More important, she’ll be only 23 when the Tokyo Olympics arrive.
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Try telling one of the 80,000 Brazilians crammed into the Maracana stadium, who roared deliriously as Neymar won Brazil football gold with a crisp last-kick penalty, that this Olympics was anything but a success.
China collected a clean sweep of five gold medals at London 2012, however it was a different story in Brazil as its women shuttlers and superstar Lin Dan left empty-handed.
Taekwondo practitioner Kimia Alizadeh Zenoorin became the first Iranian woman to win an Olympic medal, taking the bronze in the minus 57-kilogram weight class by defeating Swedish athlete Nikita Glasnović. “Congrats BABE! You are doing an wonderful job here at the Olympics”, Mariano captioned an Instagram photo of he and Biles hugging and kissing their medals. It is also very much present in the legacy that the Games will leave for the residents of the host city.
Few people had heard of Monica Puig before Rio 2016.
Rio’s financial challenges made frugality a hallmark of the games, with many competitions held in sparsely decorated temporary facilities.
He went on to triumph in the same events in two successive world championships and repeated the feat in Rio, emulating Finnish great Lasse Viren at the 1972 Munich and 1976 Montreal Games. “Even with all our problems we pulled off a good Olympics”.
The Rio Olympics ended with a handsome and spectacular closing ceremony on Sunday night. He won six in Rio, while Biles and USA swimmer Katie Ledecky each won five to lead to lead a big haul from American women.
Four gold medals for the fencers saw coach Ilgar Mamedov honoring his promise to have his head shaved if his team brought home at least two golds.
Russian judoka Beslan Mudranov had the honor of winning his country’s first gold medal at the Games with victory in the men’s 60kg category on the first day of the event.
U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps, arguably the most decorated Olympian of all time, topped the medal table with 5 gold medals and 1 silver, followed by fellow United States swimmer Katie Ledecky with 4 golds and one silver, and rounding out the top three was another US athlete, 19-year-old gymnast Simone Biles with 4 golds and one bronze.
– Syria’s Yusra Mardini, representing the Olympics Games’ first-ever refugee team, after winning her 100m butterfly heat.
As the Nikkei Asian Review reports, the gold and silver found in Japan’s stockpile of discarded electronics comprise 16 percent and 22 percent, respectively, of the world’s supply.
– Usain Bolt on securing his “triple-triple” of 100 meters, 200m and 4x100m relay golds.
The US men’s basketball team earned seven consecutive gold medals from 1936-1968 while India claimed six straight men’s field hockey titles from 1928-1956.
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Britain wasn’t able to overcome Brazilian red tape to open a merchandise store in Rio, something the US managed to do with huge success, according to Sweeney. If you’re lucky enough to visit Tokyo during the games, you might see driverless taxis, translation devices that hang around your neck and robot concierges in hotels and at airports, according to CNN.
