And what about the swimmers who wear earrings? I would try to avoid even the tiniest bit of drag.
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It always seems to me the Italy has a lot of US born/dual citizen athletes.
There was an interesting story about Suni Lee and her father’s relocation to America. Suni’s grandfather was Hmong and worked for the US military in Laos. Some of the Hmong got to relocate (he did) as they had no country. Their families (including Suni’s dad) came to the US later (I think he was about 7 years old). The Lee family is part of a big Hmong community in St. Paul and the community supports her. They are Americans only as they have no base country.
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I noticed that after the 200M, all of them had hair hitting others as they grouped at the end. I wouldn’t like that.
Yes, they wear skin tight outfits but then have the hair, the jewelry, the nails. One even had a crown tucked into her hairdo.
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I thought the same thing and wondered how many earrings end up at the bottom of the pool. 
Earrings do not create as much drag as ears themselves do! That’s what the caps are for. Some swimmers wear two caps to minimize drag.
Duplantis is from Louisiana, went to LSU. Has an American father, a Swedish mother. Competes for Sweden, I’m not sure of the particulars of that.
Not unexpected that he speaks perfect English.
There’s a golfer Sepp Straka who competes for Austria. Went to high school and college in the US. Has an American mother and went to Georgia. Always a bit of a surprise that he has a southern American accent.
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Bad example. He was born and raised in the US and attended LSU.
A better example would be Leon Marchand. Not surprising that he speaks English since he attends ASU, but it is surprising that his English is fairly devoid of an accent.
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Swedes in general speak English well. At least everyone in Stockholm does. 
I was not surprised by Duplantis’s perfect English… I was surprised that he was born in the US.
On the flip side, his Swedish sucks. But who cares when you can pole vault like that?!?
To be fair, almost everyone in Sweden speaks perfect English, and it’s likely most Swedes would speak to him in English
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Highly recommend this vball game right now on NBC. SO intense.
No, that was my point. English is his first language, not his second. He didn’t learn Swedish until he decided to compete for Sweden (long before the Olympics).
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Almost all wear 2 caps because they put on the first on, put on the goggles, and then the second cap keeps the goggles on.
At the nationals, one of the former swimmers gave a lesson on how they get dressed. It takes quite a while to get into those skintight suits. I know I’d get all dressed and have to use the bathroom!
Cap over goggles has been a thing for a while. Two caps is a newer trend. Some simply hate those smooth silicon caps but
wear them over a regular latex cap. I noticed that some of our female swimmers seemed to prefer latex caps.
From the article in our local paper dissecting the 1,500 race:
“ Ingebrigtsen’s Olympic record was 3:28.32. The top four finishers here beat that mark: Kerr, who hung on for silver in 3:27.79; American Yared Nuguse, who surged for bronze just a hundredth of a second back of that; and the defeated Ingebrigtsen, whose blazing pace was ultimately unwise and unsustainable. He came home in 3:28.24.”
Amit won gold and the US has another woman wrestling for gold shortly. Sarah Hildebrandt won bronze in Tokyo and her finals opponent from India did not make weight this morning despite taking drastic measures, so she will actually wrestle the loser of the other semifinal from Cuba. She is expected to win.
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I saw an interview he did in Swedish. It was bad! Apparently he was extremely hungover. Seemed apparent that his Swedish wasn’t very good
Giving him credit, it has improved in recent years. And as I said earlier, it’s hard to practice it in a normal environment because most Swedes won’t have the patience when they can easily speak English. But yeah, his Swedish is still far from good.
Another Gold for Faulkner!
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What’s amazing is that she rowed in high school and college and only took up cycling recently and only made the team because someone else had to drop out!
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Wow, at one point it looked like Quincy Hall had no chance for a medal in the 400 meter final, and then he just reached deep inside and came up with something amazing.
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