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Brazil ended its participation in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics with 21 medals overall(new record), those being 7 gold medals(tied current record, established on the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympics), 6 silver medals, 8 bronze medals. The Brazilian delegation ended up in 12th place(new record) in the...

Brazil has just won(2-1) the Men's Football match, earning the 7th gold medal in this edition of the Olympics(two other medals were won today on Men's C1 1000m Canoeing - Isaquias Barbosa, and Men's Middleweight Boxing - Herbert Conceição), and tying with Rio 2016 for largest number of gold...

Yes, Women's Volleyball finals will be Brazil x US. Brazil has also guaranteed 3 other medals by being classified to final matches: Men's Football, one on Men's boxing and other on Women's boxing. With this, Brazil has surpassed the number of medals earned in a single Olympic Game - right now...

I'd expect the US to at the very least narrow significantly this gap, and probably overtake China by a few medals by the end of the Olympics.

Alison dos Santos commented that, when he saw the chronometer marking 45.94 seconds at the end, he thought he was in the wrong competition.

Not following this Olympics much. Currently things are a bit chaotic in my life, so I'm only seeing the summary of the day(which is, of course, skewed towards Brazilian athletes). But yes, it seems, from what little I've seen, that the US Track & Field team isn't doing as well as one would expect.

Skinner got silver, I don't know how Carey did.

In Gymnastics, Rebeca Andrade won gold on the vault competition. With this, she's the first Brazilian female athlete to win two medals in a single edition of the Olympics, and tomorrow she may become the second Brazilian athlete to win three medals in a single edition of the Olympic Games(first...

Agreed. She deserves no special praise or condemnation for what she did. If she felt she couldn't do it, it's for her to decide. The only further observation I make is she may have to face the same decision again, because excessive mental pressure is part and parcel of being an Olympic-level...