2024 Paris Olympics

[Jayv]

I played soccer my entire childhood and into college (albeit 20+ years ago), but can't stand to watch "professional" soccer at all these days. Dive, cry, delay, carry on, dive, cry, delay, carry on..... @GreyGhost is spot on, snuff that crap out and make it a real sport again!

During the Euro i decided to stop watching that crap and have been watching all the games from the 70's and 80's on youtube, no rolling on the ground after a tackle, and none of the other garbage that has ruined the game

Classic Football Matches +

This channel is to showcase my DVD collection of football matches that i have been colleting since my first ever video recording in early 1980. I will mostly be uploading games from the 60's right through to the 1990's. I have many full programmes of LWT's 'The Big Match' and various others from...

www.youtube.com

 

[Brian P]

Anyone else in complete ignorance of the Olympics other than what I hear incidentally?

 

[MacDoc]

Not in Australia .....having a rare old time.....
Aussie Aussie Aussie...!11

 

[jc100]

Not in Australia .....having a rare old time.....
Aussie Aussie Aussie...!11

….outside the pool?

 

[Hardwrkr13]

Regine Tugade-Watson in the 100m track. She lost but yummy! Bonus points if you find her “Made in Hell” tattoo
The US sprinters (male and female) all look and act like lil Wayne.

 

[MacDoc]

Yeah outside the pool tho most golds are swimming - five golds are not swimming. Jessica Fox is a canoe/kayak monster with golds in both !!! Some double gold and one astonishing swimmer with 4 golds two of them defending Olympic titles.

Kaylee McKeown makes history on golden night for Australia at Paris Olympics

Kaylee McKeown and Cam McEvoy have both won gold medals in a thrilling 10 minutes in the pool at the Paris Olympics

www.theguardian.com

1

Grace Brown

Women’s time trial

Road cycling

Gold

6	Jessica Fox	Women's kayak single	Canoe Slalom	Gold
7	Christopher Burton	Eventing individual jumping	Equestrian	Silver

12	Natalya Diehm	Women's	BMX Freestyle Cycling	Bronze
13	Penny Smith	Women's trap	Shooting	Bronze
14	Jessica Fox	Women's canoe single	Canoe Slalom	Gold

17

Jemima Montag

Women's 20km race walk

Athletics

Bronze

19

Annabelle McIntyre/Jessica Morrison

Women's pair

Rowing

Bronze

22	Saya Sakakibara	Women's event	Cycling BMX Racing	Gold
23	Grae Morris	Men's windsurfing	Sailing	Silver
24	Matthew Ebden/John Peers	Men's doubles	Tennis	Gold

No Russians, appears China has moved from doped swimmers and the US not super competitive in swimming this time.
I wonder if the rigorous testing for doping has been effective.

and this was a strange outcome, 4 Olympics, 30 years old and his innovative training he developed paid off in a gold medal.

Australia's Cameron McEvoy has won the men's 50m freestyle gold medal at the Olympics.

McEvoy collects Australia's ninth gold medal at the Paris Games with his victory at the La Defense Arena on Friday night.

The 30-year-old, the first Australian man to swim at four Olympics, triumphed in 21.25 seconds in the one-lap dash.

The win is McEvoy's first Olympic gold and helps erase his lingering disappointment from the Rio Games eight years ago.

Cameron McEvoy won a thrilling men's 50m freestyle final to secure his first Olympic gold medal.
In Brazil, McEvoy was hot favourite for the 100m freestyle but finished seventh in a final won by compatriot Kyle Chalmers.

McEvoy took an extended break from the swimming after the Tokyo Olympics three years ago when disillusioned with the sport.

But he returned to the pool with a self-styled revolutionary training regime.

A physics student nicknamed The Professor who aspires to be an astronaut, McEvoy bases his training around technical minutia in the water.

 

[MacDoc]

Something weird breaking ...the top female sprinter in the world was denied entry to the stadium for reasons unknown and missed her heat. Two top sprinters denied

She said they changed the rules yesterday, like when did they change the rules and not say? So you are asking all the athletes who for whatever reasons don't stay at the Village can't come through the gate. We came through this gate yesterday and went through security and was okay."

https://www.sportskeeda.com/us/olympics/news-sha-carri-richardson-shelly-ann-fraser-pryce-denied-entry-main-gate-moments-women-s-100m-sf-paris-olympics

This looks very bad for management and a heartbreak for the two sprinters. There is still time before the final but like an hour.

 

[ToSlow]

Something weird breaking ...the top female sprinter in the world was denied entry to the stadium for reasons unknown and missed her heat.

Politics?

 

[MacDoc]

Very unlikely would be huge face plant for an otherwise well run games.
Why ever would you think that it might be

Two out of three ain't bad - silver and bronze for two Canucks in the butterfly.
Lots of swimming today in Paris.

 

[ToSlow]

Very unlikely would be huge face plant for an otherwise well run games.
Why ever would you think that it might be

Politics seems to creep into everything else nowadays. Don’t think Olympic Games are independent from it

 

[MacDoc]

Canada's Summer McIntosh now with another gold - that's three! - not bad for a 17 year old.!!
and Australia gets a bronze via a disqualified swimmer.

 

[Sochi]

We’ve got Gold in the only sport I happen to watch - Judo. Deguchi broght it home in 57kg.
Currently Canada have 2 World Top ranked women in this weight class and I am so so sorry for Jessica Klimkait, our Ontario girl who wasn’t selected due to the selection rules where only one can represent country in each weight class.
So unfair IMO, Jessica is such an outstanding athlete adn worked so hard to represent our county….

 

[GreyGhost]

We’ve got Gold in the only sport I happen to watch - Judo. Deguchi broght it home in 57kg.
Currently Canada have 2 World Top ranked women in this weight class and I am so so sorry for Jessica Klimkait, our Ontario girl who wasn’t selected due to the selection rules where only one can represent country in each weight class.
So unfair IMO, Jessica is such an outstanding athlete adn worked so hard to represent our county….


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I watched the end of team judo. Tied 3-3 and then a lottery for the tiebreaker. +90kg was selected. 6-8" 315 lbs vs 6-2" 385 lbs. Awesome. Like cricket, I don't understand all the rules but it was fun to watch.

 

[Lightcycle]

Something weird breaking ...the top female sprinter in the world was denied entry to the stadium for reasons unknown and missed her heat. Two top sprinters denied

https://www.sportskeeda.com/us/olympics/news-sha-carri-richardson-shelly-ann-fraser-pryce-denied-entry-main-gate-moments-women-s-100m-sf-paris-olympics

This looks very bad for management and a heartbreak for the two sprinters. There is still time before the final but like an hour.

I read the article and nowhere does it say they were denied entry or missed heats. The two sprinters who were staying outside the Olympic village were re-routed via another entrance vs the main entrance. They complained they were allowed through the main entrance the day before. No one missed any heats as far as I read.

Spoiler

In fact, one of the sprinters mentioned above, Sha'Carri Richardson ending taking the silver medal in the finals...

 

[MacDoc]

Fraser-Pryce did - the hole in the starting line was rather glaring.

Follow up tho

Later on Sunday morning, Jamaica Chefs de Mission Ian Kelly clarified that Fraser-Pryce had suffered an undisclosed injury during warm-ups.

“Fraser-Pryce was allowed to enter the warm-up track, but from another gate from which she was directed to enter from,” Kelly told Reuters.

“There is no truth that she was not allowed to enter the stadium. Unfortunately she was not able to compete due to an injury sustained during her final warm-up.”

Richardson later claimed silver in the women’s 100m final, registering a time of 10.87s as Saint Lucia’s Julien Alfred won gold at 10.72s.

Fraser-Pryce, who announced she would retire after the Paris Olympics, is scheduled to competed in the women’s 4x100m relay on Wednesday.

Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce withdraws from 100m race in mysterious circumstances

‘This is a disaster’: Olympic champ’s glaring absence as ‘sketchy’ footage emerges

www.foxsports.com.au

The other runner involved

Richardson later claimed silver in the women’s 100m final, registering a time of 10.87s as Saint Lucia’s Julien Alfred won gold at 10.72s.

That gold medal win by St Lucia' was astonishing ....there are only 180,000 people in St Lucia. One of the sweeter moments at the games.

 

[bitzz]

team judo

I am not into spectator sports, and have never heard of "team judo"
I pictured something more along the lines of a Bruce Lee movie... one guy has to take on 6 opponents, that wait patiently for their turn to fight.

 

[GreyGhost]

I am not into spectator sports, and have never heard of "team judo"
I pictured something more along the lines of a Bruce Lee movie... one guy has to take on 6 opponents, that wait patiently for their turn to fight.

I was hoping for your scenario. It was 1v1. Each team had a judoka in each weight class. Basically a best of 6 with a tie breaker if required.

 

[Hardwrkr13]

We’ve got Gold in the only sport I happen to watch - Judo. Deguchi broght it home in 57kg.
Currently Canada have 2 World Top ranked women in this weight class and I am so so sorry for Jessica Klimkait, our Ontario girl who wasn’t selected due to the selection rules where only one can represent country in each weight class.
So unfair IMO, Jessica is such an outstanding athlete adn worked so hard to represent our county….


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Was that the match where neither athlete scored a point and the loser was decided because she had 3 warnings compared to the "winner" who had 2?

 

[Sochi]

Was that the match where neither athlete scored a point and the loser was decided because she had 3 warnings compared to the "winner" who had 2?

If you are talking about matches between both CAN girls - it has a long history with Deguchi taking CAN citizenship as she couldn’t make it to the JAP national team. Both have a very different styles where unfortunately attacking drop-seonagi style of Jessica suffers against very defensive style of Christa’s. But obviously we are biased as we know Jessica and have followed her a long time on the scene…

 

[DownUnder]

I am not into spectator sports, and have never heard of "team judo"
I pictured something more along the lines of a Bruce Lee movie... one guy has to take on 6 opponents, that wait patiently for their turn to fight.

Put this on pay per view and I'd watch