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Tokyo COVympics: July 23 to August 8

That last 20 seconds was insane. And it wasn't against some second rate loser or something in some rando meet...
 
Handyman said:
That last 20 seconds was insane. And it wasn't against some second rate loser or something in some rando meet...
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It's the second final that I watched (I'm sure there are more) where both of the finalists dominated up until that match. And both were super close matches, decided at the very end of the match for the gold.
 
That was an impressive women's marathon! With cheesehead Molly Seidel getting the bronze! She's the youngest on the team, and this is just her 3 marathon ever. Pretty exciting- she just could not keep with the leaders.
 
French Rage said:
Thank god KD is an emotionless robot.
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This will definitely be remembered as KD's tournament. I expected Dame to have a larger role, but the second man ended up being Tatum for most of the games with Booker coming up big against Australia.

To sweep the baseball/softball golds, Japan beat the US, also 2-0 like the softball gold medal game.
 
Karate is an odd sport.

Just watched one of the gold medal matches- apparently contact that is too hard is not allowed at all. One guy kicked, and the other guy walked right into it getting knocked out. The kicker was DQ'd.

If that were boxing, the hitter would have won by KO, but here you lose for too much contact.... How do you regulate contact in a contact combat sport?

It's also a hard sport to figure out- not much happens, and when it does- there's a lot of yelling. Still not a lot of scoring.

I kinda doubt I'll watch it in 2024.
 
Caught an event in track cycling called the Madison, apparently named so because it was popularized at MSG.

Each country gets two riders. One is active while the other is an alternate. Active riders take the inside lanes while the alternates hang on top of the track. At any point you can tag your partner in and they become the active rider.

Teams get 20 points if they manage to lap the entire field. Every ten laps there’s a sprint lap where the first four finishers get 5, 3, 2, and 1 points each.

It was absolute chaos but very entertaining.
 
Women’s basketball wins 90-75 over Japan for their 7th straight gold, which ties the longest streak for a team sport, held by the US men. Sue Bird and Taurasi win their fifth gold medals.

Not much of a reason to think the women won’t get their 8th in Paris and set the record. They’re 93-1 since 1996 in Olympic and World Cup play, undefeated in the Olympics during that time, and haven’t lost a competitive game since 2006. In fact, they haven’t had a game within ten points since 2010.
 
Spartanforlife4 said:
This will definitely be remembered as KD's tournament. I expected Dame to have a larger role, but the second man ended up being Tatum for most of the games with Booker coming up big against Australia.

To sweep the baseball/softball golds, Japan beat the US, also 2-0 like the softball gold medal game.
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Lavine, Tatum and Jrue were the players besides KD I thought were key.
 
I'm sure Kep is happy that the US pulled it out last night, and won all of the medal counts- between the Woman's BB and Volleyball wins, a woman won in Track Cycling Omnium, bringing US gold count one more than China.
 
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