The long-awaited 2020 Tokyo Olympics has come to an end and some of the athletes are returning to their home countries triumphant with medals around their necks, while others were less lucky, but still have their hearts filled with good memories.
There were a lot of those memorable stories during the last few weeks and it would be hard to recount them all. Bored Panda brings you a list of powerful photos representing athletes’ milestones and just wholesome moments that made the Olympics even more amazing.
#1 Philippines Just Won Its First Gold Medal In The Olympics
Image source: Reuters
#2 This Man Stands Outside The Tokyo Olympic Village Every Day To Motivate Athletes
Image source: Youka Nagase
#3 High Jumpers Mutaz Essa Barshim And Gianmarco Tamberi Shared The Gold Medal, Which Had Not Happened Since 1912
Image source: AFP
#4 Olympic Gold Medalist Tom Daley Knitting In The Stands To Calm His Nerves While Watching The Diving
Image source: PA
#5 Jamaica Takes Gold, Silver And Bronze In Women’s 100m Final In The Tokyo Olympics 2021
Image source: Reuters
#6 Oksana Chusovitina, 46 Years Old, Has Participated In Olympics Since 1992 And 2020 Tokyo Olympics Was Her Eighth And Last One
Image source: Fion Li
#7 Flora Duffy Wins Bermuda’s First-Ever Gold At 2020 Tokyo Olympics
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#8 Quanesha Burks – From Mcdonalds To The Tokyo Olympics In Long Jump!!
Image source: Quanesha Burks OLY
#9 American Shot Putter Ryan Crouser Won A Gold Medal And Had A Message To His Grandad: “Grandpa, We Did It, 2020 Olympic Champion”
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#10 Simone Biles Decides To Withdraw From The Olympics To Take Care Of Her Mental Health
Image source: Agência Brasil Fotografias
#11 Abe Siblings Uta And Hifumi Make Olympic History Winning Gold In Judo Within One Hour Of Each Other
Image source: Yoshiyuki Tomizawa
#12 USA’s Isaiah Jewett And Botswana’s Nijel Amos Got In An Accident And Fell, Then They Got Up Together And Walked Each Other To The Finish
Image source: AFP
#13 Momiji Nishiya (13) From Japan Is The First Gold Medallist In Women’s Street Skateboarding
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#14 This Is How India Welcomed Its Only Olympic Silver Medalist Home
Image source: Voice of Indian Sports
#15 Norway’s Athlete Karsten Warholm Broke His Own 400-Meter Hurdles World Record
Image source: Reuters
#16 South African Swimmer Tatjana Schoenmaker Is Congratulated By Her Rivals For Winning Gold
Image source: CBC Sports
#17 Rayssa Fadinha, 13, The Youngest Brazilian Athlete – And Now Medalist – In The Olympics’ History
Image source: AFP
#18 USA National Women’s Volleyball Team Reacts To First-Ever Olympic Gold Finish In 3-0 Sweep Of Brazil
Image source: AFP
#19 American Sprinter Allyson Felix Becomes The Most Decorated American Athlete In Olympic Track And Field History
Image source: Reuters
#20 After 17-Year-Old Swimmer Lydia Jacoby Wins Gold, People In Her Alaska Hometown Can’t Contain Their Excitement
Image source: The Athletic
#21 A Sight You Wouldn’t See At Another Olympics
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#22 World’s Fastest Man Is Lamont Marcell Jacobs, Having Sprinted 100 M In 9.80sec
Image source: ZUMAPRESS.com
#23 Colombian Runner Melissa Gonzalez’s Husband, David Blough, Watching His Wife Run In The Olympics
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#24 Finish Line Of The Men’s Marathon At The 2020 Tokyo Olympics
Image source: Reuters
#25 The Hands Of Hidilyn Diaz After Winning Her Country’s First Olympic Gold Medal
Image source: Paolo del Rosario
#26 Yuto Horigome From Japan Wins The First-Ever Olympic Skateboarding Gold Medal
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#27 Filipino-American Lee Kiefer Wins Team USA’s First Gold Medal For Women’s Individual Foil Fencing
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#28 The First Skateboard Medalists In Olympic History!
Image source: Reuters
#29 Alexander Zverev Became The First German Tennis Player To Win Singles Gold In The Olympic Games
Image source: Reuters
#30 Australian High Jumper Nicola Mcdermot Gives Herself A Rating After Every Performance In Her Journal
Image source: Dr Noel Brick
#31 Caeleb Dressel After Winning His 5th Gold Medal In The 2020 Tokyo Olympics
Image source: AFP
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