These are the best moments of the Olympics so far, including the mathematician who problem-solved her way to a cycling gold medal
Photo-Illustration: The Cut. Photos: NBC; Getty Images Defying the odds and also good judgment, the 2020/2021 Olympics are under way in Tokyo. For months, health experts and the public have begged the International Olympic Committee to call off the Games for fear that gathering so many people from all different countries during a global pandemic may well snowball into a superspreader event.
Who is this scary basketball robot?? And maybe more important, WHY is this scary basketball robot, a six-foot-ten monster with the hands of a frog and the skin of a fly, stalking the courts at these Olympic Games? He showed up at Sunday’s men’s preliminary round group-B game between the U.S. and France, sinking three free throws during halftime. I gather that is his whole purpose in life, so congrats to him and apologies to you.
This swim coach is horny for gold Let’s hear it for Australian swimming coach Dean Boxall, who channeled his excitement over champion Ariarne Titmus’s gold-medal win — against USA champ Katie Ledecky in the 400-meter free — through his hips. Reacting to the news, Boxall punched the air and humped the partition with joyful abandon. Happy for him, happy for Titmus, and happy for the rest of us that Boxall was confined to the viewing gallery when the news hit.
Tom Daley’s moving win British diver and multi-time Olympic medalist Tom Daley had a message for LGBTQ+ youth after winning gold in the synchronized 10m platform event. “I feel incredibly proud to say that I am a gay man and also an Olympic champion,” he told press. “And I feel very empowered by that because when I was younger, I thought I was never going to be anything or achieve anything because of who I was, and to be an Olympic champion now just shows that you can achieve anything.
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