Tokyo Olympic Games 2020: men’s road race gold, boxing, swimming and more – live!

Trinidad and Tobago doesn’t have many athletes in the Olympics in events other than track and field / athletics, but one of them, rower Felice Chow, just left her fellow competitors in the single sculls repechage not just in her wake but behind her wake. Not bad for a 44-year-old. (It all goes downhill after that, I say as a 51-year-old who hasn’t take care of himself in the last 25 years.)

This was a question raised in the last blog when we talked about Ultimate, which was left off the Paris program in favor of breakdancing. Sport climbing, surfing and skateboarding will be carried over from Tokyo; baseball, softball and karate will not.

One thought from bethyl t via email: “firstly to resurrect the swimming obstacle race, last seen in the 1900 games, because there seem to be endless swimming disciplines but none that involve swimming over poles and underneath boats. bring it back.

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source https://www.theguardian.com/sport/live/2021/jul/24/tokyo-olympic-games-2020-mens-road-race-gold-boxing-swimming-and-more-live

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