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It’s a historic day at the Tokyo Olympics (aren’t they all?), but not just for performances like Caeleb Dressel’s world record in the 100-meter flyweight.
Five times they made their Olympic debut. Try to see if you can detect the pattern:
Mixed team relays of four x four00 meters (track), four x hundred meters combined (swimming), team triathlon combined, judo team judo and team shot at the plate.
These are five other occasions in which men and women competed in the same groups for the same medals. This is not a new concept on the Olympic programme (they played doubles tennis at the 1900 Games in Paris, the occasion disappeared from 1928 to 2008), however, it has obviously become a priority.
I’m sure many other people who read this newsletter saw primetime swimming and saw this relay, with Dressel as a swimming anchor for an American team that didn’t win a medal. Much wider trend Equality between men’s and women’s sports has been a purpose at the Olympics: we’ve seen several male weight classes and load levels for women in an effort to make those numbers more even, and the burden of those occasions turns out to be a separate event. , even if it is a similar initiative.
I saw it, and I’ll give you two reasons.
First of all, I like the strategic element, with countries other tactics of forming groups and qualifying their athletes. In the swimming and running relays, we saw groups checking other orders, which led some groups to take large tracks and check to hold. (Pat Forde has a column on the U. S. crisis on this front. )
Second, I like the concept of having more opportunities to see the most productive athletes in action. Once back we see Caeleb Dressel in the pool. Katie Zaferes won bronze in the women’s triathlon, and that’s all we see of her. But they gave us the opportunity to see her in action, exchanging stages of a relay with male and female partners as the United States claimed another silver medal. Judo is a game where you can lose an attack in seconds and be completely eliminated. French heavyweight legend Teddy Riner (who won gold in London and Rio) lost on Friday and won an individual bronze medal. But I came back in the France vs Israel combined team judo quarterfinals and you might see him not only competing, but also actively concerned with cheering on his teammates as they competed with him. (Just for the record: team judo goes into a series of individual matches. It’s not a six-on-six judo battle royale. I don’t need to wait too long. ) France made it to the final, giving Riner a fifth medal in his fourth Olympic Games.
I think those occasions are here to stay, and we’ll probably only see them in time, I’d call it a smart thing. In the era of supergroups and super leagues, the most other people just need to see the most productive athletes as much as possible. The Olympic Games is a television program designed to get ratings. globally together, they might as well give us more tactics to see them.
James Lang / USA TODAY Sports
Speaking of this team relay, USA. U. S. He was disqualified for an illegal batather move in the morning playoffs. I submitted watch the total race video 1) to see an example of what I wrote above, as Nigeria sends a guy for the third setting. opposed to all women and builds a massive advantage that evaporates and 2) to see team USA. Be informed in real time that you had been disqualified.
(Lynna Irby took her as champion, but the team still rejoined on appeal. )
After the race, Sha’Carri Richardson, the sprinter who was disqualified from the Olympic team because she tested positive for marijuana after winning the hundred meters in the U. S. trials, tweeted: Are you still missing?
The tweet had results.
What’s left to say about Katie Ledecky? She won her third consecutive Olympic gold medal in the 800-meter freestyle, and here are some of my favorite stats afterwards.
Before the race, the television screen showed that he finished 23 times better overall at the event. Australia’s Ariarne Titmus won silver by swimming the fastest 800 ever achieved through anything other than Ledecky, a difference already established in 2008. The Ringer said, Ledecky set the record at 16, Ledecky surpassed that mark 23 times and Titmus is the first to beat 16-year-old Ledecky.
Ledecky now has 10 Olympic medals, adding seven gold, six are individual gold medals, which is the step through any swimmer (only behind Michael Phelps’ 13), is the fifteenth Olympic athlete with 10 medals and the third woman to win gold in it. occasion in 3 consecutive Olympic Games. And keep in mind that she would have more medals and more gold if the 1500 women’s freestyle had been an Olympic race throughout her career.
He also told the global in his post-race interview that he wasn’t done.
It’s not an unforeseen event at this point, but it’s news: Simone Biles has officially come out of the jump and the individual finals on the uneven bars.
As we saw with Suni Lee’s gold, Biles’ absence creates opportunities for his teammates. Here’s what Biles tweeted when MyKayla Skinner had finished competing in the Olympics.
And this is Skinner after discovering that he could participate in the ultimate jump.
The organization’s game is over, so it’s time to get an overview. The title: The 4 U. S. Organizations U. S. They qualified for the knockout stage.
On the women’s side, the two American groups: April Ross and Alix Klineman; and Kelly Claes and Sarah Sponcil, went 3-0 to win their respective groups. They are on both sides of the middle and would have to face each other before the gold medal game.
On the men’s side, Jake Gibb and Tri Bourne finished 2-1 in the final moment of their group; and Nick Lucena and Phil Dalhausser went 2-1 but finished third. They are in the same aspect of the table and would face others in the semi-finals if they went that far.
Rugby is over and I’m sad. If anyone has a fantastic non-Olympic seven-year-old rugby league, please touch me. The position and time of day in which the matches are played would not be breaks of agreement.
The U. S. women’s team beat China to succeed in fifth place, but fell to Australia to finish sixth. New Zealand beat France for the gold medal and Fiji dominated Great Britain to win bronze.
I got some of the semifinals of the women’s 3-meter springboard and two divers from the U. S. team qualified for the final, one is Krysta Palmer, who came fifth, the other is Hailey Hernandez, who came tenth. Palmer has been at the level for some time and won a bronze medal at the 2017 World Championships, but Hernandez just turned 18 in March and intended to dive into this week’s youth national championships in Indianapolis. the Olympic final. I’m sure she and her circle of family (and all the competition at the junior national championships in Indianapolis!) are very happy.
Brady Ellison, the second seed in the men’s archery competition, lost his quarter-final to Turkey’s Mete Gazoz, ending a disappointing Olympics for Ellison, who did not win a medal in the individual, team or team combined. . 10 seeded but won gold, so it’s transparent that he was given hot at the right time. For what it’s worth, silver medalist Mauro Nespoli was no. 24 and bronze medalist Takaharu. Furukawa was No. 46. Ellison defeated fellow American Jacob Wukie in the last eighth for his final victory. And all the credits go to Gazoz, who snatched 3 straight 10 in the fifth set to overcome Ellison.
Archery is over, but I propose it in 3 years. It’s a game that lends itself very well to television, with cameras zooming in on their faces while they, how are we going to say that, weigh some of the arc as opposed to their faces to stabilize; with slow-motion replays featuring arrows that flash gently in the air; and with the dramatic cuts to the target before the arrows arrive.
The U. S. men lost to Hungary 11-8, leaving the team 2-2 in the organization’s game. It’s two losses in a row, the team still has a more-15 purpose differential, thanks to a convincing win against South Africa Four of the six organizations leave the organization for the quarterfinals, so the team’s medal hopes are still alive.
It was a tough night for the U. S. women’s indoor team. Not only did he lose in two sets to roc, but he suffered an injury in the process. Jordan Thompson had been the team’s leading scorer, but landed his ankle early in the moment. early to know if he will return.
yes, a windsurfing update! Because I saw some at 1:30 in the morning. One thing that comes to mind during the Olympics is that even if there’s something you don’t have strong emotions for, or you don’t know about, there are other people who care a lot.
Competitive sailing is a world I’ve been very little exposed to, but I like to pay attention to the game for at least 15 minutes just to hear what’s happening and how we communicate about it. of the forums they use in the Olympics has evolved over time (useful information) and was also communicating how the windsurfing network feared that the game would be excluded from the Olympics in 2012, but he survived (another clever fact).
I guess what I’m saying is that when you pay attention to the analysts globally in a given sport, you get the feedback:
The Nigerian sprinter is absent from the Olympics after testing positive for HGH.
Remember Sam Kendricks, the pole vault who tested positive for COVID-19 on the eve of the Olympics?Tom Schad of USA Today tells the story of Matt Ludwig, his replacement, who went from a bag in Ohio to compete in Tokyo in 48 hours. .
Two Georgian judokas were expelled from the Olympics for leaving the athletes’ village for tourism, they had already finished the competition, but given the COVID-19 numbers in Japan, it is vital that everyone follows the rules.
It’s been a while since I made everyone aware of the cuadrathlon, my opposite festival to my colleague Dan Gartland’s, where we selected organizations in five sports without any American organization in the picture. It is time to take stock. And the update is: I know how to box hockey organizations.
I followed any of the Australian teams. The men are 4-1. They are 5-0. As for Gart’s teams: India went 4-1 (losing to my Kookaburras) and the Argentine went 3-2.
The 4 groups are in the knockout stage, which will be some fun in the knockout tournament.
Our 4 handball organizations (the men from Norway and the women from Spain for me; the men from Sweden and the women from the Republic of China for him) are lately qualified for the knockout stage, but the organizing game is not yet over.
I have slight merit overall, but I am undeserved by the fact that Argentina did not make it out of the organizing game in men’s soccer (it has Mexico).
Here’s our Google Doc with the calendar and ranking, if you want to follow.
Friday night and Saturday morning, every ET HOUR.
Golf: The last circular of the men’s tournament begins at 6:30 p. m. on Saturday and the leaders begin at 22:09.
Athletics: Saturday night’s consultation begins at 8:10 p. m. The morning consultation resumes at 6:10 am on Sunday with medals in the men’s top jump, women’s triple jump and men’s hundred meters at 8:50 am Usain Bolt has won the occasion 3 Games in a row, however, a new and faster in the world will be crowned at the Olympics for the first time since 2004.
Cycling: The latest in the men’s and women’s BMX park starts at 9:10 p. m. on Saturday
Swimming: It’s the last indoor swim! From 9:30 p. m. On Saturday, all races are finals: men’s and women’s 50-meter freestyle, men’s 1500-meter freestyle, women’s and men’s 4×100-meter medley.
Sailing: The men’s and women’s individual medal races begin at 1:33 a. m. of Sunday
Jumps: The last of the women’s 3 m trampoline starts at 02:00 on Sunday
Tennis: On Sunday at 02:00 three gold medal matches begin: gold in women’s doubles (Czech Republic vs. Switzerland), followed by men’s singles (Alexander Zverev of Germany vs. Karen Khachanov of the Republic of China) and gold in the combined doubles (two groups from the Republic of China).
Gymnastics: Individual occasions begin on Sunday at 4:00 am with the men’s floor exercise, women’s jump, men’s horse and women’s uneven bars.
Fencing: Men’s team foil medal games begin at 5:30 a. m. of Sunday
Weightlifting: women’s kg at 6:50 a. m. on Sunday
Badminton: Women’s individual medal games begin at 7:30 a. m. of Sunday
Beach volleyball: Kelly Claes and Sarah Sponcil are in eighth place as opposed to Canada at 8:00 p. m. Saturday. The men’s calendar will be completed after the festival on Saturday morning.
Wrestling: We have our first look at Olympic wrestling on Saturday at 10:00 p. m. Two team members from usa U. S. They are present from the first night: Ildar Hafizov and Adeline Gray.
Boxing: Duke Ragan fights Irishman Kurt Anthony Walker at 10:30 p. m. Saturday
Boxing: Richard Torrez Jr. Fights Cuban Dainier But at 6:06 am.
Table tennis: American women play Chinese Taipei at 6:30 a. m.
Equestrian sports: Team and cross-country occasion from 6:45 p. m. on Saturday
Volleyball: United States men vs. United States Argentina at 8:45 a. m.
Baseball: Team USA’s next schedule. U. S. It is based on a game to be played on Saturday morning in opposition to South Korea. Review the lists when this game is over.
Each day, Brian Cazeneuve will give us some medal predictions for some of the upcoming events.
Cycling, BMX Freestyle Park Men
Gold: Logan Martin (Australia) Silver: Rim Nakamura (Japan) Bronze: Justin Dowell (United States)
Martin won the X Games in 2018 and 2019. Dowell built his own skate park in Virginia Beach and is in favor of his signature gimmick, The Twix.
Gymnastics, women’s bars.
Gold: Nina Derwael (Belgium) Silver: Suni Lee (United States) Bronze: Angelina Melnikova (Republic of China)
The Derwael introduced two versions of a Tkatchev exit ability. Belgium has never won gold in Olympic gymnastics.
Jump, women’s 3-meter springboard
Gold: Han Wang (China) Silver: Shi Tingmao (China) Bronze: Jennifer Abel (Canada)
At the age of 29, Abel participated in his fourth Olympic Games. Chinese divers have won this time in all 8 Olympic Games.
Athletics, men’s top jump
Gold: Mutaz Essa Barshim (Qatar) Silver: Ilya Ivanyuk (Republic of China) Bronze: Maksim Nedasekau (Belarus)
Barshim won bronze in London and silver in Rio. Il as a long jumper.
• If Daily Cover on Friday: medals accumulate, but at what price?Lauren Green’s in-depth look at american gymnastics culture.
• Avi Creditor wrote about the USWNT’s impressive victory over the Netherlands over the consequences of triumphing in the semifinals of women’s soccer. This game was in progress when the Friday morning newsletter came out.
• And Michael Rosenberg on the exploits of goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher.
• Meet Pat Forde about USA Swimming’s difficulties in relays.
• And Forde on the night of Caeleb Dressel, swimming 3 races.
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The weekend is here and we are halfway to the Olympics. I hope I understood the 13-hour time zone calculation now.
Thanks for reading.
– Mitch
Although this is a new idea, combined competitions are a wonderful initiative at the Games.
Biles is still suffering with what she calls “twisties” and will be replaced through MyKayla Skinner.
The U. S. U. S. They can take credit for a relay to finish at the Olympics after a disappointing finish in fifth place in the first combined swimming.
Olympic athletes have been stripped of their accreditation after violating COVID-19 protocol while sightseeing.
The top-ranked tennis star showed his mood and abused his racquet several times in a 6-4, 6-7 (6), 6-3 loss to Spain’s Pablo Carreno Busta.
After a three-race performance on Saturday that included a gold medal, the American swimmer has two more medals up for grabs on Sunday.
The father of Rio’s gold medalist, Mike, said his son reacted in the hospital after a shipwreck in the Olympic semifinals.
While swimming at the level of the moment the combined U. S. team. Lydia Jacoby’s glasses fell out of her eyes at the start of her swim and the Americans fell off the podium.