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Trump wanted to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan even earlier (May 1st) and he also reduced military presence in the area. Yeah, the world would be clearly much better with him… 
 
 

ARGENTINAAAAA!
 

 
Definitely worth staying up late. 

Jeez. If there’s a team that deserves a place in any Olympic semifinals, it’s definitely Polish volleyball team. Being among the best teams for so long and additionally a world champion. 
 
Well, I hope Argentina will surprise us and win it all.

USA Olympics Recap Day 1
 
Archery:
I was thinking our Mixed Team would win against Indonesia   and get a possible medal but alas we lost in the first round with an 18-20 shootout score after a underwhelming 8 point arrow from Ellison. Here's to hoping the rest of our Archery competitions goes well for us. 
 
 
Basketball 3x3:
Women's
We win our first two matches. 17-10 vs France  and 21-9 vs Mongolia 
 
Badminton:
Men's  Doubles
In the first day of Group Stages Phillip and Ryan Chew lost 0-2 to Jun Hui Li and Yu Chen Lio of China  who were seeded 3rd. I'm not expecting Phillip and Ryan Chew to win a match in their group but should still be interesting and hopefully close matches on July 26th and 27th. 
 
Boxing:
Men's  Featherweight
Our featherweight boxer Duke Ragan beat Samuel Kistohurry of France  3-2, which advances him to the Round of 16 where he will face Serik Temirzhanov of Kazakhstan 
 
Men's Welterweight
Delante Johnson won his match 3-2 against Brian Arregui of Argentina 
 
Women's Featherweight
Yarisel Ramierez lost her opening round match 0-5 against Nikolina Cacic of Croatia 
 
 
Fencing:
Women's Individual Epee 
Kelley Hurley started in the RO32 against Erika Kirpu of Estonia  where she narrowly won 15-14. She then went onto the RO16 and narrowly lost 11-12 to Murtazaeva of ROC . Else where in the RO32 Kathrine Holmes lost 12-15 to Song Se-ra of Korea . Kathrine's sister Courtney Hurley lost 8-15 in the RO32 match against Zhu Mingye of China 
 
Men's Individual Sabre
On the Men's side in Sabre, Andrew Mackiewicz won in the RO64 15-13 against Shimaura of Japan . Later in the RO32 he lost 7-15 to Sang-uk from South Korea . Daryl Homer lost his initial match 11-15  in the RO32 against Amer of Egypt . Our hopeful medalist Eli Derschwitz who is seeded 2nd won his initial RO32 match 15-9 against Streets of Japan . He then got upset 9-15 by 15th seed Jung-hwan of South Korea. 
Football:
Women's 
We got back to our winning ways against New Zealand  where we won with a score of 6-1.
 
Shooting:
10m Air Rifle Women's 
We had two competitors in the Qualification round for this event. Mary Carolynn Tucker and Alison Marie Weisz. Weisz finished 14th with a score of 626.9 meanwhile, Tucker finished 3rd with a score of 631.4 which has now qualified her to the finals where hopefully she can score our first medal of Tokyo! 
 
In the final Mary Tucker unfortunately went out of the competition in 6th place. She will be back in action on July 31st in the 50m Rifle 3 Positions.
 
10m Air Pistol Men's
In the qualification round both our competitors failed to make it into the top 8 to reach the finals. James Hall placed 10th with a score of 577 meanwhile Nick Mowrer placed 13 with a score of 576. 
 
 
Softball:
We continue our winning streak with a 2-0 win over  setting us up well in the top four. 
 
 
Table Tennis:
Women's  Singles
In the preliminary rounds Ju Liu (68) upset Oshonaike (53) of Nigeria  4-1 allowing her to advance to the first round where she will play Dvorak (43) of Spain .
 
Men's  Singles
In the preliminary round Kumar (55) won his match 4-1 against Enkhbat (65) of Mongolia.  Kumar will now play against Mino (46) of Ecuador . 
 
 
Volleyball:
Men's
We win our opening match 3-0 against France 
 
Water Polo:
Women's
Our Women's team wins their first 25-4 match in the group stage against Japan . Great start for the team as we should at least get top 3 in our group. 
 
 
Weightlifting:
Women's 49kg
Our medalist hopeful Jourdan Delacruz was unable to get a successful Clean & Jerk after scoring a 86kg Snatch round. 
 
 
 
Personal Thoughts: Disappointing day for many of our athletes today. I was hoping for Medals in Mixed Archery, Men's Individual Sabre, Women's 49kg Weightlifting, or Women's 10m Air Rifle. 
 
Update: Not sure when I'll sleep but feel free to update the event's that I missed/haven't gotten to yet/slept through. If not I will go back in the morning and update everything! 

Which also shows how irrelevant the Nations League is to most of the participating teams, especially now before the Olympics...

Too easy for Osaka...the career of already established tennis, golf, (male) basketball and football players, etc. wouldn't be affected at all by a cancellation. Let's hear the opinion of athletes for whom the Olympics are really a life and career goal and have worked for years to qualify. 

He is Italian. 
 

He is Italian. 
 

He is Italian. 
 

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