Olympics and Paralympics

[silk zephyr]

So there’s been a 2.5 years investigation

[wary shell]

Took them 2 years of appeals to figure out how to punish a minor.

[last pulsar]

pretends to be shocked

[silk zephyr]

Allegedly doping

So they never got their medals until the investigation ended

[wary shell]

Yeah they got the stuffed animals but not the medals.

[silk zephyr]

I know which id prefer

[last pulsar]

I have a friend who climbs quite seriously, so maybe I should test this 😅

[cosmic jasper]

my teammmmmmm

[quaint zealot]

i only say this bc i can deadlift 3 of me, although i also lift so💀

[cosmic jasper]

when i went to the us olympic and paralympic museum last year they had a display with their empty medal boxes

[last pulsar]

That sounds like such a cool museum

[wary shell]

So dramatic I expect nothing less.

[cosmic jasper]

it was quite literally my favorite museum i’ve ever been to

[wary shell]

The photo with the empty boxes on the side too

[cosmic jasper]

it has one of only 2 complete collections of olympic torches in the world

[wary shell]

Is it in Colorado Springs or what

[last pulsar]

I wish we had something like that here

[cosmic jasper]

yep!

[wary shell]

Of course

[cosmic jasper]

my friend lived in denver so i went and spent a week and a half with her last fall

[wary shell]

I have family I don’t wanna see in Colorado Springs I’ll have to be sneaky

[cosmic jasper]

i have a million and a half pictures from this museum

it was very cool and interactive

[quaint zealot]

watching these guys fall is stressing me out so much

[cosmic jasper]

worth the $20 admission fee if you can ever go

[wary shell]

https://maps.app.goo.gl/Kpa6xFD8FfXrCaSj8?g_st=ic I saved it to my dream list so I don’t forget

[last pulsar]

Ouch! That looked painful

[quaint zealot]

i'm shivering my timbers on their behalves

[last pulsar]

Interesting that the male skateboarders are so much older than the female ones.

[wary shell]

Women’s skateboarding just was created in this sense.

[last pulsar]

They did say yesterday that female skateboarding is still very new

[limber lotus]

Yes, it’s very much a baby sport

[last pulsar]

In both senses 😂

[limber lotus]

Only the last 10 years or so

[sharp skiff]

Wow, the gb skater is 51 years old what a contrast to the literal children from the women’s yesterday

[wary shell]

There is no one above the 11 year olds.

[wary shell]

Yeah I saw him and the group of teenagers

[quaint zealot]

this australian kid is 17 though

[wary shell]

The US men are college age

Which tracks

[last pulsar]

Because I was thinking yesterday surely being a bit older would be an advantage because you can develop more muscle strength

[sharp skiff]

It makes me sad women’s skateboarding is so young in comparison. I’m not sure why but I’m sure it has something to do with the patriarchy

[quaint zealot]

i think there's a lot to be happy about that the girls are finally carving a path for themselves, like to me it makes it more impressive that they've made a space in a sport that feels a bit like a "boy's club"

if that makes any sense

[last pulsar]

“Hampus Winberg” what a fantastic name

[quaint zealot]

like yeah it's sad in a sense but i'm glad it's happening now

[scarlet cedar]

the oldest and youngest gb athletes are him and sky brown in the skateboarding 😂

[last pulsar]

And I’m sure it being in the Olympics is a massive part of that

[quaint zealot]

duality🫡

[sharp skiff]

Like I’m sure glad these girlies are getting to carve their path, but I think about all the women who came before them who didn’t get the chance too. And im sure there are many that we wont ever get to see or know who made it possible for those girls to be there

[sharp skiff]

That’s awesome

[last pulsar]

I think the same about female racing drivers. Those who came too soon for F1 academy

Are there any sports in the Olympics that are mixed? Or are they all separate? Equestrian sports are mixed right? I’m just thinking about if motorsport was in the Olympics

[limber lotus]

They do mixed events

So mixed relays usually

[quaint zealot]

i mean isn't there a mixed relay in track

[limber lotus]

And mixed tennis maybe?

[quaint zealot]

oop

[limber lotus]

And swimming, and triathlon!

[scarlet cedar]

they do mixed sailing too

[last pulsar]

I don’t mean “mixed relay” because they also have separate men’s and women’s events don’t they. I mean sports that have no differentiation between genders

[wary shell]

Equestrian is not gendered. Might be the only one truly.

[limber lotus]

Equestrian is the only one I can think of like that

[quaint zealot]

yeah i think even archery and shooting are gendered, which

??

[scarlet cedar]

the multihull sailing is only mixed, they don’t also have separate

but only in that one type of sailing

[wary shell]

Women beat the men and they told the church (ioc)

[oak geyser]

Shooting used to be but the women were winning everything so they split it

[quaint zealot]

i was gonna say i think the women are better overall

and we can't have women beating men now can we🙄

[last pulsar]

Nothing more fragile in the world than a man’s ego after he gets beaten by a woman

[oak geyser]

Archery I do get because of the power needed to pull back on the bow

[wary shell]

https://x.com/olympicscontext/status/1821047719286166010?s=46&t=hQzDunEJ-24RYKJr84ixkw this ceremony cured me for a couple minutes

NO CONTEXT OLYMPICS (@OlympicsContext) on X

Chinese gymnast Zhou Yaqin reaction to the Italian gymnast podium celebrations

Twitter · Aug 7, 2024, 4:56 AM

[silk zephyr]

The Paralympics was created near me!!

[raw vapor]

This reminded me so much of Osha trying to figure out how to cat alongside her big sisters

[sleek lion]

She must be protected at all costs

[silk zephyr]

Oh you just had to bring up the gorgeous new kitty (do it more I love her)

[raw vapor]

More photos incoming

[silk zephyr]

I can’t really have pets and it kills me so you are keeping me sane rn

https://x.com/scottygb/status/1821154683064562078?s=46&t=knwfHQnFKAGJQWQFBwUKnQ

Scott Bryan (@scottygb) on X

In the BBC office there’s a medal tally highlighting the GB wins, but as there’s a French crew assisting the BBC they have also done it for the French team as well.

Twitter · Aug 7, 2024, 12:01 PM

They’ve put all the faces on the medals 🥹

[last pulsar]

The mascot is riding a horse!! 🥹

Omg and it’s rowing and swimming!

Sorry I’m kinda obsessed with it

[wary shell]

https://x.com/nbcolympics/status/1821203368326393891?s=46&t=hQzDunEJ-24RYKJr84ixkwc I think Evan is crying everyone else held it together

NBC Olympics & Paralympics (@NBCOlympics) on X

After two and a half years, Team USA receives their gold medals from the 2022 Winter Olympic figure skating team event. 🥇

📺 USA Network & Peacock

Twitter · Aug 7, 2024, 3:14 PM

[silk zephyr]

All the gold medals have the mascots doing the sport they got the medal for 🥹

[cosmic jasper]

goodness i’m so happy for them

[limber lotus]

ooop the cycling stewards not ringing the bell right

naughty

twice

[wintry turtle]

What in the alpine is this segregation

[silk zephyr]

Did you read the caption

[wary shell]

I’m dying at the quote tweets to what NBC Olympics just posted

The people are confused. They do not know the lore.

https://x.com/nbcolympics/status/1821210573431873619?s=46&t=hQzDunEJ-24RYKJr84ixkw

NBC Olympics & Paralympics (@NBCOlympics) on X

The wait is over.

Team USA are 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic figure skating team champions!

Twitter · Aug 7, 2024, 3:43 PM

[limber lotus]

i love the cycling sprints cos it's like peeking over their shoulders like kids checking if you think they've fallen asleep

[wary shell]

I can’t believe I’m at work and missing event more events

I think I need to go to cycling indoor at LA games

[limber lotus]

they're honsetly SO good

this is last 16

finals are tomorrow i think

[wary shell]

https://x.com/midorimoonlight/status/1821205251824709641?s=46&t=hQzDunEJ-24RYKJr84ixkw

chloé 🌙 (@midorimoonlight) on X

they waited two years and a half to finally become olympic silver medalists, worked so hard to perform on the olympic stage, trained every day of the year, through tears and frustration. this is priceless. congratulations.

Twitter · Aug 7, 2024, 3:22 PM

Good job

Love that shot

[sharp skiff]

Man the Brazilian skaters are so fucking good

[small phoenix]

They have such a strong skate culture there.

The crowd at the skate events is so hyped. I saw one reporter say there’s definitely tons of weed smoking going on lmao.

[sharp skiff]

That’s awesome lol

[oak geyser]

Palmer defends his gold!

[small phoenix]

The name Keegan just sounds like a guy that is good at skateboarding

[silk zephyr]

An Australian has been arrested

[oak geyser]

yeah yeah for trying to buy coke

[silk zephyr]

Ah i missed the discussion

Just saw his statement after being released

But like why would you do that in the 9th

[oak geyser]

he’s a dumbass

[sharp skiff]

lol the muffin man swam in the seine today and his TikTok’s about it are gold

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTNgDS8Mu/

[oak geyser]

they should dangle a muffin at the end to make him swim faster

[silk zephyr]

https://x.com/poorlycatdraw/status/1821191082786410671?s=46&t=knwfHQnFKAGJQWQFBwUKnQ

poorly drawn cats (@poorlycatdraw) on X

you enjoyed the cat olympics series? then you should definitely give a look at this ebook i made!

this fantastic file includes a customizable medal board for your cats and all the illustrations from the cat olympics

the file costs $1.99, but you can also purchase it for the

Twitter · Aug 7, 2024, 2:26 PM

[sharp skiff]

I learned this Olympics that the hottest men play volleyball

[limber lotus]

His seat broke!!!

Nightmare

[scarlet cedar]

malfunction of equipment, they should be allowed a redo 😂

[limber lotus]

They held SO well tho

It was so close until then

[sharp skiff]

Hahah Omg watching a medal ceremony and the dignitary just dropped the medal

[scarlet cedar]

oh he just fell off, it didn’t break

[limber lotus]

He did so well not to crash into everyone else

[limber lotus]

Yeah, shows how tight it is

His knees look so funny 🤣

[scarlet cedar]

he did!! can’t believe he carried on going

[limber lotus]

Silver is still so good!!

[sharp skiff]

Has Armand gotten his medal yet?

[limber lotus]

Team GB 1,000th medal!

[oak geyser]

Aus equals our gold record

[limber lotus]

https://www.instagram.com/p/C-NERIkIGki/?igsh=OXJzcnNkd2lzaG4z

thearchbishopofbanterbury

This thread has me in bits 😭 swipe 👉

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Still eternally amused by these

[sharp skiff]

Fucking love this trend, it’s be all over my fyp. Did you see the one suni Lee posted?

[limber lotus]

yes!!!! hilarious from her

[limber lotus]

this british cyclist is giving nick grimshaw energy

[wary shell]

I opened up Twitter and saw this I am baffled I am bamboozled did Kristen Faulkner just pull off double gold in cycling https://x.com/olympics/status/1821240467092042221?s=46&t=hQzDunEJ-24RYKJr84ixkw

The Olympic Games (@Olympics) on X

It’s #gold for the USA! 🇺🇸

First place in cycling track women's team pursuit! 🚴

This is the USA's first-ever gold medal in this event!

@TeamUSA | @UCI_Track | #Cyclingtrack | #Paris2024 | #Samsung | #TogetherforTomorrow

Twitter · Aug 7, 2024, 5:42 PM

[scarlet cedar]

always a bit baffled by the crossover in track and road cycling

but not as much as i am by the british guy that won gold in the mountain biking then did the road race

i guess a bike’s a bike 😂

[sharp skiff]

Lots of first ever or first in 50+ years for the US this year, it’s very fun

[wary shell]

Kristen’s main event was this. She was a reserve for road team bc the other person pulled out for triathlon.

[wary shell]

Men’s swim team failed but everyone else is like first medal in 60 years energy. What’s next handball? Badminton. Jesus.

[sharp skiff]

Wow how katie moon just sneaks herself over the bar in her pole jumps is crazy work

[last pulsar]

There are SO MANY vt’s on the bbc, and most of them I’ve seen a dozen times by now, show me actual sport!

[limber lotus]

that's why i've been watching on eurosport (discovery+)

because you actually have back-to-back sports

bbc do a good job to swtich between the big events and i like the team, they just yap too much and too many VTs 😂

[last pulsar]

Yeh I watch because they have better commentators, but it’s getting annoying.

[limber lotus]

i bet!! at least they can't still show kerr/ingebrigtsen

i think i saw that about 5 times haha

[last pulsar]

I saw the Keely one at least 5 times too

[limber lotus]

canadian pole vaulter's lips stick slays

[scarlet cedar]

they should really put the women’s pole vault before the men’s

[limber lotus]

all the false starts!

[sharp skiff]

Why?

[scarlet cedar]

because when you see the difference in how far up the bar is, i think it kinda diminishes how good the women are doing, imo

i think with it just being the day after the insanity of last night

[sharp skiff]

I guess I see that, you could say that about any event though

[scarlet cedar]

i think this is the event you can see it so clearly though

because of how far from the top of the sticks the bar is

mondo’s bar was right at the very top

it’s not as noticeable in say a jumping or throwing event, unless they were right next to each other

if that makes sense

[limber lotus]

yeah i agree - a whole metre plus difference

when yu think mondo did 6.25 last night

[last pulsar]

Nervous for this 400m final!

[limber lotus]

come on matthew!

omg

so close!

[last pulsar]

☹️

[scarlet cedar]

americans don’t read this:

god americans are awful, aren’t they

[last pulsar]

He’s really upset 😞

[limber lotus]

bless him

i think he had no idea the guy was there

sad 😦

[sharp skiff]

lol oh no I missed the 400 what’d we do now? Celebrate to hard?

[wary shell]

Did we invade for oil again

🤩

Gotta stick with the classics

[limber lotus]

OH MY GOD

the medics in the background

shittttt he hit his head

[wary shell]

Noooo

[limber lotus]

landed badly, kncked himself out probably

yikes it looks even worse on a replay

[sharp skiff]

Cute, a bunch of American swimmers are at the USA Women’s bb game

Loving seeing athletes supporting athletes

[sharp skiff]

The best part about USA women’s bb is I’m usually rooting against most of these players when watching the WNBA, but when they play for the country I get to enjoy their talents and it’s very satisfying

[wary shell]

Amused by this. It reads like criminal code.

Sports jail smh

[sharp skiff]

lol sports jail

Oh slay the us won silver in artistic swimming today

I love the half above the pool half below the view in artistic swimming. On top it looks so smooth and elegant but underneath you can see how hard their legs are working. Like swans

How they lift the people up too while also treading water is crazy

I’d surely drown

[sharp skiff]

I’ll never get over how crazy speed climbing is

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTNgm7Cfh/

True superhuman type shit

[sharp skiff]

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTNguyWff/

[oak geyser]

lmao I’m scrolling insta and seeing all the Australian Olympic/sport accounts post about Keegan Palmer and Lando’s been there already

and not even a swimming day

[sharp skiff]

Do y’all think there’s a reason so many of the track athletes where orange shoes? I feel like that can’t just be a coincidence

[wary shell]

Nike started really brash colors after the 2012 Olympics adidas exclusive

The loop hole was sponsoring individual athletes so they have all this adidas but bright orange Nike shoes

Lime green, traffic cone orange shoes for Nike athletes.

[sharp skiff]

Ooooooo interesting

See I knew there was something more behind it

I was wondering if the bright colors make it easier for them to see their feet like when they watch tape, but your answer makes more sense

[wary shell]

Money money

[sharp skiff]

Okay I finally got to watch the men’s 400 wow what a fucking finish. Quincy hall with the comeback was crazy, that was a man possessed

Sorry to that British man

Didn’t see awful behavior from the Americans but maybe they edited out

The men’s steeplechase was also fucking crazy!! That American came out of nowhere for silver

[wary shell]

I was worried about the man who was on the ground knocked out

[sharp skiff]

I know! I hope he’s okay!!

[wary shell]

They took him to the hospital but he came to

[sharp skiff]

Oh good, they just shared an update on the broadcast he’s doing okay too

He’s was like out cold, very scary

Wow I just finally caught the artistic swimming performance from the US women that was incredible!

Such beautiful artistry and story telling

[wary shell]

https://www.ddinstagram.com/p/C-Y8zjQACAR/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA

Michael is gonna ground them all.

[oak geyser]

Needed to be more girt

[oak geyser]

https://www.instagram.com/p/C-YHWe7PC9J/?igsh=MTZlejgza3c1M20xMQ==

olympics

It’s a back-to-back win for Australia’s Keegan Palmer! 🥇 🔁

The defending champ’s win means a clean sweep for Australia in the skateboarding park finals at #Paris2024 🇦🇺

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comments section though, like the Argentinians and Brazilians infiltrating everywhere but fewer flags

the post has nothing to do with you!

(Sebastian Montoya what are you doing here)

[errant basin]

i get why they are mad

like i am super mad too

but SIGH

indians never beating the badly behaved on the internet allegations

[oak geyser]

yeah but don’t spam someone else’s achievements to make that point, it’s sad for Keegan and everyone else it happens to (it’s all over Nina Kennedy’s too)

[limber lotus]

Classic kriti, lbr 😉

[oak geyser]

mind you the Americans haven’t been much better on the Australian Olympic Team posts, and those were actually targeted

[silk zephyr]

Moooorning

[oak geyser]

anyway the Dutch won the E Coli River Swim so who’s ready for the Dutch national anthem again

[quaint zealot]

this is everyone's reminder from me being annoying to watch the climbing combined event 🤓😁

[oak geyser]

not being broadcast here

[quaint zealot]

you can watch online in australia

for free

seeing as i am there now

or you can in melbourne at least

[cosmic jasper]

michael’s about to take over the team

[limber lotus]

i am sat 🫡

[last pulsar]

When you say combined, is it like a relay? Or a team event?

I’m watching the climbing right, but so far it’s only the women.

[quaint zealot]

it's two events combined

[last pulsar]

Or is it combined like different types of climbing?

[quaint zealot]

two days ago the women bouldered, today they do lead

[oak geyser]

cba getting 9now

[last pulsar]

Ahhhh okay

[quaint zealot]

same for the men but yesterday and three days ago

there's also speed but it's separate

[last pulsar]

I’m obsessed with this Japanese climbers beautiful hair

[oak geyser]

Besides, family friend is the coach of our relay team so I had to watch that

[quaint zealot]

women's finals were yesterday, men today

[quaint zealot]

i love miho! she's great

[quaint zealot]

one of your countrywomen made finals just now 😅

[oak geyser]

Yeah I’m getting updates from my footy group chat

but like, someone I know personally > random person

If I were Côte d’Ivoire I’d be very annoyed rn because it seems like they took exactly the same time to exchange batons as the US team, yet they’re the only ones DQd

[oak geyser]

Oof the top 7 in heat 1 all faster than everyone in heat 2

so the 6th and 7th fastest teams don’t make the final 👍

[quaint zealot]

which relay was this

[oak geyser]

Men’s 4x100

[quaint zealot]

SAM WATSON AHHHHHHHHH

oh my god

another wr

[silk zephyr]

https://x.com/zyohnnymac/status/1821458852941910485?s=46&t=knwfHQnFKAGJQWQFBwUKnQ

John McNamara (@zyohnnymac) on X

I do think we should get more credit for hosting France’s annual riots while they have the Olympics. Proper Entente cordiale

Twitter · Aug 8, 2024, 8:10 AM

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homosexual court jester (@sweatpantspapi) on X

genuinely obsessed with this olympic queenie lifting in full eye glam and hoops

Twitter · Aug 7, 2024, 6:43 PM

[oak geyser]

Australia with the best scientific solution to the bacteria river

“By the time Johnson reached media she’d already chugged a can of coke, a tactic adopted by the Aussie team to immediately kill any potential bacteria ingested from the Seine.”

[wary shell]

You have to try something

[wary shell]

Maybe he needs to. Step 1: be built like a fish

[last pulsar]

I always find it interesting how generally the very best athletes don’t make the very best coaches, because it always comes so naturally to them they don’t know how to explain it to others. Obvs there are exceptions, but not many.

[sharp skiff]

yeah, also i dont really agree with michael. We still had the most swimming medals out of all countries

[wary shell]

He has no chill he can never chill

He’s got one speed

[sharp skiff]

and the women's swimmers slayed as per usual, the men didn't and maybe that's what hes referring to?

[wary shell]

He got put in the pool to chill because he was even worse outside of it

[cosmic jasper]

he literally said he was disappointed in the men

in the post

[wary shell]

He’s not mad he’s disappointed

You need 23 golds like him

What like it’s hard

[sharp skiff]

okay, in the audio clip i heard, which is what that post is from, he did not make that distinction

[cosmic jasper]

we were all talking about the post from above and it says men’s swimmers

you can’t critique the women at all

[sharp skiff]

okay, sorry i missed that?

[cosmic jasper]

they were flawless pretty much

but also yeah is he right? wrong? idk i’m not an expert

[sharp skiff]

he was the poster child for "sports helps people with ADHD", so that does track

[lone dove]

😂 https://www.vxtiktok.com/t/ZPRocMkjN/

[sharp skiff]

ha! omg this is incredible

[sharp skiff]

https://tenor.com/view/not-mad-zac-efron-gif-10091500

[lone dove]

I love that the Mexican team kit still refers back to the iconic graphic design of the Mexico City 1968 Games

[wary shell]

The blueprint.

My mom talks about being like 9 years old living in Mexico and driving through Mexico City during the Olympics.

[quaint zealot]

lance wyman also designed the dc metro map🤓

fun fact

[sharp skiff]

this brazil/usa volleyball game is intense!

[lone dove]

Switzerland knocked us out in beach volleyball so I need these ladies to bring it ok 🇺🇸

[quaint zealot]

i fell asleep watching the men play poland last night😭

[sharp skiff]

That was such a hard fought game for the men, sad they lost it, but they put forth such a good game

[wary shell]

I had to dig in peacock to find the rhythmic gymnastics feed. It’s got its own section away from artistic and there’s no highlights nothing. Bare bones.

[lone dove]

Hi Rebecca Andrade watching this volleyball match

[wary shell]

He’s been calling swimming since 1992. I don’t know anyone else.

[sharp skiff]

is he the swimming expert who screams whenever the us does something or the other guy?

[wary shell]

Wrong screen shot lol

[wary shell]

He’s the main guy

[sharp skiff]

hell be missed, but love that for him. Do we know if he have a son like ian eagle who sounds just like him and can take over?

[wary shell]

I think there’s several commentators holding out for the home games so it’s not just athletes

The US Libero is so much shorter that when the camera is on her teammates you just see her forehead.

lol she’s only short by comparison

[silk zephyr]

I’ve missed all the rhythmic gymnastics and I have a migraine kill me

[wary shell]

Türkiye or Italy is gonna get eaten by either of these teams I fear.

https://vxtwitter.com/teamusa/status/1821509364613632385?s=46&t=hQzDunEJ-24RYKJr84ixkw

Oh she started crying so I started crying

They had her distance twin tell her.

[sharp skiff]

Wow, the mens bb german/france game is close AF

[wary shell]

https://x.com/emmabaccellieri/status/1821532457088299021?s=46&t=hQzDunEJ-24RYKJr84ixkw

Emma Baccellieri (@emmabaccellieri) on X

Just heard the phrase “randomly assigned a horse” in the modern pentathlon explainer on Gold Zone. What a great way to start the day. Randomly assigned a horse.

Twitter · Aug 8, 2024, 1:02 PM

I’ll get more into the sport once the horse element is retired.

[sharp skiff]

i didnt even know there was a horse element

[raw vapor]

Same

[sharp skiff]

Nikki Hiltz, the trans/non binary icon, is running in the semi final of the 1500 rn! I hope we get to see them in the final

the ethipoian that was silver in the 5000 then dq'd, than not dq'd, then given a yellow card is also running this, leading the race rn

[last pulsar]

There’s a long jumper with the surname Koala! 🐨

They’re not Australian sadly

[sharp skiff]

here we go, mens 200 lining up rn

[wary shell]

Oh boy

He’s jumping around

He’s bouncing

His mom is like oh that’s my son

[sharp skiff]

https://tenor.com/view/pedro-pascal-snl-pedro-concerned-mother-pedro-granny-pedro-gif-5732193874600823621

come on noah, shut these haters up

HE COULDNT DO IT!

the runner from Botswana's just like yeah i did that

[wary shell]

He’s on the ground now gotta rest

[sharp skiff]

Kung-fu Kenny ahead of him as well, i bet that feels good for him considering the amount of shit noah chatted to him

someone get that man his inhaler please!

[wary shell]

I switched to women’s long jump

[sharp skiff]

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-anxious-nervous-bite-nails-gif-15423608

womens water polo in a shoot out with AUS rn

[last pulsar]

Noah Lyles is running with Covid…

https://tenor.com/view/black-girl-scream-screaming-blackgirl-gif-22775665

[sharp skiff]

YEP THAT TRACKS

[wary shell]

https://tenor.com/view/i-give-up-steve-harvey-little-big-shots-i-quit-im-done-with-this-gif-14133837

[last pulsar]

Just SO fucking selfish.

And the guy has asthma ffs

[sharp skiff]

i just like cant get over the zero regulations at all

i mean i can, but also like just absolutely sucks

your going to have people living communaly with ZERO MITIGATION EFFORTS??

how did you think this was going to go?

and then to just let people continue particpating if their ill???? HUH?

Not only probably not good for him to run while having covid, but also he now just gets to expose everyone around him to it??

[wary shell]

Yeah this helps 🤪

[last pulsar]

Oh NOW he’s wearing a mask

Honestly fuck him

[sharp skiff]

definitely helping!

[wary shell]

This was before

He was masking the whole time in the village and still got it

Asthma makes you suspectible unfortunately

I had something that wasn’t showing up as Covid but I am over it now mentally

This summer is the worst

Did they make no rules

[sharp skiff]

really sucks for him, and im sure there are many athletes who have it but arent telling anyone or dont know they have it and still participating. Its the planners fault for not placing any restrictions

like not even regular testing? or encourage masking?

[last pulsar]

Okay, I guess that’s slightly? better

[last pulsar]

People cannot accept that the pre-Covid world is never coming back. They’d rather bury their heads in the sand than accept they have to change things, even if it means people die.

[lone dove]

https://tenor.com/view/usa-uswnt-olympics-gif-3808023074795752533

[wary shell]

Which sport

[lone dove]

took me way too long to figure out how to get this to be available from the Discord gif search but it's there now

[wary shell]

I’m hyper focused on long jump

[sharp skiff]

Hell yeah

[sharp skiff]

How’s Tara doing?

[wary shell]

First

[sharp skiff]

Period! I adore her and her husband

[wary shell]

I’m now spending lunch outside in my gravity chair from Costco

[sharp skiff]

They are such cuties

[wary shell]

I’ve seen her and didn’t realize they were track and field lol

I was like wait a min she looks familiar I’ve seen her on TikTok

Oh no the defending gold medalist

She couldn’t get jump off

Now Tara is crying before she even jumps.

[last pulsar]

https://x.com/_shamgod/status/1821626621939585366?s=46

Comorienne 🇰🇲 (@_ShamGod) on X

Athletes gonna bring back COVID, bedbugs, and e coli infections to their home countries OMG

Twitter · Aug 8, 2024, 7:16 PM

[lone dove]

Tara making a sand angel I love it

[wary shell]

Not the French bed bug reminder

[last pulsar]

Honestly bed bugs are the least of it, I’d settle for bed bugs if I could avoid the other two 😭

[silk zephyr]

It’s so cruel to the horse

[wary shell]

Yeah that’s my problem with it. The other events it’s their horse, they train, they take care of them they have a relationship but who is this random ass person hitting me

[silk zephyr]

I thought they were changing it for this Olympics but I’m actively not watching the pentathlon now

[wary shell]

They are for LA

[last pulsar]

In Tokyo a pentathlete got disqualified for punching the horse she had been assigned after it didn’t behave as she wished.

[wary shell]

Change didn’t occur this time.

Tara got her cowboy hat.

[silk zephyr]

Ugh I thought it was for Paris not LA 😭

[wary shell]

Danny Ric quiet since she appeared.

[silk zephyr]

good

[lone dove]

wow, Femke Bol was nowhere as close as anyone thought she would be

[silk zephyr]

I thought obstacle course racing that was taking over was gonna be like a kids obstacle course but it’s like a tough mudder or something

[wary shell]

I was watching the wrong feed lol I got to watch Tara watch Sydney

Which may be better

I could see it really small on the screen

[lone dove]

omg the tiara

[wary shell]

Her and the hurdles

She takes one fewer stride between the hurdles than the others.

When she takes the same amount as the average she looks uncomfortable .

[wary shell]

Me: wear it wear it

[lone dove]

there we go

[wary shell]

Tara was vibrating my camera couldn’t handle it.

I bet I could throw those javelins 1 meter.

Then fall down.

[lone dove]

👑 of 400m hurdles 🇺🇸

[wary shell]

https://x.com/olympics/status/1821630115664777719?s=46&t=hQzDunEJ-24RYKJr84ixkw glad they got good angles of sand angels

The Olympic Games (@Olympics) on X

Never change, Tara. 🇺🇸🥇

Twitter · Aug 8, 2024, 7:30 PM

[sharp skiff]

I have had bed bugs twice before and honestly hold rather have E. coli and covid over it lol. Bed bugs have a deeply psychological impact that I didn’t experience with covid. Thankfully have never had E. coli so I can’t comment on that lol

[sharp skiff]

SHES AN ICON, SHES A LEGEND, SHE IS THE MOMENT

[wary shell]

https://x.com/olympics/status/1821618379230208458?s=46&t=hQzDunEJ-24RYKJr84ixkw we love a first medal moment

The Olympic Games (@Olympics) on X

Botswana's first EVER Olympic gold, and it's in the men's 200m. 🥹🇧🇼

Twitter · Aug 8, 2024, 6:44 PM

[sharp skiff]

I’m obsessed with this picture

rewatching sydney and taras moments now cause i actually had to go do work while they were live

Wow that was incredible

The gap between her and everyone else????

Unreal!!!

[small phoenix]

Sydney is so chill and humble

[sharp skiff]

She doesn’t even look like she just ran that afterwards lol

[small phoenix]

She’s better than me because if I was that talented I would be insufferable lmao

[sharp skiff]

She didn’t even looked like she was running while she was running

Just INSANE

Man the baddest bitches I have ever seen run track. Every single one of these athletes have a lethal face card

[small phoenix]

This Olympics taught me that track is for sexy people

[wary shell]

Holloway got a flag on a stick that’s a new one

He’s talking into his shoe now

So many questions

[sharp skiff]

And I just caught up to Holloways race, just unreal!!

Hahah omg his gestures to the camera, very funny

hahah i love him talking to the shoe, love an athlete with personality

[wary shell]

Now that’s over it’s time for me to go back to work

[sharp skiff]

boooooooo

serbia giving the mens usa team a hard time right now, did not see that coming

[wary shell]

https://x.com/dexerto/status/1821243258934104090?s=46&t=hQzDunEJ-24RYKJr84ixkw

Dexerto (@Dexerto) on X

The Philippines' first Olympic gold medalist at Paris, Carlos Yulo, will receive the following for winning:

1. A lifetime of free colonoscopies at 45 years old
2. A furnished condo
3. A house
4. Over $200k in cash
5. A iPhone 16
6. Free cookies for life from a local bakery

Twitter · Aug 7, 2024, 5:53 PM

The list keeps getting larger and more random.

They started the blueprint when that woman won weightlifting in Tokyo.

But he did win two gold so they gotta go above and beyond.

[sharp skiff]

Damn, kind of looking like Noah Lyle’s was right, world champions of what?

US Mens BB behind 67-76

[lone dove]

once again our men are bringing shame

they might pull it out though still

78-73, just over 7 mins left

[sharp skiff]

I keep waiting for them to heat it up and start taking over but that’s like only just started happening and there’s 7 min left in the 4th

It’s going to be close

[wary shell]

https://x.com/mikaelashiffrin/status/1821644013604368846?s=46&t=hQzDunEJ-24RYKJr84ixkw lol didn’t realize it was Mikaela. Winter athletes showing up and ruining the context.

Mikaela Shiffrin (@MikaelaShiffrin) on X

Like I said…QUEEN. Literally. 👑

Twitter · Aug 8, 2024, 8:25 PM

[sharp skiff]

Omg obsessed

EMBIID SHUTING DOWN THE HATERS

It’s tied thank god

[wary shell]

https://tenor.com/view/baby-scared-shocked-shocked-baby-gif-12168176

Me seeing winter Olympian’s at the summer games

[sharp skiff]

Omg this men’s bb game is unreal

https://tenor.com/view/kermit-kermit-the-frog-nervous-nail-biting-anxious-gif-17874247

[lone dove]

oh they finally decided to just do the thing

[sharp skiff]

Took em long enough!!!

They finally decided the betting spread was good enough

Omg

Why is the last minutes of a bb game the longest minutes in all of sports?

KD!!!!!!

Wowowowowowowowowow

That was electric

Just wanted to make sure we were all paying attention

[limber lotus]

Imagine if your name was Philip Pines

That jacket would be perfect

[wary shell]

We could find one

https://x.com/artbutsports/status/1821510883584983096?s=46&t=hQzDunEJ-24RYKJr84ixkw

ArtButMakeItSports (@ArtButSports) on X

Mona Lisa, by Leonardo da Vinci, 1503-06

Twitter · Aug 8, 2024, 11:36 AM

😭

[wary shell]

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTNp29VNq/

Calling your husband a tattle tale snitch lmao

[wary shell]

https://x.com/nbcolympics/status/1821686099611414933?s=46&t=hQzDunEJ-24RYKJr84ixkw not sleeping and not being able to breathe seem to be non starters for even the 200

NBC Olympics & Paralympics (@NBCOlympics) on X

Noah Lyles has announced that he will not be competing for the remainder of the #ParisOlympics.

Twitter · Aug 8, 2024, 11:13 PM

[static tinsel]

It does feel a little too late for that noah. Like on top of it already being super dangerous for him to compete especially since he already has asthma, but I literally cannot begin to wrap my head around the people who could potentially get sick

[wary shell]

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTNprwbN5/

[sharp skiff]

This is crazy

https://www.instagram.com/p/C-TWDpAuKLA/?igsh=emJiN2h1YnZlZGZu

flotrack

This progression of the men’s pole vault world record over the past 30 years is INSANE! 😨

Mondo Duplantis has broken the world record NINE TIMES now since 2020.

📸: Getty

#paris2024

Likes

175523

Instagram

[wary shell]

https://www.nbcolympics.com/news/olympic-hurdler-lashinda-demus-receive-2012-gold-medal-eiffel-tower-ceremony

Can’t wait for the 2012 London games gold medal graphic to keep up with the theme

[wary shell]

His girlfriend said he was up all night coughing

[static tinsel]

Isn’t his girlfriend an athlete as well? For Jamaica ?

[wary shell]

Yes

[wary shell]

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTNpQ4W2s/

He was too drunk after and they make them leave by 48 hours so he has no box

[last pulsar]

Discovery+ isn’t working on my tv 😑 have to watch it on my iPad

[limber lotus]

@quaint zealot this climbing is so hype

I love it

[quaint zealot]

i am stressing

[scarlet cedar]

it’s so so so fun

i’ve enjoyed it so much

[sharp skiff]

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTNpV4TJE/

Omg they are the cutest ever

[limber lotus]

Cmon baby Toby!!!!!!

[scarlet cedar]

toby! toby! toby!

[limber lotus]

I’m stressing

[scarlet cedar]

yay

[limber lotus]

Good job baby Toby!

As if they’re both 17 eww

aaaaaaaahhhhh!!!

OMG!!!!!

TOBBYYYYY

[quaint zealot]

jakob and third

match made in heaven

[scarlet cedar]

AHHHHHH

that was so cute when he didn’t know 🥹🥹

[quaint zealot]

i'm stressing so hard for brooke tmr

https://tenor.com/view/scared-dog-shivering-dog-dog-shaking-meme-gif-26566244

how is volleyball not for two hours

how will i cope

[silk zephyr]

https://x.com/danielhussey2/status/1821851544532164742?s=46&t=knwfHQnFKAGJQWQFBwUKnQ

Daniel Hussey (@DanielHussey2) on X

“I’m never doing it again…”

Daniel Wiffen absolutely delighted he finished the 10km marathon swim in the Seine and announces his retirement from ‘open water’ ☘️

Twitter · Aug 9, 2024, 10:10 AM

[silk zephyr]

Anyone gonna watch the breaking today

[lone dove]

if I can during work, I'm pretty excited to see what it's like! I only know breakdancing from bits and pieces in pop culture

it's fun that it's "b-boys" and "b-girls" instead of "men's" and "women's"

I assume they will all in fact be young enough for those monikers as well 💀

[silk zephyr]

Yeah I’m not gonna be able to watch until the later rounds once I get home from work

[wary shell]

I’m confused. They have mononyms.

[silk zephyr]

I think they’re using their stage names

Yeah her real name is Racheal Gunn

The male for Australia is called J-Attack

[lone dove]

I have loved all the people clapping back at JK & co over the Imane Khalif drama showing the diversity that shows the transphobes' lie of "it's just biology!" - here's a cis woman with XY chromosomes https://www.ddinstagram.com/reel/C-abJFBiEg5/

[sharp skiff]

I’m traveling today so I can’t watch any of the events live 😭😭😭

[wary shell]

https://vxtwitter.com/laurindycar/status/1821880251619721529?s=46&t=hQzDunEJ-24RYKJr84ixkw

[sharp skiff]

Speaking of logos

[lone dove]

it's a neat idea but fatally flawed - putting "TOKYO" down in the empty corner is an inadequate attempt to balance it IMO (not to turn this too far into design chat and not Olympics chat)

[wary shell]

LA decided to make 32 of theirs

https://admin.itsnicethat.com/images/fZsvnZIVgiXBs42goRz9S1aKjrg=/192093/format-webp|width-2880/la2028_olympics_paralympics_logo_graphic_design_itsnicethat_1.jpg

[silk zephyr]

All of them ugly

[wary shell]

We’ve been seeing one or two consistently but there’s so much more.

They could have done so much better.

[lone dove]

watching the breaking and it occurs to me that I would have much preferred if the unique addition for the LA games was not flag football but roller skate dancing like they do in Venice Beach

I watched a documentary about that and the moves they do are jaw dropping

[oak geyser]

If LA can add flag football we should be able to add Australian football

And yes it’s played overseas, lots of Irish players in the league as well as decent Sudanese rep

[wary shell]

Do it

Send an email

[oak geyser]

unfortunately it’s in Brisbane which is rugby territory so unlikely

[wary shell]

We have Aussie rules players in the NFL. Maybe some of the NFL players could go the other way.

[oak geyser]

And we’re focusing on netball

They’d have to learn how to be tackled without pads or helmets

[wary shell]

Yeah

We have some going to rugby so it’s happening

[oak geyser]

Honestly your basketball players would be more at pace and height

But the size of the field could be an issue for them

There is one American in the afl

[scarlet cedar]

they can do both

LA are adding 2 new sports

[oak geyser]

He’s the tall one

[oak geyser]

Brisbane are proposing bringing baseball and softball back, keeping cricket, adding netball, adding rugby league and wheelchair rugby, adding surf lifesaving, and adding frisbee

[lone dove]

Like tell me this wouldn't be a great addition to the Olympics https://www.vxtiktok.com/t/ZPRowsbtN/

You could have couples too (let them be same sex and do that for figure skating too)

[scarlet cedar]

baseball/softball is back for 2028, so would make sense to keep it! here for netball and RL

wtf is surf lifesaving

frisbee is fun

[oak geyser]

basically competitive lifeguarding- they race to perform the saves

part practice and part showing off for the individual surf lifesaving clubs

[scarlet cedar]

interesting

[oak geyser]

Stuff like paddling out to a buoy and coming back in relays

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifesaving_(sport)

[scarlet cedar]

that feels very much not a sport to me but i won’t get into that

it does feel very australian 😭

[errant basin]

Sorry are they just going to bring people whose job is to be the “saved” person

Do they count as athletes

I have so many questions

[scarlet cedar]

i want to be saved

[lone dove]

being pulled out of the water by a gorgeous lifeguard but not actually being in mortal danger is honestly the dream

[last pulsar]

It must be awful to have your sport removed from the Olympics, especially if you win gold, you don’t get a chance to defend it!

[silk zephyr]

Wheelchair rugby is in the Paralympics

[oak geyser]

Rugby league

[silk zephyr]

It’s better then, you’re the Olympic champion for all time

[oak geyser]

they’re different

[silk zephyr]

“Adding rugby league and wheelchair rugby”

Is what you said

[oak geyser]

it’s almost 1am sorry for not being 100% coherent

but also here league is the main form of rugby, and union is specified, so that’s just a cultural misunderstanding

[oak geyser]

yeah I could say that about many things in the Olympics

modern pentathlon is just like, larping, thankfully the horse bit is being replaced for next Olympics iirc

[oak geyser]

Likely no. The guides for vision impaired runners aren’t athletes, for example

[scarlet cedar]

league is the main one here too 👀👀👀

runs away from lou

[scarlet cedar]

oh 100%

like this breaking

i’m not a fan 😂

[scarlet cedar]

oh is it, are the replacing it or just removing it?

[oak geyser]

However, in a situation where it’s a team event and they nominate a member to be the drownee for that leg, then maybe. Usually they’d just use a mannequin

I believe replacing the horse bit with an obstacle course

[scarlet cedar]

incredible

i hope they do an egg and spoon race

[oak geyser]

lmao it’s like ninja warrior

[silk zephyr]

In wales union is the main lol

[cosmic jasper]

fantastic

[last pulsar]

Otherwise known and “murder ball” because it’s so aggressive 😭

[silk zephyr]

Yup, a load of friends of mine play it

[scarlet cedar]

i know 😂

[oak geyser]

It’s very funny because Union is such a rich person upper class sport here, but a bunch of my uk based friends think the opposite of it

[silk zephyr]

it has the same connotation here lmao

Northerners play league, traditionally more working class, public school boys play union

Would you agree @scarlet cedar

Or Laura as you were typing I do apologise

[oak geyser]

working class definitely don’t play union here

[silk zephyr]

No exactly, they play league

The public school boys play union

[oak geyser]

oh your public school is not actually public though

[silk zephyr]

Oh no sorry private school

Public schools are a kind of private school and I always forget it’s not the same overseas I do apologise

[oak geyser]

yeah the naming is very weird

what’s the reason for that, do you know?

[cosmic jasper]

no i was just saying i’m learning so much

i know next to nothing

[silk zephyr]

You know so much that I bet I don’t know

[oak geyser]

Also here league is very much delineated to NSW and QLD, but AFL is Vic, SA, WA, Tas

I’m an outlier really for being AFL in Sydney and not caring about league one bit

[silk zephyr]

Yeah I grew up in the south of England with family from wales so very union roots

Some family friends played for England

Union

[scarlet cedar]

yes i agree! there’s a massive north south divide so northern working class play league and southern posh people play union

to stereotype

[silk zephyr]

But for some reason Welsh working class play rugby too 😂

UNION

I keep forgetting that word

I also want to clarify I am not posh

[wary shell]

Watching the Breaking clips where do they find expert commentators for this

Did they go to a training or have they done this before

[sharp skiff]

I assume they are people in the breaking world? There are other competitions in this outside of the Olympics so they probably pulled experts from there

[silk zephyr]

Yeah I would assume they’re like retired breakers

[wary shell]

She got her lawyer and spoke up for herself and said you will not FedEx this to me thanks

12 years later who

Did they have to make a new medal find the London ribbon what happened

Or did they actually find the Russian athlete who had it revoked

There has been discourse and discussion about the scoring inquiry for floor exercise

I will need 3 olympiads to understand the scoring of Breaking.

Here’s to hoping for understanding 2032.

[raw vapor]

Interestingly league is nonexistent in Scotland, it’s all union

[wary shell]

I’m still learning about Union

[last pulsar]

Crazy that the men’s triple jump WR has stood since 1995

[wary shell]

I still think about the women’s discus records held by East Germany

[scarlet cedar]

yeah that is weird, it is very much a super regional north of england thing but like not even newcastle north

if team GB had better changeovers in that relay, they’d have won that 🫠

[raw vapor]

Sammy’s ex-wife was northern so she watched a lot of league, and it’s just better

[limber lotus]

Literally 😭😭

But it’s also chucking it down which I doubt helped

[wary shell]

https://x.com/olympics/status/1821956230799134745?s=46&t=hQzDunEJ-24RYKJr84ixkw

The Olympic Games (@Olympics) on X

Medals reallocation ceremony at #Paris2024 🥇 🥈 🥉

Twitter · Aug 9, 2024, 5:06 PM

Someone from the Sydney games that’s wild.

24 years to sort that one out.

No statute of limitations.

Was the 4x100 in the pouring rain or was my data having a problem with video

[lone dove]

it is raining

[wary shell]

😒

[lone dove]

...and we already botched it

[scarlet cedar]

hehe

[lone dove]

again!

[scarlet cedar]

are canada ok

[lone dove]

yet again the US women succeed and the men bring shame upon us

[scarlet cedar]

i forget de grasse is that fast

[wary shell]

Can we leave them in Paris

The photo finish button on the app does not like phone dimensions.

LOL DISQUALIFIED

leave them in the Seine

[small phoenix]

Smh men

USA women’s had great hand offs

[lone dove]

the men's football final just popped off!!

(might've been a replay?) it wasn't

about to go to ET with France & Spain tied 3-3

🕯️ manifesting the host nation gold 🕯️

[wary shell]

The men were outside of the zone and have been taken to sports purgatory

[small phoenix]

Embarrassing

[wary shell]

I feel like they do this more regularly than the right way.

[last pulsar]

With long nails!

It’s like the relay version of “doing it backwards in heels”

[last pulsar]

They do. Micheal Johnson said the last time USA won it, HE was still competing, and he’s 56 😭

When you think about the quality in US sprinting, that’s wild.

[wary shell]

NOT MICHAEL

I saw he was commentating for some other countries English broadcast smh nbc

[last pulsar]

He always commentates for the BBC, I’ve no idea how they manage it.

You could he was just so done with having to dissect poor American relay performances with 3 Brits 😂

[wary shell]

Poor Michael

Marileidy Paulino had a beautiful run. Her stride was so relaxed and everyone else was like FEET DONT FAIL ME NOW

[last pulsar]

Oooh they think the triple jump WR might go this evening, everyone is getting close, but no one quite managing it.

[limber lotus]

It’s cos he’s said American commentary don’t take it seriously enough ha

[last pulsar]

I don’t know what you mean, Snoop Dog and Martha Stewart are experts

But seriously, that’s hilarious, I didn’t know that 😂

[limber lotus]

Maybe he just likes the round table chat with gabby and Denise

No Colin this year

[last pulsar]

Colin’s in an actual commentary box this year, not a cushy spacious studio.

Urgh, I want this for KJT so much 😭 but I think it’s too big a points gap

[limber lotus]

It was too much 😭

[last pulsar]

Still, she finally has an Olympic medal! And after all the injuries that’s so good and I’m so happy for her! 😭❤️

[silk zephyr]

I don’t think breaking is going to make it to another Olympics

[wary shell]

I’ve seen some interesting things.

I don’t think Breaking was on the optional sports submitted by LA. Motorsport was but it wasn’t accepted.

[wary shell]

Just confirmed it’s not on the LA list.

They could submit to add it hit this showing but make them go eh.

LA said flag football instead.

[scarlet cedar]

i don’t think anyone is watching this thinking yeah let’s do it again

[wary shell]

They made the decision early.

I watched clips on Twitter and that is enough for me

https://x.com/joshcarlosjosh/status/1821959503556018671?s=46&t=hQzDunEJ-24RYKJr84ixkw

JRR Jokien (@joshcarlosjosh) on X

SARUMAN: I gave you the chance of aiding me willingly, but you have elected the way of pain!

GANDALF:

Twitter · Aug 9, 2024, 5:19 PM

https://x.com/yabaleftonline/status/1821571111559319763?s=46&t=hQzDunEJ-24RYKJr84ixkw no bike 😭

YabaLeftOnline (@yabaleftonline) on X

Nigerian cyclist, Ese Ukpeseraye thanks the German team for lending her a bicycle to compete, as Nigeria didn't provide one.

Twitter · Aug 8, 2024, 3:36 PM

[cosmic jasper]

how do they send a cyclist with no bike

[wary shell]

I guess it was a late addition

[small phoenix]

Woah did you see the leader just suddenly left the women’s 10,000m final

Ran right off. I wonder what happened.

[silk zephyr]

https://x.com/peddersophie/status/1821877856701456718?s=46&t=knwfHQnFKAGJQWQFBwUKnQ

Sophie Pedder (@PedderSophie) on X

Just when you thought that Paris had already given everything possible at this Olympics

Kauli Vaast, surfing gold medalist 2024
🏅🇫🇷

Twitter · Aug 9, 2024, 11:55 AM

[scarlet cedar]

https://x.com/bensteiner00/status/1821972148925427949?s=46&t=NNRAZtpQ_uRRHzXWiH02wQ

Ben Steiner (@BenSteiner00) on X

At the World Relays in the spring, a reporter asked USA’s Noah Lyles if he saw Canada as a threat in the 4x100m in Paris.

“Who? Who?”

He laughed it off.

With Lyles sidelined, the USA were disqualified today and Canada won gold.

Twitter · Aug 9, 2024, 6:09 PM

[limber lotus]

Oh the poor French athlete!

Looks like she collapsed 😔

Some of their 10k PBs are faster than my 5k PB 😭

[scarlet cedar]

what a slay from that italian!!

[limber lotus]

Good for her!

Especially after the 5K debacle

A PROPOSAL

💍

[scarlet cedar]

disgusting

[limber lotus]

Why did he put it on the wrong finger

[scarlet cedar]

brazilian things? 😭

[limber lotus]

🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️

[scarlet cedar]

my obsession with mondo duplantis is almost matched by my obsession with karsten warholm

and it’s almost his time

ugh and i yet again hate americans

[silk zephyr]

Was it the athlete who proposed

[scarlet cedar]

oh no, he was brazilian

[silk zephyr]

No did the athlete propose or was it a person watching them

Sorry I worded bad

Because I saw a man propose to his gf after she won a medal and it’s like just let her have one day

[scarlet cedar]

oh sorry

it was the athlete

[wary shell]

Oh there was a protest against Canada relay gold.

It didn’t work.

[scarlet cedar]

lol was it the US that protested???

[wary shell]

Ir wouldn’t have done anything for them.

But it was unknown.

https://vxtwitter.com/focusfronting/status/1821945337948324293?s=46&t=hQzDunEJ-24RYKJr84ixkw

We need more PhD students with their focus of study the sport they’re in.

[wary shell]

https://x.com/mikebeauvais/status/1821948660063580468?s=46&t=hQzDunEJ-24RYKJr84ixkw

Mike Beauvais (@MikeBeauvais) on X

"The 2024 Paris Olympics' hottest event is breakdancing. It has everything - A tiny Lithuanian girl in a durag named 'Nicka,' a 36-year-old Australian PhD student named 'Raygun,' and millions of people all over the world wondering who okayed this."

Twitter · Aug 9, 2024, 4:36 PM

I just heard about the Lithuanian

[sharp skiff]

Hahahaha omg that works so well

[scarlet cedar]

"a tiny lithuanian girl in a durag called 'nicka'" is a lot of a sentence

[wary shell]

I can’t keep up with all the memes

[sharp skiff]

My entire TikTok fyp is just memes about the breaking lol

[wary shell]

https://x.com/olympics/status/1822021382726709417?s=46&t=hQzDunEJ-24RYKJr84ixkw

The Olympic Games (@Olympics) on X

#Gold medal for Algeria! 🇩🇿

Congratulations to Imane Khelif, clinching first place in boxing women's 66kg. 🥊

#Boxing | #Paris2024 | #Samsung | #TogetherforTomorrow

Twitter · Aug 9, 2024, 9:25 PM

[wary shell]

I hope she’s crying again

[wary shell]

https://vxtwitter.com/ianamurray/status/1822031523542966677?s=46&t=hQzDunEJ-24RYKJr84ixkw

[cosmic jasper]

my god that’s so funny

[wary shell]

Might be the funniest thing I’ve seen of the games

[wary shell]

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTNsNPCLP/

[wary shell]

I’ve hit Breaking TikTok

[wary shell]

I’m worried Carl and Michael Johnson are gonna appear in the men’s teams nightmares soon.

The 63 year old is gonna start training for LA if they’re not careful

https://vxtwitter.com/chaimabkh1/status/1822028301663400317?s=46&t=hQzDunEJ-24RYKJr84ixkw

Boxing is one of the sports with double bronze so the sponsor phone needed a selfie stick.

[quaint zealot]

@limber lotus wakey wakey it's rock time

[limber lotus]

https://tenor.com/view/lets-go-girls-girl-power-lets-go-singing-let-me-hear-all-the-girls-gif-16897256

[quaint zealot]

i'm literally crying oh my god that was so good

[lone dove]

good morning today is the day, gold medal match for USWNT! I could not be more excited!

[lone dove]

Ukraine did so good in this rhythmic gymnastics team final! I hope they're on the podium

[sharp skiff]

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTNsDMoFC/

[lone dove]

ha, the Italian rhythmic gymnastics team doing their routine to The Ecstasy of Gold by Ennio Morricone is too perfect

[limber lotus]

“Even if you’re driving a Ferrari you still need to be able to slow it down” - guess which sport?!

[lone dove]

are you watching something live, or a replay?

[limber lotus]

Nah that’s cheating 😉

[lone dove]

ahhh

[limber lotus]

But I admire the effort 🤭🤭

[lone dove]

unfortunately it's not necessarily true, if your name is Charles Leclerc the Ferrari will sometimes slow down all on its own 💀

[limber lotus]

the chinese got 8/8 diving medals

that's insane

[wary shell]

I just woke up water polo yippie

[restive agate]

What if i SOB https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGev7hMWN/

Now why did the link preview do me dirty like that, I just wanna cry over Imane Khelif

[wary shell]

It’s been doing that lately.

TikTok locks so much into their app let people use the website I only have the app on my phone.

I’m gonna miss Gold Zone it was the ultimate sports tapas.

This was probably the best NBC has ever done with the broadcast. They finally did away with locked down time delays and just rebroadcast at prime time instead of locking it down to show until prime time.

I’ve been on the bullshit since at least 2006 when I got the internet for the first time.

[cosmic jasper]

and their ratings are way up

people are thrilled with the coverage

it’s been fantastic

[wary shell]

Amazing what happens with you don’t block people from viewing. I’m not mad about Vancouver opening ceremonies don’t put it in the news paper that I was mad n

Vancouver was in my time zone and they blocked me six ways from Sunday from seeing anything live.

[granite idol]

I love Gold zone because it chooses what to watch for me 😂 I know I want to watch Olympics but I don’t want to have to choose between events because that’s mean to the other events

[wary shell]

I switch when I know I want to focus on something but I was sick for the first week and it was nice to not have to move/think while I was sick.

Like right now it’s this rum really intense table tennis game between China and Japan. Wouldn’t have chosen it outright but it’s serious.

Weightlifting hurts my soul.

She’s lifting 113kg

Oh my god there’s more Breaking to watch.

The US is wearing a tie dye kit. Inspired.

[granite idol]

Soccer time means 90+ minutes of me having anxiety that I willingly endure

[wary shell]

I switched to multiviewer. So I can look away from soccer for 4 seconds to calm down.

Broke out ESPN to keep tabs.

I’m not gonna yell at the tv.

[lone dove]

Emma Hayes said this match is going to require "firm refereeing" which does not inspire confidence given how the refereeing has slanted against us so far in this tournament

[wary shell]

Emma

[lone dove]

Rapinoe in the stands with shades matching her hair, an icon

And here we go again, an obvious foul against us not called by the ref

[wary shell]

Delicious whistle

What the fuck was that corner kick

[lone dove]

And what was THAT one...

[wary shell]

Tom Cruise go away

Confirmed offside no goal

Phew

It’s fine

lol that’s not a foul ok

I think she was guilty

[granite idol]

We need to calm the fuck down and play soccer not wrestling

[wary shell]

They’re playing the “these hands are rated E for everyone”

Smith was booking it

Or was that Swanson my tv is small lol

Whomever needs to be an alternate for sprints

[granite idol]

It was Swanson. I keep mixing them up to but it’s because they look the same (my tv is big lol)

[wary shell]

They wear their hair the same. Ladies please wear a different color hair band like the yellow T cam so I can tell who streaked past.

When they’re still I can tell who is who is when they’re at full speed I can’t

Too fast they rbeak the speed of light I got astigmatism

https://x.com/dw_sports/status/1822265843125715339?s=46&t=hQzDunEJ-24RYKJr84ixkw

DW Sports (@dw_sports) on X

🤮 The Seine has struck again!

Germany's open water swimmer Leonie Beck is experiencing the consequences of her 10km race in the river.

And she couldn't refrain from a little sarcastic dig. 🫠

#Paris2024 #OlympicGames

Twitter · Aug 10, 2024, 1:36 PM

😒

Another one

[oak geyser]

Should’ve deployed the coke sculling option

[wary shell]

Time for a cooling break

[silk zephyr]

https://x.com/ckerschinske/status/1822114960043802720?s=46&t=knwfHQnFKAGJQWQFBwUKnQ

the louis vuitton con ❤️‍🔥 (@CKerschinske) on X

halfway throug confession
“this is going to be one of the dumbest things I’ve ever confessed”
“I got like actually angry at the us olympic basketball coach during the game yesterday”
priest bursts into laughter

Twitter · Aug 10, 2024, 3:37 AM

[wary shell]

Steve probably deserves it

A Brazilian is on the ground

Is that the keeper

Oh geez

[lone dove]

Thank god for Naeher, omg

[wary shell]

https://tenor.com/view/-gif-3716354

[granite idol]

I need this half to be over .

[wary shell]

The refs are gonna go get a drink after this

[granite idol]

I’m gonna need a drink during this

[wary shell]

https://x.com/gymnastics_now/status/1822286049378172963?s=46&t=hQzDunEJ-24RYKJr84ixkw lots of hate from Romania aimed at Jordan like she made the inquiry

Gymnastics Now (@Gymnastics_Now) on X

Jordan Chiles posting to Instagram Stories just a short while ago.

It is not clear her reason for the post, but people have channeled hate toward Jordan in the aftermath of the floor final drama.

Romania is also currently appealing the results of the final.

Twitter · Aug 10, 2024, 2:57 PM

I look up and see a stretcher

[lone dove]

Go off Julie

[wary shell]

Yaya got carried off literally

[silk zephyr]

There was nearly a fight in the beach volleyball and the dj started playing imagine 😂

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGev7VrXS/

[lone dove]

Please please let it not be offsides

But it really might have been

[wary shell]

https://tenor.com/view/pray-for-you-pray-help-sign-of-the-cross-terrified-gif-17006601

Megan taking photos like a proud mom

Mal you’re the more famous Swanson

[granite idol]

Yes !!!

[cosmic jasper]

megan they could never make me hate you fr

[wary shell]

Her husbands name is Dansby

Their names are amazing

10/10

[lone dove]

https://tenor.com/view/usa-uswnt-olympics-gif-3808023074795752533

[wary shell]

He plays for the cubs

[granite idol]

I can breathe slightly

[wary shell]

SHES DONE NOTHING WRONG EVER

[lone dove]

Still so dangerous we could run out of legs and get run over badly but this is at least good news for now!!

[granite idol]

I was on a work trip and my coworker was talking so much shit and being so derogatory towards Megan and I was seething while trying to stay professional

[wary shell]

I save that energy for Solo

Hi Marta

The Shadows are gonna start affecting them.

That was Mal’s 100th cap btw

[cosmic jasper]

my mom was pissed off she’s like they know what it’s like move it by a few hours

[wary shell]

https://x.com/scoutripley/status/1822307610642547017?s=46&t=hQzDunEJ-24RYKJr84ixkw thankfully the cubs are not playing too early so he can watch

Claire Watkins (@ScoutRipley) on X

Dansby Swanson has been talking this whole Olympics about how he can’t stop crying and I hope someone has a camera on him today

Twitter · Aug 10, 2024, 4:22 PM

How did it hit the top of Fox’s head like that I’m impressed

She wasn’t even looking

They still hold the record in women’s 4x400

[small phoenix]

https://x.com/nicolehaase/status/1822305917150413258?s=46&t=7V9i4e7HfeSso-xm4mz04Q

Nicole Haase (@NicoleHaase) on X

Several members of the bronze medal winning USA women's rugby 7s team are at this game, including Ilona Maher, per their socials and instead I've seen 19 pictures and 7 live shots of Tom Cruise

Twitter · Aug 10, 2024, 4:16 PM

[wary shell]

It’s infuriating

A YELLOW

[lone dove]

Okay, the ref this time is more fair than I expected, this is good

[scarlet cedar]

erm are the netherlands gonna get penalised for pushing the brit off his bike in this madison?????

[wary shell]

Velodrome cycling hurts my brain

I don’t see any penalties noted yet.

[scarlet cedar]

that’s insane

he literally shoulder barged him

[wary shell]

Jordan Chiles has been stripped of her bronze

TEN MINUTES

AHHHHH

[cosmic jasper]

oh poor thing

[cosmic jasper]

they want me to lose my mind

[wary shell]

When this happened in skating they just did a double medal

Judges again at the scene of the crime likely place for them to be

[wary shell]

I’m not GONNA MAKE IT

[sharp skiff]

Literally counting the seconds until this game is over

Too stressful

[scarlet cedar]

whoa what’s the beef here

[wary shell]

There was a whole thing about the inquiry which the Romanian fans turned racist against Jordan instead of the judges.

[lone dove]

JESUS

[oak geyser]

It might be that the Romanian has been correctly awarded bronze for incorrect deductions though

[oak geyser]

discounting all the racist shit which is awful

[wary shell]

Yeah

I don’t care about the legal things that totally right but that’s no excuses for making it racist

It was vile

It was the judges not Jordan.

She had nothing to do with any of it.

They made it her problem.

[oak geyser]

I do think there was an incorrect penalty given to one of the Romanian girls but they couldn’t appeal as it was too late

[scarlet cedar]

ah so her appeal for her difficulty was over the 1 minute?

[wary shell]

Yeah

[sharp skiff]

Truly why do they keep showing Tom cruise in This soccer match???

I DONT CARE ABOUT HIM

[wary shell]

I’m still mad at him for being shown at the 2021 NLDS he caused the giants to lose and I stand by it it was a curse

He’s on my sports grudge list

Anyway

Who is on the ground now

[small phoenix]

They love to highlight any time a notable man is interested in women’s sports. I hate it.

[granite idol]

Horan. She got body slammed

[wary shell]

This is the second stretcher of the game

[wary shell]

Poor Lindsey

She just needed a moment

[sharp skiff]

HOW IS THAT NOT A RED CARD

[wary shell]

Now she’s just gonna yell from the sidelines

[sharp skiff]

2 MINUTES 😬

[wary shell]

The shadows man

[granite idol]

Because technically the Brazilian player was making a genuine effort to fight for the ball on not just make contact. It was just unfortunate body slamming contact

[wary shell]

They’re adding more time

We will never be. Free

Obviously for injury thing but it’s more about my personal feeling

Stop showing Tom where is Ilona!!!!

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-fwKtvAJDU/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

ilonamaher

I could hear the cheers get louder as I was mid stream. Devastated.

Thank you to @uswnt for the tickets!!

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19542

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[lone dove]

https://tenor.com/view/usa-us-flag-gif-18300317

[cosmic jasper]

yay!!!!!!!!

[sharp skiff]

https://tenor.com/view/usa-soccer-women-cheer-gif-14464875

[lone dove]

USA LET'S F'IN GOOOOOOOOO

[wary shell]

Remember all the drama with roster selection.

[sharp skiff]

USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA

[wary shell]

Now they’re vindicated

[sharp skiff]

🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅

[wary shell]

I could have died

Now to watch athletics or to do chores

[sharp skiff]

GIVE EMMA HAYES LITERALLY ANYTHING SHE WANTS

[granite idol]

Athletics

[wary shell]

It’s the last real day I’m gonna switch to gold zone

[sharp skiff]

3 MONTHS OF WORKING FOR WITH THEM AND THEY GET A GOLD????

[wary shell]

Can she fix the men’s team

Probably not they need Jesus

But she should try

[sharp skiff]

GOLD MEDALIST NAOMI GIRMA

🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹

[wary shell]

Me screening unknown callers.

[limber lotus]

wow this is a lot

😂

i take it brazil won?! 😉

[sharp skiff]

Oh yeah they absolutely crushed the us

[lone dove]

when it comes to losing they really outdid us

[wary shell]

Ya

[sharp skiff]

SUCK IT VLATKO

[limber lotus]

🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

FELIPE DRUGOVICH FTW

[wary shell]

You’re giving me Drugo flashbacks

He won the gold.

[limber lotus]

if i ever tell you i love felipe it's how you know i have been kidnapped

[wary shell]

Yup

I will call Interpol

[cosmic jasper]

not everything she did say we had to rally around a transphobe

[sharp skiff]

https://tenor.com/view/raining-garfield-wet-sad-face-cat-gif-19321122

[limber lotus]

800m final lfg

[sharp skiff]

Men’s or women’s?

[limber lotus]

men;s

women's was wednesday i think?

[wary shell]

Yeah

[limber lotus]

keely supremacy 👑

[wary shell]

Yeah Keely

I knew she was British I was searching for her name in the ether

[limber lotus]

it is me

i am the ether

[wary shell]

Kenya

Likely place for them to be

Hoppel you ran a national record I know 4th hurts but I’m proud of you

I’m still not convinced about the modern pentathlon

Oh that’s the Italian high jumper who lost his ring

[limber lotus]

no i saw they were doing something with lasers and i was like... nah

[granite idol]

I feel like it’s a prank and not a real thing

[wary shell]

It’s supposed to be an Olympic only event for the perfect solider but why is is show jumping. And why random horse. Glad they’re going ninja warrior style obstacle course because that’s more modern soldier anyway

[lone dove]

ah yes, modern warfare: horseback and laser tag

[wary shell]

Yes

[granite idol]

My brother was trying to explain modern pentathlon to me and that they were getting rid of it because of the treatment of the horses being poor. I suggested they just replace it with hobby horsing

[lone dove]

(I know it's not tag)

[wary shell]

It was started in 1912

[lone dove]

women's javelin final about to start!

[scarlet cedar]

also emma hayes is a knobhead and has said some super problematic things in the past 🥰

[wary shell]

I’ll figure out modern pentathlon for LA

The horse was holding me back

I’ll train for the rest

My dog says I have to sit and watch the rest if the events and not worry about cleaning until the French go to bed

[sharp skiff]

Omg please, I’d LOVE to see hobby horsing in the Olympics lol

I’m on hobby horse TikTok and it’s my favorite thing

[cosmic jasper]

having success as a coach doesn’t absolve you of being a shitty person

[scarlet cedar]

exactly!! sports is really not the place to put people on pedestals when 9/10 of them are problematic af

[sharp skiff]

https://tenor.com/view/whomp-whomp-gif-12107264

[lone dove]

that 100m hurdles was crazy