The least watched Olympics in the history of the game. Japan is going to eat heavy losses
@Kenny Matt like i predicted Elly Ajoyi mosese lost via unanimous decision. He was outclassed in all round.
A Belarusian sprinter competing at the Tokyo Olympics released a video on Sunday calling for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to help her avoid being returned to her native country against her will.
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Athlete Kristina Timanovskaya said in the short video released on social media:
“I was put under pressure and they are trying to forcibly take me out of the country without my consent. I ask the IOC to intervene.”
It appeared online after Timanovskaya was told she will no longer be able to compete for Belarus and that she must return to the capital, Minsk, immediately, said Anatol Kotau, of the Belarus Sports Solidarity Foundation. The group represents Belarusian athletes repressed by Belarusian authorities. Kotau, who is in direct contact with Timanovskaya, said that at around 3 p.m. (2 a.m. ET) on Sunday, representatives of the Belarus national team came to the Olympic village and asked her to “pack her belongings as a decision had been made for her to return to Minsk.”
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Kristina Timanovskaya is escorted by police officers at Haneda international airport in Tokyo, Japan on Sunday, August 1.
“I am afraid that I might be jailed in Belarus,” Timanovskaya said in an interview with the Belarusian sports news site Tribuna on Sunday. “I am not afraid of being fired or kicked out of the national team. I’m concerned about my safety. And I think that at the moment it is not safe for me in Belarus. I didn’t do anything, but they deprived me of the right to participate in the 200-meter race and wanted to send me home.”
She did not detail exactly what she feared she would be jailed over, but her fear of reprisal comes after she spoke out against national sporting authorities.
Timanovskaya said Sunday she was “safe” and under police protection in Japan after claiming her country had forced her to leave the Tokyo Olympics.
“I am safe and they are in the process of deciding where I am going to spend the night,” Timanovskaya said in a statement on Telegram published by the Belarusian Sports Solidarity Foundation (BSSF), an organization that supports opposition athletes.
The Belarusian Olympic Committee had claimed that Timanovskaya left the Tokyo Games on medical advice because of her “emotional and psychological state”.
But, speaking through the BSSF, Timanovskaya said that claim was “not true” and said she had not been examined by doctors.
The IOC said in a statement to AFP: “The IOC has seen the reports in the media, is looking into the situation and has asked the NOC (Belarus Olympic officials) for clarification.”
BSSF was founded last August by retired Belarusian swimmer Aliaksandra Herasimenia, as protests erupted after the disputed re-election of strongman President Alexander Lukashenko.
Herasimenia – who now lives in exile in Lithuania – sold her 2012 world championship gold medal to raise funds for the foundation.
It provides financial and legal assistance to athletes targeted by the authorities after calling for an end to the violent police crackdown on demonstrators.
The turmoil has led to Belarus being stripped of hosting this year’s ice hockey world championship and a ban on Lukashenko attending Olympic events.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/2021/08/01/belarus-sprinter-olympics-tokyo/
[SIZE=7]American Media Stress “Ugly details” Rumour On Jamaican sprint queens[/SIZE]
Thompson-Herah beat her top rival, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, by 0.13 seconds in Saturday’s showdown.
Fellow Jamaican Shericka Jackson, who moved to the shorter sprints for the Tokyo Olympics, took bronze in 10.76.
But despite the Jamaican clean sweep, Fraser-Pryce and Jackson didn’t seem overly keen to celebrate with Thompson-Harah.
Fraser-Pryce and Jackson stood away from Thompson-Harah as they awaited the final result to appear on the scoreboard, then offered a cold and quick pat on the back when it was confirmed.
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“There wasn’t a whole lot of love there was there?” Bruce McAvaney noted in commentary for Channel 7.
Aussie Olympian Tamsyn Manou revealed there is tension between the Jamaican teammates after Fraser-Pryce recently moved to a different coaching stable.
“I think it’s pretty obvious (there’s tension) when Shally-Ann Fraser-Pryce has left the coach after she’s won a gold medal at the world champs,” Manou explained.
“She wanted to be in a different training group for a reason.”
Sports journalist Mark Gottleib tweeted: "I don’t think those other two Jamaicans like Thompson-Herah very much.
“That’s a pretty cold reception for her win from Fraser-Pryce and Jackson as Thompson-Herah sits on the ground screaming at herself. A light tap on the back and moved off.”
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[SIZE=7]Allyson Felix’s grit, more than her speed, is what makes her a legend in Olympic track[/SIZE]
Jesse Washington ESPN TheUndefeated.com Senior Writer
Resilience. Determination. Humility. Grace. Excellence, yes, but not dominance, or flamboyance, or any of the other characteristics often associated with the world’s fastest humans. It was not eye-popping times that made Allyson Felix the most decorated woman in Olympic track history. It was what she did in her final individual Olympic race, chasing an athlete far younger than her.
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On Friday, Allyson Felix won bronze in the 400 meters – winning her 10th career medal and becoming the most decorated woman in the
history of Olympic track. David Ramos/Getty Images
That Felix even made the 400-meter finals Friday night in Tokyo is a monumental achievement. Felix is 35 years old, in her fifth Olympics, two years removed from pregnancy complications that could have killed her or her daughter, Camryn. She is 5-foot-6 and 126 pounds. Age had pushed her out of the 200, her signature event, up to the 400. Of the eight women who lined up in the starting blocks Friday, Felix had the seventh-slowest time of the preliminary rounds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw98G5evVn0:6
Felix started well in Lane 9 but was caught halfway through the race by Jodie Williams of Great Britain in Lane 8. Coming out of the second turn, Felix and Williams trailed Shaunae Miller-Uibo by a step. Miller-Uibo is 27 years old, with a chiseled 6-foot-1, 152-pound physique and strides that seem long enough to reach Tokyo from her native Bahamas. Five years ago, at the Rio Olympics, Miller-Uibo had to literally dive across the finish line to steal gold from Felix by seven-hundredths of a second. It was one of the cruelest losses ever for Felix, who has experienced more than her share of Olympic heartbreak.
There was no need to dive in Tokyo. Miller-Uibo opened a huge lead down the homestretch and demolished the rest of the field, winning gold in 48.36 seconds. Felix kept chugging in the outside lane, fighting to make history. She clung to third place, but with 50 meters to go was overtaken by Stephanie-Ann McPherson of Jamaica. It looked like Felix would succumb, would again be denied an individual accomplishment, would again have to seek solace in the relays.
One of the beautiful things about track is the race within the race. It’s the ultimate individual sport, with athletes competing as much against themselves as each other, defining victory and defeat by their own times and terms. Felix was not really running against Miller-Uibo in Tokyo – that day had passed. Felix’s career, and her purpose, is defined by something bigger than gold. In the last 20 meters of her last solo Olympic performance, Felix summoned a burst of speed and grabbed the bronze medal with a time of 49.46.
“I feel like I have come a long way from all the other Games. This one is just different,” Felix said afterward. "Sometimes it sounds like a cliché, but it honestly is more than just me running out there. I’m not too wrapped up in winning more medals. The biggest thing for me was coming back.
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Felix gave birth to her daughter, Camryn, in 2018. AP Photo/Ashley Landis
"Earlier today I looked through some of the videos again of things that we had taped when I was in hospital with Cammy, and on the comeback trail – those really, really hard moments – and that’s what I tried to tap into.
“Obviously I always run for gold, but I just wanted to have joy no matter what happened tonight.”
The bronze is Felix’s 10th Olympic medal, more than any woman track athlete ever, one more than Merlene Ottey of Jamaica. She is tied with Carl Lewis for the most medals by any runner, ever, and is likely to surpass him Saturday in the 400-meter relay. She helped set the current 4x100 world record of 40.82 seconds. At the world championships, Felix has 13 gold and 18 total medals, more than any athlete ever. She has won six Olympic golds, more than any woman runner ever.
Five of those Olympic golds are in the relays. Her personal best of 21.69 in the 200 is seventh all-time; none of her other individual marks are that close to the top. A sizable number of the women listed ahead of her were caught using performance-enhancing drugs; Felix is a charter member of the voluntary drug-testing coalition Project Believe. Her career overlapped with Jamaica’s taking over the sprinting world, and Felix ran valiantly against the likes of Veronica Campbell Brown, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Elaine Thompson and Shericka Williams. For so many races, Felix lined up against women with more size and speed than she would ever have.
At one point in her career, the losses burned. Felix’s humble, God-centered demeanor hides a red-hot competitive core, and she has spoken publicly about the desire to trade multiple world championship titles for just one of those elusive Olympic golds. She often said she never wanted to be comfortable with losing.
In Tokyo, though, the equation changed. She ran for Camryn, who was born prematurely at just 3 pounds, 8 ounces. She ran to inspire women who sacrifice their careers and their bodies to become mothers. To show that Nike was wrong to cut her compensation 70% after her pregnancy, and that she was right to found her own brand, Saysh, whose shoes she wore Friday. To prove that at age 35, after preeclampsia and an emergency C-section that left her unable to walk, she could run an Olympic final within .25 seconds of her personal best.
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Felix earned her first Olympic medal – a silver in the 200 meters – in Athens in 2004.
“I’m not afraid of losing. I lose much more than I win,” Felix posted on Instagram hours before the race. "That’s life and I think that’s how it’s supposed to be. I’ve found that I learn more from my losses and that I have gained much more value in the journey toward a goal than achieving that goal. … I’m afraid of letting people down. Of letting myself down. I hold myself to such high standards and I’m realizing as I’m sitting here the night before my final individual Olympic final that in a lot of ways I’ve let my performances define my worth. … But right now I’ve decided to leave that fear behind. …
“I’m not sharing this note for me. I’m sharing it for any other athletes who are defining themselves by their medal count. I’m writing this for any woman who defines her worth based on whether or not she’s married or has kids. I’m writing it for anyone who thinks that the people you look up to on TV are any different than you. I get afraid just like you, but you are so much more than enough. So take off the weight of everyone else’s expectations of you. Know that there is freedom on the other side of your fear. Go out there and be brave with your life because you are worthy of your dreams.”
Seventeen years ago, when Felix made her Olympic debut at age 18, she dreamed of gold. Now she dreams of helping others, as she helped so many teammates win relays on the track. She dreams of eliminating racial disparities in maternal care, of making sure that women athletes are treated fairly.
Felix has more races to run. She should receive a majestic farewell at the 2022 world championships at Hayward Field in Oregon. And then we will remember her, not as the fastest, but as a woman defined more by how she fought than what she won.
Allyson Felix brought the curtain down on her glittering Olympic career with a seventh gold medal as the United States stormed to a crushing victory in the 4x400m women’s relay on Saturday.
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From left: USA’s Allyson Felix, USA’s Athing Mu, USA’s Dalilah Muhammad and USA’s Sydney Mclaughlin compete in the women’s 4x400m relay final during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo on August 7, 2021.
Felix, who on Friday became the most decorated female track and field athlete of all time with a bronze in the individual 400m, helped a ‘Dream Team’ US quartet romp home in 3min 16.85sec.
Poland took silver, while Jamaica took bronze.
The USA fielded a star-studded line-up which included world record-breaking 400m hurdler and newly crowned Olympic champion Sydney McLaughlin, 400 hurdles silver medallist Dalilah Muhammad, and teenage 800m gold medallist Athing Mu alongside the veteran Felix.
With McLaughlin getting the American women off to a blistering start before handing off to Felix on the second leg, it soon became clear that the US quartet was racing against history and the Soviet Union’s 33-year-old world record of 3:15.17 set at the drug-tainted Seoul Olympics.
But while Muhammad built up a massive lead for Mu with a blistering third leg, the record remained just out of reach with the 19-year-old from New Jersey crossing the line four seconds clear of Polish anchor runner Justyna Swiety-Ersetic.
Felix, 35, is competing in her fifth and final Summer Games and now has 11 total Olympic medals, extending her record as the most decorated female track and field Olympian in history. Her 11th medal also took Felix one clear of Carl Lewis’ 10 medals as the most decorated US track and field Olympic athlete.
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Evil Arab Morhad Amdouni sparked controversy during the Olympic men’s marathon when he knocked over a row of water bottles during the race, before grabbing the last one. Footage of the moment showed several runners quickly reach for a bottle from a hydration station before continuing the race in sweltering heat in Sapporo, Japan, on Sunday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_ynPS7YuXk:4
But when it came to Amdouni, he managed to knock over almost an entire row of the bottles before grabbing the last one left on the table.
Australian long-distance runner Ben St Lawrence tweeted an 8-second clip of the moment, which has amassed more than a million views so far.
“Thoughts on Amdouni knocking over an entire row of water before taking the last one?” he wrote.
Many criticized Amdouni—who finished 17th in the race–and accused him of poor sportsmanship.
Piers Morgan was among the critics convinced Amdouni’s actions were deliberate, branding the runner the “biggest d*ckhead of the Tokyo Olympics.”
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Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge took gold after winning his second consecutive Olympic marathon in 2 hours, 8 minutes, and 38 seconds.
Netherland’s Abdi Nageeye won silver and Belgium’s Bashir Abdi won bronze.
Go Out There…Do The Job…Come Home and Relax… :D:D:D
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Team Kenya returned to the country early morning Wednesday from the 2020 Tokyo Olympics to a low-key reception at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. There was no visible government representation at the airport to receive the gallant athletes who finished first in Africa with a total of ten medals. And as a tradition, there were no traditional dancers and a plentiful supply of Mursik to keep the athletes entertained and refreshed. In particular, the Cabinet Secretary for Sports Ambassador Amina Mohamed, who recently lost her husband, received a lot of criticism.
Kenya won four Gold, four Silver, and two Bronze.
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It was a sharp contrast, neighbors Uganda, who despite winning just four medals; two Gold and one Silver and Bronze a piece, gave their athletes a colorful welcome on Tuesday.
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The athletes were paraded on top of high-end vehicles in a convoy that snaked from Entebbe Airport to Kampala City.
The poor treatment of Kenyan athletes did not escape the attention of netizens, who did not hesitate to vent their anger.
On Wednesday, Kenyans woke up to a trending hashtag on Twitter thanking Sports CS Amina Mohammed.
The hashtag was not taken lightly by netizens who drew comparison between Kenya and Uganda’s reception of their athletes from Tokyo.
“Despite the Kenyan flag being flagged high and being the number one in Africa, the Government cannot even honour the participants,” stated a netizen by the name Okumu.
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“#AsanteCSAmina this hashtag is just a mockery of our athletes.” Who should we be thanking?" Nehemia questioned.
Kenya was position 19 worldwide and top in Africa on the leaderboard.
Meanwhile, in Uganda, business was at a standstill as the athletes and team officials disembarked from the plane at Entebbe International Airport.
Government officials, family members, officials from various sports associations and federations all waited to receive their heroes and heroines.
Soon after their arrival, the Ugandan athletes were driven around the city in celebrations.
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The athletes will be hosted to a luncheon on Wednesday, August 11, by President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni.
Uganda’s two gold medals, a silver and one bronze marked the country’s best performance in the Olympics since its first participation in 1956.