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They marched single file onto the podium near shortstop with the blank expressions of the condemned.
When silver medals were handed out, they dangled them around each other’s necks like weights.
Eyes were red and damp. Perfunctory waves for the cameras were managed. Hands fidgeted with bouquets of sunflowers.
Stunned, yes. Heartbroken, yes. Most precisely: devastated.
“It stings,” Cat Osterman would say more than two hours later. “I’ve never been on a team that had so much fight.”
Just not enough.
Japan won its second straight Olympic softball gold medal, beating the United States 2-0 Tuesday night behind 39-year-old Yukiko Ueno in an emotional repeat of the 2008 victory in Beijing.
Openly LGBTQ Olympians Would Rank 14th In Medal Wins If They Were A Country
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If all of the publicly out LGBTQ athletes at the Olympics represented a country under a single rainbow flag they d be coming in 14th in the world for their medal count.
That s the assessment of Outsports, which has been tracking the athletes â 168 of them â and the group is tied with Brazil and Switzerland.
British diver Tom Daley, who is competing in the games for the fourth time, is the only gold medalist in the group. French judoka Amandine Buchard won a silver medal in just 16 seconds, while three members of the USA women s softball team â Ally Carda, Amanda Chidester, Haylie McCleney â also nabbed second place. Meanwhile, Larissa Franklin and Joey Lye on the Canadian women s softball team took home bronze. And, British equestrian Carl Hester earned a bronze to add to his gold and silver medals collection from previous Olympics.
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Japan Beats US 2–0, Turns Incredible DP to Win Softball Gold
YOKOHAMA, Japan won its second straight Olympic softball gold medal, beating the United States 2–0 Tuesday in an emotional repeat of its 2008 victory in Beijing that again left the Americans in tears.
Yukiko Ueno took a one-hitter into the sixth inning, five days after her 39th birthday, and Japan snuffed out an American rally attempt with an acrobatic double play in the sixth inning that will long be replayed.
Japan led 2–0 when Michelle Moultrie singled leading off the sixth off hard-throwing 20-year-old left-hander Miu Goto.
Goto dealt Haylie McCleney her first strikeout of the Olympics with a 69 mph pitch at the hands, then allowed a single to Janie Reed.
British Olympic diver Tom Daley won his first gold medal on Monday after competing in three other Olympic games.
If all of the publicly out LGBTQ athletes at the Olympics represented a country under a single rainbow flag they d be coming in 14th in the world for their medal count.
That s the assessment of
, which has been tracking the athletes 168 of them and the group is tied with Brazil and Switzerland.
British diver Tom Daley, who is competing in the games for the fourth time, is the only gold medalist in the group. French judoka Amandine Buchard won a silver medal in just 16 seconds, while three members of the USA women s softball team Ally Carda, Amanda Chidester, Haylie McCleney also nabbed second place. Meanwhile, Larissa Franklin and Joey Lye on the Canadian women s softball team took home bronze. And, British equestrian Carl Hester earned a bronze to add to his gold and silver medals collection from previous Olympics.