Olympic gold medalist celebrates victory with subtle Dragon Ball Z tribute CrunchyrollThe 2024 Olympics are underway, and a gold medalist chose to mark their achievement by invoking Goku and Dragon Ball Z. Noah Lyles is representing the USA at this year\u2019s games, taking part in the 100m and 200m dash. The first has now finished, and Lyles managed to take first place in a supremely close photo-finish. After finding out he\u2019d be standing atop the winners\u2019 podium \u2013 his first time receiving Olympic gold \u2013 the runner incorporated his fandom of the best anime with a small salute to Goku. During his victory pose, you can see Lyles doing the hand gestures for the Kamehameha, a signature move from the Dragon Ball franchise. A noted anime and manga fan, it\u2019s not the first reference or even the most overt he\u2019s employed. During the trials, Lyles revealed one of his secret weapons: a Blue-Eyes White Dragon from Yu-Gi-Oh that he keeps tucked into his running apparel. Later, he used Exodia for the Olympics itself. Many athletes have their lucky charms, and his was definitely tapping into the heart of the cards considering his results thus far. The 27-year-old athlete still has the 200m dash to run, where he\u2019s in Heat 6. After using Yu-Gi-Oh and Dragon Ball, maybe he\u2019ll draw energy from Demon Slayer or My Hero Academia to see out the event in proper order. His performance comes while we wait for Dragon Ball Daima, the next chapter in the storied franchise. Goku and the Z Fighters are turned into children by a mysterious enemy, causing chaos while they try to figure out what\u2019s going on. This particular installment is bittersweet, because it\u2019s the last to involve creator Akira Toriyama, who died suddenly earlier this year. If only he could see Lyles and understand the profound influence of his works. Elsewhere in the franchise, have a look at our guides to the Dragon Ball Sparking Zero release date and the fighting game\u2019s character customization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Olympic gold medalist celebrates victory with subtle Dragon Ball Z tribute CrunchyrollThe 2024 Olympics are underway, and a gold medalist chose to mark their achievement by invoking Goku and Dragon Ball Z. Noah Lyles is representing the USA at this year\u2019s games, taking part in the 100m and 200m dash. The first has now finished, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}