Paris 2024 Summer Olympics

[BmillsSkier]

Back to the Olympics, big tennis day Monday!

The record-extending 60th Lexus ATP Head2Head clash between Djokovic and Nadal will take place second on Court Philippe-Chatrier not before 1:30 p.m. local time, following the women's singles match between top seed Iga Swiatek and Diane Parry.

https://www.atptour.com/en/news/djok...onday-schedule

Stoked for this. I hope Rafa sends Djoker packing - his final French Open seeding, much like this draw, was tough so it would be a fantastic capstone on a wonderful career to get one more W in the final head to head of the Big 4 era.

KD coming off the bench too. Doesn't seem fair. Love it!


Picture-perfect Olympic barrels in Tahiti:
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I knew surfing in Tahiti was nice. I didn’t know it was that nice until seeing the coverage. Wow.

Thanks to Canadian Broadcasting for the great ad-free streaming coverage.

I like to watch sports at the Olympics I would normally never watch. In that spirit, the women's team archery final was a real barn burner. What I saw of Street skateboarding was pretty disappointing, I get that the difficulty of those routines is off the charts, but if the whole reason to have the sport in the Olympics is to be telegenic, there has to be more flippy spinny stuff. Hoping for more pizzazz from the park competition.

Love all this. CBC is my favorite outlet for a non-Bob Costas sob story filled Winter Games.

Also, the Olympics (preferably Winter) are my favorite sporting event by a mile, for this very reason you point out. Here’s world class athletes getting to showcase why they’re badass to the world every 4 years in sports that wouldn’t even be featured on The Ocho.

Absence of russian athletes and fans is very pleasing

Fact.



Paris is so far putting on such a show here. The beautiful city, amazing athletes and venues are bringing out all the big names. It’s been really fun to follow along and I wish I was there in person to be a part of it all.

[old goat]

Kenny Albert calling the water polo--in the grand tradition of Doc Emrick. Seems appropriate to have hockey announcers call that sport. They had one underwater shot in US v Italy with a guy yanking another guys speedo half way down his butt. And a player expelled for a punch to the face. Great sport to watch--not a lot of screwing around. Swimming OTOH is terrible unless you fast forward to the actual start of the next event. Wish I could have DVR'd my kid's swim meets.

And there is no doubt that fencing is the hardest sport to follow. There is no way to tell who touched who without the announcer telling us.

[m2711c]

Meet yer upstate olympians.

https://www.syracuse.com/sports/2024/07/2024-olympics-11-upstate-ny-athletes-going-for-gold-in-paris.html

go team!

[The AD]

Back to the Olympics, big tennis day Monday!

I guess I never thought about it before, but apparently the surface must be chosen by the host country, and of course the French chose clay. Good news for Rafa.

[nickwm21]

Kenny Albert calling the water polo--in the grand tradition of Doc Emrick. Seems appropriate to have hockey announcers call that sport. They had one underwater shot in US v Italy with a guy yanking another guys speedo half way down his butt. And a player expelled for a punch to the face. Great sport to watch--not a lot of screwing around.

They’ve figured out how to broadcast it over the past 8 years. It used to be a really challenging watch…. Yesterday’s Serbia / Montenegro game was highly entertaining.


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[dan_pdx]

And there is no doubt that fencing is the hardest sport to follow. There is no way to tell who touched who without the announcer telling us.

"No way to tell who touched who" sounds a little #metoo. I had the same experience with judo, I would have no idea who won a point, or think someone definitely won a point when they hadn't. When they deign to give you a slow-mo replay, it helps a lot. Those athletes are doing amazing things when they finally get through their opponent's guard.

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

My gods I'm stuck in a home right now with some fox news addicts and the outrage they're pushing about the opening ceremony is completely INSANE. It's been going on for hours.

[The AD]

My gods I'm stuck in a home right now with some fox news addicts and the outrage they're pushing about the opening ceremony is completely INSANE. It's been going on for hours.

Personally I would have been a bit disappointed if the French didn't let their freak flags fly a bit during the opening ceremony. France has a rich tradition of pushing the envelope artistically. Anyone outraged needs to take the stick out of their ass.

[skaredshtles]

My gods I'm stuck in a home right now with some fox news addicts and the outrage they're pushing about the opening ceremony is completely INSANE. It's been going on for hours.

Who, exactly, are the snowflakes again?

[dan_pdx]

Who, exactly, are the snowflakes again?

My thoughts exactly. A kind of weird production that happened 4 days ago, who cares? There's sports to watch! Go Brandon! (McNulty, of course)

But we have to remember, these are people who get all spun up about the idea that prominent Democrats are sacrificing infants in the basement of a pizza parlor that doesn't have a basement.

[Core Shot]

The opening was a bit much. Even for the French.

Men’s group gymnastics was awesome. Rainy day entertainment for me
Nice bronze.

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

I'm sure everyone here is surprised that CS was offended by the opening ceremony

[Boissal]

The opening was a bit much. Even for the French.

As one of the resident French members of this board, let me be the first to say this: FUCK YOUR FEELINGS SNOWFLAKE.

Old Smurf Dionisius aside, Marie Antoinette's head introducing Gojira for 3 minutes of metal with flamethrowers and fountains of blood ranks pretty high on the list of things I didn't think I'd see at the Olympics but very much approve of.

[mcski]

Paris 2024 Summer Olympics

Ya, that’s a long way from Up with People, but I thought it was bizarrely cool.

And eff the idiots that thought it was too much. Especially the ones crying about the not actually last supper.

Peacock Hack: if you have Instagram it’s included. And if not, you can sign up for a 2 week Instagram trial without even putting in a cc and get it that way

[riser4]

As one of the resident French members of this board, let me be the first to say this: FUCK YOUR FEELINGS SNOWFLAKE.

Old Smurf Dionisius aside, Marie Antoinette's head introducing Gojira for 3 minutes of metal with flamethrowers and fountains of blood ranks pretty high on the list of things I didn't think I'd see at the Olympics but very much approve of.

Shit. I missed that. I approve. Linky?