Paris Summer Olympics 2024

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

Just saw him play a shot behind the back

Fucking loser Italian boxer apologised for her behaviour, but not before setting the worst people on the internet on Khelif. If I was IK I wouldn’t even look at her, let alone shake hands.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/articles/c2j3jg51rg4o

Some incredible rallies, just wish this match was closer.

xp - that fight was bizarre. Even in the apology Carini talks about preserving her life and I couldn't see the danger tbh. But I don't know a much about boxing

She’s a fucking loser and a terrible boxer tbh

https://twitter.com/mcgoldrush/status/1819019169053982875

Also a cop

Teddy Riner win in front of the home crowd was awesome

i still don't know what the deal is with the boxing. maybe i don't want to know. didn't read about it.

Xps
To be maybe too fair to her I think the terf shit in the build up could have had her shook. They were the only ones on about how this is a MAN fighting a WOMAN and it is DEADLY DANGEROUS gtfo
She should be a bit smarter or stronger than to be rattled by that but fuck it I’ll take any chance to blame that crowd

There is an element where she has definitely been played by that crowd. I guess the apology so soon after being used points to that.

Does sound dumb.

For anyone half-following, the other woman under the terfoscope went through in 3 rounds this afternoon, unanimous decision. Less one-sided than that sounds, just a regular fight.

okay i read about it. seems pretty clear. if they drug test you at the olympics and you are clean for illegal stuff then it doesn't seem like that algerian boxer has anything to worry about! other than having to worry about dumb people like trump. stupid trump.

if you have the ability to choose your stream, can’t recommend badminton enough. men’s singles on now

The badminton really has been great. I also really enjoyed the men's canoe slalom yesterday, with their little travelator and their coaches running alongside the boats and shouting at them. I didn't realise it was part shooting the rapids and part limbo.

Aussies obliterating all in the pool. McKeown at the 200 backstroke.

Aussie bloke in 50m freestyle (which I find silly but anyway)

And now for the Marchand show

Another Marchand gold.

Really those turns...when he emerges from the water he gains so much.

He said in an interview that he wasn't the strongest swimmer but he was the best underwater. On that IM race just before the turnaround the other swimmers almost catch up to him but then they turn and he's half a body length or more ahead again.

Its incredible technique or what. Astonishing to watch.

Men's BMX racing final - gold silver and bronze all to France.

Goddamn that was a fucking great men's 10K just now.

japan men’s volleyball into the quarterfinals for the first time since 1976

10K race was incredible!

France v Racist Cunts (Argentina) game ended as expected in a huge stramash on the field which seems to have continued off the field. France beat the Racist Cunts by the way.

https://i.imgur.com/VybVvJu.jpeg

Separately, hell of a read, hell of a person.

Caught the end of the women's trampoline final. There was a _lot_ of crying.

Xxxp Olise setting up Mateta for France to beat Argentina is it? That's pretty much Crystal Palace defeafing racism.

Not sure why Argentina are so bitter about france btw, they seem real mad that they couldn't close out a world cup final where they were 2-0 up and dominating up to the 80th minute

They're racists and the French team has a lot of black players. There's your explanantion.

Yup. Argentina and Uruguay are very racist. Shame really, I liked some of their teams, and was glad the Argies won the WC (its criminal that Europe have been winning so many WCs)

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At the table tennis Bronze medal match and its grand

Sadly missing the gold medal match for that and Badminton ladies doubles later :-(

Hayata has a grip on this match now..3-1

haha, after simone biles did her two almost impossibly perfect runs on the vault they showed a shot of the women who hadn't gone yet and you have never seen unhappier gymnasts in your life. they were like fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.

BBC showed shots of the North Korean and Bulgarian women who had gone before Biles and even they were like fuuuuuck.

Rhys McLenaghan gets gold for Ireland on the pommel horse! First Irish gymnast to ever win a medal at the Olympics

I'm at my sister's just now and she said, "Whoever heard of an Irish gymnast?"

I can't remember any other Irish gymnasts either tbh!

that's like the men's gymnast from the philippines i watched this morning who won the gold in the floor routine. first men's medal for the philippines EVER. any kind of metal.

oh, and to be clear, not just the first medal in gymnastics. in any sport.

I don't think that's right https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Olympic_medalists_for_the_Philippines