Paris Olympics 2024, Women's Team Fencing - Foil: A Golden Touch

I do enjoy how NBC opens their primetime coverage of the Olympics with a perfect moment of Team USA winning a gold medal.  Tonight it was L. Scruggs (USA) scoring the winning touche against A. Errigo (Italy) to give her team the Gold Medal.  Naturally, it is Italy winning the Silver.  I love this sport having had the chance to learn it in Junior College so very many years ago.  Side note, Scruggs is currently a student at Harvard.  I will never measure up to either her academic prowess or her physical prowess.

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"A Golden Touch PO24-46" (Original art by Greig Leach)

Paris Olympics 2024, Men's Gymnastics Individual All Around: Not the Man They Were Expecting

When the defending Olympic Gold Medalist faltered it was his teammate Shinnosuke Oka (Japan) who rose to the occasion.  He had been posting excellent scores and was benefiting from others earlier misfortunes as well.  As he finished his final rotation on the Parallel Bars, he knew he had a medal.  Now he just has to wait for Zhang Boheng (China) to finish his High Bar routine to discover what color it would be.  I'll jump ahead to let you know that Zhang's score was not enough to overtake Oka, so it is Gold for Japan.  He is now a team gold medalist and an individual gold medalist in the men's gymnastics all around.

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"Not the Man They Were Expecting PO24-44" (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, 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: Off on Her Own

Pauline Ferrand Prevot (France) wasn't messing around today!  She went off on her own towards the end of the first lap in today's Cross Country race.  I am struck that course was built over a defunct quarry and landfill.  The States could take a page out of this book, it was a beautiful wooded course with rather large old trees.  Pauline rode around all of the race on her own to the thrill of the French fans all along the course.  They chanted "Pauline, Pauline, Pauline!" as she went by.  She did win the Gold Medal in her home Olympics by over three minutes.  Chapeau!

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"Off on Her Own PO24-16" (Original art by Greig Leach)

Paris Olympics 2024, Women's 100 Butterfly: Going One Two

It was a bit of an unexpected result in the Women's 100 Butterfly today.  Gretchen Walsh (USA) started the day holding both the Olympic and World Records and went into the finale as the odds-on favorite.  She seemed to have the race, barely, in hand until the final twenty meters.  In her last couple of strokes Torri Huske (USA) managed to get to the wall first.  Huske lost out of a medal in Tokyo by one hundredth of a second, today she won Gold by the same measure.  Walsch seemed equally thrilled for her teammate as she was to take Silver herself.  During the medal ceremony Huske brought Walsch up on the top step of the podium as their national anthem played.  

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"Going One Two PO24-15" (Original art by Greig Leach)

Paris Olympics 2024, Men's 400 Medley: Underwater Golden

The French favorite, Leon Marchand (France), did not disappoint the home fans in the pool.  He is the current holder of the World Record in the 400 Medley race.  He is particularly gifted in his turns and his speed underwater.  Each turn put him further and further ahead of his nearest competitors.  While he missed breaking his own World Record, he did set a new Olympic Record and won a Gold Medal in front of the French fans.  It was quite the scene to see so many French singing their national anthem with such joy and gusto.  Chapeau!  The silver medal went in a tie to both the USA and Italy.

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"Underwater Golden PO24-14" (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: Nearly Gold

 I was hedging my bets when I titled this painting.  I felt reasonably sure that Grace Brown (Team Australia) would take the Gold in the Women's Individual Time Trial, but there were still two wet corners before the finish.  I have always been a fan of Grace, so I was thrilled to see her having such a great day out.  She ended up taking the win by just over ninety seconds.  She has stated that she plans on retiring at the end of this season, but I imagine there will be pro teams trying to convince her to keep racing.  The title still works because she is just a couple of hundred meters from winning Gold, so she is nearly gold now.  Or the Team Australian kit is nearly gold and green.

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"Nearly Gold PO24-7" (Original art by Greig Leach)

Wollongong 2022, Mixed Team Relay: Finishing What the Men Started

Just like their male counterparts, Elise Chabbey and Nicole Koller added to their advantage, and posted a new best time as they finished their lap of the Mixed Team Relay.  And just like the men, they elected to use one of their teammates up as they came across the costal road inside of the final kilometers of the course.  Clearly, that was the winning stradegy as it was the Swiss who were able to fulfill their favored status and take home the Gold Medal in this relatively new event.  With the Swiss winning today, the gold medals have gone to three different European teams since the start of this event in 2019 in Great Britian.  

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Beijing 2022: Fighting for Gold

My wife, the actor Bridget Gethins (look her up on IMDB.com) noticed that yet again I forgot to titled and sugned this painting while she was selecting her favorite of the day.  She came up eith "Fughting for Gold: which is far superoir to my idea of "Sprinting for Gold"  (This is why she titles all of my large scale works).  Ivanie Blondin (Canada) and Francesca Lollobrigida (Italy) got out of the final turn first, but it was Irene Schouten's (Netherlands) incredible sprint that decided the Gold Medal.  Blondin held on for a close run Silver. And the it was Lollobrigida (the great niece of the famous Italian actress from the 60s) and Mia Manganello Kilberg (USA) in her first international race vying for the Bronze.  It went to the Italian.

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Beijing 2022: Going to Be an Olympic Champion

As Justine Braisaz-Bouchet (France) skiied her way into the final stretch of the Mass Start Biathlon the announcer provided me with the title for the painting.  Since I watch as close to live and paint the image that appeals and tells a good story, I didn't know that moments after this one she was handed a French flag to carry across the finish line.  Her final five shots were all hits allowing her to jump ahead of the pair of leading Norwegians who had to ski penalty loops for missed shots to claim the Gold medal in the final Biathlon event in Beijing 2022.

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Beijing 2022: Getting It Done

It is stunning that Erin Jackson (USA) first pulled on a pair of ice skates just over five years ago.  And here she is skating her way to a Gold metal in the women's 500 M race.  To be fair she was competing in inline speed skating prior to that first day on the ice.  After all. Ocala, Florida, is not exactly known for its cold harsh winters.

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Beijing 2022: Grace Beyond Measure

While the French duo of Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron may have skated with grace beyond measure it still fell to the judges to measure their beautiful performance just the same.  This pair if ice dancers had been given the highest score ever given in their Rhythm Dance portion of the competition.  Not to be outdone by even themselves, their free dance was also the highest score ever given.  Naturally, the pair if scores added up to a Gold medal for themselves and France.

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Beijing 2022: Slipping into Gold

Having just gained her USA citizenship, Kaillie Humphries was on fire in the debut of the Women's Monobob.  Every run was the fastest ever with the exception of this final run.  While it wasn't her fastest it was still the combined fastest and the Gold Medal winning run.  Her former competitor, now teammate, Elana Meyers Taylor was faster on her final run, but the combinedruns earned her the Silver Medal.  The pair finally broke the German strangle hold on the sliding events at the House of Speed.

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Beijing 2022: He Can Fly

The German's are having an amazing time in the "House of Speed"  And it is continuing with Christopher Grotheer (Germany) as he jumps on to his skeleton sled.  He build on his start speed all of the way down the nearly two mile course with a Gold Medal waiting for him at the bottom of the run.  His time was just two one hundredths of a second faster than his countryman, Axel Jungk in Silver.

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Beijing 2022: The Pipe Has Been Passed

It is stunning to think that Ayumu Hirano (Japan) was less than a year old when his competitor, Shaun White (USA) won hisfirst Olympic medal.  Hirano laid down a near perfect run that included a triple corkscrew hit and yet only scored enough points to move irnto the Silver Medal.  Clearly that questionable scoring only hardened his will to have his final run leave no doubt that he is the best boarder in the half pipe today.  And this time the points posted, 96.00 honestly reflected the quality of the performance.  And yes, I went for another weak pun with the title.

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Beijing 2022: Photo Finish

Eliot Grondin (Canada) went just a tad early with his snowboarder's equivilant of the sprinter's lunge.  Alas, his timing and balance weren't quite what thet should have been and he lost control.  However, I think that Alessandro Haemmerle (Austria) had him beat regardless.  Haemmerle took Gold by two one hundredths of a second, leaving Grondin to claim Silver.  You can just see the feet and board of Omar Visintin (Italy) who took thr Bronze.

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Beijing 2022: Will It Be a Record?

The short answer is yes.  Natalie Geisenberger (Germany) is the first of the German mixed luge relay team to drp into the House of Speed luge run.  Geisenberger is going for her seventh Olympic medal in Luge with the help of her teammates.  She set a great time and both the single man and doubles men run were able to add to the advantage she handed them.  Germany now has six gold medals in the Beijing Olympics, five of which have come from their Luge team.

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