Paris Summer Olympics 2024

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