A BMX backflip, Tom Daley's knitting, Laurel Hubbard's message to transgender athletes, and more highlights from the Tokyo Olympics
Photo-Illustration: The Cut. Photos: NBC; Getty Images Defying the odds and also good judgment, the 2020/2021 Olympics are under way in Tokyo. For months, health experts and the public have begged the International Olympic Committee to call off the Games for fear that gathering so many people from all different countries during a global pandemic may well snowball into a superspreader event.
A little Olympics kiss Olympic organizers are heavily discouraging flirty behavior among athletes this year, due to the aforementioned threat of COVID-19 — which is rapidly growing, by the way — potentially throwing cold water on the reliably horny mood in the village.
China, USA, and Australia all break the previous world record in a single race The U.S. women’s swimming 4x200m freestyle relay was one for the record books. Not only did China, who took home gold, set a new record for the race’s fastest time … all three teams that medaled broke the previous world record . If that isn’t reason enough to rewatch the race, I will give you one more: Katie Ledecky.
Mathematician uses math to clinch cycling gold Anna Kiesenhofer, an independent cyclist from Austria who has no coach and no contracts, won gold in the women’s road race, besting both the defending champion and the world title champion. How did she do it?? Math, maybe. The 30-year-old lecturer has a math master’s from Cambridge and a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Barcelona’s Polytechnic University of Catalonia.
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