Paris Summer Olympics 2024

xpost -- I'm watching the live feed! Don't want to miss anything else here!

i watched the entire pole vault final replay last night. 3+ hours. worth every penny.

Indeed!

that bloody american though...for a second i thought he was doing a homage to trump. and then he took some of mondo's blood! what a weirdo. he was a little too aryan for me. but maybe he's a swell guy i have no idea.

he was very good. for the record.

and the greek guy was great too.

Nice long jump, and now bring on the women's 200m!

Whew, Thomas with the greatness! No contest!

why isn't juggling in the olympics

!!!!

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how much of a point deduction is being eaten

always some idiot trying to get on camera

No internet here, and its hurting rn

Water polo QF between US and Hungary and the Hockey between India and Germany looked like classics

why isn't juggling in the olympics

https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/competitive-juggling-is-about-to-get-real

Every goddamn point of beach volleyball seems impossible and this sui vs usa wmns game 2 is infuckingsane

Truly! And a deserved Swiss victory in the end.

yeah, happy for the Swiss, US never really had control in that one.

either way win game 2 was fair. like i love to dismiss everything, but that sport, every hit seems impossible to me

Second gold medal for Kellie Harrington in boxing

Watching dinghy finals. Pleasingly boring.

damn u could watch the last 300m of the mens 1500 and see all the stages of competition. man i wish i knew the rules and norms for the finish. i saw hocker tapping ingebrigtsen’s hip and i was like “lol he isn’t moving for you,” but… he seemed to do.

also winfred yavi’s steeple finish was similarly undeniable.

also do faulkner and thomas get private harvard gold parties and a private harvard jet home? because i’m a little sick of hearing about their harvard shit ha

i saw hocker tapping ingebrigtsen’s hip and i was like “lol he isn’t moving for you,” but… he seemed to do.

No never mind, consensus is that Inge* was moving wide to deal with Kerr.

When the commentator said early on that Hocker could take this due to his finishing kick, I thought it was homerism.

Yes, Ingebrigtsen was focussed on Kerr, as were most people!

Thought this was pretty good on the race though slightly overdone.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/aug/06/hocker-has-last-laugh-after-kerr-and-ingebrigtsens-tiresome-war-of-words

i saw Kerr's hype video and he seemed a bit of a nob so this result was v funny to me

At least Lyles backed up his antics

xp

When the commentator said early on that Hocker could take this due to his finishing kick, I thought it was homerism.

yeah, me too. i was super impressed by the finish dynamics, with hocker backing off and looking to reposition, and then so clearly going again on the inside.

it was dramatic and tactical in a way that was closer to how cycling sprints work than i’m used to seeing in running.

France Get Handball QF is tight. ET

That was incredible. France lost through a Gerrard like back pass that led to Ger equalizing with 5 seconds left. Then they won at ET

Water polo and Serbia Greece finish was incredible. Greece scored with 10 20 seca to go and Serbia smashed one in with two secs left to win it!

10-20 secs to go...so much desperation in water polo as it gets tight its great

USA - Poland at the men's volleyball SF. We are going to a final set. Poland were drifting for ages.

This is the guy that came up with the goods when Poland needed it the most.

He's Cuban

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

Great finish Pol!

Across the team sports its been v close from all I've seen. No different as we get to the last few mins of Denmark Sweden Handball

A single point again.

Just easing into the day's track and field here. (I can't remember why exactly but I've followed NZ pole vaulter Eliza McCartney on FB for a while -- I think it was the 2021 performance -- and it's fun to see her at it!)

US beat the Aussies at the water polo on pens after having a man sent off for a punch in normal time (they had a man less for nearly a quarter of the match)

China conceded a goal at the women's hockey SF with a couple of mins left to send us to a shootout. As the final whistle went the Chinese hit the ball at the Belgian lol. So much violence!

We were near a brawl, great stuff

Lol the Belgian lobbed the Chinese goalie!

And that was as good as it got for them. The Chinese are in the final!

Italy getting annihilated at the other volleyball SF. France are defending Olympic Champions. Italy are current World Champions but its a cauldron. That's what home advantage gives.

Maybe a stupid question but for the pole vault, can the poles get longer? Or will the record breaking eventually top out with how far you can go on the size of the pole?

The poles are always the poles; the height bar is what is adjusted. If you succeed you keep going; if you're the last one left you go as far as you want to until you fail at your chances or just decide you're done. Once Duplantis had locked up the gold he could have done anything; he called for a height to break the world record because he could (he could have gone lower, or higher, or just stopped). His obvious plan was to break the record -- his own -- and did.

(It does make the pole vault an interesting open-ended event in that way -- unless I'm completely wrong, it's the only field event where it's not a question of best-of-however-many-rounds, but literally ends only whenever it does.)

Okay, men's 400, here we go...