2024 Summer Olympics from Paris
Amazed we don't have a thread yet. I will do up a fancier OP tomorrow but this will do for now as a placeholder.
Women's softball opens the games in roughly 5hrs with soccer/football, archery and some other sports starting before the opening ceremony Friday night Japan time.
PREDICTIONS: Rona causes a stupid amount of issues, I still waste approx 100hrs of coverage anyway.
Canada win over France in women's rugby was wild. All 3 tries were cheeky little pick and gos from the scrummy.
USA extremely live to medal - we're about 10% vs New Zealand, but would be a modest favorite against (almost certainly) Canada in the Bronze medal game.
Thoroughly enjoyed watching them run right through GB in the quarters
It's even better than you think. The whole event is a giant party, because most of the time your team isn't playing. Everybody dresses in costume and gets blasted. The whole crowd just bandwagons every game based on whichever team's fans seem like the most fun
ok this sport is amazing
that one poor girl she got at 6 or 7 seconds in. she just goes flying and stays down :(
Why are there so many swimming strokes?
If your life depended on it, you wouldn't backstroke.
There's no backwards running so why does swimming get special treatment?
does anyone understand judo? watched some canadian woman win gold ... the korean opponent kept trying this move where she grabbed her bathrobe and fall, pulling the canuck down with her, but failed every time. both of them got 2 yellow cards, seemed like no points were scored, i still don't know how one does that in judo. then the korean got red carded. was this a win by default? incredible sport
**** I forgot how to YouTube properly again
Someone throw me an example
youtube in brackets listoflettersafterEqualSign [/youtube]
this is list of letters: weF53YCBOgg
you do [/youtube] as the 2nd bracket
Got ya man
LOL
The men skateboarders are much older. This Canadian guy is 6’3, 230
Why are there so many swimming strokes?
If your life depended on it, you wouldn't backstroke.
There's no backwards running so why does swimming get special treatment?
Backstroke is actually useful in some real world situations.
Butterfly seems like the most useless stroke.
But I agree with what you're saying.
Woke up, cant fall back asleep. But good news is that Greece vs Spain men’s basketball at 5am EST.
TIME TO GIVE THESE KIWIS A TASTE OF SOME FREEDOM
thought that was the best the US women have played all tournament
Feel good about our chances to medal, which would be a great outcome
Whelp... maybe not
Went from ~55% against Canada to ~15% to 20% against Australia
Credit to Canada though, they've certainly earned it. Beating France on home soil then Australia. They were 45-1 pre-tournament
Canada women getting it done.
MOV is so huge in basketball, unlike rugby they don't shunt you directly from a pool to a seeded slot.
Three pools. The top two pool winners (by wins then MOV) get 1 seeds
The third pool winner and top #2 (by wins then MOV) get 2 seeds
The next two #2s get 3 seeds
The top 2 #3s get 4 seeds
They make it so that you can't play a rematch in the first round
I don't know if the seeds are equal or if there is 1a and 1b etc
So right now USA with a +26 against Serbia and a giant favorite over PR and South Sudan is almost a lock for a #1 seed
I think the second #1 seed is likely to go to the France/Germany winner. France is 1-0 +12 and Germany is 1-0 +20, Germany is -13 vs Brazil and France is -17 vs Japan. Meanwhile Canada is 2-0 +17 and has a solid Spain team left to play.
The #2 seeds will likely go to Canada (as the third group winner) and the France/Germany loser. Serbia has a shot if they beat PR and SS by a zillion, but -26 is a big hole to start from.
One of the #3 seeds is almost certainly Serbia, while the other is likely either Aus / Spain or (less likely) Greece
the #4 seeds are likely are the 3rd team in Pool A (Aus/Spain/Greece) and either Brazil or South Sudan. SS is currently +11 but is something like a 45 point total underdog against USA and Serbia, while Brazil is -12, dogged by 13 against Germany but will be a modest favorite against Japan.
what a great bronze medal match in women's rugby 7!
stolen.. the smash and grab full field walk off.. **** them kangaroos.
LET'S
****ING
GO
Holy **** that match was incredible! An absolute war that ends with an 85 meter try with zeroes on the clock. Insane
5'8" Japanese guard went 29/7/6 on France to push them to OT..
didnt watch the game though so not sure about how dominant that was.
Aussie peeps, is that the most epic collapse in AUS sports history?
wtf is AUS #9 doing? she pushed Sedrick on her way
the replay doesn't even feel like real life
