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They have been the Games of the pandemic, they have been the Games without an audience, the Games have been delayed for a year ... They have been Games, in short, that will go down in history for many reasons unrelated to sports.
But, as they were finally disputed, they have also left moments, images, moments, marks ... that will go down in the history of Olympism.
These are the top 10.
The implosion of Biles
She was called to be the big star, without Bolt or Phelps.
The Tokyo Games bride did not smile at her first appearance, the first Sunday of the Games.
Something was wrong.
His mind said enough and he withdrew from the competition, to the shock of the world.
He secluded himself with his most intimate ones and gathered the strength to go back and scratch a bronze on the balance beam.
He put the mental health of athletes on the table.
Phelps' successor
The pool, orphan for the first time of the man with the most Olympic medals, of a figure that will go down in history forever.
Michael Phelps needed a successor, and while he was nearly impossible to get close to, his compatriot
Caeleb Dressel
was left with that throne.
There were five golds, not bad, the last one with a memorable butterfly relay in the 4x100 styles.
Caeleb DresselEFE
Ledecky's tears
The queen of water almost since her debut at the London Games in 2012, saw how the tremendous, and younger, Australian team was taking away what had been their kingdoms, 200 and 400 free.
As a great champion that she is, she extended her medal harvest in 800 and 1,500.
His tears after winning the longest test of those played in the pool are another of the images of the Games.
Katie Ledecky.EFE
Yulimar's jump
Yulimar Rojas
, Venezuelan with endless legs, student of Iván Pedroso, like Ana Peleteiro.
They are both close friends and both celebrated with euphoria their triumphs in the same test, the triple jump.
In Spain we looked at Ana, but Yulimar's brutal world record for gold claimed the eyes of the planet.
An infinite smile to decorate those 15.67 that surpassed a mark from the 90s
Yulimar Rojas.REUTERS
Goodbye, Pau
If there is an image that will go down in history from the Spanish perspective, it is
Pau Gasol's
goodbye
.
It is confirmed that he will not play with the national team again, but it seems clear that he played his last professional game against the United States, either in the national team or in a club.
His photography, leaving the pavilion, is already forever on the retina of fans.
A figure that transcends the sport itself.
Pau Gasol.FIBA
Djokovic's wrath
If there was a medal assigned in advance - with permission from less known sports in Spain - it was Novak Djokovic's on the tennis court.
He was looking for the 'Golden Slam', that is, to win the big four (he has three, the US Open is missing) and the Olympic gold.
Until the semifinals he had an immaculate path, but first Zverev and then Pablo Carreño took him off the podium.
And of their squares, which, well thought out, is not that difficult either.
Novak Djokovic.EFE
A thunder called Warholm
The 400-meter hurdles race is, if not the largest, one of the largest in athletics history.
Norway's
Karsten Warholm
flew over the Olympic Stadium track to set the world record at an eerie 45.94.
Doing that time around the stadium with hurdles was almost unthinkable, hence the reaction, also an image for history, of the athlete himself.
Karsten Warholm.AFP
The first transgender
Her name is
Laurel Hubbard
, she was a man before and now a woman who became the first transgender person to officially compete in the Olympics.
He did it in weightlifting, and although he did not even get close to the fight for the medals (he was eliminated after three failed attempts), his figure implies the triumph for the rights of some minorities, the flag of the IOC in these Games.
Laurel Hubbard.AP
The relief of ridicule
Speed in the US is not what it used to be.
Now that Usain Bolt was gone, his sprinters had an open field to have regained a throne that was his many times.
Neither 100 nor 200 were.
But the most bloody thing for American speed was the tremendous ridicule of his 4x100 relay, sixth in his semifinal series and eliminated.
A manual on how not to pass the baton.
Bromell, during the relay.AFP
Bikila's successor
The last day of a Games is for the marathon.
And in recent years, talking about the marathon is talking about
Eliud Kipchoge
, the Kenyan who has run under two hours (in a non-approved test), the world record holder, the guy who swept Rio and has done it again in Tokyo to win two Olympic marathons in a row, like the Ethiopian Adebe Bikila did in Rome 1960 and, precisely, Tokyo 1964.
Eliud Kipchoge.AFP
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