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Revisiting the four Buckeyes that won Olympic medals in Tokyo

Here are all four Buckeyes that took home some hardware from Tokyo, including the results.

I can finally get some sleep.

If you’re like me, the Olympics come and you fascinate on it for two weeks, staying up way later than any human being should, go to bed, then get up for work, extremely sleep deprived then rinse and repeat. Then, as quickly as it changed your way of life for a couple weeks, it is gone. Welcome back to reality.

But hey, it’s time to take stock in how things went with former and current Ohio State athletes out in Tokyo now that all the gold, silver, and bronze dust has settled. All told, 26 Buckeyes took place in all the Olympic fun and a few of them walked away with some hardware around their neck.

We thought it’d be a good time to reflect upon the scarlet and gray hue of the 2020 Olympics and share it with you. All told, four former OSU athletes walked away with a medal and we’re sharing those with you.

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Former Ohio State wrestler Kyle Snyder wins silver medal in Tokyo

It wasn’t meant to be this time, but Snyder still brings a silver medal home to the states.

Captain America couldn’t finish on top this time.

Former Ohio State wrestler Kyle Snyder is one of the giants of USA wrestling and had a shot at gold on Saturday. Unfortunately, the man standing in his way was an old rival that had won 56 consecutive matches.

In fact, the “Russian Tank,” Abdulrashid Sadulaev, last lost a match when Snyder took him down during the 2017 World Championships. Sadulaev was simply too much early in the match for Snyder to mount a comeback that saw him fall 6-3 in the 97kg freestyle final Saturday. As a result, Snyder finishes with a silver medal to back up the gold he won during the 2016 Rio games.

Sadulaev jumped out to a 2-0 score when Snyder was “put on the clock” for not making enough effort to score. He was unable to tally any points during the next 30 seconds, giving the Russian two points. Shortly thereafter, a step out of bounds gave Sudulaev a 3-0 advantage through the first period.

The score was pushed to 6-0 in the second period when Snyder gained the advantage on some shots but couldn’t finish the deal. Sadulaev instead was able to score on counter moves. That deficit would be too much to overcome against a guy who had yet to yield any points through the matches leading into the final.

Snyder did manage to score three points on a takedown and a step out, but that would be it for the scoring.

With the silver medal, Snyder becomes the first Ohio State wrestler to ever win multiple medals at the Olympics. And at age 25, you’d have to think this is hardly the last we’ve seen from him. Paris 2024 is just three short years away, and we’re banking on seeing the former Buckeye back on the mat.

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Former Ohio State gymnast Alec Yoder advances to men’s final in pommel horse

A little scarlet and gray will be going for a medal in men’s gymnastics after qualifying for the pommel horse finals.

If you are a fan of all things Ohio State, you are in luck watching the Olympics because a whopping 26 athletes are current or former Buckeyes.

One of those former OSU athletes is gymnast Alec Yoder who was selected to the men’s gymnastics squad to be a one-event specialist in the pommel horse. And while he has no shot at an all-around, he did get his turn to show what he could do on Saturday. That’s when the stars and stripes took to the gym to try and qualify for the finals in the team event and each individual event, including the all-around.

We are happy to report that Yoder did not disappoint. He put together one whale of a performance to qualify for the pommel horse finals, finishing with the fourth-best score overall with a 15.200, just .066 behind the top overall performance.

Yoder is a 2019 graduate of Ohio State and was a 10-time All-American during his Ohio State career, including four as a pommel horse All-American and three as an all-around All-American. Yoder won the national championship on the pommel horse as a senior in April 2019 and earned an All-American nod on the parallel bars. He helped the Buckeyes to back-to-back Big Ten team titles in 2016 and 2017.

You can watch Yoder’s attempt at getting on the medal stand on Sunday, August 1. It’ll air live at 4 a.m. EDT. The session also includes finals in men’s floor, and women’s vault and uneven bars. Fans can watch live on NBCOlympics.com while the session will be broadcast on a tape delay on NBC at noon EDT.

All Ohio State athletes taking part in the Summer Olympics

Ohio State will have a whopping 26 current and former athletes competing in the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Which are you most looking forward to watching?

We are officially in July, and that means the 2020 Olympic Games that are set to take place in Tokyo will be later this month. Finally, after the COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on all areas of life, including the postponement of last year’s games, we finally get to witness the global spectacle.

With it, there will be plenty of current and former Ohio State athletes traveling to Japan to take part in all the fun and festivities. In fact, there will be a record 26 athletes that did or will have donned the scarlet and gray, and we wanted to make sure you knew who they all are. The previous record of Buckeyes in the Olympics was 19 in 2008.

Not all of them are playing for Team USA however, but other countries. You don’t have to be all red, white, and blue to bleed scarlet and gray heart. So here we go, information on every current and former Ohio State athlete you can follow in the upcoming Olympics set to take center stage at the end of the month.

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Ohio State swimming qualifies two for Tokyo Olympics

Two Ohio State swimmers have qualified for the Olympic games in Tokyo, albeit for other countries. We’ll still root them on.

Two Ohio State swimmers will be competing at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics for other countries according to a release from the University.

From the Ohio State Department of Athletics:

“Freestyler Matthew Abeysinghe will compete for Sri Lanka in the Olympic Games, his second such honor, and rising sophomore sprint freestyler Ruslan Gaziev will compete for the Canadian Olympic Team.

“This is Abeysinghe’s second Olympic Games. He also swam for Sri Lanka at the 2016 Rio games, becoming the first Sri Lankan swimmer to qualify under an Olympic standard. Abeysinghe was a seven-time relay All-American for the Buckeyes, including first-team as part of the 200 free, 400 free and 800 free relays. He graduated in 2021 with his degree in sport industry.

“Abeysinghe was born in Hazelton, Pa., and lived there for six years before moving and living for eight years in Beavercreek, Ohio. He moved to his father’s home country of Sri Lanka about six years ago.

“Gaziev swam the 2018-19 and 2019-20 seasons for Ohio State and took this past season off to focus on the Olympics. The Toronto, Ontario native will be a junior in the fall.

Gaziev was named to the Canadian Olympic Team this week after finishing second in both the semifinals and finals of the 100 freestyle with times of 49.72 and 48.81, respectively. Gaziev will take part in the 4×100 relay in Tokyo.”

The list of Ohio State athletes and former athletes making their way to Tokyo is becoming impressive. We may not root for either country, but we’ll certainly keep a scarlet and gray eye on both swimmers as they try to make their own mark in the Summer games.

Ohio State sprinter Anavia Battle makes U.S. Olympic team

Ohio State sprinter Anavia Battle will be representing the U.S. Olympic team in Tokyo!

Ohio State has another track and field athlete that will be a part of the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo.

Sprinter Anavia Battle finished third in the 200-meter finals late Saturday evening at the Olympic Trials in Eugene, Ore. She ran a personal best of 21.95, just behind Gabby Thomas (21.61) and Jenna Prandini (21.89), who went finished first and second.

Battle clearly has been training hard, as she eclipsed her results at Ohio State this season and continued to put up faster times each step of the way in the trials. She sprinted to a 22.37 time in the first round to qualify for the semifinals fifth overall. She then went 22.32 in the semifinals to qualify fourth overall for the finals, before breaking the 22.00 mark.

Now it’s time to continue to grind away and try to shock the world in Tokyo.

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Former Ohio State gymnast Alec Yoder makes U.S. Olympic team

Add another former Buckeye to the U.S. Olympic contingent headed to Tokyo!

The Ohio State family has another Olympian that Buckeye Nation can watch in Tokyo. That’s because Ohio State gymnast Alec Yoder has been selected to the U.S. Olympic gymnastics squad as a pommel horse specialist.

Yoder earned his spot on Team U.S.A. as a specialist for the pommel horse with a 14.550 score Saturday afternoon after posting a 15.05 score that put him in the lead by 0.95 points.

Yoder was chosen by the selection committee and will join four others on the team in Tokyo: Brody Malone, who won the Olympic Trials all-around competition, Yul Moldauer, who was second in the all-around, and Shane Wiscus and Sam Mikulak, who were each named to the team by the selection committee.

Yoder will be going to his first Olympic games after missing out on a chance in 2016 because of injury. He was an eight-time All-American for Ohio State between 2016 and 2019, including a three-time all-around All-American. Yoder won a national championship on the pommel horse his senior season and earned All-American honors on the parallel bars.

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