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I just watched it. At least 3 women already passed her before her collapse began (but she was slowing down due to fatigue before they passed her). She...

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She wasn't going to medal anyway. Her collapse was after seeing multiple women kicking past her and realizing her medal dream was over.

I...

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It's not only about costing the team a medal; in gymnastics, if your mind is not ready and well, a mental mistake could make you break your neck.
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The 400 is a bigger prize now because successfully defending an Olympic title is more highly respected and remembered than winning gold in a different...

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That's only for the team event. She might still compete in the individual events....

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Simone Biles injured, will not be in the team gymnastics final. No word yet on whether she'll be in any of the individual events later in the Games....

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One hole in that study: did Covid cause the low IQ, or did low IQ behavior cause increased exposure to Covid? Only a "small subset" of the...

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For the high jump and pole vault, you don't even need to go as far as having the average Joes attempt a jump. Just set the HJ bar at 7'10", or PV...

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They did something similar at an exhibit of the 2018 Chicago Marathon, challenging people to run Kipchoge's world record pace on a giant treadmill....

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It's amazing how the anti-vaxxers who rant about the side effects of the vaccines seem to have no concern about the side effects of a disease that has...

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And they're mighty far above the athletes who are excellent but not world class.

Take a guy who wins local 5K road races in 16:30, beating...

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It was also NBC's first ever live morning broadcast of the opening ceremonies, so it should be expected to have fewer viewers than the afternoon and evening...

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She didn't say she would have won with radio communication. She said she would have known she didn't win (and wouldn't have celebrated as if she had ...

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But those pre-Games travel restrictions are USATF's or USOC's decision, not Japan's, as other countries had athletes arriving in Tokyo over 2 weeks a...

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Mattie Rogers did gymnastics and cheerleading for several years before starting Olympic-style lifting in her late teens; here she is using those skills...

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Maybe 6 months after his last competition, but not 6 years or 16 years. Track & field coaches who continue to train or compete or even dabble in the...

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Yet again ...

https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2021...-unvaccinated/


A...

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Apart from the Jamaicans, I'm rooting for USA weightlifter Martha "Mattie" Rogers, now in her first Olympics after missing the team by 1 spot...

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A better question would be what is the last time Stones jumped over anything? Banks has been jumping in Masters meets for more than the past 10 years,...

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It will happen sooner or later. When it happens, I hope the athlete will be somebody who deliberately chose not to get the vaccine, and not somebody who...