Five-ring circus: The Thread of the XXXIII Olympiad

Got a few aces coming up in track and field. McLaughlin-Levrone, Grant Holloway and Ryan Crouser are heavy favorites, and a bunch of others have a really good chance to take home gold, such as Lyles, Richardson, Rai Benjamin, Gabby Thomas, Quincy Hall, Masai Russell and Brooke Anderson.

 

Yeah, and considering how the US track team underimpressed on the men's side in Tokyo, it's refreshing.

Of course, it's tremendously spoiling to watch Michael Phelps, but it's weird to see so many swim races where the best person in the pool, whether it be Marchand, McIntosh, Titmus or McKeown, is not American. Even Katie Ledecky isn't exactly a slam dunk in the 800 free tomorrow.

 

As long as he doesn't do any laundry Lakers games.

 

My dream in track is for Kung-Fu Kenny Bednarik to beat Lyles for gold in the 100 and 200.

 

Considering he's from Wisconsin (near but not in my coverage area), here's hoping.

 

Wang and Lee of Taiwan (or Chinese Taipei, as the IOC calls it) won their semifinal over Denmark to advance to the final against the other Chinese team.

 

This is an Olympic deep cut, but after competing with his brother in Rio and winning a silver medal in lightweight rowing, Paul O'Donovan has added two golds to his total.

I am sure that this is not the most Irish thing that has ever happened, but it probably is in the top 20.

"When it comes down to it, it's the same-distance course that we have for training in Cork, believe me, there's just a big grandstand and a fancy paint job."
"The French said they were gonna take us out for some baguettes and wine downtown in Paris later on today."



This is the original from eight years ago.

 

I noticed he got his ass kicked in the comments. Is there really a legitimate discussion to be had about whether or not she should be allowed to compete with women?

 

Yeah, no male has ever been questioned for suspiciously taking things to alter their body and give them an unfair advantage.


Because of biology, women have a greater arc in which they CAN alter their bodies if they so choose. Thus, their window of suspicion is unfortunately larger, even if they haven't done anything beyond eating their spinach every day.

 

This woman competed in Tokyo three years ago without any controversy.

I doubt that the test she took that showed elevated testosterone was the first time she took that test. And I presume there were no issues the other times, otherwise we would have heard about them.