Dina Averina Anastasiya Serdyukova Any Other Individual All-Around Day 3, September 1st, 2017 Dina Averina Arina Averina Katsiaryna Halkina Katsiaryna Halkina Alina Harnasko Katrin Taseva Neviana Vladinova Linoy Ashram Alexandra Agiurgiuculese Kaho Minagawa Arina Averina Dina Averina Viktoria Mazur Laura Zeng Any Other Group All-Around Day 4, September 2nd, 2017 Russia Bulgaria Italy Azerbaijan Belarus Bulgaria Finland Italy Japan Russia Spain Ukraine United States Uzbekistan Any Other Group 5 Hoops Day 5, September 3rd, 2017 Russia Italy Bulgaria Azerbaijan Belarus Bulgaria Canada China Italy Japan Russia Switzerland Ukraine Uzbekistan Any Other Group 3 Balls / 2 Ropes Day 5, September 3rd, 2017 Russia Italy Ukraine Azerbaijan Belarus Bulgaria Finland Italy Japan Russia Spain Ukraine United States Uzbekistan Any Other [/hide]

First athlete that participated in Rio 2016 who died. RIP