Day 8: Need for Speed

We make the shift from speed in the pool to speed on the track today and we'll see who speeds up the leaderboard in the next week.

One thing that has not been built on speed, but rather the slow, continuous march of a Godzilla through the city has been the Fire Dragons' domination of opponents in claiming gold during this fantasy games.  Perhaps now the Fire Dragons will be less like Godzilla but more like Smaug, the fierce dragon from The Hobbit who hoarded his golden treasure in a mountain for hundreds of years. Now the Fire Dragons will look to defend their place at the top of the mountain for the final week. The Fire Dragons claimed another gold in Fencing from Sofia Velikaya.  They were also looking strong in Tennis with world #1 Novak Djokovic looking to secure the hyper-rare Golden Grand Slam that only Steffi Graf has previously completed - winning all four grand slams and the Olympics in the same year.  However, Djokovic got frustrated, threw a racket in the stands, broke another, and lost, finishing off the stand and then withdrawing from the doubles tournament.  Not a joke from the Djoker.

SamuRyan's Tennis selection Ash Barty (women's world #1) did happen to pull off the Bronze medal in mixed doubles, salvaging her games after suffering a huge loss in round 1 of the singles event.

In the 100m women's final today Kara-oke started off a huge points day claiming the Gold pick with Elaine Thompson-Herah over SamuRyan's four-named flyer looking for a four-peat Shelly-Ann Frayser-Price who took silver as part of the Jamaican sweep in the event. Kara-oke also secured a great Wild Card pick with the New Zealand women's rugby team claiming gold and getting the 20 point bonus.

Hibachi Ninjas continue to get a lift from China's male weightlifting team, grabbing another Gold. TokYoMama rode the midnight train and grabbed a Bronze from the Georgia men's team.

Wasabi Warriors has continued to ride the wave to 3rd place, behind amazing performances from probably the two best swimmers at the Games: Caeleb Dressel of the US and Emma McKeon of Australia.  Dressel grabbed a gold and McKeon a Bronze.  

Another McAussie was Kaylee McKeown who secured a Gold and a Bronze for Ra-men+women.

Katie Ledecky of SamuRyan and Ariarne Titmus of TokYoMama had another head to head showdown in the 800m race and this time Ledecky held off Titmus for the Gold. Both finish with 4 medals in the games.