Olympics 2020/2021 : Discussion & Predictions

[Stalker22]

Croatia seems to be heading for another medal.

Croatia has beaten the current Olympic champions Serbia 14-12 in the 4th match of Group B in the water polo tournament at the Olympics in Tokyon Saturday.

https://www.croatiaweek.com/olympics-croatia-beats-serbia-to-secure-quarterfinal-in-water-polo/

As a result of this victory, Croatia has clinched a place in the quarterfinals. Croatia plays Spain on Monday to see who takes first place in the group.

[Ratash]

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.

Yes it was a surprise for me and it seems there is some down grade in the usa athletes in this olympics and i ve seen that especialy in basketball when they performed a little less than usual where in the last two olympics they did not lose a single game so this is just an example about what you said.

[nhaila]

Sorry to say that  more than 300+ athletes already affected by COVID-19 hence they can't participate in the Olympics. What's a miserable conditions for them !!! All hops and attempts vain in coronavirus pandemic situations.

[tabas]

Sorry to say that  more than 300+ athletes already affected by COVID-19 hence they can't participate in the Olympics. What's a miserable conditions for them !!! All hops and attempts vain in coronavirus pandemic situations.

Yeah, there's a spike during the Olympics in Tokyo but the organizers have denied that it's not because of the games that has been held. But obviously, there's really the connection of the surge because of the Olympics.

Olympic organizers deny that Tokyo's record spike in COVID-19 infections this week is due to the Games, and that Olympic infections are adding strain on Japan's medical system. "As far as I know there are no infections spreading to the Japanese public from the Olympic movement. There is not a single severe case among our stakeholders," says IOC spokesperson Mark Adams.

[tippytoes]

Sorry to say that  more than 300+ athletes already affected by COVID-19 hence they can't participate in the Olympics. What's a miserable conditions for them !!! All hops and attempts vain in coronavirus pandemic situations.

Yeah, there's a spike during the Olympics in Tokyo but the organizers have denied that it's not because of the games that has been held. But obviously, there's really the connection of the surge because of the Olympics.

Olympic organizers deny that Tokyo's record spike in COVID-19 infections this week is due to the Games, and that Olympic infections are adding strain on Japan's medical system. "As far as I know there are no infections spreading to the Japanese public from the Olympic movement. There is not a single severe case among our stakeholders," says IOC spokesperson Mark Adams.

This is very unfortunate for those athletes who can't compete with their games. But from outside view, it seems the olympics is doing great, many are getting their gold for the first time and beating the known veterans. I'm glad that this event push thru despite of so many troubles along the way. It is understandable that a lot of athletes are also going thru their mental health problem here. I hope they can recover easily and align themselves again with their goals in life. What surprised me is the withdrawal of Simone Biles in the finals. Wish her the best.

[LGD2Business]

We saw two new olympic records in swimming today. It's pretty exciting day for swimming finals.
First Caeleb Dressel swam 21.07 in 50m freestyle and broke the record. Then Emma McKeon swam 23.81 in 50m freestyle women and broke the record. What a time to be alive!

[blue Snow]

We saw two new olympic records in swimming today. It's pretty exciting day for swimming finals.
First Caeleb Dressel swam 21.07 in 50m freestyle and broke the record. Then Emma McKeon swam 23.81 in 50m freestyle women and broke the record. What a time to be alive!

4x100 relay have new OR either, congrats to Australia. they got 2 gold medals at the moment.
I'm from Indonesia have strong badminton teams, today we going to see the semifinal  Anthony Sinisuka vs Chen Long, I hope he takes control to the next final following Indonesian women's doubles. I'm quite sad to see the men's doubles fail to get a bronze medal yesterday, Malaysia has been strong enough and gets that first medal.

[LGD2Business]

4x100 relay have new OR either, congrats to Australia. they got 2 gold medals at the moment.

And another record after women 4x100m medley relay, USA won 4x100m medley relay men and broke World Record!
Great Britain got silver and Italy got bronze.

Caeleb Dressel won his fifth gold medal, that's insane. We are lucky to see that after Michael Phelps we have a new winner elite swimmer.

[Sithara007]

Sorry to say that  more than 300+ athletes already affected by COVID-19 hence they can't participate in the Olympics. What's a miserable conditions for them !!! All hops and attempts vain in coronavirus pandemic situations.

It is very unfortunate. Previously it was thought that COVID won't be an issue, since all the athletes are fully vaccinated with two doses of the Pfizer vaccine. But now it is known that Pfizer vaccine has limited efficacy against the Delta strain, which is prevalent across the world. Anyway, the vaccination reduces the chance of hospitalization to close to zero, and I don't think that there is any need to postpone or suspend the remaining part of the Games. But the athletes need to maintain strict social distancing protocols.

[Bttzed03]

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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.

About Nesthy Petecio winning a second Gold for the country, I can't help but laugh at the memes circulating lately. The private sponsors who gave Hidilyn cash/non-cash gifts are sweating because they have to do the same for Neshy.

On a serious note, this is probably the golden age for Philippine Olympics that will be hard to replicate in the future. I hope the next administrations can maintain or improve training facilities all around the country and provide additional funding to our athletes.

[TravelMug]

How about one of the centerpiece in althletics? Jamaican sweep the medals in the 100-meter.

Elaine Thompson-Hera - Gold
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce - Silver
Shericka Jackson - Bronze

Thompson-Hera ran the 2nd fastest 100 meters in history (10.61 seconds), second only to FloJo record breaking 10.62 set in 1988. Only one US women in the finals and she finished 7th. Used to be dominated by American female sprinters but Jamaica has been taking control of this event for the last 3 to 4 Olympics if I'm not mistaken.

[tabas]

Sorry to say that  more than 300+ athletes already affected by COVID-19 hence they can't participate in the Olympics. What's a miserable conditions for them !!! All hops and attempts vain in coronavirus pandemic situations.

Yeah, there's a spike during the Olympics in Tokyo but the organizers have denied that it's not because of the games that has been held. But obviously, there's really the connection of the surge because of the Olympics.

Olympic organizers deny that Tokyo's record spike in COVID-19 infections this week is due to the Games, and that Olympic infections are adding strain on Japan's medical system. "As far as I know there are no infections spreading to the Japanese public from the Olympic movement. There is not a single severe case among our stakeholders," says IOC spokesperson Mark Adams.

This is very unfortunate for those athletes who can't compete with their games. But from outside view, it seems the olympics is doing great, many are getting their gold for the first time and beating the known veterans. I'm glad that this event push thru despite of so many troubles along the way. It is understandable that a lot of athletes are also going thru their mental health problem here. I hope they can recover easily and align themselves again with their goals in life. What surprised me is the withdrawal of Simone Biles in the finals. Wish her the best.

It is since it's been 4 years that they've waited for this moment yet they cannot play because of the virus that they've contained. They never asked for it.
But it has to happen and they have no choice but to follow the protocol that has been made on Tokyo. We know that they also understand the situation but it's really a very bad and unfortunate experience.

[Stalker22]

Thompson-Hera ran the 2nd fastest 100 meters in history (10.61 seconds), second only to FloJo record breaking 10.62 set in 1988. Only one US women in the finals and she finished 7th. Used to be dominated by American female sprinters but Jamaica has been taking control of this event for the last 3 to 4 Olympics if I'm not mistaken.

Wow, those Jamaican ladies can run really fast!

Congrats to @FastElaine and Team Jamaica! A well deserved victory.

[cygan]

Alexander Zverev defeats the russian Karen Khachanov in two sets (6-3 and 6-1) and 70 minutes and becomes the first german tennis player to win the gold medal in singles tennis
the german was strongly superior to the russian for the whole game time

[Woodie]

Thompson-Hera ran the 2nd fastest 100 meters in history (10.61 seconds), second only to FloJo record breaking 10.62 set in 1988. Only one US women in the finals and she finished 7th. Used to be dominated by American female sprinters but Jamaica has been taking control of this event for the last 3 to 4 Olympics if I'm not mistaken.

Wow, those Jamaican ladies can run really fast!

Congrats to @FastElaine and Team Jamaica! A well deserved victory.

I have watched that race several times and without taking anything away from that record breaking run from Thompson-Hera, I feel Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce didn't bring her A game...why because during the build up to this race she was posting 10.64 on average but this time she was 0.10 slower posting 10.74.
And if you watch that race a few more times, the last  10 meters looked like she was deliberately slowing down. Anyway race is over congrats to the Jamaican trio.

[Luzin]

I'm quite sad to see the men's doubles fail to get a bronze medal yesterday, Malaysia has been strong enough and gets that first medal.

I hope Anthony Sinisuka Ginting wins but not with the result. Ginting lost in straight sets with a score of 16-21 and 11-21. Disappointed, even though I hope he can match Taufik Hidayat's record in Greece in 2004. This is a row of losing badminton athletes from indonesia. Furthermore, Indonesia relies on Greysia Polii/Apriyani Rahayu for the Gold Medal. I hope they can win.

[KTChampions]

Alexander Zverev defeats the russian Karen Khachanov in two sets (6-3 and 6-1) and 70 minutes and becomes the first german tennis player to win the gold medal in singles tennis
the german was strongly superior to the russian for the whole game time

Khachanov was close to repeating the achievement of the legendary Russian tennis player Eigeny Kafelnikov, but in the end he received only silver. Considering that before the start of the tournament, hardly anyone expected him to reach the final, this is an excellent result. It will be interesting to read Kachanov's interview after the match - judging by the score, he had some kind of health or psychological problems.

[bryant.coleman]

Khachanov was close to repeating the achievement of the legendary Russian tennis player Eigeny Kafelnikov, but in the end he received only silver. Considering that before the start of the tournament, hardly anyone expected him to reach the final, this is an excellent result. It will be interesting to read Kachanov's interview after the match - judging by the score, he had some kind of health or psychological problems.

Russians would have been happy if Kachanov could win the gold. For the time being, he will settle with the silver. Russia won the gold in Mixed doubles a few minutes back (both gold and silver went to Russia). Czech Republic won the Women's doubles gold today (Barbora Krejčíková / Kateřina Siniaková), while another Czech player (Markéta Vondroušová) settled for the silver medal in Women's singles (gold went to Belinda Bencic of Switzerland). And that means the tennis competitions are over for this edition of the Olympics.

[Woodie]

Women's Triple Jump, just witnessed a new world record held by Yulimar Rojar from Venezuela with a 15.67 meter jump.

In the mens high jump we have a shared gold medal by Mutaz Essa Barshim og Qatar and Gianmarco Tamberi of Italy both refused to fight it out, history made here.

Now the 100 meter men's final is up, are we going to witness sporting greatness in all its glory. My money is on the south African to win this one...
False start for Zharnel Huges of Great Britain 🇬🇧 Disqualified

[Vishnu.Reang]

The most exciting event in Olympics 2021 is over. Men's 100m finals is now decided, with Marcell Jacobs of Italy surprisingly winning the gold medal. Another disappointment for the United States in athletics, as Fred Kerley came second at 9.84. Overall, Jacobs improved the margin by 0.01 seconds (back in 2016, Usain Bolt won the gold at 9.81 seconds and Justin Gatlin came second with 9.89). I don't know what happened to Yohan Blake. He couldn't even qualify for the finals (10.14 seconds in semi-finals).