I can’t help but cheer for

[moonvine]

The Refugee Olympic team!!!! Anyone else?

 

[el henry]

Zac Stubblety-Cook because I love his name.

 

[TontoK]

That South African swimmer who won while wearing those dangly earrings.

What a boss.

 

[moonvine]

Zac Stubblety-Cook because I love his name.

What sport?

 

[moonvine]

That South African swimmer who won while wearing those dangly earrings.

What a boss.

I’ll have to try to find that. I watch as much swimming as I can but NBC has 7000 hours of coverage. That is a lot of coverage.

 

[el henry]

What sport?

Swimming. He won gold for Australia

 

[NanaPat]

What sport?

Swimming. S-Cook is from Australia or New Zealand. The CBC announcers use his full hyphenated last name unless they are in a hurry, when they just say Cook.

 

[moonvine]

Swimming. S-Cook is from Australia or New Zealand. The CBC announcers use his full hyphenated last name unless they are in a hurry, when they just say Cook.

I’ll have to try to find these swimmers. There is just so many hours of it. And I’m a swimmer so it’s interesting.

 

[moonvine]

Team Jamaica!!

 

[yuumagical]

Lesser-known countries!

 

[anonymoose_au]

CT Pan from Taiwan at the Golf who picked up the bronze in the men's golf.

Yes, I actually got into the golf.

 

[Winnie_20]

Every single gymnast who successfully completes a trampoline routine. Holy cow, but those men and women have nerves of steel!

 

[EdgeCall]

After unsuccessfull participation in 24 games (14 Summer, 10 Winter) the proud nation of San Marino with a population of 33600 has finally become the smallest country ever to win an Olympic medal. Shooter Alessandra Perilli not only won the bronze medal in the women's trap event, with her partner Gian Marco Berti she even won silver in the mixed trap team.

Three cheers for San Marino! May the world shiver when the mouse roars!

 

[moonvine]

CT Pan from Taiwan at the Golf who picked up the bronze in the men's golf.

Yes, I actually got into the golf.

Well I can safely say that won’t happen to me

 

[el henry]

Lamont Marcell Jacobs Jr. with the all American name but so very much all Italian.

And the Italian and Qatari high jumpers deciding to share the gold rather than have a jump off; so sporting

 

[surimi]

This 32-year-old from Japan, Kohei Kameyama: https://sports.yahoo.com/gymnastics-despair-games-debut-japans-082237216.html His story popped up at me on Yahoo yesterday, and I am happy for his 5th place finish in the horse event today. I really like how he came back from what sounds like depression, and now posts advice on athlete mental health welfare on his website. What an inspiring guy

 

[Winnie_20]

Tom Daley happily working on his latest knitting project while attending the women’s three meter diving finals. You go Tom!

 

[Amei]

Umm this might be the weird answer but the Russian team, they are getting a lot of hate and there have been several US athletes speak out against them implying they aren't clean and that they don't belong there. My perspective is that they are probably far more clean than anyone else at the Games because they are being scrutinized.

 

[Girlbird]

Mykayla Skinner, Silver Medalist on Vault! She thought she was done, so many times, and it turns out she still got her chance to step onto that podium. <3

 

[moonvine]

Mykayla Skinner, Silver Medalist on Vault! She thought she was done, so many times, and it turns out she still got her chance to step onto that podium. <3

I love her. I was so happy.