OT: US Women's Volleyball Gold Medal Match can give us the win in Gold Medals over China. SPOILER

[eebmg]

Lets go ladies. But I think Brazil is favored?

 

[Plebe]

Brazil is probably a slight favorite but it just depends on who plays better.

Wrote this in the other thread:

This Gold Medal puts us in a first place tie with China for 38 Gold medals. It seems the last event (Womens Volleyball) with US vs Brazil can break the tie. The game is on USA at 12:30 EST.

There's also a US boxer, Keyshawn Davis, fighting for gold at 1:15 a.m. ET. But he's facing a very tough opponent he's never beaten before.

Fourth time's a charm? Keyshawn Davis will have to beat rival Andy Cruz to win Olympic gold

Keyshawn Davis aims to win the first gold medal for a U.S. men's boxer since 2004, but he'll have to flip his 0-3 record against Andy Cruz Gomez.

www.espn.com

 

[eebmg]

Ok. US takes set 1 25-21.

Edit 1.

US takes set 2 25-20


Lets go Golden Girls

 

[Plebe]

Update on other medals up for grabs:

US boxer Keyshawn Davis lost his gold medal bout.
A Chinese boxer is up next and could win a gold.
After that another US boxer (Richard Torrez Jr) is going for gold in the last bout of the Olympics.

Lots of moving parts on this one.

 

[eebmg]

Done. Last set 25-14.

Complete Obliteration.

 

[eebmg]

Update on other medals up for grabs:

US boxer Keyshawn Davis lost his gold medal bout.
A Chinese boxer is up next and could win a gold.
After that another US boxer (Richard Torrez Jr) is going for gold in the last bout of the Olympics.

Lots of moving parts on this one.

Oh boy.

 

[eebmg]

Update on other medals up for grabs:

US boxer Keyshawn Davis lost his gold medal bout.
A Chinese boxer is up next and could win a gold.
After that another US boxer (Richard Torrez Jr) is going for gold in the last bout of the Olympics.

Lots of moving parts on this one.

Are you talking about the women's boxing match. GBR vs China? Watching now on CNBC. Seems GBR is way ahead after 2 rounds

 

[Plebe]

Are you talking about the women's boxing match. GBR vs China? Watching now on CNBC. Seems GBR is way ahead after 2 rounds

Yes I just switched over. Apparently the British fighter won.

I haven't checked to see if there are any other sports with medals up for grabs. Give me a minute.

 

[Plebe]

Okay. A quick scan shows pending gold medal contests in men's water polo (Greece vs. Serbia) and women's handball (ROC vs. France), in addition to the boxing match (USA vs. Uzbekistan). So it looks like the US clinched the gold medal lead?

 

[Plebe]

You think this means something to the players?

 

[Plebe]

Okay I'm on this train till the last stop. Boxing match on CNBC. I love that Torrez chose Beethoven's Midnight Sonata as his ring entrance music!

 

[bloor]

USA took silver in final boxing match. ROC loses to France in women's handball, now have 28 silver medals.
USA clinches most gold medals along with most total medals.

Country
1 United States	39	41	33	113
2 China	38	32	18	88
3 Japan	27	14	17	58
4 Great Britain	22	21	22	65
5 ROC	20	27	23	70

 

[Plebe]

Love this highlight compilation.

 

[Golden Husky]

Great credit to the US women who won 23 of the US's 39 Gold Medals.

 

[cferraro04]

Did Thompson play in the gold medal match?

 

[Hayven]

Did Thompson play in the gold medal match?

No. Luckily they didn’t need her

 

[Plebe]

Great write-up on the gold medal win by volleyballmag:

Tokyo tears of joy! USA routs Brazil, wins country's first women's Olympics volleyball gold medal - Volleyballmag.com

They cried. They cried as Jordan Larson‘s kill hit the floor to end it, they cried as they met in a dog pile, and they cried some more as they hugged and celebrated. The coach, Karch Kiraly — as if there was any before — now an Olympics immortal, cried in his brief post-match TV […]

volleyballmag.com

Nice studio interview by NBC:

 

[ed4ourgirls]

Just for the heck of it, during the Olympics, I like to rank the medal performances
by scoring as in a dual track meet, i.e. 5, 3 and 1 for gold, silver, and bronze respectively.

By this measure China was leading for much of the Olympics, but in the final totals the top 10 are:

USA . . . . . . 351
China . . . . . 304
Russia . . . . 207
UK . . . . . . . 195
Japan. . . . . 194
Australia. . . 128
Italy . . . . . . 100
Netherlands 100
Germany . . . 99
France . . . . . 97

One final fun fact: In men's track (not field) Norway won twice as many gold medals as the USA.

 

[pvdoggy]

This was my favorite team event and team during the Olympic games. I don't think they get anywhere near the same coverage as the women basketball team but their storyline is "better" having never won a gold medal as good of a program as the US has had for such a long time.

 

[Plebe]

One final fun fact: In men's track (not field) Norway won twice as many gold medals as the USA.

In terms of gold medals, it was a historically poor performance by US men on the track -- the first time in the modern Olympics, except for the 1980 boycott, that no US man won individual gold in track.

— Trayvon Bromell, after establishing himself as the man to beat in 100m, was a mysterious dud in Tokyo. Failed to advance from his semifinal, and ran a poor opening leg of the ill-fated 4x100 relay.

— Grant Holloway, a heavy favorite in the 110m hurdles, got out to a big lead but somehow lost his momentum mid-race, and settled for silver.

— Noah Lyles, considered a slight favorite in the 200m, settled for bronze.

— Michael Norman and Michael Cherry, in what was considered a fairly open 400m field, finished 4th and 5th.

— Rai Benjamin, in his much-anticipated showdown with Karsten Warholm, came up just short of gold in the 400mH despite smashing the former WR.

I don't believe that any of the US men were thought to have a good chance at gold in races longer than 400m.

Then we have the latest chapter in the seemingly unending saga of the snakebitten 4x100 relay passes. The 4x400 team gained a measure of redemption, with Rai Benjamin dropping the hammer in a fantastic anchor leg.

The US men still won more individual sprint medals (4 silver, 1 bronze) than any other country. And it should be noted that this was a young team, consisting mostly of Olympic rookies in their early to mid-20s. And 17-year-old Erriyon Knighton has an extremely promising future.

The once-great US men’s track team failed to win a solo gold in Tokyo. Why?

The US men failed to win an individual gold for the first time ever at a fully attended Olympics. What went wrong?

www.theguardian.com