Tokyo 2021 Summer Olympics
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Did you see what Doncic did to Argentina inDay 4 and we already have one of each.
Slovenia's opening match? 48 points 11 rebounds 
Did you see what Doncic did to Argentina in
Finally a big basket player that has interest in OG, that's why I love this player, he just plays everytime that he can !
I've used a good chunk of my mobile data plan to see that match.Did you see what Doncic did to Argentina in
Now we got another bronze as well - 3 vs. 3 basketball.
We were hot favorites for the gold, but unfortunately, the psychological pressure was too much to cope with in the semi and won deservedly. Yesterday, we beat them with a significant difference, but they were hiding their cards well obviously since this duel was very different. We missed some open shots, the defense was quite subpar, and it was enough to lose.
Still, I am delighted with the bronze medal as well. Well done to the entire team.
4 medals and counting
We were hot favorites for the gold, but unfortunately, the psychological pressure was too much to cope with in the semi and
won deservedly. Yesterday, we beat them with a significant difference, but they were hiding their cards well obviously since this duel was very different. We missed some open shots, the defense was quite subpar, and it was enough to lose.Still, I am delighted with the bronze medal as well. Well done to the entire team.
4 medals and counting
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wrap-up of the German day:
- gold and silver medal in individual dressage
- fiiinally a medal in Judo - and even a surprising one! Trippel won Silver in the Men's 90 kg competition. Scoccimarro barely missed bronze in the female 70kg competition. Our most hopeful judoka, Anna-Maria Wagner, will enter the stage tomorrow. She is currently world champion in the 78kg class and I hope she can get us our first Judo golden medal since 2008.
- another surprising medal: bronze for our male duet in Synchronized 3 m springboard. They were 6th or 7th in before the last jump. Then the russian duet , sitting on 3, had a black-out and gave it away and other competitors made small mistakes too while the Germans saved their best performance for the last jump and grabbed the bronze.
- Sarah Köhler won our first medal in swimming: bronze in the 1500 m freestyle competition. Tomorrow our big swimming star Florian Wellbrock (from my home town ) can win another medal for Germany in the male 800m competition, but this isnt even his best discipline as he is the big favorite in the 1500m competition.
- our fencers sabre team barely missed the long-awaited medal but I think they have done well. The beat the Russian Olympic committee by a big margin and then put on a great fight against the big favorites South Korea but it wasnt enough. They sadly lost the match for the 3rd place to Hungary
- our football team is out, 1:1 vs Ivory Coast wasnt enough to qualify for the quarter finals. Our Handball team once again proved their loser mentality and lost another close match against France. They still have good chances to make the quarter final though. So has our basketball team who got their first win this morning against Nigeria.
- our best male tennis player Alexander Zverev is on a good way after he qualified for the quarter final today.
- our road cyclists did alright but missed the medals
- fail of the day: our rower ladies who were on a comfortable silver position on the home stretch but then lost the rhythm so badly that the boat almost came to a stand. They were passed by three other boats and finished on 5.
- gold and silver medal in individual dressage
- fiiinally a medal in Judo - and even a surprising one! Trippel won Silver in the Men's 90 kg competition. Scoccimarro barely missed bronze in the female 70kg competition. Our most hopeful judoka, Anna-Maria Wagner, will enter the stage tomorrow. She is currently world champion in the 78kg class and I hope she can get us our first Judo golden medal since 2008.
- another surprising medal: bronze for our male duet in Synchronized 3 m springboard. They were 6th or 7th in before the last jump. Then the russian duet , sitting on 3, had a black-out and gave it away and other competitors made small mistakes too while the Germans saved their best performance for the last jump and grabbed the bronze.
- Sarah Köhler won our first medal in swimming: bronze in the 1500 m freestyle competition. Tomorrow our big swimming star Florian Wellbrock (from my home town
) can win another medal for Germany in the male 800m competition, but this isnt even his best discipline as he is the big favorite in the 1500m competition.- our fencers sabre team barely missed the long-awaited medal but I think they have done well. The beat the Russian Olympic committee by a big margin and then put on a great fight against the big favorites South Korea but it wasnt enough. They sadly lost the match for the 3rd place to Hungary
- our football team is out, 1:1 vs Ivory Coast wasnt enough to qualify for the quarter finals. Our Handball team once again proved their loser mentality and lost another close match against France. They still have good chances to make the quarter final though. So has our basketball team who got their first win this morning against Nigeria.
- our best male tennis player Alexander Zverev is on a good way after he qualified for the quarter final today.
- our road cyclists did alright but missed the medals
- fail of the day: our rower ladies who were on a comfortable silver position on the home stretch but then lost the rhythm so badly that the boat almost came to a stand. They were passed by three other boats and finished on 5.
Same of Finnish day:
- Antti Vikström failed to qualify in archery round 32: His bow broke second time on olympics, which probably cos his qualify change.
- Matti Mattson qualified to final in Men's 200m breaststroke, which was big surprise.
- Fanny Teijansalo failed to qualify in Women's 100m freestyle, although she did win her heat and did new personal best.
- Tuuli Petäjä-Siren was 10th, 11th and 12t h place in women's Windsurfer - RS: X. Now she is 11th place with 89 place points and is 9 place points behind 10th place
- Our Mixed Multihull - Nacra 17 Foiling team got trouble immediately and their would need to get high place other starts to get to the medal start
- Kalle Koljonen lost Viktor Axelsen, so he didn't qualify to round 16
- Our Beijing olympic gold medalist Satu-Mäkelä Nummela shot 70/75 from first day of trap shooting and is now in 14th place. She needs lots of help to get to the final.
- Antti Vikström failed to qualify in archery round 32: His bow broke second time on olympics, which probably cos his qualify change.
- Matti Mattson qualified to final in Men's 200m breaststroke, which was big surprise.
- Fanny Teijansalo failed to qualify in Women's 100m freestyle, although she did win her heat and did new personal best.
- Tuuli Petäjä-Siren was 10th, 11th and 12t h place in women's Windsurfer - RS: X. Now she is 11th place with 89 place points and is 9 place points behind 10th place
- Our Mixed Multihull - Nacra 17 Foiling team got trouble immediately and their would need to get high place other starts to get to the medal start
- Kalle Koljonen lost Viktor Axelsen, so he didn't qualify to round 16
- Our Beijing olympic gold medalist Satu-Mäkelä Nummela shot 70/75 from first day of trap shooting and is now in 14th place. She needs lots of help to get to the final.
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I'm so done with work for today so let's make a short summary about debut in the Olympics
EDIT : I started this post at 18:34 and ended it at 23:03, bless
I'll start with the medals because we need positivity in life :
- Judo serving once again with 4 of our 7 medals, and hopefully it's not the end. For some reasons, people are surprised (both French and foreigners) that in the history of the Olympics we're the second nation that won the most medals after Japan, but let's not forget the Judo Federation is our 4th biggest one after football, tennis, and horse-riding.
The gold from Clarisse Agbegnenou in -63kg was particularly great. She had a lot of pressure because she has been the reigning champion in this category for the past years (5xWC). The final was a throwback to the 2016 one when she lost to the Slovenian, this time however it ended up better for her. When she cried at the end of the match I swear I had tears in my eyes
- We finally got some success in rowing in this edition with the men's double sculls team winning a gold AND breaking the Olympic record.
- Our first gold medal came from a somewhat unexpected place with our fencer Romain Cannone. Our hopes rested more upon his teammates but he had been on fire all the day and beat the big names one after another. We got a bronze in women's sabre too.
- Last but not least, I'm happy to see Althéa Laurin win bronze in taekwondo. She aimed for gold but she is still quite young (19) so getting a medal already is great !
- Not a medal but our basketball team beat Team USA in the group phase and it's been wild.
Now let's talk about the upsets :
- The biggest one is certainly cycling : on-road, but most importantly mountain biking. We have the current cross-country world champions (senior men and women + U23 women) but didn't get any podium. That's quite a disappointment for the team.
- Swimming. France was a powerhouse in this discipline in the 10's (especially London 2012) but now we barely qualify for finals, let alone win medals. It's not a lack of trying though, we have young swimmers who are hard-working and even improved their personal record at the Olympics, but there's definitely a lack of density right now.
- Despite winning two medals, fencing's track record is not that great. Let's hope the team events will bring us something again
Still, even if they didn't meet our expectations, I am obviously proud of each of these athletes They don't deserve any criticism, we all have our bad days and unfortunately for them, they either had them on the most important summer of their life or just were up against stronger opponents.
So let's take a look at our biggest chances for the next days :
- Teddy Riner in judo. I'm not gonna show his palmares but still gonna do it : 8xWC, 2xOC, 5xEC. Let's just say that the whole country expects him to bring back gold once again, but no pressure Teddy < 3
- Kevin Mayer in Decathlon, 2016 silver medalist, 2017 WC and world record holder.
- Our sailing team has been doing great in the first races
- Handball and basketball should be able to bring us one or two
Our objective is to reach 40 medals (our record is 43 inPékin Beijing) but especially, the goal is to win more gold medals (we got 10 in Rio).
debut in the OlympicsEDIT : I started this post at 18:34 and ended it at 23:03, bless
I'll start with the medals because we need positivity in life :
- Judo serving once again with 4 of our 7 medals, and hopefully it's not the end. For some reasons, people are surprised (both French and foreigners) that in the history of the Olympics we're the second nation that won the most medals after Japan, but let's not forget the Judo Federation is our 4th biggest one after football, tennis, and horse-riding.
The gold from Clarisse Agbegnenou in -63kg was particularly great. She had a lot of pressure because she has been the reigning champion in this category for the past years (5xWC). The final was a throwback to the 2016 one when she lost to the Slovenian, this time however it ended up better for her. When she cried at the end of the match I swear I had tears in my eyes
- We finally got some success in rowing in this edition with the men's double sculls team winning a gold AND breaking the Olympic record.
- Our first gold medal came from a somewhat unexpected place with our fencer Romain Cannone. Our hopes rested more upon his teammates but he had been on fire all the day and beat the big names one after another. We got a bronze in women's sabre too.
- Last but not least, I'm happy to see Althéa Laurin win bronze in taekwondo. She aimed for gold but she is still quite young (19) so getting a medal already is great !
- Not a medal but our basketball team beat Team USA in the group phase and it's been wild.
Now let's talk about the upsets :
- The biggest one is certainly cycling : on-road, but most importantly mountain biking. We have the current cross-country world champions (senior men and women + U23 women) but didn't get any podium. That's quite a disappointment for the team.
- Swimming. France was a powerhouse in this discipline in the 10's (especially London 2012) but now we barely qualify for finals, let alone win medals. It's not a lack of trying though, we have young swimmers who are hard-working and even improved their personal record at the Olympics, but there's definitely a lack of density right now.
- Despite winning two medals, fencing's track record is not that great. Let's hope the team events will bring us something again
Still, even if they didn't meet our expectations, I am obviously proud of each of these athletes
They don't deserve any criticism, we all have our bad days and unfortunately for them, they either had them on the most important summer of their life or just were up against stronger opponents.So let's take a look at our biggest chances for the next days :
- Teddy Riner in judo. I'm not gonna show his palmares but still gonna do it : 8xWC, 2xOC, 5xEC. Let's just say that the whole country expects him to bring back gold once again, but no pressure Teddy < 3
- Kevin Mayer in Decathlon, 2016 silver medalist, 2017 WC and world record holder.
- Our sailing team has been doing great in the first races
- Handball and basketball should be able to bring us one or two
Our objective is to reach 40 medals (our record is 43 in
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I haven't commented here in quite a while so 
- Sad to see my dear taekwondo leaving without a medal
titonelli was so close though. Kudos to her. too bad she got desperate in the end and overexposed herself :/
- Our first gold medal coming from a northeastern legend best region. many people complained about medina being robbed but ha bolsonaro supporting ass can suffer tbh
- Talking about robbery, that judo scandal... poor Portela. I haven't watched the fight so I can't really comment whether she was robbed or not, but her reaction...
- Nory flopping at everything life is fair sometimes
- Rebeca Andrade being ultra successful in the qualification round cheering a lot tomorrow!! she deserves a medal for everything she had to endure due to her knee injuries
- Talking about injuries, hope Flavinha gets better soon she is an angel i love her
- Nice to see the medals on skate - especially Fadinha's!
- That swimming medal was also nice. Also, it made me miss swimming
- Despite being eliminated today, congrats Hugo for giving us our best position at table tennis
- Also we got our best position at mountain bike silver linings
- Volleyball today was a flop lmao that 3x0 was so deserved. it is kinda saddening me how both the male and female team are struggling so early on. I wonder if the boys will even go through the next stage, given their current game status + the next competitors. GL to our girls against the host tomorrow.
- RELIEVED the women's soccer team won't play against the us next but I don't think canada is easy so I am afraid. i don't really care for the male team so............
- Male handball team lmao GO GIRLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You can overcome the draw!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And for now that's about it (that I remember)?
- Sad to see my dear taekwondo leaving without a medal
titonelli was so close though. Kudos to her. too bad she got desperate in the end and overexposed herself :/- Our first gold medal coming from a northeastern legend
best region. many people complained about medina being robbed but ha bolsonaro supporting ass can suffer tbh- Talking about robbery, that judo scandal... poor Portela. I haven't watched the fight so I can't really comment whether she was robbed or not, but her reaction...
- Nory flopping at everything
life is fair sometimes- Rebeca Andrade being ultra successful in the qualification round
cheering a lot tomorrow!! she deserves a medal for everything she had to endure due to her knee injuries- Talking about injuries, hope Flavinha gets better soon
she is an angel i love her- Nice to see the medals on skate - especially Fadinha's!
- That swimming medal was also nice. Also, it made me miss swimming
- Despite being eliminated today, congrats Hugo for giving us our best position at table tennis
- Also we got our best position at mountain bike
silver linings- Volleyball today was a flop lmao that 3x0 was so deserved. it is kinda saddening me how both the male and female team are struggling so early on. I wonder if the boys will even go through the next stage, given their current game status + the next competitors. GL to our girls against the host tomorrow.
- RELIEVED the women's soccer team won't play against the us next
but I don't think canada is easy so I am afraid. i don't really care for the male team so............- Male handball team lmao GO GIRLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You can overcome the draw!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And for now that's about it (that I remember)?
Great day for with a gold medal in 3x3 men's basketball. The final with ROC was so dramatic. Our team was behind with minus 5, then the ankle injury for Edgars Krūmiņš, but he heroically overcoming pain went back to the game. I am very proud of the guys who went through all the difficulties, not so convincing performance in the group tournament, a lot of criticism for them but they showed great game in the play-offs.
Also happy for our beach volleyball girls Graudiņa and Kravčenoka and their win against Brazil. Hope more wins will come.
Congrats on the win by Primož Roglič, that was impressive.
with a gold medal in 3x3 men's basketball. The final with ROC was so dramatic. Our team was behind with minus 5, then the ankle injury for Edgars Krūmiņš, but he heroically overcoming pain went back to the game. I am very proud of the guys who went through all the difficulties, not so convincing performance in the group tournament, a lot of criticism for them but they showed great game in the play-offs. Also happy for our beach volleyball girls Graudiņa and Kravčenoka and their win against Brazil. Hope more wins will come.
Congrats
on the win by Primož Roglič, that was impressive. Congrats
I am so happy for him ! He's such a kind guy and deserved it so much
Also very good day our sailer Tuula Tenkanen: She was 6th and 3rd in Women's One Person Dinghy - Laser Radial on starts 7th and 8th and Tenkanen is now second place with 46 place points. Hopefully tomorrow will be good day as today's day from her.
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Alessandra Perilli becomes the first ever San Marinese athlete to medal winning Bronze in the Women's Trap Final.
San Marinese athlete to medal winning Bronze in the Women's Trap Final.