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Channel98

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"Everybody's business" should be an Olympic sport. Then the winners could say they medal in everybody's business. Here is the latest 2024 medal count:

USA, 71 (19 gold, 26 silver, 26 bronze)
China, 45 (19 gold, 15 silver, 11 bronze)
France, 44 (12 gold, 14 silver, 18 bronze)
Great Britain, 37 (10 gold, 12 silver, 15 bronze)
Australia, 31 (12 gold, 11 silver, 8 bronze)
South Korea, 24 (10 gold, 7 silver, 7 bronze)
Japan, 24 (9 gold, 5 silver, 10 bronze)
Italy, 22 (6 gold, 8 silver, 5 bronze)
Canada, 17 (5 gold, 4 silver, 8 bronze)
Netherlands, 15 (6 gold, 5 silver, 4 bronze)
 
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Channel98

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Los Angeles Times headline: "Lyle leans into a razor-thin win." He won by five-thousandths of a second. Here is the latest medal count:

USA, 78 (20 gold, 30 silver, 28 bronze)
China, 53 (21 gold, 18 silver, 14 bronze)
France, 45 (12 gold, 15 silver, 18 bronze)
Great Britain, 42 (12 gold, 13 silver, 17 bronze)
Australia, 32 (13 gold, 11 silver, 8 bronze)
South Korea, 26 (11 gold, 8 silver, 7 bronze)
Japan, 26 (10 gold, 5 silver, 11 bronze)
Italy, 26 (9 gold, 10 silver, 11 bronze)
Canada, 17 (5 gold, 4 silver, 8 bronze)

Following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the International Olympic Committee banned teams of athletes from Russia and Belarus. In the 2024 Olympics, there are 17 athletes from Belarus and 15 athletes from Russia competing as Athlètes Individuels Neutres (Individual Neutral Athletes). AIN competitors have won a gold medal in men's trampoline and silver medals in women's trampoline, women's doubles tennis and rowing/men's single sculls – but the Olympics website does not include them in the medal count.

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Does 22-year-old Ethan Katzberg look like Burton Cummings, the 76-year-old former lead singer of the Guess Who? I don't see it. And why is the event called a "hammer throw"? Saint Wikipedia says the object thrown is "a metal ball attached by a steel wire to a grip."

Canada's Ethan Katzberg wins Olympic gold in hammer throw with dominating performance

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/summer/athletics/mens-hammer-throw-final-aug-4-1.7285169
He looks like Burton did when he was younger. Maybe slightly less hair.

We won the women's hammer throw too. As you know these are the only medals that matter in the summer olympics.
 
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Canada now has six gold medals: two in athletics (the hammer throw), three in swimming and one in judo.

Canada's Camryn Rogers secures women's hammer throw Olympic title

 

scotchandcigar

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Now THAT was entertaining! They did a background piece about a longstanding rivalry between a Norwegian and a Brit on the men's 1500 meters. Each of them were smug assholes who declared they would leave the other in the dust.

Well, both of them lost to an American guy. The Norwegian was so smug he lead the whole race, but faded to 4th. Fool.
 

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scotchandcigar

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Now THAT was entertaining! They did a background piece about a longstanding rivalry between a Norwegian and a Brit on the men's 1500 meters. Each of them were smug assholes who declared they would leave the other in the dust.

Well, both of them lost to an American guy. The Norwegian was so smug he lead the whole race, but faded to 4th. Fool.
For anyone who cares, this is a good recap of the rivalry and the race

 

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Here is someone IRBS can be proud of – and, unlike Anthony Ammirati, she didn't have any "bulge" that might have caused a problem.

Alysha Newman breaks 112-year Canadian Olympic pole vault medal drought

 

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she didn't have any "bulge" that might have caused a problem.

Did you actually see her? Otherwise you can't be sure.