Team USA gets no medals to open Summer Olympics for first time in decades

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Team USA gets no medals to open Summer Olympics for first time in decades​


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Team USA gets no medals to open Summer Olympics for first time in decades

Team USA athletes suffered multiple upset losses in the first official day of competition at the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday, the first time in decades the U.S. has walked away with no med…
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Team USA athletes suffered multiple upset losses in the first official day of competition at the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday, the first time in decades the U.S. has walked away with no medals on Day 1 of the Summer Games.

A total of 11 gold medals were given out Saturday for events in archery, cycling, fencing, judo, air rifle and pistol shooting, taekwondo and weightlifting. However, the U.S. athletes did not receive gold, silver or bronze in any of the events Saturday.

Olympic historian Bill Mallon pointed out that this was the first time the U.S. did not get any medals on Day 1 of the Summer Olympics since Munich in 1972, though Team USA also failed to medal on the first day of the Winter Olympics in 2018.

China won the first gold medal of the Tokyo Games on Saturday with a victory from Yang Qian in the 10-meter air rifle competition.

USA Today reported that Yang was able to edge out the Russian Olympic Committee’s Anastasiia Galashina, with Switzerland's Nina Christen raking the bronze.

Mary Tucker, the American competing in the event who is ranked No. 2 in the world, had a series of unusual bad shots in the final on Saturday, causing her to ultimately place sixth.

The top U.S. athletes in archery also experienced upset defeats Saturday, with No. 2 seed Brady Ellison and Mackenzie Brown losing 5-4 to Indonesia in a shootout in the first round at Yumenoshima Park.

Saturday marked the debut of the mixed archery team Olympic event, which Ellison went into looking to add to his collection of three Olympic medals from past games.

However, Ellison will still have an opportunity to medal in the men’s team and individual events.

"I'm still a little shocked," Ellison said after Saturday’s event, according to USA Today.
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"I completely expected us to win a medal today,” he continued. “We got in that stadium, and I shot left. Mackenzie started getting it figured out there at the end. I shot left that entire match trying to aim off for the wind.”

He added, “That finals venue kicked my ass. I just didn't see it and that cost us the match."

However, U.S. teams did have some victories in qualifying rounds for other events, including the U.S. women’s basketball team’s win over France in the 3-on-3 game’s Olympic debut.

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As an American, I hope we win 0 gold medals this year. It's the kind of humiliation we need for athletes to realize diversity + inclusivity =/= athletic skills.
 
Good. They don't deserve it any more, with the racial politics they're highlighting in all their Olympic stories this year. I hope the BLM celebrations are forever tied with a complete failure record.

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Hold up, how did the US not win these? Guns are our main gimmick!
 
Karmic. The women's soccer team getting ROFLstomped by the Swedish team after the group kneeling stunt is only the beginning of the humbling. Megan Rapinoe was the perfect vanguard for this humiliation conga line.
 
FlappyBat said:
However, the U.S. athletes did not receive gold, silver or bronze in any of the events Saturday.
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Go pick up a participation trophy instead.

From the absolute dominance of The Dream Team to this... America gets what it fucking deserves. Maybe the new Brown conquerors will treat it better. lol
 
Modern olympics are white men arguing whose country's niggers run the fastest and it's great
 
Shoulda' spent more time practicing how to play instead of practicing how to send Tweets that praise trans representation.

Harvey Danger said:
Hold up, how did the US not win these? Guns are our main gimmick!
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Everyone who signed up for the team was immediately white-vanned by the FBI as a "domestic terrorist"
 
I hope the US has the worst record in ages.
It's time athletes are chosen by skill again.
 
Is that one American troon who made headlines part of this?

Which ever flavor of the week shemale that claimed when they won their medal they'd do something upsetting to the American flag or people or something stupid like usual?
 
I honestly don't fucking care anymore. There's so much bullshit with troons and taking knees, I can't be bothered to care. Them playing Final Fantasy music during the opening march was the highlight for me. I'll have to see what Judo brings.
 
Megaroad 2012 said:
Is that one American troon who made headlines part of this?

Which ever flavor of the week shemale that claimed when they won their medal they'd do something upsetting to the American flag or people or something stupid like usual?
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I don't believe so. I think they weren't even the main person for their sport (bmx) but a replacement in case one of the actual people got hurt.
 
There's an Olympics this year? I thought the world ending coof was still ongoing. Just like E3, I could give a fuck. People should be focusing on the globo-bankers raping them in this reset instead of any kind of sportsballery.
 
Do Americans even care about the Olympics anymore? It was kinda a big deal when I was a kid, but I basically forgot it was a thing like 10 years ago.
 
The Big O said:
Karmic. The women's soccer team getting ROFLstomped by the Swedish team after the group kneeling stunt is only the beginning of the humbling. Megan Rapinoe was the perfect vanguard for this humiliation conga line.
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"The Swedish team won because Sweden is more feminist"-The usual suspects, probably.
 
How could this possible have happened? I was told that diversity was our strength and replacing all out white super star athletes with ugly mediocre black women would lead to victory.
 
The Big O said:
Karmic. The women's soccer team getting ROFLstomped by the Swedish team after the group kneeling stunt is only the beginning of the humbling. Megan Rapinoe was the perfect vanguard for this humiliation conga line.
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Is it evil of me if i wished for one poc representation in the swedish team to start vaulting over those kneeling fools?
 
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