And that’s a wrap: XP highlights and lowlights of the Olympics, Part II

"Well, that was weird" was pretty much the prevailing sentiment of this summer's Olympic Games. After a fairly fraught start, the Tokyo Olympics officially said goodbye to 2020 (a year late and probably way more than a dollar short) with its closing ceremony on Sunday. The Games, imperfect as they may have been, were certainly not without moments of both guts and glory. The world rejoiced last week when gymnast Simone Biles came back from her brush with the dreaded twisties for a bronze medal on the balance beam, while teammate Sunisa Lee won a historic all-around gold medal as the first Hmong American Olympian. Over the weekend, Allyson Felix won her 11th medal, making her the most medalled athlete in track & field. And, Team USA edged out China for the most medals of the 2020 Games with 39 gold medals to China’s 38.  But what of the XP, you ask? Well, as we found in Part I of our review of Olympic XP highlights and lowlights — and as held true to the bittersweet end — the experiential components of the Games were a bit of a mixed bag, which is completely reasonable given the ongoing impact of...