Paris Olympics 2024, Women's Track Cycling Team Pursuit: Split Times

The British quartet of Elinor Barker, Josie Knight, Anna Morris, and Jessica Roberts got off to a bit of a slower start in their Bronze Medal race against Team Italia.  They did manage to keep building up (or Italy began to waiver) as the laps progressed.  You can just see the British coach giving them their split times as they fly past at roughly forty miles an hour.  Bear in mind that they are riding a single speed fixed gear bike with a huge gear ration.  They did come back to take the Bronze medal continuing their streak of medaling in every Olympic game in this event since its introduction into the Summer Olympics.  Sadly, despite their great start, Italy will continue to be the bridesmaid and never the bride in this track cycling contest.  The country only has two medals in track cycling total.  I guess they will leave their prowess to road cycling.

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"Split Times PO24-75" (Original art by Greig Leach)

Paris Olympics 2024, Men's Road Race: Sprinting in Paris

This might be THE image of these Olympic Games for me.  Either unable to catch his teammate, or unwilling to drag the others up to Valentin Madouas (France), Christophe Laporte (France) was able to sprint away from the chase group under the shadow of the Eiffel Tower to take the Bronze Medal.  His third place meant that the French took the two remaining medals behind the Belgium Remco Evenepoel.  Not a bad finish for the home team in front of one of their most famous landmarks.  And kudos to the cameraman that found this angle for the finale, too bad he couldn't have got there for Evenepoel's finale.

As Evenepoel posed with his bike just across the finish, you could see the TV camera men running down the course to get this shot.  Somebody is in trouble...

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"Sprinting in Paris PO24-59" (Original art by Greig Leach)

Paris Olympics 2024, Women's 100M Backstroke: Off the Wall

Looking at this painting now, it is a bit difficult to see that we are looking at the fronts of these swimmers as they leap away from the wall at the start of the 100 Meter Backstroke.  Off the wall first in green is Kaylee McKeown (Australia) on her way to winning the Gold Medal and setting a new Olympic Record.  To her rights is Regan Smith (USA) who took the Silver Medal, and to her right is her teammate Katharine Berkoff who finished the night with the Bronze Medal.  Australia has been dominating in the pool in Paris, with few other countries getting a win in any of the other races.

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"Off the Wall PO24-33" (Original art by Greig Leach)

Paris Olympics 2024, Women's Rugby: Sliding into a Medal!

It took a missed extra point kick by Australia to give the American women a chance in the final seconds of the Bronze Medal match.  After a couple of tackles and skilled passes, Team USA got the ball to Alice Sedrick who evaded Australia's final player to race down the pitch to score!  She tied the game with just six seconds left to play.  And then she made the extra point to give Team USA its first Women's Rugby medal.  Admittedly, women's rugby has only been a game at the Olympics since 2016, but still a first time is still a first time.

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"Dropping In PO24-29" (Original art by Greig Leach)

Paris Olympics 2024, Men's Street Skateboarding: Taking a Risk

Nyjah Huston (USA) put together a great 45 seconds run of tricks that put him into the medal competition.  With five attempts to hit a best trick he felt sure it was worth the risk on this one.  I'm sorry I am not up on the skateboarding lingo, so I can't tell you the name of the trick that won him the Bronze Medal.

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"Taking a Risk PO24-27" (Original art by Greig Leach)

Paris Olympics 2024, Men's Gymnastics Team All-Around: Doing One Thing Very Well

The final apparatus for Team USA in the team competition was the Pommel Horse.  It was the only event that Stephen Nedoroscik (USA) was competing in for the team.  Not only had he waited throughout the entire event, but he was the last to go in USA's rotation.  He seemed to be keeping himself calm and very relaxed all evening.  He was very cool as he tweaked the set-up of the horse to his exact specifications.  Then he jumped up and started his near flawless routine.  I can't believe that he was able to do two single arm spins in his 45 second appearance on the Olympic stage.  As he came off the floor, the team knew that they had (and he) had done enough to win a Bronze Medal for Team USA.

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"Doing One Thing Very Well PO24-26" (Original art by Greig Leach)

Paris Olympics 2024, Men's Gymnastics Team All-Around: Eyes on the Men

The title comes from a mission of Frederick Richard (USA).  It is his goal to get more people into men's gymnastics, particularly to get people of color into and in the sport that means so much to him.  He was one of five American men vying to win a medal in the team gymnastics all-around event.  It has been several summer Olympics since Team USA has won any medal in this event.  All of the team posted excellent numbers and stuck their landings to keep the team in the medal hunt.  Richard certainly did his part for the team in the Parallel Bars.

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"Eyes on the Men PO24-24" (Original art by Greig Leach)

Paris Olympics 2024, Men's Mountain Biking: Who Will It Be?

It was truly amazing to see Tom Pidcock (Great Britain) fight his way back to the front of the race after having a flat tire.  I am quite sure that neither Victor Koretzky (France) nor Alan Hatherly (South Africa) were overjoyed to see the Brit.  Pidcock has just come off of the Tour de France, so he has a deeper fitness and stamina then most anyone else in the race.  These three just have about another kilometer to race and it is unclear who will take which medals, but it will be these three for the top three places.  Koretzky had one more attack in him and dropped Pidcock for a bit.  Pidcock did come back and passed the Frenchman on a narrow stretch making contact in the effort.  Koretzky had to pull a foot out of his cleats and there went his Gold Medal.  Pidcock repeated his Tokyo Olympics Gold, with Koretzky finishing with the Silver, and Hatherly the Bronze.  The Bronze is the first Olympic Mountain Biking medal for his country, his continent and his hemisphere.  Well done all three!

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"Who Will It Be? PO24-23" (Original art by Greig Leach)

Paris Olympics 2024, Women's Mountain Biking: Racing for Silver

The American Haley Batten (USA) had to chase back after a flat tire in the early laps of the race.  In fact it was Jenny Rissveds (Sweden) who alerted Batten's mechanics as she came through the Tech Zone.  This is one of the things I love about women's cycling, Rissveds' was under no obligations to help out Batten, but she made it so the American's mechanics were ready when Batten arrived for service.  While I am sure she wanted to get the Silver Medal, her action was rewarded with a Bronze.  Medaling at the Olympics is a life goal for most every athlete and only three are given in every event of the Games.

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"Racing for Silver PO24-18" (Original art by Greig Leach)

Paris Olympics 2024, Men's 4x100 Freestyle Relay: Final Leg

Not only fast swimming, but perfectly timed transitions took Team USA to Gold.  The last swimmer for USA had a clear advantage diving into the pool as Team Italy jumped, and Team Australia prepared to chase down the Americans.  Unable to catch the final American swimmer, Australia pulled into second to claim the Silver Medal and Italy faded a bit to take home the Bronze.

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"Final Leg PO24-11" (Original art by Greig Leach)

Paris Olympics 2024, Women''s 4x100 Freestyle Relay

Team Australia continued its dominance of this event today.  They have now won the Women's 4x100 Freestyle Relay four consecutive times.  It was Team USA just barely touching the wall ahead of Team China to claim the Silver Medal, with China taking Bronze.  I find painting the swimming events rather difficult to paint but I am rather satisfied with this one.

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"Fourth Time Gold PO24-10" (Original art by Greig Leach)

Paris Olympics 2024, Women's ITT: Wet Roads

I may have had a premonition when I was titling this painting.  As in the opening ceremonies, Paris was under a constant rainfall for the last 24 hours.  Not exactly the best conditions for any bike race, particularly a time trial.   As the current World Champion in this discipline, Chloe Dygert (USA) had the honor of going last today, but the weather wasn't changing for her.  Just after I painted this and restarted the video here rear wheel slid out from under her.  She wasn't the only one to hit the tarmac today, but she looked like she was on a medaling ride.  She did manage to gather herself and finish with a Bronze Medal in the opening cycling event of these Games.

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"Wet Roads PO24-5" (Original art by Greig Leach)

Beijing 2022: A Good Deed Rewarded

To explain, Brittany Bowe (USA) gave away her opportunity to come to theses Olympics so that her friend Erin Jackson would have a chance to skate in Beijing.  First something happened (and I don't know what it was), and she was able to make the trip to compete as well.  Then in her 500 M race, Erin Jackson won the Gold Medal.  And now tonight, Bowe skated her way onto the podium with a Bronze Medal in the 1000 M.  I'm not saying that karma made her win third, she did that with her own legs. But, it didn't hurt.

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Beijing 2022: Skiing Well

The Biathlon may be my new favorite Olympic winter event, and this from someone is near anti-gun.  So as soon as I recover from this shoulder surgery I am going to figure out how to start cross country skiing here in Virginia.  This is Dorothea Wierer (Italy) skiing towards the grandstands after her final turn on the shooting range.  She skiied (and shot) well enough to earn a Bronze Medal in the Women's Biathlon Sprint.

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Beijing 2022: As If They Are One

 Between painting these five paintings and posting them I have had rotator cuff surgery.  That is my excuse for the delay and any typos and brevity as I am typing one handed.  This is Thomas Steu and Lorenz Koller sliding their way into a Bronze Medal in men's Double Luge.  It was an extra special run for Steu earning an Olympic mrdal on his birthday.  Chapeau!

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Bejing 2022: Sprinting for Metals

Go with me here, the title might look like a mis-spelling but they are sprinting for medals in the Women's Cross Country Sprint and those medals are made of metal.  Therefore, "metals" in the title really isn't a mistake, but instead a fun play on words.  Jonna Sundling (Sweden) sprinted away from the field to take the Gold Medal.  Her teammate and the American Jessie Diggins (USA) fought it out for the other two steps of the podium with Diggins just missing out and taking the Bronze medal.  It is the first ever cross country individual women's medal for the USA.

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Olympics 2018: Leader of the Pack

The final event of the games is traditionally the women's 30 K mass start in cross country skiing.  Early in the race those who would be a factor at the end were making their presence known.  Stinna Nilsson (Sweden) was leading with about 3/4s of the race left to go.  She went on to finish with the Bronze Medal.  Behind her is Marit Bjoergen (Norway) who later escaped on her own to win the Gold Medal.  Behind her teammate was Ingvild Flugstad Oestburg who finished the day in 4th place.

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Olympics 2018: Home Ice

It was the home country skater Tae-Yun Kim (Korea) who lit up the crowd as he flew around the ice oval in Pyeong Chang.  When he finished he held the best time thus far in the men's 1000M event.  He ended up with the Bronze Medal much to the delight of the Korean fans.  Norway added to its record breaking medal tally, with another Gold and the Nederlands added a silver to their impressive speed skating medal tally.

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Olympics 2018: All in a Row

The USA women, Heather Bersma, Brittany Bowe, Mia Manganello, Carlijn Schoutens, skated beautifully in the Women's Team Pursuit.  I am reminded of the Team Time Trial in cycling when watching these women draft each other while chasing down the Polish team on the other side of the track.  They ended a 16 year drought winning Bronze in this event.

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Olympics 2018: Cutting It Close 2

With apologies, but some times a good title is still good even if it has been used.  It wasn't until I was photo editing that I realize I had already used this title.  In this case, it also applies to her time, one that just barely put her into the gold medal position at the line.  At the end of the day it was the Bronze Medal for Tina Weirather (Lichtenstein) continuing the medal winning family tradition.

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