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I’m interested to hear everyone’s most memorable/favorite moments from Tokyo 2020. I’ll start:

 

Archery: :TUR Mete Gazoz wins Gold, :KOR South Korea dominates again

Artistic Gymnastics: ROC win gold in men’s & women team, :USA Simone Biles drops out & then wins bronze in beam, :USA Suni Lee wins all around, :BRA Rebecca Andrade wins gold in vault, :ISR Artem Dolgopyat wins gold in floor, :USA Jade Carey wins floor gold

Badminton: :CHN Chen Yufei vs :TPE Tai Tzu Ying gold medal match, :USA Beiwen Zhang advances to R16

Baseball: Bullpen cart, :JPN Japan walk off vs :DOM, :KOR South Korea walk off vs :ISR

Basketball: :SLO Luka Doncic leads Slovenia to Semis, :USA USA men & women win gold again

Basketball 3x3: :JPN vs :POL OT match, :USA USA women win gold

Beach Volleyball: :USA All USA teams advance to R16, :QAT Qatar win bronze, :NOR Norway wins gold, :USA The A team wins gold

Boxing: :USA Team USA men make 3 finals

Canoe Slalom: :AUS Jessica Fox wins bronze & gold

Canoe Sprint: :USA Nevin Harrison historic gold, :NZL Lisa Carrington wins 3 gold medals

Cycling Road: :ECU Richard Carapaz wins road race, :NED Annemiek Van Vleuten redemption gold

Cycling MTB: :SUI Switzerland sweep women’s race

Cycling Track: :GER Germany women’s team pursuit gold, :GBR Jason Kenny & Laura Kenny both win gold, :USA Jennifer Valente gold in Omnium

Diving: :GBR Tom Daley finally wins gold, :CHN China wins 7 of 8 golds

Fencing: :USA Lee Kiefer wins gold in foil

Field Hockey: :BEL Belgium first ever gold in Men’s field hockey, :IND India wins bronze in men’s tournament

Golf: :USA Team USA win gold in men’s & women’s, 7 man playoff for bronze

Handball: :FRA France wins men’s and women’s tournament 

Judo: :JPN Abe siblings win gold on same day, :FRA France upsets :JPN Japan in mixed team

Karate: :ESP Sandra Sanchez wins gold in kata

Marathon Swimming: :BRA Ana Marcela Cunha wins gold

Rhythmic Gymnastics: :BUL Bulgaria upsets ROC in group event

Rowing: :CAN Canada ends :USA USA dynasty in women’s eight

Rugby: :FIJ Fiji wins men’s gold 

Shooting: :USA Team USA wins men’s & women skeet gold, :SMR San Marino wins bronze & silver

Skateboarding: :JPN Japanese domination, :GBR Sky Brown wins bronze in park

Soccer: :BRA Brazil win gold after ET goal, :CAN Canada beats :USA USA in the semis & wins gold after PKs

Softball: :JPN Japan beats :USA USA for the gold

Sport Climbing: :SLO Janja Garnbret wins gold 

Surfing: :USA Carissa Moore wins gold

Swimming: :USA Chase Kalisz & Jay Litherland go 1-2 in 400 IM, :TUN Ahmed Hafnaoui upset in 400 Free, :AUS Ariarne Titmus vs :USA Katie Ledecky , 17 year old :USA Lydia Jacoby wins gold in 100 breast,  :JPN Yui Ohashi wins 200 & 400 IM, :USA Ledecky wins 1500, :USA Bobby Finke comeback for 800 & 1500 gold, :USA Caeleb Dressel wins 5 golds

Table Tennis: :JPN Japan beats :CHN China in classic XD final

Taekwondo: :USA Anastasija Zolotic wins historic gold for team USA

Tennis: :SRB Novak Djokovic gets upset in the semis & bronze medal match

 

 

 

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Athletics: :SWE Sweden go 1-2 in men’s discus, :JAM Jamaica sweep women’s 100, :USA Raven Saunders wins silver in shot put, :QAT Mutaz Essa Barshim & :ITA Gianmarco Tamberi share gold, :ITA Lamont Marcell Jacobs wins 100 in an upset, :PUR Jasmine Camacho-Quinn wins gold in 100 Hurdles, :USA Valarie Allman dethrones :CRO Sandra Perkovic in discus, :NOR Karsten Warhol’s WR & gold in 400 hurdles, :USA Athing Mu wins 800,  :USA Sydney McLaughlins WR & gold in 400 hurdles, :CAN Andre de Grasse gets his gold in the 200, :USA Team USA goes 1-2 in men’s shot put, :JAM Hansle Parchment upsets :USA Grant Holloway in 110 Hurdles, :USA Allyson Felix wins 11th medal, :ITA Italy wins men’s 4x100, :USA Molly Seidel wins bronze in marathon, :NED Sifan Hassan wins 5000 & 10000, :IND Neeraj Chopra wins India’s first gold in athletics, :KEN Eliud Kipchoge defense marathon gold 

Triathlon: :BER Flora Duffy wins first ever gold for Bermuda

Volleyball: :FRA France upset run to Olympic gold, :USA USA wins first ever gold in women’s tournament

Water Polo: :USA USA women’s dynasty continues with another gold

Weightlifting: :PHI Hidilyn Diaz wins first gold for Philippines

Wrestling: :USA Tamyra Mensah wins gold in women’s 68kg, :USA David Taylor & Gable Steveson win gold after last second scores

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Archery: :TUR Mete Gazoz denying Korean clean sweep of gold

Athletics: :IND Neeraj Chopra winning gold, :BOT and :BUR gets bronze

Artistic Gymnastics: :ISR Dolgopyat winning gold

Badminton: :INA finally won women's doubles, :GUA Kevin Cordon's surprise

Cycling Road: :ECU Carapaz winning gold

Cycling Track: A bizarre keirin final where :GBR Jason Kenny won gold, :MAS heartbroken

Cycling MTB: :SUI clean sweep in women's

Diving: :GBR Tom Daley/Matty Lee wins gold

Fencing: :HKG Cheung Ka Long and :EST women's team win gold

Field Hockey: :IND men's got bronze

Karate: :EGY Feryal Abdelaziz winning first Egyptian gold since 2004

Marathon Swimming: :BRA Cunha won gold, also a fish joining the party :p 

Rhythmic Gymnastics: Surprise from :BUL  

Shooting: :SMR won 2 medals

Swimming: :TUN Hafnaoui surprise win

Table tennis: :JPN won mixed doubles

Tennis: :SRB Poor Novak :( 

Triathlon: :BER Flora Duffy!

Weightlifting: :PHI Hidilyn Diaz won gold, :INA Rahmat Erwin Abdullah wins bronze from Group B, :TKM won first medal

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Athletics  W PV :USA  Katie Nageotte winning it the hard way. (Because of all the early misses,  it offered a good example to explain to my wife the tie-breaker rules for vertical jumps.)  Breathtaking women's 4x4

 

Cycling Track, A great last North American night from :CAN Kelsey Mitchell and  :USA Jennifer Valente to end things.

Basketball 3x3 :USA for the women, and great to see :LAT  beat :ROC  for gold.

Handball, Volleyball, :FRA winning 2 golds 30 minutes apart.  Great Overall 6 medals for :FRA in team sports.

Equestrian, Jessica Springsteen and the :USA team wimnning silver.

Rhythmic Gymnastics, :BUL Group and Linoy Ashram :ISR winning gold.

Wrestling:  Gable Dan Steveson :USA winning one for the ages.

Modern Pentathlon a :GBR 2 for 2.

Handball, as above a :FRA 2 for 2.

Rowing:  A :GRE and :CAN Gold.

Artistic Gymnastics.  :USA Suni Lee and Jade Carey stepping up.

Fencing  :USA   Lee Kiefer.

Canoe  :USA Nevin Harrison.

 

 

 

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Highlights of the Games for me: from a :ARG perspective, besides the 3 medals, Paula Pareto giving her all even injured in her last fight ever. Lucas Guzmán performance in taekwondo, especially that epic win in the last 3 seconds of the first round. And the big standing ovation for Luis Scola in his last match ever.

 

Overall:

 

:VEN Yulimar Rojas world record.

:ITA Tamberi and :QATBarshim sharing the gold moment

:RUS Lasitskene winning gold after being denied to do it in Rio

:USA Allyson Felix reaching 11 olympic medals

:NOR Ingebritsen and Warholm races

 

:NZL Lisa Carrington 3 gold medals

 

:GBR Jason Kenny epic keirin gold

 

:GBR Sky Brown last run to win a medal

 

:TUN Hafnaoui upset in 400 free

:ITA Paltrinieri and Quadarella winning medals after recent physical struggles

:USA Katie Ledecky's entire tournament, from the great Titmus matchup in the 400, to the emotional 1500 gold, the crazy 4x200 split and the 3peat in the 800.

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4 hours ago, Griff88 said:

Archery: :TUR Mete Gazoz denying Korean clean sweep of gold

Athletics: :IND Neeraj Chopra winning gold, :BOT and :BUR gets bronze

Artistic Gymnastics: :ISR Dolgopyat winning gold

Badminton: :INA finally won women's doubles, :GUA Kevin Cordon's surprise

Cycling Road: :ECU Carapaz winning gold

Cycling Track: A bizarre keirin final where :GBR Jason Kenny won gold, :MAS heartbroken

Cycling MTB: :SUI clean sweep in women's

Diving: :GBR Tom Daley/Matty Lee wins gold

Fencing: :HKG Cheung Ka Long and :EST women's team win gold

Field Hockey: :IND men's got bronze

Karate: :EGY Feryal Abdelaziz winning first Egyptian gold since 2004

Marathon Swimming: :BRA Cunha won gold, also a fish joining the party :p 

Rhythmic Gymnastics: Surprise from :BUL  

Shooting: :SMR won 2 medals

Swimming: :TUN Hafnaoui surprise win

Table tennis: :JPN won mixed doubles

Tennis: :SRB Poor Novak :( 

Triathlon: :BER Flora Duffy!

Weightlifting: :PHI Hidilyn Diaz won gold, :INA Rahmat Erwin Abdullah wins bronze from Group B, :TKM won first medal

When I heard about Turkmenistan first medal in Weightlifting,  I thought Bein Sport Commentator just messed things up, because Nazarov won gold in Rio but now I remembered that he's from Tajikistan not Turkmenistan 

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Listed by sport as they appear on the website:

 

3x3 :LAT shot to win gold and amazing scenes

 

Artistic gymnastics :USA Sunisa Lee winning under all that pressure. :UZB 46 year old Chusovitina getting a huge ovation from other gymnasts as she finished vault :ROC men’s team reaction to winning gold

 

Athletics :NOR Warholm :ITA 4x100 men’s :ITA:QAT Splitting gold

 

Boxing :IRL Kellie Harrington wins an incredible final. 

 

Cycling :NED Van Vleuten thinking she won the road race and her incredible redemption time trial. :ITA Ganna dragging the Italian pursuit team around for an amazing win

 

Equestrian :SWE domination in show jumping but still needing the last rider meltdown from :FRA in team 

 

Football :SWE beating :USA in their opening game. :CAN winning gold

 

Golf - waking up to see a 7 man play off for bronze

 

Hockey - both :IND teams performing so well

 

Modern Pentathlon :IRL and especially :GER suffering with horses

 

Rowing :IRL first ever rowing gold. First ever team bronze. The :CAN women 8 with the upset and the :GBR men’s four not getting a medal as they nearly veered off course. The crazy finish to the women’s lightweight double

 

Rugby :FIJ with two medals but the women’s being particularly memorable 

 

Shooting :SMR with medals!!

 

Sport climbing - just being so impressed with the speed events. Happy that’ll have it’s won medals in Paris

 

Swimming :AUS Titmuss beating Ledecky. :TUN gold from lane 8

 

Tennis :SRB Djokovic losing his mind as he was beaten

 

Triathlon :BER gold for Duffy

 

Wrestling :CUB the great Lopez winning super heavy again. The only wrestler I know!

 

 

 

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Here are my best moments from these games.

 

Artistic gymnastics 

:ROC ROC winning gold in both team all around competitions. 

:ITA Ferrari taking silver in floor exercise at her fourth olympics, after tearing her achilles in 2017. She had finished fourth three times before, in floor exercise in both 2012 and 2016 and in team all around this year.

 

Athletics

:ROC Lasitskene winning gold in high jump, after being denied the chance to compete in 2016.

:USA Seidel winning bronze in marathon. According to our commentator here, Seidel was working two jobs to fund her olympic preparation, as a barista in a coffee shop and as a babysitter.

 

Fencing

:ROC Pozdniakova becoming the first right-handed fencer to win gold in women's individual sabre and adding another gold in team sabre, following the steps of her father.

:FRA Brunet taking a silver and a bronze after her Rio heartbreak.

:EST Estonian gold in women's team epee.

:HUN Szilagyi winning his third consecutive gold in men's individual sabre.

 

Judo

:FRA France stopping Japan's dominance with a gold medal in the mixed team event.

 

Rowing

:ITA Italy, :FRA France, :NED Netherlands winning the medals in the insane women's lightweight double sculls final. 

 

Shooting

:SMR San Marino's historic medals.

 

Swimming

:USA Shields taking a gold medal in the medlay relay after mental health issues and suicide attempt.

:USA Sullivan winning silver behind Ledecky, after overcoming mental health issues as well.

 

Water polo

:SRB Serbia's great team concluding their journey with another gold medal.

 

Wrestling

:ROC Sadulaev beating :USA Snyder for gold.

:ROC Naifonov winning a bronze medal. When he was 7 years old, he was held hostage in Beslan school siege and his mother died there.

:USA Maroulis winning a bronze medal, after fighting PTSD.

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Globo Esporte (a big sports page in Brazil) has asked a few questions over the last week:

 

  • What medal from Brazil was the most exciting?

 

1. Hebert Conceição (gold, Boxing) - 21,96%
2. Isaquias Queiroz (gold, Canoeing) - 16,79%
3. Laura Pigossi e Luisa Stefani (bronze, Tennis) - 12,07%

 

I said it at the moment that the bronze medal of Pigossi/Stefani was the best moment of Tokyo for me, but the k.o. by Hebert was pretty damn exciting/surprising also.

 

 

  • What was the biggest brazilian name at the Games?

 

1. Rosamaria (silver, Volleyball) - 65,08%

2. Rebeca Andrade (gold/silver, Gymnastics) - 15,09%

3. Rayssa Leal (silver, Skateboarding) - 8,22%

 

Rosamaria's (big) fan club probably had a huge influence in this poll :p

 

 

  • What was the most memorable moment of the Games?

 

1. :BRA Hebert Conceição knockout in Gold medal bout (Boxing) - 23.03%

2. Shared gold between :ITA Gianmarco Tamberi and :QAT Mutaz Essa Barshim (Athletics) - 18.59%

3. :JPN:BRA Youngest podium at the Olympics, women's street (Skateboarding) - 11.24%

 

Of course a moment from a brazilian athlete would be picked, but also nice to see the high jump moment.

 

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