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Tokyo Olympics Quick Hits 08.04.21

8/4/2021

 

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Team China's Xie Siyi has an emotional second diving gold medal as he remembers his recently-passed coach.
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Team Jamaica's Elaine Thompson-Herah doubly solidifies her return to form with a double gold in the sprints, to match her double golds from Rio 206.

Like the men's race, the women's 400 meter hurdles produced a stunning world record race, thanks to Team USA's Sydney McLaughlin.

Athing Mu wins Team United States' first women's 800 meters title since 1968.

It's three medals in four Olympics for Team USA long jumper Brittney Reese.

With a silver medal, track cyclist Jason Kenny is Team Great Britain's most successful Olympian, with eight medals (six gold).

Team Indonesia's Greysia Polii and Apriyani Rahayu don't just get gold medals for their badminton win; they get cows, a house, and more.

Sailors Jason Waterhouse and Lisa Darmanin of Team Australia foiled by a plastic bag.

Team Australia's soccer and rugby sevens teams disruptive on the flight home?

Skateboarder Sky Brown may be the youngest ever Olympic medalist for Team Great Britain at 13, but 12-year-old Hiraki Kokona also medaled...

Team United States' Simone Biles returns to competition, and the gymnastics podium: "I was just going out there doing it for me."
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Can boxer Benjamin Whittaker's 'showboat' style get him gold for Team Great Britain?
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Kim Yeon Koung of Team Korea volleyball hits a big social media milestone.

Team New Zealand's Lisa Carrington is on still track to make it four canoe sprint golds in one Games.

Team Australia's Peter Bol may just complete his running goals with an 800 meters medal.

Team Egypt is now an Olympic semifinalist in handball; the first-ever African side to do so.

Team United States' Sakura Kokumai's eagerness for her karate Olympic debut is fueled by her Japanese heritage.

With her 100th cap now behind her, Team Canada's Ashley Lawrence looks toward gold

Golfer Albane Valenzuela's Olympic appearance for Team Switzerland is made special with her brother as caddie.
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Damian Quintero gets a training in.
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Sandi Morris has a heartfelt message.
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Brooke Henderson is ready in Tokyo.
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Tyla Nathan-Wong wakes up in (not) a dream.
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Sifan Hassan is an olympic champion.
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(+ 1) Dima Ovtcharov and Team Germany score a crucial win.
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Tokyo Olympics Quick Hits 08.03.21

8/3/2021

 

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What to say? Team Norway's Karsten Warholm fulfills predictions of a fast race with one for the ages in the 400 meters hurdles.
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​Get to know the new 'world's fastest man', Team Italy's El Paso-born and former long jumper Lamont Marcell Jacobs.

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Keni Harrison is "ecstatic" with her 100 meter hurdles performance for silver.

Is Jrue Holiday the key piece for Team USA's basketball aims?

Pommel horse specialist Rhys McClenaghan vows to come back stronger after a disappointing Olympic gymnastics debut; he's only 22 years old.

Meanwhile, Artem Dolgopyat's gymnastics gold brings a side dish of conversation on 'Jewishness'.

It's the end of a 49-year Olympic title drought for Team Great Britain in team equestrian eventing.

And, it's a social media viral moment for Team USA's dressage equestrian Steffen Peters and Suppenkaser.

Four straight gold medals for Team Cuba's Mijain Lopez in Greco-Roman wrestling is fulfilled.

Sprinter Krystsina Tsminanouskaya's political saga with Team Belarus takes a Polish turn.

From the ranks of the unseeded to the top of the podium it is for Team Indonesia's badminton doubles team of Greysia Polii and Apriyani Rihayu.
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Representing Team India is "a dream" for Diksha Dagar, a last-minute call-up to the women's golf field.
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Team India's women offer a true 'Cinderella' story in women's field hockey as they join their male counterparts as semifinalists.

Meet Jordan Windle: Team USA diver with an adoptee backstory fit for heartstrings.

Gymnastics great Simone Biles plans on her competition return for Team USA with the balance beam final this morning.

Tom O'Halloran has gone from climbing trees to representing Team Australia in sport climbing.

Team USA's Emma White and the team pursuit women plan to do one one better than their Rio 2016 silver in track cycling.

Team USA group member Camilla Feeley looks like to Tokyo 2020 as the swan song for her rhythmic gymnastics career.

​At only age 20, Team Australia's Bec Henderson will be the youngest female race walker at Tokyo 2020.
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Gold wrapped up, Panapak Wongpattanakit hits the beach.
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Clarisse Agbegnenou leaves Tokyo with two golds.
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We hear you, Clayton.
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Claudia Holzner and Jacqueline Simoneau are excited to compete.
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Tiago Apolonia and the Portuguese table tennis band say thanks.
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Tokyo Olympics Quick Hits 08.02.21

8/2/2021

 

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Oh, what a night! Yulimar Rojas' long-sought triple jump world record leads a remarkable night in track & field at Tokyo 2020.
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Both Jasmine Camacho-Quinn a Keni Harrison vanquish 2016 demons in the 100 hurdles final. And a second-ever gold for Team Puerto Rico, to boot!

Despite not making the 100 meter final, Rohan Browning certainly became Australia's next sprint star.

A night of first in gymnastics...Artem Dolgopyat wins Team Israel's first-ever gymnastics medal. Nina Derwael gets Team Belgium a historic gold. And, Lee Chih-Kai secures Team Taiwan its own first. And Team Brazil's first gold and Team South Korea's first women's medal...!

​Logan Martin won the first men's BMX freestyle gold with his "safety run".

Matt Wearns' sailing gold for Team Australia was the result of a childhood switch from football.

Shi Tingmao completes a 3m springboard double gold, and Team China's fourth for diving this Games.

​Team USA's Zhang Beiwen is a badminton breakout star, despite her early injury exit.

Duncan Scott hasn't come to terms with being the first Briton to win four swimming medals in one Olympic Games.

C.T. Pan went from almost last place after the first round to a bronze medal after the final in men's golf.

Team USA's Raven Saunders "found her voice" ahead of the Games and a silver medal performance.

Lucilla Boari: A Team Italy archer's medal moment spurs a public coming out.

Mirabai Chanu pushed through a post-Rio 2016 depression to the weightlifting podium at Tokyo 2020.

Meanwhile, a gripping tale of depression and pressure through Arley Mendez, Team Chile weightlifter.

And...weightlifter Neisi Dajomes secures Ecuador's third-ever gold, and its first from a woman.
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Team Switzerland's Angelica Moser used the pandemic delay to work on "weaknesses" and is eager to get pole vault competition in Tokyo started.
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Running great for Team Netherlands Sifan Hassan confirms her intent to attempt a rare triple: 1,500, 5,000, and 10,000 meters all within one week. It's a tough start.

Team Nambibia's Christine Mboma, barred from the 400 meters, is now the leading qualifier in track's 200 meters.

Team New Zealand's controversial weightlifter Laurel Hubbard has an Olympic debut on Monday.

Thomas Gilman's combination of 'fire and ice' has led him to represent Team USA in wrestling.

Team Russia enters artistic swimming at Tokyo 2020 as the overwhelming favorite across both events.

Eumir Murcial has guaranteed a medal, but will it be gold after an impressive quarterfinal win.
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Carissa Moore pays homage.
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Sofia Mattson enjoys a last rest before Tokyo.
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Caeleb Dressel had a good week.
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Martin Haener is a semifinalist with Team Germany.
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Oliver Townend and Ballaghmor Class jump clear.
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Tokyo Olympics Quick Hits 08.01.21

8/1/2021

 

A Little Roundup

Elaine Thompson-Herah defends her title in the 100 meters, and leads a Team Jamaica sweep. And, oh yeah, gets a remarkable Olympic record, too.
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"We've waited 100 years for this." Mete Gazoz wins Turkey's first archery medal - and it's gold.

Now with ten Olympic medals, Team USA star swimmer Katie Ledecky eyes Paris 2024 and maybe even Los Angeles 2028.

A long phone call may have spared pole vault favorite Armand Duplantis from contagion disruption to his gold medal aims.

Four Olympics, four medals for trampoline great Dong Dong.

Let's give some love to the rugby sevens Fijiana, winning an Olympic medal to follow Team Fiji's men's gold. Fiji has two medals this Games!

Did an homage to 'Avatar Aang' help Kiran Badloe secure windsurfing gold?

Team San Marino and shooting: A first-ever Olympic medal How about two?

Beach volleyballers Sarah Pavan and Melissa Humana-Paredees are proving to be stars in the media zone, too.

Age is but a number: Team Spain's Pau Gasol worked his "butt off" for one more basketball run at age 41.

More senior news...Team China's Lyu Kiaojun is, at 37, the oldest weightlifting men's gold medalist ever.
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Can boxer Nesthy Pelecio win Philippines' second-ever gold medal?
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Will weightlifter Neisi Dajomes make the bookmakers happy with a first women's medal for Team Ecuador?

Boston marathon champion Lawrence Cherono is looking for a "race of a lifetime" in Tokyo.

British middle distance runner Josh Kerr is looking to "throw everything at (the 1500)" to win.

Team USA long jumper Tara Davis is lucky to have family with her in Tokyo...her father is her coach.

Team USA's Kayla Miracle is looking to break even more barriers for herself and her community as wrestling competition begins in Tokyo.

Vandana Katariya is a new field hockey star, as she scores a hat trick to help keep Team India alive.

Will Team Brazil's leading scorer Richarlison get a tattoo after Tokyo 2020's soccer tournament?
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Nauris Miezis and Team Latvia get a hero's welcome.
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Sky Brown is happy in Tokyo.
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Piotr Lisek is on his way to the finals.
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Kevin Cordon is a breakout star.
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Adam Peaty and Team Great Britain roar to a win.
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Tokyo Olympics Quick Hits 07.31.21

7/31/2021

 

A Little Roundup

Maggie Steffens cements her all-time goal-scoring prowess in Team USA's latest water polo win.
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Estonia's surprise gold in fencing was its first Olympic title since 2008.

Anastasiia Logunova: Team Russia's 3x3 basketball star also has an Olympic engagement story...

Steffi Graf remains the only 'Golden Slam' champion in tennis.

Meanwhile,  Michael Venus' family sacrifices have paid off with a medal in doubles.

Team Australia's Cate Campbell found musical inspiration as she swam to another Olympic medal.

New Team South Africa champion Tatjana Schoenmaker prefers to let her swimming do the talking.

Will Abraham Kibiwott be able to back up his Team Kenya steeplechase victory promise?

Get to know Lovlina Borgohain, Team India's newest women's boxing medalist.

Two medals not enough for gold-expectant Team Great Britain in rowing.

An San defended her top seed - and her hairstyle - with her gold medal archery win.
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Ones to Watch

With All-Star Game and World Series experience, Edwin Jackson sees a gold medal for Team USA baseball as "icing in the cake".
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Team India's Fouaad Mirza has made a mark in early equestrian eventing competition at Tokyo 2020.

Track sprint favorite Trayvon Brommell takes a different approach to the role than his predecessor.

Beach volleyballer Brandie Wilkerson is relishing her Olympic experience after serving as alternate for Team Canada five years ago.

Get to know Team USA skateboarder Mariah Duran, through her clothes.

Team Slovenia's Janja Garnbret is a legitimate favorite in women's sport climbing.

Gymnast Alexa Moreno, of Toyota commercial fame, is headed to her second Olympic vault final.

Team Ireland makes a surprise booking into the landmark mixed 4x400 track relay.
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Jessica Fox is a champion (again).
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Gwen Berry takes a stand.
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Portrait of a triathlete...
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Marcos Grimalt is pumped with a win.
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Aidan Walsh jumps for medal joy.
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