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Lee Keifer bested former world champion Inna Deriglazova in Tokyo this past weekend, 15-13, to secure a gold medal for the United States in fencing. Keifer is 27 years old. She is a four-time NCAA champion and a three-time Olympian. Keifer is currently a medical student at the University of Kentucky. The unimposing 5’4″ fencer has developed a reputation for being an incredible competitor in the sport. This is Keifer’s best finish in the foil, where she placed fifth and 10th in 2012 and 2016, respectively. “It’s such an incredible feeling that I share with my coach, I share with my husband, wit...
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Pita Taufatofua was back at the Olympics on Friday holding the Tongan flag and causing social media to swoon once again. On Friday, Taufatofua made his third appearance as the flag bearer for his country and did not disappoint as he showed up shirtless and oiled up. He walked alongside Malia Paseka, who is competing on the female side of the taekwondo event. Paseka is Tonga’s first female Olympian to compete in taekwondo, heading to Tokyo after winning gold in the women’s 67kg division Oceania qualifying tournament in 2020. “I’m really excited but a bit nervous too because this is really new f...
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United States Paralympic cycling star Oz Sanchez understands the need to maintain a highly refined diet in order to compete at the highest level of athletic competition. His dieting strategies, though, are somewhat more unique than other athletes, and in part is due to restrictions he places on the kinds of foods he regularly eats. “There’s no one cookie-cutter solution for everybody, everybody’s physiology is a little bit different, but what I do that’s worked really well for me is I, pretty much, don’t allow myself to snack,” Sanchez said at a Team USA media summit earlier this summer. “It i...
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Soul Cap, a British company that designs swim caps made explicitly for Black hair, says it was denied approval for its products to be worn by athletes at next month’s Olympic Games in Tokyo. The company was founded in England in 2017 by two Black men who wanted to create a swim cap that works with more voluminous and natural hairstyles like Afros and dreadlocks. The swim caps produced by the company are roomier than a typical swim cap and come in sizes that can accommodate mid-back hairstyles. Soul Cap says it applied to FINA — the international regulatory body of water sports, including swimm...
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Jessica Springsteen has qualified for the Tokyo Olympics as a member of the U.S. Equestrian jumping team. Team USA announced the newest members of the team on Monday. “Two-time gold medalist McLain Ward is returning to the Olympics for the fifth time after he was named one of the four members of the U.S. Equestrian jumping team for the Tokyo Games on Monday. He is joined by Kent Farrington, Laura Kraut, and Jessica Springsteen on the Olympic team.” “Making her Olympic debut is Springsteen, who is ranked 27th in the world,” the statement read. “The 29-year-old from Los Angeles, who is the daugh...
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United States Olympic athlete Perry Baker understood the struggle of training during COVID-19, and elaborated on his not-so-traditional means of getting ready for Tokyo. “First off, you have to take care of yourself individually like stay on your grind stay working out, doing the little things like when no one’s watching and so once we became back to a little group, how we had to do it was we had groups where we broke it up into like probably five people in a group and that was your bubble, you had to stay in that bubble and there was just a lot of passing things – a lot of skillful things – t...
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U.S. Olympic rugby superstars Perry Baker and Carlin Isles were not always rugby players. In fact, they were both gritty football players who learned the nuanced changes necessary to succeed on the rugby pitch. Baker discussed his prior football experience, as well as the similarities and differences when suiting up for rugby: “I played wide receiver in high school, I also went to college and played wide receiver there, and I’ll say the transition was pretty similar. I mean, like, you have to be able to have a good agility in football – same in rugby; you have to be able to think in football –...
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The 2021 Tokyo Olympics are right around the corner, and anxiety is in the air. Naruhito, the Emperor of Japan, is “extremely worried” his country moving forward as host of the Summer Olympics will accelerate the spread of the coronavirus. Imperial Household Agency grand steward Yasuhiko Nishimura passed along Naruhito’s concerns amid calls for the Tokyo Games to get canceled or postponed before the July 23 opening ceremony, per Mari Yamaguchi of the Associated Press. “His majesty is extremely worried about the current situation of the COVID-19 infections,” Nishimura said last week. “While the...
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Ben Simmons notified the Australian basketball team that he would not be competing at the Tokyo Olympics. Australian coach Brian Goorjian expressed that the Australian team and him “understand and support his decision.” “The best thing for everybody right now is for him to go on and develop that skill package and improve in a couple of areas for his next season in the NBA, but the Boomers are always here for him. We wanted him to know that in his time of need, the culture and the guys here are behind him and support him,” Goorjian said. Brian Windhorst of ESPN was informed of Simmons’ decision...
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Gwen Barry, an American hammer thrower, felt forced to explain her actions during the national anthem at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials after images were released showing her facing away from the flag. Berry is outspoken about racial injustice and has explained that she feels the moment was a setup. “I was pissed, to be honest,” she said. “They said they were going to play it before we walked out, then they played it when we were out there,” said Berry. “But I don’t really want to talk about the anthem because that’s not important. The anthem doesn’t speak for me. It never has.” When ...
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