Sacré Red, White, and Blue

With over 100 medals now, Uncle Sam continues to dominate.

On the track, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone set a 400m hurdles world record, winning gold by 1.5 seconds. Tara Davis-Woodhall (long jump) and Grant Holloway (110m hurdles) also took gold; Quincy Hall came from behind to win the men’s 400m by 0.04 seconds; and Noah Lyles (200m) raced with COVID and still got bronze.

Meanwhile, women’s synchronized artistic swimming won its first medal in twenty years—a silver—with an underwater moonwalk; and Steph Curry & Co. survived Serbia, advancing to play gold medal hoops against France tomorrow. 

Winter Olympians crashed the soiree to resolve some mis-medalling. Russia’s 2022 figure skating team had its gold medals revoked due to doping, bumping Team USA up to gold in an Eiffel Tower ceremony. 

Paris’s closing ceremonies are Sunday night.

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Verse to consider whether your country wins, loses… or you’re just not an Olympics kinda person…“Rejoice always, pray constantly, give thanks in everything; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.”
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 (CSB) (read full passage)