Day 5: Don't Stop Believin'

Finally on Day 5 - everyone has registered points on the board.  Like the famous Journey song, Kara-oke should be shoutin' out Don't Stop Believin' because there are plenty of points still to grab in the next week and a half.

However, The Legendary League of Pokemon continue to consistently amass points, striving to be the best, like no one ever was. Today, they were singing "Party in the USA" as the 3x3 Women's Basketball team claimed the first ever Gold medal in this event. However it didn't take long for the tune to quickly change to "Back in the USSR," as Evgeny Rylov continues exceeding expectations and grabs a silver in the 200m relay with ROC.

The Fire Dragons continue to "Take it to the Limit" by having the most Gold medals of any team. The big flex today is with the Latvian 3x3 men's team claiming the Gold for 20 big points. Diving also made a splash with another Chinese gold in Xie Siyi.

SamuRyan had a big climb up the "Wonderwall" today jumping to 3rd place. Leading the way was Oh Sang-Uk singin' "Don't Fence Me In" on the way to the team Sabre Gold. Katie Ledecky took the "Slow Ride" winning the 1500m Gold, and the Serbian men's 3x3 team claimed the Bronze medal. Of note, Filippo Ganna of Italy is SamuRyan's cyclist and had a chance in the road cycling time trial race today but finished 5th by 1 second.  Ganna is also expected to do well in the track cycling events as one of the only cross-over athletes.

The biggest bundle of points on the day were in the typhoon-delayed Rowing event finals, with many of the men's and women's events finishing today.  So let's go "Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay" to see a recap of our team winners:

1. Wasabi Warriors - Netherlands men Gold and Silver
2. SamuRyan - Australia women Gold and Bronze
3. League of Pokemon - Netherlands women Silver and Bronze
4. Kara-oke (finally!) - New Zealand women Silver

Other key updates:

• Kara-Oke lived in "China Grove" today with a diving gold Wang Zongyuan and a bronze from the 3x3 Chinese women's team.  Also present was Hibachi Ninjas with the 3rd Gold in Weightlifting for the Chinese men.
• TokYoMama was "Hungry like the Wolf" with a Hungarian fencing team bronze with Szilagyi.
• Ra-men+women sang "It's Raining Men" watching the Men's Gymnastics all-around final with their favorite Nikita Nagorny from ROC, but unfortunately some missteps only netted Nagorny the Bronze.  He nearly claimed the silver after the Chinese gynmast was flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct and incurred a celebration penalty of .3 points, after he exited the mat and then re-entered to celebrate further.  The deduction made it much closer than it should have been, but he hung on for silver.  Duncan Scott also grabbed a Gold in a swimming relay from Great Britain.
• "The Land Down Under" remains a big hit in the pool for the Aussies with Elijah Winnington scoring a bronze for Hibachi Ninjas, and Ariane Titmus dominating again with a Gold for TokYoMama

Some of the team events don't finish until late in the games, so it's awesome to see the big points come in early for some of the first team events.  What will shake up the scoreboard tomorrow?

I hope you enjoyed all the sing-a-long selections, so I'll leave you with an awesome Olympic montage video at this link.