Quaker2001

Gold medal! First time the American women have been on the top step of the podium

USA tied with China with 38 gold medals. US with 3 shots left at gold. China only has 1. Go

As if there was ever any doubt!!...

Pure domination by the US 4x400 squad. Another gold for Allyson Felix. Love it!!

I can't remember this many misses before. And Canada wins it

Great defending by Canada in that last sequence to deny Sweden a go-ahead goal

Italy.. seriously? Wow, who saw that coming. First time there have been 2 European squads on the podium since 1988

Pretty impressive for her to come back at age 35 and win a medal. Great job by her. Hopefully she can add 1 to her collection and make it 11 total for her career to pass Carl Lewis for most by an American in a sport other than swimming

That was definitely something to see! So we get a rematch in the final. USA looking for revenge. Looking forward to it!!

Bases clearing double in the bottom of the 8th for Japan, just missing a grand slam home run. Japan now leads 5-2

Our announcers were talking about a potential podium sweep, but that's awesome for De Grasse. Glad to see him finally win a gold

Another 400 hurdles record absolutely destroyed. Incredible race

The pandemic can 100% be blamed. I can't speak to a non-American perspective, but getting excited about the Olympics is something that requires a strong lead-up. The Olympics didn't have that this year. We had people all over the world who doubted they would even happen (or should happen). Sure, the competition has been everything an Olympics should be, but given the state of the world right now, there isn't the slightest doubt in my mind that interest in the Olympics would be much higher if not for the pandemic

14 gold medals in artistic gymnastics and a grand total of 1 athlete wins multiple golds.. Daiki Hashimoto. No one else won more than 1. That's a rarity.

Need to see the numbers from an Olympics not tainted by a pandemic. Only so much we can figure from the numbers here

Holy crap, Warholm went under 46 seconds. That's insane

5 games and they fail to score in 3 of them. Never had it this tournament

You're nervous?!?

Another gold for the United States, Jade Carey for the win!

Seems like all the safety protocols are doing what they're supposed to. I know COVID cases are surging in Japan, so it's tough to tell if they are missing out on resources that are otherwise being used on the Olympics, but yea, keep holding your breath for another week

Yea, we suck. Horrible 16 hours in volleyball.. 2 US beach teams go out after winning the 1st set, now this.

Shades of Linford Christie in `96

What the heck just happened? An Italian? Wow, who saw that coming

Yes and no. They have streaming of everything, so they can satisfy that audience and not have them resort to alternate means (say, getting a VPN to watch from another country). But they'll still embargo news outlets from showing anything until a set time, especially for events they know they'll show on primetime