⚽️Paris Olympics: Day 13 - Recap

Full of fun and learning. But, exhaustion sets in. Watching the Olympics feels like a sport in itself. You find yourself yelling and cheering with endorphins oozing. Suddenly, the replay on PeacockTV has helped out a lot.

Track and Field - My goodness! The races for gold have not fallen short of glory. Watch them all!

Sport Climbing - Search for it on replay on PeacockTV and watch. Bouldering is strategic and precise. Speed climb is all systems go!

W Volleyball - USA 🇺🇲 beat Brazil 🇧🇷 to play for gold. Everyone, practice your volleyball skills at cookouts. Volleyball is fun. You have to be athletic and gritty!

Cycling - The team pursuit was seen earlier. The Omnium event confuses me and everyone else lol. Fast, crowded, and energetic. Who else wants to try track cycling? Just me?

Five Rings,

Derek

👟Paris Olympics: Day 14 - Recap

Are we there yet? Because it has been fun!

Canoe Sprint - Definitely a sport that I would lile to try. If you have never seen it, then get in on it now. The way you and I canoe for leisure is a lot different than canoe sprint. I discovered this event in the 2016 Rio Olympics and was hooked!

Rhythmic Gymnastics - beats are cool. Movements are difficult. It's entertaining. Plus, you have fun imitating the sport at home lol.

Sailing (Kite) - Finally! Man, these athletes really rely on the weather to have their event. Kite sailing has to be the coolest Olympic sport. It's surfing on extra protein.

Track & Field - An Olympic Games in itself. All of the races for its own channel. Some names, you should know: Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone; Gabby Thomas; Grant Halloway; Ryan Crouser, Jessica Moore, and more. Congratulations to Canada 🇨🇦 on winning the Men's 4x100 Relay and to the USA 🇺🇲 Women's 4x100 Relay team on winning gold.

Weightlifting - My goodness Indonesia 🇲🇨! What a lift - 72.5kg athlete lifting 198.2kg in the split jerk - Rizki Juniansyah!

Basketball - France 🇨🇵 vs Belgium 🇧🇪, Women's semi-final match. I also like to see other countries mix it up and show crowd support. Belgian and French flags waving in the air. Well...USA vs France in the finals. 

Breaking - Finally, it has arrived. The much anticipated dance sport. I have mixed feelings. The movements were athletic. It missed some spunk. It needed more of a battle all around and extra skills. Nonetheless, B-girls Ami 🇯🇵 and Nicka 🇱🇹 battled well in the gold medal match. Categories...those are the skills needed: pop-locking, crumping, etc. Put them in to the break dance.

Five Rings,

Derek

🏐Paris Olympics: Day 12 - Recap

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Weightlifting - Look...clean all you want. But, the power clean is legit.

Taekwondo - Kicking. All kicking. Some punching but all kicking. These legs are so flexible and quick that you miss head shots. Shoutout to the coaches who get head shot reviews - lightning quick and flexible.

Sport Climbing - Yes! Spiderpeople on display. I like this sport a lot.

Sailing - Delayed again due to weather. Found other sports to watch. Lol.

Rowing - I can't believe I missed all of the rowing. Lol. Replay is helpful. Watching it reminds me of its high cross training sport propensity. Try it out if you do not row.

Track & Field - Alright, I lost track (pun intended) of where I am as I back track days on here. A lot has happened in track. But, did you see Quincy Hall for the 🇺🇸 hawk down the fleet to win gold in the Men's 400m? My goodness!!! What a race and effort. Bravo, Quincy!!

Five Rings,

Derek

🏑Paris Olympics: Day 11 - Recap

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The Olympics, though only a few days left,, have some heavy hitters still on tap. Some are mentioned below and others will be observed Wednesday and beyond:

W Platform Diving - China 🇨🇳,  North Korea 🇰🇵,  South Korea 🇰🇷...they're all good. It's like throwing a penny in the water. No splash. All flip.

W Soccer - Good finish 🇺🇸.

Equestrian - If there is one event I can look at the most in Equestrian, it is jumping. 

W Team Volleyball - Team Volleyball is easy to watch. Exciting, hard hitting, athletic, teamanship.

Sailing - Look, give me my sailing! C'mon, weather.

Synchronized Swimming - Difficult sport. I respect the strength and endurance needed to pull of moves in the water without touch the bottom. Everyone has to sync up. There's a reason why these athletes have lean bodies full of strength and control.

Track & Field - What a day. Track has the distinction of the sport with the most consecutive "wows". Everyday, something extraordinary happens. Well, the Men's 1500m race was no slouch. Fantastic finish by Hocker 🇺🇸, Kerr 🇬🇧 , and Nugese 🇺🇸. They hawked down the final stretch to win gold, silver and bronze respectively. Then, Gabby Thomas! She is the 200m. She looked incredibly strong during her race to win gold. Wow, Gabby!

Women's Sport Climbing - On replay. Who remembers this sport from Tokyo? Wow, is sport climbing fun to watch. Talk about spiderwoman. They climb the grips like nothing. I feel sorry for athletes who reach the top, slap the timer pad,  ut the pad does not register a time. It means they tapped it too lightly. Blah. Give them the time! Great efforts.

Five Rings,

Derek

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🏓Paris Olympics: Day 10 - Recap

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Overwhelmed in watching or keeping up? Well, keep going! 

Kayak Cross - Yes, yes, and more yes! I like how Kayak has included the same adrenaline rush in these cross events like BMX and Snowboard Cross (winter). The crowd is in to the entire race, and the athletes work very hard to jockey for position.

Skeet Shooting - Pull. Pap-pap! Try it out. You may find yourself at pigeon clay range for hours.

Track Cycling (Team Pursuit) - The fast sport that you are missing. If you cycle, as I do, you like it. If you understand strategy in sports, you will like it. Watch it on PeacockTV replay.

3v3 Basketball - Whoo!! USA 🇺🇸 won bronze for the women. They bounced back from starting the tournament down 0-3. Was cheering for Hailey Van Lith from the beginning. Take this bronze into your college season, Hailey! Tune in to 3v3 Basketball next time. It's fast, demanding, and difficult.

Wrestling - Freestyle and Greco-Roman are both good. Start crouched or start in close combat. Wrestling, an old sport, was on the chopping blocks in 2013. Let's not go down that path again. It's popular.

Team Volleyball - Volleyball already had me cemented. The points arrive fast. The sport has plenty of athleticism and precision. Watchout Poland, the USA fellas are coming for ya!

Platform Diving - Dropping. No. Slicing through the water from 10m above has its merits. It's remarkable to look at the skill needed to create a bare minimum splash!

Shooting (Rapid Fire) - Pap-pap-pap-pap-pap! Five shots in four seconds. Get it in and with accuracy. Italy 🇮🇹 and China 🇨🇳 were up here again!

Track & Field - T&F is an entire mini Olympics of its own. I need to catch up on events on replay. But, what has been fun today? Women's 800m...missing Athing Mu 🇺🇸. But, the Great Britain 🇬🇧 runner did her thing. Men's Pole Vault...Mondo Duplantis of Sweden 🇸🇪 with the world record to end the night was fantastic! See, field events have many merits. Swedish meatballs for everyone! Women's Discus... I had to watch the replay. Valarie Allman 🇺🇸 used her athletic build to the fullest in capturing gold. It was interesting seeing a few athletes fall short of the 60m minimum line or hit the net. Men's Steeplechase...hurdle and splash, that's all I got. Because who wants to jump over a hurdle and into water after running for a while lol? But, it keeps you engaged as a spectator.

Five Rings,

Derek

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🏋 Paris Olympics: Day 9 - Recap

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Certainly could not watch a lot but had to watch the essential, Men's 100m, which did not disappoint from its heats to the final!

Track & Field - My goodness! My goodness! What a day. I have to go back and watchbfrack replays because the entertainment has been on full display. Hammer throw, women's high jump, every other event in between, and the men's 100m sprint delivered! Noah Lyles 🇺🇸, Kishane  Thompson 🇯🇲, and Oblique Seville 🇯🇲 looked like they would form the top 3 in the final. But, others lurked (Kerley 🇺🇸,  especially). We deserved a photo finish because all of the competitors wanted the gold!

With Lyles finishing with his chest, gold landed in his hands...er feet. He and Thompson ran very well. Heck, the entire eight-man field in the final sprinted well. 12/100th of a second separated 1st from 8th. Very good job! The 4x100m relay will be fantastic. For the first time in 20 years (Justin Gatlin, Athens, 2004), the USA 🇺🇸 has the fastest man title).

Five Rings,

Derek

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🏇Paris Olympics: Day 8 - Recap

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Trampoline - When you have a daughter who loves to flip and move like gymnasts, trampoline is watched. Sky Zone and others have nothing on this sport, or is it the other way around?

Road Cycling - Does anyone else imagine him or herself in a road race while riding? I do too. As a matter of fact, it would be nice to afford the bikes each athlete rides lol. 

Track & Field - Oooh-wee! Julien Alfred winning the women's 100m was electric.. Proud of her for winning the first medal ever for St. Lucia 🇱🇨.  Proud of Sha'Carri Richardson 🇺🇸 for putting in her all in the 100. Proud of Melissa Jefferson 🇺🇸 for her bronze medal finish. I feel like Alfred knew she would win gold after her semi-final sprint. My wife even said, "Wow, she looks serious." She did. No one hugged her. Stoic look. Was about business. Alfred got out of the blocks well. The men's shotput...shotput has plenty of action. I remember Crouser 🇺🇸 from Tokyo 2020. In winning a third consecutive gold medal, he has plenty to celebrate. The yelling and skill to execute the throw are perfect for the sport.

Appreciated: javelin, a little triple jump, and every other event shown between events.

Pretty much summed up this day. Couldn't watch a lot. But, that's what PeacockTV replay is for.

Five Rings,

Derek

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