We begin this week with a view of a cycling sprint finish from the winner’s perspective. Sounds like that would be “nothing,” but Marianne Vos didn’t take the lead until the last few meters:
And another point-of-view video from a winning cyclist, this time from BMX women’s world champion Mariana Pajon.
Nibali cares not for your dropped call: Tour de France winner Vincenzo Nibali is a model of focus as he plows right through a spectator’s calling arm. And the spectator also keeps her focus, ignoring the cyclists, the motorbikes, the oncoming car …
Things you don’t want to hear in cycling: “Midair collision”
More fast people: World Juniors track and field in Oregon.
But always remember …
Vertical jump matters, not age: Kerri Walsh Jennings and April Ross keep rolling.
https://twitter.com/ESPNOlympics/status/493505774182621184
And Phil Dalhausser and Sean Rosenthal made it a U.S. sweep on home sand …
The shots you don’t take: Compelling read on the need to take risks — pushing numbers up the field in soccer, swinging away in cricket — to get anywhere in sports.
On the other hand: Here’s a good strategy for getting out of an MMA fight without any blood or bruises: Tap out immediately.
Away win: U.S. wrestler Brent Metcalf came back from 6-0 down to beat Azerbaijan’s Magomed Muslimov at the FILA Golden Grand Prix in Azerbaijan. The key move, which earned four points to seal the tiebreaker for Metcalf, is at the 6:12 mark here:
USA Wrestling has the other U.S. results from that day and the next day, where the USA’s Elena Pirozhkova jumped out to a 7-0 lead in the final and held on with ease:
Comparisons: I think I’d rather be the Peyton Manning of bocce.
Along those lines …
Arf: Let’s see Rio 2016 top the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony:
Frame-by-frame defeat: Boxer Daniel Geale vs. Gennady Golovkin …
21 seconds in: “Hey, I just landed a punch! That felt really good!”
32 seconds in: “Hmmm, maybe I should’ve been in better position to take this-”
Guess the sport: An U.S. Olympian has finally completed the American Ninja Warrior qualifying course. We’ll give some hints: It wasn’t a gymnast (Paul Hamm and Morgan Hamm did pretty well on the Japanese precursor Sasuke), nor was it a medalist. Give up? Here’s the answer.
UPDATE: I missed Jarrod Shoemaker’s World Cup triathlon silver when I posted. Please forgive me.
If you like full recaps of U.S. athletes in action or track and field in general, try TeamUSA.org and Daily Relay later in the evening. If you like pina coladas and getting caught in the rain … actually, I don’t like either of those things, so call someone else.
Catch the Monday Myriad again next week.
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