Hello, my name is John Cherwa and it’s time to say goodbye. After more than two weeks, I hope I have informed you, entertained you, and maybe even made you laugh. But in the end, we were just an add-on to the policy. provided through our notable reporters and photographers in Paris. So on that note, we leave you with a vintage ballad, pay attention here.
Well, we predicted that the gold medal race would end in a tie, but that’s not how it happened. Final score: United States 40 gold medals, 126 total; China 40, 91. The world recognizes gold as the norm, the United States considers the total number of medals, because it is less difficult for them to win. Since we have just decided, without authority, with an equivalent power of gravity, if the gold medals were tied, the tiebreaker would be a total of medals. We officially claim the United States as the winner.
The true heroine of the United States Jennifer Valente, who won the women’s omnium in track cycling. Although she is the reigning Olympic champion, she is ranked fourth in the world. But it’s not a festival, as it gave the United States an unforeseen gold medal and allowed them to draw with China.
The real surprise of the day was the expected final results: the U. S. women’s basketball team won the game. The U. S. won its eighth direct gold medal in a thrilling 67-66 victory over France. If France’s Gabby Williams hadn’t crossed the three-point line on her final shot, the game would have gone to overtime. Our Thuc Nhi Nguyen there and here is his report.
Others vying for Olympic gold in the United States on Sunday were the protective champion women’s volleyball team, which lost to Italy in straight sets, and wrestler Kennedy Blades, who lost to Yuka Kagami in the 76 kg (176 pounds) gold medal match, 3. -1.
The United States won a bronze medal in men’s water polo.
Games generally have five elements that describe it. We met a few before, keeping the final list, in no specific order.
—Simone Biles. She directed television policy 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. silver on the ground, which was a disappointment. She treated all interviews with grace, composure, and a big smile.
—Performance of the host country, France. A recovery of the home team can generally be expected compared to past Games, but nothing close to what France has achieved. (We’re talking about general numbers. ) Let’s go back to London in 2012, where Britain (we don’t use Great here, to refer to its accent) grew by 27%. Brazil, which is not a historically strong Olympic country, increased its medal count in 2016 to 12, consistent with one hundred. 41% in the 2020/2021 Games. As for France, 93% went from 33 to 64. Léon Marchand, swimmer, ruled the country with 4 past 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. Can a bigger decision be made on a bigger occasion than Leigh Diffey wrongly calling the winner of the men’s 100m? Maybe we have to go back to 1947, when Clem McCarthy incorrectly rated the winner of the Preakness. But unlike Diffey, McCarthy, once he discovered the error, corrected himself and apologized to listeners. What do they say, the cover-up is worse than the 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 case of a tie, the one who had added the total number of medals in that game wins. If there was a tie, either country received maximum points, which only happened in a handful of two-game medal-winning teams.
Evidently the key to winning the most important sport, athletics (48) and swimming (35). There were a number of midpoint 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 in second place with five4 medals. The Netherlands finished third thanks to rowing and track cycling and China. , which tied the United States with 40 total gold medals, finished fourth, only the Netherlands with 39. It had the most of its problems in weightlifting (10) and diving (8), badminton, tennis and table tennis (the five). matters).
So what does this tell us about the Olympic Games? Bit. But that 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
We previously laughed about the fact that USC and UCLA got kicked at Harvard when it came to medals. Well, the overall high was reached (well, we think it’s the high, because it looks like Harvard and USC are updating their websites on Sunday, but UCLA isn’t. But a random check indicates that three other people disappeared because of the bronze, but that’s about it. )
Anyway, 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 the one would be insulting 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 didn’t repeat and moved on.
– Karaoke in the stadium was a failure until “We Are the Champions”.
The Golden Voyager segment was above my head. Something like the third song of a concert, you can go to the bathroom at the beginning and not miss anything.
“The guy on the piano upside down, dressed in what looked like black trash bags, is pretty amazing.
“I think there’s more than one Olympic flag?”
Let’s take a look at some stories that you might have missed but shouldn’t have:
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