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Tiger's at the Olympics - Record Performance
Posted on 8/12/21 at 8:54 am
Posted on 8/12/21 at 8:54 am
College Medal Tally
We won 11 medals at the Olympics including 6 golds.
6 Gold Medals, 2 Silver, 3 Bronze medals
We contributed 5 for the US, 1 for NZ, AU, GB, CA and Sweden.
We were ranked 9th amongst NCAA institutions.
If we were a nation we would be:
23rd in overall medal rankings
17th in gold medal rankings
This is of 86 countries that won medals and overall 205 countries that participated.
Not bad at all.
Hear goes the breakdown:
Vernon Norwood |USA | Track & Field | Gold (Men's 4x400m relay) & Bronze (Mixed 4X400 relay)
Brooks Curry |USA | Swimming | Gold (Men's 4x100m freestyle)
Mondo Duplantis |Sweden | Track & Field | Gold (Men's Pole Vault)
Michael Cherry | USA | Track & Field | Gold ( 4 × 400 metres relay )
Sylvia Fowles | USA | Women's Basketball | Gold
Aleia Hobbs |USA | Track & Field | Silver (Women's 4x100m relay)
Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake | Great Britain | Track & Field | Silver (Men's 4x100m relay)
Allysha Chapman |Candada | Soccer | Gold
Michael Venus | New Zealand | Tennis | Bronze (Men's doubles)
Duop Reath |Australia | Basketball | Bronze (Men's Basketball)
Only Mondo Duplantis makes me sad. He is born and raised in Lafayette, LA of a Swedish mother and a American father. He goes to LSU and gets trained and then competes for Sweden! Why Mondo? Why!.
We were behind China in the gold medal tally for all but the last day. It was a come back from behind victory. Mondo's gold would have helped if he had competed for the US.
We won 11 medals at the Olympics including 6 golds.
6 Gold Medals, 2 Silver, 3 Bronze medals
We contributed 5 for the US, 1 for NZ, AU, GB, CA and Sweden.
We were ranked 9th amongst NCAA institutions.
If we were a nation we would be:
23rd in overall medal rankings
17th in gold medal rankings
This is of 86 countries that won medals and overall 205 countries that participated.
Not bad at all.
Hear goes the breakdown:
Vernon Norwood |USA | Track & Field | Gold (Men's 4x400m relay) & Bronze (Mixed 4X400 relay)
Brooks Curry |USA | Swimming | Gold (Men's 4x100m freestyle)
Mondo Duplantis |Sweden | Track & Field | Gold (Men's Pole Vault)
Michael Cherry | USA | Track & Field | Gold ( 4 × 400 metres relay )
Sylvia Fowles | USA | Women's Basketball | Gold
Aleia Hobbs |USA | Track & Field | Silver (Women's 4x100m relay)
Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake | Great Britain | Track & Field | Silver (Men's 4x100m relay)
Allysha Chapman |Candada | Soccer | Gold
Michael Venus | New Zealand | Tennis | Bronze (Men's doubles)
Duop Reath |Australia | Basketball | Bronze (Men's Basketball)
Only Mondo Duplantis makes me sad. He is born and raised in Lafayette, LA of a Swedish mother and a American father. He goes to LSU and gets trained and then competes for Sweden! Why Mondo? Why!.
We were behind China in the gold medal tally for all but the last day. It was a come back from behind victory. Mondo's gold would have helped if he had competed for the US.
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Posted on 8/12/21 at 9:13 am to mike2019tiger
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Only Mondo Duplantis makes me sad. He is born and raised in Lafayette, LA of a Swedish mother and a American father. He goes to LSU and gets trained and then competes for Sweden! Why Mondo? Why!.
This has been said many times.. Euro countries pay way more for Track than US would so he went where he can live out his dream
Posted on 8/12/21 at 9:31 am to mike2019tiger
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Only Mondo Duplantis makes me sad. He is born and raised in Lafayette, LA of a Swedish mother and a American father. He goes to LSU and gets trained and then competes for Sweden! Why Mondo? Why!.
Because whether you like it or not, he is half Swedish and he can. They pay him more money.
Posted on 8/12/21 at 9:45 am to mike2019tiger
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We were behind China in the gold medal tally for all but the last day. It was a come back from behind victory. Mondo's gold would have helped if he had competed for the US.
What the frick are you complaining about here?
Posted on 8/12/21 at 9:58 am to mike2019tiger
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Why Mondo? Why!.
Beating a dead horse with this:
Maybe if the United States audience cared about track & field on a consistent basis, the athletes competing could actually go out and make more money here. Outside the 100m & 200m, and barely the 400m, USATF doesn't get a lot of attention from its local audience unless it's Olympic season.
Posted on 8/12/21 at 10:09 am to mike2019tiger
Requiem for thé Olympics....athletes turned political
Posted on 8/12/21 at 10:38 am to mike2019tiger
quote:Mondo was a prodigy well before his time at LSU. Don't act like LSU vaulted his career
Only Mondo Duplantis makes me sad. He is born and raised in Lafayette, LA of a Swedish mother and a American father. He goes to LSU and gets trained and then competes for Sweden! Why Mondo? Why!.
Posted on 8/12/21 at 10:40 am to mike2019tiger
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Only Mondo Duplantis makes me sad. He is born and raised in Lafayette, LA of a Swedish mother and a American father.
Downvoted because of this. Take that to the poli board bc it doesn’t belong here IMO. If you actually followed T&F you would completely understand.
1. Research Diamond League
2. Research Olympic trials.
3. Research the fiasco that was Dan vs Dan
That should do it.
Posted on 8/12/21 at 12:47 pm to mike2019tiger
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Only Mondo Duplantis makes me sad. He is born and raised in Lafayette, LA of a Swedish mother and a American father. He goes to LSU and gets trained and then competes for Sweden! Why Mondo? Why!.
He competed internationally for Sweden as did his older sister and one older brother before he ever went to LSU.
https://espn1420.com/the-real-reasons-why-lafayette-louisiana-native-mondo-duplantis-competes-for-sweden/
The starter for this was
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By competing for Sweden, Duplantis was able to start competing in pole vaulting at a younger age. Sweden does not have the same age restrictions on competing at the highest levels of the sport. The United States does.
The following also play into it.
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As it pertains to the Olympics, Sweden selects their Olympians on the totality of their performance over several years, rather than an all-or-nothing Olympic trial.
It's more lucrative financially. Pole vaulting is popular in Sweden. It is not a mainstream sport in the United States. Mondo Duplantis is a national superstar in Sweden, viewed with the same regard by Swedes as the country's best soccer players. He was the 2020 World Athletics Male Athlete of the Year and is estimated to be worth millions.
Sweden offered to let Mondo's father Greg Duplantis, a former world-class pole vaulter himself, coach him on the Swedish team. The same offer was not made by the U.S. team. Mondo is still coached today by his father Greg, and mother Helena.
here is another tidbit as to why maybe he doesn't drop Sweden who has supported his efforts at least as much as the US has.
From Wikipedia (I know but it's easy)
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After winning the Jerringpriset as the most popular athlete in Sweden in 2020, Duplantis expressed relief that the Swedish public had accepted and embraced him.[12][13][14] During said Olympics, Duplantis also stated that his older brother having great experiences representing Sweden at a youth level and his love for Sweden as a child made his choice very easy but that he also feels a strong bond to Lafayette.[14] Duplantis usually divides his year between winters in Louisiana and summers in Uppsala in Sweden, adapted for when the two climates offer the best possibilities for training. With Duplantis' mother Helena being raised in Avesta, the municipality raised a pole vault bar beside the gigantic Dala horse monument to showcase the height of his world record, something that made Duplantis "break down in tears" over the significance of what he had accomplished when he heard about
Posted on 8/12/21 at 1:29 pm to mike2019tiger
Mondo is a traitor and very Anti-American.
Posted on 8/12/21 at 4:41 pm to mike2019tiger
Let's hope they are recognized at LSU football halftime.
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