Why do we always do it by the skin of our teeth lmao
What a way to end the Olympics man.
🇺🇸🇺🇸❤️❤️
But France sure did make it interesting lol.
35 medals more than the second place.
For all the handwringing about “congrats to the US on getting second and third place!” Seems like the silvers paid off
One last time:
This Olympics has easily reduced my lifespan by 10 years
ggwp
The American social media outrage if the United States lost this game and finished one gold behind China would have been wild
Congrats US, China and Japan for being top three in the medal count.
congrats!! what a game!
As an American I’m ecstatic about this outcome, but I have nothing but respect for Team China here. While I, as a former track and field athlete, never understood the focus on gold to determine the winner as our events are scored by weighted medal count for the team win, the narrative around most golds made for an exciting time and discussion.
Loved these Olympic Games. Mad props to France and the IOC for making them so memorable. Congrats to Team USA for the win and Team China for the outstanding competition.
Most importantly, thanks to all the competitors! Always amazed at the level of competition, drive, and hard work that these best of the world athletes put in!
I wonder if China’s performance would’ve been significantly less if Russia had been able to perform. Some significant overlap.
My god, we tumbled over ourselves to the finish line but we did it! So many god damn seconds and thirds, so many stupid, stupid chokes, but we did it in the end! RAHHH!
The women did so well for us. Swimming, track and field. They carried hard.
That’s one hell of a tiebreaker. +35 medals.
Athletes are out there crying tears of joy for winning a bronze and a lot of people discount it completely because there’s no official scoring system.
Netherlands was insane, such a relatively small country getting so many golds
And in the end, after all the bitching back and forth…..overall medal total ends up being important.
Incredibly proud of our athletes doing us proud once again. 40 gold and 126 total medals is an amazing achievement as we transition to our home games of 28.
I’d like to congratulate China for an equally impressive games; tying the U.S in golds is a great achievement – really does show how strong and consistent they are at the Olympics.
Australia as well put in a great showing, some would say their best ever (at least since Sydney). Most gold medals (18) in their Olympic history and gave us everything we could ask for in the pool. With their population, to finish with near 20 gold medals is a fantastic feat.
And there were so many other great stories at these games. It was really refreshing to have the crowd back in the stands after Tokyo, and Paris delivered.
While I’ll certainly miss Paris, Milano-Cortina is right around the corner, and after that, Los Angeles. The Olympics are simply the best. I hope everyone had a fun games!
By one point against the French women’s basketball team! 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
Very impressed with France in general. Also, I really like to see more parity in international basketball, particularly the women’s game.
Japan with 20 gold medals, 8 of which were in wrestling. They completely dominated!
Congratulations to your country! 💐👏🎉
I’m sad it’s over and now everyone is gonna go back to fighting about everything else wrong in the world 😞
USA! USA! USA!
(Not even american, but I’m just glad they’re the ones on top)
Japan, Australia and France also did incredibly well.
Us germans however … well, looks like we need to funnel some money again into funding top performing athletes, it’s been a steady decline since the 90s … D:
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Why do we always do it by the skin of our teeth lmao
What a way to end the Olympics man.
🇺🇸🇺🇸❤️❤️
But France sure did make it interesting lol.
35 medals more than the second place.
For all the handwringing about “congrats to the US on getting second and third place!” Seems like the silvers paid off
One last time:
This Olympics has easily reduced my lifespan by 10 years
ggwp
The American social media outrage if the United States lost this game and finished one gold behind China would have been wild
Congrats US, China and Japan for being top three in the medal count.
congrats!! what a game!
As an American I’m ecstatic about this outcome, but I have nothing but respect for Team China here. While I, as a former track and field athlete, never understood the focus on gold to determine the winner as our events are scored by weighted medal count for the team win, the narrative around most golds made for an exciting time and discussion.
Loved these Olympic Games. Mad props to France and the IOC for making them so memorable. Congrats to Team USA for the win and Team China for the outstanding competition.
Most importantly, thanks to all the competitors! Always amazed at the level of competition, drive, and hard work that these best of the world athletes put in!
I wonder if China’s performance would’ve been significantly less if Russia had been able to perform. Some significant overlap.
My god, we tumbled over ourselves to the finish line but we did it! So many god damn seconds and thirds, so many stupid, stupid chokes, but we did it in the end! RAHHH!
The women did so well for us. Swimming, track and field. They carried hard.
That’s one hell of a tiebreaker. +35 medals.
Athletes are out there crying tears of joy for winning a bronze and a lot of people discount it completely because there’s no official scoring system.
Netherlands was insane, such a relatively small country getting so many golds
And in the end, after all the bitching back and forth…..overall medal total ends up being important.
https://preview.redd.it/d8it1n9852id1.png?width=841&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0ccd0deccea2396b3b12e18538c0b885e3c53be6
Incredibly proud of our athletes doing us proud once again. 40 gold and 126 total medals is an amazing achievement as we transition to our home games of 28.
I’d like to congratulate China for an equally impressive games; tying the U.S in golds is a great achievement – really does show how strong and consistent they are at the Olympics.
Australia as well put in a great showing, some would say their best ever (at least since Sydney). Most gold medals (18) in their Olympic history and gave us everything we could ask for in the pool. With their population, to finish with near 20 gold medals is a fantastic feat.
And there were so many other great stories at these games. It was really refreshing to have the crowd back in the stands after Tokyo, and Paris delivered.
While I’ll certainly miss Paris, Milano-Cortina is right around the corner, and after that, Los Angeles. The Olympics are simply the best. I hope everyone had a fun games!
By one point against the French women’s basketball team! 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
Very impressed with France in general. Also, I really like to see more parity in international basketball, particularly the women’s game.
Japan with 20 gold medals, 8 of which were in wrestling. They completely dominated!
Congratulations to your country! 💐👏🎉
I’m sad it’s over and now everyone is gonna go back to fighting about everything else wrong in the world 😞
USA! USA! USA!
(Not even american, but I’m just glad they’re the ones on top)
Japan, Australia and France also did incredibly well.
Us germans however … well, looks like we need to funnel some money again into funding top performing athletes, it’s been a steady decline since the 90s … D: