Haiku NBC Sports' Peter King Plays ‘Which Olympian Wrote the Haiku' From Tokyo gold to their favorite pets, Team USA had a lot of creative responses when we asked them to write haiku. We teamed up with NBC Sports’ Peter King, NBC’s resident haiku expert and Olympic Games enthusiast, to figure out which Olympic athlete wrote each of the haikus.
Tokyo Olympics These Olympians and Paralympians Excel at Their Sports. What About Poetry? Olympians and Paralympians came up with the lines. We put them together. Use our interactive haiku generator to create a Japanese haiku straight from the athletes.
Haiku Peter King Judges Haikus Written by Olympians and Paralympians We asked Peter King, who writes a haiku every week for his NBC Sports column, to commentate on and award medals for poems written on the spot by athletes headed to Tokyo.