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We Answered Extremely Random Questions People Had About The Olympics

As you cheer on sports you didn't think you cared about during the 2020 Summer Olympics, we're here to answer all those random questions that keep popping up in your brain.
Minami Itahashi and Matsuri Arai of Team Japan react after their final dive during the Women's Synchronised 10m Platform Final on day four of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Tokyo Aquatics Centre on Tuesday in Tokyo, Japan.

See, the thing about the Summer Olympics is that it comes every four years. And that's a long enough span of time for us to forget the things we thought we knew. ("Tell me again, how they figure out the orderin the parade of nations.")

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