Medals on Medals
It was a podium-packed weekend.
Team USA’s highlights included gold medals for:
Swimmers in the world-record-setting 4x100 mixed relay and women’s 4x100 medley relays
Bobby Finke’s world-record-setting 1500m swim
Katie Ledecky’s 800m swim (her fourth consecutive 800m gold)
Masters Champ Scottie Scheffler
Simone Biles’s vault (beam and floor still to come)
Noah Lyles’s 100m dash (we’re talking thousandths of a second)
Meanwhile, Women’s boxing is taking gold in controversy.
Two medalists from Taiwan and Algeria are facing scrutiny after the International Boxing Association (IBA)’s president said, “They have XY chromosomes.” The results reportedly came from eligibility tests conducted last year by the Russian-led IBA, which is currently banned from the Olympics for alleged corruption. The Olympic President said it’s “not a transgender issue,” saying both athletes were born, raised, and have always competed as women.
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Verse to consider when you’re tempted to brag about how your country is the first to 3,000 total Olympic medals… “God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble.”
James 4:6 (CSB) (read full passage)