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Aug 9, 2021 · On the final day of competition alone, the U.S. women’s basketball team won a seventh straight gold, the women’s volleyball team took its first-ever gold, and Jennifer Valente won America’s...
Aug 8, 2021 · Katie Ledecky defies doubters early in the Olympics and finishes on top. A runner falls in a 1,500 meter race — and still wins. A 14-year-old Chinese diver scores two perfect 10s. Japan makes a...
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- 17-year-old Lydia Jacoby wins gold — and her Alaska hometown goes wild. Lydia Jacoby was the first American woman to win a gold medal in the swimming events in Tokyo.
- Coach Dean Boxall can't contain his excitement after swimmer Ariarne Titmus beats reigning champ. Australian swimmer Ariarne Titmus beat Team USA's Katie Ledecky in the 400-meter freestyle by two-thirds of a second Monday.
- Athletes show off Olympic Village — including their cardboard beds. Upon arriving in Tokyo, several athletes began posting "tours" of the Olympic Village on social media — some, including Team USA skateboarder Nyjah Huston and Team USA track and field runner Paul Chelimo, showed off the odd cardboard beds.
- Tom Daley's mom and husband celebrate his first gold medal. British diver Tom Daley made his Olympics debut at the 2008 Beijing games — when he was just 14 years old.
Aug 10, 2021 · But beyond the record-breaking performances, what made the Games truly memorable were the other moments that happened on and off the field of play. From heart-breaking post-race interviews to mid-race fist-bumps, the 10 days of athletics action were one long emotional rollercoaster.
Here are some of the highlights from the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, which took place in 2021. 1: Seven minutes of Olympic magic. On day three of athletics at Tokyo 2020, Yulimar Rojas fulfilled her destiny as a triple jumper. Having already secured Olympic gold, Venezuela's double world champion took the final jump in the competition.
Aug 9, 2021 · And their five athletics golds featured some of the Games' standout moments, including Lamont Marcell Jacob's prestigious men's 100m sprint victory, the men's dramatic 4x100m relay victory, and...
Mutaz Barshim and Gianmarco Tamberi decide to share high jump gold. In a dramatic end to the Olympic high jump final, Qatar’s Mutaz Barshim and Italy’s Gianmarco Tamberi elected to share the gold medal, rather than proceed with a jump-off to determine the event winner.
