Day 1: So Many Events!

I'm currently watching a skateboarding final and a dude's phone fell out of his pocket.  Of course, then he stopped in the middle of his Olympic program to put the phone back in his baggy shorts.  The impeccably groomed horses from the Equestiran Dressage event are appalled, but this is the OLYMPICS and if you can use a broom to help a stone slide down some ice and win a medal then why not?

I saw bits of so many events beginning today - it's going to be exciting to see how things shape up!  Also, there's a typhoon heading toward Tokyo and that means the surfing is going to be LIT.

What's also LIT is our first look at the scoreboard with the first medals awarded in the games:

Three gold medals dropped today to kick off the scoring:

• League of Pokemon snatched a gold from China's women weightlifting team, along with keeping SamuRyan's US squad off the medal stand. 
  
  
• TokYoMama sliced their way to a quick gold in the men's Sabre finals with Aron Szilagyi of Hungary securing the first Fencing medal of the games. The upset here is for SamuRyan with Oh Sang-uk deciding to suck and the #1 seed fell in the quarterfinals, finishing off the stand. TokYoMama will stay hungry for more with the Hungarians a strong contender for the Sabre team finals gold.
  
  
• Fire Dragons shot to the lead with the Archery mixed doubles Gold medal with An San winning the first ever Gold for the event.  The South Korean team is stacked with excellence in Archery, and which team member got to compete in the event was unknown heading into the games.  I believe the results of some qualifying matches helped to settle the team and both the male and female participants were unexpetced, making this a huge value for the Fire Dragons and a big loss of potential points for Pokemon, Wasabi Warriors, and SamuRyan.  Still plenty of medal opportunities to come, but this gives a huge advantage to the Fire Dragon squad.

Lots more to come tomorrow with swimming kicking off and the points are going to start piling up quickly.  Buckle up...