Tasha’s Epic Quadrennial Olympics Analysis
Day 15
As these Olympic games start to wind down, I’m running out of events to watch.
- I did watch the 4x100m relays.
- The women: Team USA, especially Sha’Carri in the anchor leg, did the damn thing. Ooh, and that look she gave as she crossed the finish line to win the gold medal–that was a whole conversation with no words.
- The men: I don’t know who did what to whom but whatever bad ju ju Team USA’s men were cursed with years ago continues to stick to them like glue. Maybe the baton needs to be saged before each relay. It’s been 24 years since the men have won this event and 20 years since they’ve even made the podium.
- This is how I know I’m not a team player. Me and whoever messed up the baton pass would be beefing right there on the track.
- Back to the women. In a race that wasn’t even close, Team Dominican Republic’s Marileidy Paulino won the women’s 400m, giving the country its first gold medal in this event.
- I watched the last round of the heptathlon just in time to see Team Belgium’s Nafissatou Thiam win her THIRD Olympic gold medal in this event. She is the only woman to have a back to back three-peat in the heptathlon.
- Deep sigh. If you watched any part of the women’s Olympic breakdancing competition you may be entitled to compensation.
- Fifty one years ago, the pioneers of hip hop weren’t even thinking that one of the fundamental elements of the genre would be incorporated into an Olympic games. With good reason because this event was a hot @$$ mess! I know thousands of card board boxes didn’t give their lives so that such beautiful artform would be turned into a kangaroo-hopping disaster.