Usain Bolt fist bumps a volunteer at the Olympics.. I would be tickled about it too! Lol
The coolest thing is the same volunteer was with him in the 200 m final. Bolt interacted with him again, like they were good buddies. The kid couldn’t believe it. That is an athlete who knows the power of his influence.
(Source: ForGIFs.com)
Some people are speculating that yesterday Ali, McKayla, and Jordyn modeled their hair after Gabby’s to show their support because of all this nonsense about Gabby’s hair. Apparently they normally wear ponytails.
I hope this is true.
Usain Bolt interrupts the interviewer to respect another country’s national anthem—that is, the United States of America’s national anthem. I have so much respect for this dude, and still would if it had been a different country’s anthem.
When Kayla Harrison took to the medal stand Thursday, all smiles with a gold medal wrapped around her neck, she was the image of the all-American Olympic champion, whose tears were happy ones.
But long before the judo champ bested Britain’s Gemma Gibbons in the women’s 78-kilogram division at the 2012 Summer Olympics, before she won the first gold medal in judo for Team USA, Harrison, 22, battled a darker, painful past.
In 2007, her former judo coach pleaded guilty in a federal court in Dayton, Ohio, to illicit sexual conduct when she was 13, reports The New York Times. In court papers, the gold medalist is referenced as “K.H.” or “the victim.”
Harrison has since been candid about the abuse she endured – which occurred on trips around the world until she was 16 – before she revealed the truth about her coach to the man who would become her fiancé.
When a reporter asked her to name the worst moment she has faced in her career, Harrison, whose former coach, Daniel Doyle, has since been sentenced to 10 years in prison, said, “It’s no secret that I was sexually abused by my former coach. And that was definitely the hardest thing I’ve ever had to overcome.”
In the moments before the competition Thursday, before the gold medal, her current coach, Jimmy Pedro gave her a pep talk.
“Today, Kayla Harrison, nobody is going to beat you,” he said. “Today, you will make history. Today, Kayla Harrison is an Olympic champion.”
And now that she is indeed an Olympic champion – with a gold medal to her name – Harrison is giving credit to a certain special accessory.
Complimenting her opening ceremony outfit, which she opted to wear over the USA suit she wore to less-successful matches: her lucky socks.
“I’m big on ritual and I’m big on patterns, and I get comfortable,” Harrison toldCBS News. “And when I get comfortable, I get confident. And when I get confident, I win.” (www.people.com)What a true inspiration!
My mom is more angry than I am that Lochte didn’t get gold. I keep telling her that another American got gold. She says, “I know, I just wish it was reversed! He got it in 2008. Darn! Darn! Darn!”
srsly
I think she wants to call someone and talk to them.
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America has refused the Olympic tradition of dipping its flag to the host country since…. 1908.
Most Olympic teams briefly lower their colors as a sign of respect when they march past the box where the host nation’s leaders are seated. The U.S. does not.
When the Americans pick a flag bearer for the 2012 London Olympics this week, he or she almost certainly will be advised to uphold a tradition that dates back more than a century.
According to popular legend, shotputter Ralph Rose set the tone at the 1908 Summer Games — also held in London — when he supposedly proclaimed: “This flag dips for no earthly king.”
[Photo: Mark Grimmette leads the U.S. team into BC Place for the opening ceremony of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. Robert Gauthier/LAT]
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America has refused the Olympic tradition of dipping its flag to the host country since…. 1908.
Most Olympic teams briefly lower their colors as a sign of respect when they march past the box where the host nation’s leaders are seated. The U.S. does not.
When the Americans pick a flag bearer for the 2012 London Olympics this week, he or she almost certainly will be advised to uphold a tradition that dates back more than a century.
According to popular legend, shotputter Ralph Rose set the tone at the 1908 Summer Games — also held in London — when he supposedly proclaimed: “This flag dips for no earthly king.”
[Photo: Mark Grimmette leads the U.S. team into BC Place for the opening ceremony of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. Robert Gauthier/LAT]
