Some of mine:

  • Kristen Faulkner breaking away for a surprise win in the cycling road race

  • Julien Alfred breaking away for a surprise win in the 100 m

  • Canadian men breaking away for a surprise win in the 4*100 m relay

  • Armand Duplantis flying to a not-at-all surprising pole vault win

  • Nika v Ami in breaking

(Bonus non-sport thing: Snoop Dogg himself doing the trois coups to open the women’s breaking event)

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    Carlos Yulo winning two gold medals for the Philippines (floor and vault in gymnastics)

    Gabby Thomas 200 m win

    Kaylia Nemour uneven bars gymnastics win

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    Pan Zhanle’s 100m freestyle, broke his own WR by 0.4s, and stunned the whole stadium to silence.

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    As an American it wasn’t fun, but the Netherlands performance in the woman’s water polo bronze medal match. Coming back from being 4 goals down multiple times and scoring the winning goal with 1 second left was impressive