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Post by High Sierra Fan on Jul 24, 2024 20:36:48 GMT -8
So soccer at least seems to already be firmly underway. Before the official start ceremony! On a related note the Winter Olympics, 2034 will be in Salt Lake City. I like the winter games a bit more, plus they’re mostly in one place. These summer games? In part they’re holding competition on the other side of the planet in Tahiti! Talk about “Paris adjacent”.., olympics.com/en/paris-2024/venues/teahupo-o-tahiti |
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Post by Coolkat on Jul 25, 2024 4:24:41 GMT -8
I like the winter games a bit more, plus they’re mostly in one place. Winter olympics are definitely better in my opinion. I will watch some summer this year but not near as much as winter. |
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Post by Sleeping Bag Man! on Jul 25, 2024 4:42:48 GMT -8
Why don't we have Spring Olympics or Fall Olympics?
The Spring Olympics would feature sports such as gardening, cleaning, and hay fever competitions.
The Fall Olympics could have pumpkin carving, corn maze races, and synchronized leaf pile jumping.
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Post by dustin on Jul 25, 2024 4:51:56 GMT -8
"...hay fever competitions." My dreams of being an olympian could finally come true!
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Post by Sleeping Bag Man! on Jul 25, 2024 7:00:15 GMT -8
I would be favored in the Claw Your Eyeballs Out of Your Own Skull event
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Post by rebeccad on Jul 25, 2024 7:12:15 GMT -8
Honestly, most of the summer Olympic sports would be better run spring or fall—all those running events in heat and humidity that can be life-threatening? Really no need for that. Fall would avoid the hay fever thing.
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Post by reuben on Jul 25, 2024 9:13:19 GMT -8
Honestly, most of the summer Olympic sports would be better run spring or fall—all those running events in heat and humidity that can be life-threatening? Really no need for that. Fall would avoid the hay fever thing. I can understand 100m, 800m, 1500m. But no one in their right mind runs a marathon in the summer if they don't have to. Don't start me on the IOC. What's with the breaking aka breakdancing competition? Rhythmic gymnastics redux? I get some things like various ski and cycling events which are more geared to the younger generations, but some things I just can't grok. I guess I'm old. I apologize to anyone I've offended. For what it's worth #1, I once played a fringe sport at a relatively high (but nowhere near Olympic, despite being at the OTC in Lake Placid) level decades ago. It was much harder than the average person would realize, physically and otherwise. For what it's worth #2, I never thought much of badminton until I saw world class players decades ago. As I recall, they can only do three things - slam, lob, dink. But Ho-lee Cow, the reaction time and athleticism to do so when I saw a video... (similar to my own past sport). I mean really - the behind the back, between the legs, and no look shots? They play faster than the untrained eye can see. You may need to replay parts of this to see what actually happened. Regarding the winter Olympics, it's absolutely unfathomable to me what XC skiers and biathletes can do. I'll add speed skaters, and especially long distance skaters, to that. |
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Post by reuben on Aug 3, 2024 11:12:13 GMT -8
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Post by Travis on Aug 3, 2024 11:58:49 GMT -8
Simone Biles is the most impressive story I've seen yet!
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Post by High Sierra Fan on Aug 3, 2024 12:13:35 GMT -8
Simone Biles is the most impressive story I've seen yet! agreed. Fixing your head when that disorientation sets in has to be an incredible challenge. A remarkable woman. . |
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Post by absarokanaut on Aug 3, 2024 13:29:58 GMT -8
Great to see Jason Tatum get his first double double of his Team USA career. Puerto Rico was awesome early.
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Post by jazzmom on Aug 3, 2024 19:04:29 GMT -8
The mixed relays, both on the track and in the pool, have been my favorite events. Love the US men's gymnastic team -- two guys from the University of Michigan.  And rooting big time for the US women's soccer team. I love the Olympics, controversies and all. |
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Post by reuben on Aug 5, 2024 14:16:18 GMT -8
20 year old US wrestler Amit Elor hasn't lost a match in 5 years. 5 years. She was too young to qualify for the previous Olympics.
In both of the last two years she has won the U20, U23, and senior world championships. Six world championships in two years. That's just crazytown.
From Yahoo Sports:
There are athletes out there doing incredible things which we only learn of if we're an aficionado of the sport or, perhaps, every four years at the Olympics.
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Post by marmotstew on Aug 5, 2024 14:23:28 GMT -8
To be an elite athlete is so extremely rare. Like Michael Phelps, saying this in all the best ways - freak of nature.
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Aug 5, 2024 18:03:04 GMT -8
“I'm surprised anybody scored on her at all,” Elor’s coach, Sara McMann, said after her first two victories. I watched that match. She gave herself up to waste time at the end of the match. |
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