Paris Summer Olympics 2024

is there really no thread? gonna watch some france - vs- USA football right about now.

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i missed all the rugby...maybe i'll watch some reruns.

I freely admit to gearing up for two weeks of madness in the best way. (And as I said elsewhere, the events of the week since Sunday means I am no longer treating it as a simple escape from reality.)

FRANCE SCORES!!!

a fitting beginning to the games.

I hope you are doing good and feeling well, Ned. Luv ya!

FRANCE SCORES!!! AGAIN!

GO ANGOLA!

Can't work up any enthusiasm for this yet after the Euros, Wimbledon and the Open. I'll be on board by the time the athletics starts though.

Always like swimming, athletics and cycling but I don't know if I am going to care. What I want to see is stuff they won't be showing because Britishers aren't good at it: handball, other racquet sports like badminton, table tennis...

i just watch randomly. the handball...doesn't excite me much. its cool. and when teams are good at it it can get pretty insane. i forget it exists as a sport until the olympics.

can't believe breakdancing is happening. looking forward to that.

All my mid-level managers somehow have tickets and are spending on accommodation in Paris, clearly it's an exercise in futility to be seen there and report about the random event that you were allocated by the lottery. I just heard some comment about how green those games are and I had to roll my eyes.

"i forget it exists as a sport until the olympics."

Olympics is the time to be enthusiastic about random things. I like Water Polo and volleyball too! The former is so aggressive, and there is no way to watch it at any other time.

Modern Pentathlon come ooooooooooon

I love the modern pentathlon because they are shit at shooting and they fall off their horses, it's the most relatable event.

Brazilian goalkeeper totally smashed it vs Spain in the women's handball, capping the performance with a one-handed holding save seconds before the final whistle, a move that pretty much doesn't happen in this sport.

That Argentina-Morocco match was weird.

Handball today. Kind of fun!

^ sounds like it took 24 hours to make a VAR decision, which, you know, not impossible

Stuart Attwell again?

Anyway fuck Argentina, racist cunts.

I was watching some of the US trials yesterday. Does anyone else find it weird how all US athletes seem to feel that if they do not win gold, then they have utterly failed and the whole thing was pointless?

it has always been presented as *THE GOAL* here. i always thought that just getting in the Olympics was massive for an athlete! i mean, how exciting is that for someone? but, yeah, the commentators, the cereal boxes, the whole "agony of defeat" thing here. its a bummer.

Spain-Japan soccer match. 1-1! Japan is doing well

I remember my dad mentioning once (coached track for years, has attended the national championships/Olympic trials as often as he can) that people think that not getting gold is a crushing blow but the ones who are really most disappointed are fourth-place finishers. And that makes sense!

Ilona Maher on the women's rugby Team USA has been killing it on socials for literal years (or possibly months, I can't remember when I started following her)! She's doing cute videos of life in the Olympic Village right now.

Loving Rugby Sevens, first time watching

I always imagined that just getting to the Olympics was something you carried with you your whole life, even if you're from a smaller country and never had a chance at sniffing the medal stand

Goddamnit now every time I mention any physical action and any form of furniture I start imagining JD Vance

that was some fierce rugby. sorry new zealand.

> Handball today. Kind of fun!

there's a young kid i see in the local park from time to time doing handball practice. just him, and a coach, no team ever, no matches. it's curious.

800,000 fans delayed after massive arson attacks near TGV train lines (nobody hurt except feelings) - https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2024/07/26/france-s-high-speed-trains-struck-by-malicious-acts_6699471_7.html

Off to a great start

Opening ceremony in half an hour!

is it all going to be boats? seems wild

“Here is the team representing displaced people…”

Seems like a great time to wonder why they’re displaced

the parade is a lot earlier than, say, the uk one. and you don't get to see the costumes as much because they are all stuck on those boats

Not a bad way to do things, mix the Parade of Nations with the set pieces

all that pink! and parkour torchbearer! and ex-pimp snoop dogg!

Gaga bit was equally great and odd, almost like she was performing to no one

is this torchbearer Lupin?

is that steve reich as the soundtrack?

the can-can was a bit slow

I heard some Patrick Hernandez at one of the scenes. Was hoping really for Martin Circus or Les Rockets really! Someone said they heard Les Rita Mitsouko. Also heard an orchestral Il est cinq heures

i was waiting for les miz...

woah....

kind of enjoying how all over the place this is. the can-can dancers were completely unsynchronised, did they all just learn the choreography a few hours ago or what?

the modern/contemporary piece was much better, though

and now some METAL

Gojira!!

did not see that coming!

this is fucking rad

metal AF

hahah the blood spurting and the headless marie antoinette. republicans in the US are prob losing their minds

Okay seeing Gojira kick it in after a headless Marie Antoniette plus fire and more and hearing Kelly Clarkson go “WHAT!?” has made this entire thing worth it.

lol the NBC commenters are now speechless

jules et jim nod...

Not a bad way to do things, mix the Parade of Nations with the set pieces

this is dope

the band was low in the bbc mix, but we can hear the raindrops from somewhere

aya nakamura <3

I like all of this, it's different

Oh man, that poor piano.

Mike Tirico’s geopolitical commentary is just what we needed. (We did not need it.)

Why do I have a feeling NBC strongarmed the IOC into this Minions thing.

yes! it makes no sense

hold on the Minions aren't French guys?

I also don't get why the IOC doesn't make NBC play the full opening without breaks as a condition for the broadcast rights :(

also don't want to see the commentators.

les rita mitsouko again, Andy

People in plastic macs waving from boats in the drizzle, it's just like that jubilee, or was it the queen's birthday?

the us uniform is.. jeans?

that'll dry out the piano

Here’s a video clip on a tweet of French metal band Gojira in the opening ceremony

This part of #OpeningCeremony with French band Gojira was badass 🤘pic.twitter.com/v6dWDorPM0

— Wu Tang is for the Children (@WUTangKids) July 26, 2024

Cerrone!

Although can't quite believe this is still going on. Feels like.it started yesterday at this point

laser eiffel supernature was fantastic. fucking light the cauldron already though.

Lol @ the number of tennis stars carrying the torch.

Some of the music is so menacing lol

and now the entire population of France gets to carry the torch 2 ft each

perfect vibe for the olympics, enough of this bringing everyone together shit, let's celebrate chopping heads

so who is doing the torch thing, Emeli Sande?

Love the balloon

Atlanta 1996 Paris 2024
🤝
Céline Dionpic.twitter.com/PHnt4JOUUd

— The Olympic Games (@Olympics) July 26, 2024

That balloon/Celine combo was pretty damn spectacular, honestly.

that thing wore me out! i had to take a nap and when i woke up it was still going.

Yeah I had to run an errand for an hour halfway through but I tracked bits of it on my phone as I did. I did like the catwalk.

That balloon/Celine combo was pretty damn spectacular, honestly.

it was worth the (felt like ten hour) watch just for that, oh and the Supernature laser show bit.

Yes to that!

i hate boats

No Yelle? Not French enough for me

Subscribed to Peacock for this and now I can't fast-forward? I hit play at 7:24pm PDT and it made me wait until 7:30pm just to watch it.

Someone told me about the decapitated Antoinettes and I didn't believe them.

Couldn’t find a classical 2024 thread but the breakdancing countertenor —unidentified by NBC—was Jakub Orlinski and I think the pianist getting rained on playing Ravel was Alexandre Kanterow.

The weather, I think, curtailed some of the spectacle. There clearly was meant to be a lot more fun with the BMX riders, and I notice several people dancing in boats who didn’t want to be remembered as that one person who slipped and fell in the Seine.

I don’t think they redid the shooting script for the rain either. There was one moment where the camera panned skyward for what was clearly the time for La Patrouille Acrobatique to come through with a big tricolour, and all there was was a shot of thick grey clouds.

I appreciated the vision and taking outside the stadium to more people. Can account for the weather.

(Brisbane 2032 should do the boats thing because then we can have the first Olympian to be eat by a crocodile on live tv)

hold on the Minions aren't French guys?

That balloon/Celine combo was pretty damn spectacular, honestly.

Australian commentators bleathered on through the euro dance medley, but they were very much brought to a standstill by the blue dude under the cloche with his pouch.

I’m still making my way through this.

the flag & torch ceremonies made me cry, a knight on horseback with the flag!?!?
the final torch relay w paralympians and Coste the cyclist and then realizing the balloon IS the cauldron (!) and then it floats up and i was just crying like “my small brain cannot comprehend how this is actually happening but i dont want it to end”

GUYS PARISIAN RATS WERE WATCHING THE GOJIRA PART OF THE OLYMPICS OPENING pic.twitter.com/lGWesVhOSj

— tatoo🐀 (@nihildenial) July 27, 2024

also:

is there somewhere where i can watch a full length or less editec version of the ceremony thats not the NBC broadcast?
there were parts we didnt see bc they cut to commercial etc

would love to rewatch

Enjoying the multiview option when not watching a specific event. Just select preferred audio and you’re good.

I couldn't understand a word Gaga said.
Loved the boats.
Very cool to see Nicky Doll and friends, I'm sure a lot of countries had to blur that. And Philippe Katherine haha.
Juliette Armanet, who I love, singing "Imagine" was so cliché.
I don't understand what the 90's eurodance medley has to do with France or the Olympics.
The horse was super cool, but went on forever.
Céline totally killed it.

this entire thing was demented but fun (except for the minions and the terrible prefilmed stuff), ending was exquisite.

people losing their minds about 'drag queens re-enacting the last supper'...this ... didn't happen? the US broadcast didn't show the Dionysis part of this for whatever reason (ads I guess), cut in when it was done and they were standing behind a catwalk. This didn't look like a Last Supper thing at all?

TIMES WHEN CHRISTIANS CARED WHO RECREATED THE LAST SUPPER:
Once… because, drag queens

TIMES WHEN THEY COULDN’T HAVE CARED LESS: pic.twitter.com/oxmQRXKFdn

— Dr. Kevin M. Young (@kevinmyoung) July 27, 2024

if u wanna talk hoops with us Men's and Women's 2024 Paris Olympics HOOPS discush

Italian athlete lost his wedding ring in the Seine during opening ceremony lol #oops

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy68w3z8vdxo

I was wondering how many phones were dropped in the Seine.

phones are more expensive and irreplaceable than men’s wedding rings

watching women's surfing!

rugby sevens is awesome because of the time limit. everyone playing goes nuts! very exciting.

i can't believe where they ARE for the surfing. holy moly. so amazing looking.

men's cycling time trial (please stop saying 'TT' ffs) was kinda harrowing on uneven streets in the rain

when they got full aerodynamic and held the middle forks (terminology?) seeing their hands shake was alarming. unless you're a fleming i guess

I was about to say, the Low Countries kinda live for that.

Loving a lot of stuff today. Fencing melodrama remains next level. Rugby sevens final great! And whenever there’s a lull with anything, just chill with some surfing.

Fuckin A every 4 years I gotta be reminded male gymnasts are YOKED

fully re-activated for swimming this morning watching the Aussie women go for gold at least twice :D

Need to find the cycling time trial full replays, 9 only has 9 minute highlight reels. I think they want me to buy stan.

Surfing from Tahiti, what a way to spend a Sunday morning. (Whilst looking up flights to Tahiti)

Stoked for the climbing to start.

Hercules & Love Affair on in the background at the palace of fencing

i can't believe where they ARE for the surfing. holy moly. so amazing looking.

right?! a photographer friend of mine got hired to cover the surfing and I was so jealous, place looks incredible

The camerapeople just floating around out there taking in those views too. Man, fuck colonialism but this is one crazy great side effect, can't lie.

Also, clearly Gojira isn't the only metal thing about this Olympics, per Wikipedia:

Teahupoʻo was included on Transworld Surf's list of the 'Top 10 Deadliest Waves' and is commonly referred to as the "heaviest wave in the world". The name Teahupoʻo loosely translates to English as 'to sever the head' or 'place of skulls'.

\m/

just watching womens surfing replay

holy shiiiit at these waves
makes the bells beach classic look like a kiddie pool O_O

I thought handball was sorta like squash played without racquets but no. I don't think I've ever been exposed to this sport before.

so if i, an american, pay like $8 for a month of peacock can i get the whole thing? or is there a catch

I think if you buttonholed someone involved in this hoax they'd look at you deadpan and say "naturally, handball! Like football but played with the hands!" but if you just stared them down they'd eventually break and admit it.

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also xp yes

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It's sometimes called Team Handball for that reason, and it's huge all over the world, from Norway to France... France are reigning Olympic and European champs, in both cases beating Denmark in the final, who instead have won the last three World Cups. For some reason they met in the very first group match yesterday, and it was masterful. Denmark down by five in the first half, winning by eight in the end! It's last chance for legend Mikkel Hansen (who played in Paris most of his career) to win Olympic Gold, so it's all very emotional for everyone.

Reuters has confirmed that, as suspected, the Olympics’ triathlon swimming training session scheduled for today has been cancelled after recent heavy rain in Paris affected pollution levels in the Seine. The men’s triathlon is due to be held on Tuesday.

last time the georgian fencing guy got insanely angry at the reffing he vowed to become world no.1 as revenge

now he *is* world no.1 and once again he's insanely angry at the reffing, time to stay out of his way i feel

Friend’s li’l bro represented for Dutch men’s gymnastics!

Reuters has confirmed that, as suspected, the Olympics’ triathlon swimming training session scheduled for today has been cancelled after recent heavy rain in Paris affected pollution levels in the Seine. The men’s triathlon is due to be held on Tuesday.

― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 28 July 2024 6:52 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

My future brother in law is a triathlete , competing for Barbados - there is, apparently, a backup venue and date but no one is quite sure where it is.

Never mind the turds, someone needs to tell the triathletes about the sharks in the Seine.

"so if i, an american, pay like $8 for a month of peacock can i get the whole thing?"

too much to watch in the morning!

watching the women's mountain biking right now. killer course!

Xp I jumped out of bed this morning in excitement of all the events I could watch!

good show, prevot! can't even fathom what that must mean for a french rider to win in Paris.

> I thought handball was sorta like squash played without racquets

that's Fives - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fives

Mountain bike rice great this morning, race for silver as fun as Prevot's win. Now watching Nadal who's looking better than expected. Has his eyes on Djokovic matchup I'm sure.

The English speaking announcer for the Archery is a bit extra, it's like he's hyping up a WWE wrestling crowd or something.

crazy stat broadcaster mentioned during archery - south korea has won every gold since the event was introduced??

Indeed! Down to the fucking wire for it this time’

The women's slalom canoeing final was tense - not a phrase I thought I'd ever say, by the way. Jess Fox went first with her gold medal winning time, and then had to wait for everyone else to do their run, with the one person likely to beat her - Ricarda Funk - going last and then getting 53 seconds in penalities.

Meanwhile BBC decide to dispense with their strategy of showing one sport on BBC One and anohter sport on their iPlayer Olympics Extra channel by showing the Murray doubles match on both, with a slight delay on Extra.

I don't have any friends or friends-of-friends in the Olympics proper, but a close friend's boyfriend is competing in the Paralympics! He's a rugby player. Very looking forward to seeing that

One of the British swimming coaches is apparently called Gary Humpage

As cool as you can get lol

ㅁㅊ 모자 뒤집어쓰고 25m 권총 세계신기록 세우는 김예지 선수.. 25m가 주종목이시래 pic.twitter.com/E4ExQd5sg6

— 밤톨러 (@bamtolerate) July 28, 2024

Fencing killed it again, and the women’s soccer Canada/France match was an increasingly intense and insane faceoff Canada only won in the last minutes.

france kinda choked that away

Fencing v cool can confirm

watching the women's street skating today and almost all the skaters were, like, 12! there might have been a few actual adults. why are they so young? where are the wily veterans? do they all retire at 16? in men's skating there are some kids but i'm sure most of the street skaters will be in their 20s and 30s. i feel like the men start peaking in their 20s and beyond.
no offense to the women. they are awesome! but you don't quite get that Olympic quality of skating from kids. though the gold medal winner is 14 and she is gnarly.

parents need to start buying their little girls skateboards for their birthdays. that would be my first initiative as Vice President. a nationwide push to get girls on boards when they are five.

so it's been a couple days and some people's events are already over. do they get to hang out (i.e. *get laid*) for the next week and a half or do they get kicked out of their lodgings?

don't they get to stay where their countries' team is staying? it must be nice to be done and have the pressure be off. if i were them i would be drinking my way through paris.

I've been watching surfing all afternoon/evening. Very relaxing.

i am fully invested in surfing fyi

(ramzi boukhiam hive)

the surfing has been wonderful! they are so amazing. i can't even imagine how hard that is.

i love the moments when it crosses over into skating with the embellishments they do at the end of a tube

the two big names in the GB skateboarding (park) are skye, who is 16 (was 12 or 13 last time) and Andy MacDonald who is 50 and who i remember from x-games coverage in the 19xxs (he's defected from usa, i think, in order to get a place)

the park skateboarding last time was based on a large bowl, which was great but a bit unusual. i wonder if that's set a precedent or whether it'll be more normal this time

elaborate leather costumes for the air rifle. and rifles that look completely unlike rifles.

pic: https://totalnews.com/china-wins-the-first-gold-medal-of-the-2024-paris-olympics-in-mixed-team-air-rifle-shooting/

lol, they can't bend their legs, they walk off like aunt sally. the suits must have some kind of structure to them that restricts movement.

Does anyone know about horses? The eventing comes on and I just get this suspicion they're all at it and Charlotte Dujardin only got busted for rivalrous or grudgeful reasons. Do they generally love their horses or do they beat them? Poor horses.

Pretty sure they all mistreat the horses.

watching the women's street skating today and almost all the skaters were, like, 12! there might have been a few actual adults. why are they so young? where are the wily veterans? do they all retire at 16? in men's skating there are some kids but i'm sure most of the street skaters will be in their 20s and 30s. i feel like the men start peaking in their 20s and beyond.
no offense to the women. they are awesome! but you don't quite get that Olympic quality of skating from kids. though the gold medal winner is 14 and she is gnarly.

― scott seward, Monday, 29 July 2024 8:31 AM (thirteen hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

There was a bit in the women’s skating heats where the commentators were mentioning that one of the athletes missed Tokyo to have a kid and then said she was twice the age of the Chinese girl - so 26.

I feel old.

Mainly I came here to say

Pauline Ferrand-prevót

Mens mountain bike race was incredible, best one I've seen in a long time even though the course was a bit dull.

Great timing last night I channel hopped to one showing the Olympics just before they did a recap on Simone Biles' activity for the day.

water polo is so vicious

how does any match not end with at least one murder

I am amused/unsurprised at the contrast between the women's skateboarders as being a bunch of generally quiet friendly assassins and the men's crew being introduced all "YAAAAARGH BRO."

water polo is so vicious

Flashback moment but in 1992 when NBC first did the 'we can do more, can't we' approach and did the triple cast, as my dad wanted to catch all the track and field, word got out through my sis to her high school classmates -- they'd all just graduated but were hanging out over summer as per usual -- and all the water polo guys were like "CAN WE WATCH THE WATER POLO?" (Keep in mind football was absolutely secondary at my high school -- water polo was the sport.) So I heard stories about all the water polo team all crowded into the den watching every match they could and generally agreeing that the teams were essentially committing unarmed assault beneath the waterline.

i get so tired watching water polo. i can't believe that people can swim that much and not die.

how many miles do they swim in one game?

Swim and fight. Those ppl are for real

Someone on TT's mom didn't realize they tread water the whole time, she thought they were standing in the "shallow end" just hitting a ball around lol

I have a friend who does competitive horse stuff and she loves and pampers her horses.

rifles that look completely unlike rifles.

I love this - the rifles look like props from "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century".

italian sportscaster claiming press-room coffee is so undrinkable it seems to be made with water from the seine#OlympicGames #Paris2024 #ItaliaTeam pic.twitter.com/Ti4pr1vzR1

— italians mad at food (@ItalianComments) July 29, 2024

how many miles do they swim in one game?

I wonder if they go off to the edge of the pool to barf up a gallon of water every now and then.
(in before "they just barf it back into the pool")

v. good usa-china women’s volleyball match; china won in five sets, usa might need to beat serbia to get out of the group

i have no idea what is or isn’t a foul in handball

That team gymnastics was quite something

sometimes i watch all these insane athletes and wonder who we should send to Mars to become some new race of superhumans. i'm thinking: swimmers, basketball players, and beach volleyball players. that's just off the top of my head.

i'm remembering those kim stanley robinson mars books where all the kids ended up being super-lunged and extra-tall and also really fast.

wow, those australians! in the 200 freestyle. yikes! they are both definitely going to Mars.

crikey, that titmus gave those other sheilas a, uh, ripsnorter.

man, just saw france kick ass in women's beach volleyball and now in women's rugby.

just seeing a lot of excitement and ferocity in general during these games and they just started!

okay, watching australia-ireland in women's rugby sevens. who should i root for? my irish roots say ireland but koala bears!!!

Oof, its a bung on a blue for these sheilas. Sorry, Ireland. Tá brón orm.

Insane photo (Brazilian surfer Gabriel Medina)

https://cdn.xcancel.com/pic/orig/media%2FGTrfwigXYAAmb4s.jpg

i can't believe these waves!

whoever wins surfing is best surfer. holy cow.

both women’s and men’s mountain bike races were awesome

also pidcock getting booed by the French crowd after he dangerously passed the leading french rider with 500 meters to go was a great heel turn

okay what replay should we watch tonight?

Gotta vote surfing, it's been pretty great. (Skip ahead to the third and fourth heats for a good contrast -- the third ends up being about patience, managing the clock and mind games, the fourth about fucking going for it as often as feasible, in both cases with increasingly wilder waves.)

It was cool watching Milo Auckerman on the pommel horse

I wanna do single leg swings
I wanna do double scissors

Caught the final archery competitions and shit, South Korea had my jaw dropping. The gold-medal winners (and apparently #1 ranked team going in), it was like Robin Hood shit going on with multiple bull's eye shots. (Not sure if this would happen with these arrows, but it looked like a fraction of a centimeter is all it would've took to split a previous bull's eye.) Going by the stats, France really upped their game, possibly feeding off their hometown crowd, but they were still edged out.

Yeah the women’s team match yesterday was nervy and down to the wire, while the men’s was more commanding, but in both cases Korea did the business.

Will also add for today’s surfing that the sixth heat is a battle royale out of the gate. (Still have nine minutes to go on my replay watch of it.)

just gonna drop this opinion here for whatever reason, and I’m sure it’s not original: the fact that there’s different events for each swimming stroke, and each distance, is stupid. decide what the “olympic” stroke and distance are and have one race

not that I would expect many people itt to be aware of this but last week ESPN had a countdown of the best athletes of the past 25 years and phelps was #1, mostly because has the most gold medals ever by swimming different ways different distances and beating the same guys in every race

Watched a bit of it for the first time yesterday and I love the contrast in levels of professionalism in different sports. With boxing I think its only have amateurs in it. Struck me how shattered they looked after three rounds whereas there was not a hint of stress in the breath of O'Callaghan as she came out of the pool after breaking a record.

Obv its a ridiculous comparison but I couldn't shift it.

ESPN had a countdown of the best athletes of the past 25 years and phelps was #1, mostly because

he is American

lol

not that I would expect many people itt to be aware of this but last week ESPN had a countdown of the best athletes of the past 25 years and phelps was #1, mostly because has the most gold medals ever by swimming different ways different distances and beating the same guys in every race

― brony james (k3vin k.), Tuesday, July 30, 2024 1:16 AM (eight hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

counterpoint: give basketball teams multiple medals for scoring the most points in different ways, france could finally get gold for screen assists

I have no problems with different styles or distances in swimming cause each one uses a different skillset (athletes like Phelps and Marchand who enter multiple events are outliers rather than the norm, so no they were not always going up against the same guys every time). but I do find the longer distance races kinda boring. Like anything after 400m is just zzz

I’m always rooting against Americans in any Olympics (sorry, not really) and I have no love for Phelps but he really was an incredible athlete. Remember that every swim event has heats, semis and finals… the fact that he could not just compete in but dominate as many events as he did without tiring himself out is unreal.

Love having this on while I work; annoyed by fragmentary BBC coverage of no-GB-interest stuff. Cracked, subscribed to Discovery plus for a month (£3.99). At last, non-stop boxing.

obviously there should be track events with ‘strokes’, like 200m running backwards and 400m skipping

I mean the hurdles is kind of this

And I love them, so I guess I'm with you, mookieproof

Triple jump has never quite sat right with me.

Racewalking would like a word.

…

Seth Rider, one of 55 triathletes entered in the men's race, has been taking unconventional measures to prepare for exposure to bacteria.
"We know that there's going to be some E. coli exposure, so I just try to increase my E. coli threshold by exposing myself to a bit of E. coli in your day-to-day life," the U.S. athlete said in a press conference on Saturday.
"Just little things throughout your day, like, not washing your hands after you go to the bathroom and stuff like this."

from: https://www.reuters.com/sports/olympics/triathlon-mens-race-postponed-wednesday-due-seine-pollution-levels-2024-07-30/

the american broadcasts of some of the more niche events only have one announcer, and most of them are bad at it. no partner to laugh at their quips, no crowds to cheer when they get excited. . . it’s so awkward

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was imagining cycling-onset dysentery this morning, good to know we won't be seeing a trail of poo from at least one competitor

Triple jump has never quite sat right with me.

no congratulatory handshakes either

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Holy CRAP, the US women's rugby sevens team winning bronze at the VERY last moment, a hell of a thing to see. Watch that replay when you can!

horse long jump was a weird one

the american broadcasts of some of the more niche events only have one announcer, and most of them are bad at it. no partner to laugh at their quips, no crowds to cheer when they get excited. . . it’s so awkward

Most of the world feed stuff I've seen has had two, and usually one if not both know what they're talking about. I've been reflecting on how the Olympics experience in my lifetime has changed from a one-channel-and-you-get-only-what-we-choose-to-show experience laden with eight million 'up close and personal' bits and the like to the crazy multiplicity of now where I think I've seen about five seconds of the main NBC broadcast studio setup, and that only by accident.

was watching the NBC recap of archery per the recommendation itt and the announcer was soooo bad

alcarez/nadal need a third set vs Ned

oh nm it’s a(nother) tiebreak

I wonder if NBC and other broadcasters have AI systems putting together highlight packages... "use round 2, use all 8 heats, 15 seconds max per highlight, go. Enhance 224 to 176. Enhance. Stop." etc

Best new reaction shots -- Polish women's epee team winning the bronze. The one who sealed it seemed like she was going to just turn into an ecstatic teardrop.

eight million 'up close and personal' bits

Howard Cosell foisted that abomination upon us. May his soul rot in a shoebox for that crime.

the nytimes has solved this problem with the craziest “choose your weighted average” visualization ever printed in a newspaper https://t.co/CsV9G40xfa pic.twitter.com/eRWAi4hA5N

— pseudolad (@pseudolad) July 30, 2024

i think silver medals are more attractive than golds

but then i also think that anyone who bites their medal on the podium should have it taken away

Otm

(i like it)

simone biles….. my god

and sunisa lee on the beam as well

Yup!

There was a Canadian gymnast with a beautiful floor routine that briefly made medals seem irrelevant.

honestly can't tell which fencer has scored a point without one of them gesturing in celebration

enjoy the poirot-looking guys who endlessly shout either 'en garde' or 'allez!' tho -- that is good olympiques

Triathlon finally went ahead.

Like woof have discovery here and looking forward to table tennis finals

Maybe this makes me pedantic, but for some reason the "I have won an Olympic medal and now I will bite it while photographed" thing is wearing on me this summer. Perhaps there are simply more of these photos coming at me through my phone this time around.

the mens bmx is insane right now

First gold medal wver at a games for Guatemala in the shooting.

Bliss @ watching the table tennis

Canadian male gymnast just had a terrifying fall from the horizontal bar when his hand guard broke. fortunately he’s fine, landed on his back on the mat but he was spinning at high speed when it happened and it could have gone so badly.

he got a chance to redo it and fell again :( just having the worst day, poor guy

time to win a silver medal for gymnastics and become the ambassador of parmesan

https://gabrieleseghizzi.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/GS_210328_Giorgia_Villa_6791.jpg

How to live.

Got the Nadal/Alcaraz double against Krajicek/Ram running at present, but likely will check out other things after a bit.

In fact I just realized having that match in one window and the main multiview in another is kinda ideal right now (US women's soccer and water polo there, plus men's gymnastics).

xxp "Didn't win gold? Hard cheese."

Stunning 100m freestyle final. Sjoestroem just could not believe it, and I was not looking at that aside of the pool.

Another silver for the US too!

Marchand!

Nadalcaraz match heatin' up, hoping for a third set

Milak lost it on the last turn I think. Stunning how he looked at his left with 25m to go. Lost it then

The men's saber team final is the final of extreme poses. I love it.

It is a truism is say Ledecky is owning everyone in the 1500 and yet...it is true.

Great job by the French swimmer to get silver though, the crowd loved it!

Ledecky is so incredible...took that to get the US another gold

Immortality for Ledecky..

it is so wild seeing lebron, steph, anthony davis, tatum, and kd all playing on the same team at the same time..

Ha, not following the sport much, to me it's all "Oh right, the famous guys."

Machand again at the breastroke

Wow

Two golds at an Olympic session...Phelps and Thorpe didn't do it. What a star

And a new WR in the men's 100 free just now. Pan does not mess around.

Finally a WR!

You can hear the doubts about that WR all round. Its in the air.

Moregard the Swede upset the #1 table tennis in the world Wang and it was incredible.

Didn't see that match but did note it when I looked at the draw

ngl loving all the messy, inter-athlete drama during this Olympics - tennis players shading each other, the entire USA women’s gymnastics team vs MyKayla Skinner, and now Pan saying Chalmers and Alexy were being disrespectful before their swim. Paris bringing the pettiness

The Covid cluster in the Australian swim team may be worse than first feared, after the Tokyo champion Zac Stubblety-Cook revealed he swam through an infection to win silver in the 200m breaststroke on Wednesday night.

You've probably seen the selfie photo of the North Korean, South Korean and Chinese mixed doubles table tennis players, but make some time to see the final gold medal match between China and DPRK

https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/China-North-South-Korea-Podium-Selfie.jpg

^^co-sign, that match was incredible

> Stubblety-Cook

New Trumpton fire brigade just dropped. pic.twitter.com/7RjETYdZXx

— Phil Norman (@MrPhilNorman) July 31, 2024

also enjoying all the south korea / turkey air pistol memes

it's what china gets for not sending ma long..

can also blame the photogs for stepping on wang's lucky bat

yeah why is ma long not there?

olympics limited each country to 2 contestants after china swept g/s/b in 2008 + china has strict performance-based rules about who is chosen... ma long simply didn't make the cut

wow. old man now i guess

cool cool jk rowling showing an interest in the women's boxing, that'll be a boost for the sport

英語版 pic.twitter.com/Trunl6oSOf

— eric ゑリｯ久 (@shinobu_books) August 1, 2024

jfc, I was just thinking about how it's nice that we hadn't had a trans panic at the Olympics so far, and there we go.

Heart sank when Carini went to the corner for the second time. Terfs were amping themselves up over the boxing beforehand and they got the trigger they wanted.

alacraz and tommy paul in a second set tiebreak

some incredible points!

Here we fucking go:

Utterly heartbreaking hearing the Italian boxer Angela Carini in the mixed zone. Blood on her shorts.

Broke down in tears as she explained that she had never been hit so hard before.

Added that she came her to honour her father, that she was a warrior, but had to stop.

— Sean Ingle (@seaningle) August 1, 2024

ngl loving all the messy, inter-athlete drama during this Olympics - tennis players shading each other, the entire USA women’s gymnastics team vs MyKayla Skinner, and now Pan saying Chalmers and Alexy were being disrespectful before their swim. Paris bringing the pettiness

― Roz, Thursday, August 1, 2024 6:06 AM (four hours ago)

finding out that the sore loser tennis player in question is also daughter of a billionaire who made his money as a loan shark makes this one pretty delicious

what would make that whole thing sweeter is if Zheng won the gold - which she very well could! Came through an incredibly tough match versus Kerber and beat Swiatek for the first time in seven matches to make the final today. Will be the first Chinese tennis player to medal at the Olympics :)

BBC commentators making zero effort to pronounce the name Jiří, just going with "jirry"

Couple of Olympic stories in Popbitch today:

Italy have been moaning all over the media that they lost the fencing gold medal unfairly to Hong Kong.

This slight is not something that Hong Kongers were prepared to take lying down.

So first up, Pizza Hut Hong Kong started offering free pineapple on all their pizzas this week to infuriate the Italians back.

Then fencing fans began posting pictures of themselves eating pasta with soy sauce.

Poor Roberto Linguanotto, who died this week, must already be turning in his grave in trepidation as to how his legacy is bound to be trashed. Roberto was better known as the "Father of tiramisu".

Let it not be said that the Daily Mail doesn’t attack without fear or favour.

This week the sports desk turned over a member of Team GB women’s rugby team as an alleged racist.

But only after the presses were rolling did anyone realise that she was no ordinary alleged racist. She's the daughter of a Daily Mail feature writer.

the trans panic around the boxers is seriously infuriating. people who know nothing about chromosomal genetics, sex determination, or boxing, or sports regulation all chiming in with the worst takes

Not to mention that neither boxer are trans! They’re women, who were born as women, who have always competed as women. it’s so tiring

^^co-sign, that match was incredible

Damn, will have to catch that! (I do love the fact that all the replays are just there.)

Currently multiviewing it and watching Biles do her thing while also observing Joker/Tsitsipas, not that I'm under any illusions how that will likely end.

Irish women boxers getting cheated by judges two days in a row now

Daylight robbery on Daina Moorehouse for that fight.

Meantime, Simone, unsurprisingly. But damn if she doesn't bring it every time.

xp

otmfm that was some bullshit

Ugh, fuck. Life has been insane for me this week and had pretty much seen zero coverage since the Opening Ceremonies. Checked back in to see the bullshit trans panic all over the fucking place. Time to nope back out.

otoh jack marley not robbed but he's young

The rest of my Olympics, more or less:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2024/08/01/track-and-field-olympics-events-schedule-paris-2024-how-to-watch/74528436007/

Missing LeBrun - Fan in the table tennis :-(

One sided in the end

well at the very least china won't do worse than in 2004

Surely they will win the men's too..playing the Swede in the final

Badminton Bronze mix doubles building nicely.

One god rally after the next at the and of the 2nd set

Ugh, fuck. Life has been insane for me this week and had pretty much seen zero coverage since the Opening Ceremonies. Checked back in to see the bullshit trans panic all over the fucking place. Time to nope back out.

I have been happily watching the Olympics on Peacock all week and was blissfully unaware of the trans panic until I looked at Twitter last night. Tune in, log off!

Chinese pair strolling to the Badminton gold

Never watched sailing in my life but enjoyed the extremely confusing end to whatever sailing event that was where the USA just stopped because nobody knew where the finish line was

Within two mins of handball ending I switched to Judo and saw an Ippon (a very heavy South Korean throw a heavy Japanese guy over).

This German handball goalie is mad pumped

Two mins of badminton..

if you have the ability to choose your stream, can’t recommend badminton enough. men’s singles on now

just dropping in to say I had never seen handball played before (or even heard of it), that is some wild shit

"Never watched sailing in my life but enjoyed the extremely confusing end to whatever sailing event that was where the USA just stopped because nobody knew where the finish line was"

!!!! i'm no expert on sailing but i think you are supposed to buy some sort of compass or something before you get in the boat.

And we're off on the right foot for the track and field/athletics part. Meaning the mixed 4x400 US team just scored a world record. On a qualifying heat.

In the badminton the Chinese no 1 is getting the shit kicked out of him by the Thai WC

Just saw him play a shot behind the back

Fucking loser Italian boxer apologised for her behaviour, but not before setting the worst people on the internet on Khelif. If I was IK I wouldn’t even look at her, let alone shake hands.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/articles/c2j3jg51rg4o

Some incredible rallies, just wish this match was closer.

xp - that fight was bizarre. Even in the apology Carini talks about preserving her life and I couldn't see the danger tbh. But I don't know a much about boxing

She’s a fucking loser and a terrible boxer tbh

https://twitter.com/mcgoldrush/status/1819019169053982875

Also a cop

Teddy Riner win in front of the home crowd was awesome

i still don't know what the deal is with the boxing. maybe i don't want to know. didn't read about it.

Xps
To be maybe too fair to her I think the terf shit in the build up could have had her shook. They were the only ones on about how this is a MAN fighting a WOMAN and it is DEADLY DANGEROUS gtfo
She should be a bit smarter or stronger than to be rattled by that but fuck it I’ll take any chance to blame that crowd

There is an element where she has definitely been played by that crowd. I guess the apology so soon after being used points to that.

Does sound dumb.

For anyone half-following, the other woman under the terfoscope went through in 3 rounds this afternoon, unanimous decision. Less one-sided than that sounds, just a regular fight.

okay i read about it. seems pretty clear. if they drug test you at the olympics and you are clean for illegal stuff then it doesn't seem like that algerian boxer has anything to worry about! other than having to worry about dumb people like trump. stupid trump.

if you have the ability to choose your stream, can’t recommend badminton enough. men’s singles on now

The badminton really has been great. I also really enjoyed the men's canoe slalom yesterday, with their little travelator and their coaches running alongside the boats and shouting at them. I didn't realise it was part shooting the rapids and part limbo.

Aussies obliterating all in the pool. McKeown at the 200 backstroke.

Aussie bloke in 50m freestyle (which I find silly but anyway)

And now for the Marchand show

Another Marchand gold.

Really those turns...when he emerges from the water he gains so much.

He said in an interview that he wasn't the strongest swimmer but he was the best underwater. On that IM race just before the turnaround the other swimmers almost catch up to him but then they turn and he's half a body length or more ahead again.

Its incredible technique or what. Astonishing to watch.

Men's BMX racing final - gold silver and bronze all to France.

Goddamn that was a fucking great men's 10K just now.

japan men’s volleyball into the quarterfinals for the first time since 1976

10K race was incredible!

France v Racist Cunts (Argentina) game ended as expected in a huge stramash on the field which seems to have continued off the field. France beat the Racist Cunts by the way.

https://i.imgur.com/VybVvJu.jpeg

Separately, hell of a read, hell of a person.

Caught the end of the women's trampoline final. There was a _lot_ of crying.

Xxxp Olise setting up Mateta for France to beat Argentina is it? That's pretty much Crystal Palace defeafing racism.

Not sure why Argentina are so bitter about france btw, they seem real mad that they couldn't close out a world cup final where they were 2-0 up and dominating up to the 80th minute

They're racists and the French team has a lot of black players. There's your explanantion.

Yup. Argentina and Uruguay are very racist. Shame really, I liked some of their teams, and was glad the Argies won the WC (its criminal that Europe have been winning so many WCs)

💥Nurgül Yeşilçay, Yusuf Dikeç akımı başlattı: 'Türküz biz bundan sonra böyle🇹🇷' pic.twitter.com/2MPOu9GRhu

— Posta.com.tr (@postacomtr) August 1, 2024

At the table tennis Bronze medal match and its grand

Sadly missing the gold medal match for that and Badminton ladies doubles later :-(

Hayata has a grip on this match now..3-1

haha, after simone biles did her two almost impossibly perfect runs on the vault they showed a shot of the women who hadn't gone yet and you have never seen unhappier gymnasts in your life. they were like fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.

BBC showed shots of the North Korean and Bulgarian women who had gone before Biles and even they were like fuuuuuck.

Rhys McLenaghan gets gold for Ireland on the pommel horse! First Irish gymnast to ever win a medal at the Olympics

I'm at my sister's just now and she said, "Whoever heard of an Irish gymnast?"

I can't remember any other Irish gymnasts either tbh!

that's like the men's gymnast from the philippines i watched this morning who won the gold in the floor routine. first men's medal for the philippines EVER. any kind of metal.

oh, and to be clear, not just the first medal in gymnastics. in any sport.

I don't think that's right https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Olympic_medalists_for_the_Philippines

oh okay maybe they did mean gymnastics then. they confused me.

yeah, boxing. i should have thought of that. they always have good boxers in the philippines.

Was gonna say, they're bound to have won some boxing medals.

Snoop Dogg keeps appearing in random places. Today - in the dressage audience wearing full dressage gear.

flava flav looked good at the gymnastics this morning. kool moe dee looked great at the table tennis yesterday. okay, that one i might have made up...

I was watching the athletics earlier and the commentary was going on and on about the British runner and I kept thinking where is he, I can't see him. Then I realized that it's because the British athletics team have decided to dress up as New Zealand athletes for some reason.

What a race, the 4x400. The Dutch just do it. US were there till the last 20m.

xp Femke Bol came out of nowhere to win the mixed relay for the Dutch.

MalcIntosh timed that perfectly. 3rd gold in the pool at 17.

one of the commentators was weirdly disparaging about the 4x400 as an event

Dutch woman in that last 50 metres was just incredible, looked like she had another gear as she glided into the lead

Awesome, St Lucia gold at the women 100m!!

Its really weird seeing the US being denied gold after gold in the last hour and week. Just three across track and pool in the last half hour.

She won that 100m in a canter.

Ledecky does it! Titmus pushed her only a touch..

seeing the US being denied gold after gold in the last hour and week

denied gold? what a strange way to put it. all these athletes are world class athletes who can put together a winning performance or lose their slight edge over their peers, just through the concurrence of several tiny circumstances. that's what makes these competitions exciting.

xxxp
Femke Bol finish was incredible. Her hurdles race later this week will be epic.

US win a terrific relay ahead of China by a finger!

First ever Olympic medal for Dominica.

Yup, women's triple jump. Awesome night for Caribbean sport

US had been standing out in the table for having so many more silver and bronze than gold but of course that will balance out more now...not sure how unusual it is really but most of the top nations have had a more even spread

home watching replays now. couldn't watch anything today. starting with swimming.

holy cow @ the last few minutes of the France vs Brazil Women's Soccer Quarter

I promise, no matter how much you think are, you are not ready for the sound of her voice

pic.twitter.com/oiBR3UYVpu

— Billy 🪩 (@_billyreid) August 3, 2024

I will sue you , and behind me all Algeria.

— Imane Khelif (@Imane__khelif) August 3, 2024

get her

How good is three times up Montmartre in the biking.

that 1500m freestyle swim is just insanity to me every time i see it.

Just finished watching the replay of the men’s cycling road race. Phew, Evenepoel in excelsis. But what a good job for the French team beyond that!

As for track and field, hell yeah what a great day all around for all those results, keeps it great and interesting! Fave celebration today was the Frenchwoman who got bronze in archery, both in the moment and on the podium.

https://i.imgur.com/sxstMg1.jpeg

If you're watching archery, stick around until you see one of the ground-level camera views that show the arrow's flight path and the intense calculus all these competitors have to work out in, like, five seconds.

Kayak Cross is basically an American Gladiator/Ninja Warrior TV game show, but when you take the Red Bull out of it (so to speak) it's crazy fun to watch

Watching India - GB Hockey QF. Really like Hockey even though the one person I know who played was incredibly unplesant. Its a class thing with a lot of these sports here.

Gonna miss all of the Badminton and table tennis today too :-( Caught the highlights of the Badminton double yesterday, so good.

Indian has been sent off. Its 'correct' but give colonialism he should've stayed on

India score!

1-1. GB have been more focused since that goal

Hockey is great.

Yeah. India just defending really well, 1-1

Spanish woman was dominating her semifinal in the badminton, a set and 5 pts up when she injured her knee which she had previously had an acl injury on and couldn't continue :(

Was wondering about that and read about Carolina Marin. Only non-Asisn to win Badminton gold (in Rio)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolina_Marín

BTW, its China - Taiwan in men's doubles

India valiantly defending, including a great save by the Indian goalie.

Pen shootout now ;-)

Horse faced britisher does a Chris Waddle

Miss the next one too. Yes!

Awesome from India!!

Dressage on the other hand is complete nonsense.

The sports I don't very much like are any with a kind of aristo bent. Anything with horses, fencing, maybe archery. All the stuff with points awarded like diving and gymnastics (Biles does appear to be better but how do you differentiate 0.1 points between some of the other athletes?)

Keep it simple.

"(Biles does appear to be better but how do you differentiate 0.1 points between some of the other athletes?)"

obviously gymnastics over the years has had its share of behavior that would have made the most wizened of wise guys blush while in the act of fixing a harness race at the belmont racetrack in south ozone park, queens, ny, but whatsherface who does the broadcasting here was explaining yesterday about the "ghost scores" in gymnastics which are all the deductions for things that you can't actually see during a routine (because crazy fast) that are all very specific score-wise. and why someone can lose by such a small margin for the teeniest of tiny mistakes.

china's done it again in table tennis, can breathe easy

also, didn't realize felix lebrun james plays penhold - very cool!

djokovic up a set on alcaraz ugh

is there anything more terrifying than watching a gymnast fall off an apparatus?

xp was a great level first set, alcaraz prob played better; novak seems like hes gaining confidence now tho

am only half watching now but what I saw earlier Alcaraz wasn’t serving that great either

meanwhile, great women’s uneven bars final… really came down to the small things in the end

also love that the Algerian gymnast is actually French but switched teams because they didn’t want her to compete due to injury, and now she’s a gold medalist! thats some good revenge

so glad i skipped the tennis for gymnastics, very happy to see Carlos Yulo pick up his second gold for the Philippines

golf was fantastic today. scheffler last round 9 birdie 62 to take gold despite putting like crap for the first 3 rounds. rahm 4 shot lead with 8 to play then bogey, bogey, par, double bogey choke. mcilroy 5 birdies in a row to get into medal position then dunking it in the water on 15. fleetwood took silver, matsuyama bronze.

looking frwd to the high jump later. love the swimming with the exception of the 1500m which bores the crap out of me in a way long distance track somehow doesn't.

The women's road race cycling is wrapping up now - very close between the front four riders.

i've been watching! thrills and spills!

damn she took off!

i love when a rower from harvard wins the bike race.

a rower from harvard from alaska.

lot of cycling is just ability to produce power, not too unusual to find people who have been converted from other sports, also people who have been converted from the online racing where you have a power meter on yr bike in yr living room and compete against other people in their living rooms, the converts tend not to be as good at maneuvering the bicycle tho

she started biking, like, 5 years ago and wasn't even supposed to be in this race today. the dutch must have eaten too much cheese last night.

primoz roglic the most famous example converted from ski jumping which you dont need to produce a lot of power for kind weird to become one of the best cyclist of his generation, his achilles heel tho he crashes a lot which goes back to that not maneuvering the bicycle as good thing

Man that was great to see!

Women’s road race was great!

I wonder if and for how long Peacock will keep this year's stuff archived and available.

Hahah I’ve been wondering this myself, I would be more than happy to go watch a slew of things play out I don’t have time to right now.

Anyway time for track and field and the big friendly shotput guys getting their medals.

also <3 femme bol, she’s been on fire and the upcoming hurdles will be quite a battle with Sydney

*Femke

gonna watch 1500m freestyle swim.

cuz i am all about grueling.

love to gruel

Pure gruel

One time I watched the entire women’s 10k open water swim.. and it was honestly one of the top 5 most thrilling olympic events I’ve ever seen

Awesome WC by Finke

wow, yeah, finke!

he is a very good swimmer.

that world record was...10 years old? that's a hard one to beat.

4x100 relay is gonna be good i can feel it.

jesus...

rowdy gaines sometimes...i don't know.

now they're dissing china...

china's done it again in table tennis, can breathe easy

― 龜, Sunday, August 4, 2024 9:31 AM (four hours ago)

btw, table tennis gold medalist fan zhendong got himself into a little controversy for being a swiftie earlier this year

The 27-year-old, who was once ranked number 1 the world, lost to his compatriot Lin Shidong, 18, at the World Table Tennis (WTT) Grand Smash earlier this month. The competition took place here, at the Singapore Sports Hub.

He was unable to proceed to the top 16 of the competition, and saw his position taken over by a fellow Chinese player, Wang Chuqin.

Not long after his defeat, a clip of Zhendong enjoying himself at Taylor Swift’s Singapore gig went viral on Chinese social media.

He was seen wearing colourful friendship bracelets, carrying Taylor Swift merch, and singing excitedly to her songs at the concert — just like any other Swiftie.

Unfortunately, Zhendong’s behaviour landed on the wrong side of the internet, seizing the attention of an angry hoard of netizens.

He was harshly criticised, with many saying he should have focused on training and not have taken time off to have fun.

Zhendong has since taken to Weibo to reflect on his loss, and defend himself against the naysayers.

“I bought a ticket from a reseller, and took three hours off my busy schedule two days before the competition to attend the event that all Swifties dreamt of going for. Music has no boundaries, and outstanding musicians such as Taylor Swift can bring others a sense of healing and confidence. I hope that more people can open their hearts to this feeling,” he wrote.

Zhendong continued: “In games, I am an athlete who has been nurtured by my country, and I’ve never slacked off in the 10 plus years when it comes to fighting for my country’s glory. In the limited personal time I have, I am but a normal young adult, with my own hobbies and relationships, and I will remain disciplined while staying true to myself."

congratulations to #1 swiftie fan zhendong!

wow that women's relay. sheesh. another world record. hey i like to root against the u.s. too - who doesn't!? - but sheesh they are just so good and also fun to watch in the pool.

Loved China and US trading golds across the medleys. Great swim meet.

See Taiwan beat China at the Badminton. Will have to see highlights of that.

And maybe table tennis.

I just had to try and explain the Yusuf Dicek memes to my partner. It was non-trivial

In every track event ever...

Commentator: Watch out for the Jamaican athlete.

... regardless of whether they are any good or not apparently.

congratulations to #1 swiftie fan zhendong!

― 龜, Sunday, August 4, 2024 1:40 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

get em

its so sick when someone comes from behind at the last minute in any running race

YES

The one or two laps to go power move

just start striding kicking like crazy youre like oh man here they come

the long distance events are great, really loving these. the men’s 10,000m final was dramatic as hell yesterday. the women’s 800m semis just now were awesome. having a sport where 99% of the competition is kinda playing possum in anticipation of the final 1% being total chaos is a great idea

Philippines winning their second-ever (and third-ever) gold medal is a huge thing. The first was for weightlifting. My ex is with his family this weekend, and he told me that the entire room spontaneously rose and sang the anthem and his dad started crying when Yulo won. He told me that the government has pledged a free house to any medal winner. It's a big deal!

killing me that the premiere event of the olympics features an american who is one of the lamest athletes ever

i hate him

great race tho

true

Goddamn, is all I can say

What a race

thompson blew it he tensed up

nobody flew out of the blocks, maybe cos of the fucking around waiting to go, feel like that might've impacted the last ten yards

Yeah that extra piano bit was garbage

thompson blew it he tensed up

― lag∞n, Sunday, 4 August 2024 bookmarkflaglink

Five thousanths of a sec lol. Come on.

Anyway, give it up for Fred Kerley too, that bronze was NOT easy to win.

he was way ahead xp

Brazil - Poland at the women's volleyball and the 2nd set was 38-36. Surely some kind of record.

xp that's hardly a choke.

Lyles final 40m was off his chain

its nice that you can teach a horse to dance who wouldve thought

great look from the hammer champ

Still thinking about Michael Johnson saying “He was unafraid to be bodacious”.

love the hammer dude

From Bolton.

This is Cindy Ngamba.

As of just now, the first Refugee Team Olympic medal winner in History. Congratulations! 🥇🥈🥉

Black, proud and triumphant.

Proud to have written the original soundtrack to a moment like this with @manondave. #ForThe100Million 🫶🏾 | #Olympics pic.twitter.com/DBxvPh5D8d

— CHE LINGO (@Che_Lingo) August 4, 2024

judges giving the chinese synchronised diving team an easy ride imo

the fully overhead shot of the 100m that they showed on BBC is the best video i’ve seen, lyles actually overtakes thompson with like 10m to go and is able to hold him off. you can see his head cross first pretty clearly. insane how slow lyles is out of the blocks, he was clearly in last after the first 10m. i guess you can see why he’s really a 200m runner

BBC. pic.twitter.com/PXxpvazkus

— Shane Thomas (@tokenbg) August 4, 2024

i see michael johnson shares my opinion that thompson tensed up

mexico robbed imo

robbed!

I'm digging how google shows a twirling medal floating up whenever you search for the name of anyone who just medaled. That and the accompanying flower button that lets you throw flowers on to the bottom of the screen.

extremely chagrined that lyles won the 100m lol :(

i see michael johnson shares my opinion that thompson tensed up

― lag∞n, Sunday, 4 August 2024 bookmarkflaglink

Your opinion was that he fucked up.

Johnson said Thompson was the favorite with the only q mark on his experience I think. Which showed.

I watched the replay of the table tennis Olympic final last night. Wish Moregardh tried this earlier. That final was a bit closer than the scoreline suggests and it'll be interesting how he will shape up in four years.

Sweden's Truls Möregårdh was on the verge of defeat in the table tennis Olympic final and said he wanted to do something fun for the crowd. This is so good pic.twitter.com/a39GSzR7bL

— Jack Kenmare (@jackkenmare_) August 4, 2024

i thought moregard was gonna be able to give zhendog a real fight after that first set but dude is just too good. dudes legs are like tree trunks.

if anyone hasnt seen it yet go watch the gold medal match in mens archery, i wont spoil it but it was honestly one of the greatest sports matches ive ever seen.

noah lyles has so much weird guy energy i kinda just have to stan a little. probably would be the most annoying person you could ever be around but i appreciate him being a totally different type of world classs athlete.

i watched the finals of the mens and womens skeet shooting. vince won his 4th gold medal in a row which is insane, and no one cares or knows who he is. dont even think they mentioned it on prime time? silver medalist was also a young american who outclassed him until the final 4 shots.

golf final nine was incredible.

womens road race, when our girl hit the afterburners that was the good stuff baby. pretty wild to watch the next 3 just dink around until like the last 50 feet.

excited for monday:
– mens indoor vball usa vs brazil
– womens water polo usa vs croatia
– pole vualt final - can anyone even come close to duplantis? will he break his own world record? How is he so much better than everyone else.
– track races obv - 800 should be good
– balance beam
– mens high bar which is the only mens gymnastics thing i really love to watch
– wrestling, i try to watch a lot of freestyle, hoping helen margoulis can medal again but there's plenty of others to cheer for
– mixed team skeet shooting? i guess im a fan now
– cycling track events are always fun
– ill check out the bouldering but more interested in the speed climbing
– might check some badminton but dont think it translates well for tv viewing, the pickleball problem, if you will

Badminton women's final on atm xp

Badminton works on TV fine for me. Just saw a 25+ shot rally.

Watched the repeat of men's doubles till 1am last night. Tiny margins

That was a 36 shot rally.

An se-young can do it all.

Dominating He in the final

He finally stringing some points together. Starting with an extraordinary pick up from a smash

An just kept her cool to reassert her dominance to win gold!

i should know this, but can anyone explain to me how i can watch specific events on iplayer? it is an unnavigable mess imo

Isn't the selection on iPlayer a lot narrower? Has been the case since Tokyo I think.

Yeh they've been limited to one other channel as Discovery+ got the contract

Yeah just got discovery+. Its a real shame re: contract. Streaming is wonderful, can say its the first time it has proven to be really, really useful for me because the half a dozen sports I really like are things the Brits aren't good at.

iPlayer has been giving two live feeds but they chop and change halfway through things and there's too much blabbing in the studio plus all the anjoying af adverts for...iPlayer

Yup, just the two channels on BBC - wish they had all the streams but just £3.99 for a month of discovery

Watching Hockey QFs, arg-ger..

Beam final reaching its climax...Andrade and Biles to go. Esposito has the medal

Biles fell!

This is the third time I've seen her do this beam routine at this Olympics; maybe it's hard to keep her head in the game

i see michael johnson shares my opinion that thompson tensed up

― lag∞n, Sunday, 4 August 2024 bookmarkflaglink

Your opinion was that he fucked up.

― xyzzzz__, Monday, August 5, 2024 3:36 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

thompson blew it he tensed up

― lag∞n, Sunday, 4 August 2024 bookmarkflaglink

wow will you look at that some people not only no nothing about running they also cant read

That's you yes

do you know what im talking about when i say he tensed up

You said he blew it.

yeah tensing up towards the end of a sprint is prob the the most common way of blowing it in that kind of race

Andrade got 4th. Biles off medals too. Everyone stunned at that scoring for Andrade, so its gold for the Italian.

seeing as it was a thousandth of a second finish he def wouldve won had he not done that therefor... he blew it

yeah tensing up towards the end of a sprint is prob the the most common way of blowing it in that kind of race

― lag∞n, Monday, 5 August 2024 bookmarkflaglink

I don't think you or I can sit here, look at a guy that lost by five thousands of a sec and make that judgment but ok xp that's where we are gonna disagree

be honest here do you know anything about sprinting at all

More than you yeah

bro lol ok

Loving the chat, that's good engagement.

idk what your problem is besides the fact that someone is challenging your apparently very closely held belief that its impossible to watch a sporting event and ascertain what happened in it

idk maybe tell michael johnson about it

Only way to settle this is a lag∞n v. xyzzzz FAP/sprint. Don't tense up.

i could prob win running backwards

Germans scored a pen at the hockey against the Argies where have I seen this before

Awesome Argies score with 90 seconds left

Argies were awesome in the shoot out. Germans did not score any out of four attempts. 2-0

japan men’s volleyball into the quarterfinals for the first time since 1976

― mookieproof, Friday, 2 August 2024 bookmarkflaglink

And they are beating Italy 2-1. Italy saved MPs to win that 3rd set tho'

watching floor exercises. Rebeca Andrade was awesome.

Japan saved two SPs..24-24

Italy get it at the 3rd. We go to a final set

Biles is just nuts. so much power. Andrade still ahead though.

I don't think you or I can sit here, look at a guy that lost by five thousands of a sec and make that judgment but ok xp that's where we are gonna disagree

Andrade won gold. she was great. Biles went out of bounds twice otherwise she might have taken it.

chiles didn't win bronze...and then she did. intrigue!

MP Japan, its so close

Hit the net..

Now Italy MP..

Italy perform a miracle. Sad for the Japanese..

Italy perform a miracle. Sad for the Japanese..

Badminton men's final, its the Danish defending Olympic champion vs Vitidsarn (Thailand) (current world champion) and I saw him beat the shit out of the Chinese player..

And the Thai is being whooped here so far its highly one sided.

Incredibly one sided but I enjoyed the artistry

so a belgian triathlete fell sick from swimming in the seine because too many people shit in it? am i reading that right?

oui oui

the uk, and i guess france, has a big problem with sewage getting into rivers because of dodgy water companies. apparently it's a bigger problem when it rains a lot, which it has been in france as you've probably seen.

fun fact: the lead campaigner against said sewage problem in the uk is the ex lead singer on the undertones: https://x.com/Feargal_Sharkey

I imagine it's Paris that has the problem whereas it's pretty much everywhere in England.

swimming in a river in the middle of a big city just seems like a bad idea generally even if theres no poor sewage practices theres so much nasty stuff around yeah it rains things wash in there

... and I think, in this case, it is England rather than the UK?

I will remeber https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1ej47z9/the_french_pole_vaulter_anthony_ammirati_is/

our town beach/swimming area here - which is a beach next to a lovely gentle river branch - gets closed every summer for various lengths of time after storms because of the farms nearby. cows. what are you gonna moo?

yeah agricultural run off is a menace tons of rivers near me that are no swims

Dutch better than us at the women's Hockey. Lucky to be 2-1 down with the last quarter left

I think the Seine gets a bad rap - these swimming events wouldn't be happening in the Thames at all. The swimming sections for the triathlon events in 2012 had to be held in The Serpentine in Hyde Park.

Yes, 3-1. More please. Dump our girls out I want to see tears.

They've got some DJs at the volleyball.

excited for the pole vault final, this is the one where the guy with the smallest dick wins right?

That's right

Swimming in the Seine immediately struck me as a bad idea. In their defense, if I had to jump into an urban river (like to escape a boat that was about to explode), I guess I'd rather it be the Seine's waters than anywhere else. Remember when Chicago was trying to get an Olympics? Imagine the reaction if they said they were holding those events in the Chicago River.

Anyway, the comments in that reddit thread about the pole vaulting penis are a riot.

example: now if you play the video backwards, it looks like the dick is helping him climb over the bar

Imagine the reaction if they said they were holding those events in the Chicago River.

There would be a new reason why the Dave Matthews Band was so bad and hated

Men's pole vaulting is a damn treat, pretty clear who will win but it's a good crew out there. And the way the women's discus competitors entered was pretty great, everyone was happy and hyped to be there!

these triathletes should be micro dosing by not washing their hands for months before the race. sorry a huge river isn’t sparkly clean! people were eaten by dragons in the first olympics iirc

So glad Brendan Foster wasn't in the commentary box to jinx Keely Hodgkinson, I thought Cram was about to though.

Sifan Hassan doing the 5k tonight, the 10k in a couple of days and the marathon on Sunday is just laughably nuts.

Brazil came back from quite a few points behind to win the 2nd set against US in the men's volleyball. All very encouraging.

watching set 3 of volleyball. go brazil!

lol Chicago could host all the swimming events in Lake Michigan and a regatta to boot, but yeah fair enough about the Seine.

"these triathletes should be micro dosing by not washing their hands for months before the race."

Rider said before the triathlon that to build immunity against E. coli, he was intentionally exposing himself to the bacteria before the race. “It's actually backed by science,” he said. “Proven methods. Just little things throughout your day, like not washing your hands after you go to the bathroom."

Pole vault world record!

That's a frustrating set from Brazil so far. A couple of times where its just broken down..

Pole vault world record!

Man, he was always going to win, but that's how to do it!

sweet shot from Brazil!

Duplantis is kind of incredible

It was a treat to see him at Eugene two years back, that's for sure.

US were much better in the end

Interesting report.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/aug/05/it-was-really-weird-simone-biles-says-crowd-affected-routine-in-olympic-final

kiteboarding is dope! so pretty to watch.

"to keep the turkish dream alive..."

"i'm afraid that's turkey's goose cooked..."

SOMEONE was having fun commentating the pole vaulting finals!

these triathletes should be micro dosing by not washing their hands for months before the race."

Rider said before the triathlon that to build immunity against E. coli, he was intentionally exposing himself to the bacteria before the race. “It's actually backed by science,” he said. “Proven methods. Just little things throughout your day, like not washing your hands after you go to the bathroom."

― scott seward, Monday, August 5, 2024 1:15 PM (eight hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

there you go. no excuses

Quan Hongchan is such an incredible diver, holy shit

yeh, we were rooting for her over chen yuxi

Kayak Cross is nuts

i'm sure it's more sophisticated than when they did this at the original Olympics, mind you

Kayak cross is good crazy fun. I've missed most of the diving this year, will have to catch up. Surfing finals were great! Now in track and field mode once more, Doom just pulled up in his 400 semi while Hall cruised.

New favorite games-adjacent story

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/06/world/olympics/table-tennis-china-restaurant.html

ugh. i love all racing events. but US Women's soccer semi is on...

uneventful so far though

i always liked hearing about chinese tourists to europe who pack their own instant noodles because they can't stand european cuisine xp

Wow @ Hocker winning the 1500m.

I knew that Hocker could find a way inside. Phfff...who DIDN'T know?

Okay, fine, I thought they were going to leave him in the dust.

Scotland denied a gold!

Hoker’s run win was awesome!

Gah, I just missed that. (Had to step away for lunch.) One for the replay.

watch it now! very exciting.

So close for Kerr - Well done Hoker. Kerr's got to be disappointed to not win getting in that position. What was Ingebretsen thinking? - terrible tactics. What a race!

xpost -- I'm watching the live feed! Don't want to miss anything else here!

i watched the entire pole vault final replay last night. 3+ hours. worth every penny.

Indeed!

that bloody american though...for a second i thought he was doing a homage to trump. and then he took some of mondo's blood! what a weirdo. he was a little too aryan for me. but maybe he's a swell guy i have no idea.

he was very good. for the record.

and the greek guy was great too.

Nice long jump, and now bring on the women's 200m!

Whew, Thomas with the greatness! No contest!

why isn't juggling in the olympics

!!!!

https://scontent-bos5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/454317768_899815142191464_936441885152060112_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=127cfc&_nc_ohc=9rr_Xn_czCoQ7kNvgGTtHA0&_nc_ht=scontent-bos5-1.xx&oh=00_AYAFNBV_4NQcQsVyYs0Fv0mBUX9q_XW8r0RFkAZrU7JBlA&oe=66B8712B

how much of a point deduction is being eaten

always some idiot trying to get on camera

No internet here, and its hurting rn

Water polo QF between US and Hungary and the Hockey between India and Germany looked like classics

why isn't juggling in the olympics

https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/competitive-juggling-is-about-to-get-real

Every goddamn point of beach volleyball seems impossible and this sui vs usa wmns game 2 is infuckingsane

Truly! And a deserved Swiss victory in the end.

yeah, happy for the Swiss, US never really had control in that one.

either way win game 2 was fair. like i love to dismiss everything, but that sport, every hit seems impossible to me

Second gold medal for Kellie Harrington in boxing

Watching dinghy finals. Pleasingly boring.

damn u could watch the last 300m of the mens 1500 and see all the stages of competition. man i wish i knew the rules and norms for the finish. i saw hocker tapping ingebrigtsen’s hip and i was like “lol he isn’t moving for you,” but… he seemed to do.

also winfred yavi’s steeple finish was similarly undeniable.

also do faulkner and thomas get private harvard gold parties and a private harvard jet home? because i’m a little sick of hearing about their harvard shit ha

i saw hocker tapping ingebrigtsen’s hip and i was like “lol he isn’t moving for you,” but… he seemed to do.

No never mind, consensus is that Inge* was moving wide to deal with Kerr.

When the commentator said early on that Hocker could take this due to his finishing kick, I thought it was homerism.

Yes, Ingebrigtsen was focussed on Kerr, as were most people!

Thought this was pretty good on the race though slightly overdone.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/aug/06/hocker-has-last-laugh-after-kerr-and-ingebrigtsens-tiresome-war-of-words

i saw Kerr's hype video and he seemed a bit of a nob so this result was v funny to me

At least Lyles backed up his antics

xp

When the commentator said early on that Hocker could take this due to his finishing kick, I thought it was homerism.

yeah, me too. i was super impressed by the finish dynamics, with hocker backing off and looking to reposition, and then so clearly going again on the inside.

it was dramatic and tactical in a way that was closer to how cycling sprints work than i’m used to seeing in running.

France Get Handball QF is tight. ET

That was incredible. France lost through a Gerrard like back pass that led to Ger equalizing with 5 seconds left. Then they won at ET

Water polo and Serbia Greece finish was incredible. Greece scored with 10 20 seca to go and Serbia smashed one in with two secs left to win it!

10-20 secs to go...so much desperation in water polo as it gets tight its great

USA - Poland at the men's volleyball SF. We are going to a final set. Poland were drifting for ages.

This is the guy that came up with the goods when Poland needed it the most.

He's Cuban

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfredo_León

Great finish Pol!

Across the team sports its been v close from all I've seen. No different as we get to the last few mins of Denmark Sweden Handball

A single point again.

Just easing into the day's track and field here. (I can't remember why exactly but I've followed NZ pole vaulter Eliza McCartney on FB for a while -- I think it was the 2021 performance -- and it's fun to see her at it!)

US beat the Aussies at the water polo on pens after having a man sent off for a punch in normal time (they had a man less for nearly a quarter of the match)

China conceded a goal at the women's hockey SF with a couple of mins left to send us to a shootout. As the final whistle went the Chinese hit the ball at the Belgian lol. So much violence!

We were near a brawl, great stuff

Lol the Belgian lobbed the Chinese goalie!

And that was as good as it got for them. The Chinese are in the final!

Italy getting annihilated at the other volleyball SF. France are defending Olympic Champions. Italy are current World Champions but its a cauldron. That's what home advantage gives.

Maybe a stupid question but for the pole vault, can the poles get longer? Or will the record breaking eventually top out with how far you can go on the size of the pole?

The poles are always the poles; the height bar is what is adjusted. If you succeed you keep going; if you're the last one left you go as far as you want to until you fail at your chances or just decide you're done. Once Duplantis had locked up the gold he could have done anything; he called for a height to break the world record because he could (he could have gone lower, or higher, or just stopped). His obvious plan was to break the record -- his own -- and did.

(It does make the pole vault an interesting open-ended event in that way -- unless I'm completely wrong, it's the only field event where it's not a question of best-of-however-many-rounds, but literally ends only whenever it does.)