Mixed rhyme and reasons, almost at the end of the games, getting kind of sad.
Journaling while High Jumping
This is Nicola McDermott from Australia and she won silver in the high jump this morning. She journals after every single jump and I would pay money to know what she is writing. Big day for journaling. I’m guessing it’s technical notes but I really hope it has absolutely nothing to do with high jump. “Start looking around for a new medium size frying pan, I’m tired of omelets sticking to the one you got from Aunt Mildred” OR “yes, I do want to commit to watching the entire Marvel cinematic universe in chronological order, even Antman and the Wasp, you can do it Nicola” OR maybe she’s playing MASH with herself to find out what medal she is going to win, who she is going to marry and what pet she is going to have.
France Celebrating with the Can-can
France won a very exciting Gold Medal Match against Russia in men’s indoor volleyball. Right after they won the Can-can started playing and the team went into a celebration of the Can-can. It was very very French and kind of hilarious. I guess no one expected France to medal, they haven’t made it out of pool play for years so this was actually a very exciting moment for these tall and handsome men. Also the French Coach, Laurent Tillie, looks like he could give you some excellent, but hard to hear, advice while you sit at a café along a river.
Sharing Bracelets
Rising star and youngster Jakob Ingebrigtsen of Norway outsprinted slightly more seasoned Tim Cheruiyot of Kenya in the 1,500 to fulfill everyone’s desire for an exciting final. And then Tim gave Jakob a bracelet!! Big day for bracelets and friendship between competitors. Jakob is only 20 but Tim is only 25 so this rivalry is really only getting started. Jakob seems to be more of a single dangly earring guy so maybe we’ll see him gift one of those in the future!
RIBBON DANCING
I watched the last 20 minutes of the individual all-around competition and there was a lot of excitement and drama. There are twins from Russia that were supposed to dominate and one of them calls themselves a demon and the announcer even said at one point “can anyone break the Russian stranglehold on this event”. Very strong words for hula-hooping and ribbon dancing but here we are. Linoy Ashram from Israel was apparently the athlete to defeat the Russians with a ribbon dancing performance (skip to 175:30) to a techno version of the song that is played at every Bah Mitzvah ever. Now the head of the Russian IOC is demanding an inquiry into the judging of the entire event and is probably throwing people into the gulag already.
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