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Afghanistan's 23 year old Tae Kwon Do Paralympian Zakia Khudadadi is making a plea for her to be able to participate in the Tokto Paralympic Games but she's currently stuck in Herat which of course was overrun by the Taliban recently and has been trapped in her house with extended family, unable...

Jamaica's Hansle Parchment tracked down a Japanese Olympic volunteer who helped him get a taxi after he showed up at the wrong venue and almost missed his chance to ultimately win Gold in the 110 meter Hurdles...

Gable Stevenson's Gold Medal Match in 125kg Mens Freestyle Wrestling. One of those you gotta watch til the end... and then stay around for the credits. (y) Sadly its on NBC so... blah!

Oh man, only six months til the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, West Taiwan... how funky is that?

Looks like the United States has managed to edge out China even in Gold Medals right at the end here. https://nypost.com/2021/08/08/olympics-2020-medal-count-team-usa-rallies-for-most-gold/

That Women's Marathon happened a few days ago but it had some neat stories... beyond the fact that two Kenyans won it as expected. :P The third place winner who earned Bronze was American Molly Seidel... who was running in the Olympics in what was only her third official marathon. Her first...

USA Wrestling has been turning in its best performance since 1984 when we had guys like the Schultz brothers and Jeff Blatnick owning fools on the international stage. Got NINE GOLD, three Silver and one Bronze those games. Not doing close to that level this time around but it's still the best...

It's a good thing the USA won the Gold Medal Match in Mens Basketball. Combined with Womens Soccer missing out on Gold, I had it on good authority that if the USA lost this match, America would've withdrawn from NATO.

The Mike Tyson of wrestling! Somehow the referee didnt do anything despite the Kazakhstani wrestler chomping on the Indian wrestler Ravi Kumar Dahiya for around fifteen seconds. Ravi persevered and won the match despite the illegal munching and guaranteeing India a medal in this weight...

Quan Hongchan, a fourteen year old Diver, completely dominated the Woman's Platform Final. This was her Olympic debut obviously and her second, fourth and fifth dives were considered PERFECT, as in scoring all tens from the Judges. The second place diver, Chen Yuxi, a fifteen year old diver also...

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/4/belarusian-olympian-tsimanouskaya-departs-tokyo-for-vienna Looks like she was granted a humanitarian visa in Poland and arrived there from Tokyo to Vienna to Warsaw. Took a weird flight path though.

30 year old David Taylor, who dominated the US Olympic Trials with a combined score of 33-2, won the 68kg freestyle wrestling gold medal over the Rio Gold Medalist, Iran's Hassan “The Greatest” Yazdanicharati 4-3...

And of course couldn't overlook the other big news as of late in Athletics. The United States had three runners in the final 400 meter Womens and Sydney McLaughlin and Dalilah Muhammad won gold and silver respectively with the Netherlands Femke Bol coming in third for the bronze. But in...

Tamyra Mensah Stock won Gold in the 68kg category of Women's Wrestling. First gold medal the US Wrestling team has earned in Tokyo so far. https://www.foxnews.com/sports/olympic-gold-medalist-wrestler-tamyra-mensah-stock-i-love-representing-the-us

China really dominated in Diving and Weightlifting. Hopefully MURICA can make up the deficit in Athletics.

That 400 meter Mens Hurdle final was epic. The 400 meter Hurdles World Record was established in 1992 by USA Hurdlist Kevin Young with a time of 46.78. Karsten Warholm of Norway beat that record two months ago on July 1st with a time of 46.70. Then in the final heat, Karsten Warholm shattered...

Just saw the Women's Badminton Doubles Gold Medal match. That Badminton is intense. it was the 2016 Gold Medal Chinese Team vs. the upstart Indonesian Team of Greysia Polii and Apriyani Rahayu. Apriyani brought some fierce energy to the game. She was practically screaming everytime they got a...

An Olympic meme for the Morning. I wonder if the lifeguard ever had to do any lifeguarding at an Olympic swim.

Holy crap... a Belarussian Track and Field athlete, Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, apparently wanted to claim asylum after criticizing her Olympic National Team coaches for mismanagement and that in turn sprung up a 'national smear campaign' against her in her home country. Her coaching staff is...

Nerds seem to be strangely focused on Russian shooter Vitalina Batsarashkina who won Gold in both the 10 and 25 meter air pistol events. https://www.pcgamer.com/witcher-fan-wins-olympic-gold-medal-while-wearing-geralts-medallion/