Paris Summer Olympics 2024

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

Dan Pembroke breaking the world record for javelin and then breaking it again by over 3 metres on his next throw was a sight to behold.

The 2 blind ballgames I saw yesterday were a surprise. I think I had channel hopped past the one with the 3 people lying in front of the goal and one person spinning then hurling the ball in the direction of the goal without taking in what was involved in the game before.
Sat and watched it while listening to a podcast yesterday. Saw most balls being stopped by the goalies. Then Japan getting one in.
Oh yeah one thing, the referee continually checking they hadn't regained sight between bouts of having the ball hurled at them. Healing properties of being a bowling pin or something?
Momentary advantage of being able to see out of corner of a partially sighted eye that strong.

Also blind football.
Hadn't known that existed until I caught a few minutes of it yesterday.

some pole vaulter guy just beat a 400m world record holder in a 100m, for yet another reason why there are too many events

> past the one with the 3 people lying in front of the goal

goalball. i've yet to see anyone score in goalball. them throwing it into the floor looked suboptimal becuase it took all the force out of it but i guess it's either in the rules or to add some kind of bounce to get it over the goal keepers (who are invariably lying down)

the blind football semi went to penalties. which feels like more of a crapshoot than even normal penalties.

one of the cyclists is called Kevin le Cunff which often sounds like something else

get in on wheelchair basketball

The men's final last night between GB and the US was awesome. Early on it looked like the US would steadily stack up the points and pull away but GB pulled it back and it was down to the last couple of minutes.

The women's final is on right now and is somehow even closer between the Netherlands and the US.