The 2020 Tokyo Olympics were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which was peaking around the time they were supposed to begin.
On March 30, 2020 the Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Parlympic Games (TOCOG) along with the International Olympic Committee released a joint statement on the agreement of new dates from the 2020 Summer Olympics, which had now been moved to July 23, 2021.
While spectators had to wait another year to cheer on their countries best athletes, the upside is that they wouldn’t have to wait long for the 2024 Olympics in Paris.
On Friday, July 26th the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris will kick off the opening ceremony at Jardins du Trocadéro.
While the U.S. always seems to have a plethora of great athletes who compete in both the Summer and Winter Olympics, Colorado has contributed significantly to that pool of athletes.
Here are some of those athletes and their specialized fields:
• Valarie Allman (29), from Longmont in Track and Field (Women’s Discus)
• Riley Amos (22), from Durango in Cycling
• Christopher Blevins (26), from Durango in Cycling
• Canyon Barry (30), from Colorado Springs in 3X3 Basketball
• Savilia Blunk (25), from Durango in Cycling
• Wyndham Clark (30), from Denver in Golf
• Val Constien (28), from Edwards in Track and Field (Steeplechase)
• Elise Cranny (28), from Niwot in Track and Field (5,000 meter race)
• Olivia Cummins (21), from Fort Collins for Cycling
• Collin Duffy (20), from Broomfield in Sport Climbing
• Anna Hall (23), from Denver in Track and Field
• Lindsey Horan (30), from Golden in Soccer
• Leonard Korir (37), from Kenya and moved to Colorado Springs in Track and Field
With just over two weeks until the opening ceremony in Paris, athletes are preparing for a pandemic free Olympics. In other sports the Denver Nuggets added a free agent big to the bench with the signing of Dario Saric from Croatia. The two-year, $10.6 million contract will now restrict the Nuggets to adding players to minimum deals.
The Denver Broncos will kick off of the 2023 training camp on the same day that the Paris Olympic’s holds it’s opening ceremony.
The Colorado Rockies won two of three against the Royals over the weekend at Coors Field. Yesterday they kicked off a four-game series with the Cincinnati Reds by getting shut out 6 – 0 in Cincinnati. The Rockies wrap up their series with the Reds on Thursday before heading to New York to face the Mets in a three-game series.
