Paris Summer Olympics 2024

iPlayer has been giving two live feeds but they chop and change halfway through things and there's too much blabbing in the studio plus all the anjoying af adverts for...iPlayer

Yup, just the two channels on BBC - wish they had all the streams but just £3.99 for a month of discovery

Watching Hockey QFs, arg-ger..

Beam final reaching its climax...Andrade and Biles to go. Esposito has the medal

Biles fell!

This is the third time I've seen her do this beam routine at this Olympics; maybe it's hard to keep her head in the game

i see michael johnson shares my opinion that thompson tensed up

― lag∞n, Sunday, 4 August 2024 bookmarkflaglink

Your opinion was that he fucked up.

― xyzzzz__, Monday, August 5, 2024 3:36 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

thompson blew it he tensed up

― lag∞n, Sunday, 4 August 2024 bookmarkflaglink

wow will you look at that some people not only no nothing about running they also cant read

That's you yes

do you know what im talking about when i say he tensed up

You said he blew it.

yeah tensing up towards the end of a sprint is prob the the most common way of blowing it in that kind of race

Andrade got 4th. Biles off medals too. Everyone stunned at that scoring for Andrade, so its gold for the Italian.

seeing as it was a thousandth of a second finish he def wouldve won had he not done that therefor... he blew it

yeah tensing up towards the end of a sprint is prob the the most common way of blowing it in that kind of race

― lag∞n, Monday, 5 August 2024 bookmarkflaglink

I don't think you or I can sit here, look at a guy that lost by five thousands of a sec and make that judgment but ok xp that's where we are gonna disagree

be honest here do you know anything about sprinting at all

More than you yeah

bro lol ok

Loving the chat, that's good engagement.

idk what your problem is besides the fact that someone is challenging your apparently very closely held belief that its impossible to watch a sporting event and ascertain what happened in it

idk maybe tell michael johnson about it

Only way to settle this is a lag∞n v. xyzzzz FAP/sprint. Don't tense up.

i could prob win running backwards

Germans scored a pen at the hockey against the Argies where have I seen this before

Awesome Argies score with 90 seconds left

Argies were awesome in the shoot out. Germans did not score any out of four attempts. 2-0

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

― mookieproof, Friday, 2 August 2024 bookmarkflaglink

And they are beating Italy 2-1. Italy saved MPs to win that 3rd set tho'

watching floor exercises. Rebeca Andrade was awesome.

Japan saved two SPs..24-24

Italy get it at the 3rd. We go to a final set

Biles is just nuts. so much power. Andrade still ahead though.

I don't think you or I can sit here, look at a guy that lost by five thousands of a sec and make that judgment but ok xp that's where we are gonna disagree

Andrade won gold. she was great. Biles went out of bounds twice otherwise she might have taken it.

chiles didn't win bronze...and then she did. intrigue!

MP Japan, its so close

Hit the net..

Now Italy MP..

Italy perform a miracle. Sad for the Japanese..

Italy perform a miracle. Sad for the Japanese..

Badminton men's final, its the Danish defending Olympic champion vs Vitidsarn (Thailand) (current world champion) and I saw him beat the shit out of the Chinese player..

And the Thai is being whooped here so far its highly one sided.

Incredibly one sided but I enjoyed the artistry

so a belgian triathlete fell sick from swimming in the seine because too many people shit in it? am i reading that right?

oui oui

the uk, and i guess france, has a big problem with sewage getting into rivers because of dodgy water companies. apparently it's a bigger problem when it rains a lot, which it has been in france as you've probably seen.

fun fact: the lead campaigner against said sewage problem in the uk is the ex lead singer on the undertones: https://x.com/Feargal_Sharkey

I imagine it's Paris that has the problem whereas it's pretty much everywhere in England.

swimming in a river in the middle of a big city just seems like a bad idea generally even if theres no poor sewage practices theres so much nasty stuff around yeah it rains things wash in there

... and I think, in this case, it is England rather than the UK?

I will remeber https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1ej47z9/the_french_pole_vaulter_anthony_ammirati_is/

our town beach/swimming area here - which is a beach next to a lovely gentle river branch - gets closed every summer for various lengths of time after storms because of the farms nearby. cows. what are you gonna moo?

yeah agricultural run off is a menace tons of rivers near me that are no swims