![]() ![]() If you need further confirmation of Hongchan’s greatness, please enjoy the awestruck commentators in the above clip. She also broke the previous record for overall score in the event, scoring not one but two perfect tens. The 14-year-old became the second-youngest Chinese diver ever to take home gold for her country. #TokyoOlympics | #OlympicHERstory /B7uHvnMEpB- NBC Olympics August 5, 2021 "Remember this! You may never see anything like it again."Īfter receiving two perfect 10 scores, 14-year-old Quan Hongchan from China is the Olympic CHAMPION in women's 10m platform diving. When asked what her win means for the sport and those watching, she said, “It means that they see someone like themselves on that podium.” Excuse me while I, too, cry from joy in a dark room!ĭiver Quan Hongchan’s gets two perfect 10’s “I just want to go into a dark room and cry … from joy,” she said after securing first place. Mensah-Stock became the first Black American woman and the second American woman ever to win gold in wrestling. "It means that they see someone like themselves on that podium" - on what it means for young girls watching her gold medal win □□□ #TokyoOlympics /k4B57r8ou0- On Her Turf August 3, 2021 Wrestler Tamyra Mensah-Stock happy-crying The fight isn’t close to over…and I’ll celebrate when we’re all here.” Trans women facing discrimination and bias while trying to pursue their Olympic dreams. “I feel sad knowing there were Olympians before me unable to live their truth because of the world. “I feel proud seeing ‘Quinn’ up on the lineup and on my accreditation,” they wrote. OLYMPIC SKATEBOARDING COMMENTATOR HOW TOHeading into the Olympics, Quinn explained in an Instagram post that they “ know how to feel” about the games. □□□️⚧️□️□ /i6naUpS4mH- Mackay Taggart August 6, 2021Īnd while we are here, huge congrats also to Canadian soccer player Quinn, who became the first openly transgender and nonbinary athlete to win Olympic gold on Friday, when the Canadian women’s soccer team beat Sweden in the final. Big day for the trans community, for Canada, and for the Olympics. Huge congrats to Felix! And none for you, Nike.Ĭanadian soccer player Quinn becomes the first transgender person in history to win an Olympic gold medal, or any Olympic medal for that matter. The achievement comes almost three years after an emergency C-section that threatened both her and her daughter’s lives and a difficult pregnancy for which her then-sponsor Nike docked her pay. The bronze ties her for most decorated woman ever in Olympic track, though Felix could break her own record, as she has another relay to run on Saturday. Ten of them! Track star Allyson Felix now has ten Olympic medals after coming in third in Friday’s 400-meter race. Legend □ /Colcr91A7R- Joe Pompliano August 6, 2021 So she left Nike, signed a deal with Athleta, has a 2-year-old daughter & just won her 10th Olympic medal. When Allyson Felix decided to start a family in 2018, Nike offered a contract that was 70% less & had no guarantees if her performance declined due to pregnancy. Is this sailing? I don’t know but … get it. I am looking to participants in the women’s regatta to either confirm or deny that their boats are powered by slinky hip gyrations rather than the wind. I love the Olympics… - Rex Chapman□□ August 6, 2021 The opening ceremony alone gave us two well-oiled hunks and the creative chaos that is human pictograms, setting a high entertainment bar. ![]() Ambivalence about the circumstances aside, it hasn’t been all bad - far from it. (Those fears appear founded given that the Games have spawned at least 127 COVID-19 cases so far.) But ultimately, organizers had a lot of money tied up in this deal, so now we are barreling through 7,000 hours of Olympic programming. For months, health experts and the public have begged the International Olympic Committee to call off the Games for fear that gathering so many people from all different countries during a global pandemic may well snowball into a superspreader event. Photos: NBC Getty Imagesĭefying the odds and also good judgment, the 2020/2021 Olympics are under way in Tokyo. ![]()
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