If you’re like us after 16 days of watching the best athletes in the world compete, you may have some sports withdrawals.  Currently we are enjoying the Tour De France Femmes to keep us satiated while football and the premiere league get going and baseball enters the fall and all is right in the sports world.

But still lets take a look back at some of the highlights:

Yusuf Dikec took the internet by storm with his casual, non-chalant, hand in pocket, shooting position while everyone else looked like a contorted bladerunner extra.

Ilona Maher became a national treasure not only with her wit and humor but by making Jason Kelce the ultimate womens rugby fanboy, with beret and all.

Women took home 65% of the gold with superstars like Kate Ledecky, Simone Biles, and Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone cementing themselves as the respective GOATs of their sports.

Men’s Basketball came home with gold with an allstar team but it wasn’t the final that seemed to matter but their battle with Serbia and the comeback of the century with what some statisticians are saying was the peak of basketball performance in a single game. Do I fully grasp that sentence, as a vague idea yes but I have no idea how thats quantified.

Noah Lyles cemented his spot after a shaky start as the fastest man in the world at 100m but unfortunately was taken off the track in a wheelchair after racing the 200m due to contracting covid.

Women’s soccer showed that they are still the powerhouse by getting gold and exacting revenge against Japan who bested them in the World Cup

And although it was bronze Stephen Nedoroscik gave us our first mens gymnastic medal in the pummel horse and rocketted into the national zeitgeist with his quirky nerdy persona and rubik’s cube speed.

Next stop LA.  The city has it’s work cut out for them but after hosting one of the most successful olympics in history, we think they can do it again.