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Tokyo Olympics Quick Hits 08.07.21

8/7/2021

 

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With a third place in the 400 meters, Allyson Felix now has 10 Olympic medals - the most in athletics for a woman.
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The on-track success by Team Jamaica's women has showcased their potential to inspire. "I'm just excited for all of us and what it means for young girls back home".

And, Team Italy's surprising medal haul - particularly in track & field - continues with a victory in the track 4x100 relay.

After eight Olympics and at age 51, Team Spain's race walker Jesus Angel Garcia calls it a career.

Is decathlon bronze medalist Ash Moloney destined to become the "greatest all-around athlete on the planet"?

Taliqua Clancy is the 10th Australian Indigenous woman with an Olympic medal, after securing beach volleyball silver.

And, Quinn becomes the first "openly transgender and nonbinary athlete" to win an Olympic medal, with Team Canada's gold in soccer.

Lucky underwear helped drive Ariel Torres to the first Olympic karate podium for Team USA.

Julio Cesar La Cruz caps off a rare trifecta in boxing for Team Cuba, as three of its boxers win as repeat Olympic champions at Tokyo 2020.

A stubborn horse draws the unfortunate focus of the women's modern pentathlon final.

Team Australia's field hockey men continue a tradition of sorts at Tokyo 2020 for breaking decorum post-competition.

Is the decisive win in women's madison cycling by Team Great Britain's Laura Kenny and Katie Archibald one of the Games' best moments?

Team Australia's Bernadette Wallace may not have won a medal in canoeing, but making it to the Games after a cancer scare knocked her out of Rio 2016 consideration is a win.

With Team USA's win in men's basketball, JaVale McGee joins his mother Pam (Los Angeles 1984) as an Olympic basketball gold medalist. Teammates Jrue Holiday and Khris Middleton join only four others to hold NBA and Olympic titles at the same time.

Before that, Nicolas Batum lead Team France past Luka Doncic's Team Slovenia in basketball, and showed serious respect for his competition.
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Pre-Games favorite Johannes Vetter of Team Germany is ready to give his all in the javelin competition.

This one goal goes under the skin, I will give everything I have on Saturday! □ #VetterWurf #training #athlete #throwing #javelin #speerwurf #trackandfield #gym #javelinthrow #leichtathletik #spitzensportbundeswehr #fit #athletics #fitnes #boom #rock… https://t.co/mJ2ocpzDs6 pic.twitter.com/QLQnRiE9rt

— Johannes Vetter (@jojo_javelin) August 5, 2021
Defender Eric Garcia shares the key to Team Spain's success so far at Tokyo 2020 ahead of the gold medal match in soccer: defense.

Stylianos Argyropoulos took Team Greece to its first men's Olympic water polo medal; can it be gold?

Fitting that the gold for baseball comes down to the two heavyweights, Team USA and Team Japan.

Team USA's basketball is on the cusp of a seventh straight Olympic title by its women...

But what will Rui Machida - fresh off an Olympic record 18 assists - do for Team Japan?

Star player Mikkel Hansen leads Team Denmark into handball's gold medal game after a 12-goal semifinal performance.

Could Team USA's Galen Rupp really win the men's marathon Sunday? His coach thinks so.

Richard Torrez Jr. has a chance to earn Team USA's first super heavyweight boxing gold since 1984.

And, boxing teammate Keyshawn Davis is riding high on confidence ahead of his own gold medal bout.
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Jordi Xammar shows what an Olympic medal can mean.
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Ana Peleteiro sums it up.
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Anders Mol and Christian Sorum are gold medalists.
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Frank Staebler is an Olympic medalist.
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Katarina Johnson-Thompson gave it all.
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