Tokyo 2021 Summer Olympics
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She came back from 1:6, 1:3
(and then again in the 3rd set from 1:4). What looked like her worst match in years turned into the most epic & emotional come back. Incredible thriller 
The whole 2nd half was anyone's game and anything could happen after every single game. But she's a "marathoner" (speaking of, I was cheering for Bencic) and we're used to such mentally shocking/exhausting games of hers.Given the whole situation in our sports, I'm not surprised with our weak performance in the medal table. But we are only entering the massive revival of the indoor arenas & stadiums, the funding will be increased as well. I don't have high hopes for Paris, but I expect the improvement in 7 years.
ps. Congrats to
Sweden (M discus throw). I was cheering for Fraser-Pryse (W100m), but silver is nice too. Happy they took WCH 2019 video projection and did awesome introduction for 100m 
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What's new is that he isn't South Korean. Congrats!
at archery EASYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY what's new
Also women's volleyball girls locked a Quarter Final spot beating Argentina 3-0 today
Netherlands might be top 10 in the medal tally in the end, where rank 8 was the best historically in 2000 and 1928. 7th or even higher seems still possible, if we also start winning on the track with cycling.
Silver yesterday for Kylie Masse in the 200m backstroke, bronze just now in the women's 4x100m medley relay. Penny Oleksiak has now become the most decorated Canadian Olympian of all time with 7 medals (4 in Rio, 3 in Tokyo). Kylie Masse and Maggie Mac Neil each got their 3rd medal of the Games - Maggie bringing home a full set
We've got a shot in diving - Jennifer Abel is in the top 3 going into the women's 3m springboard diving final, and in track - Andre De Grasse looking solid in the men's 100m thus far
The second of our women's beach volleyball tandems upset the #3-ranked Americans in 3 sets and are headed to the quarterfinals
We've got a shot in diving - Jennifer Abel is in the top 3 going into the women's 3m springboard diving final, and in track - Andre De Grasse looking solid in the men's 100m thus far
The second of our women's beach volleyball tandems upset the #3-ranked Americans in 3 sets and are headed to the quarterfinals
Italian domination in athletics today Tamberi took a plaster cast from his previous injury (when he had to skip Rio).
"Road to Tokyo
The new sprint king is hot. Do they still need people to test those cardboard beds?
But the main star of the evening is
Yulimar Rojas. She smashed the world record (which stood for 26 years) in triple jump The lesbian LEGEND:
Imho, she will be the first woman who will jump past 16m
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YOU DID IT
HISTORIC
Belarusian federation ordered their athlete Christina Tsymanovskaya to run the relay against her will, without informing her beforehand. She complained on her Insta.
Today they tried to kidnap her and put her on the plane back home by force.
She asked IOC for help. Rumour has it that she asked the Austrian Embassy to grant political asylum after that.
EDIT: Lukashenko's officials try to label her as mentally/emotionally unstable. Meaning that they can force her to go through "psychiatric evaluation"... in other words to close her in a mental institution for criticizing theirgovernment sports officials (copy & paste of Soviet crimes against opposition).
Today they tried to kidnap her and put her on the plane back home by force.
She asked IOC for help. Rumour has it that she asked the Austrian Embassy to grant political asylum after that.
EDIT: Lukashenko's officials try to label her as mentally/emotionally unstable. Meaning that they can force her to go through "psychiatric evaluation"... in other words to close her in a mental institution for criticizing their
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Bosnia and Herzegovina has a chance to earn first medal ever in OG. Our representative in athletics 800m, Amel Tuka, qualifed for the final on Wednesday!
The men's 100m race was phenomenal, congrats to Jacobs from Italy! Canada picked up the bronze in the same race, Andre De Grasse ran a new personal best time of 9.89. He's not done yet - he'll also be doing the 200m and the 4x100m relay later this week
Huge congratulations as well to and for their gold medals in women's uneven bars and men's floor in gymnastics
Huge congratulations as well to
and for their gold medals in women's uneven bars and men's floor in gymnastics
That's great newsBelarusian athlete received Polish visa and most def she will continue her career in the Polish teamHer husband escaped to Ukraine and they will meet each other soon.
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I didn't post here the last few days since I had a bit of an Olympics blues after the male swimming 1500m race in which Wellbrock were about to win gold until the last 50 metres and finished "only" with a bronze medal because that American guy, that nobody ever heard of before, has got a tremendous final sprint.
But since then, a lot of things happened.
Zverev won Gold in tennis yesterday, as expected I would say but you can never be sure in Olympic finals + a win against Djokovic can lull you into a false sense of security. But he controlled the match right from the beginning and gave us a great display of his skills and his agility.
What followed tonight was the most successful day for Germany so far.
Actually, the morning was rather disappointing as our shooting star (literally: our star in shooting) Christian Reitz missed a medal in the 25 metre pistol event and therefore the last chance for us to win a medal in shooting. He won gold back in 2016 and tonight he won the qualification so expectations were rather high.
However then our bicycle ladies started their Olympic mission in great fashion. Our ladies sprint duet Friedrich/Hinze lost their final race to the Chinese duet by only, I think, 0,08 seconds. But keep in mind the Chinese girls broke a world record to beat us. Anyway, we got Silver
More impressive however was the team pursuit performance of our girls, in which we broke a World Record ourselves and won the qualification by a landslide. Tomorrow we will face the Italians in a semi final race (we beat them by over 4 seconds in the qualification run) and if we beat them we would possibly get the dream final against the team of Great Britain.
In the afternoon we managed to win three medals within one hour.
First of all Julia Krajewski and her horse Mandy won Gold in individual eventing, then Aline Rotter-Focken won our first female golden medal in Wrestling ever and it was her last fight as she had decided before to finish the career after Tokyo. In Germany we have the saying Man soll aufhören, wenn's am Schönsten ist which means: you should leave on a high (or highest) note. And she definitely does
A short time later we surprisingly won our first medal in Athletics. Our discus thrower Kristin Pudenz went into the final as an underdog but broke her personal record whereas the former dominator Sandra Perkovic had a bad day and Perez couldn't repeat her performance of Doha 2019 either. And that is how it came that Pudenz won Silver
Tomorrow might be even more successful for us. I expect us to win around 7 medals tomorrow.
But since then, a lot of things happened.
Zverev won Gold in tennis yesterday, as expected I would say but you can never be sure in Olympic finals + a win against Djokovic can lull you into a false sense of security. But he controlled the match right from the beginning and gave us a great display of his skills and his agility.
What followed tonight was the most successful day for Germany so far.
Actually, the morning was rather disappointing as our shooting star (literally: our star in shooting) Christian Reitz missed a medal in the 25 metre pistol event and therefore the last chance for us to win a medal in shooting. He won gold back in 2016 and tonight he won the qualification so expectations were rather high.
However then our bicycle ladies started their Olympic mission in great fashion. Our ladies sprint duet Friedrich/Hinze lost their final race to the Chinese duet by only, I think, 0,08 seconds. But keep in mind the Chinese girls broke a world record to beat us. Anyway, we got Silver
More impressive however was the team pursuit performance of our girls, in which we broke a World Record ourselves and won the qualification by a landslide. Tomorrow we will face the Italians in a semi final race (we beat them by over 4 seconds in the qualification run) and if we beat them we would possibly get the dream final against the team of Great Britain.
In the afternoon we managed to win three medals within one hour.
First of all Julia Krajewski and her horse Mandy won Gold in individual eventing, then Aline Rotter-Focken won our first female golden medal in Wrestling ever and it was her last fight as she had decided before to finish the career after Tokyo. In Germany we have the saying Man soll aufhören, wenn's am Schönsten ist which means: you should leave on a high (or highest) note. And she definitely does
A short time later we surprisingly won our first medal in Athletics. Our discus thrower Kristin Pudenz went into the final as an underdog but broke her personal record whereas the former dominator Sandra Perkovic had a bad day and Perez couldn't repeat her performance of Doha 2019 either. And that is how it came that Pudenz won Silver
Tomorrow might be even more successful for us. I expect us to win around 7 medals tomorrow.
Athletics. 400m Hurdles.
Congrats & Karsten Warholm for setting the world record! The first man in history who ran faster than 46s
Pole Vault. Duplantis is a legend at such young age already. No world record today, but the 1st attempt - he could have jumped 6.40
Of course I cheered for Polish girls in hammer throw.
@Ana Raquel Yas for Alison do Santos (bronze) setting the continental record! We stan the scarred legends!
Thiago Braz is bronze too (Ukrainian coach worked on his gold in Rio, so we cheered here as well 
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Congrats
& Karsten Warholm for setting the world record! The first man in history who ran faster than 46s Pole Vault.
Duplantis is a legend at such young age already. No world record today, but the 1st attempt - he could have jumped 6.40 Of course I cheered for
Polish girls in hammer throw.@Ana Raquel Yas for Alison do Santos (bronze) setting the continental record! We stan the scarred legends!
Thiago Braz is bronze too (Ukrainian coach worked on his gold in Rio, so we cheered here as well )
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Volleyball Quarterfinals
Men’s
3 - 0 @heke1988 you are hungry for Finnish success, coach Tuomas Sammelvuo somehow representing although by the side of the dearest neighbours
3 - 0 This was one side match, fifth semifinal in a row for Brazil!
3 - 2 Cheering on a possible South American derby in the Grand Final! @fer20 @Ana Raquel
3 - 2 Heartbreaking seeing Kurek crying after the loss, world champions Poland once again disappoints the bookies and are out of the medal fight. On the other side, Trevor Clevenot
Women’s
My winning wishes, no predictions, on the left side.
- Go Brazil!
- It’s actually Team Turkey vs. Kim Yeon-koung & friends.
- This is tough, but wanna see Italy finally in a final stage in Olympics, Serbia is still the biggest favourite imho, despite their loss against Brazil.
- Maybe naïve, but don’t we all like underdogs?
Men’s
3 - 0 @heke1988 you are hungry for Finnish success, coach Tuomas Sammelvuo somehow representing although by the side of the dearest neighbours 3 - 0 This was one side match, fifth semifinal in a row for Brazil! 3 - 2 Cheering on a possible South American derby in the Grand Final! @fer20 @Ana Raquel 3 - 2 Heartbreaking seeing Kurek crying after the loss, world champions Poland once again disappoints the bookies and are out of the medal fight. On the other side, Trevor Clevenot Women’s
My winning wishes, no predictions, on the left side.
- Go Brazil! - It’s actually Team Turkey vs. Kim Yeon-koung & friends. - This is tough, but wanna see Italy finally in a final stage in Olympics, Serbia is still the biggest favourite imho, despite their loss against Brazil. - Maybe naïve, but don’t we all like underdogs?
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Bread UnnieVolleyball Quarterfinals
She played 2 seasons in (Eczacıbaşı VitrA), she was also the the team captain.It'll be an interesting game for sure.