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even If coaches got medals for their respective countries (which would be charming), my dear Iceland would have lost their last medal contender today as the German handball team, coached by Alfred Gislason, played a disastrous match against Egypt in quarter final, lost 25:31 and got eliminated. The handball coaches of Bahrain and Japan are also from Iceland but they are also out already.

Apart from that, it was a fantastic day for Germany...

Tomorrow might be even more successful for us. I expect us to win around 7 medals tomorrow.

Spot-on! We won exactly 7 medals. Not exactly those I expected, but it doesn't matter.

The highlight was for sure the performance of our Women's team in the bicycle pursuit. Only yesterday they set a new world record but they pulverized this record tonday and beat it by two seconds. In the final race against Great Britain they were about to lap the British quartet which would be the biggest possible humiliation in a final race. It was probably the most dominant golden medal in a speed discipline in this Olympics and I am very proud of our girls. Nonetheless kudos to the British girls who were great too and let's not forget they were dominating this class for many years. It was about time, somebody dethroned them :LOL:

Already in the early morning we won a golden medal in Women's long jump. Malaika Mihambo won it in a dramatic fashion since she was on the bronze place before the last jump. Then she became the first and only woman tonight pulling off a 7 metres jump
and climbing onto the first place and won our first gold in Athletics. We don't have many medal contenders in the Athletics events this year but so far we've reached the maximum. We should at least win one more Athletic medal in Javelin throw.

Beside the golden athletes we had two silver medalists today: Lukas Dauser after an almost flawless performance on the parallel bars & the 49erFX sailors Beucke/Lutz who pulled off a great medal race.

In general, the sailors were fantastic. The Men's 49er Heil/Plößel surprisingly won bronze. Surprisingly because it seemed to be a lost case before the medal race and they had to make a great comeback. In the Mixed Nacra race in turn we were about losing a safe 3rd place when our boat got a early penalty but somehow they kept their nerves and saved the bronze medal.

Another bronze medal was won by the canoe duet Brendel/Hecker. Tbh this was a bit of a disappointment because prior to the Olympics they had won every single international race they took part in this year. In the last 200 metres they proved their skills and if the race was a bit longer they could have gone for Gold I guess... however, they lost the race in the first half.

Another canoe racer disappointed a bit: Jacob Schöpf I expected to win at least bronze in the Kajak race but he ended up on the ungrateful 4th place. But that's not a shame since he is still a young guy with a bright future.

However, the Canoe racers should definitely improve in the next few days. It is the sports in which we are most successful and there are at least two races left in which we should go for gold.

Another disappointment is the general performance in the team sports events. In Rio we won 5 medals there (Hockey & football each Men and Women and the Handball men) but in Tokyo all teams are basically out. Only the Men's hockey team is gonna fight for Bronze against India and can retrieve the honour of our teams :D
 

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Unfortunately, both our women's beach volleyball teams fell in the quarterfinals to Australia and Latvia

Canada has two chances at a medal in the men's 200m in athletics thanks to Andre De Grasse and Aaron Brown
 

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Second medal for :lv: today. It was a bronze for Artūrs Plēsnieks in weightlifting (men's 109 kg category). He had quite many injuries during his career, not always could show his best at previous competitions but finaly achieved his goal to get the Olympic medal. Really happy for him. xheart
Our beach volleyball women's team Graudiņa/Kravčenoka qualified for the semi-finals. Love their attitude to the game, fighting spirit but at the same time with smile on their faces. Hope for a good luck in the decisive games.

From other events I moslty followed athletics. Really happy for Karsten Warholm, that was a fenomenal world record. And also really glad for Sweden and Mondo Duplantis. He was so close to the new record too, but I'm sure it will come for hime later. In some other events also athletes I cheered more than others won (Malaika Mihambo and Anita Włodarczyk). So it was a great day. xcheer
 

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even If coaches got medals for their respective countries (which would be charming), my dear Iceland would have lost their last medal contender today as the German handball team, coached by Alfred Gislason, played a disastrous match against Egypt in quarter final, lost 25:31 and got eliminated. The handball coaches of Bahrain and Japan are also from Iceland but they are also out already.
Norway women's handball team with Icelandic coach Þórir Hergeirsson is still in the game and one of the main favorites.
 

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Team Canada updates...

* 2 more medal chances in the men's 5000m (Moh Ahmed and Justyn Knight)
* Damian Warner is smashing it in the decathlon, he equaled his world best time in the 100m event
* Laurence Vincent-Lapointe easily advanced to the semifinals in women's canoeing (C-1 200m)
 

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:it: out in both Volleyball tournaments xgaah Well... Serbia was just too strong, apart from the first set it never looked like the Italian girls stand a chance here
 
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Finally I could stop crying and am barely back on my feet. Huge congratulations to :tr: Filenin Sultanları (Turkish women's volleyball team) for your great achievement at the Olympic Games in these challenging and uncertain times we are going through, there is no doubt that you will go for gold at Paris 2024 'cause you are a young and talented team!
 

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:ua: Wrestling. Our black treasure Zhan Beleniuk has just won the first gold for Ukrainexyaaayxlove He seriously injured his shoulder 3 weeks ago and didn't know if he's gonna take part at all. He did it through visible pain.

He even performed a hopak - traditional Ukrainian dance
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We brought to Tokyo the smallest team ever in our history, and what started as a disaster ... has already become better than Rio xbow
 
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Watching 2.07 m-giant Oleg Stoyanovskiy playing beachvolleyball seems way to overpowered, even if today's opponent Julius Thole is barely smaller. Olympic semifinals in beachvolleyball without any duo from Brazil and just one of each Russia and the US is a nice sight for me. And two medal chances in either competition here for Latvia @as78 Got the news spread already?
 

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Two more medals for Germany today:

- The wrestlers Frank Stäbler and Denis Kudla won bronze in their respective weight classes. xup That's amazing because both had lost in their quarter finals and were potentially out, if their defeaters didnt qualified for the finals. In the repechages they won both matches and therefore got well deserved bronze medals

- the biggest disappointment: Our most promising Equestrian show jumper Daniel Deusser and his horse Killer Queen (1st in the World ranking) knocked off two bars and finished only on the 18th place. There is a chance for a revenge in the team event. A horse named after a Queen song definitely should not go home without a medal

- good but not good enough: In the 10 km open water race Leonie Beck reached a good 5th place. She were in a promising position most parts of the race and even led the leading group for a while. But she can be fine with this result.
Gesa-Felicitas Krause is one of our few "stars" in the Athletics running disciplins. She started in 3000m steeplechase final and became 5th, too. She was a bit of a medal contender tbh but the field is pretty competitive, so she can still be proud of herself.

- the biggest drama: Our decathlon star Niklas Kaul had a fantastic first day (after he had a lof of trouble in his preperation for Olympics) and achieved a stunning personal best in high jump. However in his last jump he sustained an ankle injury (don't know the diagnosis) so he gave up the 400 metres in pain and therefore had to give up the whole event. His chances to win us another bronze were realistic up to this tragic accident. Maybe if everything works out perfect our heptathlon athlete Claudia Schäfer can go for bronze tomorrow. Ironically, she and other medal contenders benefitted from the injury of the favorite Katarina Johnson-Thompson. Today we got reminded that it's a shame when medal dreams gets shattered by higher powers. :(

A short look to the ballsports athletes who are still left:
Our beach volleyball duet Thole/Wickler sadly lost to their Russian archrivals Krasilnikov/Stoyanovskiy who already beat them in the WC final of 2019. Our male Table Tennis team qualified for the final xheat they beat Japan in an exciting match by 3:2 points. The final is probably a lost cause. China is pretty much unbeatable in the table tennis team event but you know: hope dies last.
 

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Tomorrow :fi: :

- Mira Potkonen is boxing for final match: If she wins, she will be in the final. If she looses, she will get bronze medal. Despite tomorrow's match result, Potkonen will get second medal for Finland in this summer olympics

- Matilda Castren and Sanna Nuutinen will continue their golfing: Matilda Castren is tied fourth place with -3 and Sanna Nuutinen is tied sixteenth place with -1. Great start for both of them

- Ella Junnila will fight for qualification in women's high jump final: Her record is 1.96m, so she can qualify with go over 1.95m.

- Maria Huntington will continue women's heptathlon: She is now fourteenth place with 3699 points.

- Wilma Murto will be in women's pole vault final: I am not expecting medal, but perhaps 8-10 place is reasonable. Hopefully she will at least go over on 4,70m.

- Our 50km race walkers (Okay, this is actually August 6th, but Finnish time this starts tomorrow) Jarkko Kinnunen, Aleksi Ojala and Veli-Matti Partanen will fight for getting to finish line.
 

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So excited to see both Latvian beach volleyball duos in the semi-finals. Here it's the main news topic these days and the thing many people following. It will be very hard in the semis, especially for men against Norwegians Mol/Sørum. Last night specally woke up at 4 at night our time to wath the quarter, this night there will be girls semi at that time. :D
 

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Today was certainly a great day for team :rs: , one of the best ones so far xdance2

Women basketball

:rs: 77:70 :cn:
- I expected a difficult match here, and it was indeed difficult to secure this victory. :.cn had the lead most of the time, but we managed to improve our defense in the crucial moments, we scored some important shots and in the end managed to win. Team play and spirit are always on the highest level when it comes to teams that Marina Maljković is leading and they all deserved this success.

Now the next rival is :us: . It will be difficult to reach the final, but I'm sure we will not surrender. For me, this is already a great success.

Women volleyball

:rs: 3:0 :it:
- I am impressed with what the girls have shown here. I think we never beat:it: so easily before. If we keep on performing like this, we will be a tough nut to crack for all of the remaining teams. I think we have a realistic chance of getting a medal.

Water polo

:rs: 10:6 :it:- Yet another convincing victory against :it: and in the same day :lol: :it: is the current world championship, so of course, a victory like this means a lot. We may not have been a favorite for the gold prior to the tournament, as we are not in our peak, but we do have expereince as a team and we are well in the game to take the Olympic gold now. It won't be easy against :es: though. In my opinion, :es: is the strongest water polo national team right now with lots of great players, but it's tough to beat someone twice on the same championship, so I believe we have our chance.


Greco-Roman wrestling

Zurab Datunshvilli got a bronze medal today and after Milenko Sebić's outstanding success in rifle, :rs: now has 6 medals in total xcheer

We have a good chance to repeat our success from :br: when we had 8 medals, but we can also set the new record. I am already satisfied with what was done and everyone deserves maximum respect for everything they have shown in these Olympic games.
 
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Canadians sit 1-3 in the decathlon at the halfway mark, so we've got a good chance going into day 2
 

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YES FINALLY !!!!!

SOFIANE EL BAKKALI GOT THE GOLD IN 3000M STEEPLE xheart xheart xheart !
Huge congrats! He's the first non-Kenyan to win this event at the Olympics since 1980. xheat

All the talk was this would be the Ethiopians time but El Bakkali had other ideas with way more left in the tank in the last 400m than anybody else.
 

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I forgot to praise my Ana sister Ana Marcela xcheer good job girl! Another victory for the Northeast!!

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OTOH the first time ever that Brazil won't get a medal at beach volleyball xcry i felt bad especially for Ana Patricia and Rebecca because one of them had dehydration and had to leave the competition in a wheelchair. :(

At least, I think our girls can get a medal at volleyball for us! (as the men will probably be destroyed by Russia again :lol:)
 

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Two :ca: boats through to the final in the women's C-1 200m

Canadians still sitting 1-3 in decathlon

Of course we're guaranteed at least a silver medal in women's soccer tomorrow
 
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