California Gold wrote:ROballer wrote:USA managed to lose the gold medal in the 4x400 mixed relay exactly the same as in Tokyo.
Femke Bol with a terrific comeback. I know they beat the World Record yesterday, but ALWAYS go for your best team.
Or at least the second best.
They let a 19 yr old kid from college anchor this.
At this rate they're gonna lose the overall medal standings, just too many silvers who should have been golds.
They're still fine. China will really be the only competition in that dept. Obviously they can't let too many more of the opportunities where they're favored slip but I think they're still right where they need to be. Lots of gold still to be had for Team USA.
They lost a lot of ones in which they were heavy favorites. China will have weightlifting in the final week. Last Olympics they had 38 golds, worst they had since 2000 were 26.
China doesn't miss. Diving, Weightlifting, Table Tennis, Shooting, Badminton, etc.
Wherever they are favorites, 99% of the time their guys will win the gold.
Americans have missed a lot. Albeit, they usually took silver when they did so it's still a medal, if you want to count it as a miss it's your call.
It was a one gold medal difference in Tokyo, it will probably come to the wire again. I agree with you, they can't afford pulling the **** they did in the mixed relay though.
