Paris Summer Olympics 2024

If you're watching archery, stick around until you see one of the ground-level camera views that show the arrow's flight path and the intense calculus all these competitors have to work out in, like, five seconds.

Kayak Cross is basically an American Gladiator/Ninja Warrior TV game show, but when you take the Red Bull out of it (so to speak) it's crazy fun to watch

Watching India - GB Hockey QF. Really like Hockey even though the one person I know who played was incredibly unplesant. Its a class thing with a lot of these sports here.

Gonna miss all of the Badminton and table tennis today too :-( Caught the highlights of the Badminton double yesterday, so good.

Indian has been sent off. Its 'correct' but give colonialism he should've stayed on

India score!

1-1. GB have been more focused since that goal

Hockey is great.

Yeah. India just defending really well, 1-1

Spanish woman was dominating her semifinal in the badminton, a set and 5 pts up when she injured her knee which she had previously had an acl injury on and couldn't continue :(

Was wondering about that and read about Carolina Marin. Only non-Asisn to win Badminton gold (in Rio)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolina_Marín

BTW, its China - Taiwan in men's doubles

India valiantly defending, including a great save by the Indian goalie.

Pen shootout now ;-)

Horse faced britisher does a Chris Waddle

Miss the next one too. Yes!

Awesome from India!!

Dressage on the other hand is complete nonsense.

The sports I don't very much like are any with a kind of aristo bent. Anything with horses, fencing, maybe archery. All the stuff with points awarded like diving and gymnastics (Biles does appear to be better but how do you differentiate 0.1 points between some of the other athletes?)

Keep it simple.

"(Biles does appear to be better but how do you differentiate 0.1 points between some of the other athletes?)"

obviously gymnastics over the years has had its share of behavior that would have made the most wizened of wise guys blush while in the act of fixing a harness race at the belmont racetrack in south ozone park, queens, ny, but whatsherface who does the broadcasting here was explaining yesterday about the "ghost scores" in gymnastics which are all the deductions for things that you can't actually see during a routine (because crazy fast) that are all very specific score-wise. and why someone can lose by such a small margin for the teeniest of tiny mistakes.

china's done it again in table tennis, can breathe easy

also, didn't realize felix lebrun james plays penhold - very cool!

djokovic up a set on alcaraz ugh

is there anything more terrifying than watching a gymnast fall off an apparatus?

xp was a great level first set, alcaraz prob played better; novak seems like hes gaining confidence now tho

am only half watching now but what I saw earlier Alcaraz wasn’t serving that great either

meanwhile, great women’s uneven bars final… really came down to the small things in the end

also love that the Algerian gymnast is actually French but switched teams because they didn’t want her to compete due to injury, and now she’s a gold medalist! thats some good revenge

so glad i skipped the tennis for gymnastics, very happy to see Carlos Yulo pick up his second gold for the Philippines

golf was fantastic today. scheffler last round 9 birdie 62 to take gold despite putting like crap for the first 3 rounds. rahm 4 shot lead with 8 to play then bogey, bogey, par, double bogey choke. mcilroy 5 birdies in a row to get into medal position then dunking it in the water on 15. fleetwood took silver, matsuyama bronze.

looking frwd to the high jump later. love the swimming with the exception of the 1500m which bores the crap out of me in a way long distance track somehow doesn't.

The women's road race cycling is wrapping up now - very close between the front four riders.

i've been watching! thrills and spills!

damn she took off!

i love when a rower from harvard wins the bike race.

a rower from harvard from alaska.

lot of cycling is just ability to produce power, not too unusual to find people who have been converted from other sports, also people who have been converted from the online racing where you have a power meter on yr bike in yr living room and compete against other people in their living rooms, the converts tend not to be as good at maneuvering the bicycle tho

she started biking, like, 5 years ago and wasn't even supposed to be in this race today. the dutch must have eaten too much cheese last night.

primoz roglic the most famous example converted from ski jumping which you dont need to produce a lot of power for kind weird to become one of the best cyclist of his generation, his achilles heel tho he crashes a lot which goes back to that not maneuvering the bicycle as good thing

Man that was great to see!

Women’s road race was great!

I wonder if and for how long Peacock will keep this year's stuff archived and available.

Hahah I’ve been wondering this myself, I would be more than happy to go watch a slew of things play out I don’t have time to right now.

Anyway time for track and field and the big friendly shotput guys getting their medals.

also <3 femme bol, she’s been on fire and the upcoming hurdles will be quite a battle with Sydney

*Femke

gonna watch 1500m freestyle swim.

cuz i am all about grueling.

love to gruel

Pure gruel

One time I watched the entire women’s 10k open water swim.. and it was honestly one of the top 5 most thrilling olympic events I’ve ever seen

Awesome WC by Finke

wow, yeah, finke!

he is a very good swimmer.