2020/21 Olympics: Tokyo

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Kornacki doing Olympics coverage is cringe

 

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Next woman up...

If Jordan Chiles heats up, the USA can get right back in this.

 

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Russians don't break 40 on the beam

USA down by .8 headed to the floor.

 

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Ain't happening

If Xenia Onatopp can just stay on her feet, the Russians have this.

 

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Rough day for the US women's teams

 

[shandeezy7]

This is a cool side-by-side:

 

[Newhouser]

This is a cool side-by-side:

scott Van Pelt said it earlier - that kid's reaction when she won is what makes sports great.

 

[shandeezy7]

Solid article from a board favorite:

Lydia Jacoby's Stunning Gold Medal Lifts U.S. Swimming, Sends Alaskan Fans Into Frenzy

17-year-old "Alaskan assassin" Lydia Jacoby upset reigning gold medalist and world record holder Lilly King in the 100-meter breaststroke, lifting U.S. swimming and electrifying her hometown fans.

www.si.com

A couple of interesting tidbits:

Naturally, that someone was a kid from the swimming backwater of Alaska, a 17-year-old who played the stand-up bass in a bluegrass band and was so far off Olympic radar 18 months ago that she had tickets to attend the 2020 Tokyo Games as a fan.

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They can even be built in Alaska, a state that had never produced an Olympic swimmer before, much less a gold medalist. The weather doesn’t exactly cooperate with outdoor training, and there is little tradition and less indoor infrastructure. The state has just one 50-meter pool, and for much of the past year Jacoby shuttled between 25-yard pools in her hometown of Seward and two-and-a-half hours away in Anchorage.

 

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Surprised shooting events haven’t been #ed out of the olympics

 

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I dare him to tee off like that.

 

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Bball tonight?

 

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[Orangezoo]

What an awesome race. I tend to like the shorter races but it was so cool watching Sullivan slowly keep gaining to then grab ahold of Silver. She was a ways back for a while.