The 6 games Team USA men’s basketball has lost in Summer Olympics history
A look back at the rare occurrence in Olympic history.
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A look back at the rare occurrence in Olympic history.
Chelsea Gray isn’t just competitive on the basketball court — she’s also known to be a passionate gamer.
Chelsea Gray isn’t just competitive on the basketball court — she’s also known to be a passionate gamer. The Team USA guard sat down with Las Vegas Aces teammate A’ja Wilson on Tea with A & Phee to relive their time at the 2020 Tokyo Games, which included plenty of board games.
“I was beating Draymond (Green) in dominoes,” Gray said. “He thinks he’s the best of all time.”
Gray then reminisced on Wilson’s unique approach to UNO, conceding that her skills are “above average” but calling her strategy “sneaky.”
While the two admitted that the Olympics consisted of a lot of downtime, Tokyo wasn’t all fun and games.
“There was definitely pressure,” Gray said. “You don’t want to be that team that loses.”
Gray admits she tried to play it cool but tells Wilson that the lead-up to the competition was stressful.
“I just needed the first game and the ball to go up. After the first game, I was good, but leading up to it, I was like, ‘man, this is coming with some heavy shoulders.’”
Adding to the anticipation, Gray made history before ever taking the court, becoming the first Duke women’s basketball player to make an Olympic team.
“I didn’t know that,” says Gray, telling Wilson that she learned of the news during an interview and “got the chills right away.”
“My college career was cut a lot shorter than I wanted it to be so to be able to do that was super dope.”
Coming home with a gold medal certainly made her alma mater proud, a feat that Gray says “no one can take away.”
Listen to more tales from Chelsea Gray and A’ja Wilson’s Olympic journey on Tea with A & Phee podcast.
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Former Georgia Bulldog athlete wins track gold. Track star Shaunae Miller-Uibo has won gold in the women’s 400-meters event.
Former Georgia Bulldog track star Shaunae Miller-Uibo has won gold in the women’s 400-meters event at the Tokyo Olympic Games. Miller-Uibo is representing the Bahamas.
Shaunae Miller-Uibo won gold in Rio 2016. She successfully defended her title with an impressive time of 48.36 seconds. Her time is the sixth fastest of all-time in the women’s 400m.
Miller-Uibo’s time represents a new personal best. She won the event by a wide margin. Her gold medal marks the seventh gold for the Georgia Bulldogs track and field program. She was the last Dawg to win gold in the Olympics.
Miller-Uibo finished eighth in the 200-meters event. She is a former NCAA champion and has participated in three Olympics.
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Texans’ DB Jonathan Owens said he felt sick watching his girlfriend Simone Biles’ mental struggles in Tokyo
Simone Biles came home from the Tokyo Olympics with a bronze medal from the balance beam and a legion of new admirers, given the way she stood up for her mental health rather than risk competing.
The GOAT of gymnastics’ boyfriend is Houston Texans’ safety Jonathan Owens and he related what it was like to watch her challenges in Japan.
“I was sick for her, just because I can see her face, I kind of know her facial expressions, I can kind of read her lips and kind of know what was going on and kind of what she was telling her coach,” Owens said Thursday. “I kind of already knew what was going on beforehand, so I was just really hoping she was going to get over it and be able to go out there and perform. So I was sick to my stomach because she wasn’t able to go out there.”
Owens said he had not been apart from Biles for this long since they started dating and that compounded his stress.
“It was hard for me to really understand what she was going through because I’m not on that stage and dealing with those pressures and everything, but I just try to be as understanding as possible,” Owens said.
“I was so proud of her. Just to be able to overcome mentally what was going on. She kind of altered her beam routine, but I was just happy for her.”
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