Best Moments of Tokyo 2020

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

 

Archery:  Mete Gazoz wins Gold,  South Korea dominates again

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

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

Baseball: Bullpen cart,  Japan walk off vs ,  South Korea walk off vs 

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

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

Beach Volleyball:  All USA teams advance to R16,  Qatar win bronze,  Norway wins gold,  The A team wins gold

Boxing:  Team USA men make 3 finals

Canoe Slalom:  Jessica Fox wins bronze & gold

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

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

Cycling MTB:  Switzerland sweep women’s race

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

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

Fencing:  Lee Kiefer wins gold in foil

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

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

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

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

Karate:  Sandra Sanchez wins gold in kata

Marathon Swimming:  Ana Marcela Cunha wins gold

Rhythmic Gymnastics:  Bulgaria upsets ROC in group event

Rowing:  Canada ends  USA dynasty in women’s eight

Rugby:  Fiji wins men’s gold 

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

Skateboarding:  Japanese domination,  Sky Brown wins bronze in park

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

Softball:  Japan beats  USA for the gold

Sport Climbing:  Janja Garnbret wins gold 

Surfing:  Carissa Moore wins gold

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

Table Tennis:  Japan beats  China in classic XD final

Taekwondo:  Anastasija Zolotic wins historic gold for team USA

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

 

 

 

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Athletics:  Sweden go 1-2 in men’s discus,  Jamaica sweep women’s 100,  Raven Saunders wins silver in shot put,  Mutaz Essa Barshim &  Gianmarco Tamberi share gold,  Lamont Marcell Jacobs wins 100 in an upset,  Jasmine Camacho-Quinn wins gold in 100 Hurdles,  Valarie Allman dethrones  Sandra Perkovic in discus,  Karsten Warhol’s WR & gold in 400 hurdles,  Athing Mu wins 800,   Sydney McLaughlins WR & gold in 400 hurdles,  Andre de Grasse gets his gold in the 200,  Team USA goes 1-2 in men’s shot put,  Hansle Parchment upsets  Grant Holloway in 110 Hurdles,  Allyson Felix wins 11th medal,  Italy wins men’s 4x100,  Molly Seidel wins bronze in marathon,  Sifan Hassan wins 5000 & 10000,  Neeraj Chopra wins India’s first gold in athletics,  Eliud Kipchoge defense marathon gold 

Triathlon:  Flora Duffy wins first ever gold for Bermuda

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

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

Weightlifting:  Hidilyn Diaz wins first gold for Philippines

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

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Archery:  Mete Gazoz denying Korean clean sweep of gold

Athletics:  Neeraj Chopra winning gold,  and  gets bronze

Artistic Gymnastics:  Dolgopyat winning gold

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

Cycling Road:  Carapaz winning gold

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

Cycling MTB:  clean sweep in women's

Diving:  Tom Daley/Matty Lee wins gold

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

Field Hockey:  men's got bronze

Karate:  Feryal Abdelaziz winning first Egyptian gold since 2004

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

Rhythmic Gymnastics: Surprise from   

Shooting:  won 2 medals

Swimming:  Hafnaoui surprise win

Table tennis:  won mixed doubles

Tennis:  Poor Novak  

Triathlon:  Flora Duffy!

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

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Athletics  W PV   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 Kelsey Mitchell and  Jennifer Valente to end things.

Basketball 3x3  for the women, and great to see   beat   for gold.

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

Equestrian, Jessica Springsteen and the  team wimnning silver.

Rhythmic Gymnastics,  Group and Linoy Ashram  winning gold.

Wrestling:  Gable Dan Steveson  winning one for the ages.

Modern Pentathlon a  2 for 2.

Handball, as above a  2 for 2.

Rowing:  A  and  Gold.

Artistic Gymnastics.   Suni Lee and Jade Carey stepping up.

Fencing     Lee Kiefer.

Canoe   Nevin Harrison.

 

 

 

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Highlights of the Games for me: from a  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:

 

 Yulimar Rojas world record.

 Tamberi and Barshim sharing the gold moment

 Lasitskene winning gold after being denied to do it in Rio

 Allyson Felix reaching 11 olympic medals

 Ingebritsen and Warholm races

 

 Lisa Carrington 3 gold medals

 

 Jason Kenny epic keirin gold

 

 Sky Brown last run to win a medal

 

 Hafnaoui upset in 400 free

 Paltrinieri and Quadarella winning medals after recent physical struggles

 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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  On 8/9/2021 at 2:07 AM, Griff88 said:

Archery:  Mete Gazoz denying Korean clean sweep of gold

Athletics:  Neeraj Chopra winning gold,  and  gets bronze

Artistic Gymnastics:  Dolgopyat winning gold

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

Cycling Road:  Carapaz winning gold

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

Cycling MTB:  clean sweep in women's

Diving:  Tom Daley/Matty Lee wins gold

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

Field Hockey:  men's got bronze

Karate:  Feryal Abdelaziz winning first Egyptian gold since 2004

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

Rhythmic Gymnastics: Surprise from   

Shooting:  won 2 medals

Swimming:  Hafnaoui surprise win

Table tennis:  won mixed doubles

Tennis:  Poor Novak  

Triathlon:  Flora Duffy!

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

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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  shot to win gold and amazing scenes

 

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

 

Athletics  Warholm  4x100 men’s  Splitting gold

 

Boxing  Kellie Harrington wins an incredible final. 

 

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

 

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

 

Football  beating  in their opening game.  winning gold

 

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

 

Hockey - both  teams performing so well

 

Modern Pentathlon  and especially  suffering with horses

 

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

 

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

 

Shooting  with medals!!

 

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

 

Swimming  Titmuss beating Ledecky.  gold from lane 8

 

Tennis  Djokovic losing his mind as he was beaten

 

Triathlon  gold for Duffy

 

Wrestling  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 winning gold in both team all around competitions. 

 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

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

 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

 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.

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

 Estonian gold in women's team epee.

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

 

Judo

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

 

Rowing

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

 

Shooting

 San Marino's historic medals.

 

Swimming

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

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

 

Water polo

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

 

Wrestling

 Sadulaev beating  Snyder for gold.

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

 Maroulis winning a bronze medal, after fighting PTSD.

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By far my Best moment of Tokyo 2020

 

First 4 minutes of this video !  

 

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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

 

 

• What was the most memorable moment of the Games?

 

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

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

3. 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.