The U.S. Athletes To Follow At The Tokyo Olympics
The Lead
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🗓️ 22 July 2021
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
At every Olympic Games, there are thousands of stories. This year, Simone Manuel looks to solidify her legacy as the greatest gymnast of all time. Katie Ledecky could become the most decorated female athlete in Olympic history. And Trayvon Bromell aims to claim the title of 'world's fastest man.' But there are also so many more. The Athletic's Zack Pierce joins us to talk through some of the biggest and most fascinating storylines to follow from Team USA during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, including a softball duo's 13-year quest for redemption, a teen prodigy who could inherit the crown in swimming, and a rock legend's horse-riding daughter.
Read Zack Pierce's full rundown of U.S. athletes to follow:
https://theathletic.com/2706266/2021/07/19/meet-team-usa-every-athlete-at-the-2021-olympics-and-what-to-know-about-each-event/
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| 0:46.0 | The 2020 Tokyo Olympics officially kick off on Friday with some of the competitions already underway. |
| 0:53.0 | And the favourite to bring home the most medals at the Games once again is Team USA. |
| 0:58.0 | Today the Athletic Sac Pierce tells us about some of the most interesting athletes and storylines to follow on the US team. |
| 1:06.0 | From Wondry and the Athletic, I'm Tiffany Oshinsky. It's Thursday, July 22nd, and this is The Lead. |
| 1:19.0 | So Zach, you are the Athletics National Managing Editor and are overseeing Olympic coverage. |
| 1:23.0 | How exactly does one prepare to come to the Olympics? |
| 1:28.0 | There are literally thousands of athletes competing and therefore thousands of stories to potentially follow. |
| 1:38.0 | Great question and thanks for having me. How many people had to say no before you invited me on? |
| 1:51.0 | You were our first choice. |
| 1:55.0 | Yeah, it's daunting task. Obviously the Olympics is not something that we cover much during the interim period between games. |
| 2:04.0 | And this is really our first Olympics as a website that we've at least the first summer Olympics that we've had at all. |
| 2:09.0 | So I think the goal for us has been trying to tell the best stories we can tell as many of them as possible. |
| 2:15.0 | And if that number is a lot smaller than a thousand, then then Soviet. |
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