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Biggest shock for Brazil is the absence of Murilo, but he was having some injury problems and didn't play in the final phase of World League. Pretty "renovated" team comparing to 2012, with only 4 players returning, but kinda old in age (average of 30+ years).

[hide] Preliminary Round August 3rd - August 9th, 2016 12 Nations, 3 Groups, 1st and 2nd Nations from each Group and 2 best 3rd ranked Nations between all Groups will qualify for Quarterfinals Group E Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 August 3rd 2016, h. 13:00, Olympic Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Sweden 3 0 South Africa August 3rd 2016, h. 16:00, Olympic Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Brazil 1 0 China August 6th 2016, h. 19:00, Olympic Stadium, Rio de Janeiro South Africa 0 2 China August 6th 2016, h. 22:00, Olympic Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Brazil 1 1 Sweden August 9th 2016, h. 22:00, Amazonia Arena, Manaus South Africa 0 3 Brazil August 9th 2016, h. 22:00, Mane Garrincha Stadium, Brasilia China 2 2 Sweden Group F Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 August 3rd 2016, h. 15:00, Corinthians Arena, Sao Paulo Canada 1 1 Australia August 3rd 2016, h. 18:00, Corinthians Arena, Sao Paulo Zimbabwe 0 4 Germany August 6th 2016, h. 15:00, Corinthians Arena, Sao Paulo Canada 3 0 Zimbabwe August 6th 2016, h. 18:00, Corinthians Arena, Sao Paulo Germany 2 1 Australia August 9th 2016, h. 16:00, Fonte Nova Arena, Salvador Germany 2 0 Canada August 9th 2016, h. 16:00, Mane Garrincha Stadium, Brasilia Australia 2 0 Zimbabwe Group G Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 August 3rd 2016, h. 19:00, Mineirao, Belo Horizonte United States 3 0 New Zealand August 3rd 2016, h. 22:00, Mineirao, Belo Horizonte France 3 0 Colombia August 6th 2016, h. 17:00, Mineirao, Belo Horizonte United States 2 1 France August 6th 2016, h. 20:00, Mineirao, Belo Horizonte Colombia 1 2 New Zealand August 9th 2016, h. 19:00, Amazonia Arena, Manaus Colombia 0 2 United States August 9th 2016, h. 19:00, Fonte Nova Arena, Salvador New Zealand 0 2 France [/hide]

Very bold. At least is unusual.

Surprised to see Table Tennis under the "no funding" sports list.

In the tickets page, they include 6 matches for the last 2 sessions of preliminary round (as opposed to the usual 4), but the seat is only for the main arena. I don't know what that means, but people may be able to watch these 2 matches at the sidelines of Court 1?

Schedule.

Katy Perry song for NBC:

Updating my schedule with: Aug 6th 15:30 - 16:30 Shooting (SH011) Men's 10m Air Pistol Final Aug 6th 17:00 - 21:15 Field Hockey (HO003) Women's Preliminary Round ARGENTINA X UNITED STATES Men's Preliminary Round SPAIN X BRAZIL

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it's the first time since 1991 that none of the finalists are from Argentina or Brazil.

I don't think she will sing a song of hers

Brazil Team: Emanuelle Lima Francielly Machado Gabrielle Moraes Jéssica Maier Morgana Gmach

I'm loving the new Globo ads featuring sports that might give us medals: The most intriguing for me is the video that combines Athletics and Modern Pentathlon, two sports that might gives us medals but not necessarily. They feature Murer, Braz and Wagner Domingos (perhaps the most surprising name) for Athletics and Yane for Pentathlon.

CZECH REPUBLIC (Opening Ceremony)

That's so true. I watched the Gymnastics trials this weekend and I could break down their broadcast like this: 50% commercials; 30% interviews with athletes and families/sob stories/uplifting video clips; 20% actual competition.

Rio 2016 unveiled its 13 posters! A bit much if you ask me. Like in the previous Games we have a poster that just features the logo, and 13 posters by brazilian artists. The others:

I'm not exactly sure, but I think Brazil pays for accommodations (and transportation to the venues, of course), and federations pay for travel expenses.

Yes, team officials will stay in the Village. The number of people expected during the Games is 17,000.

Ok... fair enough.

Do you think the women's team will win a medal?

Daniel Purvis out, didn't expect this.

Seriously?

And I don't like either one of them

Yeah, because we don't see any of these problems in Fiji...

I think it would be a shock if they loose the gold medal in the team event simply because they have options and room for error. If somehow a gymnast gets injured during competition, another one could do her apparatus - Gabby Douglas is only going to the Olympics to do the UB in the team final, but has good to great scores anywhere else. For individual events, I wouldn't be so shocked if Biles loses one of her almost certain golds (maybe only the AA, in which she could have a fall and still win). I think that we could see an upset if China had a perfect day, and USA had a very bad one.