Brazil star Marta becomes first soccer player to score at five-straight Olympic Games

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For the first time ever in the history of the Olympic Games, Quinn, a transgender and  non-binary athlete, has won a gold medal. Quinn has become the only such athlete to ever take home any medal in the Games.  Quinn, 25, was part of the Canadian women’s football team, that beat Sweden 3-2 in the women’s football final to take gold on Friday night. Quinn, a midfielder, was also part of the bronze medal winning Canadian  team at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

another first for the soccer finals.In an interview with CBC Sports earlier this week, Quinn expressed their pride in getting to be a role model for young people. “Athletics is the most exciting part of my life and it brings me the most joy,” Quinn, who goes by one name, said. “If I can allow kids to play the sports they love, that’s my legacy and that’s what I’m here for.” Quinn played for Canada in the Rio Games in 2016, where the team won bronze.

Ariel Torres. The athlete, representing the country, his hometown Hialeah, and the Latinx and Hispanic community, won the bronze medal in men’s individual karate kata.As reported by NBC Sports, Torres currently ranks in the tenth position of male kata globally.

She is the first American woman to win the 800m since the 1968 Mexico City Games. #TokyoOlympicspic.twitter.com/WmJq2dYulrPrior to earning bronze in this 800-meter final, the 24-year-old Rogers earned a second-place finish in the 2019 World Athletics Championships.

Olympic history on Monday by becoming the first openly transgender woman to compete in any Games. The 43-year-old athlete represented her home country of New Zealand in the women’s heavyweight competition.However, Hubbard’s hopes for a medal in the women’s 87+ kilogram competition fell short after she failed all three lift attempts.

Galway-born composer Amie Doherty has achieved an incredible milestone by becoming the first-ever woman to score a film for DreamWorks Animation Studio.

after the match. “We fought so hard to get here and it wasn’t always easy and we’re really happy with what we’ve done.”She added: “It gives me goosebumps [winning gold].

she pulled herself out of competition to focus on her mental health.Lee secured the individual gold with a score of 57.433, 0.135 points ahead of Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade, despite trailing her initially. It was Lee’s turn on the uneven bars that helped her secure the win, as she notched a 15.3, which put her only 0.066 behind Andrade.

Reflecting on the anniversary of "Stick It" with TheWrap earlier this year, Peregrym noted that she was absolutely blown away by the gymnasts she and her castmates trained with (some as young as 6 and 7 years old). But she also remembers how hard it was seeing them mess up, because they always knew it immediately, and it sticks with her to this day."To watch them, and to watch the Olympians -- they know when they're messing up, and that part really affects me still," Peregrym said.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorNBCUniversal’s Olympics coverage is putting a spotlight not only on the world’s top athletes, but on the way American viewers are choosing to watch them.In decades past, fans of swimming competitions and gymnastic feats would tune in to a single network showing the Summer Olympics, and giant audiences would follow. In recent years, however, as U.S.

2 min read It has taken 13 years, four Olympic Games and countless hours of training and competing but in a major boilover, Tom Daley and his diving partner Matty Lee have won a gold medal in the 10 metre Men’s Synchronised Platform Final in Tokyo over defending champions China by just one point.

Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games are taking place in 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic, but thanks to live streaming, there are more ways to watch than ever before. The two-week event kicks off on Wednesday, July 21 and runs through Aug. 8 in its host city of Tokyo, Japan, who will commemorate the Games with the opening ceremony on Friday, July 23.Among the stars expected to compete for Team USA include Megan Rapinoe, along with the dominant U.S.

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