A great Olympic Games for Sweden with a lot of medals – some surprises and some expected. And it’s been great to be able to follow the event during our summer vacation too and seen most of the – to us – interesting events live on tv.
The next Olympic Games will be held next year already since this one was postponed for a year. I believe Beijing will be hosting the winter games and the next summer games in 2024 will be held in Paris. Maybe we can go and see some of it, who knows.
Swedish medals;
1. Horse jumping – team (von Eckermann / Baryard Johnsson / Fredricson) – Gold
2. Horse jumping – individual (Peder Fredricson) – Silver3. Soccer – ladies – Silver
4. Sailing 470 – (Dahlberg/Bergström) – Silver
5. Sailing Lacing Radial – (Josefin Olsson ) – Silver6. Track & Field – Pole Jump (Armand Duplantis) – Gold
7. Track & Field – Discus (Daniel Ståhl) – Gold
8. Track & Field – Discus (Simon Pettersson ) – Silver9. Swimming – 50 m (Sarah Sjöström) – Silver
Gold and silver!!
This morning our guests left shortly after breakfast. It’s been another windy day but we’ve had plenty of sports to enjoy so we’ve been inside a lot. First our women won the handball game this morning and then we managed to receive our first two medals – both gold (Daniel Ståhl) and silver (Simon Pettersson) in discus for men! Yeah! Our first Olympic track-and-field medals in 17 years! Wow. And we have more track-and-field competitors who have reached the finals so more chances await.
I made a lasagna for dinner tonight and it turned out pretty good. After dinner I went down for an evening dip in the ocean – in a desperat attempt to cool down a bit before going to bed. We’ve watched a movie together tonight (Hamilton – the musical) and had some ice cream for Saturday treat.
Olympics 2020 / 2021 Tokyo
Sweden is participating with 138 athletes in 23 different sports.