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"content": "\u003cp>The 2024 Olympic Games may be over (see: \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CahdsQFjwQ\">Tom Cruise on a motorcycle\u003c/a>), but it’ll soon be time for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.paralympic.org/paris-2024\">Paris Paralympics\u003c/a>. Running Aug. 28–Sept. 8, the Paralympics involve 4,000 athletes from 177 countries duking it out across 22 sports and 549 medal events. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As always, Team USA, already in possession of more gold paralympic medals than any other country on Earth, looks set for success. And in case you want to play regional favorites, here are the incredible Bay Area athletes to root for.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Mark Barr\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Hailing from Davis, Mark Barr possesses a fortitude that is borderline unfathomable. Always a sporty kid, he survived bone cancer at the age of 14, but lost his right leg to the disease. After his surgery, a nurse at the hospital — herself an amputee — told him about the Paralympics and encouraged him to go for the gold. Just four years later, Barr was competing in the 2004 games in Athens. (That nurse inspired him in more ways than one — Barr later became an ICU nurse too.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='news_11993783']Seeking an even greater challenge at the end of college, Barr decided to transition to triathlons. Once he acquired a prothesis allowing him to do so from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.challengedathletes.org/\">Challenged Athletes Foundation\u003c/a>, there was no stopping him. In 2018, Barr was undefeated in the World Paratriathlon Series and won an ESPY award. Last year, he ticked off another life goal: becoming a dad.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Hannah Chadwick\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>UC Davis graduate Hannah Chadwick has been blind since birth, but she’s never let that hold her back. She is, after all, a tandem cyclist — one who didn’t even take up the sport until 2019. Her late arrival to cycling has done nothing to slow her down. Last year, the 32-year-old took home two gold medals from the Parapan American Games after winning the 1,000-meter and 3,000-meter races with her cycling partner of one year, Skyler Espinoza. Now the duo are heading to the Paralympics for the very first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though born in China, Chadwick moved to Northern California at the age of 12, having been adopted by American parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Growing up in Humboldt County taught me the importance of how to create and maintain a support network,” \u003ca href=\"https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2023/aug/16/chadwick/\">she told the \u003cem>Lost Coast Outpost\u003c/em>\u003c/a> last year. “I’m so grateful to everyone that encouraged me along the way. I was given many opportunities, and I’m so thankful to be a part of the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13962404\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1870px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13962404\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/GettyImages-1581496968-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Two women in professional cycling gear cheer expressively as they ride a tandem bicycle on a race track.\" width=\"1870\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/GettyImages-1581496968-scaled.jpg 1870w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/GettyImages-1581496968-800x1095.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/GettyImages-1581496968-1020x1396.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/GettyImages-1581496968-160x219.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/GettyImages-1581496968-768x1051.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/GettyImages-1581496968-1122x1536.jpg 1122w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/GettyImages-1581496968-1496x2048.jpg 1496w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/GettyImages-1581496968-1920x2628.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1870px) 100vw, 1870px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hannah Chadwick and Skyler Espinoza celebrate winning bronze in the women’s B para-cycling sprint finals at the UCI Cycling World Championships on Aug. 6, 2023. \u003ccite>(ADRIAN DENNIS/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Skyler Espinoza\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Menlo Park-based Skyler Espinoza acts as Chadwick’s “pilot” on the race track — but cycling wasn’t always her first sport of choice. Throughout college, and during her time as a graduate student at Stanford, Espinoza was a rower. Even after graduating, she stayed at Stanford as a rowing coach. Espinoza came to cycling only after back surgery prompted her to get on a bike as part of her physiotherapy. She hasn’t looked back since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13962267']“I think the pilot role really speaks to my values a lot in terms of supporting other athletes in sports,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.usparacycling.org/news/2023/october/31/skyler-espinoza-joe-christiansen-reach-world-stage-as-tandem-team-pilots\">Espinoza told U.S. Paracycling\u003c/a> last year. “It’s a teammate role, it’s a little bit of a mentor role and coaching role because I’ve been an athlete for a long time and Hannah is a relatively new athlete. It’s been a really great opportunity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Noah Jaffe\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This born-and-raised Californian has been a competitive swimmer since he was just 10 years old. Clearly, starting young pays off. Jaffe absolutely smashed his competitions at last year’s Paralympic Swimming World Championships: not only did he win four medals, including a gold, he also broke the American record for the 100-meter freestyle race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULkzw9KB17c\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That success inspired him to take a year out from his biochemistry studies at UC Berkeley and focus on training for the Paralympics, which he’s currently doing at the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Training Center in Colorado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being around a lot of Paralympic athletes … is new to me,” he recently told TeamUSA.com. “I’ve always trained with able-bodied athletes, so having that community and knowing this is a place for me, and being able to connect with them both in practice and outside of practice has been great.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jaffe was born with spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy, which restricts movement in both of his legs and right arm. Once he’s completed his studies, his goal is to work with young people living with similar conditions. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Mohamed Lahna\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13962574']Born in Casablanca, educated in San Mateo and a current resident of Hayward, Mohamed Lahna simply cannot stop taking on new challenges — possibly because he’s making up for lost time. As a small child, he used crutches to play sports with friends. Through his teens, Lahna wasn’t allowed to participate in gym glass, having used an unbendable prosthetic made of wood and leather. He didn’t ride a bike until he was 23 years old. And yet, since he received his first running prosthetic in 2011, Lahna has been incapable of slowing down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within two years of getting that prosthetic, Lahna won his first International Triathlon Union paratriathlon. He also quickly discovered he was the kind of guy who could swim the Strait of Gibraltar, run marathons across the Sahara Desert, complete Ironman competitions and ride a bicycle from South America’s lowest point to its highest peak. Lahna will be competing in the triathlon in Paris — don’t expect a leisurely pace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13962402\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13962402\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/GettyImages-1338385347-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Female athletes raise their hands in celebration from the floor of a volleyball court. 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At the least, it’s a more satirical, silly take on a dystopian genre that usually receives more somber treatments. \u003cem>Mockingjay — Part 1\u003c/em> certainly never had John Cena trying to stomp out a groin on fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkkQYR9yYZo\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Jackpot!\u003c/em>, which debuts Thursday on Prime Video, stars Awkwafina as Katie Kim, a former child actor who, out of midlife desperation, has returned to Los Angeles in 2030 to try to break back into the movie business. A Hollywood where half the town is out for blood is, of course, not such a far-fetched, futuristic concept. 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In one scene, she says he looks like “a bulldog that a witch cast a spell on and turned into a human.” Any comedy with her in the lead role has a fairly high floor, yet \u003cem>Jackpot!\u003c/em> never pays off. It’s amiably disordered but the high-concept always feels like a ridiculous goof, and its predictable machinations grow increasingly tiresome. Still, this is the rare film where you can say Machine Gun Kelly (whose panic room comes in handy for Katie and Noel) is a surprisingly perfect tonal fit. (Later, a turtlenecked Simu Liu turns up as the smarmy head of a larger, better funder protection agency.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feig, the director of \u003cem>Bridesmaids\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Spy\u003c/em>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/122753/the_heat_is_absolutely_revolutionary_for_being_mostly_ordinary\">\u003cem>The Heat\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and 2016’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/30573/why-are-we-treating-the-new-ghostbusters-like-a-cult-classic-on-opening-weekend\">\u003cem>Ghostbusters\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, may be more adept at balancing broad comedy and action sequences than any other working filmmaker. But the big-screen comedy heyday he was once so central to has largely faded in recent years, as studios have grown disappointingly reluctant to gamble with laughs in theaters. It’s hard not to see \u003cem>Jackpot!\u003c/em> — which pales next to Feig’s better films — as an example of this diminished era for theatrical comedies. 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"content": "\u003cp>“In space, no one can hear you scream,” went the tagline for the original \u003cem>Alien\u003c/em> in 1979, a terrifying thought on multiple levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There may indeed be a scientific rationale for a space scream to be inaudible, but isn’t it scarier to simply realize nobody’s around to hear you? That was the case for Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley, once she became the last one standing against the fearsome Xenomorph. Nobody could hear her scream — nobody human, that is — because, duh, everyone was dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13258142']In any case, hearing won’t be a problem here on Earth at any multiplex showing \u003cem>Alien: Romulus\u003c/em>, the much-anticipated new installment to the \u003cem>Alien\u003c/em> franchise (not a sequel, but we’ll get to that in a minute.) This is a very big, very (very!) loud, very jumpy horror flick, and the screams will come, and they’ll be audible. Which is precisely what \u003cem>Alien\u003c/em> fans are surely waiting for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And speaking of Ripley, no, neither she (nor Weaver) are present in this new version by Fede Álvarez, closer in feel to the horror roots of Ridley Scott’s original than James Cameron’s more action-focused 1986 \u003cem>Aliens\u003c/em>. But now we have Rain Carradine, played by rising star Cailee Spaeny (\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13936970/priscilla-movie-review-sofia-coppola-jacob-elordi-cailee-spaeny\">\u003cem>Priscilla\u003c/em>\u003c/a>), a new-generation Ripley in everything but name. Spaeny takes up the mantle of badass space fighter with aplomb, and is easily the best part of a movie that, like the 1979 original, is short on character development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are many other parallels (and winking nods) to the original (Scott is a co-producer here). But like we said, don’t call it a sequel. 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Now, more than 300 of these items are about to go on sale via Wright Auction House in Chicago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13962610\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13962610\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Pettibon-scaled-e1723569491786.jpg\" alt=\"A flier featuring black and white drawings of crowds of men in underpants and tank tops.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1920\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 1983 Raymond Pettibon flier advertising Black Flag, Saccharine Trust, NIGhist and Rebel Truth at the On Broadway in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Specific Object/ Wright Auction House)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Though phone and online bidding for \u003ca href=\"https://www.wright20.com/auctions/2024/08/raymond-pettibon-the-punk-years-curated-by-specific-object-david-platzker\">\u003cem>Raymond Pettibon: The Punk Years\u003c/em> \u003c/a>officially opens on Aug. 22, advanced bids have already begun rolling in online. Starting bids across the board are $50, and estimated sale prices range between $150 and $1,500. One yellow \u003ca href=\"https://www.wright20.com/auctions/2024/08/raymond-pettibon-the-punk-years-curated-by-specific-object-david-platzker/165\">“Jealous Again” skateboard\u003c/a>, for example, is anticipated to garner as much as $1,000. Pettibon’s art zines are expected to fetch as much as $600 each, even though some of them are already available to \u003ca href=\"https://archive.org/details/raymond-pettibon-captive-chains-1978/mode/2up\">read on the Internet Archive\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=30298694462&ref_=ps_ggl_17738760402&cm_mmc=ggl-_-COM_Shopp_Rare-_-product_id=bi%3A%2030298694462-_-keyword=&gclid=Cj0KCQjw5ea1BhC6ARIsAEOG5pyXvpIYYDbjU13JzzkMmXJVWvx_ClE4ojS53oSjQh4EJTAiH0kca28aArBREALw_wcB\">buy online for less\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13938024']The bulk of the Bay Area-related items up for grabs are Pettibon’s Black Flag fliers for shows at Mabuhay Gardens and On Broadway, historic venues in San Francisco’s North Beach. Pettibon’s work for the band was prolific, in part because his brother Greg Ginn is Black Flag’s guitarist. 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Others feared the subculture being co-opted by officials, commercialized and put through a rigid judging structure, when the spirit of breaking has been rooted in local communities, centered around street battles, cyphers and block parties. Hip-hop was born as a youth culture within Black and brown communities in the Bronx as a way to escape strife and socio-economic struggles and make a statement of empowerment at a time when they were labeled as lost, lawless kids by New York politicians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Refugee breaker Manizha Talash, or “b-girl Talash,” channeled that rebellious vibe by donning a “Free Afghan Women” cape during her pre-qualifier battle — a defiant and personal statement for a 21-year-old who fled her native Afghanistan to escape Taliban rule. 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Featuring first glimpses of Zegler singing “Whistle While You Work” and Gadot talking to her mirror, mirror, the trailer also showcased seven CGI dwarfs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbiPcMCz0Ek\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Written by Greta Gerwig (\u003cem>Barbie\u003c/em>) and Erin Cressida Wilson (\u003cem>The Girl on the Train\u003c/em>) and directed by Marc Webb ((\u003cem>500) Days of Summer, The Amazing Spider-Man\u003c/em>), the people behind the film have emphasized that this latest adaptation features several ‘modern’ twists, alongside new songs from the duo Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (\u003cem>Dear Evan Hansen, The Greatest Showman\u003c/em>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Could this update to the 1937 classic be the — erm — fairest of them all? 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People questioned why an actress of Latin descent would be playing a character with “skin white as snow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13919105']Zegler, who is of Polish-Colombian background, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/rachelzegler/status/1680225020772057088\">responded to the comments on X\u003c/a> by saying she didn’t want to be dragged into the “nonsensical discourse”about her casting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really, truly do not want to see it,” Zegler wrote in a post that included photos of her as a child dressed as a princess. “I hope every child knows they can be a princess no matter what.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A reimagination deemed too “woke” by some critics\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RVg3yetTE4\">interview with \u003cem>Variety\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in 2022, Zegler and Gadot talked about how the story of \u003cem>Snow White \u003c/em>was being adapted with a “modern edge” — one that would nix the part about Snow White being saved by a prince.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s the proactive one,” Gadot said. “She’s the one who sets the terms. 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"content": "\u003cp>Now that Tim Walz has been named the Democratic candidate for vice president, it’s time to tackle the most pressing question left in media and politics: Who will play the earnest ex-schoolteacher-turned-governor-turned-dad jokes magnet on \u003cem>Saturday Night Live\u003c/em>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One favorite has already dropped out: comic actor Steve Martin told \u003cem>The Los Angeles Times\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2024-08-07/steve-martin-will-not-play-tim-walz-on-saturday-night-live\">he turned down an offer\u003c/a> from SNL executive producer Lorne Michaels to play the Minnesota governor, a fellow balding, white-haired guy with a wide smile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13955101']“I said, ‘Lorne, I’m not an impressionist,’” Martin told \u003cem>Times\u003c/em> columnist Glenn Whipp. “You need someone who can really nail the guy.’ I was picked because I have gray hair and glasses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fans had been circulating pictures of Martin online with \u003cem>SNL\u003c/em> alum Maya Rudolph, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/23/nx-s1-5049585/maya-rudolph-kamala-harris-snl\">adding to buzz\u003c/a> she may reprise playing Vice President Harris — this time as the Democratic presidential nominee — when the show returns to new episodes this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Why this discussion matters\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Excitement over Martin reminded me of the moment Sarah Palin was named a vice presidential candidate in 2008, prompting loads of comedy nerds to send around emails noting how much Palin looked like another \u003cem>SNL\u003c/em> alum, Tina Fey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fey’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSOLz1YBFG0\">impression of Palin\u003c/a> eventually dominated pop culture so much, people believed the politician — then Alaska’s governor — really said, “I can see Russia from my house,” a line that Fey actually dropped during \u003cem>SNL\u003c/em>’s season premiere in September 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSOLz1YBFG0&t=118s\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Images of Gerald Ford as a clumsy doofus, George H.W. Bush as a patrician so stiff his words sounded like gibberish, and Al Gore as a stuffy know-it-all obsessed with the word “lockbox,” all come from devastating \u003cem>SNL\u003c/em> parodies. So who plays Walz — and how — may affect how history remembers him more than anything he actually does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Ditto for GOP vice presidential candidate JD Vance, whose selection didn’t quite inspire the same level of \u003cem>SNL\u003c/em> fancasting online).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I sympathize with purists who insist one of the show’s castmembers should get a shot at playing new figures like Walz or Vance — in the same way James Austin Johnson has electrified viewers with his amazing take on former President Donald Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Izukxr-SfsM\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Michaels discovered long ago that stunt casting celebrities brings attention and ratings. Even if they don’t really bother trying to imitate the people they’re playing, like Robert DeNiro and Ben Stiller (as Robert Mueller and Michael Cohen, respectively).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So here’s my short list of the folks left who Michaels should consider casting as Walz — along with a couple recommendations for Vance. Because teaching us how to laugh at these people just might help us understand them — or at least learn to tolerate them.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Jim Gaffigan\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>PROS: \u003c/strong>He’s a brilliant standup comic, with multiple Grammy nominations and specials aired or about to debut on Netflix, Prime Video and Hulu. 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"content": "\u003cp>The real Olympic medals are given out according to rules about speed, scores, perfection, actually defeating your opponent, all that boring stuff. But what if they weren’t?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What if there were another set of medals we could give to some of the best achievements of the games, even if they weren’t in officially recognized sports? We tried to think of what we’d hand out. So here are nine additional medals — call them the Extra Golds — for some of the additional feats of strength and cleverness that have delighted us in the last two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The one-man lift of one man\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13962361\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1296px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13962361\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/wrestler.png\" alt=\"A gleeful looking wrestler falls to the ground dragging his coach with him.\" width=\"1296\" height=\"860\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/wrestler.png 1296w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/wrestler-800x531.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/wrestler-1020x677.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/wrestler-160x106.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/wrestler-768x510.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1296px) 100vw, 1296px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mijain Lopez Nunez (R) celebrates with his coach on Aug. 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Punit Paranjpe/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It would have been enough that Cuba’s Mijain Lopez Nunez won his fifth consecutive gold medal for Greco-Roman wrestling — becoming the first Summer Olympian ever to hit that milestone. After he finished, he unlaced his shoes and set them on the mat to mark his retirement. But it wasn’t all poignancy — he also playfully flipped one coach onto his back, then lifted another and carried him a few steps. It’s one thing to win your match; it’s another to set a record in a grueling event and then celebrate by picking up an entire wrestling coach and carrying him around.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The 400-meter WHAAAAT?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13962362\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1292px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13962362\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Quincy-Hall.png\" alt=\"Five Olympic runners sprinting down a track.\" width=\"1292\" height=\"858\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Quincy-Hall.png 1292w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Quincy-Hall-800x531.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Quincy-Hall-1020x677.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Quincy-Hall-160x106.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Quincy-Hall-768x510.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1292px) 100vw, 1292px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Quincy Hall on the home straight in the Men’s 400m final on Aug. 7, 2024. \u003ccite>(Richard Heathcote/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Team USA sprinter Quincy Hall was going to lose the men’s 400 meters. It was obvious. Heading into the last 150 meters or so, he seemed to have been bested by not one, not two, but three of the other guys in the race. And then \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/08/07/g-s1-15858/quincy-hall-olympic-400m-gold-paris\">he just accelerated.\u003c/a> It looked magical. One of the curious things about sprinters is that when they’re speeding up, it can almost look like they’re slowing down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Hall pushed toward the finish line, if you were watching him in a vacuum, you might think he was \u003cem>more \u003c/em>spent, \u003cem>more \u003c/em>tapped out. But he was somehow passing everybody! And he leaned at the finish line and just edged out Matthew Hudson-Smith of Great Britain to win the gold medal. We still have to admit: We don’t entirely get what happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The athlete drop\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13962365\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1296px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13962365\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/athlete-drop.png\" alt=\"Four canoes with people in them being dropped from a great height.\" width=\"1296\" height=\"810\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/athlete-drop.png 1296w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/athlete-drop-800x500.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/athlete-drop-1020x638.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/athlete-drop-160x100.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/athlete-drop-768x480.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1296px) 100vw, 1296px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The beginning of the Canoe Slalom Women’s Kayak Cross heats on Aug. 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Alex Davidson/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Olympic sports begin in a lot of ways. A whistle blows, or a pistol bangs, or an athlete runs or serves or jumps. But the gold medal in athlete-dropping can only go to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/08/02/nx-s1-4927314/kayak-cross-olympic-debut-paris\">the kayak cross.\u003c/a> In this event, several competitors are kept suspended above the course they are about to paddle through. Then they are dropped. Yes, they are flat-out indifferently dumped into the water the way you would release an undersized fish. And, crowded together, they have to navigate a course of buoys and get to the finish line. Anybody can run when a whistle blows or start a game when the referee says so. This is something entirely different.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The 6.25-meter maximum flex\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13962367\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1294px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13962367\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Armand-Duplantis.png\" alt=\"A high-jumper glides over the top of a high jump pole.\" width=\"1294\" height=\"862\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Armand-Duplantis.png 1294w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Armand-Duplantis-800x533.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Armand-Duplantis-1020x679.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Armand-Duplantis-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Armand-Duplantis-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1294px) 100vw, 1294px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Armand Duplantis set the new Olympic record in the men’s pole vault final on Aug. 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kirill Kudrtavtsev/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Swedish-American pole vaulter Armand Duplantis — Mondo — already was guaranteed a gold medal. He didn’t need to jump anymore. But Mondo does not jump because he needs to. No, Mondo jumps because he \u003cem>wishes \u003c/em>to. And at the Paris finals, even when he already knew he had won, he wished to do something more: swipe the world record held by his greatest rival … [checks notes] himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, Duplantis jumped 6.24 meters. So what was next? \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/08/05/g-s1-15440/mondo-pole-vault-gold-sweden-paris-olympics\">6.25 meters, obviously.\u003c/a> Never one to deny his loyal audience the drama they crave, he took three jumps to clear the bar at that height, but on that last one, he nailed it. Who knows what he’ll do next? Dare we hope for … 6.26 meters?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Audience participation\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13962369\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1294px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13962369\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Le%CC%81on-Marchand.png\" alt=\"A male Olympic swimmer props himself up on a lane divider in a swimming pool and smiles broadly.\" width=\"1294\" height=\"832\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Léon-Marchand.png 1294w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Léon-Marchand-800x514.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Léon-Marchand-1020x656.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Léon-Marchand-160x103.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Léon-Marchand-768x494.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1294px) 100vw, 1294px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Léon Marchand reacts after competing in the Men’s 400m Individual Medley Heats on July 28, 2024. \u003ccite>(Sarah Stier/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Paris crowds have been thrilling to listen to, overall. Particularly in support of French athletes, they cheer, they yell, they chant, they roar. But they may have peaked when swimmer Léon Marchand was in the pool. Marchand swam in four individual races, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/08/03/nx-s1-5062365/leon-marchand-france-swimmer-olympic-gold\">he won four gold medals\u003c/a>. And every time, the crowd didn’t just yell for him; they \u003cem>pulsated \u003c/em>for him. Whenever he was doing a stroke that brought him rhythmically up out of the water, the crowd made sure that every time they saw his head, they gave him a fresh shout. Let’s be honest: It’s hard to know whether any of this is intelligible to a guy whose head is still mostly underwater and who is hyperfocused on things like his own arms and legs. But it was as if the people watching his races wanted you to be \u003cem>sure \u003c/em>they were cheering for no one else, \u003cem>sure \u003c/em>they were there for him. And indeed, we knew.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The out of left field leader\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13962370\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1296px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13962370\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Kristen-Faulkner.png\" alt=\"A cycling finish line filmed from above. A lone female cyclist crosses without any other competitors in sight.\" width=\"1296\" height=\"950\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Kristen-Faulkner.png 1296w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Kristen-Faulkner-800x586.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Kristen-Faulkner-1020x748.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Kristen-Faulkner-160x117.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Kristen-Faulkner-768x563.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1296px) 100vw, 1296px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kristen Faulkner passes the finish line during the women’s road race of cycling on Aug. 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Wu Huiwo/Xinhua - Pool/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>U.S. competitor Kristen Faulkner didn’t think until relatively recently that she was going to compete in the women’s road race that runs almost 100 miles through the streets of Paris and surrounding towns. She didn’t even think she was coming to the Olympics until \u003ca href=\"https://www.thecut.com/article/2024-olympics-kristen-faulkner-is-the-underdog-of-the-games.html\">another competitor resigned from the team\u003c/a> in July. As in, this July, last month. But things happen, and there she was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13961967']Late in the road race, she was in a chasing pair with another cyclist, separated by a few seconds from the leading pair. The announcers talked about whether the chasing pair could make a move — did they have enough left to get close? Could they close the gap? Well, they did close the gap. But almost as soon as the two pairs met and became four competitors together, Faulkner \u003cem>took off\u003c/em>. Nobody followed. The announcer yelled, “Nobody is chasing! Nobody is chasing the American, Kristen Faulkner, the gap is exploding!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faulkner — who only picked up cycling in \u003cem>2016 —\u003c/em> started her move with about two miles to go, and she ultimately won by almost a full minute. She was simply gone. Oh — and a couple days later, she won a gold medal in the track cycling team pursuit, making her the first U.S. woman to win gold medals in \u003ca href=\"https://www.teamusa.com/news/2024/august/07/team-usa-is-golden-in-women-s-team-pursuit-kristen-faulkner-becomes-first-u-s-woman-to-win-olympic-gold-in-two-different-disciplines\">two different disciplines\u003c/a>. Not the August she thought she was going to have in July, huh?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The last-minute lean\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13962372\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1290px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13962372\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Noah-Lyles.png\" alt=\"A race track viewed from above as 8 runners all cross the finish line close together.\" width=\"1290\" height=\"734\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Noah-Lyles.png 1290w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Noah-Lyles-800x455.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Noah-Lyles-1020x580.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Noah-Lyles-160x91.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Noah-Lyles-768x437.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1290px) 100vw, 1290px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Noah Lyles crosses the finish line to win the Men’s 100m Final on Aug. 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Richard Heathcote/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All of the sprinting events rely on the lean, for the simple reason that the rules state that you cross the finish line with your torso, not your head or your foot. (Quincy Hall, noted above, leaned, too.) Even after the men’s 100-meter dash, many of us believed that Team USA’s Noah Lyles had not won it. We were not even sure he had medaled. When they said he had, in fact, won the gold by five one-thousandths of a second, it felt like … no, he didn’t. He didn’t, did he? As it turned out, he did. Kishane Thompson of Jamaica looked like his essence, his general being, was ahead of Lyles. Your eyes might have told you he was the winner — at least one commentator’s eyes told her he was. Ah, but Lyles has the lean. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/08/04/g-s1-15308/noah-lyles-gold-100m-final-paris\">He won\u003c/a> by pushing his chest forward just enough. Lyles ran a remarkable race overall; he’d been in last place at the 40-yard mark. But you have to respect the lean that ultimately sealed the deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A note: It was only after I first added Lyles to this list that the news broke that he had competed in the 200 meters after \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/08/08/nx-s1-5068339/botswanas-letsile-tebogo-noah-lyles-olympic-gold-200-meter\">testing positive for COVID.\u003c/a> It was a sobering reminder of the lingering effects of COVID on these games that what had been such a uniformly great story turned troubling. Lyles is \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/29/nx-s1-5055889/covid-british-olympic-swimmer-adam-peaty\">far from the only athlete\u003c/a> who has gotten COVID or competed with COVID. But he has asthma, and particularly given what we know about long COVID, the sight of him leaving the field in a wheelchair was a reminder of the risks that remain, especially in the absence of meaningful precautions.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Use of an accessory\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13962373\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1296px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13962373\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Stephen-Nedoroscik.png\" alt=\"A man wearing a track jacket waves a pair of spectacles over his head.\" width=\"1296\" height=\"920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Stephen-Nedoroscik.png 1296w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Stephen-Nedoroscik-800x568.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Stephen-Nedoroscik-1020x724.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Stephen-Nedoroscik-160x114.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Stephen-Nedoroscik-768x545.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1296px) 100vw, 1296px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephen Nedoroscik celebrates after the Artistic Gymnastics Men’s Pommel Horse Final on Aug. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Jamie Squire/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Look, by now we all know about Stephen Nedoroscik, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/30/nx-s1-5057146/pommel-horse-stephen-nedoroscik-olympics\">“Pommel Horse Guy,”\u003c/a> who helped clinch the bronze medal for the U.S. men’s gymnastics team. We know that he is great at pommel horse — a specialist, in fact. We know that he was the last to go, that he had to hit and hit hard in order to win the bronze that was obviously so special to those guys that it might as well have been gold. But we must also recognize the power of his accessory game. Nedoroscik has a couple conditions — coloboma and strabismus — that affect his eyesight, and he says that when he competes on pommel horse, he’s doing it by feel, so he leaves his glasses behind. We (his fans) got to the point where the sight of his glasses hanging on the chalk bowl — as they did during the team final, and as they did when he won an individual bronze medal in pommel horse — had an unmistakable, “Oh, it’s HAPPENING” feeling. Like lots of us, he doesn’t wear his glasses for fashion, but that doesn’t mean they can’t be cool.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Enthusiasm management\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13962374\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1296px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13962374\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Sammy-Sullivan.png\" alt=\"A blonde woman wearing an Olympic USA t-shirt points at a medal hanging around her neck and looks overjoyed.\" width=\"1296\" height=\"860\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Sammy-Sullivan.png 1296w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Sammy-Sullivan-800x531.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Sammy-Sullivan-1020x677.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Sammy-Sullivan-160x106.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Sammy-Sullivan-768x510.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1296px) 100vw, 1296px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sammy Sullivan wasn’t ready to celebrate until the win was official. \u003ccite>(Kristy Sparow/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/08/01/nx-s1-5059158/olympics-womens-rugby-sevens-appreciation\">the U.S. women won a bronze medal\u003c/a> by beating Australia in rugby sevens, it was an absolutely classic last-minute sports moment. With Team USA down 12-7 in the closing seconds, Alex Sedrick ran all the way down the field from almost the opposite end and scored a “try,” tying the match at 12. Team USA would still need a conversion — a pretty easy-looking one, but still — in order to actually win. And so, as the team celebrated Sedrick’s score, one face on the sideline was not ready to celebrate. Sammy Sullivan served the very important function of jinx avoider, because as they waited to see whether they would actually get that conversion, she told her teammates: \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@seekclarity.friends/video/7397491452995063082\">“SHUT UP.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13962267']We’ve all been there, teetering on the edge of jubilation, afraid that other people will ruin it just by admitting it’s happening. We have all lived with the fear that our moment of victory is impossibly fragile and hubris will make it shatter. Sammy Sullivan was all of us: “SHUT UP.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This piece also appeared in NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour newsletter. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/newsletter/pop-culture\">Sign up for the newsletter\u003c/a> so you don’t miss the next one, plus get weekly recommendations about what’s making us happy.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Listen to Pop Culture Happy Hour on \u003ca href=\"http://n.pr/3xNgYt9\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://n.pr/3ELR3n6\">Spotify\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The real Olympic medals are given out according to rules about speed, scores, perfection, actually defeating your opponent, all that boring stuff. But what if they weren’t?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What if there were another set of medals we could give to some of the best achievements of the games, even if they weren’t in officially recognized sports? We tried to think of what we’d hand out. So here are nine additional medals — call them the Extra Golds — for some of the additional feats of strength and cleverness that have delighted us in the last two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The one-man lift of one man\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13962361\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1296px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13962361\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/wrestler.png\" alt=\"A gleeful looking wrestler falls to the ground dragging his coach with him.\" width=\"1296\" height=\"860\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/wrestler.png 1296w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/wrestler-800x531.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/wrestler-1020x677.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/wrestler-160x106.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/wrestler-768x510.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1296px) 100vw, 1296px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mijain Lopez Nunez (R) celebrates with his coach on Aug. 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Punit Paranjpe/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It would have been enough that Cuba’s Mijain Lopez Nunez won his fifth consecutive gold medal for Greco-Roman wrestling — becoming the first Summer Olympian ever to hit that milestone. After he finished, he unlaced his shoes and set them on the mat to mark his retirement. But it wasn’t all poignancy — he also playfully flipped one coach onto his back, then lifted another and carried him a few steps. It’s one thing to win your match; it’s another to set a record in a grueling event and then celebrate by picking up an entire wrestling coach and carrying him around.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The 400-meter WHAAAAT?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13962362\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1292px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13962362\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Quincy-Hall.png\" alt=\"Five Olympic runners sprinting down a track.\" width=\"1292\" height=\"858\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Quincy-Hall.png 1292w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Quincy-Hall-800x531.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Quincy-Hall-1020x677.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Quincy-Hall-160x106.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Quincy-Hall-768x510.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1292px) 100vw, 1292px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Quincy Hall on the home straight in the Men’s 400m final on Aug. 7, 2024. \u003ccite>(Richard Heathcote/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Team USA sprinter Quincy Hall was going to lose the men’s 400 meters. It was obvious. Heading into the last 150 meters or so, he seemed to have been bested by not one, not two, but three of the other guys in the race. And then \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/08/07/g-s1-15858/quincy-hall-olympic-400m-gold-paris\">he just accelerated.\u003c/a> It looked magical. One of the curious things about sprinters is that when they’re speeding up, it can almost look like they’re slowing down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Hall pushed toward the finish line, if you were watching him in a vacuum, you might think he was \u003cem>more \u003c/em>spent, \u003cem>more \u003c/em>tapped out. But he was somehow passing everybody! And he leaned at the finish line and just edged out Matthew Hudson-Smith of Great Britain to win the gold medal. We still have to admit: We don’t entirely get what happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The athlete drop\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13962365\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1296px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13962365\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/athlete-drop.png\" alt=\"Four canoes with people in them being dropped from a great height.\" width=\"1296\" height=\"810\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/athlete-drop.png 1296w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/athlete-drop-800x500.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/athlete-drop-1020x638.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/athlete-drop-160x100.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/athlete-drop-768x480.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1296px) 100vw, 1296px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The beginning of the Canoe Slalom Women’s Kayak Cross heats on Aug. 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Alex Davidson/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Olympic sports begin in a lot of ways. A whistle blows, or a pistol bangs, or an athlete runs or serves or jumps. But the gold medal in athlete-dropping can only go to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/08/02/nx-s1-4927314/kayak-cross-olympic-debut-paris\">the kayak cross.\u003c/a> In this event, several competitors are kept suspended above the course they are about to paddle through. Then they are dropped. Yes, they are flat-out indifferently dumped into the water the way you would release an undersized fish. And, crowded together, they have to navigate a course of buoys and get to the finish line. Anybody can run when a whistle blows or start a game when the referee says so. This is something entirely different.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The 6.25-meter maximum flex\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13962367\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1294px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13962367\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Armand-Duplantis.png\" alt=\"A high-jumper glides over the top of a high jump pole.\" width=\"1294\" height=\"862\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Armand-Duplantis.png 1294w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Armand-Duplantis-800x533.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Armand-Duplantis-1020x679.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Armand-Duplantis-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Armand-Duplantis-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1294px) 100vw, 1294px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Armand Duplantis set the new Olympic record in the men’s pole vault final on Aug. 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kirill Kudrtavtsev/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Swedish-American pole vaulter Armand Duplantis — Mondo — already was guaranteed a gold medal. He didn’t need to jump anymore. But Mondo does not jump because he needs to. No, Mondo jumps because he \u003cem>wishes \u003c/em>to. And at the Paris finals, even when he already knew he had won, he wished to do something more: swipe the world record held by his greatest rival … [checks notes] himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, Duplantis jumped 6.24 meters. So what was next? \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/08/05/g-s1-15440/mondo-pole-vault-gold-sweden-paris-olympics\">6.25 meters, obviously.\u003c/a> Never one to deny his loyal audience the drama they crave, he took three jumps to clear the bar at that height, but on that last one, he nailed it. Who knows what he’ll do next? Dare we hope for … 6.26 meters?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Audience participation\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13962369\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1294px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13962369\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Le%CC%81on-Marchand.png\" alt=\"A male Olympic swimmer props himself up on a lane divider in a swimming pool and smiles broadly.\" width=\"1294\" height=\"832\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Léon-Marchand.png 1294w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Léon-Marchand-800x514.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Léon-Marchand-1020x656.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Léon-Marchand-160x103.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Léon-Marchand-768x494.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1294px) 100vw, 1294px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Léon Marchand reacts after competing in the Men’s 400m Individual Medley Heats on July 28, 2024. \u003ccite>(Sarah Stier/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Paris crowds have been thrilling to listen to, overall. Particularly in support of French athletes, they cheer, they yell, they chant, they roar. But they may have peaked when swimmer Léon Marchand was in the pool. Marchand swam in four individual races, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/08/03/nx-s1-5062365/leon-marchand-france-swimmer-olympic-gold\">he won four gold medals\u003c/a>. And every time, the crowd didn’t just yell for him; they \u003cem>pulsated \u003c/em>for him. Whenever he was doing a stroke that brought him rhythmically up out of the water, the crowd made sure that every time they saw his head, they gave him a fresh shout. Let’s be honest: It’s hard to know whether any of this is intelligible to a guy whose head is still mostly underwater and who is hyperfocused on things like his own arms and legs. But it was as if the people watching his races wanted you to be \u003cem>sure \u003c/em>they were cheering for no one else, \u003cem>sure \u003c/em>they were there for him. And indeed, we knew.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The out of left field leader\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13962370\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1296px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13962370\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Kristen-Faulkner.png\" alt=\"A cycling finish line filmed from above. A lone female cyclist crosses without any other competitors in sight.\" width=\"1296\" height=\"950\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Kristen-Faulkner.png 1296w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Kristen-Faulkner-800x586.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Kristen-Faulkner-1020x748.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Kristen-Faulkner-160x117.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Kristen-Faulkner-768x563.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1296px) 100vw, 1296px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kristen Faulkner passes the finish line during the women’s road race of cycling on Aug. 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Wu Huiwo/Xinhua - Pool/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>U.S. competitor Kristen Faulkner didn’t think until relatively recently that she was going to compete in the women’s road race that runs almost 100 miles through the streets of Paris and surrounding towns. She didn’t even think she was coming to the Olympics until \u003ca href=\"https://www.thecut.com/article/2024-olympics-kristen-faulkner-is-the-underdog-of-the-games.html\">another competitor resigned from the team\u003c/a> in July. As in, this July, last month. But things happen, and there she was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Late in the road race, she was in a chasing pair with another cyclist, separated by a few seconds from the leading pair. The announcers talked about whether the chasing pair could make a move — did they have enough left to get close? Could they close the gap? Well, they did close the gap. But almost as soon as the two pairs met and became four competitors together, Faulkner \u003cem>took off\u003c/em>. Nobody followed. The announcer yelled, “Nobody is chasing! Nobody is chasing the American, Kristen Faulkner, the gap is exploding!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faulkner — who only picked up cycling in \u003cem>2016 —\u003c/em> started her move with about two miles to go, and she ultimately won by almost a full minute. She was simply gone. Oh — and a couple days later, she won a gold medal in the track cycling team pursuit, making her the first U.S. woman to win gold medals in \u003ca href=\"https://www.teamusa.com/news/2024/august/07/team-usa-is-golden-in-women-s-team-pursuit-kristen-faulkner-becomes-first-u-s-woman-to-win-olympic-gold-in-two-different-disciplines\">two different disciplines\u003c/a>. Not the August she thought she was going to have in July, huh?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The last-minute lean\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13962372\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1290px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13962372\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Noah-Lyles.png\" alt=\"A race track viewed from above as 8 runners all cross the finish line close together.\" width=\"1290\" height=\"734\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Noah-Lyles.png 1290w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Noah-Lyles-800x455.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Noah-Lyles-1020x580.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Noah-Lyles-160x91.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Noah-Lyles-768x437.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1290px) 100vw, 1290px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Noah Lyles crosses the finish line to win the Men’s 100m Final on Aug. 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Richard Heathcote/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All of the sprinting events rely on the lean, for the simple reason that the rules state that you cross the finish line with your torso, not your head or your foot. (Quincy Hall, noted above, leaned, too.) Even after the men’s 100-meter dash, many of us believed that Team USA’s Noah Lyles had not won it. We were not even sure he had medaled. When they said he had, in fact, won the gold by five one-thousandths of a second, it felt like … no, he didn’t. He didn’t, did he? As it turned out, he did. Kishane Thompson of Jamaica looked like his essence, his general being, was ahead of Lyles. Your eyes might have told you he was the winner — at least one commentator’s eyes told her he was. Ah, but Lyles has the lean. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/08/04/g-s1-15308/noah-lyles-gold-100m-final-paris\">He won\u003c/a> by pushing his chest forward just enough. Lyles ran a remarkable race overall; he’d been in last place at the 40-yard mark. 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