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Andre De Grasse and Usain Bolt wins gold for adorableness.
Source: olympics.cbc.ca
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“Flash Vs Bolt”
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Monica Puig wins the Women’s tennis event at Rio 2016, earning Puerto Rico their first ever Olympic gold medal. She also becomes the first non seeded player to win Gold since seedings were introduced.
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Monica Puig, Gold Medalist and Olympic Champion in women’s singles tennis.
She is the first Puerto Rican woman to win a medal of any color playing for Puerto Rico.
Oh yeah.
And the only Gold Medal Puerto Rico has EVER won.
She was ranked world 34. Was is the operative word.
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Simone Manuel and Penny Oleksiak
Happily joint gold medalists and Olympic champions. Neither were fancied. Neither was leading at the turn. Both’s first instinct was to hug the other.
It was perhaps the most inspiring moment of the games.
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Simone Manuel of the United States and Penny Oleksiak of Canada tie for gold with an Olympic Record in the 100m freestyle with a time of 52.70. Manuel is the first African-American woman to win an individual Olympic swimming medal, and Oleksiak is the youngest gold medalist in Olympics history.
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Move over, Matt Lauer, NBC has a new Olympic commentator coming through. Saturday Night Live’s Leslie Jones has officially touched down in Rio to serve as a correspondent during the games after her live-tweeting of the televised events went viral this week, and she’s hit the ground running.
She has her own official Olympics Snapchat filter, and she’s been feverishly documenting her entire experience on all of her accounts. You have to watch her amazing videos that go far beyond team spirit.
Leslie Jone’s makes life so much better
Just picture all the asshole white dude trolls who were attacking her and celebrating when they thought they drove her off Twitter. Picture their faces now.
Source: dailydot.com
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me when i do something right and thought i fucked up
Source: mic.com
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With an Olympic record tie in the 100m freestyle, 16-year old Penny Oleksiak became the first Canadian to ever win four medals in a single summer Olympics, while 20-year-old Simone Manuel became the first black woman in Olympic history to earn an individual swimming gold medal: “It means a lot [to be the first black woman to earn gold in the pool]. I mean, this medal is not just for me. It’s for a whole bunch of people that came before me and have been an inspiration to me. Maritza [Correia], Cullen [Jones], and it’s for all the people after me, who believe they can’t do it. And I just want to be inspiration to others that you can do it.”