Olympics 2020/2021 : Discussion & Predictions

[TopTort777]

Anyone got caught for cheating or for using doping already? Or any other scandal (except racism)? Havent heard anything about that. Usually there is always 1 negative news per day. Or everyone has hidden their doping test behind covid vaccine?

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[boltz]

So far I did not hear a single thing about doping , cheating or being furious towards team , players or official. And we are in Japan , where honor and dignity are presence all over the place so I'm not excepting to see anything that would damage the Image of Tokyo Olympics.

Yes, there are some vocals here and there that are against of some players and referees but in the end , fair play will be victorious.

[tomahawk9]

thoughts on the football games tomorrow? main favorites (brazil, spain and japan) to win with ease? or does anyone believe we're gonna see a big upset?

i just saw the 1x2 odds for the brazil - egypt game and brazil odds are too high, imo. To win at 1.41? that makes the asian handicap odds scream good value (if you believe the brazilians are gonna smash egypt, of course) with -1 ahc at 1.68 odds and -1.5 at 2 odds. I'll grab one of those two tbh, i don't think egypt are going to be a tough opponent for dani alves & co

[alegotardo]

thoughts on the football games tomorrow? main favorites (brazil, spain and japan) to win with ease? or does anyone believe we're gonna see a big upset?

i just saw the 1x2 odds for the brazil - egypt game and brazil odds are too high, imo. To win at 1.41? that makes the asian handicap odds scream good value (if you believe the brazilians are gonna smash egypt, of course) with -1 ahc at 1.68 odds and -1.5 at 2 odds. I'll grab one of those two tbh, i don't think egypt are going to be a tough opponent for dani alves & co

In the group stage, Brazil had the second-best campaign (two wins and one draw), only behind Japan (with three wins).
Egypt won only one, drawing and losing the other times. I see here... Egypt has the worst attack of the teams that qualified for the quarter-finals.

So, not only because of Brazil's favoritism (and also because I'm Brazilian) but also because of the statistical analysis of both teams, I believe tha tBrazil win.

However, each game is unique and a lot of unexpected events, anything can happen on the field.

[tabas]

Anyone got caught for cheating or for using doping already? Or any other scandal (except racism)? Havent heard anything about that. Usually there is always 1 negative news per day. Or everyone has hidden their doping test behind covid vaccine?

I haven't followed some news about it but it seems that there were news that's made related to this and these are the few of it. See the links below:
20 Olympic athletes ineligible to compete after failing to meet anti-doping guidelines
Djokovic's golden dream ends on day of upsets marred by doping slur

[LTU_btc]

Did anyone watched tennis today? Djokovic lost semifinal to Zverev. And immediately after enf of singles game he went to play doubles semifinal. He lost it too. I think that such schedule is a bit unfair for athlete.

So far I did not hear a single thing about doping , cheating or being furious towards team , players or official. And we are in Japan , where honor and dignity are presence all over the place so I'm not excepting to see anything that would damage the Image of Tokyo Olympics.

Yes, there are some vocals here and there that are against of some players and referees but in the end , fair play will be victorious.

I think that nobody has been caught yet. But usually positive doping tests appears some time after end of Olympics. Sometimes it can take few years.

[tomahawk9]

However, each game is unique and a lot of unexpected events, anything can happen on the field.

i ended up taking the -1 ahc


tough match for brazil with egypt parking the bus throughout the whole game

Spain vs Japan and Brazil vs Mexico in semis. I think the second match will be a goal fest, both teams play very offensive football, i'll keep an eye on the total goal markets in the bookies. Spain-Japan, it's a toss up, tbh

[Yogee]

Did anyone watched tennis today? Djokovic lost semifinal to Zverev.

It was an upset but Zverev has a game that can beat anyone. I lost on this one too.

And immediately after enf of singles game he went to play doubles semifinal. He lost it too. I think that such schedule is a bit unfair for athlete.

The Olympic rule allows him to play in both events but it is still Djokovic's decision to participate or let someone else do the doubles. The committee will not bend their schedule just because of a "tired" player.

[Luzin]

Has anyone seen the bronze medal match in badminton?
After the minions failed, I hoped for Mohammad Ahsan/Hendra Setiawan to  enter the final. Unfortunately they also lost in the semifinals. Furthermore, in the bronze medal match, Ahsan/Hendra Setiawan had to meet Aaron Chia/Soh Wooi Yik. Ahsan/Hendra who fought three games. They played pretty tight for 52 minutes. Unfortunately, at the end of the game, I had to admit the superiority of Chia/Soh Wooi Yik with a score of 21-17, 17-21, and 21-14.

[Jackl87]

Did anyone watched tennis today? Djokovic lost semifinal to Zverev.

It was an upset but Zverev has a game that can beat anyone. I lost on this one too.

And immediately after enf of singles game he went to play doubles semifinal. He lost it too. I think that such schedule is a bit unfair for athlete.

The Olympic rule allows him to play in both events but it is still Djokovic's decision to participate or let someone else do the doubles. The committee will not bend their schedule just because of a "tired" player.

And today Djokovic also lost the game for the bronze medal against pablo carreno busta, even though he managed to win the second set after he already had matchballs against him there. After that loss he also cancelled the match for the bronze medal in the mixed competition because of a shoulder injury. If he is really injured.. i doubt that. So that is pretty sad for his female partner nina stojanovic as she has now no chance to win an olympic medal and no one knows if she will ever have a chance to win a medal again in her life.
Also pretty disappointing for djokovic also of course. I think everyone expected him to win this olympic tournament and then also the US open to become the first male tennis player ever to win the golden slam. We will see if he can stay motivated for the rest of the season now.

[Ratash]

However, each game is unique and a lot of unexpected events, anything can happen on the field.

i ended up taking the -1 ahc


tough match for brazil with egypt parking the bus throughout the whole game

Spain vs Japan and Brazil vs Mexico in semis. I think the second match will be a goal fest, both teams play very offensive football, i'll keep an eye on the total goal markets in the bookies. Spain-Japan, it's a toss up, tbh

The first three games were tight ones exept for the mexico and south corea game which was really fun to watch lot of chances from both sides as for the semi finals spain and japan both had problems as we seen today spain with defensive issues and japan with offensive issues and i think in this game we wont see many goals and the first to score will have more advantage.

[alegotardo]

However, each game is unique and a lot of unexpected events, anything can happen on the field.

i ended up taking the -1 ahc


tough match for brazil with egypt parking the bus throughout the whole game

Spain vs Japan and Brazil vs Mexico in semis. I think the second match will be a goal fest, both teams play very offensive football, i'll keep an eye on the total goal markets in the bookies. Spain-Japan, it's a toss up, tbh

Well, this is already a harder game to predict winner.

Mexico's rout over South Korea is already able to stir the emotionality of Brazilian players.
Adds to that the fact occurred at the 2012 Olympics in London, Brazil lost the gold medal to Mexico in finals, I hope this doesn't happen again in the semifinals this year.
I'm betting on Brazil just for my patriotism, but aware that it will be a complicated match and risky bet.

[Baofeng]

I just came here for another congratulatory post for our first-ever Gold medal

I read a post about her Olympic journey since 2008:
2008 - second to the last
2012 - didn't finish
2016 - Silver
2020 - Gold

I also read she got financial support from a private citizen during her preparation for the competition. Just goes to show how important that is to the athletes and why developed countries usually dominate.

Well done Hidilyn Diaz! Enjoy your PHP30 Million (~$600K) reward.

Yeah, I still vividly remember watching her in 2012 summer Olympics in a gym that time.

But after that Diaz improved a lot and bring glory to the Philippines. But finally, we have achieved a very special gold that eluded us for 97 years. Every Filipino around the world should be rejoicing about this win as this is very historic day for all of us to finally hearing our national anthem. Very proud to be Filipino right now!!!.

We still have another women, Nesthy Petecio, who upsets top ranked Lin Yu-Ting of Chinese Taipei in the featherweight division. One win away from a potential medal.

Ok so it's good news for the Philippines again, Nesthy Petecio won her match against Yeni Marcela Arias Castaneda of Colombia. Meaning she is going to the next round, the quarterfinals and will assure her of a bronze medal already.

And if by chance she won against Irma Testa of Italy, she will be fighting for the gold medal.

So the Philippines will already have a 2 medal haul in this Olympics, another accomplished for the country. The last time the country won multi medal is 89 years ago.

1 Gold 1 Bronze for the PH, very proud of this "girls".

Another quick update for the Philippines, Nesthy Petecio won her match against Testa of Italy with a score of 4-1.

She is now assured of a Silver medal already. But for sure he is gunning for the second gold medal for the Philippines. However, she will be facing a home town fighter Sena Irie. Will be a tough task for her and hopefully the judges will not be bias.

[Jating]

Did anyone watched tennis today? Djokovic lost semifinal to Zverev.

It was an upset but Zverev has a game that can beat anyone. I lost on this one too.

And immediately after enf of singles game he went to play doubles semifinal. He lost it too. I think that such schedule is a bit unfair for athlete.

The Olympic rule allows him to play in both events but it is still Djokovic's decision to participate or let someone else do the doubles. The committee will not bend their schedule just because of a "tired" player.

And today Djokovic also lost the game for the bronze medal against pablo carreno busta, even though he managed to win the second set after he already had matchballs against him there. After that loss he also cancelled the match for the bronze medal in the mixed competition because of a shoulder injury. If he is really injured.. i doubt that. So that is pretty sad for his female partner nina stojanovic as she has now no chance to win an olympic medal and no one knows if she will ever have a chance to win a medal again in her life.
Also pretty disappointing for djokovic also of course. I think everyone expected him to win this olympic tournament and then also the US open to become the first male tennis player ever to win the golden slam. We will see if he can stay motivated for the rest of the season now.

Ok, so that's why he lost the match surprisingly against Zverev. Not taking anything away from Zverev, just what if Djokovic is healthy, it could have been a different outcome. Not sure the extend of the injury and hopefully it is not that bad as he will need to prepare next month for the US Open to complete a grand slam. Just sad that he didn't get the gold medal for his golden slam, but it is really hard to do because you have to maintain your health and be 100% injury free the whole year which is hard to do because of the gruelling tennis calendar.

[Fredomago]

Another quick update for the Philippines, Nesthy Petecio won her match against Testa of Italy with a score of 4-1.

She is now assured of a Silver medal already. But for sure he is gunning for the second gold medal for the Philippines. However, she will be facing a home town fighter Sena Irie. Will be a tough task for her and hopefully the judges will not be bias.

She's fighting very well and for sure she will do everything to win this fight, if she see that opportunities knowing that her opponents have that higher edge than her since she's fighting at home.

Still depends from how this much ends, the hope  for another gold still possible, that cold cash that's await for the Filipina fighter.

Hope she will also get the same perks like Hidilyn if she won the gold medal.  Good Luck!

[joker_josue]

After a week of Olympic games, we have China with the most medals won.
Will the USA not be the ones that will gather more gold medals this year? If that happens, it will be something that will surprise you.
The athletics competitions have already started, and the USA players are not having the expected performance.

[Joca97]

However, each game is unique and a lot of unexpected events, anything can happen on the field.

i ended up taking the -1 ahc


tough match for brazil with egypt parking the bus throughout the whole game

Spain vs Japan and Brazil vs Mexico in semis. I think the second match will be a goal fest, both teams play very offensive football, i'll keep an eye on the total goal markets in the bookies. Spain-Japan, it's a toss up, tbh

You should have went with just Brazil to win or to parlay it with something. This was a little riskier approach but at least you got the moneyback. I think Mexico can even surprise Brazil in the semis but for me Spain will probobly win against Japan

[fullhdpixel]

A quite good day for Turkey overall. Volleyball team guarantees quarterfinals for the first time ever, and gold medal in archery at the very same day. Volleyball wasn't really a surprise shock because they were already good, they didn't play that badly and they were ranked high as well, so it wasn't really a shock that they would get out of that group, I assumed it would be lower but they have a chance to even become second if Italy ends up beating USA (unlikely) and Turkey wins the last game.

The archery however was a big shock, that young kid was always a good archer, many things were expected of him, but definitely not this quickly and not gold medal, dude is a very young kid competing against older people 10+ years older even and he still managed to get gold medal, if he keeps this up and doesn't get unlucky, he could get few more gold medals in archery before he retires.

[boltz]

After a week of Olympic games, we have China with the most medals won.
Will the USA not be the ones that will gather more gold medals this year? If that happens, it will be something that will surprise you.
The athletics competitions have already started, and the USA players are not having the expected performance.

Uhm , I think China might take the lead this year but it depends on what Japan will do at this moment because USA seems kinda from the 1st place , don't you think ? In my opinion he still have a lot of finals to see and it's true , the championship placement could change by the end of Olympics.

[tomahawk9]

I'm betting on Brazil just for my patriotism, but aware that it will be a complicated match and risky bet.

markets went live and brazil to win at 2.1 odds seems decent, but i see value in over 2.5 goals at 1.7.
Both teams are pretty good in front of goal, and mexico are on fire lately with 14 goals in just 4 games

You should have went with just Brazil to win or to parlay it with something. This was a little riskier approach but at least you got the moneyback. I think Mexico can even surprise Brazil in the semis but for me Spain will probobly win against Japan

brazil to win odds were too low imo, but you're probably right, a parlay would've been better but i didn't see a game with good value earlier today (i should've taken a few more minutes and do some research, though   )