Alternatively, you could Google the medal count. 
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Yes, in groups, then knock-out rounds.
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Thanks! USA BB has looked a bit shaky in their warm up games—will be interested to see how they do when ‘real’ games start.
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I don’t really follow basketball, but I did watch a couple of warmup games that left me wondering how the USA would fare when the real games start. It’s not going to be a cakewalk, for sure.
I plan to watch rhythmic gymnastics.
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The world has caught up to the United States in basketball. We will see if the US can pull out the gold medal.
My favorite is that the WNBA all stars beat team USA. Maybe Caitlyn Clark should have been named to the team. Instead team USA looks petty.
At our house, we will be all in on swimming. Love Rowdy Gaines. Favorite announcer. With Dan Hicks.
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Swimming is my favorite of all Olympic sports. I never missed a swimming event in the Olympics as long as I remember, going back decades. I met Matt Biondi on campus right after he returned from the Seoul Olympics; I also met Mary T. Meagher, the “Madam Butterfly,” on campus and had a brief chat with her. Both were undergrads at Cal while I was a grad student at that time. Great swimmers, wonderful human beings. Years later when I ran into Rowdy Gaines at a local swimming pool, I talked to him about Matt Biondi, who was one of Rowdy’s relay event teammates in the L.A. Olympics, and the Moscow Olympics that was taken away from him at his prime by the U.S. boycott. Rowdy could have won several gold medals if it weren’t for the boycott. Yet, there was no trace of bitterness in him. He’s one of the greatest swimmers and a wonderful human being. I was teaching my sons how to swim when I met him, and he jumped into the pool himself and spent some time with my sons giving them swim lessons. I can never forget that.
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If we are judging by that game, Arike was the one snubbed.
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I’m going to edit my statement.
Women’s basketball Team USA looks petty by a few people they left off the team, not just one.
A guy who was on our neighborhood summer swim league team with my kids became an Olympic Gold medalist. He once pulled my S out of the pool when he was going under! I actually am friends with his mother and know him and his family and they are all extremely nice people.
(I am not identifying the athlete for my own privacy reasons).
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Well, a top dressage rider just withdrew from the Olympics because a video of her abusing a horse has surfaced. The equestrian world is rife with this sort of thing. I am sick of it!!!
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I saw that the dressage rider pulled out yesterday because of abuse to her horse.
Steffen Peters is on the dressage team for the US for his 6th Olympics at 59 years old. D2 rode at a barn for awhile (hunter/jumper) that was near where Peters rode at the time and we would see him practicing with his horses. Although D2 has always ridden hunter/jumper she appreciates and loves to watch a great dressage rider.
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Coco Gauff is the other USA flag bearer.
Katie Ledecky swims the next day and does not go to opening ceremonies so she was not in the running.
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I’m looking forward to seeing the team uniforms!
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This article says there are a glut of resale Olympic tickets.
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I watched the video of her whipping the horse and it left me very confused. Serious question here: What was she trying to accomplish with the whipping? I understand whipping a race horse to make it run faster, but what was she hoping to gain by whipping this equestrian competition type horse (from the ground while someone else was riding it slowly.)
I can’t bring myself to watch yhe video, but I believe she wanted the horse to be more forward, to have more energy and impulsion.
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Very interesting. I would have guessed that whipping a horse would just make it neurotic, but I know almost nothing about horses.
It does make them neurotic and shut down. It isn’t really understandable why she’s doing it.
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Hmmm, I’ve been doing more googling and came up with the answer that whipping their legs is how dressage horses are taught to do one of their required moves which is to trot sort of sideways. Does that seem accurate? [ETA: but the issue is that she was whipping too much/too hard]