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Some praised his aura as “\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/RVCJ_FB/status/1818846267960709585\">infinite\u003c/a>,” others as “\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/SharpFootball/status/1818753649574551747\">insane\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1818714460829462904\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And many drew a contrast between Dikec and South Korean shooter Kim Yeji, whose futuristic aesthetic and unflappable demeanor made her an \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/31/g-s1-14616/olympics-paris-sharpshooter-style-kim-yeji\">overnight style sensation\u003c/a> earlier this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Memes joked that the two embodied the contrast between \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/ExcelHumor/status/1818800216465649933\">Google Sheets vs. Microsoft Excel\u003c/a>, men vs. women \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/nonpoccafe/status/1818729033296916618\">packing for a trip\u003c/a> and anime protagonist vs. \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/creatine_cycle/status/1818725351314370807\">recently divorced engineer\u003c/a>, to name a few.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/Olympics/status/1818909520661278729\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“South Korea sent a fully-kitted out player for the Olympic shooting,” read \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/creepydotorg/status/1818776262036607328\">one viral tweet\u003c/a>. “Turkey sent [a] guy with no specialized lenses, eye cover or ear protection and got the silver medal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dikec and his teammate, Sevval Ilayda Tarhan, won silver in the mixed team 10-meter air pistol event, bringing home Turkey’s first-ever medal in Olympic shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He placed 13th in his individual event, and is already looking ahead to his next Olympics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope next in Los Angeles (for) a gold medal,” he said afterward, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/olympics-2024-yusuf-dikec-turkish-shooter-a7890124304080a48e7ee4294004d306\">Associated Press\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The former officer loves dancing and cats\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>This is Dikec’s \u003ca href=\"https://olympics.com/en/athletes/yusuf-dikec\">fifth Olympics\u003c/a> — he has competed in shooting events in every Summer Games since 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s also a seven-time European champion and 2014 double world champion in the 25m standard pistol and 25m centerfire pistol, according to his \u003ca href=\"https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/athlete/yusuf-dikec_1564893\">Olympics biography\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/PunchingCat/status/1818913609592062046\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dikec’s bio says he took up shooting in 2001 after he started working as a non-commissioned officer for the Gendarmerie General Command (an armed law enforcement organization in Turkey).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His current occupation is listed as “athlete,” and \u003ca href=\"https://www.euronews.com/2024/08/01/the-star-we-didnt-know-we-needed-turkish-olympic-shooter-yusuf-dikec-takes-the-internet-by\">EuroNews reports\u003c/a> that he retired from the Gendarmerie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dikec lists exactly one hobby on his bio page: dancing. He’s also a cat lover, as social media sleuths quickly discovered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His philosophy, ironically, is, “Success doesn’t come with your hands in your pockets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>His unique style comes down to personal preference\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13961972\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1290px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13961972\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Screenshot-2024-08-01-at-5.23.54%E2%80%AFPM.png\" alt=\"A woman and man in red polo shirts stand in front of the Eiffel Tower, which is decorated with Olympic rings. The pair are both wearing silver medals.\" width=\"1290\" height=\"862\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Screenshot-2024-08-01-at-5.23.54 PM.png 1290w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Screenshot-2024-08-01-at-5.23.54 PM-800x535.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Screenshot-2024-08-01-at-5.23.54 PM-1020x682.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Screenshot-2024-08-01-at-5.23.54 PM-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Screenshot-2024-08-01-at-5.23.54 PM-768x513.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1290px) 100vw, 1290px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sevval Ilayda Tarhan and Yusuf Dikec pose with the Turkish flag and their silver medals. \u003ccite>(Miguel Medina/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Shooting glasses — a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/paris-2024-summer-olympics/watch-olympic-shooting-glasses-explained/3929746/\">customizable combo\u003c/a> of a lens, mechanical iris and blinders that together can help athletes better line up their mark — have become pretty standard in recent years, though clearly not all athletes are required to use them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dikec told Turkish radio station Radyo Gol that while most shooters use one eye, he prefers to use both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Shooting with two eyes — I believe that it’s better,” he said, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/01/sport/yusuf-dikec-turkey-olympics-shooter-viral-spt/index.html\">translation from CNN\u003c/a>. “I’ve done a lot of research on it, so I didn’t need the equipment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='news_11993783']Chinese rifle shooter Liu Yukun won a gold medal Thursday with a similarly sparse set of gear, the AP notes — just earplugs, with no blinder or visor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Dikec is \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/womenpostingws/status/1818740025166901373\">not the only athlete\u003c/a> who shoots with his other hand in his pocket. He told the radio station that it’s a matter of feeling more motivated and comfortable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stance “is actually about bringing the body to equilibrium and focusing and concentrating,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dikec seems to be taking his social media stardom in stride, reposting several memes to \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/yusufdikecofficial/\">his Instagram page\u003c/a> (and, of course, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/yusufdikecofficial/\">photo of his silver medal\u003c/a>). He has also continued to defend his style.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EuroNews reports that he told the Turkish press: “I did not need special equipment. I’m a natural, a natural shooter.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Five-time Olympian Yusuf Dikec's casual style had many viewers jokingly wondering if he might be a hitman.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1722616996,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":776},"headData":{"title":"A Conspicuously Dressed-Down Olympic Shooter Won Silver, Then Went Viral | KQED","description":"Five-time Olympian Yusuf Dikec's casual style had many viewers jokingly wondering if he might be a hitman.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"A Conspicuously Dressed-Down Olympic Shooter Won Silver, Then Went Viral","datePublished":"2024-08-02T09:43:16-07:00","dateModified":"2024-08-02T09:43:16-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"Rachel Treisman, NPR","nprStoryId":"nx-s1-5060078","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2024/08/01/nx-s1-5060078/turkey-shooter-olympics-glasses-gear-silver","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"2024-08-01T10:23:54.8-04:00","nprStoryDate":"2024-08-01T10:23:54.8-04:00","nprLastModifiedDate":"2024-08-01T10:23:54.8-04:00","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13961967/olympic-shooter-meme-turkey-protection-gear-dressed-down-silver-medal-viral","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Olympic shooters have been getting lots of attention for their \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/31/g-s1-14616/olympics-paris-sharpshooter-style-kim-yeji\">cyberpunk-looking gear\u003c/a>. But one is standing out for his decidedly lower-tech look — and the fact that he got to the podium nonetheless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Turkey’s Yusuf Dikec shot his way to a silver medal in the air pistol mixed team competition, and to instant online fame. His winning quality, the internet decided, was his seeming nonchalance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13961861","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>While many of Dikec’s competitors were decked out in large ear protectors, visors and sci fi-esque shooting glasses, he played it a different kind of cool with regular eyeglasses and barely visible ear plugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wearing a jersey that looked like an ordinary T-shirt, and shooting with his free hand tucked in his pants pocket, the 51-year-old gave off a noticeably casual vibe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So casual, in fact, that scores of social media users jokingly wondered whether Turkey had \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/boredpanda/status/1818939728558764274\">sent a hitman\u003c/a> to the Olympics. Some praised his aura as “\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/RVCJ_FB/status/1818846267960709585\">infinite\u003c/a>,” others as “\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/SharpFootball/status/1818753649574551747\">insane\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1818714460829462904"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>And many drew a contrast between Dikec and South Korean shooter Kim Yeji, whose futuristic aesthetic and unflappable demeanor made her an \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/31/g-s1-14616/olympics-paris-sharpshooter-style-kim-yeji\">overnight style sensation\u003c/a> earlier this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Memes joked that the two embodied the contrast between \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/ExcelHumor/status/1818800216465649933\">Google Sheets vs. Microsoft Excel\u003c/a>, men vs. women \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/nonpoccafe/status/1818729033296916618\">packing for a trip\u003c/a> and anime protagonist vs. \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/creatine_cycle/status/1818725351314370807\">recently divorced engineer\u003c/a>, to name a few.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1818909520661278729"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>“South Korea sent a fully-kitted out player for the Olympic shooting,” read \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/creepydotorg/status/1818776262036607328\">one viral tweet\u003c/a>. “Turkey sent [a] guy with no specialized lenses, eye cover or ear protection and got the silver medal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dikec and his teammate, Sevval Ilayda Tarhan, won silver in the mixed team 10-meter air pistol event, bringing home Turkey’s first-ever medal in Olympic shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He placed 13th in his individual event, and is already looking ahead to his next Olympics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope next in Los Angeles (for) a gold medal,” he said afterward, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/olympics-2024-yusuf-dikec-turkish-shooter-a7890124304080a48e7ee4294004d306\">Associated Press\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The former officer loves dancing and cats\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>This is Dikec’s \u003ca href=\"https://olympics.com/en/athletes/yusuf-dikec\">fifth Olympics\u003c/a> — he has competed in shooting events in every Summer Games since 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s also a seven-time European champion and 2014 double world champion in the 25m standard pistol and 25m centerfire pistol, according to his \u003ca href=\"https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/athlete/yusuf-dikec_1564893\">Olympics biography\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1818913609592062046"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Dikec’s bio says he took up shooting in 2001 after he started working as a non-commissioned officer for the Gendarmerie General Command (an armed law enforcement organization in Turkey).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His current occupation is listed as “athlete,” and \u003ca href=\"https://www.euronews.com/2024/08/01/the-star-we-didnt-know-we-needed-turkish-olympic-shooter-yusuf-dikec-takes-the-internet-by\">EuroNews reports\u003c/a> that he retired from the Gendarmerie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dikec lists exactly one hobby on his bio page: dancing. He’s also a cat lover, as social media sleuths quickly discovered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His philosophy, ironically, is, “Success doesn’t come with your hands in your pockets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>His unique style comes down to personal preference\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13961972\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1290px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13961972\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Screenshot-2024-08-01-at-5.23.54%E2%80%AFPM.png\" alt=\"A woman and man in red polo shirts stand in front of the Eiffel Tower, which is decorated with Olympic rings. The pair are both wearing silver medals.\" width=\"1290\" height=\"862\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Screenshot-2024-08-01-at-5.23.54 PM.png 1290w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Screenshot-2024-08-01-at-5.23.54 PM-800x535.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Screenshot-2024-08-01-at-5.23.54 PM-1020x682.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Screenshot-2024-08-01-at-5.23.54 PM-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Screenshot-2024-08-01-at-5.23.54 PM-768x513.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1290px) 100vw, 1290px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sevval Ilayda Tarhan and Yusuf Dikec pose with the Turkish flag and their silver medals. \u003ccite>(Miguel Medina/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Shooting glasses — a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/paris-2024-summer-olympics/watch-olympic-shooting-glasses-explained/3929746/\">customizable combo\u003c/a> of a lens, mechanical iris and blinders that together can help athletes better line up their mark — have become pretty standard in recent years, though clearly not all athletes are required to use them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dikec told Turkish radio station Radyo Gol that while most shooters use one eye, he prefers to use both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Shooting with two eyes — I believe that it’s better,” he said, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/01/sport/yusuf-dikec-turkey-olympics-shooter-viral-spt/index.html\">translation from CNN\u003c/a>. “I’ve done a lot of research on it, so I didn’t need the equipment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11993783","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Chinese rifle shooter Liu Yukun won a gold medal Thursday with a similarly sparse set of gear, the AP notes — just earplugs, with no blinder or visor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Dikec is \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/womenpostingws/status/1818740025166901373\">not the only athlete\u003c/a> who shoots with his other hand in his pocket. He told the radio station that it’s a matter of feeling more motivated and comfortable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stance “is actually about bringing the body to equilibrium and focusing and concentrating,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dikec seems to be taking his social media stardom in stride, reposting several memes to \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/yusufdikecofficial/\">his Instagram page\u003c/a> (and, of course, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/yusufdikecofficial/\">photo of his silver medal\u003c/a>). He has also continued to defend his style.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EuroNews reports that he told the Turkish press: “I did not need special equipment. I’m a natural, a natural shooter.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13961967/olympic-shooter-meme-turkey-protection-gear-dressed-down-silver-medal-viral","authors":["byline_arts_13961967"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_75","arts_13238"],"tags":["arts_21823","arts_3920","arts_22004","arts_2137","arts_22242"],"affiliates":["arts_137"],"featImg":"arts_13961968","label":"arts_137"},"arts_13961861":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13961861","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"arts","id":"13961861","score":null,"sort":[1722459976000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"mid-air-olympic-surfer-photo-gabriel-medina-jerome-brouillet-record-breaking","title":"This Viral Photo Perfectly Captures an Olympic Surfer’s Record-Breaking Ride","publishDate":1722459976,"format":"standard","headTitle":"This Viral Photo Perfectly Captures an Olympic Surfer’s Record-Breaking Ride | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":137,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>When AFP photographer Jerome Brouillet set out to shoot the third day of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13961675/paris-olympics-team-usa-medal-count-so-far\">Olympic Games\u003c/a>’ surfing competition in Tahiti on Monday, he couldn’t have predicted that he’d capture one of the most iconic moments of the Games so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the fifth heat of the day, Brazilian three-time world champion Gabriel Medina \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6uUxnAODNM\">rode through a huge wave,\u003c/a> a ride that would nab him a nearly perfect score of 9.90 — an Olympic record. From a boat to the side of the action, Brouillet waited for Medina to surf out of the wave — where he captured the now-viral photo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13961542']Medina, who’s just soared out from the barrel of a treacherous wave, raises an arm toward the sky, index finger pointed upward. His surfboard, tethered to his ankle, is also careening through the air — and, in this millisecond captured by Brouillet, is perfectly parallel with Medina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like to say that taking pictures is a bit like surfing. It’s a mix of preparation, devotion, timing, some experience and a touch of luck,” Brouillet wrote in an \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C-Dq2nYvnmZ/?img_index=1\">Instagram post featuring the photo.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Medina first entered the wave, one of the biggest of the day, Brouillet could tell that something special was going to happen, \u003ca href=\"https://www.afp.com/en/inside-afp/backstory-i-number-1-how-afp-photographer-grabbed-perfect-surf-shot\">he told the AFP\u003c/a>. But from his vantage point on a boat with other media covering the event, he said he wasn’t sure what he’d be able to capture. Then, the expert surfing photographer snapped four frames of Medina emerging from the wave, celebrating his run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes he makes an acrobatic gesture and this time he did that and so I pushed the button,” he told the AFP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, the photo has gone majorly viral; Medina himself posted the photo to Instagram, where it’s received more than 5.7 million likes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='news_11993783']The fact that Brouillet was able to snap this photo probably shouldn’t come as much of a surprise — the photographer, who’s worked for the AFP for several years, is a surfer himself and moved to Tahiti about a decade ago, \u003ca href=\"https://time.com/7005239/olympics-surfing-photo-tahiti-gabriel-medina-jerome-brouillet/\">according to \u003cem>Time\u003c/em>.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-embed npr-promo-card insettwocolumn\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\u003c/div>\n\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“That day, Gabriel was in the water at the right place, at the right time, and so was I,” Brouillet wrote on Instagram.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Paris Games’ surfing events have been taking place off \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/24/nx-s1-5050686/olympics-surfing-tahiti\">the coast of Teahupo’o\u003c/a>, a village on the French Polynesian island of Tahiti. Its waters are notorious for the heavy, powerful waves that break over a large but shallow reef. Accordingly, it’s both unnerved and enticed top surfers for decades: “It’s one of the most beautiful and dangerous waves in the world,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/29/nx-s1-5055836/olympics-surfing-tahiti-waves-2024-paris\">pro big-wave surfer Garrett McNamara told NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"AFP photographer Jerome Brouillet caught the Brazilian world champion Gabriel Medina seemingly walking over water.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1722459976,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":12,"wordCount":480},"headData":{"title":"The Perfect Surfing Photo Now Exists, Featuring Gabriel Medina | KQED","description":"AFP photographer Jerome Brouillet caught the Brazilian world champion Gabriel Medina seemingly walking over water.","ogTitle":"A Photographer Captured the Perfect Shot of an Olympic Surfer’s Record-Breaking Ride","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"A Photographer Captured the Perfect Shot of an Olympic Surfer’s Record-Breaking Ride","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialTitle":"The Perfect Surfing Photo Now Exists, Featuring Gabriel Medina %%page%% %%sep%% KQED","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"This Viral Photo Perfectly Captures an Olympic Surfer’s Record-Breaking Ride","datePublished":"2024-07-31T14:06:16-07:00","dateModified":"2024-07-31T14:06:16-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"Natalie Escobar","nprStoryId":"g-s1-14395","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/sections/the-picture-show/2024/07/31/g-s1-14395/olympic-tahiti-surfer-photo","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"2024-07-31T05:00:00-04:00","nprStoryDate":"2024-07-31T05:00:00-04:00","nprLastModifiedDate":"2024-07-31T11:21:49.682-04:00","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13961861/mid-air-olympic-surfer-photo-gabriel-medina-jerome-brouillet-record-breaking","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When AFP photographer Jerome Brouillet set out to shoot the third day of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13961675/paris-olympics-team-usa-medal-count-so-far\">Olympic Games\u003c/a>’ surfing competition in Tahiti on Monday, he couldn’t have predicted that he’d capture one of the most iconic moments of the Games so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the fifth heat of the day, Brazilian three-time world champion Gabriel Medina \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6uUxnAODNM\">rode through a huge wave,\u003c/a> a ride that would nab him a nearly perfect score of 9.90 — an Olympic record. From a boat to the side of the action, Brouillet waited for Medina to surf out of the wave — where he captured the now-viral photo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13961542","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Medina, who’s just soared out from the barrel of a treacherous wave, raises an arm toward the sky, index finger pointed upward. His surfboard, tethered to his ankle, is also careening through the air — and, in this millisecond captured by Brouillet, is perfectly parallel with Medina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like to say that taking pictures is a bit like surfing. It’s a mix of preparation, devotion, timing, some experience and a touch of luck,” Brouillet wrote in an \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C-Dq2nYvnmZ/?img_index=1\">Instagram post featuring the photo.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Medina first entered the wave, one of the biggest of the day, Brouillet could tell that something special was going to happen, \u003ca href=\"https://www.afp.com/en/inside-afp/backstory-i-number-1-how-afp-photographer-grabbed-perfect-surf-shot\">he told the AFP\u003c/a>. But from his vantage point on a boat with other media covering the event, he said he wasn’t sure what he’d be able to capture. Then, the expert surfing photographer snapped four frames of Medina emerging from the wave, celebrating his run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes he makes an acrobatic gesture and this time he did that and so I pushed the button,” he told the AFP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, the photo has gone majorly viral; Medina himself posted the photo to Instagram, where it’s received more than 5.7 million likes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11993783","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The fact that Brouillet was able to snap this photo probably shouldn’t come as much of a surprise — the photographer, who’s worked for the AFP for several years, is a surfer himself and moved to Tahiti about a decade ago, \u003ca href=\"https://time.com/7005239/olympics-surfing-photo-tahiti-gabriel-medina-jerome-brouillet/\">according to \u003cem>Time\u003c/em>.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-embed npr-promo-card insettwocolumn\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\u003c/div>\n\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“That day, Gabriel was in the water at the right place, at the right time, and so was I,” Brouillet wrote on Instagram.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Paris Games’ surfing events have been taking place off \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/24/nx-s1-5050686/olympics-surfing-tahiti\">the coast of Teahupo’o\u003c/a>, a village on the French Polynesian island of Tahiti. Its waters are notorious for the heavy, powerful waves that break over a large but shallow reef. Accordingly, it’s both unnerved and enticed top surfers for decades: “It’s one of the most beautiful and dangerous waves in the world,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/29/nx-s1-5055836/olympics-surfing-tahiti-waves-2024-paris\">pro big-wave surfer Garrett McNamara told NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13961861/mid-air-olympic-surfer-photo-gabriel-medina-jerome-brouillet-record-breaking","authors":["byline_arts_13961861"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_75","arts_13238"],"tags":["arts_3920","arts_22239","arts_822","arts_22238"],"affiliates":["arts_137"],"featImg":"arts_13961862","label":"arts_137"},"arts_13961675":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13961675","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"arts","id":"13961675","score":null,"sort":[1722279165000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"paris-olympics-team-usa-medal-count-so-far","title":"How Is Team USA Faring in the Olympics? Here's a Medal Count So Far","publishDate":1722279165,"format":"standard","headTitle":"How Is Team USA Faring in the Olympics? Here’s a Medal Count So Far | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":137,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11993783/paris-2024-olympic-games-san-francisco-bay-area-athletes-competing\">The Paris Olympics\u003c/a> are in full swing with nearly 7,000 athletes from 206 delegations vying for bronze, silver and of course, gold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Thursday evening, Team USA has won 37 medals. Other teams to reach double-digits in medals are France with 27; China, 24; Great Britain 20; Australia 18; and Japan 16; Italy, 16; and South Korea with 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13961542']While the U.S. may have the most medals so far, the rankings for gold medals are a different story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>China leads the way with 11. The United States, which only had five gold medals yesterday, now comes in second after China, at nine. Host nation France ties with Japan and Australia at eight gold medals each. Great Britain and South Korea are tied with six gold medals each.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, no nation officially “wins” the Olympics but earning the most medals or gold medals remains a symbol of victory for participating countries. As of Tuesday, the United States has become the first country to surpass the 3,000-Olympic medal barrier. This record tally includes both Summer and Winter Games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, how is Team USA doing so far? As of Wednesday evening:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Gold medals: 9\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Fencing: 2\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Swimming: 4\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Gymnastics: 2\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Rowing: 1\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>Silver medals: 15\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Cycling BMX Freestyle: 1\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Cycling Mountain Bike: 1\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Diving: 1\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Fencing: 1\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Skateboarding: 1\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Swimming: 10\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>Bronze medals: 13\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Artistic Gymnastics: 2\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Canoe Shalom: 1\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Cycling Road: 1\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Fencing: 1\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Rugby Sevens: 1\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Skateboarding: 1\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Swimming: 6\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Team USA leads for the most number of medals earned in the Paris Olympics so far. But the team is trailing behind in golds.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1722618300,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":8,"wordCount":252},"headData":{"title":"How Many Medals Has Team USA Won at the Paris Olympics? | KQED","description":"Team USA leads for the most number of medals earned in the Paris Olympics so far. But the team is trailing behind in golds.","ogTitle":"How Is Team USA Faring in the Olympics? Here's a Medal Count So Far","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"How Is Team USA Faring in the Olympics? Here's a Medal Count So Far","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialTitle":"How Many Medals Has Team USA Won at the Paris Olympics?%%page%% %%sep%% KQED","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"How Is Team USA Faring in the Olympics? 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Other teams to reach double-digits in medals are France with 27; China, 24; Great Britain 20; Australia 18; and Japan 16; Italy, 16; and South Korea with 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13961542","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>While the U.S. may have the most medals so far, the rankings for gold medals are a different story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>China leads the way with 11. The United States, which only had five gold medals yesterday, now comes in second after China, at nine. Host nation France ties with Japan and Australia at eight gold medals each. Great Britain and South Korea are tied with six gold medals each.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, no nation officially “wins” the Olympics but earning the most medals or gold medals remains a symbol of victory for participating countries. As of Tuesday, the United States has become the first country to surpass the 3,000-Olympic medal barrier. This record tally includes both Summer and Winter Games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, how is Team USA doing so far? As of Wednesday evening:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Gold medals: 9\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Fencing: 2\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Swimming: 4\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Gymnastics: 2\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Rowing: 1\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>Silver medals: 15\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Cycling BMX Freestyle: 1\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Cycling Mountain Bike: 1\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Diving: 1\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Fencing: 1\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Skateboarding: 1\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Swimming: 10\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>Bronze medals: 13\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Artistic Gymnastics: 2\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Canoe Shalom: 1\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Cycling Road: 1\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Fencing: 1\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Rugby Sevens: 1\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Skateboarding: 1\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Swimming: 6\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13961675/paris-olympics-team-usa-medal-count-so-far","authors":["byline_arts_13961675"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_235","arts_13238"],"tags":["arts_22228","arts_3920"],"affiliates":["arts_137"],"featImg":"arts_13961676","label":"arts_137"},"arts_13961542":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13961542","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"arts","id":"13961542","score":null,"sort":[1721931967000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"minna-stess-skateboarding-petaluma-paris-olympics","title":"For This 18-Year-Old Skater, the Paris Olympics Are Just the Beginning","publishDate":1721931967,"format":"standard","headTitle":"For This 18-Year-Old Skater, the Paris Olympics Are Just the Beginning | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>From the street, Minna Stess’ Petaluma home fits right in with the other houses on the block. Sitting in her backyard on a sunny Monday afternoon, dressed in a black T-shirt and shorts, purple socks and Vans, the 18-year-old looks like almost any other suburban skate kid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s just one difference: Stess is about to fly to Paris to compete in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11993783/paris-2024-olympic-games-san-francisco-bay-area-athletes-competing\">the 2024 Olympics\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Paris, Stess will represent the United States in skateboarding, which became an Olympic sport just four years ago. To vie for the gold on the U.S. women’s team on a relatively new Olympic field, and on a global stage no less, the stakes couldn’t be higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13961525\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13961525\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MINNASTESS_GC-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MINNASTESS_GC-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MINNASTESS_GC-13-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MINNASTESS_GC-13-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MINNASTESS_GC-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MINNASTESS_GC-13-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MINNASTESS_GC-13-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MINNASTESS_GC-13-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S Olympic Skateboarder Minna Stess, 18, skates in her Petaluma backyard on July 22, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And yet when I meet with her, 24 hours before she gets on an airplane for the biggest competition of her young career, Stess remains easygoing and calm. Nonchalant, even. After all, she says, no matter how hard she tries, she can’t remember a time when she didn’t skate.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Turning Pro at 11\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Stess’ backyard is no ordinary backyard. The majority of it is taken up by a custom-built mini-skatepark, built in 2012. Back then, its three-foot transitions were plenty high for six-year-old Stess. Wanting to copy her older brother Finnley, she’d gotten into skating four years earlier, around age 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sitting on a bench seat on the backyard deck, Stess tells me her parents had a wooden ramp put in before the concrete park, but they got tired of throwing tarps over it every time it rained. The family celebrated the new concrete park’s completion by stepping their feet into the wet concrete before it dried. You can still see Stess’ tiny, classic Vans imprint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13961550\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13961550\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-40_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-40_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-40_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-40_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-40_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-40_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-40_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-40_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S Olympic Skateboarder Minna Stess’s shoe imprints (at left) at her home in Petaluma on July 22, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Having her own backyard park was an asset in a city that didn’t have many skateparks while Stess was growing up. She skated the ramps at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11954041/teens-helped-save-this-historic-bay-area-theater-by-making-it-their-own\">Phoenix Theater\u003c/a>, a downtown music venue and teen hangout, and got involved with skate contests put on by the California Amateur Skateboard League, even though they required long car rides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An admirer of Brazilian-American skater Bob Burnquist and his skating style, Stess entered more amateur contests, winning her first by the time she turned eight. She turned pro around age 11, and soon started making appearances at some of the biggest contests around: the Dew Tour, the X Games and the USA National Championships. Along the way, she found herself drawn to park skating, a discipline which combines multiple styles like bowl, street and vert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like airing out of things and flying high,” Stess says. “Park is definitely my favorite. I prefer it to literally everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13961546\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13961546\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-7_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-7_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-7_qed-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-7_qed-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-7_qed-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-7_qed-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-7_qed-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-7_qed-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Minna Stess, 18, poses for a portrait at her home in Petaluma on July 22, 2024. Stess is headed to the 2024 Summer Olympics to represent the U.S in women’s skateboarding. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Kickflipping Her Way to the Olympics\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Her career continued to take flight, too, as Stess was chosen for the USA Skateboarding Women’s Park National Team in 2019. In 2021, she won the USA National Championships’ Women’s Park competition, becoming its youngest champion at age 15. And though she didn’t get to compete, Stess was named as an alternate for Team USA in the 2021 Olympic games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stess’ path to the Olympics has been one filled with epic highs and lows. One of the lows came in May, when she entered an Olympic qualifier in Shanghai, China, and fell during all three of her runs. It was something she’d never done before, she tells me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was like, ‘Okay, I can’t do that again,’” says Stess. “I kind of like, cracked under pressure, I guess.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13961527\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13961527\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MINNASTESS_GC-41-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MINNASTESS_GC-41-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MINNASTESS_GC-41-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MINNASTESS_GC-41-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MINNASTESS_GC-41-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MINNASTESS_GC-41-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MINNASTESS_GC-41-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MINNASTESS_GC-41-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S Olympic Skateboarder Minna Stess holds up her skateboard with slide marks in Petaluma on July 22, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her final Olympic Qualifier Series contest was held last month in Budapest, Hungary, and it quickly became just as nerve-wracking as her experience in Shanghai. She fell during her first two runs, and was feeling the pressure with just one run left. “I couldn’t watch anyone skate. I was like, pacing in circles,” reflecting back on her runs, she says. She had the support of the crowd and her competitors, though, who cheered loudly for her right before that fateful final run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even the Brazilians were hyped,” she says. “And if the Brazilians are cheering for you, you know you did something right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She made it through her final run without falling, and even though her score wasn’t as high as she’d hoped, it was enough. Stess had punched her ticket to Paris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13961547\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13961547\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-12_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1322\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-12_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-12_qed-800x529.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-12_qed-1020x674.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-12_qed-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-12_qed-768x508.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-12_qed-1536x1015.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-12_qed-1920x1269.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S Olympic Skateboarder Minna Stess poses for a photo with her parents Andrew and Moniz at their home in Petaluma on July 22, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A Family Affair\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For the duration of the Games, Stess will stay at the Olympic Village, sharing a room with a member of the street skating team. Her family will be close by in case she needs an escape; her parents, thinking ahead, booked a four-bedroom Paris home eight months ago for themselves, Stess’ brother, her uncle, her aunt and even her 87-year-old grandma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We never plan this far ahead for anything,” says her mother, Moniz Stess. Due to skateboarding’s very on-the-fly nature, she explains, it’s hard to plan lodging and plane tickets in advance. They waited to book their plane tickets until Stess knew whether or not she was Olympics-bound, but they still booked the house, just in case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13899344']It was a hunch that paid off, and Stess’ parents couldn’t be more proud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I drive Minna crazy using the word ‘journey,’ but it has been just that,” says her father, Andrew Stess. “It–” his voice breaks a little. “I can’t talk about it without getting teary-eyed. You see your kid loves something, and you want to–”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just then, his face suddenly softens as he spots Stess, who’s been half-tuned in from the other side of the skatepark. “She’s laughing at me,” he smiles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13961545\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13961545\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-2_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-2_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-2_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-2_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-2_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-2_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-2_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-2_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Minna Stess, 18, takes a break from skating at her home in Petaluma on July 22, 2024. Stess will compete in the 2024 Summer Olympics, representing the U.S in women’s skateboarding. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Staying ‘In the Moment’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Stess’ family has always been extremely supportive of her career, and have managed to find routine amidst the hectic nature of pro contest skating. “People probably thought we were nuts with, you know, us hopping in the car on weekends and driving the kids wherever, to go to whatever contest,” says Moniz. “But skateboarding for us is just normal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stess, too, has learned to balance staying competitive while also avoiding burnout. “I’m lucky, because I live in Petaluma, and most of the skating stuff is down in Southern California,” she says. “It’s kind of like going back and forth between two worlds.” Her friends, too, are a big source of support. Some are skaters like her, others don’t skate at all. “Being with them is kind of like a refresher,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13931352']With the days counting down to her Olympic preliminary contest, the skater feels confident both mentally and physically. “I definitely feel better than I did when I got back from Budapest,” she says. “I’m excited to go.” As for how she processes all the emotions that come from being a pro athlete on the world stage, “I try not to think of the consequences of things and just like, be in the moment,” she tells me. “You want to land your run, but sometimes you gotta realize like, not everything’s going to go right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask if she’s prepared her runs yet, but she knows anything she plans on paper will likely have to be tweaked once she gets a feel for the park firsthand. For now, she’s looking forward to watching the street skaters practice and doing a bit of \u003ca href=\"https://olympics.com/en/news/paris-2024-olympics-i-traded-pins-with-simone-biles\">Olympic pin trading\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has one other hope, too. Her Olympic Village roommate had to buy blinds for their dorm, and they apparently keep falling down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So I hope they stay up,” Stess says, “so I can get a good night’s sleep.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Minna Stess competes in the \u003ca href=\"https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/schedule/skateboarding/women-s-park?day=6-august\">Olympic Skateboarding Women’s Park Preliminaries on Tuesday, Aug. 6\u003c/a>. The event will be broadcast at 3:30 Pacific Time. The Women’s Final airs at 8:30 a.m. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Petaluma's Minna Stess has been skating since she was two. 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Sitting in her backyard on a sunny Monday afternoon, dressed in a black T-shirt and shorts, purple socks and Vans, the 18-year-old looks like almost any other suburban skate kid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s just one difference: Stess is about to fly to Paris to compete in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11993783/paris-2024-olympic-games-san-francisco-bay-area-athletes-competing\">the 2024 Olympics\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Paris, Stess will represent the United States in skateboarding, which became an Olympic sport just four years ago. To vie for the gold on the U.S. women’s team on a relatively new Olympic field, and on a global stage no less, the stakes couldn’t be higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13961525\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13961525\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MINNASTESS_GC-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MINNASTESS_GC-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MINNASTESS_GC-13-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MINNASTESS_GC-13-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MINNASTESS_GC-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MINNASTESS_GC-13-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MINNASTESS_GC-13-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MINNASTESS_GC-13-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S Olympic Skateboarder Minna Stess, 18, skates in her Petaluma backyard on July 22, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And yet when I meet with her, 24 hours before she gets on an airplane for the biggest competition of her young career, Stess remains easygoing and calm. Nonchalant, even. After all, she says, no matter how hard she tries, she can’t remember a time when she didn’t skate.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Turning Pro at 11\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Stess’ backyard is no ordinary backyard. The majority of it is taken up by a custom-built mini-skatepark, built in 2012. Back then, its three-foot transitions were plenty high for six-year-old Stess. Wanting to copy her older brother Finnley, she’d gotten into skating four years earlier, around age 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sitting on a bench seat on the backyard deck, Stess tells me her parents had a wooden ramp put in before the concrete park, but they got tired of throwing tarps over it every time it rained. The family celebrated the new concrete park’s completion by stepping their feet into the wet concrete before it dried. You can still see Stess’ tiny, classic Vans imprint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13961550\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13961550\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-40_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-40_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-40_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-40_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-40_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-40_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-40_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-40_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S Olympic Skateboarder Minna Stess’s shoe imprints (at left) at her home in Petaluma on July 22, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Having her own backyard park was an asset in a city that didn’t have many skateparks while Stess was growing up. She skated the ramps at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11954041/teens-helped-save-this-historic-bay-area-theater-by-making-it-their-own\">Phoenix Theater\u003c/a>, a downtown music venue and teen hangout, and got involved with skate contests put on by the California Amateur Skateboard League, even though they required long car rides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An admirer of Brazilian-American skater Bob Burnquist and his skating style, Stess entered more amateur contests, winning her first by the time she turned eight. She turned pro around age 11, and soon started making appearances at some of the biggest contests around: the Dew Tour, the X Games and the USA National Championships. Along the way, she found herself drawn to park skating, a discipline which combines multiple styles like bowl, street and vert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like airing out of things and flying high,” Stess says. “Park is definitely my favorite. I prefer it to literally everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13961546\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13961546\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-7_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-7_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-7_qed-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-7_qed-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-7_qed-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-7_qed-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-7_qed-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-7_qed-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Minna Stess, 18, poses for a portrait at her home in Petaluma on July 22, 2024. Stess is headed to the 2024 Summer Olympics to represent the U.S in women’s skateboarding. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Kickflipping Her Way to the Olympics\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Her career continued to take flight, too, as Stess was chosen for the USA Skateboarding Women’s Park National Team in 2019. In 2021, she won the USA National Championships’ Women’s Park competition, becoming its youngest champion at age 15. And though she didn’t get to compete, Stess was named as an alternate for Team USA in the 2021 Olympic games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stess’ path to the Olympics has been one filled with epic highs and lows. One of the lows came in May, when she entered an Olympic qualifier in Shanghai, China, and fell during all three of her runs. It was something she’d never done before, she tells me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was like, ‘Okay, I can’t do that again,’” says Stess. “I kind of like, cracked under pressure, I guess.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13961527\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13961527\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MINNASTESS_GC-41-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MINNASTESS_GC-41-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MINNASTESS_GC-41-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MINNASTESS_GC-41-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MINNASTESS_GC-41-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MINNASTESS_GC-41-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MINNASTESS_GC-41-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MINNASTESS_GC-41-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S Olympic Skateboarder Minna Stess holds up her skateboard with slide marks in Petaluma on July 22, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her final Olympic Qualifier Series contest was held last month in Budapest, Hungary, and it quickly became just as nerve-wracking as her experience in Shanghai. She fell during her first two runs, and was feeling the pressure with just one run left. “I couldn’t watch anyone skate. I was like, pacing in circles,” reflecting back on her runs, she says. She had the support of the crowd and her competitors, though, who cheered loudly for her right before that fateful final run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even the Brazilians were hyped,” she says. “And if the Brazilians are cheering for you, you know you did something right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She made it through her final run without falling, and even though her score wasn’t as high as she’d hoped, it was enough. Stess had punched her ticket to Paris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13961547\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13961547\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-12_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1322\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-12_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-12_qed-800x529.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-12_qed-1020x674.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-12_qed-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-12_qed-768x508.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-12_qed-1536x1015.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-12_qed-1920x1269.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S Olympic Skateboarder Minna Stess poses for a photo with her parents Andrew and Moniz at their home in Petaluma on July 22, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A Family Affair\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For the duration of the Games, Stess will stay at the Olympic Village, sharing a room with a member of the street skating team. Her family will be close by in case she needs an escape; her parents, thinking ahead, booked a four-bedroom Paris home eight months ago for themselves, Stess’ brother, her uncle, her aunt and even her 87-year-old grandma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We never plan this far ahead for anything,” says her mother, Moniz Stess. Due to skateboarding’s very on-the-fly nature, she explains, it’s hard to plan lodging and plane tickets in advance. They waited to book their plane tickets until Stess knew whether or not she was Olympics-bound, but they still booked the house, just in case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13899344","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>It was a hunch that paid off, and Stess’ parents couldn’t be more proud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I drive Minna crazy using the word ‘journey,’ but it has been just that,” says her father, Andrew Stess. “It–” his voice breaks a little. “I can’t talk about it without getting teary-eyed. You see your kid loves something, and you want to–”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just then, his face suddenly softens as he spots Stess, who’s been half-tuned in from the other side of the skatepark. “She’s laughing at me,” he smiles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13961545\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13961545\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-2_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-2_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-2_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-2_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-2_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-2_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-2_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-2_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Minna Stess, 18, takes a break from skating at her home in Petaluma on July 22, 2024. Stess will compete in the 2024 Summer Olympics, representing the U.S in women’s skateboarding. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Staying ‘In the Moment’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Stess’ family has always been extremely supportive of her career, and have managed to find routine amidst the hectic nature of pro contest skating. “People probably thought we were nuts with, you know, us hopping in the car on weekends and driving the kids wherever, to go to whatever contest,” says Moniz. “But skateboarding for us is just normal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stess, too, has learned to balance staying competitive while also avoiding burnout. “I’m lucky, because I live in Petaluma, and most of the skating stuff is down in Southern California,” she says. “It’s kind of like going back and forth between two worlds.” Her friends, too, are a big source of support. Some are skaters like her, others don’t skate at all. “Being with them is kind of like a refresher,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13931352","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>With the days counting down to her Olympic preliminary contest, the skater feels confident both mentally and physically. “I definitely feel better than I did when I got back from Budapest,” she says. “I’m excited to go.” As for how she processes all the emotions that come from being a pro athlete on the world stage, “I try not to think of the consequences of things and just like, be in the moment,” she tells me. “You want to land your run, but sometimes you gotta realize like, not everything’s going to go right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask if she’s prepared her runs yet, but she knows anything she plans on paper will likely have to be tweaked once she gets a feel for the park firsthand. For now, she’s looking forward to watching the street skaters practice and doing a bit of \u003ca href=\"https://olympics.com/en/news/paris-2024-olympics-i-traded-pins-with-simone-biles\">Olympic pin trading\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has one other hope, too. Her Olympic Village roommate had to buy blinds for their dorm, and they apparently keep falling down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So I hope they stay up,” Stess says, “so I can get a good night’s sleep.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Minna Stess competes in the \u003ca href=\"https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/schedule/skateboarding/women-s-park?day=6-august\">Olympic Skateboarding Women’s Park Preliminaries on Tuesday, Aug. 6\u003c/a>. The event will be broadcast at 3:30 Pacific Time. The Women’s Final airs at 8:30 a.m. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13961542/minna-stess-skateboarding-petaluma-paris-olympics","authors":["11919"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_835","arts_235","arts_13238"],"tags":["arts_22228","arts_10342","arts_10278","arts_10422","arts_3920","arts_3231","arts_1442"],"featImg":"arts_13961524","label":"arts"},"arts_13910584":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13910584","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"arts","id":"13910584","score":null,"sort":[1647367716000]},"parent":0,"labelTerm":{"site":"arts","term":137},"blocks":[],"publishDate":1647367716,"format":"standard","title":"Gen-X Cultural Ties to Russia Were Deliberate and Hopeful. Now, That's Eroding","headTitle":"Gen-X Cultural Ties to Russia Were Deliberate and Hopeful. Now, That’s Eroding | KQED","content":"\u003cp>As a Gen-X kid, I have to admit there was particular poignancy to the news that, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine,\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/03/03/1084303033/hollywood-refuses-to-open-biggest-films-in-russia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Russia isn’t getting \u003cem>The Batman\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s part of a much, much bigger and more important story, of course—several much, much bigger, much more important stories. NPR’s Anastasia Tsioulcas has reported on many \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2022/03/03/1084246378/arts-organizations-putin-supporters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">severed relationships in arts\u003c/a> in recent weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13909903']Most of these have been attributed not simply to being Russian in and of itself, but to ties to Putin, or to a refusal to repudiate him—and to funding that comes from the Russian government. Some artists have\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/02/28/1083496491/russian-performers-speak-out-putin-ukraine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> actively spoken against him\u003c/a> and against the invasion, but many have not. It’s in opera, it’s in classical concerts, but it’s affecting other things, too: Russia is \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/02/25/1083095335/eurovision-russia-banned\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">not being permitted to participate in \u003cem>Eurovision\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, where it debuted in 1994. Western musicians have been\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/03/02/1083981946/live-nation-entertainment-is-ceasing-business-with-russia-and-acts-cancel-dates-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> canceling Russian dates\u003c/a> ever since the war started. As Elizabeth Blair has reported,\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/03/01/1083694731/u-s-russian-cultural-organizations-ukraine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Russian cultural organizations inside the U.S.\u003c/a> are anxious about possible effects on their own work.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Connections to Russia were once optimistic\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>These boycotts are perhaps even more jarring if you remember past periods in which pop culture tried to paint a picture of deliberate, optimistic, post-Cold-War thaw. In the 1980s, particularly in the wake of the policies of glasnost and perestroika in the former Soviet Union—which encouraged openness and reform—artists went to places they wouldn’t have gone ten or even five years before. It was in 1987, 35 years ago this July, that Billy Joel brought a big pop-rock show to Leningrad and Moscow; 1989 when Billy Crystal traveled to find his Russian relatives in an HBO special called \u003cem>Midnight Train to Moscow\u003c/em>. That year also brought the Moscow Music Peace Festival, with Ozzy Osbourne, Motley Crue, and Bon Jovi among the performers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13910586\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13910586\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/ap8908120226_custom-6b2dd48ee765ba6851550e657cdf4d6ea52753b6-800x563.jpg\" alt=\"An enthusiastic crowd sings along at a stadium concert, including one young woman on someone's shoulders, arms raised in joy.\" width=\"800\" height=\"563\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bon Jovi, Motley Crue, and Ozzy Osbourne played at the Moscow Music Peace Festival in August, 1989. \u003ccite>(AP Photo/Robert Toning)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the time, all these things were presented through a lens of, for lack of a better word, a goal of international—and intentional—\u003cem>friendship\u003c/em>. Joel’s bond with an enthusiastic fan and circus clown named Viktor became one of the centerpieces of the\u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0392424/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> documentary\u003c/a> about his trip and the basis for a later song called “Leningrad.” (“We never knew what friends we had until we came to Leningrad.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Putin became president in 2000, some of these events continued. Paul McCartney played in Red Square in 2003 and met with Putin personally. Putin\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/music/2003/dec/14/popandrock.paulmccartney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> came to the show\u003c/a>. Even the popularity of the FX drama series \u003cem>The Americans\u003c/em>, which portrayed the Cold War through the eyes of KGB spies who felt just as righteous in their cause as Americans did in theirs, arguably continued this tradition of pop culture as pushing back against simplistic and antagonistic narratives of decades past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now all this.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Even Levi’s has halted sales in Russia\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>This severance of sometimes longstanding relationships isn’t only happening in the arts. It’s happening just as rapidly in sports, both in the real world and virtually. Russian athletes were barred from the Paralympic Games by the International Olympic Committee. FIFA has banned Russian teams from participating in its soccer matches. Russian teams have even been removed from the popular FIFA 22 video game, and may be removed from other games, too. President Vladimir Putin is seeing symbolic ties to sports withdrawn:\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/live-updates/2022/03/07/ukraine-russia-nuclear-plants-humanitarian#international-judo-federation-strips-putin-of-his-honorary-titles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> The International Judo Federation\u003c/a> stripped Putin of honorary titles in that sport, and World Taekwondo withdrew an honorary black belt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13909675']Businesses that one might paint into a mural representing American consumerism have been suspending business in Russia: McDonald’s, Coke, Pepsi, Starbucks, Disney. Wall Street saw its first big withdrawal when\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/live-updates/morning-edition-2022-03-10#goldman-sachs-is-the-1st-major-wall-street-bank-to-pull-out-of-russia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Goldman Sachs\u003c/a> stopped operating there, and while that’s an economic move, it feels culturally significant, too. Hollywood studios, major music companies, all ceasing business in Russia—there are even ramifications for sales of one of the items that has often been referenced as a go-to symbol of American cultural presence in other countries:\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/live-updates/2022/03/07/ukraine-russia-nuclear-plants-humanitarian#levis-halts-sales-in-russia-evoking-cold-war-scrambles-for-blue-jeans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> blue jeans\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The impact of cultural boycotts\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Does all this matter? It probably depends on what you mean by “matter.” \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2022/03/ukraine-russia-culture-boycott-putin/623873/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">As Yasmeen Serhan wrote in \u003cem>The Atlantic\u003c/em> earlier this month:\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“It’s easy to see cultural boycotts as more of a symbolic act than a serious threat to Moscow’s geopolitical standing. But by suspending Russia from the world’s largest sporting and cultural arenas, these institutions are sending a clear—and, for Putin, potentially damaging—message: If Russia acts beyond the bounds of the rules-based international order in Ukraine, it will be treated as an outsider by the rest of the world.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The idea of culture and sports as stand-ins for the current political climate is obviously not new. I was an enthusiastic Olympics-watching kid during the boycott by the United States of the Moscow Summer Olympics in 1980 and the Soviet Union’s boycott of the Los Angeles Summer Olympics in 1984, both of which\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93334099\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> cost athletes dearly\u003c/a>, and both of which carried a heaviness, a sense of a hostile closed door that was consistent with the political rhetoric of the time. And in the last couple of years, the controversies around Russian athletes in the Olympics and the workaround under which sanctions for doping meant they couldn’t compete for Russia but only for the “Russian Olympic Committee” brought out some of the grumbling that has soured international competition in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it goes back much farther than that: In the documentary about his trip to Russia, Billy Joel says he was inspired to go partly because he remembered how important it felt to him when he was young and American pianist\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=87807262\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Van Cliburn won\u003c/a> the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1958. Joel says in the film that the event, and Russia’s embrace of Cliburn, changed his own sense of the country and its people, whom he felt he’d been taught to fear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13910588\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13910588\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/ap290362078513_custom-4d83bf923b7ffd8c62022f550410d56d0a804b43-800x637.jpg\" alt=\"A young man, wearing a tuxedo, sits at a grand Steinway piano.\" width=\"800\" height=\"637\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pianist Van Cliburn performing in the final round of Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow in 1958. Cliburn’s triumph helped thaw the Cold War. \u003ccite>(AP Photo, file)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These crossovers of diplomacy and art can be fortuitous or commercial, but they can also be fully orchestrated by governments, and they can be complicated for the artists involved: the U.S. State Department\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/05/05/608802931/-the-jazz-ambassadors-cold-war-diplomacy-and-civil-rights-in-conflict\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> sent jazz musicians, including Dizzy Gillespie and Louis Armstrong\u003c/a>, around the world in the 1950s to present a positive image of the United States, even as the country utterly failed to treat them equally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The world has always done this—used culture and sports to communicate over and past and through and around politics and aggression—and the question of how important that is, and how productive it is, recurs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The efficacy of cultural sanctions certainly remains an open question; Serhan argues that because of the particular shape of his chosen image, Putin will be far more personally bothered and functionally threatened by sports sanctions than by ones in the arts. But she says this, too: “If ordinary Russians can no longer enjoy many of the activities they love, including things as quotidian as watching their soccer teams play in international matches, seeing the latest films, and enjoying live concerts, their tolerance for their government’s isolationist policies will diminish.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>By now, Russians have gotten used to global connections\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If that’s so, it may turn out that openness—not just concerts in the 1980s, but the growing presence of Hollywood films and the vibrancy of international competition in sports—is not just a cyclical opposite of this period of retraction we’ve so rapidly entered, but a logical predecessor to it. The idea of depriving ordinary Russians, as Serhan says, of sports and Hollywood films and live concerts by international performers would not be a potent threat had they not come to expect access to those things in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13910742']In other words, if bands weren’t going to Russia, if world sports leagues weren’t thriving, if Hollywood movies weren’t earning big money from big audiences in Russia, these arts and sports sanctions would be empty. If you’re not part of\u003cem> Eurovision\u003c/em>, you can’t be excluded from \u003cem>Eurovision\u003c/em>. If people don’t have expectations of a relatively open cultural and sports world, they can’t be disappointed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this is not the way this openness was pitched in the pop culture of the 1980s and 1990s, as something that might be withdrawn later as a result of an invasion; it was pitched as hope, as comity, and as perhaps a permanent realignment. And as a wildly naive teenager, I did find the idea that anyone could rock out at a concert transformative, capable of papering over what remained deep and troubling problems in world affairs that existed in both my own country and others. Even in 1987, Joel was asked whether he was afraid that his visit would be used as cover for human rights issues. His response, so familiar to people who have watched artists navigate these issues, was that he was not a politician.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br1Ddw0tNAM\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There will likely be—there will hopefully be—at some time in the future, brought about by different conditions and an end to the war, another newsworthy return to Moscow for an American pop artist. There will be another reopening, another thaw in this cycle. The Gen-X kid in me, the one who remembers being sold hope in that way, anticipates this and will lean toward music and sports for signs of peace, even knowing it’s foolish. It isn’t that arts or sports are the important ties; it is that they are buoys that bob on the surface of world affairs, and when they move, in response to much greater forces underneath them, we notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\">visit NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Once%2C+cultural+ties+to+Russia+were+deliberate+and+hopeful.+Now%2C+they%27re+eroding&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","stats":{"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":1738,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"paragraphCount":22},"modified":1705007091,"excerpt":"Russia's growing isolation in the cultural world is poignant for those who remember optimistic outreach of the '80s and '90s.","headData":{"twImgId":"","twTitle":"","ogTitle":"","ogImgId":"","twDescription":"","description":"Russia's growing isolation in the cultural world is poignant for those who remember optimistic outreach of the '80s and '90s.","title":"Gen-X Cultural Ties to Russia Were Deliberate and Hopeful. 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Now, That's Eroding","datePublished":"2022-03-15T11:08:36-07:00","dateModified":"2024-01-11T13:04:51-08:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"gen-x-cultural-ties-to-russia-were-deliberate-and-hopeful-now-thats-eroding","status":"publish","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=1085398208&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","templateType":"standard","nprStoryDate":"Sun, 13 Mar 2022 06:00:52 -0400","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","nprLastModifiedDate":"Mon, 14 Mar 2022 09:44:23 -0400","featuredImageType":"standard","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2022/03/13/1085398208/russia-ukraine-war-invasion-cultural-connections-hollywood-fifa-billy-joel?ft=nprml&f=1085398208","nprImageAgency":"Disney General Entertainment Content/Getty Images","nprStoryId":"1085398208","nprByline":"Linda Holmes","sticky":false,"nprImageCredit":"ABC Photo Archives","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Mon, 14 Mar 2022 09:44:00 -0400","path":"/arts/13910584/gen-x-cultural-ties-to-russia-were-deliberate-and-hopeful-now-thats-eroding","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As a Gen-X kid, I have to admit there was particular poignancy to the news that, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine,\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/03/03/1084303033/hollywood-refuses-to-open-biggest-films-in-russia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Russia isn’t getting \u003cem>The Batman\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s part of a much, much bigger and more important story, of course—several much, much bigger, much more important stories. NPR’s Anastasia Tsioulcas has reported on many \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2022/03/03/1084246378/arts-organizations-putin-supporters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">severed relationships in arts\u003c/a> in recent weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13909903","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Most of these have been attributed not simply to being Russian in and of itself, but to ties to Putin, or to a refusal to repudiate him—and to funding that comes from the Russian government. Some artists have\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/02/28/1083496491/russian-performers-speak-out-putin-ukraine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> actively spoken against him\u003c/a> and against the invasion, but many have not. It’s in opera, it’s in classical concerts, but it’s affecting other things, too: Russia is \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/02/25/1083095335/eurovision-russia-banned\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">not being permitted to participate in \u003cem>Eurovision\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, where it debuted in 1994. Western musicians have been\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/03/02/1083981946/live-nation-entertainment-is-ceasing-business-with-russia-and-acts-cancel-dates-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> canceling Russian dates\u003c/a> ever since the war started. As Elizabeth Blair has reported,\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/03/01/1083694731/u-s-russian-cultural-organizations-ukraine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Russian cultural organizations inside the U.S.\u003c/a> are anxious about possible effects on their own work.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Connections to Russia were once optimistic\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>These boycotts are perhaps even more jarring if you remember past periods in which pop culture tried to paint a picture of deliberate, optimistic, post-Cold-War thaw. In the 1980s, particularly in the wake of the policies of glasnost and perestroika in the former Soviet Union—which encouraged openness and reform—artists went to places they wouldn’t have gone ten or even five years before. It was in 1987, 35 years ago this July, that Billy Joel brought a big pop-rock show to Leningrad and Moscow; 1989 when Billy Crystal traveled to find his Russian relatives in an HBO special called \u003cem>Midnight Train to Moscow\u003c/em>. That year also brought the Moscow Music Peace Festival, with Ozzy Osbourne, Motley Crue, and Bon Jovi among the performers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13910586\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13910586\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/ap8908120226_custom-6b2dd48ee765ba6851550e657cdf4d6ea52753b6-800x563.jpg\" alt=\"An enthusiastic crowd sings along at a stadium concert, including one young woman on someone's shoulders, arms raised in joy.\" width=\"800\" height=\"563\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bon Jovi, Motley Crue, and Ozzy Osbourne played at the Moscow Music Peace Festival in August, 1989. \u003ccite>(AP Photo/Robert Toning)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the time, all these things were presented through a lens of, for lack of a better word, a goal of international—and intentional—\u003cem>friendship\u003c/em>. Joel’s bond with an enthusiastic fan and circus clown named Viktor became one of the centerpieces of the\u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0392424/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> documentary\u003c/a> about his trip and the basis for a later song called “Leningrad.” (“We never knew what friends we had until we came to Leningrad.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Putin became president in 2000, some of these events continued. Paul McCartney played in Red Square in 2003 and met with Putin personally. Putin\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/music/2003/dec/14/popandrock.paulmccartney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> came to the show\u003c/a>. Even the popularity of the FX drama series \u003cem>The Americans\u003c/em>, which portrayed the Cold War through the eyes of KGB spies who felt just as righteous in their cause as Americans did in theirs, arguably continued this tradition of pop culture as pushing back against simplistic and antagonistic narratives of decades past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now all this.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Even Levi’s has halted sales in Russia\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>This severance of sometimes longstanding relationships isn’t only happening in the arts. It’s happening just as rapidly in sports, both in the real world and virtually. Russian athletes were barred from the Paralympic Games by the International Olympic Committee. FIFA has banned Russian teams from participating in its soccer matches. Russian teams have even been removed from the popular FIFA 22 video game, and may be removed from other games, too. President Vladimir Putin is seeing symbolic ties to sports withdrawn:\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/live-updates/2022/03/07/ukraine-russia-nuclear-plants-humanitarian#international-judo-federation-strips-putin-of-his-honorary-titles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> The International Judo Federation\u003c/a> stripped Putin of honorary titles in that sport, and World Taekwondo withdrew an honorary black belt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13909675","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Businesses that one might paint into a mural representing American consumerism have been suspending business in Russia: McDonald’s, Coke, Pepsi, Starbucks, Disney. Wall Street saw its first big withdrawal when\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/live-updates/morning-edition-2022-03-10#goldman-sachs-is-the-1st-major-wall-street-bank-to-pull-out-of-russia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Goldman Sachs\u003c/a> stopped operating there, and while that’s an economic move, it feels culturally significant, too. Hollywood studios, major music companies, all ceasing business in Russia—there are even ramifications for sales of one of the items that has often been referenced as a go-to symbol of American cultural presence in other countries:\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/live-updates/2022/03/07/ukraine-russia-nuclear-plants-humanitarian#levis-halts-sales-in-russia-evoking-cold-war-scrambles-for-blue-jeans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> blue jeans\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The impact of cultural boycotts\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Does all this matter? It probably depends on what you mean by “matter.” \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2022/03/ukraine-russia-culture-boycott-putin/623873/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">As Yasmeen Serhan wrote in \u003cem>The Atlantic\u003c/em> earlier this month:\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“It’s easy to see cultural boycotts as more of a symbolic act than a serious threat to Moscow’s geopolitical standing. But by suspending Russia from the world’s largest sporting and cultural arenas, these institutions are sending a clear—and, for Putin, potentially damaging—message: If Russia acts beyond the bounds of the rules-based international order in Ukraine, it will be treated as an outsider by the rest of the world.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The idea of culture and sports as stand-ins for the current political climate is obviously not new. I was an enthusiastic Olympics-watching kid during the boycott by the United States of the Moscow Summer Olympics in 1980 and the Soviet Union’s boycott of the Los Angeles Summer Olympics in 1984, both of which\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93334099\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> cost athletes dearly\u003c/a>, and both of which carried a heaviness, a sense of a hostile closed door that was consistent with the political rhetoric of the time. And in the last couple of years, the controversies around Russian athletes in the Olympics and the workaround under which sanctions for doping meant they couldn’t compete for Russia but only for the “Russian Olympic Committee” brought out some of the grumbling that has soured international competition in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it goes back much farther than that: In the documentary about his trip to Russia, Billy Joel says he was inspired to go partly because he remembered how important it felt to him when he was young and American pianist\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=87807262\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Van Cliburn won\u003c/a> the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1958. Joel says in the film that the event, and Russia’s embrace of Cliburn, changed his own sense of the country and its people, whom he felt he’d been taught to fear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13910588\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13910588\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/ap290362078513_custom-4d83bf923b7ffd8c62022f550410d56d0a804b43-800x637.jpg\" alt=\"A young man, wearing a tuxedo, sits at a grand Steinway piano.\" width=\"800\" height=\"637\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pianist Van Cliburn performing in the final round of Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow in 1958. Cliburn’s triumph helped thaw the Cold War. \u003ccite>(AP Photo, file)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These crossovers of diplomacy and art can be fortuitous or commercial, but they can also be fully orchestrated by governments, and they can be complicated for the artists involved: the U.S. State Department\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/05/05/608802931/-the-jazz-ambassadors-cold-war-diplomacy-and-civil-rights-in-conflict\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> sent jazz musicians, including Dizzy Gillespie and Louis Armstrong\u003c/a>, around the world in the 1950s to present a positive image of the United States, even as the country utterly failed to treat them equally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The world has always done this—used culture and sports to communicate over and past and through and around politics and aggression—and the question of how important that is, and how productive it is, recurs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The efficacy of cultural sanctions certainly remains an open question; Serhan argues that because of the particular shape of his chosen image, Putin will be far more personally bothered and functionally threatened by sports sanctions than by ones in the arts. But she says this, too: “If ordinary Russians can no longer enjoy many of the activities they love, including things as quotidian as watching their soccer teams play in international matches, seeing the latest films, and enjoying live concerts, their tolerance for their government’s isolationist policies will diminish.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>By now, Russians have gotten used to global connections\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If that’s so, it may turn out that openness—not just concerts in the 1980s, but the growing presence of Hollywood films and the vibrancy of international competition in sports—is not just a cyclical opposite of this period of retraction we’ve so rapidly entered, but a logical predecessor to it. The idea of depriving ordinary Russians, as Serhan says, of sports and Hollywood films and live concerts by international performers would not be a potent threat had they not come to expect access to those things in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13910742","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In other words, if bands weren’t going to Russia, if world sports leagues weren’t thriving, if Hollywood movies weren’t earning big money from big audiences in Russia, these arts and sports sanctions would be empty. If you’re not part of\u003cem> Eurovision\u003c/em>, you can’t be excluded from \u003cem>Eurovision\u003c/em>. If people don’t have expectations of a relatively open cultural and sports world, they can’t be disappointed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this is not the way this openness was pitched in the pop culture of the 1980s and 1990s, as something that might be withdrawn later as a result of an invasion; it was pitched as hope, as comity, and as perhaps a permanent realignment. And as a wildly naive teenager, I did find the idea that anyone could rock out at a concert transformative, capable of papering over what remained deep and troubling problems in world affairs that existed in both my own country and others. Even in 1987, Joel was asked whether he was afraid that his visit would be used as cover for human rights issues. His response, so familiar to people who have watched artists navigate these issues, was that he was not a politician.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/br1Ddw0tNAM'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/br1Ddw0tNAM'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There will likely be—there will hopefully be—at some time in the future, brought about by different conditions and an end to the war, another newsworthy return to Moscow for an American pop artist. There will be another reopening, another thaw in this cycle. The Gen-X kid in me, the one who remembers being sold hope in that way, anticipates this and will lean toward music and sports for signs of peace, even knowing it’s foolish. It isn’t that arts or sports are the important ties; it is that they are buoys that bob on the surface of world affairs, and when they move, in response to much greater forces underneath them, we notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\">visit NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Once%2C+cultural+ties+to+Russia+were+deliberate+and+hopeful.+Now%2C+they%27re+eroding&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13910584/gen-x-cultural-ties-to-russia-were-deliberate-and-hopeful-now-thats-eroding","authors":["byline_arts_13910584"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_75"],"tags":["arts_2640","arts_3920","arts_925","arts_4090","arts_16761"],"affiliates":["arts_137"],"featImg":"arts_13910587","label":"arts_137"},"arts_13909460":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13909460","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"arts","id":"13909460","score":null,"sort":[1644958087000]},"parent":0,"labelTerm":{"site":"arts","term":137},"blocks":[],"publishDate":1644958087,"format":"standard","title":"Sha'Carri Richardson Sees a Double Standard in Allowing Kamila Valieva to Compete","headTitle":"Sha’Carri Richardson Sees a Double Standard in Allowing Kamila Valieva to Compete | KQED","content":"\u003cp>U.S. sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson is calling out Olympic and anti-doping officials, after Russian skater Kamila Valieva was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/02/14/1080501383/russian-figure-skater-kamila-valieva-olympics-2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">allowed to compete\u003c/a> despite testing positive for a banned drug.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13909205']“Can we get a solid answer on the difference” between their situations? Richardson \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/itskerrii/status/1493209274457153536\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">asked on Twitter\u003c/a>, after mediators ruled that Valieva should be allowed to skate in the women’s individual competition in Beijing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only difference I see is I’m a Black young lady,” Richardson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s all in the skin,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/itskerrii/status/1493209274457153536\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richardson won the 100-meter race at the U.S. Olympic trials early last summer, but after it was revealed that she had tested positive for THC, the intoxicant in marijuana, she was denied a chance to compete at the Tokyo Olympics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>THC is on the World Anti-Doping Agency’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.wada-ama.org/en/prohibited-list?q=cannabis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">list of prohibited substances\u003c/a>—but so is trimetazidine, the drug that was found in Valieva’s test sample. The heart drug is believed to be able to boost athletes’ endurance and blood efficiency. In other words, it can boost athletic performance, while THC does not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richardson pointed out that difference \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/itskerrii/status/1493243694266396674\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in her tweets\u003c/a> responding to the ruling on Valieva’s eligibility at the Winter Olympics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13899840']Richardson, who like Valieva was favored to win a medal in her sport, also noted a stark difference in how their positive tests were handled. While the Russian star failed a test that was submitted in December, she somehow avoided a suspension.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>News of the positive test only began to trickle out after Valieva helped her team win a gold medal in Beijing. In contrast, Richardson said, her drug test result quickly became public knowledge. “My name & talent was slaughtered to the people,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valieva is being allowed to compete in Beijing under a cloud of suspicion—and in an extraordinary move, the International Olympic Committee\u003ca href=\"https://olympics.com/ioc/news/ioc-eb-decides-no-medal-ceremonies-following-cas-decision-on-the-case-of-roc-skater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> says that \u003c/a>if the Russian star wins, a medal ceremony won’t take place until a doping investigation is completed. That could thrust the singles competition into the same limbo that has \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/02/10/1079829894/doping-scandal-olympics-russian-skater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">held up medals for the team event\u003c/a>, in which Russia took gold and the U.S. silver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richardson’s suspension just before the Tokyo Olympics triggered an outpouring of support for her and criticism for anti-doping rules, particularly because cannabis has shed much of the stigma it once carried. Dozens of U.S. states have legalized its use to some degree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Michael Joyner, a physician and researcher on exercise physiology at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/07/03/1012907963/what-to-know-about-olympic-marijuana-bans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told NPR last July\u003c/a> that he was surprised at how weak the scientific evidence is for banning cannabis in athletes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_97017']“I think this is a legacy of just kind of poor regulation in terms of not specifically saying what drug is banned for which event,” he said, “and also this sort of reefer madness sort of holdover.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cannabis remains on the list of banned substances that the World Anti-Doping Agency released shortly after the Tokyo Olympics. But the agency \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/09/15/1037286650/wada-world-anti-doping-review-ban-cannabis-shacarri-richardson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said in September\u003c/a> that it will review the ban, citing “requests from a number of stakeholders” in international athletics.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This story originally appeared in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/live-updates/russia-troops-ukraine-border#shacarri-richardson-would-like-a-word-after-valieva-is-allowed-to-compete-at-the-olympics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Morning Edition\u003c/em> live blog\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Sha%27Carri+Richardson+sees+a+double+standard+in+allowing+Kamila+Valieva+to+compete&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","stats":{"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":580,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"paragraphCount":17},"modified":1705007189,"excerpt":"Valieva is still competing in Beijing despite testing positive for trimetazidine. THC got Richardson excluded.","headData":{"twImgId":"","twTitle":"","ogTitle":"","ogImgId":"","twDescription":"","description":"Valieva is still competing in Beijing despite testing positive for trimetazidine. THC got Richardson excluded.","title":"Sha'Carri Richardson Sees a Double Standard in Allowing Kamila Valieva to Compete | KQED","ogDescription":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Sha'Carri Richardson Sees a Double Standard in Allowing Kamila Valieva to Compete","datePublished":"2022-02-15T12:48:07-08:00","dateModified":"2024-01-11T13:06:29-08:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"shacarri-richardson-sees-a-double-standard-in-allowing-kamila-valieva-to-compete","status":"publish","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=1080694770&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","templateType":"standard","nprStoryDate":"Tue, 15 Feb 2022 08:44:10 -0500","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","nprLastModifiedDate":"Tue, 15 Feb 2022 11:11:35 -0500","featuredImageType":"standard","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2022/02/15/1080694770/shacarri-richardson-kamila-valieva-doping?ft=nprml&f=1080694770","nprImageAgency":"Jonathan Ferrey/Getty Images; Matthew Stockman/Getty Images","nprStoryId":"1080694770","nprByline":"Bill Chappell","sticky":false,"showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Tue, 15 Feb 2022 11:02:00 -0500","path":"/arts/13909460/shacarri-richardson-sees-a-double-standard-in-allowing-kamila-valieva-to-compete","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>U.S. sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson is calling out Olympic and anti-doping officials, after Russian skater Kamila Valieva was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/02/14/1080501383/russian-figure-skater-kamila-valieva-olympics-2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">allowed to compete\u003c/a> despite testing positive for a banned drug.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13909205","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Can we get a solid answer on the difference” between their situations? Richardson \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/itskerrii/status/1493209274457153536\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">asked on Twitter\u003c/a>, after mediators ruled that Valieva should be allowed to skate in the women’s individual competition in Beijing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only difference I see is I’m a Black young lady,” Richardson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s all in the skin,” she added.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1493209274457153536"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richardson won the 100-meter race at the U.S. Olympic trials early last summer, but after it was revealed that she had tested positive for THC, the intoxicant in marijuana, she was denied a chance to compete at the Tokyo Olympics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>THC is on the World Anti-Doping Agency’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.wada-ama.org/en/prohibited-list?q=cannabis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">list of prohibited substances\u003c/a>—but so is trimetazidine, the drug that was found in Valieva’s test sample. The heart drug is believed to be able to boost athletes’ endurance and blood efficiency. In other words, it can boost athletic performance, while THC does not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richardson pointed out that difference \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/itskerrii/status/1493243694266396674\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in her tweets\u003c/a> responding to the ruling on Valieva’s eligibility at the Winter Olympics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13899840","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Richardson, who like Valieva was favored to win a medal in her sport, also noted a stark difference in how their positive tests were handled. While the Russian star failed a test that was submitted in December, she somehow avoided a suspension.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>News of the positive test only began to trickle out after Valieva helped her team win a gold medal in Beijing. In contrast, Richardson said, her drug test result quickly became public knowledge. “My name & talent was slaughtered to the people,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valieva is being allowed to compete in Beijing under a cloud of suspicion—and in an extraordinary move, the International Olympic Committee\u003ca href=\"https://olympics.com/ioc/news/ioc-eb-decides-no-medal-ceremonies-following-cas-decision-on-the-case-of-roc-skater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> says that \u003c/a>if the Russian star wins, a medal ceremony won’t take place until a doping investigation is completed. That could thrust the singles competition into the same limbo that has \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/02/10/1079829894/doping-scandal-olympics-russian-skater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">held up medals for the team event\u003c/a>, in which Russia took gold and the U.S. silver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richardson’s suspension just before the Tokyo Olympics triggered an outpouring of support for her and criticism for anti-doping rules, particularly because cannabis has shed much of the stigma it once carried. Dozens of U.S. states have legalized its use to some degree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Michael Joyner, a physician and researcher on exercise physiology at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/07/03/1012907963/what-to-know-about-olympic-marijuana-bans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told NPR last July\u003c/a> that he was surprised at how weak the scientific evidence is for banning cannabis in athletes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"pop_97017","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I think this is a legacy of just kind of poor regulation in terms of not specifically saying what drug is banned for which event,” he said, “and also this sort of reefer madness sort of holdover.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cannabis remains on the list of banned substances that the World Anti-Doping Agency released shortly after the Tokyo Olympics. But the agency \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/09/15/1037286650/wada-world-anti-doping-review-ban-cannabis-shacarri-richardson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said in September\u003c/a> that it will review the ban, citing “requests from a number of stakeholders” in international athletics.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This story originally appeared in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/live-updates/russia-troops-ukraine-border#shacarri-richardson-would-like-a-word-after-valieva-is-allowed-to-compete-at-the-olympics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Morning Edition\u003c/em> live blog\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Sha%27Carri+Richardson+sees+a+double+standard+in+allowing+Kamila+Valieva+to+compete&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13909460/shacarri-richardson-sees-a-double-standard-in-allowing-kamila-valieva-to-compete","authors":["byline_arts_13909460"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_13238"],"tags":["arts_3077","arts_3920","arts_4506"],"affiliates":["arts_137"],"featImg":"arts_13909461","label":"arts_137"},"arts_13909205":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13909205","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"arts","id":"13909205","score":null,"sort":[1644519216000]},"parent":0,"labelTerm":{"site":"arts","term":137},"blocks":[],"publishDate":1644519216,"format":"standard","title":"Olympic Figure Skaters' Medals Are in Limbo Over a (New) Russian Doping Scandal","headTitle":"Olympic Figure Skaters’ Medals Are in Limbo Over a (New) Russian Doping Scandal | KQED","content":"\u003cp>Medalists in team figure skating still haven’t received their prizes at the Beijing Olympics, because of an apparent failed doping test. Russian media report that the athlete in question is Kamila Valieva, who made history by landing two quadruple jumps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reports surfaced on Wednesday that Valieva, 15, tested positive for a heart drug called trimetazidine, which can boost athletes’ endurance and blood efficiency. Russian media outlets report that Valieva submitted the sample in question before winning last month’s European championship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13909079']Valieva returned to the ice Thursday after missing practice on Wednesday. Her absence had led to speculation that she might have been suspended—but Olga Ermolina, a press officer of the Russian Figure Skating Federation, told media outlets that Valieva is not under an Olympic suspension. That implies Valieva will compete in the women’s single competition, which begins on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The teams’ medal ceremony for the Russian Olympic Committee (who won gold), the U.S. (silver) and Japan (bronze) was called off on Tuesday because of what officials describe as a “legal issue.” As of Thursday, the medals remain in limbo. If Russia’s win is thrown out, fourth-place Canada would gain a spot on the podium and the U.S. would rise to take the gold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The high-profile case is a test of the Olympics’ ideals of the fairness and integrity of sport, according to USOPC board chairwoman Susanne Lyons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we don’t have all the information on this situation, the reality is that the whole credibility of the Olympic Movement and the Paralympic Movement stands teetering on the edge,” Lyons said in a statement sent to NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aside from the timing of the test, another complication could be Valieva’s age. At 15, she is a “protected person,” as defined by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.wada-ama.org/sites/default/files/resources/files/2021_wada_code.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">World Anti-Doping Code\u003c/a>. That lowers the potential punishment for minor athletes who are confirmed to be doping to a minimum of a reprimand and a maximum of a two-year ban. And under the code, officials are not required to publicly identify such athletes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='news_11651348']The \u003ca href=\"https://www.usada.org/spirit-of-sport/education/pl-major-changes-sos-winter-2013-2014/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U.S. Anti-Doping Agency\u003c/a> says trimetazidine was added to the WADA Prohibited List in 2014—initially as a stimulant banned only during competition. But for 2015, \u003ca href=\"https://www.usada.org/wp-content/uploads/wada-2015-prohibited-list-en.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">it was classified\u003c/a> as a metabolic modulator and banned both during and outside of competition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trimetazidine has previously been linked to athletes from Russia, which remains under sanctions stemming from its \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetorch/2016/07/18/486481634/russia-should-be-barred-from-rio-olympics-world-anti-doping-agency-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">state-sanctioned program\u003c/a> of using drugs to cheat in sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, trimetazidine was detected in Russian bobsledder Nadezhda Sergeeva. In that case, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetorch/2018/02/24/588486348/russian-bobsledder-disqualified-for-doping-court-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sergeeva was disqualified\u003c/a> and her two-person team’s results were thrown out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also in 2018, Russian curler Alexander Krushelnitsky’s team was stripped of its bronze medal after he tested positive for meldonium—another drug that increases blood flow. It’s banned under the same section of the WADA \u003ca href=\"https://www.wada-ama.org/sites/default/files/resources/files/2022list_final_en.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">prohibited list\u003c/a> as trimetazidine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Krushelnitsky received a four-year ban. Sergeeva was initially hit with the same punishment, but the Court of Arbitration for Sport reduced her ban to two years, despite her previously testing positive for meldonium. Sergeeva is \u003ca href=\"https://olympics.com/beijing-2022/olympic-games/en/results/bobsleigh/athlete-profile-n1056098-nadezhda-sergeeva.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">competing in the Beijing Games\u003c/a>; she took her first training runs on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Olympic+figure+skaters%27+medals+are+in+limbo+over+a+%28new%29+Russian+doping+scandal&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","stats":{"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":571,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"paragraphCount":14},"modified":1705007212,"excerpt":"Reports have surfaced that Kamila Valieva, 15, tested positive for a heart drug called trimetazidine.","headData":{"twImgId":"","twTitle":"","ogTitle":"","ogImgId":"","twDescription":"","description":"Reports have surfaced that Kamila Valieva, 15, tested positive for a heart drug called trimetazidine.","title":"Olympic Figure Skaters' Medals Are in Limbo Over a (New) Russian Doping Scandal | KQED","ogDescription":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Olympic Figure Skaters' Medals Are in Limbo Over a (New) Russian Doping Scandal","datePublished":"2022-02-10T10:53:36-08:00","dateModified":"2024-01-11T13:06:52-08:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"olympic-figure-skaters-medals-are-in-limbo-over-a-new-russian-doping-scandal","status":"publish","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=1079829894&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","templateType":"standard","nprStoryDate":"Thu, 10 Feb 2022 10:23:58 -0500","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","nprLastModifiedDate":"Thu, 10 Feb 2022 10:53:02 -0500","featuredImageType":"standard","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2022/02/10/1079829894/doping-scandal-olympics-russian-skater?ft=nprml&f=1079829894","nprImageAgency":"Getty Images","nprStoryId":"1079829894","nprByline":"Bill Chappell","sticky":false,"nprImageCredit":"Lintao Zhang","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Thu, 10 Feb 2022 10:33:00 -0500","path":"/arts/13909205/olympic-figure-skaters-medals-are-in-limbo-over-a-new-russian-doping-scandal","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Medalists in team figure skating still haven’t received their prizes at the Beijing Olympics, because of an apparent failed doping test. Russian media report that the athlete in question is Kamila Valieva, who made history by landing two quadruple jumps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reports surfaced on Wednesday that Valieva, 15, tested positive for a heart drug called trimetazidine, which can boost athletes’ endurance and blood efficiency. Russian media outlets report that Valieva submitted the sample in question before winning last month’s European championship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13909079","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Valieva returned to the ice Thursday after missing practice on Wednesday. Her absence had led to speculation that she might have been suspended—but Olga Ermolina, a press officer of the Russian Figure Skating Federation, told media outlets that Valieva is not under an Olympic suspension. That implies Valieva will compete in the women’s single competition, which begins on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The teams’ medal ceremony for the Russian Olympic Committee (who won gold), the U.S. (silver) and Japan (bronze) was called off on Tuesday because of what officials describe as a “legal issue.” As of Thursday, the medals remain in limbo. If Russia’s win is thrown out, fourth-place Canada would gain a spot on the podium and the U.S. would rise to take the gold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The high-profile case is a test of the Olympics’ ideals of the fairness and integrity of sport, according to USOPC board chairwoman Susanne Lyons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we don’t have all the information on this situation, the reality is that the whole credibility of the Olympic Movement and the Paralympic Movement stands teetering on the edge,” Lyons said in a statement sent to NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aside from the timing of the test, another complication could be Valieva’s age. At 15, she is a “protected person,” as defined by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.wada-ama.org/sites/default/files/resources/files/2021_wada_code.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">World Anti-Doping Code\u003c/a>. That lowers the potential punishment for minor athletes who are confirmed to be doping to a minimum of a reprimand and a maximum of a two-year ban. And under the code, officials are not required to publicly identify such athletes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11651348","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.usada.org/spirit-of-sport/education/pl-major-changes-sos-winter-2013-2014/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U.S. Anti-Doping Agency\u003c/a> says trimetazidine was added to the WADA Prohibited List in 2014—initially as a stimulant banned only during competition. But for 2015, \u003ca href=\"https://www.usada.org/wp-content/uploads/wada-2015-prohibited-list-en.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">it was classified\u003c/a> as a metabolic modulator and banned both during and outside of competition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trimetazidine has previously been linked to athletes from Russia, which remains under sanctions stemming from its \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetorch/2016/07/18/486481634/russia-should-be-barred-from-rio-olympics-world-anti-doping-agency-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">state-sanctioned program\u003c/a> of using drugs to cheat in sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, trimetazidine was detected in Russian bobsledder Nadezhda Sergeeva. In that case, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetorch/2018/02/24/588486348/russian-bobsledder-disqualified-for-doping-court-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sergeeva was disqualified\u003c/a> and her two-person team’s results were thrown out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also in 2018, Russian curler Alexander Krushelnitsky’s team was stripped of its bronze medal after he tested positive for meldonium—another drug that increases blood flow. It’s banned under the same section of the WADA \u003ca href=\"https://www.wada-ama.org/sites/default/files/resources/files/2022list_final_en.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">prohibited list\u003c/a> as trimetazidine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Krushelnitsky received a four-year ban. Sergeeva was initially hit with the same punishment, but the Court of Arbitration for Sport reduced her ban to two years, despite her previously testing positive for meldonium. 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To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Olympic+figure+skaters%27+medals+are+in+limbo+over+a+%28new%29+Russian+doping+scandal&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13909205/olympic-figure-skaters-medals-are-in-limbo-over-a-new-russian-doping-scandal","authors":["byline_arts_13909205"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_13238"],"tags":["arts_3920","arts_4506"],"affiliates":["arts_137"],"featImg":"arts_13909206","label":"arts_137"},"arts_13904009":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13904009","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"arts","id":"13904009","score":null,"sort":[1633082419000]},"parent":0,"labelTerm":{},"blocks":[],"publishDate":1633082419,"format":"standard","title":"A ‘Dynamite’ Young Boxer From Hayward With Olympic Dreams","headTitle":"A ‘Dynamite’ Young Boxer From Hayward With Olympic Dreams | KQED","content":"\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC5540227396\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/daisybamberger/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“Dynamite” Daisy Bamberger\u003c/a> stands inside the boxing ring by herself, shadowboxing. The ring is surrounded by free weights, kettle balls, punching bags and framed photos from old tournaments. Daisy continues to go through her routine. It’s a routine that’s obviously working for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daisy is 19, from Hayward and a highly decorated boxer. After winning 10 national championships and ranking number one in the country, she’s setting her sights on competing in the 2024 Olympics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the dream started right here, at \u003ca href=\"https://www.lightningsboxingclub.com/\">Lightning’s Boxing Club\u003c/a>. She’s been punching these bags since she was in elementary school when her father, Mario Bamberger, used to bring her to the gym while pursuing his own boxing career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The gym was like my babysitter,” says Daisy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now her father is passing the torch and training her to become the next big champion. 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Some of the Sports and Athletes to Watch","headTitle":"The Tokyo Paralympics are Here. Some of the Sports and Athletes to Watch | KQED","content":"\u003cp>The Tokyo Paralympic Games are officially underway, and will run until Sept. 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hopefully you’ve gotten a glimpse of the opening ceremony—and if not, you can catch it again at 7 p.m. Tuesday on NBCSN, which will lead into live event coverage. All told, the Games will feature 539 events across 22 sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what should you be tuning into over the next dozen days? \u003ca href=\"https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/paralympic-games/en/results/all-sports/paralympic-schedule.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Here’s the full schedule\u003c/a>, and a couple suggestions of events and athletes to watch:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Badminton and Taekwondo make their Paralympic debut\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>These are the first Games to include \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/live-updates/morning-edition-2021-08-24#badminton-and-taekwondo-make-their-paralympic-debut-in-tokyo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">badminton and taekwondo\u003c/a>, which is the Paralympics’ first full-contact sport ever. Badminton events start on Sept. 1, with medal events beginning Sept. 4. You can catch taekwondo starting on Sept. 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Six-time Paralympian Tatyana McFadden will hit the track\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13901753\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13901753\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/gettyimages-1233527051-8c9477941cad6336ca1331ad0561cad832c82bce-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Tatyana McFadden, center, and Jenna Fesemyer of the United States compete in the Women's 5000 Meter Run T53/54 Wheelchair final during the 2021 U.S. Paralympic Trials at Breck High School on June 18, 2021 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tatyana McFadden, center, and Jenna Fesemyer of the United States compete in the Women’s 5000 Meter Run T53/54 Wheelchair final during the 2021 U.S. Paralympic Trials at Breck High School on June 18, 2021 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. \u003ccite>( David Berding/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Team USA calls McFadden its “undisputed queen of the track.” The wheelchair racer is a 17-time medalist in several events, including Nordic skiing in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while she’s won many of the world’s Marathon Major races, she hasn’t yet claimed a Paralympic gold medal. She’ll be trying for it on Sept. 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Highly-decorated U.S. swimmer Jessica Long looks to medal again\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Long has racked up 23 career medals since her Paralympic debut in 2004 (at age 12), \u003ca href=\"https://www.teamusa.org/News/2021/August/23/What-To-Watch-For-And-How-To-Watch-The-Paralympic-Games-Tokyo-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Team USA notes\u003c/a>. She took home gold in the 400-meter freestyle in her first three Games, and is looking to medal again in that event on Aug. 31.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TTCIZjA8qc\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The six athletes responsible for legendary podium sweeps in Rio are back\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>U.S. athletes swept the podium three times in 2016: track stars McFadden, Amanda McGrory and Chelsea McClammer did twice, and Allysa Seely, Hailey Danz (nee Danisewicz) and Melissa Stockwell took all the medals in the inaugural paratriathlon event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All six are gearing up again for competition in Tokyo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13901754\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13901754\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/gettyimages-602404478-2a0112d2b49257cbfa72b33770e72e913d4240a9-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Hailey Danz (nee Danisewicz), Allysa Seely and Melissa Stockwell pose for photographers after sweeping the first three places in the women's triathlon PT2 at Fort Copacabana during the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games on Sept. 11, 2016, in Brazil.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/gettyimages-602404478-2a0112d2b49257cbfa72b33770e72e913d4240a9-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/gettyimages-602404478-2a0112d2b49257cbfa72b33770e72e913d4240a9-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/gettyimages-602404478-2a0112d2b49257cbfa72b33770e72e913d4240a9-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/gettyimages-602404478-2a0112d2b49257cbfa72b33770e72e913d4240a9-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/gettyimages-602404478-2a0112d2b49257cbfa72b33770e72e913d4240a9-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/gettyimages-602404478-2a0112d2b49257cbfa72b33770e72e913d4240a9-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/gettyimages-602404478-2a0112d2b49257cbfa72b33770e72e913d4240a9-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hailey Danz (nee Danisewicz), Allysa Seely and Melissa Stockwell pose for photographers after sweeping the first three places in the women’s triathlon PT2 at Fort Copacabana during the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games on Sept. 11, 2016, in Brazil. \u003ccite>(Matthew Stockman/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Seasoned athletes are competing in new events this summer\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.teamusa.org/News/2021/August/21/History-Milestones-And-Medals-The-Team-USA-Paralympians-Leading-The-Way\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twelve U.S. athletes\u003c/a> have competed in more than one Paralympic sport. Several are competing in new events this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kendall Gretsch, a two-time Paralympic gold medalist in Nordic skiing, will compete with the U.S. paratriathlon team in Tokyo—alongside Brad Snyder, the legendary swimmer with five Paralympic gold medals in that sport. Snyder’s race is Aug. 28 and Gretsch’s is the following day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oksana Masters won a bronze medal in rowing in 2012, then seven more medals as a cross-country skier and biathlete. These are her second games as a handcyclist, and she hopes it will be her first medal in the sport. (Team USA notes that the only other U.S. athlete with three sports to their name is cross-country skier, biathlete and marathoner Aaron Pike—who is also her boyfriend.) \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/live-updates/morning-edition-2021-08-24#meet-olympic-power-couple-hunter-woodhall-and-tara-davis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">There’s more than one power couple at this Olympics\u003c/a>!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, U.S. athlete Blake Haxton will compete in two sports: rowing (as he did in Rio 2016) and sprint canoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/live-updates/morning-edition-2021-08-24#what-you-need-to-know-about-team-usa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Learn more about Team USA here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This story originally appeared on \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/live-updates/morning-edition-2021-08-24#some-of-the-paralympic-events-and-athletes-to-watch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the \u003cem>Morning Edition\u003c/em> live blog\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. 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All told, the Games will feature 539 events across 22 sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what should you be tuning into over the next dozen days? \u003ca href=\"https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/paralympic-games/en/results/all-sports/paralympic-schedule.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Here’s the full schedule\u003c/a>, and a couple suggestions of events and athletes to watch:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Badminton and Taekwondo make their Paralympic debut\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>These are the first Games to include \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/live-updates/morning-edition-2021-08-24#badminton-and-taekwondo-make-their-paralympic-debut-in-tokyo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">badminton and taekwondo\u003c/a>, which is the Paralympics’ first full-contact sport ever. Badminton events start on Sept. 1, with medal events beginning Sept. 4. You can catch taekwondo starting on Sept. 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Six-time Paralympian Tatyana McFadden will hit the track\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13901753\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13901753\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/gettyimages-1233527051-8c9477941cad6336ca1331ad0561cad832c82bce-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Tatyana McFadden, center, and Jenna Fesemyer of the United States compete in the Women's 5000 Meter Run T53/54 Wheelchair final during the 2021 U.S. Paralympic Trials at Breck High School on June 18, 2021 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tatyana McFadden, center, and Jenna Fesemyer of the United States compete in the Women’s 5000 Meter Run T53/54 Wheelchair final during the 2021 U.S. Paralympic Trials at Breck High School on June 18, 2021 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. \u003ccite>( David Berding/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Team USA calls McFadden its “undisputed queen of the track.” The wheelchair racer is a 17-time medalist in several events, including Nordic skiing in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while she’s won many of the world’s Marathon Major races, she hasn’t yet claimed a Paralympic gold medal. She’ll be trying for it on Sept. 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Highly-decorated U.S. swimmer Jessica Long looks to medal again\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Long has racked up 23 career medals since her Paralympic debut in 2004 (at age 12), \u003ca href=\"https://www.teamusa.org/News/2021/August/23/What-To-Watch-For-And-How-To-Watch-The-Paralympic-Games-Tokyo-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Team USA notes\u003c/a>. She took home gold in the 400-meter freestyle in her first three Games, and is looking to medal again in that event on Aug. 31.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/0TTCIZjA8qc'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/0TTCIZjA8qc'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch3>The six athletes responsible for legendary podium sweeps in Rio are back\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>U.S. athletes swept the podium three times in 2016: track stars McFadden, Amanda McGrory and Chelsea McClammer did twice, and Allysa Seely, Hailey Danz (nee Danisewicz) and Melissa Stockwell took all the medals in the inaugural paratriathlon event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All six are gearing up again for competition in Tokyo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13901754\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13901754\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/gettyimages-602404478-2a0112d2b49257cbfa72b33770e72e913d4240a9-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Hailey Danz (nee Danisewicz), Allysa Seely and Melissa Stockwell pose for photographers after sweeping the first three places in the women's triathlon PT2 at Fort Copacabana during the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games on Sept. 11, 2016, in Brazil.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/gettyimages-602404478-2a0112d2b49257cbfa72b33770e72e913d4240a9-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/gettyimages-602404478-2a0112d2b49257cbfa72b33770e72e913d4240a9-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/gettyimages-602404478-2a0112d2b49257cbfa72b33770e72e913d4240a9-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/gettyimages-602404478-2a0112d2b49257cbfa72b33770e72e913d4240a9-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/gettyimages-602404478-2a0112d2b49257cbfa72b33770e72e913d4240a9-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/gettyimages-602404478-2a0112d2b49257cbfa72b33770e72e913d4240a9-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/gettyimages-602404478-2a0112d2b49257cbfa72b33770e72e913d4240a9-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hailey Danz (nee Danisewicz), Allysa Seely and Melissa Stockwell pose for photographers after sweeping the first three places in the women’s triathlon PT2 at Fort Copacabana during the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games on Sept. 11, 2016, in Brazil. \u003ccite>(Matthew Stockman/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Seasoned athletes are competing in new events this summer\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.teamusa.org/News/2021/August/21/History-Milestones-And-Medals-The-Team-USA-Paralympians-Leading-The-Way\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twelve U.S. athletes\u003c/a> have competed in more than one Paralympic sport. Several are competing in new events this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kendall Gretsch, a two-time Paralympic gold medalist in Nordic skiing, will compete with the U.S. paratriathlon team in Tokyo—alongside Brad Snyder, the legendary swimmer with five Paralympic gold medals in that sport. Snyder’s race is Aug. 28 and Gretsch’s is the following day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oksana Masters won a bronze medal in rowing in 2012, then seven more medals as a cross-country skier and biathlete. These are her second games as a handcyclist, and she hopes it will be her first medal in the sport. (Team USA notes that the only other U.S. athlete with three sports to their name is cross-country skier, biathlete and marathoner Aaron Pike—who is also her boyfriend.) \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/live-updates/morning-edition-2021-08-24#meet-olympic-power-couple-hunter-woodhall-and-tara-davis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">There’s more than one power couple at this Olympics\u003c/a>!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, U.S. athlete Blake Haxton will compete in two sports: rowing (as he did in Rio 2016) and sprint canoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/live-updates/morning-edition-2021-08-24#what-you-need-to-know-about-team-usa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Learn more about Team USA here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This story originally appeared on \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/live-updates/morning-edition-2021-08-24#some-of-the-paralympic-events-and-athletes-to-watch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the \u003cem>Morning Edition\u003c/em> live blog\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. 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