Paris Summer Olympics 2024

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

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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

Dutch better than us at the women's Hockey. Lucky to be 2-1 down with the last quarter left

I think the Seine gets a bad rap - these swimming events wouldn't be happening in the Thames at all. The swimming sections for the triathlon events in 2012 had to be held in The Serpentine in Hyde Park.

Yes, 3-1. More please. Dump our girls out I want to see tears.

They've got some DJs at the volleyball.

excited for the pole vault final, this is the one where the guy with the smallest dick wins right?

That's right

Swimming in the Seine immediately struck me as a bad idea. In their defense, if I had to jump into an urban river (like to escape a boat that was about to explode), I guess I'd rather it be the Seine's waters than anywhere else. Remember when Chicago was trying to get an Olympics? Imagine the reaction if they said they were holding those events in the Chicago River.

Anyway, the comments in that reddit thread about the pole vaulting penis are a riot.

example: now if you play the video backwards, it looks like the dick is helping him climb over the bar

Imagine the reaction if they said they were holding those events in the Chicago River.

There would be a new reason why the Dave Matthews Band was so bad and hated

Men's pole vaulting is a damn treat, pretty clear who will win but it's a good crew out there. And the way the women's discus competitors entered was pretty great, everyone was happy and hyped to be there!

these triathletes should be micro dosing by not washing their hands for months before the race. sorry a huge river isn’t sparkly clean! people were eaten by dragons in the first olympics iirc

So glad Brendan Foster wasn't in the commentary box to jinx Keely Hodgkinson, I thought Cram was about to though.

Sifan Hassan doing the 5k tonight, the 10k in a couple of days and the marathon on Sunday is just laughably nuts.

Brazil came back from quite a few points behind to win the 2nd set against US in the men's volleyball. All very encouraging.