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.
kind of wild to win breaststroke + fly, plenty of free+fly swimmers, but the other 2 are specialists basically always, and so the schedule never has free/fly same day
Yes. A breastroke/Sth else combo feels like the biggest transition
There used to be quite a few Free/Fly combo specialists iirc. Michael Gross, Michael Klim. Michael Phelps obviously
Basically all the Michaels
Pathetic showing from America’s 3X3 teams. This process needs an overhaul. We can’t send the 1000th best American players to play in the Olympics
Wilfredo León ends the match against Brazil with two aces
This story currently blowing up on Twitter…
This story currently blowing up on Twitter…
Combine this with Russian athletes being unfairly excluded from the Olympics (oh, and the drag queen last supper opening ceremony)
And you have a reason why to never watch these stupid ****ing games ever again.
Men have no place beating the **** out of women. Period.
to be clear, i think it's disgusting that this male is able to compete vs females. i wasn't even aware that this was going to happen. at any level of competitive physical sports, a person born male should never be able to compete vs females
secondly, regarding the majority of RUS athletes not being able to compete, for me that is a clear and obvious ruling. i would have also been fine, for example, w USA#1 athletes being barred for the 2004 Athens games (and subsequent summer and winter Olympics) for the bogus Iraq war and the subsequent slaughter of tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis
anybody that wants to discuss my views can do so via DM. i won't be making anymore comments related to this post itt to keep it clear of non-sports related content
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edit: i'd also like to see sketchy catch a ban for calling me a p.o.s. twice in the past several mins
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PolitAIDS ends here.
Publicly asking for a ban is not how we operate in SE.
Any further personal attacking however will result in some Calendar Time, some Calendar Time for Buddy (a temp-ban).
she is a woman *sigh*
it's illegal to be trans in algeria, where she's from. she's a woman
Steph Curry taking in the women's gymnastics all-around live
#yltsi
Isn't most of olympics political rooting(aids?)? Few know these sports or who they are, just their countries. The backstory **** NBC pushes trying to make it produced like a reality show bugs the **** out me.
Olympics has a history of being political
1980 USA boycott. 1984 soviet boycott.
1972 munich
etc
Biles doing Biles things
the best ever
Does someone know what happened to all the WR in swimming that were being shattered with the advanced swimming suit a few years ago?
Are they still the standard for today's WR's or did most of those times end up being beaten anyway?
The Chinese guy beating the 100M free WR by .4sec is mad
Don't worry, sketchy just request a perma in ATF. The real complaint for him should've been that Russia isn't competing under ROC Nation anymore.
Those swimsuits were banned in 2010, most WRs have been broken since with Phelps and a few others having still a few from 2008 and 2009. Not sure on the women's side but only a few WR before 2010.
yup and she passed the gender-test of the Olympic Commitee. Twitter is going on a bad crusade against her though, pretty ugly
On the other fun side of twitter, i'm here for all the memes on the turkish shooter bloke
someone on twitter pointed out that all these false trans rumors are putting the woman's life in danger. people get killed for being trans.
and also yes, the shooter memes are great! the Turkish guy and the Korean girl
just in case people had any doubt about the fact that people are completely wrong calling these women trans
Archery is a great tv sport!