Saturday, September 21, 2024
Monday, September 9, 2024
Saturday, September 7, 2024
Alfie Hewett loses thrilling Paralympic wheelchair tennis final to Japan's Tokito Oda
"Alfie Hewett was unable to complete a career 'Golden Slam' in singles, failing to convert a gold-medal point as he lost a thrilling Paralympic wheelchair tennis men's singles final.
The 26-year-old was beaten 6-2 4-6 7-5 by Japan's Tokito Oda at Roland Garros."
Friday, September 6, 2024
"Swimmer Trischa Zorn is the most successful athlete in the history of the Paralympic Games, having won 55 medals, including 41 gold medals, over seven Paralympics."
https://usopm.org/swimmer-trischa-zorn-won-an-amazing-55-paralympic-medals/#:~:text=Swimmer%20Trischa%20Zorn%20is%20the,she%20won%20seven%20gold%20medals.
"Swimmer Trischa Zorn is the most successful athlete in the history of the Paralympic Games, having won 55 medals, including 41 gold medals, over seven Paralympics."
"Dutch Paralympics tennis star sobs after fumbling gold medal with first major loss in four years"
"Wheelchair tennis juggernaut Diede de Groot was on the wrong end of a huge upset on Friday as Yui Kamiji won their gold medal showdown at the Paralympics in Paris."
"Paralympic gold 'stuff of dreams' for Hewett & Reid"
https://www.bbc.com/sport/tennis/articles/cwy3qkwkk4go
"Alfie Hewett says winning his first Paralympic gold medal alongside Gordon Reid is "the stuff of dreams".
The Britons defeated Japan's Tokito Oda and Takuya Miki 6-2 6-1 in the wheelchair tennis men's doubles decider at Roland Garros.
It completes a career 'Golden Slam' for Reid and Hewett in doubles, where they are the dominant force in the men's game."
paralympics ! "Magnificent Maskill wins third gold in Paris": Great Britain's Poppy Maskill claimed her third gold medal
https://www.bbc.com/sport/swimming/articles/cq6rdnyng70o
paralympics ! "Magnificent Maskill wins third gold in Paris": Great Britain's Poppy Maskill claimed her third gold medal of the Paralympics in Paris by winning the women's S14 100m backstroke."
Thursday, September 5, 2024
Wednesday, September 4, 2024
"Hunter Woodhall watched his wife become Olympic champion in Paris. Now, it’s his turn to win gold at the Paralympics"
" He was born with a fused right ankle and a condition called fibular hemimelia, which affected his left leg. Just before he turned one, he had both his legs amputated from the knees down..."
Sunday, September 1, 2024
"Jason Tabansky reaches gold at the Paralympics he was supposed to miss"
https://www.worldarchery.sport/news/201791/jason-tabansky-reaches-gold-paralympics-he-was-supposed-miss
"Jason Tabansky reached his career milestone, as he clinched the Paris 2024 Paralympics gold. The 41-year-old archer of the USA defeated China's Han Guifei 134-131 in the W1 men's final.
Only nine weeks ahead of the Games, he wasn't even qualified for the Games. Only the withdrawal of Australia's Chris Davis opened his door to compete in Paris and make the Paralympic debut.
The rest is a fairy tale."
"Israeli swimmer celebrates silver medal at Paralympics during ‘pain’ of tragic day"
"Ami Dadaon takes second place in 150m individual medley, as Mark Malyar finishes 5th in 200m individual medley; tennis players Adam Berdichevsky, Sergei Lysov knocked out of Games.."
"The swimmer told Israel's Sport 5 broadcaster shortly after the race that he was heavily weighed down by the tragic news out of Israel that day, including the murder of six hostages by Hamas in Gaza and the killing of three police officers in the West Bank."
seems nitpicky unless it was a close finish "Australian Paralympics runner Jaryd Clifford stripped of bronze medal after he’s disqualified from race: ‘I’m shattered’"
https://nypost.com/2024/09/01/sports/2024-paris-paralympics-australian-runner-jaryd-clifford-stripped-of-bronze-medal-disqualified-after-t13-5000m-final/
"An Australian Paralympic runner was disqualified and stripped of his bronze medal for breaking a "fundamental rule" inches from the finish line during Saturday's race.
Jaryd Clifford, who is legally blind, was left "gutted" after officials deemed the Aussie and his guide, Matt Clarke, were not connected by the tether when the pair crossed the finish line during the Men's T13 5000m final.
Runners and their guides are required to hold the tether, a 20-inch-long band with handles on both ends, until the end of the race."
reinstated "Amputee swimmer wrongly disqualified over little-known rule as chaos descends on Paris pool"
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/paralympics/article-13801921/Paralympic-Games-amputee-swimmer-wrongly-disqualified.html
"Paralympic Games: Amputee swimmer wrongly disqualified over little-known rule as chaos descends on Paris pool
- Ahmed Kelly was wrongly disqualified from his Paralympic swimming heat
- The Iraq-born Australian did a butterfly stroke during his freestyle leg
- Officials had overlooked the fact that butterfly is permissible during freestyle"
Saturday, August 31, 2024
"Paris 2024: USA and Netherlands seek to defend wheelchair basketball titles"
"USA are aiming for a third straight gold medal but face plenty of competition"
ONLY 8'1" "Morteza Mehrzadselakjani, the tallest Paralympian in history, goes for his third gold medal at 2024 Paris Paralympics"
"Mehrzad was diagnosed with acromegaly at a young age – a condition causing excess growth hormone. As a teenager, a pelvis fracture caused by a bicycle accident stopped his right leg from growing, making it shorter than his left and making it difficult to walk..."
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/30/sport/morteza-mehrzadselakjani-paralympics-spt-intl/index.html
"No bed, no problem for world's second tallest man Morteza Mehrzad as he sets his sights on Paralympic hat-trick"
Friday, August 30, 2024
Wednesday, August 28, 2024
Thursday, August 15, 2024
"Bombshell 'conflict of interest' claim emerges in Jordan Chiles Ana Barbosu Olympic medal dispute after USA star was stripped of her Paris bronze "
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/olympics/article-13740793/Jordan-Chiles-Olympic-medal-dispute-USA-Ana-Barbosu.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
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The head of the panel that ruled Jordan Chiles should lose her Olympic bronze to a Romanian athlete has represented Romania's government in legal disputes for years, it has emerged.
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Romania took its case to CAS, saying that the United States' inquiry was not made within the one-minute window stated in the rules. Romania argued that the Americans missed that time limit by four seconds.
After the ruling on Saturday went against Chiles, the U.S. later countered it had video evidence that coach Cecile Landi made the appeal 47 seconds after Chiles' initial score was posted, well within the time limit.."
Wednesday, August 14, 2024
OLYMPICS 2024: USA WON MOST MEDALS, CHINA 2nd
"This was also the USA, which topped the table with a staggering 126 medals in total, steaming ahead of China, which claimed 91..."
POPULATION CHINA 1.412 billion (2022)
Population USA 333.3 million (2022)
OLYMPICS 2024: USA & CHINA tied for MOST GOLD MEDALS
"The USA and China share the title of the most gold medals, claiming 40 each. It was a close call, with Team USA's women's basketball claiming victory in the final event of the Games to ultimately tie with China. In third place was Japan (20), then Australia (18), France (16), Netherlands (15) and Great Britain (14). .."
Who had MOST MEDALS PER CAPITA ? OLYMPICS 2024
"According to stats from Eurosport, the country that won the most medals per capita was Grenada, which had a total of two, but a population of just 112,000. In second place it was Dominica, which had one from its population of 67,000, and St Lucia came third, with two medals across its 184,000 population... "
👍✝️🥇"Gold Medalist Yemisi OgunleyTurns Olympic News Conference Into Worship Concert, Sings Powerful Praise to Jesus "
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/gold-medalist-turns-olympic-news-conference-worship-concert/
"I just lifted my hands and prayed before my final attempt, and I wanted to have a good last round," Ogunleye said. "Then after that throw and realizing it would maybe be good enough for gold, I thought, 'Thank you, Jesus.'"
Tuesday, August 13, 2024
👍🇺🇲🙏✝️"Gold Medalist Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone Shares PRAYER She Offers to God Before Every Single Race -"
https://www.westernjournal.com/gold-medalist-shares-prayer-offers-god-every-single-race-real-deal/
"Whenever I step onto the track, it's always the prayer of God: 'Let me be the vessel in which You're glorified, whatever the result is.'"
Monday, August 12, 2024
WATCH: Golden Voyager at Olympics Closing Ceremony & Tom Cruise etc SEE YA IN 2 YEARS
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IT'S BEEN FUN blogging the events and more importantly Praying the Olympics. See you around, next time. Which will be the winter olympics in Italy 2026. Then Los Angeles 2028 ! I was at the 1984 L.A. Olympics because our family had just moved to L.A. that summer. It will be de ja vu !
Sunday, August 11, 2024
New Zealand "Cyclist Ellesse Andrews bags second gold medal of Paris Games" | RNZ News
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/olympics-2024/524836/olympics-cyclist-ellesse-andrews-bags-second-gold-medal-of-paris-games
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Ellesse Andrews has bagged her third medal of the Paris Olympics - a gold in the women's sprint cycling, her 'bonus' event.
It was Andrews' second gold medal of the Games and New Zealand's 10th...."
"Paris Olympics: Dutchman Harrie Lavreysen breaks GB medal streak as he takes gold in men's Keirin " | Cyclingnews
https://www.cyclingnews.com/races/olympic-games-2024/track-cycling-men-s-keirin/results/
"Harrie Lavreysen broke Team GB's exceptional winning streak in the men's Keirin when he delivered his third gold medal for the Netherlands at the 2024 Olympic Games on Sunday..."
"Olympics: Japan's Kiyooka, Kagami do freestyle wrestling gold double"
https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2024/08/b9c38dcdb459-urgent-japans-kagami-wins-olympic-womens-76-kg-wrestling-gold.html
"Sabrina van der Sloot scored with less than a second on the clock as the Netherlands stunned the United States 11-10 for bronze in women's water polo on Saturday to deny the Americans a medal for the first time at the Olympics..."
"U.S. stunned by Dutch, MISS OUT on women's water polo medal - "ESPN
https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/40804924/us-stunned-dutch-miss-women-water-polo-medal
"Sabrina van der Sloot scored with less than a second on the clock as the Netherlands stunned the United States 11-10 for bronze in women's water polo on Saturday to deny the Americans a medal for the first time at the Olympics..."
"Hansen ends international career with another gold as Denmark wins men’s handball at Paris Olympics | "
https://www.crescent-news.com/2024olympics/hansen-ends-international-career-with-another-gold-as-denmark-wins-men-s-handball-at-paris/article_1ca62193-7b37-5ebc-b643-243885c6ebce.html
"Hansen ends international career with another gold as Denmark wins men's handball at Paris Olympics
Mikkel Hansen's international career ends with another Olympic gold medal as Denmark routed Germany 39-26 to win the men's handball title at the Paris Games''
The GOAT: " Eliud Kipchoge's greatness: He stops at km 31, waits for the last runner... and retires"
https://amp.marca.com/en/olympic-games/2024/08/10/66b7378422601d20288b4584.html
"The long-distance runner, considered the best marathon runner of all time with the permission of the late world record holder Kelvin Kiptum, was returning to the French capital to pursue a challenge, a dream: to become the only marathon athlete to win three consecutive Olympic titles.
The feat was enormous, given Eliud's seniority (39 years old)..."
Saturday, August 10, 2024
"Solfrid Koanda Was an Electrician: 3 Years Later, She Won First Olympic Gold for Norway in 52 Years"
https://barbend.com/solfrid-koanda-first-weightlifting-gold-medal-52-years-2024-olympics/
"Norway hadn't won an Olympic medal in weightlifting since 1972 (a lone gold) until Solfrid Koanda came calling. Koanda, just 25, was working as an electrician three years prior to the 2024 Olympics. Then she tried her hand at weightlifting..."
new zealand: "Lydia Ko clinches gold medal, LPGA Hall of Fame in dramatic Olympic finish"
https://golf.com/news/lydia-ko-clinches-gold-medal-lpga-hall-of-fame/
new zealand: "Lydia Ko clinches gold medal, LPGA Hall of Fame in dramatic Olympic finish"
"With the victory, Ko becomes the first golfer in the modern era to claim three medals in three Olympics. The gold joins her bronze medal from the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, and her silver from golf's return to the Olympics in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil..."
"China completes Olympic table tennis gold clean sweep: China's Chen Meng (C), China's Sun Yingsha (L) and China's Wang Manyu (R) celebrate after China won the women's table tennis team gold medal match between China and Japan"
https://api.nst.com.my/sports/others/2024/08/1089632/china-completes-olympic-table-tennis-gold-clean-sweep
"China completes Olympic table tennis gold clean sweep: China's Chen Meng (C), China's Sun Yingsha (L) and China's Wang Manyu (R) celebrate after China won the women's table tennis team gold medal match between China and Japan"
Friday, August 9, 2024
"Germany's Yemisi Ogunyele wins women's shot put on final throw"
https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/live-updates/b243ab07-df10-47c4-a038-b79c8e7874b7
'Faith in God has taught me that, with or without a medal, I'm loved just as I am'
WATCH: "Japan's B-Girl Ami wins first-ever breaking Olympic gold medal" versus Lithuania's Dominika Banevič, A.K.A B-Girl Nicka.
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"New Zealand's Lisa Carrington wins record-extending 7th gold (women's kayak double 500m w/ Alicia Hoskin)
https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/carrington-wins-record-extending-seventh-122903223.html
"New Zealand's Lisa Carrington - the country's most decorated Olympian of all time - has won a record-extending seventh canoe sprint gold medal in Paris.
Carrington, 35, who secured her first Olympic gold at London 2012, triumphed in the women's kayak double 500m alongside Alicia Hoskin.
Thursday, August 8, 2024
Pakistan's first ever Olympic gold medalist in an individual event. "Olympics: Arshad Nadeem wins javelin gold after record throw"
"Pakistan's first ever Olympic gold medalist in an individual event. "Olympics: Arshad Nadeem wins javelin gold after record throw"
When did Chinese become heavyweights ? "Luo Shifang beats Canada's Maude Charron as China remains perfect in Olympic weightlifting |"
https://www.ksl.com/article/51094957/luo-shifang-beats-canadas-maude-charron-as-china-remains-perfect-in-olympic-weightlifting
When did Chinese become heavyweights ? "Luo Shifang beats Canada's Maude Charron as China remains perfect in Olympic weightlifting |"
Wednesday, August 7, 2024
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