Day 7: The Gold Standard

Another day of events and there's a new leader at the top of the board, and it's easy to see why the Fire Dragons are at the top with 9 gold medals!  That's averaging more than 1 gold per day which is a tough pace to beat.

The Legendary League of Pokemon continues to get plenty of legendary performances, and is only 1 point out of first.  Despite not as many gold medals his team has amassed 17 medals, 3 more than the Fire Dragons as the next closest team.

Leading off the Gold rush today is An San of South Korean Archery hitting a bullseye on her THIRD Gold of the games, and of course An San is also carrying the Fire Dragons to the top.

Badminton had the first final competition with the mixxed doubles - Team China 1 faced Team China 2 and China won.  Unfortunately for League of Pokemon and Hibachi Ninjas they picked the silver Chinese team members, but still get 5 points.

Table Tennis also had a pair of Chinese competitors in the finals with Ma Long of Ra-men+women besting Fan Zhendong of Kara-Oke for the Gold.

Regular ol' Tennis had their first final event with the Men's mixed doubles final with a Balkan battle, pitting Croatia vs Croatia.  Croatia won and Wasabi Warriors was glad because she drafted one of the four Croatian competitiors (Mektic) and grabbed a Gold. 

Track and Field began today! The first medal was handed out in the 10000m race, and two competitors in the fantasy olympiad scored points. Selemon Barega of Ethiopia was the favorite in the 5000m but he pulled out the Gold medal in this race, making him a solid contender for double Gold in these two distance events.  Hibachi Ninjas are ready to keep chopping up the competition. Silver went to Joshua Cheptegi of the Fire Ninjas, who have enough points anyway.

Swimming wraps up soon but there are still a flurry of medals coming through. 

• Evgeny Rylov of ROC and League of Pokemon continued his exceptional Games with a Gold in the Backstroke. Team Ryan (SamuRyan and Ryan Murphy) took the silver.
• Duncan Scott, Great Britain, of Ra-men+women grabbbed a silver in the 200IM
• The Aussie women strike again in the 100m free with Emma McKeon of Wasabi Warriors grabbing Gold and Cate Campbell of Fire Dragons took the Bronze

Finally, Rowing keeps going stroke after stroke with plenty of points handed out today:

• Hibachi Ninjas - Germany Men Silver
• TokYoMama - Croatia Men Bronze
• Kara-oke - New Zealand Women Silver, Gold

The Kiwi women's rowing team has amassed 30 points so far and has propelled Kara-oke from the depths of Mordor to within striking range of Middle Earth.