Day 1 Recap

Here is your scoreboard after Day 1:

Guanabara Gladiators jumped to the lead after Day 1 with strong performances from key picks - Cate "Soup" Campbell from Australia ate her Chunky soup and blasted through the final leg of the 4x100 relay to capture gold for Australia.  This also have Fogo de Champion a gold with sister Bronte Campbell providing the appetizer course to Cate's closing speed.

Archery provided multiple medals on the day with the key showdown of Korea and USA in the men's team finals.  Ultimately, the Korean's dominated and set world records in the process, as expected, and Guanabara and Team Leroy received the gold medal points from Kim Woo-Jin and Ku Bon-chan.  PiranhaMama claimed rights to Brady Ellison on draft night, and while the US came up short with the silver, this was still better than the projected Bronze - so PiranhaMama will take the 2 bonus points.

It Phelps if you Walsh your hands (...) had a strong day with the performance by the "IRON LADY" swimmer Katinka Hozzu.  She obliterated a world record in the process and left no doubt in capturing gold, also giving very *ahem* humble interviews in the process.  Another swimmer on It Phelps, the dominant Katie Ledecky surely has more gold opportunities to come, but was able to gain a silver for the team with USA's finish behind the Campbell sisters in the 4x100 relay.

In the final medal awarded to our teams, Real Winner also claimed a swimming medal with a gold from Kosuke Hagino of Japan.


Now the other story that defines how our teams are doing is what could have been:

• Team Leroy - Sarah Sjostrom of Sweden swam in 2 events - only moral victories
• It Phelps if you Walsh - Sjef Van den Berg had more names than arrows available in Archery as the Netherlands fell to the dominant Koreans.
• Guanabara Gladiators had double-gold medalist Chris Froome from the London Olympics fall short in the cycling road race finshing 12th, but fortunately he finished, as half the field crashed along the crazy descent to the finish.
• Fogo de Champion drafted maybe the best gymnast of all time according to news sources, however Kohei Uchimura spent too much time playing Pokemon and didn't concentrate on the high bar - his best event.  He fell off disastrously in preliminaries, which means he did not score high enough to participate in the event finals where he was projected for gold.  From hero to zero, but bonus more time to find Pikachu. 

Onward to day 2!