Paris Summer Olympics 2024

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