Pokemon Generation Olympics Hub Thread

Aerial Sprint Results

Welcome back Pokémon Olympic fans, the third event of this competition, the Aerial Sprint, is about to begin. This race is filled to the brim with fast and powerful flying Pokémon and there is no telling which competitor will take the gold for their team. All the athletes are now resting on the high ledge and are now preparing to fly. Now, representing team Generation 1, we gave Pidgeot and Aerodactyl! Representing team Generation 2, we have Crobat and Skarmory! Representing team Generation 3, we have Latios and Swellow! Representing team generation 4 we have Staraptor and Gliscor! Representing team Generation 5 we have Archeops and Braviary! Last but not least, representing team Generation 6, we have Talonflame and Noivern!

The Athletes are now under starting orders. On your marks! Get set! Bang! The race had begun and Latios was the first one to jump off the platform and begin flying as fast as he could towards the finish line. Right on his tail was Crobat, Pidgeot and Talonflame who all had amazing starts. Staraptor quickly sped up closing the gap between him and the others at the start and Noivern was right there as well. Latios was ahead by a hair and right behind him was Noivern and Staraptor not only that but they were neck and neck with Pidgeot, Crobat and Talonflame. The race had only began but there competitors were jumbled up together flying as hard as they could quickly separating themselves from the other competitors and sprinting hard for the line. In the pack that was being left behind Swellow was barely ahead of Aerodactyl and Archeops and Gliscor. The three of them were neck and neck. Gliscor used his tail to spring out at the start which gave him a good start however that might have been it as Aerodactyle and Archeops quickly caught up to him and the three were neck and neck. Behind them was Braviary who was a bit slow on the start but starting to pick up speed and Skarmory who was in dead last and had barely gotten airborne.

Latios pushed hard, it wanted one thing and that was to reach the finish line first. He could feel the other competitors right behind him and so he started flying even faster and harder attempting to pull away, Staraptor and Noivern weren’t going to let him go or the other one get the advantage so they pushed hard as well fighting neck and neck. Talonflame was right behind them followed by Pidgeot and Crobat. Talonflame boosted up hard passing Staraptor while Noivern continued to fight hard against Latios who was still very close but it was clear that he was starting to establish a gap. Generation 3’s Latios was leading but both of Generation 6’s competitors were right behind him. Crobat unleashed a burst of speed passing Pidgeot taking the 5^th position for himself not only that but he caught up to Staraptor who had fallen from the top 3. This was a simple reminder to Staraptor that the top 6 places were very close to each other and one false move could land him from medal position to sixth place.

Swellow who was in 7^th was sprinting hard, he was clearly building a gap between him and 8^th place while the distance between him and 6^th almost constantly remained the same. He was moving almost as fast as the lead pack but his terrible start didn’t do him any favours. Behind him, Archeops and Aerodactyl were still sprinting it out while Braviary who was a strong flyer was having trouble keeping both Skarmory and Gliscor at bay. At every end of the spectrum in this race two or more competitors were neck and neck trying to pass the other it was truly a race for the ages.

Latios once again pushed hard and this time it worked. He began pulling away from Noivern and the other competitors that were on his trail and it wasn’t good news for Noivern as the sight of Latios getting smaller in his view caused him to lose focus and slip up, and both Talonflame and Staraptor capitalized and sprinted ahead of him of course Staraptor himself fell back a little as talonflame once again pulled ahead into second. Crobat had begun to put distance between him and Pidgeot and was challenging Staraptor and Noivern for third place. If he could hold on to this position was all he could think about but that thought didn’t last very long as Pidgeot began to fly hard catching up to him while Noivern and the others at the front did the same. They were neck and neck constantly trading positions as the finish line approached.

Swellow was also flying faster and faster he was trying his best to catch up to the others and while he was managing to close the gap little by little the gap was already fairly huge. Aeordactyl was also right behind him he had hit a burst of speed and Swellow knew if this kept up Aeordactyl would pass him. Gliscor was falling behind and Skarmory had a boost of speed allowing it to catch up with Braviary, Archeops and Gliscor. Those 4 were fighting to make sure they didn’t come last.

Latois flew passed the line earning himself 1^st Position however the race behind him was still going strong with everyone being neck and neck or so it was until Talonflame pulled ahead and rushed towards the finish line he was just ahead of both Noivern and Staraptor who were making their moves and right behind them were Pidgeot and Crobat. They were racing hard and Talonflame quickly took 2^nd. Noivern and Staraptor were neck and neck and they pushed harder and harder until they crossed the line at the exact same time. Pidgeot and Crobat were right behind them and both were pushing their wings to the limit however Pidgeot did one last push and managed to beat crobat. Swellow who was flying by himself at this point finished a comfortable 7^th and Aerodactyl who was in a similar position finished with a comfortable 8^th.

Braviary had managed to pull ahead of Gliscor, archeops and Skarmory and pushed himself into a good 9^th place finish. However Gliscor, Archeops and Skarmory were fighting hard. None of them wanted to be the guy who came last. So they pushed and pushed towards the line. Skarmory fell back and Gliscor and Archeops came in hard with archeops narrowly edging out Gliscor for 10^th with Skarmory finishing in last position.

1st Place:Latios - 122 Points - Gold Medal