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.
idk why they don't just do gold = 3, silver = 2, bronze = 1 and split the difference between the two
also who even cares, it's like soccer is 2 medals, rugby is 2, basketball is 4, and gymnastics is 58394832 and swimming is 23847293489384
Because silver and bronze are really just tie breakers
no incentive for pro basketball players to go. i'm not even sure most of the USA knows 3x3 is a thing that exists.
plus serbia are like the kings of it outside the olympics.
I would love to see the US send some actual good players who didn't make the team or even players who have played for the 5 on 5 team and got gold try and get one here. Like there's a ton of variants for other sports, so why not treat this as the same?
Even if they didn't a roster with Jaylen Brown, Jalen Brunson, and then maybe a big with Zion would be sick. All they have to do is take it seriously, but that's a little harder to convince NBA players to do.
Or the Olympics could just try and not run them concurrently and you could have players play in both formats.
Brunson is rehabbing his broken hand injury, but I agree with your notion.
Also 1.5 months ago I went to cancel Peacock monthly sub and they offered me 6 months at $0.99/month.
I ****ing snap called that **** so fast I nearly broke my mouse!
Serbia wrecking Puerto Rico in bball
Does Paris have Serbian street meat? Cuz those players deserve a FEAST tonight!
idk why they don't just do gold = 3, silver = 2, bronze = 1 and split the difference between the two
also who even cares, it's like soccer is 2 medals, rugby is 2, basketball is 4, and gymnastics is 58394832 and swimming is 23847293489384
And 200 racquet sports that are mostly won by some kind of Chinese person
I always thought Ping Pong was stupid and should NOT be in the Olympics but I watched a match today and wow was it intense.
But it’s still stupid and shouldn’t be an Olympic sport.
I always thought Ping Pong was stupid and should NOT be in the Olympics but I watched a match today and wow was it intense.
But it’s still stupid and shouldn’t be an Olympic sport.
table tennis wouldn't be anywhere near the top of the list of sports I would cut. It's one of the most important sports for 30-40% of the people on the planet
Race walking and rhythmic gymnastics and synchronized swimming and break dancing? pass
You need the perfect combination of natural ability and skill to compete in ping pong.
Part of the skill being able the ability to outplay and out think an opponent.
No way on removing ping pong. Deserving and hype af.
table tennis wouldn't be anywhere near the top of the list of sports I would cut. It's one of the most important sports for 30-40% of the people on the planet
Race walking and rhythmic gymnastics and synchronized swimming and break dancing? pass
These are near the top of the list. I also could live without 3v3 basketball, flag football, and roller speed skating.
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
I can believe that Rugby 7s would a good time in person. It seems perfect for drinking and gambling.
I love all racquet sports
The table tennis being a 64-person tournament is fun
Jha all the way
Leon Marchand wins two individual 200m titles in one evening. Never been done before. Not even Phelps.
A Chinese swimmer winning the 100m Freestyle by over a second and beating the WR by 0.4 secs raises eyebrows...
Well there's actually some pretty current stories about "contaminated food" causing Chinese athletes to test positive. The reality is Chinese (and other countries, very notably Russia) have far less stringent doping controls. There is absolutely rampant cheating going on.
Apparently WADA doesn't push back enough on them, either.
I am not saying that there is not PEDs happening at all. I am certain they are everywhere to a greater degree than almost everyone realises.
I am pointing out the double standard.
You are also right that it is very unlikely that China will get targeted given their size and power. Olympics is after all a business and TV show.
It’s one thing to ban the Kazach O lifting team. Quite another to do the same thing to the biggest country in the world with the second biggest economy
You are also right that it is very unlikely that China will get targeted given their size and power. Olympics is after all a business and TV show.
It’s one thing to ban the Kazach O lifting team. Quite another to do the same thing to the biggest country in the world with the second biggest economy
WADA certainly has been pushing back on them and targeting them, to the point that they are now complaining about it. On everage, their swimmers are being tested every other day.
table tennis wouldn't be anywhere near the top of the list of sports I would cut. It's one of the most important sports for 30-40% of the people on the planet
Race walking and rhythmic gymnastics and synchronized swimming and break dancing? pass
Agree with everything above. In general I think there are far too many 'judged' sports in the Olympics. I'm actually surprised Bodybuilding doesn't make the cut. Other than all the steroid stuff, it actually fits in very well with the Olympics.
How many people in the world actually participate on a regular basis in something like synchronized swimming?
I was high and eating in bed the other night, and I thought eating in bed without leaving crumbs should be in the Olympics.
like have people eat cookies and chips and toast in bed, then measure for crumbs after. i'd watch that
