Residents of Rio de Janeiro have been irked by bad review of the stuffy, puffy treats.
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Well, if it wasn’t already obvious, this story of the alleged robbery involving four US swimmers isn’t going away.
An American 1-2 in the men’s shot put, won by Ryan Crouser with an olympic record of 22.52, well ahead of Joe Kovacs (21.78) and New Zealand’s Tomas Walsh (21.36).
Meanwhile, back in Brazil, a witness told the Globo network that the Americans were “terrified” by the situation and the International Olympic Committee said the athletes will face a disciplinary commission.
Kevin Durant, arguably the USA’s most valuable player, has been profoundly affected by the Olympic spirit he’s seen in Rio, especially compared to the problems stateside. But he was stunned 3-1 by Russian Aniuar Geduev in the quarterfinals, leaving him in disbelief.
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Afterward, Burroughs poured out his heart to reporters.
“It’s actually how I hoped I could be taken out of the water”, Grael said. “It really did and so many expectations: things that I wanted to do here, records I wanted to set, precedents that I wanted to be a part of”. “It just completely threw me off balance”. I left myself down the most.
No one should question Burroughs’ capabilities, even in defeat.
The aptly named Golden State owes a lot of that Olympic bling to the US swim team.
Bolt won his ninth Olympic medal Friday night, anchoring the Jamaicans’ winning 4×100 relay team in what he has insisted will be his last Olympic race. When the USA was knocked out of the women’s 4×100 after dropping the baton, it appealed to get back in, ran a one-team race against the clock and earned a spot. Twenty-three gold medals and now the most meme-able moment of the Rio games?
In its third Olympics, BMX racing remains on the fringes of the Summer Games, nowhere near as prominent as, say, snowboarding has become in the Winter Olympics. It was the third global loss for Burroughs, who won gold in London in 2012 and whose charismatic, social media-friendly persona has made him the face of wrestling in the U.S.
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“Going up behind the gate in the final, my coach said to me which kind of lit a fire underneath me, he said, ‘Remember that feeling you had in London?”
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Hinch, now world No 1, said it was took a “huge team effort” against a “fantastic” team whose weakness was their predictability in the shoot-out. “I tightened over the last hurdle but I got it done”. While Olympic athletes certainly compete for the pride of their home countries, Olympic medals also come with financial perks as well. But endorsement deals with companies including Under Armour and Visa make up the majority of Phelps’ income. “If you finish in the top 10 in a major it is a pretty good week so I am happy”.
