Posted on 07/24/2021 2:29:10 PM PDT by Libloather
For the first time since 1972, Team USA failed to win any medals to open the Summer Olympics on Saturday in Tokyo.
Team USA Olympians endured several upset losses during the first day of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, taking home none of the 11 gold medals that were awarded on Saturday Japanese time, or Friday in the U.S.
The team also failed to win any of the silver or bronze medals for any of the opening day events, which included archery, cycling, fencing, judo, air rifle and pistol shooting, taekwondo, and weightlifting.
Brady Ellison, the number two seed Team USA archer who has won three Olympic medals in games past, was one of the American Olympic athletes to suffer an opening day upset loss.
'I'm still a little shocked,' Ellison said after Saturday’s event, according to a USA Today report.
'I completely expected us to win a medal today.'
According to Olympic historian Bill Mallon, the U.S. team has gotten a medal on every first day that its athletes have played since 1972 in Munich.
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All these things add up. If someone doesn’t stand up for what is right early on, it’s a lot easier to stay afraid and cowardly when it’s really down and dirty. And there is the miserable examples they sit. That is how we have fallen, so far, and so fast.
Good. Hope these woke tard assholes come back with zero.
Marxist America in rapid decline.
Our men disguised as women must be awful
Not even a participation award? The US moms should start whining. That always works here...
Not that I care ...
I can only imagine how bad the commercials must be.
Tokyo Olympics opening draws 16.7 million U.S. TV viewers, a 33-year low
Get woke, go broke.
See my reply #68.
Well do consider that it was delayed by 12 hours, and a lot of people probably went online during the day to see the few highlights that there were.
They’re too busy worshiping and kneeling for satan.
I was talking to a friend the other day and said...okay, talk to you later, maybe I’ll turn on the Olympics. As soon as it was out of my mouth I forgot about it. lol
This is wrong, of course. In swimming, we took a gold & silver in the 400 IM and a bronze in the 400 Free.
Men’s basketball team is about to lose to France....hahahahahaa!
US men’s basketball team falls to France for first Olympics loss since 2004
https://sports.yahoo.com/us-mens-basketball-team-falls-140614680.html
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