Paris Summer Olympics 2024

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.

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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