The COVIDLympics, Day Seven

This will probably eventually be a Part One, but there's an early report that needs to be made:

• Tokyo, on Day Six, has reported 3,865 new COVID cases.  That's a new record for the prefecture, breaking the record of Day Five, which broke the record of Day Four.

Here we go with the normal stuff:

• The Mexican Olympic Committee wants words -- NOW! -- with the Mexican Olympic softball team.  They not only decided to take Olympic-branded bedding home as souvenirs -- but, to make room, they threw away their national team uniforms in so doing!
• First day of track and field -- men's 10000m one of the few finals today.
• A study has been performed on social-media reactions to Simone Biles' withdrawls, and has found that, at least on a 51-49 level, 16 states, based on geotagged Twitter data, have had the strongest negative response.  Only two did not vote for Trump in 2020:  New Hampshire and Maine (and Maine had a Congressional district going for Trump -- while Nebraska, which also have gone negative, had a Congressional district for Biden).  
• Day 5 Ratings are in (Sports Media Watch), and the beat goes on:  Only 15 million watched across all platforms, down 48% from Rio.  The ratings NBC is getting for primetime Olympic coverage hasn't even reached Sunday Night Football levels!!  They've already lost one network, as of the end of the year, to this.  More coming?   
• USA wins zero medals of any kind in the rowing regatta.
• No golds tonight in the pool either, probably meaning Japan and China will top the golds table after a week.
• Connor Fields has been eliminated from the BMX Racing men's title chase with a horrific crash in his heat -- it looked like he crashed, folded over, and then got completely run over by another racer in the heat.  Word is a helicopter is taking Fields to the hospital.
• And now it looks like a contender from Australia has similarly been eliminated in the women's, except she sounds like she, at least, was spared being run over.
• More row in the pool -- after the disappointing US swimming meet continues (great total, golds is far short of where it's wanted to be), USA's Ryan Murphy all but said publicly that the Illegal Russian Team's Evgeny Rylov and others are doping to surpass the United States.
• Novak Djokovic's dream of a Golden Slam is over -- defeated in the tennis tournament by Alexandr Zverev.  He's already won the first three majors on the tennis tour -- a Golden Slam, only performed once by Steffi Graf, is all four in an Olympic year, plus the gold medal.
• The Dick-Waving Contest is getting it's own post.