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Everything Everywhere Daily

Tokyo 2020: Medals and Records

Everything Everywhere Daily

Gary Arndt | Glassbox Media

History, Education

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Most coverage of the Olympics is very biased towards whatever country you happen to live in, and certain popular sports. Lesser sports and accomplishments from athletes in other countries may often be completely overlooked. So, I figured I’d give a recap of the Tokyo Olympics by putting my very special touch on it, and focus on the exceptional performances across all sports from this Olympics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Most coverage of the Olympics is very biased towards whatever country you happen to live in and certain popular sports.

0:06.0

Lesser sports and accomplishments from athletes in other countries may often be completely overlooked.

0:11.0

So I figure I'd give a recap of the Tokyo Olympics by putting my very

0:15.0

special touch on it and focus on the exceptional performances across all

0:18.8

sports from this Olympics. So join me as I go through the outstanding medal and record accomplishments of the

0:24.4

2020 Olympics on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. This episode is sponsored by Masterclass. If you've been inspired by the Olympics,

0:44.0

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0:46.0

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0:49.0

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0:51.0

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You can learn tennis from four-time Olympic gold medalist Serena Williams

0:57.0

or gymnastics from seven-time Olympic medalist Simone Biles.

1:00.0

Or you can learn skateboarding from Tony Hawk, who I'm sure would have won a slew of metals in skateboarding if it was in the Olympics when he was in his prime.

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You can start learning from the world's best for only $15 a month.

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Just go to everything dash everywhere

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dot com slash masterclass or click on the link in the show notes. Once again

1:17.8

that's everything dash everywhere dot com slash masterclass. There's a lot that goes on over the two weeks of the Olympics a lot of

1:28.9

events a lot of competitors and a lot of stories it's easy for many of the interesting things to get lost in the shuffle,

1:35.0

but fear not, for that is why I am here, to tell you about what really mattered.

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So let's start off with the person who had the best Olympics overall.

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There are two people who I think you could describe had an almost perfect Olympics.

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The first is American swimmer Caleb Dressel, who won five gold medals in swimming.

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