2020, uh, 21, uh, who knows Tokyo Olympics thread

Did Rowdy Gaines just have a contraction on air?

 

Damn it, it just got dusty in here when it got dusty for Dressel at the pool.

 

US pole vaulter Sam Kendricks fails a COVID test in Tokyo and is out.

 

If only Ledecky's leg was 205 meters.

 

That was a helluva race. And Pat Forde's daughter, who swam in the heats, is an Olympic silver medalist. I can't be the only ink-stained wretch that was rooting for that result.

 

That was phenomenal.

 

She was a second and a half faster than her 200 meter final!
Great night of swimming. Fun.

 

I realize such discussions are a time-dishonored tradition, but those Chinese swimmers seemed rather suspicious to me. That said, Chinese doping is kind of 2002, Sun Yang excepted.

 

Must be taking turtle blood and caterpillar fungus.

Ma's Army in water?

 

Nice pull.

 

And just what these games need. Within the last 90 minutes or so, 8.1 earthquake in Alaska and accompanying tsunami warning on both sides of the Pacific.
8.2 magnitude quake recorded Southeast of Perryville

 

My suggestion to our editor was that the back page be "Not So Great Satan." Alas for history if good for my continued employment, he didn't take it.