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Yes, I keep forgetting Russia isn't participating in these things. Frankly I don't know what to expect from their team in Rio...

Can I take Guinea-Bissau?

From these archers, Brazil will pick 3 for each team in Rio (final decision in July): Men's: Marcus D'Almeida, Bernardo Oliveira, Daniel Xavier, Marcelo Costa Women's: Ane Marcelle Gomes, Sarah Nikitin, Marina Canetta Gobbi, Michelle Acquesta So no indigenous athletes will compete in Rio (best one achieved 6th place in men's trials). I'm pretty sure Marcelo will be the reserve athlete in men's. In women's, it can be any of the last two girls.

Brazil is showing good results in Race Walking recently, achieving a 4th (Women's) and 8th places (Men's) this weekend. I wonder if Race Walking can give us our ONLY medal in Athletics at Rio...

After the complete Fencing selection, we can add to the list: Emese Takacs, Fencing (Hungary) Ghislain Perrier was born in Brazil, but was adopted by french parents at a young age. I don't know much about Marta Baeza, but she was born in Brazil and apparently grew up in Spain (so I don't know if these two cases should count).

Globo Esporte and UOL.

Brazil has selected its athletes for the Marathon events in Rio 2016: Men's Marilson Gomes dos Santos Paulo Roberto de Paula Solonei Rocha da Silva Women's Adriana Aparecida da Silva Marily dos Santos Graciete Moreira

Brazil's Team: Men's Epee Nicolas Ferreira Athos Schwantes Guilherme Melaragno Men's Foil Guilherme Toldo Henrique Marques Ghislain Perrier Men's Sabre Renzo Agresta Women's Epee Nathalie Moullhausen Emese Takacs Rayssa Costa Women's Foil Taís Rochel Bia Bulcão Women's Sabre Marta Baeza

Yes, Patrick and Yuri Van Der Heijden. They should be in the Olympic team

Brazil's team for Copa America: Goalkeepers: Alisson (Internacional), Diego Alves (Valencia) and Ederson (Benfica) Defenders: Daniel Alves (Barcelona), Fabinho (Monaco), Filipe Luis (Atletico Madrid), Douglas Santos (Atletico Mineiro), Miranda (Inter Milan), Gil (Shandong Luneng), Marquinhos (Paris Saint-Germain), Rodrigo Caio (Sao Paulo) Midfielders: Luiz Gustavo (Wolfsburg), Elias (Corinthians), Casemiro (Real Madrid), Rafinha (Barcelona), Renato Augusto (Beijing Guoan), Philippe Coutinho (Liverpool), Lucas Lima (Santos) and Willian (Chelsea) Forwards: Douglas Costa (Bayern Munich), Hulk (Zenit), Ricardo Oliveira (Santos) and Gabriel (Santos) Kind of a young team with seven players eligible for Olympics (plus 2 overage athletes that will join Neymar in the tournament).

Brazil should have some naturalized players in the men's teams of Field Hockey, Rugby Sevens and Water Polo, but no name is confirmed yet. Larry Taylor also should be part of our Men's Basketball team. As for individual sports, the athletes confirmed so far are: Nathalie Moellhausen, Fencing (Italy) Xavier Vela Maggi, Rowing (Spain) Gui Lin, Table Tennis (China) Our Fencing team will probably have 1/2 more naturalized athletes, and Eduard Soghomonyan (Armenia) of Wrestling will try to be selected for the team. Considering that our Athletics program is pretty much terrible, it's "strange" that we won't have a naturalized athlete there For me, the only one with some shot at a medal is Taylor, although I'm not predicting the Basketball team to get a medal. As for brazilians competing for other nations, the ones I can remember right now are (not qualified yet): Jefferson Santos, Beach Volleyball (Qatar) Taciana Lima, Judo (Guinea-Bissau)

Why exactly?

I believe the source is MasTKD (here, and the athletes qualified here).

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Great group for Brazil women's team, should get an "easier" QF - remember that in London we ended in first in Group A and had to face Norway in QF. Here I don't think we will end in first, but the possibility of reaching a semifinal is much bigger now. Like @hoversaBR, I don't have much to say about the men's team. Any group would be hard for them and reaching QF will be difficult.

Ygor Coelho and Lohaynny Vicente will represent Brazil at the Games (the first brazilian athletes to compete in Badminton).

I like it too. I call it the "Reggae Arena"

Future Arena (Handball) More:

It also shows the "efficiency" of the uniforms under athletic movements. I quite like the slovakian uniforms. The one that Richard Varga is wearing is great, and the Opening Ceremony ones are quite good too. The only one that I don't think it worked that well was Marcel Lomnický's pants, but at least they bring something "bold" to the mix (ditto the red leggings for the women).

Going against the grain, I kinda like the Team GB outfits. I just don't think that the bold prints/designs work that well in little pieces of clothing... like in Tom Daley's "uniform"

Nice flexibility It seems that is very common now to have a dance/acrobatic performance during the unveiling of uniforms.

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