You Can Only Have One

In the service of pre-Rio posting boredom, this is a little game called “What Do You Want More?” Pretend that 1 of each result can happen, but only 1. If one happens, the other one won’t. Which do you want more? If you don’t like either result, you’ll have to choose the result you dislike the least (you know, like a presidential election). And feel free to add an additional hard choice if you think of an interesting one.

1. The USA wins team gold OR Simone Biles wins AA gold.

2. The GBR men win a team medal OR the GBR women win a team medal.

3. Oleg Vernaiev wins an AA medal OR Manrique Larduet wins an AA medal.

4. Ponor wins an event medal OR Chusovitina wins an event medal.

5. Simone excepted, the U.S. AAer you like most gets to do AA in prelims, messes up, and doesn’t qualify OR the U.S. AAer you like most doesn’t get a
chance to do AA and you forever wonder if she would have qualified.

6. Biles wins vault gold OR Biles wins floor gold.

7. All competitions and results run smoothly and generally as expected OR something crazy unexpected happens in some way that makes these Games
remembered for it for years, with people referencing “What happened in Rio” for decades after.

8. Ellie Black wins a medal OR Ellie Downie wins a medal.

9. Your favorite gymnast gets underscored and cheated out of a deserved medal OR your favorite gymnast gets overscored and wins an undeserved medal.

10. Every single medal placement turns out exactly as you hoped for, but a gymnast from Belgium gets injured OR all the scoring sucks and none of the
medal podiums make you happy but everyone goes home healthy. (hee hee)

11. Nabieva OR Nabieva. 

You Can Only Have One