The Olympics continued on today!

If you missed it yesterday, you can click here to see what ream your son is on and follow along with the standings.

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The morning began with our traditional lake swim, but this time it was a competition.  One LSR and one counselor from each team swam. Zambia came in first, thanks to Grace Cooke and Max Tsetlin.

 

Other Olympic events of the day included: 

• TJC/LSR Swim meet, with the 25-meter butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle; a lifeguard relay, a kickboard relay, a medley, and a freestyle relay. All campers in the age groups participated. Novgorod came in first, Ireland second. ​​
• USR Soccer Tournament: five campers from each team.  The finals will take place tomorrow.
• Hockey tournament: three campers and two counselors from each team, final will take place tomorrow. 
• The Home Run Derby: two campers from each team had to hit targets for points. Papua New Guinea came in first, Novgorod second. 
• ​The All Team Tug of War: 

  • First round - All TJC and LSR plus 3 counselors (Jamaica won).

  • Second round - All USR plus 3 counselors (Argentina won).

• LSR/TJC All Team Soccer Tournament: six campers from each team. ​Final will take place tomorrow. 

• All-Team Basketball Tournament: Three campers from each team, final will take place tomorrow.

• USR Trampball: two campers from each team (Zambia won).

• Archery: One Camper from each team (Bolivia won). 

• The waterfront relay: all remaining campers. This included a lifejacket relay, a watermelon rugby game, a canoe tug of war, a paddleboard relay, and a casting challenge (fishing). First place was a tie between Bolivia, Zambia, and Argentina. 

• ​Then came the waterfront marathon, where campers had to run/swim/kayak/paddleboard to pass a buoy to the next station, but you could not throw the buoy. Zambia came in first, and Novgorod second. 

• The Head Coaches Home Run Derby was tons of fun, with 1st place going to Argentina and 2nd going to Jamaica.

• TJC/LSR Ping Pong was next, with two campers from each team. Ireland won. ​

• Disc Golf had one camper and one counselor from each team, Papua New Guinea took the win. 

• The remaining campers and one counselor from each team participated in the big track meet. Argentina won. 

• ​USR played a "one pitch tournament", China won. ​

• One camper from each team played in the golf tournament, which Zambia won (China came in second). ​

• Assistant Coaches Fencing went to Papua New Guinea. ​

• The USR and Counselor three-point shot contest went to ​Novgorod. ​​

• Seneca/Brave/Coach basketball, always a much-loved event, went to Argentina. ​

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Final standings at the end of today are:

• 1st Novgorod 

• 2nd Argentina 

• 3rd China 

• 4th Papua New Guinea 

• 5th Zambia 

• 6th Ireland 

• 7th Bolivia 

• 8th Jamaica 

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