Most gold medals at Paris Olympics?
DonaldinhoTrumpito
2 months ago
China also got some shaky holds in a few events : they were losing 9-6 in the decisive game of the 1st table tennis match against Japan, then recovered to win it 12-10 and proceeded to win the match 3-0. Even more surprising, China could have lost a diving event that they were 99% favorite to win! Their 1st diver had some obvious trouble, making mistakes all over the place, and while their 2nd diver did great, he found a great opponent in a Japanese diver who was only 3 points behind after 4 jumps. Fortunately for China, the pressure got to him and the completely messed up his 5th jump, scoring only 40 points when his average so far was around 90. It was especially tilting because his 6th jump was marvelous: he scored 99 points, best of all jumps in the entire contest! At that point, the US had to hold all their favorites (including a 67% chance in football against Brazil), and get 2 surprising gold from a flurry of ~30% chances in wrestling (x2), breaking (lol@that joke of a sport), women 100m hurdles, cycling and volley (that will take place tomorrow). Things looked really bad at one point, when the football game was 0-0 in the 2nd half and the US had already lost a few 5/10% lotos in a few events.
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DonaldinhoTrumpito
2 months ago
Sorry I wasn't there to comment and give odds these last 2 days, I know some of you appreciated it. Also to avoid making a huge wall of text, I will reply to myself in separate messages, I hope Poly doesn't mind and it they do, they should allow us to make paragraphs. Anyway this was one hell of a rollercoaster and I won't be able to recap it all. The thing that's great about medal bets is that they make you follow all sports with great intensity, especially with the US and China having athletes everywhere. The highlights of today included a surprising China run in golf from someone who was 3% to win to start the day, a unreal choke from both Ukraine and Bulgaria in artistic gymnastics gifting China another gold, two insane close 2nd place for the US, 0,01s behind Canada in canoe and a few points behind in climbing (this one was kind of miraculous, the Slovenian climber was 92% to win before the start, but the US climber did very well in the 1st part and the Slovenian girl appeared to injure her finger... but in the end, she barely prevailed).
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