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Congratulations @Wumo and @Agger for the great contest, and @heywoodu for the much deserved win. Thank you for the votes for the brazilian entry. It's not the style we usually go for (MPB, that is), but me and @titicow thought that was the perfect song to remember Rodrigo, who in addition of being a great friend of ours, helped us quite a few times in the selection of the songs for the TISC in the old forum. Sadly he couldn't participate at the Brazil edition last year (the last one he was interested in), but I'll never forget the conversations we had for the old contests when we used to have 4 or 5 different users voting. Good times those were...

Brazil had a much harder time vs Argentina to win the men's quota. I'm starting to think that Tsuboi won't be at the Olympics since he lost many decisive matches this year. Although, let's be honest, it doesn't matter that much since Calderano is the only one that can win a match in Singles next year.

Much to my surprise, Brazil easily won the women's quota vs Puerto Rico.

By now I've lost count of how many brazilian athletes complained about dubious judging/decisions. The one that probably was the most vocal about it is Caio Bonfim, who received a direct red card 20m away from the finish line in the 20km race walk:

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Even if most people think like that, it shouldn't be. But of course I'm fully aware that I'm on the outside when it comes to Paralympic events since I follow them more than other sports fans. Even though I don't agree with some of your thoughts, I wish there was some changes in the Paralympic programme. I don't know exactly how it's possible, but less events would make the Games more exciting to watch.

That is great and all, but in reality it seems like they couldn't waste some time designing another logo, which makes the Paralympics an afterthought.

Netflix's Unbelievable is unbelievably good.

I just wish they could have done something different for the Paralympic logo instead of using the same...

Finally an Olympic logo I like.

Teams that will represent Brazil in Tokyo: Men's: Alison/Álvaro Filho and Evandro/Bruno Schmidt Women's: Ágatha/Duda and Ana Patrícia/Rebecca In Men's, 3/4 athletes that were in Rio will return do the Games (Álvaro is the only one who didn't participate previously). Current champions Alison and Bruno are back, although in different teams. In Women's, only Ágatha (silver in Rio) is an olympic athlete. Curiously enough, she was "rejected" by her partner Barbara who allegedly thought Ágatha would be too old to play in Tokyo. Likewise, Evandro was rejected by his partner André after the World title in 2017, because André thought he would stand a better chance of Olympic qualification with another player. Now both Barbara and André will watch the Olympics at home

Happy for Nory, sad for Flavia.

Beatriz

Becky is Rebecca

So far all the 9 medallists in the men's apparatus finals are from different nations.

Lee Chih Kai

Miss Carey was so overscored in that second vault

Yulo

I don't think 7 quotas it's possible since continental championships is only open to: 1) NOCs with a max. of 5 athletes qualified (team + World Cup) or 2) NOCs with a max. of 3 individual athletes. Therefore, for nations that have qualified a team of 4, the max. quotas is 6. For nations that haven't qualified a team, the max. is also 6 in theory, but won't happen to any nation now since none will qualify 3 individual athletes in apparatus finals.

3/4 athletes of Brazil had a fall in horizontal bar, I believe

Also Onder Ahmet in Parallel Bars, right? (although final it's not a sure thing yet)

I'm glad Brazil didn't qualify a full team: 1) we can focus on the girls that actually have a shot at a good result in Tokyo instead of worrying about old/injured athletes that add nothing to the team; 2) maybe something will change in our gymnastics federation that surely is one of the worst in Brazil - the disaster today wasn't simply a matter of "bad luck", but also has to do with the terrible planning this confederation has.

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