TSX RECAP: NBC averages 30.7 million for Paris 2024; the road ahead for Jordan Chiles, Noah Lyles says U.S. track not ready to be popular

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Dear readers: In the aftermath of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, it’s the right time to try a change in format for TSX. One of the issues that has kept the site from growing is the lack of discoverability of highlighted stories.

So, about 4-5 stories will be posted separately on TheSportsExaminer.com from Sunday through Thursday, with an added post of shorter items, our “Panorama.” Extra posts will be made for breaking news on Friday and Saturday as appropriate. So, more news will come to you more quickly and all posts will be announced on our Twitter feed?(yes, please sign up!).?

All of these stories will be summarized and linked in this “TSX Recap” that will be sent to you by e-mail – as usual – so you’ll have the entire menu of items for your perusal, but in a more compact form, allowing you to read those items you are most interested in, or all of them! This is an experiment and happy to hear your views. Thanks in advance for your advice.

~ Rich Perelman ?

≡ THE 5-RING CIRCUS ≡

● PARIS 2024: NBC reported an average daytime-plus-primetime audience of 30.7 million for the Paris 2024 Games. That’s way up from Tokyo 2020, but compared with available data on the primetime shows only, perhaps not quite at the level of Rio 2016. New Orleans had the highest ratings of any U.S. city. Read more here: https://bit.ly/tsx-2024-818nbc

● GYMNASTICS: The tangled, but hopeful road ahead for U.S. gymnastics star Jordan Chiles, after the International Olympic Committee awarded the Paris 2024 women’s gymnastics Floor Exercise bronze medal to Romania’s Ana Barbosu. There are opportunities to get her medal back (formally), but this is going to take some time. Read more here: https://bit.ly/tsx-2024-818chi?

● ATHLETICS: Two-time World Championships men’s 200 m medal winner Erriyon Knighton, 20, is being pursued by the Athletics Integrity Unit for a possible doping positive after he had been cleared by an arbitrator of the same charge by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. And the Chinese Anti-Doping Agency is using Knighton as a poster child for what it says is a U.S. “whitewash” of contamination cases, vs. its own clearance of 23 Chinese swimmers.?

There’s a lot to say about this (and USADA chief Travis Tygart has). Meanwhile, Knighton is running in the Diamond League 200 m this week in Lausanne! Read more here: https://bit.ly/tsx-2024-818kgtn

● PARIS 2024: Some big money was paid out to gold-medal winners in various countries, but two-time gold medalist Carlos Yulo of The Philippines probably did the best. He’s getting more than $2 million in cash and gifts, including two houses and a condo, free air travel, ice cream, pizza and buffets for life and more! Read more here: https://bit.ly/tsx-2024-818pay

● ATHLETICS: U.S. sprint star Noah Lyles appeared on the Nightcap podcast with Shannon Sharpe and Chad Johnson?(pictured above), saying that, in the U.S., “The hard part is that we as a sport are not ready for the popularity that is going to come.” And he was specific about the shortcomings, and where he is on joining Michael Johnson’s Grand Slam Track program.? Read more here: ?https://bit.ly/tsx-2024-818lyl ?

≡ PANORAMA ≡

All items available in a single post here.?

● Paris 2024: Praise for the French security services for the 2024 Olympic Games.

● Paris 2024: British firm that makes Aston-Martin nameplates offers U.K. Olympians and Paralympians free refurbishment of tarnished Paris 2024 medals for free!

● Paris 2024: Steph Curry’s three-point daggers makes McDonald’s France reconsider serving curry sauce!

● Paris 2024: NCAA athletes were all over the Games, with 272 individuals winning 330 medals. Stanford and Cal had the most medals won.?

● Los Angeles 2028: Looking ahead, the Netherlands names Mission Viejo, California as its pre-Games training site for 2028.

● Olympic Games 2040: Poland enters the race for the 2040 or 2044 Games, after a successful 2023 European Games.?

● Athletics: They dared each other and now it’s on: a 100 m match race between world-record holders Karsten Warholm (NOR: 400 m hurdles) and Mondo Duplantis (SWE: vault), in September!

● Athletics: Those odd?headbands worn in the Olympic marathons are a new-fangled cooling device from a Colorado company named Omius.?

● Breaking: Furious reaction to the performance of Australian B-girl “Raygun,” who failed to score in her three matches, losing 54-0. Australian Olympic Committee demanded and got an online petition against her to be dropped!

● Cycling: Poland’s Kasia Niewiadoma wins third Tour de France Femmes, by four seconds over Dutch star Demi Vollering.

● Cycling: Danish star?Jonas Vingegaard wins the 81st Tour de Pologne, even without winning a stage.

● Cycling: The 79th Vuelta a Espana has start, with American Brandon McNulty winning the first stage, a time trial.? ?

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