Group USA for the win! The American athletes donning stars and stripes in Japan have scored loads of medals on the Tokyo Olympics.
The summer time video games, which began on Friday, July 23, kicked off in Japan with Olympians Sue Hen and Eddy Alvarez holding the flag on the opening ceremony. The basketball participant, 40, had 4 Olympic gold medals earlier than the 2020 video games, which had been postponed one 12 months amid the coronavirus pandemic. Alvarez, 31, is on the USA baseball group for the Tokyo video games, however the Miami Marlins infielder gained a silver medal in 2014 on the Sochi Olympics as a brief monitor pace skater.
The 2 stars, and their fellow American athletes, are anticipated to earn much more bling from the summer time video games. After the 2016 Rio video games, the USA of America had essentially the most all-time medals of any nation on this planet with practically 3,000 items of {hardware}.
Among the many early winners this 12 months are Katie Ledecky, who gained a silver medal on Monday, July 26, within the ladies’s 400m freestyle. She additionally scored the second-fastest time within the historical past of the competitors at 3:57.36.
As soon as the athletes earn their respective medals in Tokyo, they will have fun with their favourite cheat meals. Married foil fencers Lee Kiefer and Gerek Meinhardt plan to present in to their quick meals cravings after competing this 12 months.
“There’s positively going to be a couple of cheat day after Tokyo,” Meinhardt, 30, completely instructed Us Weekly earlier than heading to Japan to compete alongside his spouse, 27. “It’s going to be, like, an entire week of getting burritos and mainly every thing that I take into consideration on daily basis however attempt to not eat.”
Kiefer, who’s a medical college pupil, was one of many early gold medalists, incomes her {hardware} on Monday, July 26.
Most of Group USA, nevertheless, doesn’t have their spouses or members of the family with them in Japan. Because of the pandemic, no spectators are allowed on the video games, so Olympians and Paralympians should go away their family members behind — which has been an enormous hurdle for some to beat mentally. Paralympian and sitting volleyball star Kaleo Kanahele Maclay, for instance, is spending her largest span of time but away from her son, Duke, 3, whereas in Tokyo.
“It’s an enormous sacrifice to go away him for thus lengthy,” the Oklahoma native, 25, defined to Us forward of the video games. “We’re going to be gone for about three weeks. So, it’s simply the longest I’ve been away from him, however I’m actually excited. I feel it’ll be enjoyable for him to observe, particularly, like, on the TV and on that stage. I feel it’ll be cool.”
Watch the Tokyo Olympics on NBC, and maintain scrolling to see all of the medals for Group USA:
