2020/21 Tokyo Summer Olympics

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The Men's 200m track event is coming up live in just a few minutes, they are getting setup on the track now.
Two Canadians are in this one with Degrasse expected to medal


And there it is !
The Canadian Andre de Grasse sets a Canadian record with a time of 19.62 seconds and takes the Olympic Gold !

The last time a Canadian took Gold in the 200m Sprint Race was way back in 1928


Andre pictured below with previous champion Usain Bolt at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
DeGrasse won Silver and Bolt won Gold at Rio in the 200m

Usain Bolt has been the Olympic raining champion in this event and other track events since 2004
Bolt was not competing at Tokyo.

I love this picture with Bolt's Gold run and Degrasse's Silver run @ Rio
Bolt is wagging his finger in a friendly gesture at DeGrasse, as if saying "No, No, No, not yet my friend"

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I have been editing previous posts on this thread with updated reports, then that way the event reports are all on same post (mostly)... But I am creating a new one for the finals in the weightlifting top class.

These are the big boys, in their weight-class @ +109Kg (+240lbs).

Lasha Talakhadze of Team Georgia, takes weightlifting Gold with three world records.
The Georgian won the snatch and a World Record.
Then won the clean and jerk and another WR.
Which then resulted in another World Record of the total of 488kg for the two lifts.
This guy has not been beat in competition since I think maybe ever !

The Silver medalists Iranian Ali Davoudi had a total of 441kg for the two lifts.


Remember the Soviet Vasily Alexeev from 1976 Montreal Games, rest his soul , the famous Olympic footage we still see every now and again ?

-Vasily Alexeev completed the Clean and Jerk for a World Record in 1976

-Lasha Talakhadze completed the Clean and Jerk for a World Record in 2021



Lasha Talakhadze's
223 kg = 491.6 lbs - snatch
265 kg = 584.2 lbs - clean & jerk

Ali Davoudi's
200 kg = 440.9 lbs - snatch
241 kg = 531.3 lbs - clean & jerk

Vasily Alexeev's
255 kg = 562.2 lbs - clean & jerk



Lasha Talakhadze 2016 Rio



Vasily Alexeev 1976 Montreal

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In Tokyo right now it is 06:45 am, Wednesday Aug 4th
The Women's 10km open water race should be underway right about now.
Haley Anderson of team USA has a chance at a medal in this event, perhaps Gold.

That is a long swim @ 10 km or 6 miles !!

With two laps remaining at Odaiba Marine Park, camera crews had a great shot of the pack of leaders and then, out of nowhere, a fish flew from the water and soared through the air just ahead of the swimmers.
It's unclear at this time what kind of fish it was, but it did lead the seven-lap race for a short time.

Brazil's Ana Marcela Cunha won the Gold medal with a swim of 1 hour, 59 minutes, 30.8 seconds
Sharon van Rouwendaal of The Netherlands defending Olympian Gold won the Silver medal
Australia's Kareena Lee won the Bronze



The men's and women's marathon swimming are the final swimming events of this year's Olympics.

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How old do you have to be to become an Olympian ?

I do not know if there is an age limit, but in two different Skateboarding events (Street and Park), we saw some very young aged Olympians...

At 13 years old Nishiya Momiji wins Gold in woman's Street event.
At 12 years old Kokona Kiraki wins Silver in woman's Park event.
At 13 years old Sky Brown wins Bronze in woman's Park event.


This is the sport's Olympic debut at Tokyo, Japan.
There are two events in this sport - Street Skate & Park Skate.

Yosozumi Sakura at 19 years old of Japan won Gold in the Women's Park.
Kokona Hiraki at just 12 years old of Japan won Silver in the Women's Park.
Yuto Horigome at 22 years old of Japan won Gold in Men's Street.
Nishiya Momiji at 13-years old of Japan won Gold in Women's Street.

Nishiya Momiji pictured at Tokyo 2021








Sky Brown at 13-years old of Great Britain won Bronze in Women's Park
Brown is Britain's youngest ever Olympian medalist.
Sky tried a very difficult trick and had failed twice at it on her first two attempts. But on her third and final attempt Sky Brown nailed it for her Bronze win.

Sky Brown pictured from 2019 stock photo

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Watching the Olympics without fans in the seats is unsettling, just imagining what it feels for athletes who are used to the the crowds. Imagine running a sprint and all you can hear are heavy breathing and fast feet, must be surreal. On the other hand, its probably easier to keep focus on the task at hand.

I hope this isn't spoiling, but nice 200m win by Canada's Andre de Grasse, just ahead of the 3 Americans (one the World Champ), and his team mate.

As far as Simone Biles saying that she did it for herself, I heard the interview, and it was in the context of making a breakthrough of the 'twisties' issue she had. I could barely do a simple somersault on a trampoline back during college in phys ed class, and she couldn't sync what she was her body was supposed to do with her brain, which is way beyond my ability to comprehend. It had nothing to do with her desire to complete, otherwise she wouldn't have been out there cheering her teammates on.

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I hope this isn't spoiling, but nice 200m win by Canada's Andre de Grasse, just ahead of the 3 Americans (one the World Champ), and his team mate.

caught it live

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Women's 10m Platform Diving
Quan Hongchan of China scores perfect tens.

In an Olympic diving competition for the ages, at 14 years old Hongchan wins Gold with three perfect scores !
Chen Yuxi of China goes Silver.
Melissa Wu of Australia goes Bronze.



Hansle Parchment of Jamaica wins Gold in the Men's 110m Hurdles.
Grant Holloway of USA Silvers.
Ronald Levy of Jamaica wins Bronze.

Coming up to the last 2 hurdles, Parchment caught and past the strong favorite Grant Holloway - USA's world champion and second-fastest man ever in this event.
The 31-year-old Parchment, who came second in the 2015 world championships in Beijing and third at London 2012 now has the Gold






Nafissatou Thiam of Belgium wins Gold in the Woman's Olympic Heptathlon
Thiam also won Gold at Rio in the Heptathlon

The woman's heptathlon consists of:
-Day one: 100m Hurdles, High Jump, Shot Put, 200m Sprint.
-Day two: Long Jump, Javelin, 800m Run.

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Sprinters, hurdlers and other runners at the Tokyo Olympics have been crushing their previous times and in many cases setting new records for their events.
Records, as they say, are made to be broken. But are these athletes getting a boost from the track itself?

"I would say it's a pretty fast track," said American hurdler Sydney McLaughlin, minutes after she smashed her world record.

"Of all the tracks that I've run on, that track feels amazing," said Kyron McMaster of the British Virgin Islands, who placed fourth in the men's 400-meter hurdles. "I felt like my legs were just turning over. It felt like no surface was there."

That the Tokyo track feels "fast" is no accident.
The Italian company that created it, Mondo, has been working to improve running surfaces since it built its first Olympic track for the Montreal Games in 1976.
The red and black track that Mondo constructed for the Tokyo Games is "the most technologically advanced athletic track in the world," with the goal of "taking human speeds to levels never reached before," the company said.

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npr.org
Merrit Kennedy
Joe Hernandez


full story

https://www.npr.org/sections/tokyo-olympics-live-updates/2021/08/04/1024774505/olympic-runners-are-fast-on-tokyos-fast-track-theyre-shattering-world-records

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Damien Warner of Canada is the Worlds Greatest Athlete, winning the Decathlon with an Olympic Record, breaking the 9000 pt barrier. His long jump would have won the Bronze.

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Damien Warner of Canada is the Worlds Greatest Athlete, winning the Decathlon with an Olympic Record, breaking the 9000 pt barrier. His long jump would have won the Bronze.

Awesome !!
I been catching most of these events, (my favorites at the least), but I missed that one .... and it is a heck of an achievement :wow:






Woman's soccer Final is just underway (live).
Canada vs Sweden
BUT I can't find it on any channel

I found it n Eurosports2
1-1 score in the 2nd !!

After 90 minutes we are still tied at 1-1 and into the first Extra Time.
After 105 minutes we are still tied at 1-1 and into the second Extra Time.





Canada takes Silver in the 5000m Track race, just behind Uganda at the finish.