Headed to Tokyo!!!! 🇺🇸 🇯🇵

Rai Benjamin is headed to Tokyo after setting a new Trials record! Joining him are Kenny Selmon and David Kendziera. (Via NBC Olympics & Paralympics)

Gabby Thomas graduated with a neurobiology degree from Harvard, has an interest in racial health disparities and is getting a masters in epidemiology. And tonight won the 200m finals to qualify for the Olympics! Amazing!!!

Sydney McLaughlin set the world record in 400m hurdles 😱 51.90 seconds (via NBC Olympics & Paralympics)

Surely … This can not be true?! @fina_president @fina1908 … you didn’t seriously ban a swimming hat that fits Afro hair, simply because it does not share the same shape as a human head?! 😱. But surely that’s the whole point of the hat, to fit Afro hair inside it! Please No!

hey @fina1908 this is GARBAGE shame on you! 😠

Tell me you’re trying to keep black people out of swimming without telling me you’re trying to keep black people out of swimming…

I’m utterly shocked and disgusted to hear @fina1908’s new ban on Afro swimming caps which penalises & further segregates the black community in the pinnacle of sport! 🏊🏾‍♂️🤎 It makes no sense whatsoever… 1/2 #Diversity #Inclusion #BLM #Decoloniality

TOKYO BOUND!! 9X All-American swimmer Anika Apostalon is headed to her first Olympic Games later this month where she’ll represent The Czech Republic!! #OlympiansMadeHere 🏅#FightOn

This is my candid letter of resignation to my Harvard Dean. I try to tell the unvarnished truth about the decadence in our market-driven universities! Let us bear witness against this spiritual rot!

LYDIA JACOBY WINS GOLD! The 17-year-old from Alaska has DONE IT for Team USA! #TokyoOlympics x USA Swimming 📺: NBC 💻: bit.ly/3rBhN2Y 📱: NBC Sports App

.Elizabeth Beisel saying we are so lucky to see Katie Ledecky perform - truer words have never been spoken. #Tokyo2020

"We're human beings. Nobody is perfect. So yes, it is okay to not be okay."

1500m freestyle silver medalist Erica Sullivan: "I’m multicultural. I’m queer. I’m a lot of minorities. That’s what America is. To me, America is not about being a majority. It’s about having your own start.” washingtonpost.com/sports/olympic… Dave Sheinin

🥇🥈for Team USA in the first-ever The Olympic Games Women’s 1500m free! 🙌🏼 Thanks everyone for the support over the past few (busy) days! A few more ahead! 💪🏼 Enjoying the racing with USA Swimming and proud of my teammates, let’s keep it going! 🇺🇸

SUNI LEE WINS GOLD IN THE ALL-AROUND 🥇 An American woman has won every Olympic all-around since 2004!

she’s going to go to 24 maybe 28!!!!!!

I’m a champion! Not because of the medals I’ve won but because of how I’ve consistently fought for what I believe in, my perseverance, and my fiery passion to always be me! I’m proud of Simone the 2X Olympian/5X Olympic medalist, but most importantly I’m proud to just be ME! ♥️

Leah Smith picks up her second win of the meet at the US Open with a 4:38.89 400 IM Smith was the only woman in the field under 4:40 with Julia Podkoscielny taking silver in a 4:43.57