Monday, August 9, 2021

The COVIDLympics, Day +1

  • Immediate calls for the entire board of the International Weightlifting Federation to resign or risk not only losing their status as an Olympic event, but the very future of the sport!
  • The Russians are bitching about not winning enough in rhythmic gymnastics.  Oh gee, what a shock!   
  • In contrast, the Russian Olympic Committee has expressed satisfaction on their medal improvements over Rio.
  • A German modern pentathlon coach must remain in Japan two extra weeks under quarantine -- she has tested positive for COVID-19.
  • The final number of COVID withdrawls of athletes from the Games after they got to Japan appears to be about 30.
  • The symbolic Olympic Flag (the handover flag used in the Closing Ceremony) joined the last of the French athletes in coming home to Paris on Monday, symbolizing the less than three years before a late-July 2024 start to the next Summer Games.
  • Olivia Podmore, a 2016 New Zealand Olympian, passed away suddenly at her house today -- she was only 24 years old.  Cause is being investigated.

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