A well-known previous boxing match was ended with an ideal proper to the jaw that despatched the hapless sufferer to immediate dreamland. One wonderful sports activities journalist of the time described the punch as “touchdown just like the judgement of God.”
That story is the proper metaphor for describing Canada’s mighty hammer-thrower’s Ethan Katzberg feat on the Olympics. Katzberg, all of twenty-two years, did the well-known punch multiple higher. On his first journey to the circle, he took his stance, bought into the requisite spins of the physique because it rounded the circle, straightened up and let the swinging hammer fly; and fly it did – a transparent 6 toes forward of any competitor’s greatest throw. It immediately ended the competitors. Recreation, set, match!
And thru all of it, Katzberg’s expression betrayed little or no, no shock, no pleasure, simply vibrant eyes barely hiding a self-satisfied grin. He gained gold with one throw and knew it. As did the remainder of us.
After that the sphere threw their hammers gamely for the pleasure of being second. In reality, most viewers don’t keep in mind any of their names. It hardly may have been in any other case after Ethan Katzman’s majestic feat. Viewers, we’re positive for essentially the most half, had been ready to see if he may higher his decisive first throw. He didn’t, however it didn’t matter; the document will stand for a few years.
At this level we should confess that we maintain a particular eye out for “our guys” – Canadians with some Caribbean lineage, regardless of how weak that hyperlink is. That’s not to say that we don’t go wild at each Canadian medal, whether or not it’s within the water, the mat, the ring, the parallel bars, on the bicycle, all the things. We swam each stroke with the good Summer time McIntosh and willed Joshua Liendo to his silver medal.
We had been saddened by the drone fiasco that sank the ladies’s soccer staff, the collapse of our sprinters, and the lads’s basketball staff. However we took solace within the mighty Camryn Rogers, who took a web page out of Ethan Katzberg’s playbook, and put an early finish to the competition with a large hammer throw.
Rogers who went head-to-head with American Annette Nneka Echikunwoke, a girl of exceptional physique that may make the legendary Amazons proud; she towered over six spectacular toes. As they handed one another on the circle, Rogers barely reached her shoulder. But the phrase “mighty” which refers extra to energy than measurement, was the proper description of the compact Canadian, who took the hammer and threw it a number of toes past Echikunwoke’s main mark. From the look on the face of the good American thrower, she knew that the jig was up. As within the case of Katzberg, it was recreation, set, match.
As Camryn Rogers stood on the prime step of the medal podium, her head was barely stage with Echikunwoke’s head, who was standing on the decrease step. However the grin on Camryn’s face instructed the story.
So right here we’re with heaps extra of the video games nonetheless to come back. We might be there in spirit to look at our males’s 4×100 relay staff redeem themselves and hope that extra gold medals movement to Canada within the closing days.
