Day: August 10, 2021

Tokyo 2020 Olympics Closing Ceremony Highlights: The memorable edition of the Summer Games were declared closed by IOC President Thomas Bach. 17 days of sporting action came to an end with a memorable closing ceremony. The Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics, hit with a one-year delay due to the pandemic, concluded Sunday with a closing ceremony celebration that was both joyful and contemplative. Athletes, masked and some donning the medals they won, filled the floor of the mostly empty Olympic Stadium, where they were met with a light show and musical performances from…

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Great Britain have matched their total from London 2012, winning 65 medals at Tokyo 2020. At what has been a strange Olympics for so many reasons, Team GB will finish behind only Olympic heavyweights the USA and China, and host nation Japan.It was always likely that they would struggle to replicate their second place finish from Rio de Janeiro, but to have beaten the ROC and a surging Australia represents a solid effort from Great Britain. The number of British athletes standing on the top step of the podium is…

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World records are bound to fall at every Olympics, when the world’s greatest athletes compete on one stage and are pushed further and faster by advances in technology. Yet many also wondered whether swampy conditions in and around Tokyo — and the impact of a year’s delay — would hinder the expected monumental performances. But athletes persevered and world records were shattered in a smattering of sports. On the track, two Americans bested their own records in the 400-meter hurdles, looking up to the scoreboard in awe. Sydney McLaughlin set…

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