2020TokyoOlympics
Olympic BMX gold medalist Connor Fields is out from the intensive care unit but remains hospitalized following a scary crash at the Tokyo Olympics. Fields was the favorite for the BMX title at the Olympics, five years after winning the first gold medal in BMX for the United States. Unfortunately, his title defense abruptly ended when he crashed head-first after tangling with Romain Mathieu of France during his semifinal matchup on July 29. Fields was immediately seen by medical personnel and taken to the hospital. It was later revealed that he suffered a broken rib, bruised lung and a brain he...
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Xander Schauffele held on to win the fourth-ever men’s Olympic event with a final-round 4-under 67. It was Schauffele’s first win anywhere in the world since the 2019 Tournament of Champions on Maui. “Just in shock,” Schauffele, 27, said afterward. “I was trying so hard to just stay calm. Hit a terrible drive on 18, had to make a sort of sloppy par, and fortunately hit it close enough to sort of have a high percentage putt at roughly four, five feet. But, man, it was stressful. And I made that putt, and it was just a huge weight lifted off my shoulders and just very relieved and happy, of cour...
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Australian swimmer Ariarne Titmus won gold in the women’s 200-meter freestyle, and she set a new Olympic record with a 1:53.50 time. At first, it seemed like Titmus wouldn’t earn a medal at all as she was trailing the top three for the first 100 meters. However, Titmus is known for her lightning finishes, and the Australian swimmer dominated the final 50 meters to pull off the upset. Hong Kong’s Siobhan Bernadette Haughey held the lead until the final 20 meters. Haughey took silver while Canadian Penny Oleksiak earned bronze. “I’m bloody exhausted,” Titmus said. “That was a tough one, I knew S...
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The chief of the Tokyo 2020 organizing committee has not ruled out the looming threat of a last-minute cancelation of the Olympics. The possibility has become a focal point as more and more athletes have tested positive for COVID-19 and a number of sponsors plan to ditch the opening ceremony on Friday. Toshiro Muto said he planned to keep an eye on infection numbers and plan accordingly when asked about the possibility of a cancelation during a press conference. “We can’t predict what will happen with the number of coronavirus cases. So we will continue discussions if there is a spike in cases...
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Three South African soccer players became the first athletes inside the Olympic Village to test positive for COVID-19, and other cases connected to the Tokyo Games were also confirmed Sunday. This comes amid IOC president Thomas Bach‘s claim that the Olympics will have “zero risks.” Now that claim is being tested as there is now a COVID-19 outbreak. The positive tests started rising as many of the 11,00 athletes and thousands of more team officials expected from across the globe began arriving. The arriving athletes and team officials will live in close quarters in Olympic Village on Tokyo Bay...
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Olympic athlete Allyson Felix talks about how training has changed for her over the years. Felix has participated in four Olympics and has won a total of nine medals throughout her Olympic career as a runner. When asked if her training has changed throughout the years, Felix said that because she is already experienced, she “knows what to expect” and no longer has to learn new techniques to be an efficient runner while competing. “I definitely feel different in the aspect of having the experience. It takes a lot to ruffle my feathers now,” she said. “I know what to expect and I feel like I’m a...
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Olympic track-and-field athlete, Allyson Felix opens up about her mental health during the COVID-19 lockdown and the challenges she faced when she first found out she would not be going to the Olympics in 2020. Felix claims she gave herself time to process the fact the Olympics were canceled and postponed until it was safe to hold the event. “[Mental health] has been very important and key,” Felix said. “it’s been a very heavy time period, I’m sure, for everyone and I know I felt that myself. I tried to give myself space to grieve … the loss of not having the games as scheduled and just really...
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