The Complete Roundup Of The Tokyo 2020 Olympics

The Tokyo 2020 Olympics is lastly at its shut. And though this 12 months, nothing fairly operated in the identical style, these two particular weeks have had all of it! Data have been damaged, desires have grow to be actuality, tears have been wept, and most significantly…there was unity. Within the midst of extremely unprecedented circumstances, the Tokyo 2020 Olympics will go down as some of the traditionally pertinent video games of our time.

Right here, Girls Love Tech takes a have a look at the ultimate leaderboard, world data, our favorite moments, and all the pieces in between.

Tokyo 2020 Olympics Standings (High 10)

For the third time in a row, the USA completed in first place with 39 Gold medals and 113 in whole. Simply behind, China with 38 Gold medals, additionally had a robust Olympics however couldn’t maintain onto the lead. Japan, in third, could have no regrets, producing a efficiency to be happy with on house turf. Elsewhere, our Aussies completed sturdy, too. After ending sixth in 2008, they dropped down a couple of ranks in each 2012 and 2016, solely to climb again up in 2020. Onwards and upwards for the inexperienced and gold!

A spectacular opening ceremony

As anticipated, Tokyo delivered a gap ceremony to recollect. Filled with color, lights and pleasure, the opening ceremony offered the right starter for the video games forward.

And who higher to mild the Olympic cauldron than the beloved Naomi Osaka  (within the above characteristic picture) of Japan!

Olympic ardour

Regardless of empty stadiums, the eagerness for the Olympics really remained. In some of the heartwarming moments, Italy’s Tamberi and Qatar’s Barshim shared the Gold medal for Males’s excessive soar.

New occasions

For the primary time ever, the Olympics launched Skateboarding as an official occasion.

Psychological Well being

Psychological well being was a giant theme throughout these Olympic Video games, and rightfully so. Some huge athletes stepped up and spoke out in regards to the significance of taking good care of themselves throughout these extremely irritating instances. Simone Biles, for one, stepped down from an occasion to prioritise her personal well being and to not put the group liable to lacking out on a medal. In the long run, she got here preventing again to win Bronze within the Beam remaining.

Noah Lyles additionally stored the psychological well being dialog nicely and really alive when he broke down into tears on the guilt of not being on the Olympics together with his brother, Josephus, an elite sprinter whose dream was to qualify for the Olympic group. He additionally spoke of the challenges of being on and off antidepressants and gave us one of many realest quotes of the whole Olympics:

“I’m not outlined by being an Olympic bronze medalist, or a world champion, or the excessive schooler that went professional,” he mentioned. “That’s not who I’m. I’m Noah Lyles. I’m not Usain Bolt’s successor. I’m not Andre de Grasse’s successor. I’m no person’s successor. I’m me. And that’s who I’ll at all times be.”

World Data

‘Superman’ Karsten Warholm smashes the 400m hurdles world file at a time of 45.94 seconds, having beforehand set the world file of 46.70 in Oslo again in July.

Yulimar Rojas of Venezuela broke the triple soar world file – a file that had stood for as much as 26 years!

China alone broke world data in 5 occasions: Weightlifting (Males’s 161 lbs. (Complete), Girls’s 4×200m Freestyle Relay, Combined Staff 10m Air Rifle Qualification, Males’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions Last, and Girls’s Staff Dash.

Australia additionally broke a file within the Girls’s 4×100m Freestyle Relay!

Right here’s an inventory of all of the world data that had been damaged on the Tokyo 2020 Olympics:

Occasion	Competitor	New	Earlier
Biking – Observe Males’s Staff Pursuit	Italy	3:42.032	3:44.672 2020
Biking – Observe Girls’s Staff Pursuit	Germany	4:04.242	4:10.236 2016
Biking – Observe Girls’s Staff Dash	China	31.804s	32.034s 2015
Taking pictures Males’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions Last	China	466.0pts	465.3pts 2018
Taking pictures Girls’s Entice Qualification	Slovakia	125pts	123pts 2019
Taking pictures Combined Staff 10m Air Rifle Qualification	China	633.2pts	631.7pts 2020
Sport Climbing Girls’s Pace	Poland	6.84s	6.96s 2020
Swimming Males’s 4×100m Medley Relay	United States	3:26.78	3:27.28 2009
Swimming Combined 4×100m Medley Relay	Britain	3:37.58	3:38.41 2020
Swimming Males’s 100m Butterfly	United States	49.45s	49.50s 2019
Swimming Girls’s 200m Breaststroke	South Africa	2:18.95	2:19.11 2013
Swimming Girls’s 4×200m Freestyle Relay	China	7:40.33	7:41.50 2019
Swimming Girls’s 4×100m Freestyle Relay	Australia	3:29.69	3:30.05 2018
Observe and Area Girls’s 400m Hurdles	United States	51.46s	51.90s 2021
Observe and Area Males’s 400m Hurdles	Norway	45.94s	46.70s 2021
Observe and Area Girls’s Triple Bounce	Venezuela	15.67m	15.50m 1995
Weightlifting Males’s over 240 lbs. (Complete)	Georgia	488kg	485kg 2021
Weightlifting Males’s over 240 lbs. (Clear and jerk)	Georgia	265kg	264kg 2019
Weightlifting Males’s over 240 lbs. (Snatch)	Georgia	223kg	222kg 2021
Weightlifting Males’s 161 lbs. (Complete)	China	364kg	363kg 2019

Youth takes house the ladies’s 800m crown

The primary and second-placed runners had been each solely 19 years outdated! Athing Mu, who received Gold, smashed the US file with 1:55.21 and Silver medallist, Keely Hodgkinson bettered the British finest to 1:55.88.

The longer term could be very vibrant certainly!

Domination on the massive stage