Nickyc707 305 Posted August 5, 2021 #181 Share Posted August 5, 2021 18 minutes ago, phelps said: talk for yourself! I always watch their football teams in the european cups preliminary rounds (and the Italian Baseball league, when they reach the final series and broadcast it live)... How many teams does San Marino have out of interest. How many pitches for that matter? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nickyc707 305 Posted August 5, 2021 #182 Share Posted August 5, 2021 27 minutes ago, Quasit said: After Day 13 Rio: 242/306 events, 81 NOCs with medals After Day 13 Tokyo: 269/339 events, 88 NOCs with medals 88 NOCs have won medals which is not only more in than 2016 in Rio but also a new record that was previously achieved at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Additionally, there have been 63 different NOCs with at least one gold medal. Burkina Faso won their first Olympic medal thanks to triple jumper Hugues Fabrice Zango. The battle between the US and China for most golds is still on and will likely go full distance. The Americans are catching up with twice as many golds won than the Chinese today. Both will have their chances left for the upcoming days. Australia has had another fabulous days with 2 more golds and a silver. If things go well, they might finish ahead of the Britons at the end of the games. Meanwhile, the Russians are likely to finish 4th with their chances left in rhythmic gymnastics, artistic swimming, boxing and wrestling. Canada (4-3-11 in Rio) are set on improving on their ranking in the medal table. They could finish Top 15, which was last achieved 1992 in Barcelona (7-4-7; 11th postion overall back then). Argentina not as successful as five years ago (3-1-0 in Rio), the Kazakh team (3-5-7 in Rio) dropping hard and also the Kenyans (4-4-0 in Rio) can't be satisfied. 4th place counter* (29) (17) (16) (14) (13) (12) (11) (10) (8) (7) (6) (5) (4) (3) (2) and the Refugee Olympic Team (1) *5th places in events that award two bronze medals; also includes QF losers in boxing and athletes in karate kumite one shy from the SF after the pool stage How many more gold medal opportunities does Oz have do you think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,795 Posted August 5, 2021 #183 Share Posted August 5, 2021 4 minutes ago, Nickyc707 said: How many teams does San Marino have out of interest. How many pitches for that matter? their premier league has 15 teams (and a complicated format, ending with a single match final, a sort of local superbowl)... in the small republic there are 5 small pitches (with capacity between 500 and 700 spectators each) and the National Stadium (which normally hosts the championship's final match and all the international events and has about 5,000 seats)... their teams have never won a match (and obviously they haven't made the 2nd preliminary round as well) in the champions league early stages...but they keep trying...and that's what I like the most and why I try to follow those matches... Nickyc707 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quasit 849 Posted August 5, 2021 #184 Share Posted August 5, 2021 6 minutes ago, Nickyc707 said: How many more gold medal opportunities does Oz have do you think? At least the final in Women's Beach Volleyball tomorrow. Anything else would come as a surprise. Stopped watching sports, there are better things in life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshMartini007 2,204 Posted August 5, 2021 #185 Share Posted August 5, 2021 Yeah I think Australia is done in terms of gold medal favourites. They can still potentially win medals in athletics/canoeing?/cycling along with beach volleyball mentioned above, but a gold would be a surprise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nickyc707 305 Posted August 5, 2021 #186 Share Posted August 5, 2021 14 minutes ago, Quasit said: At least the final in Women's Beach Volleyball tomorrow. Anything else would come as a surprise. Up against the US so it will be pretty tough. GB still have a number of opportunities and only have to match their number of golds so should overtake them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,795 Posted August 5, 2021 #187 Share Posted August 5, 2021 6 minutes ago, JoshMartini007 said: Yeah I think Australia is done in terms of gold medal favourites. They can still potentially win medals in athletics/canoeing?/cycling along with beach volleyball mentioned above, but a gold would be a surprise. women's Javelin throw... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thiago_simoes 1,359 Posted August 5, 2021 #188 Share Posted August 5, 2021 2 hours ago, LDOG said: France should improve in swimming, cycling, TKD, tennis (clay) and boxing (buying judges like Japan). And artistic gymnastics. I'm not sure Amir Said will continue, but if he does, he should be a threat for the podium. But France's best chance should be Melanie de Jesus dos Santos. It's unbelievable how she just cannot control her nerves. She and Flávia Saraiva are the most heartbreaking cases in artistic gymnastics of extremely talented gymnasts that cannot win medals at the Olympics or the World Championships because they choke every single time. But when they learn to control her nerves, they can be serious medal threats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bohemia 1,259 Posted August 5, 2021 #189 Share Posted August 5, 2021 46 minutes ago, thiago_simoes said: And artistic gymnastics. I'm not sure Amir Said will continue, but if he does, he should be a threat for the podium. But France's best chance should be Melanie de Jesus dos Santos. It's unbelievable how she just cannot control her nerves. She and Flávia Saraiva are the most heartbreaking cases in artistic gymnastics of extremely talented gymnasts that cannot win medals at the Olympics or the World Championships because they choke every single time. But when they learn to control her nerves, they can be serious medal threats. He said a few days ago that he's very motivated for Paris 2024 to finally win this well deserved medal thiago_simoes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcro 10,179 Posted August 5, 2021 #190 Share Posted August 5, 2021 France already has 2 'breakdancing' golds in the bag, so... thiago_simoes, Styrka and EupenM 1 2 #banbestmen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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