Paris Olympics 2024

Löwenherz

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Team USA lineup for tomorrow’s team finals.

Vault: Jordan Chiles, Jade Carey, Simone Biles
Bars: Jordan Chiles, Simone Biles, Suni Lee
Beam: Jordan Chiles, Suni Lee, Simone Biles
Floor: Suni Lee, Jordan Chiles, Simone Biles

As expected, Hezley Rivera’s Olympics are done, baring an injury. Surprised Lee got the nod on floor over Carey. She had a bad outing in qualifications, but overall she’s stronger in the event than Lee.
 
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Tetsujin said:
For a country that is absolutely anti-skateboarding on any of its streets, Japan is apparently great at popping out medalist skateboarders like no one’s business.
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Based purely on my fandom of YouTube skateboarding channels, the impression I've gotten is that Japan is absolutely stacked with skateboarding talent so that actually doesn't surprise me. It looks like they have some pretty cool skate parks over there too.

 
Löwenherz

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Rundown of the other 7 women’s artistic gymnastics teams tomorrow.
Brazil: Closest competition for Team USA with
the second best gymnast in the world in Rebeca Andrade. But even beyond their ace, this team is staked with Rio 2016 veterans Flavia Saravia, Lorrane Oliveira, and 33-year-old Jade Barbosa (likely competing in the final meet of her career) adding dynamic first time Olympian Julia Soares, who qualified for Beam finals. This team is the favorite to win silver for Brazil’s long overdue first ever Olympic team medal.

Italy: This team is built on the backs of two aces in Manila Esposito and Alice D’Amato, who finished #6 and #7 in the all-around quals as well as giving Italy representatives in the beam, bars, and floor finals. Add in strong contributions from #13 all-around overall Elisa Iorio, and it’s easy to see why they are a favorite for a podium spot. Also scary how this team could have been even better if not for the injury to Vanessa Ferrari in the weeks before Paris.

China: It’s been a rough go for China in international competitions since Rio. They really need to be on the podium here in Paris for a boost to their program, and with both Russia and now France out of contention, this is their golden opportunity. Qui Qiyaun is their Suni Lee - all-around ace and stellar bars specialist. Ou Yushan gives them a solid #2 all-around and floor specialist. While they don’t have much on vault, Zhao Yaqin gives them an ace on beam and Zang Yihan gives them a second elite bars specialist. They have the talent, but need to really excel in their areas of strength to overcome their weaknesses.

Japan: Really rather impressive they’re still here given the controversy swirling around them after sending their team captain home for partying in Monaco. Rina Kishi stepped up to carry the team through quals finishing #10 in the all-around and making the floor finals. The other three remaining team members: Haruka Nakamura, Mana Okamura, and Kohane Ushioku all dug deep to finish in the top 30 in the all-around and help Japan live to fight for one more day. They’ve shown a ton of grit and resilience, and if they still manage to nab a medal, this would be a monumental story, but that’s hyper unlikely.

Canada: This team is superstar Ellie Black and a bunch of girls named Jane. (apologies to the talented Ava Stewart, Aurelia Tran and vault specialist Shallon Olsen). There is depth on this team, but it still all comes down to Black. Two years ago, Black was able to single-handedly will Canada onto the podium at Worlds, but the competition for the top three is much more ferocious here in Paris.

Great Britain: This team was ravaged by injuries before they even got to Paris, losing ace Ondine Achamping and the Gadirova twins, and I’m having trouble understanding how they’re even still here. Georgia-Mae Fenton and Alice Kinsella put in moderately good showings across the board and Rebecca Downie gave them a boost on bars, but they probably would have been out had France and Australia not underachieved.

Romania: I can’t exactly say this is a team that truly is just happy to be here. Romania of course used to be an elite power house in women’s artistic gymnastics. But they haven’t medaled in the sport at the Olympics since London in 2012. Sabrina Maneca-Voinea is their best hope to break that streak during the event finals of floor and beam, and they have a pair of decent all-arounders in Ana Barbosu and Amalia Ghigoarta, but they should not be making much noise during the team finals.
 
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megapoxy

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In another close matchup in the "group of death" Spain beat Greece 84-77 led again by Aldama (19p 12r) and made a huge step to advance to the next stage. Greece in order to have hopes of qualifying has to beat Australia by 3 or more points in the last match and Canada should also beat Australia in the match that starts in a while... not so easy especially if Giannis will not be having any help again in the offense.
Spain had 11/17 3s in halftime, and Greece reminded me of the Kings since we (it's my country) conceded several wild 3 pointers at the end of 24" despite playing good defence for almost the entire opponents' offence.
 
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Löwenherz said:
Rundown of the other 7 women’s artistic gymnastics teams tomorrow.
Brazil: Closest competition for Team USA with
the second best gymnast in the world in Rebeca Andrade. But even beyond their ace, this team is staked with Rio 2016 veterans Flavia Saravia, Lorrane Oliveira, and 33-year-old Jade Barbosa (likely competing in the final meet of her career) adding dynamic first time Olympian Julia Soares, who qualified for Beam finals. This team is the favorite to win silver for Brazil’s long overdue first ever Olympic team medal.

Italy: This team is built on the backs of two aces in Manila Esposito and Alice D’Amato, who finished #6 and #7 in the all-around quals as well as giving Italy representatives in the beam, bars, and floor finals. Add in strong contributions from #13 all-around overall Elisa Iorio, and it’s easy to see why they are a favorite for a podium spot. Also scary how this team could have been even better if not for the injury to Vanessa Ferrari in the weeks before Paris.

China: It’s been a rough go for China in international competitions since Rio. They really need to be on the podium here in Paris for a boost to their program, and with both Russia and now France out of contention, this is their golden opportunity. Qui Qiyaun is their Suni Lee - all-around ace and stellar bars specialist. Ou Yushan gives them a solid #2 all-around and floor specialist. While they don’t have much on vault, Zhao Yaqin gives them an ace on beam and Zang Yihan gives them a second elite bars specialist. They have the talent, but need to really excel in their areas of strength to overcome their weaknesses.

Japan: Really rather impressive they’re still here given the controversy swirling around them after sending their team captain home for partying in Monaco. Rina Kishi stepped up to carry the team through quals finishing #10 in the all-around and making the floor finals. The other three remaining team members: Haruka Nakamura, Mana Okamura, and Kohane Ushioku all dug deep to finish in the top 30 in the all-around and help Japan live to fight for one more day. They’ve shown a ton of grit and resilience, and if they still manage to nab a medal, this would be a monumental story, but that’s hyper unlikely.

Canada: This team is superstar Ellie Black and a bunch of girls named Jane. (apologies to the talented Ava Stewart, Aurelia Tran and vault specialist Shallon Olsen). There is depth on this team, but it still all comes down to Black. Two years ago, Black was able to single-handedly will Canada onto the podium at Worlds, but the competition for the top three is much more ferocious here in Paris.

Great Britain: This team was ravaged by injuries before they even got to Paris, losing ace Ondine Achamping and the Gadirova twins, and I’m having trouble understanding how they’re even still here. Georgia-Mae Fenton and Alice Kinsella put in moderately good showings across the board and Rebecca Downie gave them a boost on bars, but they probably would have been out had France and Australia not underachieved.

Romania: I can’t exactly say this is a team that truly is just happy to be here. Romania of course used to be an elite power house in women’s artistic gymnastics. But they haven’t medaled in the sport at the Olympics since London in 2012. Sabrina Maneca-Voinea is their best hope to break that streak during the event finals of floor and beam, and they have a pair of decent all-arounders in Ana Barbosu and Amalia Ghigoarta, but they should not be making much noise during the team finals.
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So, unless Biles' injury is worse than they've said, and/or something bizarre happens, United States has this in the bag, yes?
 
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Today in the pool, we saw an example of how, for 99 percent of these athletes, just getting to the Olympics is a win in itself. Ching Hwee Gan (SGP) finished first in her individual heat (H1) in the Women's 1500m freestyle, with a new national record, but finished out of the running to compete in the final, finishing almost 23 seconds behind Katie Ledecky (H3), and a second and a half short of the cutoff for the Top 8.

Simona Quadarella (ITA) won her heat (H2) with a time that was less than four seconds slower than Ledecky, so we might just have a race in the final!
 
Löwenherz

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Mr. S£im Citrus said:
So, unless Biles' injury is worse than they've said, and/or something bizarre happens, United States has this in the bag, yes?
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Well, on paper Brazil has a shot. And China and Italy are dangerous. And as they say, that’s why they play the game. All scores reset to zero in finals, so everyone’s tied right now.

But short answer is yes, Team USA finished qualifications with the 1st, 3rd and 4th highest scorers in the All-Around and that doesn’t even include Carey’s top 8 vault score.

Teams can’t do anything to catch up to that. They need the US to beat itself.
 
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Löwenherz

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3 outstanding vaults by Chiles, Carey, and Biles. Kicking things off perfectly. Biles was smiling all the way through her rotations. No sign that calf is bothering her.

1 down. 3 to go.
 
Tetsujin

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Uhhh Wemby just blew it for the French. Why you gonna take a three there down two when you’re bigger than every other guy on the floor and have a wideass open lane to the rim?
 
Löwenherz

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This just in: Lee is insanely good on bars. Chiles and Biles put up great scores too. US gets through bars without a fall and halfway though in the driver’s seat.
 
Löwenherz

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Soares fall on beam for Brazil hurts their medal chances, but fortunately for them China’s Zhao uncharacteristically falling on beam too, her best event, has kept the door open for Brazil.
 
Löwenherz

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If Chiles, Biles, and Lee get through beam without a fall, then the final event, floor, will turn into a victory lap, with Biles set to punctuate the exclamation point as anchor.
 
Löwenherz

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Anyone confused by the graphic “helpfully” showing the top 3 scores in real time in the upper left, just know it’s next to useless.

Teams are on different apparatuses with different scoring potentials at different stages of the rotation. One team could have finished vault while another has barely started floor.

Great Britain, Japan, and Canada are not 1, 2 and 3 right now.
 
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