The 2020 Tokyo Olympics Thread

[S Landreth]

USA hang on for gold

Play resumes. Unsurprisingly, France go straight for the personal foul. Rudy Gobert fouls out.

Kevin Durant has two at the line. Makes the first, four-point lead. Makes the second. France timeout.

The ball goes out to the corner, a three attempt from Nicolas Batum – it's missed!

The buzzer goes and USA win gold by five points.

87–82.

Kevin Durant led the with 29 points. He had 6 rebounds.

Jayson Tatum managed 19 points with 7 rebounds.

For France, Evan Fournier and Rudy Gobert top-scored with 16 points each.

Gregg Popovich and the American coaching team come over to celebrate with other U.S. team officials. The players are in the centre of the court with American flags. Basketball - France vs United States - Gold Medal Game Results

[aging one]

Same 5 at the end. The French got us fair and square game one. But we got the one that counted. 87-82 and the ​gold.

[harrybarracuda]

Galal Yafai brings home Gold in Men's Flyweight boxing. Put the Filipino on his arse in the first and never looked back.

[cyrille]

Yep - a close to perfect 3 round fight.

Good lad!

[panama hat]

Watching Kiwi TV and it's all about NZ olympians . . . still haven't found a web-channel to watch . . . and now it's almost over. Sigh

[harrybarracuda]

Galal Yafai brings home Gold in Men's Flyweight boxing. Put the Filipino on his arse in the first and never looked back.

There will be a nice reward for his opponent who came from extreme poverty and boxed to feed his family at the age of SEVEN.

Paalam's is an extraordinary story in itself, a former scavenger on the rubbish tips of the Filipino capital Manila, who was persuaded to enter his first boxing bout at the age of seven and used the money to buy rice for his family.

[S Landreth]

Baseball - United States vs Japan - Gold Medal Game

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Baseball/Softball - United States vs Japan - Gold Medal Game Results

[harrybarracuda]

Another Gold for GB in the Men's Modern Pentathlon.

[Clark77]

I'm befuddled by this ranking. The States have nearly 20% more medals than China but they're ranked below them. Not that it matters, but it's odd.

[S Landreth]

U.S. Golfer Nelly Korda Wins Olympic Gold

American Nelly Korda finished with a one-shot victory in the Olympic women's golf competition battling both the rain and her opponents in the final round. With the win, the United States swept the gold medals in golf.

Korda, 23, continued her sparkling season after winning her first major, the Women's PGA Championship in June, as well as two other tournaments, and then snagging the world number one ranking. Now she can add an Olympic gold medal to her collection of firsts this year.

"I've had a pretty good stretch of events, but that doesn't mean necessarily that you're going to play well," she said. "You kind of try to put the expectations to the side and just go out, have a nice fresh week, and enjoy the Olympic experience."

[helge]

Germany could do with a bit of "DDR magic".

Those Arbeiter und Bauer Republikanern could run and jump.

[S Landreth]

Start of the final day and where things stand. Top 10………

• U.S. Men Win 4x400 Meter Relay And Get The Team's First Track Gold In Tokyo

After failing to win a single gold medal across all track events leading into Saturday, the U.S. men's team dominated in the 4x400 meter relay's final heat to the top spot on the podium.

Saturday's win secured a gold medal for the U.S. men's relay team — an achievement the broader track squad has made in every Olympics the U.S. team has participated in.

The team of Michael Cherry, Michael Norman, Bryce Deadmon and Rai Benjamin finished with a time of 2:55:70.

Meanwhile, the U.S. women's 4x400 meter relay team won gold on Saturday, with U.S. star Allyson Felix bringing her Olympic medal count up to 11, making her the most decorated U.S. track and field athlete in history.

[panama hat]

I'm befuddled by this ranking. The States have nearly 20% more medals than China but they're ranked below them. Not that it matters, but it's odd.

Because winning counts more than participation in the real world

Look back to where the US had more gold but fewer overall medals than China and the US media had the US at number 1. Situation changes and the US media adapts and questions like yours raised raised.

[panama hat]

Germany could do with a bit of "DDR magic".

True . . . we have done better, even without the DDR and its 'Communist-Incentivisation'.

But, Gold:

[Klondyke]

Look back to where the US had more gold but fewer overall medals than China and the US media had the US at number 1.

That time the ol' good Avery Brundage was so concerned with professionalism. That's why all the top US athletes trained in universities where they had excelled in many sciences...

[aging one]

Why is Russia even in the Olympics?

Russians are winning in Tokyo even though Team Russia is banned from the Olympics


Russia was officially banned in 2019 from competing in international sporting events for four years after it was caught running a state-sponsored doping program designed to boost its medal haul at international sporting events. The ban was later reduced to two years.
In Moscow, their athletes' exploits have been front page news for weeks and they're described as Russian athletes, not ROC athletes.

[S Landreth]

• Women’s Basketball - United States vs Japan – USA picks up another Gold

[harrybarracuda]

Why is Russia even in the Olympics?

The IOC felt that it was unfair to penalise athletes if they were not involved in Vlad's great Olympics Drugging Scam.

[harrybarracuda]

Lauren Price will be going for Gold in the Boxing soon.

In fact they've just said 12:45pm Thai time.

Ireland's Kellie Harrington goes for Gold in the Lightweight final shortly.

[harrybarracuda]

Jason Kenny has won a seventh Olympic gold medal, storming ahead to claim the win in the men's keirin.
The legendary cyclist from Great Britain was in a league of his own in the final, moving early to win the race by 0.763 seconds. Kenny, whose wife Laura has also tasted gold at Tokyo 2020 to add to her four golds from previous Games, won his first-ever gold medal at Beijing 2008 with a victory in the team sprint. He has gone on to amass a further six more golds in a spectacular Olympic career.
Malaysia's Mohd Azizulhasni Awang - bronze medallist in Rio - took an impressive silver, with Harrie Lavreysen of the Netherlands winning bronze.
However, the victory belonged to Kenny, who became the first Briton to win seven Olympic golds in any sport with a special victory at the Izu Velodrome.

[panama hat]

Japan beats the USA to win Gold in baseball (another sport which shouldn't be in the olympics)

[harrybarracuda]

That was a tough fight.

The Brazilian was as hard as nails, but the Irishwoman mostly kept her at bay and outscored her from distance.

Gold to Ireland, a unanimous decision. Well done.

[harrybarracuda]

Bruce Springsteen's daughter's horse won a silver in the horsey things.

[harrybarracuda]

Thailand's Sisondee picking up her Bronze medal for the Women's Lightweight boxing too.

One of only two medals for Thailand after Panipak Wongpattanakit took gold in the Women's 49Kg Taekwondo.

Well done to her.

[aging one]

Bruce Springsteen's daughter's horse won a silver in the horsey things.

I believe they will give the medal to Bruce's daughter Jessica Springsteen.