Hi, my name is John Cherwa and it’s time to say goodbye. After more than two weeks, I hope I’ve informed you, entertained you, and even made you laugh. But ultimately, we were only a complement to the policy provided through our remarkable reporters and photographers in Paris. So, with this, we leave you with a vintage ballad, stay tuned here.
Well, we predicted that the gold medal race would end in a tie, but that’s not how it happened. Final score: USA 40 gold medals, 126 total; China 40, 91. The world recognizes gold as a standard, the United States considers the total number of medals, because it is less difficult for them to win them. Since we have just decided, without authority, with the same gravity, if the gold medals were tied, the tiebreaker would be an overall medal. We officially claim the United States as the winner.
America’s true hero, Jennifer Valente, who won the women’s omnium in track cycling. Although she is the current Olympic champion, she is ranked fourth in the world. But it is not a festival, since it gave the United States an unforeseen opportunity. gold medal and allowed them to fit in China.
The real surprise of the day was the expected result of the US women’s basketball team winning its eighth consecutive gold medal in a nail-biting 67-66 victory over France. If Frenchwoman Gabby Williams did not cross the three-point line on her last shot, the game would have gone into overtime. Our Thuc Nhi Nguyen there and here is the report from him.
The other contenders for U. S. Olympic gold on Sunday were the defending champion women’s volleyball team, which lost to Italy in straight sets, and wrestler Kennedy Blades, who lost to Yuka Kagami in the gold medal match. 76 kg (176 lb), 3-1. .
The United States won a bronze medal in men’s water polo.
Normally, the Games have five elements that outline it. We knew some before, now the final list, in no specific order.
—Simone Biles. She ruled television politics for the first week of the Games. As the star of the U. S. women’s gymnastics team, she led them to a team gold medal, an overall win and a gold medal in vault. They gave him the cash on the floor, which was a disappointment. He treated all interviews with grace, composure, and a big smile.
—Performance of the host country, France. We can usually expect a recovery of the home team compared to past Games, but nothing like what France achieved. (We’re talking about general numbers here. ) Let’s go back to London in 2012, where Great (we don’t use Great here to refer to its accents) grew by 27%. Brazil, which is not a historically strong Olympic country, increased its number of medals in 2016 by 12%. Japan jumped by 41% in the 2020/2021 Games. As for France, 93% goes from 33rd to 64th. Léon Marchand, swimmer, ruled the country with 4 approved medals and one bronze.
—The controversy over gender. It was perhaps the saddest part of the Games, where Algeria’s Imane Khelif and Taiwan’s Lin Yu Ting came under scrutiny due to abnormally high testosterone levels. Both were born women and were known as such. But some have let their ideology make it difficult to understand the facts. stating that boxers are transgender, which is not the case. The IOC did the right thing, but the Olympics weren’t as fun as they have been.
“A bad decision forever. ” Do you have a bigger decision on a bigger occasion than Leigh Diffey wrongly naming the winner of the men’s 100m? Possibly we would have to go back to 1947, when Clem McCarthy mistakenly named the winner of the Preakness. But unlike Diffey, McCarthy, once he learned of the error, corrected himself and apologized to listeners. What do they say, concealment is worse than crime?
“The city of Paris. No doubt Paris has played all the cards it had in its hand. From an overly artistic opening rite with an overly long ending to an energetic finale, Paris had it all. If any of your landmarks failed as a place of reception, I don’t know which one. Well, maybe a ping-pong table in front of the Mona Lisa at the Louvre. But there would have been no room for spectators. Job well done. You know Los Angeles got its art wheels in overdrive right now.
At the end of the swim. We have analyzed the classification of gold medals according to the same precept as the electoral college. The winner wins the full prize in each game based on the number of gold medals awarded. In the event of a tie, the winner is the one who had added the total number of medals in that game. If there was a tie, either country received maximum points, which only happened in a handful of two sets of medal-winning teams.
Obviously, the key to winning in the most important sport, the track and box (48) and swimming (35). There were a number of mid-level sports, such as judo (18), wrestling (18), shooting (15), gymnastics. (14) and rowing (14).
The United States was the winner with 103 gold medals, winning in track, swimming and gymnastics. Japan, thanks to judo, wrestling and fencing, finished the moment with five 4 numbers. The Netherlands finished third thanks to rowing and track cycling and China, which tied the United States with 40 gold medals in total, finished fourth, with only the Netherlands with 39. He got most of his problems in weightlifting (10) and diving (8). . ), badminton, tennis and table tennis (all five editions).
So what does this tell us about the Olympic Games? Not many. But it says a lot about the electoral college.
Here are the countries:
United States 103
Japan 54
Netherlands 50
chinese 39
South Korea 13
Uzbekistan 13
France 10
Great Britain 10
Previously, we made fun of the fact that USC and UCLA got the boot at Harvard when they got to the medals. Well, the overall finish has been reached (well, we think it’s the finish, since it looks like Harvard and USC are updating on Sunday, but UCLA isn’t. But a spot check indicates that 3 other people disappeared for bronze, but that’s all. )
In summary, final total:
Gold medals from Harvard, USC 7, UCLA 5.
We would say that Harvard is the USC/UCLA of the East or that the USC/UCLA is the Harvard of the West, but one would be and the other insulting (and we are not going to tell you which Array)
Just a few things of the day.
—Would the Americans have won more with Caitlin Clark? Probably not.
—My favorite edition of “La Marseillaise” is still the Casablanca one.
-Jimmy Fallon showed how professional he is after seeing a joke with Katie Ledecky, which she didn’t hear, but she didn’t repeat it and moved on.
— Karaoke in stadiums was a failure until “We are the champions”.
“The Golden Voyager segment was above my head. Like the third song of a concert, you can go to the bathroom at the beginning and not miss anything.
— The guy with the piano upside down, dressed in what looked like black trash bags, pretty surprising.
—Do I think there is more than one Olympic flag?
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