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The 2020 Tokyo Olympics were held in 2021, i.e. a year after it was supposed to, so this year it was highly anticipated. The Olympics were postponed due to the pandemic as last year, it was only the beginning of it, so Japan as well as the world wasn’t prepared to hold such an event safely.

Japan had an extra year to get ready for the Games and to ensure all safety measures. The athletes had to do COVID-19 tests regularly, wear masks everywhere and sanitize their hands. The Olympic events didn’t have spectators and the athletes had to put medals on their necks by themselves in order to minimize contact.

This Man Stands Outside The Tokyo Olympic Village Every Day To Motivate Athletes

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Vicky Z 3 years ago

For things like that i really like Japan and its people

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High Jumpers Mutaz Essa Barshim And Gianmarco Tamberi Shared The Gold Medal, Which Had Not Happened Since 1912

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346points

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Hans 3 years ago

Despite all the strive for competition, this really was a nice gesture. Sports can unity people.

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However, it doesn’t matter how strictly the organizers try to make the athletes follow the safety measures, the risk of the disease is always there. So they had to think not only about prevention but also what should be done when a case of COVID-19 would be confirmed.

According to Kyodo News, the total number of people who tested positive since July and had any relation to the Olympics was 430. They reported, “Of the 430 confirmed cases since July 1, only 32 were those of people who stayed in the village. A total of 286 are residents of Japan and 144 from overseas. The largest portion of the total, 236, were contract workers, followed by 109 games participants and 29 athletes.”

Olympic Gold Medalist Tom Daley Knitting In The Stands To Calm His Nerves While Watching The Diving

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334points

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Alexia 3 years ago

Sweet :)

51points

Jamaica Takes Gold, Silver And Bronze In Women’s 100m Final In The Tokyo Olympics 2021

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319points

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Vicky Z 3 years ago (edited)

We need to know the secret of Jamaica... I'm imagining someone is chasing them around from a young age..

56points

Oksana Chusovitina, 46 Years Old, Has Participated In Olympics Since 1992 And 2020 Tokyo Olympics Was Her Eighth And Last One

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305points

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Alexia 3 years ago

Eight olympics, WOW. What a badass she is

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There were people who believed that continuing with the Olympics when the pandemic is not yet over was a mistake and the safest choice would have been to postpone it again. But evidently that decision wasn’t made and the Games carried on.

It was an extraordinary event with impressive opening and closing ceremonies and, of course, the performances of the athletes. Their results were amazing, world and national records were broken and even though Bored Panda didn’t report on everything, we covered some stories that maybe you would be interested in in, like the one of this BMX racer who had to crowdfund her trip to Tokyo, this one of an Australian working at Woolworths to be able to save some money, and this one of a gymnast who had to withdraw from the competition because of her mental state.

Flora Duffy Wins Bermuda's First-Ever Gold At 2020 Tokyo Olympics

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292points

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Vicky Z 3 years ago

I always feel more happy for the small countries that get their first medal!!!!

91points

Quanesha Burks - From Mcdonalds To The Tokyo Olympics In Long Jump!!

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283points

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Jam Jam 3 years ago

#BlackExcellence

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American Shot Putter Ryan Crouser Won A Gold Medal And Had A Message To His Grandad: "Grandpa, We Did It, 2020 Olympic Champion"

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279points

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Full Name 3 years ago

I saw this one live as well. His grandfather had passed away the week before.

74points

During these Olympics, it was the first time when countries like San Marino and Burkina Faso earned their first medals, and it was the year when a new Olympic sport, skateboarding, debuted. It was the first time a transgender person won a medal, and that was Canadian soccer player Quinn. Many more wonderful things happened that no pandemic could have overshadowed.

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Simone Biles Decides To Withdraw From The Olympics To Take Care Of Her Mental Health

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272points

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Alexia 3 years ago

She could have said it was an physical injury, but she chose to speak the truth (and face criticism and hate). This will have an impact on future generations of athletes: if you feel something is off, it's ok to step aside. No gold medal is worth risking your health and safety. Best decision ever. Thank you, Simone.

203points

#11

Abe Siblings Uta And Hifumi Make Olympic History Winning Gold In Judo Within One Hour Of Each Other

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253points

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Vicky Z 3 years ago

What a talented family

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#12

USA's Isaiah Jewett And Botswana's Nijel Amos Got In An Accident And Fell, Then They Got Up Together And Walked Each Other To The Finish

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247points

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Young Minami Kotaro 3 years ago

The real sportsmanship!

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At the Olympics, the most important thing is the participation, being a part of something big and feeling the Olympic spirit. But it is surely a great achievement to win a medal and know that all the hard work is rewarded.

To quickly summarize, the US was the country that won the most medals (113); other countries in the top 5 are China (88), the Russian Olympic Committee (81), Britain (65) and the host of the Olympics, Japan (58).

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Momiji Nishiya (13) From Japan Is The First Gold Medallist In Women’s Street Skateboarding

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234points

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Vicky Z 3 years ago

I really really hope they enjoy it cause nowadays we know all the tragic stories of the very young Olympic athletes and I'm always worried when i see so young participating

29points

#14

This Is How India Welcomed Its Only Olympic Silver Medalist Home

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207points

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Dominik 3 years ago

But when was this? This year they had two silver and one golden one, just sayin

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Norway’s Athlete Karsten Warholm Broke His Own 400-Meter Hurdles World Record

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206points

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beastmachine. 3 years ago

As well as his shirt

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Did you watch the Olympics? What events were you most interested in? Was your country represented and did the athletes win any medals? Tell us your thoughts about the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in the comments and upvote the photos that speak to you the most!

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South African Swimmer Tatjana Schoenmaker Is Congratulated By Her Rivals For Winning Gold

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193points

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Neil Bidle 3 years ago

True sportsmanship!

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Rayssa Fadinha, 13, The Youngest Brazilian Athlete - And Now Medalist - In The Olympics' History

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190points

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Vicky Z 3 years ago (edited)

I really liked that addition this year!! It was very cool! I'm not sure how breakdance will be in Paris though.... I'm not sure it should be considered a sport

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Robert T 3 years ago

I think knitting should be added. The UK would stick a good chance of a medal with Tom Daley. :D

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M O'Connell 3 years ago

It's an activity requiring significant athleticism and discipline. I'd file it under gymnastics with pommel horse and floor exercise.

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Robert Hughes 3 years ago

Is breakdancing going to br in Paris??!!! If so shouldn't every other style of dance? Just say im.

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T.Milly 3 years ago

Badass girls rocking the skateboard world!

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Sum Guy 3 years ago

All I'm saying is that.. if they didn't drug test for skateboarding, we would have seen some amazing s**t.

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LivingTheDream 3 years ago

#Truth

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USA National Women’s Volleyball Team Reacts To First-Ever Olympic Gold Finish In 3-0 Sweep Of Brazil

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187points

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Jam Jam 3 years ago

I'm getting tearful just looking at this. All the raw emotion in this photo :')

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American Sprinter Allyson Felix Becomes The Most Decorated American Athlete In Olympic Track And Field History

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186points

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Pilot Chick 3 years ago (edited)

She has won 11 Olympic medals in track and field themost in US history

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After 17-Year-Old Swimmer Lydia Jacoby Wins Gold, People In Her Alaska Hometown Can't Contain Their Excitement

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Nathan Pogorzala 3 years ago

17! Just think about that. She may swim on her high school swim team as a junior. She must be utterly destroying every meet. That is cool.

32points

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A Sight You Wouldn't See At Another Olympics

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Tequila4Two 3 years ago (edited)

How many medals did the Autobots take home? .. Edit: TIL not all big giant bots are Transformers, this one is Gundam.

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World's Fastest Man Is Lamont Marcell Jacobs, Having Sprinted 100 M In 9.80sec

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150points

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Trouble Bubble Popper 3 years ago

If Usain Bolt's 100m sprint was done in 9.58 seconds wouldn't he still be considered the fastest man? Can someone help me to understand?

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Colombian Runner Melissa Gonzalez's Husband, David Blough, Watching His Wife Run In The Olympics

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141points

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Sum Guy 3 years ago

You've got to find this video and watch it... it's amazing

20points

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Finish Line Of The Men's Marathon At The 2020 Tokyo Olympics

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138points

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Vicky Z 3 years ago (edited)

Kipchoge who won makes it look so easy! Everyone is down and he seems ready to run another marathon straight away

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The Hands Of Hidilyn Diaz After Winning Her Country's First Olympic Gold Medal

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136points

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Vanessa Edwards 3 years ago

Hidilyn Diaz is the weight lifter from the Philippines

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Yuto Horigome From Japan Wins The First-Ever Olympic Skateboarding Gold Medal

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128points

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Jovita A 3 years ago

I'm curious how they developed criteria for rating the skaters? It's hard to measure it in numerical values...

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Filipino-American Lee Kiefer Wins Team USA’s First Gold Medal For Women’s Individual Foil Fencing

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113points

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Two_rolling_black_eyes 3 years ago

What I think is more impressive is she's trained the last 18 months with just her husband in a Kentucky basement due to COVID. They built a piste out of masking tape. The entire Italian squad "holed up" in their 25,000 sq ft training facility with support staff.

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The First Skateboard Medalists In Olympic History!

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Emma London 3 years ago

You mean the first male skateboard medalists? Or there are three missing from the pic.

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Alexander Zverev Became The First German Tennis Player To Win Singles Gold In The Olympic Games

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111points

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Teodora Nesheva 3 years ago

First MALE German player. Steffi Graf won gold in 1988, part of her Golden Slam (winning all 4 Grand Slams + an Olympic gold in the same year), a feat no one else in history has achieved. Djokovic tried this year as he has already won 3 Grand Slams but got beaten by Zverev in the semis.

139points

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Australian High Jumper Nicola Mcdermot Gives Herself A Rating After Every Performance In Her Journal

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100points

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Scagsy 3 years ago

Day 6 - strewth, everything's upside down shiela

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Caeleb Dressel After Winning His 5th Gold Medal In The 2020 Tokyo Olympics

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85points

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Blake Ingram 3 years ago

This dude is from the county I grew up and live in. Our local farm and crop maze, Amazing Grace, had such an awesome sight for him to return to! Putting Clay County, Fl on the map! I’m so proud of him!

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Having started as a content creator that made articles for Bored Panda from scratch I climbed my way up to being and editor and then had team lead responsibilities added as well. So it was a pretty natural transition from writing articles and titles as well as preparing the visual part for the articles to making sure others are doing those same tasks as I did before well, answering their questions and guiding them when needed. Eventually I realized editing gives me the most enjoyment and I'm focusing only on that right now.

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Richard Savage 3 years ago

How about a photo of the Canadian women's soccer team winning their first gold medal or Canada's first decathlon gold in 90+ years? Why are so many U.S. photos considered so important?

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Aunt Messy 3 years ago

No other country exists except for the US, didn't you know? /s

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Vicky Z 3 years ago

These Olympics was something to forget these horrible two years and i really enjoyed them! My country's 4 medals was at least something to be happy about while we experience the most catastrophic fires ever😢

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Miss Cris 3 years ago

I'm following the fires and I'm so sorry for you !

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Alexandra Davis 3 years ago

Love this, can't wait to see the same thing at the end of the Paralympics!

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Terran 3 years ago

Who sadly never gets mentioned is Anna Kiesenhofer. She is an amateur cyclist who won gold against all odds. Her day job is mathematican.

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Rhea 3 years ago

A few days ago I read an article about this race. In a Dutch paper, so of course the main topic was what a strange situation led to Annemieke van Vleutens non-victory, but a large portion of the article also described the unexpected but genious victory from Anna, complete with her background story. I haven't seen the race itself, but the gold medal for Anna made me smile :)

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Arieke 3 years ago

Missing photographs of Sifan Hassan, writing history by winning both the 5000 and 10000m. She is a total legend already.

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Seabeast 3 years ago (edited)

When she tripped in that semi-final and came from about 30 metres back to WIN, I was blown away. I had to replay it twice. She is amazing!

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Candace Fitzpatrick 3 years ago

I think that the image of Tunisia’s Ahmed Hafnaoui, screaming in the pool after he realized he won the gold medal should be in the top of this post. My favourite moment of the Olympics this year.

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Rajender Saini 3 years ago

India won 7 (seven) medals...

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Yort 3 years ago

I’m not super into the Olympics, but it’s so great seeing how overjoyed these people are. They work so hard, and i know the past year has been tough on them with not knowing if the Olympics will happen at all and having the qualifying stuff all messed up since the date got moved.

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Suzanne Haigh 3 years ago

Yes, I have noticed many countries who deserved to be mentioned just are not there. America dominates the internet even BP

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ispeak catanese 3 years ago

It figures, there's no photo of Jasmine Camacho Quinn who won gold in women's 100m hurdles. She ran for Puerto Rico, her mother's birthplace. Puerto Rico doesn't seem to count.

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Eduarda Queiroz 3 years ago

You hardly posted about Brazilian athletes who are killing it as always without the financial support and advantages that other countries get

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D. Pitbull 3 years ago

So... *sarcasm* Thanks for not having Canada in here *at all* despite.... the soccer/football gold... first gold in women's soccer **ever**. Also... yeah... our superhuman who won the decathlon? DEC... that's TEN THINGS he did GOLD in. Also... speaking of mental health... Clara Hughes, Canadian Olympian... been doing the "Let's Talk" campaign for YEARS... orrrr... I dunno... the fact that Andre De Grasse won gold in the 200m.... AND has medaled in *every final* he's been in? I dunno.... It's almost like... they want to pretend we don't exist...

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Hanna P-S 3 years ago

What about climbing and speed worldrecord? Or that Switzerland won gold, silver and bronse in MTB? Or about amazing polisch lightathlets? Many more nations that broke their records this year! You should also write abiut them.

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jk nbt 3 years ago (edited)

You forgot to put up a picture of Amand Mondo Duplantis winning the pole vault gold medal... Puma has supported him by donating its complete line of sports socks since he is a popular influencer. The compression socks give enough support to his calf muscles to get an extra few tenths of a centimeter in his jumps... There are a lot of subtle performance advantages to wearing compression socks, which can make a lot of difference for a competitive athlete. The few millimeters difference is just enough to earn him the gold medal and to own the world record. And by the way, Mondo looks surprisingly cool in his rockin' tall socks. This shorty shorts plus tall socks combo was a popular style among young men in the 70s & early 80s. You never see that style anymore. He doesn't wear that style casually when he is not on the job at the track. Do a Google Image search for Armand Duplantis Olympics to see what I mean.

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Pernille Dyre 3 years ago

I miss the Danish Viktor Axelsen. The badminton player that had one goal since He was a child. The olympic Gold-medal. He won. He burst into tears. He is THE BEST in badminton….

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Lenin Omaga 3 years ago

Missing pics of Margielyn Didal having fun even though she didn't won any medal in Womens skateboarding

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Dizzy Falcon 3 years ago

The look of pure joy on everyone is so amazing

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Friday 3 years ago

I read a very disturbing article regarding Chinese children as young as four training for the olympics https://www.news.com.au/world/asia/inside-chinas-gold-at-any-cost-olympics-machine-with-kids-as-young-as-four-forced-to-train/news-story/fc146c8b8d47dff39cd620576f32352b . The tears rolling down their faces just breaks my heart. I’m happy for the athletes that are following their dreams, but I wonder how many children are forced into this industry at such a young age.

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Victorialovespandas 3 years ago

Shout out to Holly Bradshaw and her Bronze medal. After competing in 3 Olympics she became the first British athlete to win a medal in the pole vault.

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More Thinking Needed 3 years ago

Speaking as an American, and we are largely to blame. It is an absolute shame that the majority Olympians who have dedicated their lives and sacrificed so much have had to take a back-seat to a handful of selfish people who needed to use this Olympics to air their political and social grievances. The pandemic was global, and affected every person on this planet. The Olympics was a perfect event for everyone to celebrate the recognition that we all feel joy and sorrow the same. A few bad apples.... Congrats to all the Olympians who went to Tokyo for the spirt it was intended.

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Aliquid A 3 years ago

What are you even talking about. The Olympics have ALWAYS been a place for political protest, ever since a long jumper climbed a flagpole and changed a flag back in 1906... and this year was quite tame compared to some previous ones. Besides, to say that people who want to improve the world are "selfish" is ridiculous. A handful of people saying "I won't stand for this" didn't ruin the games at all, or force the winners to "take a back-seat" in any way.

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Richard Savage 3 years ago

How about a photo of the Canadian women's soccer team winning their first gold medal or Canada's first decathlon gold in 90+ years? Why are so many U.S. photos considered so important?

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Aunt Messy 3 years ago

No other country exists except for the US, didn't you know? /s

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Vicky Z 3 years ago

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Miss Cris 3 years ago

I'm following the fires and I'm so sorry for you !

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Alexandra Davis 3 years ago

Love this, can't wait to see the same thing at the end of the Paralympics!

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Terran 3 years ago

Who sadly never gets mentioned is Anna Kiesenhofer. She is an amateur cyclist who won gold against all odds. Her day job is mathematican.

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Rhea 3 years ago

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Arieke 3 years ago

Missing photographs of Sifan Hassan, writing history by winning both the 5000 and 10000m. She is a total legend already.

6points

Seabeast 3 years ago (edited)

When she tripped in that semi-final and came from about 30 metres back to WIN, I was blown away. I had to replay it twice. She is amazing!

2points

Candace Fitzpatrick 3 years ago

I think that the image of Tunisia’s Ahmed Hafnaoui, screaming in the pool after he realized he won the gold medal should be in the top of this post. My favourite moment of the Olympics this year.

4points

Rajender Saini 3 years ago

India won 7 (seven) medals...

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Yort 3 years ago

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Suzanne Haigh 3 years ago

Yes, I have noticed many countries who deserved to be mentioned just are not there. America dominates the internet even BP

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ispeak catanese 3 years ago

It figures, there's no photo of Jasmine Camacho Quinn who won gold in women's 100m hurdles. She ran for Puerto Rico, her mother's birthplace. Puerto Rico doesn't seem to count.

2points

Eduarda Queiroz 3 years ago

You hardly posted about Brazilian athletes who are killing it as always without the financial support and advantages that other countries get

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D. Pitbull 3 years ago

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Hanna P-S 3 years ago

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jk nbt 3 years ago (edited)

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Pernille Dyre 3 years ago

I miss the Danish Viktor Axelsen. The badminton player that had one goal since He was a child. The olympic Gold-medal. He won. He burst into tears. He is THE BEST in badminton….

1point

Lenin Omaga 3 years ago

Missing pics of Margielyn Didal having fun even though she didn't won any medal in Womens skateboarding

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Dizzy Falcon 3 years ago

The look of pure joy on everyone is so amazing

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Friday 3 years ago

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Victorialovespandas 3 years ago

Shout out to Holly Bradshaw and her Bronze medal. After competing in 3 Olympics she became the first British athlete to win a medal in the pole vault.

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More Thinking Needed 3 years ago

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Aliquid A 3 years ago

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