Paris 2024 Summer Olympics

[alpinevibes]

Without Lyles, the USA still has a strong 4x100. I want to see Kerley get a gold. I love seeing Kerley and Lyles together in interviews, the entire time Kerley's expression is "see the shit I have to put up with?"

Lyles definitely seems to be on the neurodivergent side, but he also has a smoking hot girlfriend - Jamaican sprinter Junelle Bromfield.

Yes, though you have to remember that Kerley chose his path back in 2020, diverging from being the one of the best 400m guys in the world (43.70 NCAA record, 43.64 PB, now #10 All-time) to "improve his speed" by focusing on the 100m during the Pandemic. He's chosen to stick with the drama and high-stakes of shorter sprints, no-doubt because of his success and versatility. But he seems to want to be in the middle of the theatrics, especially with his antics over the last year.

Tebogo, on the other hand, showed us incredible poise and character with his 200m win and post-race. Guys like Tebogo, Knighton and Kung Fu Kenny are really admirable to show up and perform without the hysterics (and I say that as someone who doesn't really mind Lyles):

[fomofo]

Watching bouldering. Problems seem impossible to top out on. Can the route setters even do their own problems or do they just set crazy shit that no one could do?
As an aside I wonder how Honnold would do on these.

I guess he gets asked that a lot...

Honnold came out to great applause earlier today to start the men's combined (boulder/lead) sport climbing final. (About 16 minutes in to the replay on Peacock if you have that.)

There are a few YouTube clips here from the combined final.

[Diamond Joe]

Woof, the break dancing is cringeworthy. See how long you can last, I only made it for 30 seconds

I think the men's break dancing will be better, since they have the upper body strength to do all the acrobatic, pommel-horse type shit on the floor, can do the "freeze" moves better/longer, etc, but.. yeah. Pretty cringe. The names made it even worse. I made it through one match, "Syssy vs Logistx" or something, then I gave up.

In other news: Gold Medal Soccer! First I've heard that Mbappe isn't playing for France. That sucks, Your best player, and one of the best players in the world (and certainly one of the most fun to watch) can't play cause his pro team won't let him?? BOOOOO

[plugboots]

Yeah, prolly need to make it pure U23

[mcski]

France tieing it up in extra time !

[plugboots]

Great game

[MarcusBrody]

I think the men's break dancing will be better, since they have the upper body strength to do all the acrobatic, pommel-horse type shit on the floor, can do the "freeze" moves better/longer, etc, but.. yeah. Pretty cringe. The names made it even worse. I made it through one match, "Syssy vs Logistx" or something, then I gave up.

In other news: Gold Medal Soccer! First I've heard that Mbappe isn't playing for France. That sucks, Your best player, and one of the best players in the world (and certainly one of the most fun to watch) can't play cause his pro team won't let him?? BOOOOO

Yeah, prolly need to make it pure U23

I think they should make it pure U-23 too. It seems weird to make it somewhat about who can recruit the best over-age players. But you're still going to have problems with clubs letting players free. Just in this match you have Spain without Nico Williams (22) and Yamal Lamine (17), probably their best attackers at the Euro, and France playing without Camavinga, Saliba, and Zaire-Emery, At the same time, I understand the clubs' perspective. These guys just spent almost the entire break prepping and playing for their country in an even bigger tournament (the Euro). To have them play a second consecutive tournament that runs right up to the start of the season would mean no rest at all.

[jono]

US 4x100's both subbing in fast legs into the experience slots. Could have put the people with less practice into 1st or last and they only have one handoff to focus on. Instead they're asked to slot in and handle two passes by running second/third.

I guess this fits with complete denial about the importance of handoffs.

[The AD]

Woof, the break dancing is cringeworthy. See how long you can last, I only made it for 30 seconds

It's not a sport. Calling it "breaking" rather than "break dancing" doesn't make it sport. We need fewer judged sports in the Olympics, not more. I figure the IOC likes these because there's more grifting opportunities.

[skaredshtles]

That should do it for the soccer match.

[jackstraw]

Ping pong was bad enough. They should definitely leave the luge to the experts.

So in summer luge do they run 70mm or 72mm longboard wheels? Or do they go really big with like a 650b or a 29er?

[jono]

So in summer luge do they run 70mm or 72mm longboard wheels? Or do they go really big with like a 650b or a 29er?

Did you just suggest there are FOUR wheel sizes??

[jackstraw]

Did you just suggest there are FOUR wheel sizes??

Ha! Mullet would be the way to go. 29er up front and 70mm rear. It'd roll over the obstacles easier and drift the high speed corners.

[dan_pdx]

Street luge or downhill skateboarding would be a way better addition than breakdancing or even skateboarding, which was pretty cool but requires judges.

[jono]

Street luge is the shortest path between athletics and opioid addiction. DH skateboard racing FTW.