Paris Summer Olympics 2024

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'.

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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.

xp

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?