Paris Olympics 2024 (non-cycling) thread

[jmdirt]

What events does everyone here consider the most prestigious top 3-5 in the Olympics?

Athletics
Wrestling/boxing/combat
Horse racing/chariot racing

 

[search]

Bronze for Germany!

Looked like GB messed up the final exchange, otherwise they could have won.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

It is really pouring at the stadium, Gabby and Sha'Carri's handoff wasn't the cleanest, but they got the job done. (Sha'Carri can go back to acting like a sprinter now that she's won a gold. )

 

[jmdirt]

I struggle to single out a particular swimming discipline that holds much more prestige than others.

I wonder what the least prestigious medal is? Probably some of the new stuff. I would throw surfing, 3x3 (how is it 3x3 anyway, that makes 9??) basketball, skateboarding and breaking into the bin without hesitating. Combat sports don't do anything for me either.

Sport climbing on the other hand. What a sport! That is just an altogether fantastic watch.

pretty humerous that someone who is going on about arrogant athletes discounts some of the oldest and most pretigous event in the Olympic because it "doesn't do anything for ME".

 

[RedheadDane]

Uhm... why are we not allowed to know the name of one of the Canadian runners?
And one of the US runners...?

 

[search]

it looks pretty wet for a 2% chance of rain. Fortunately Saunders brought... well, whatever it is to keep her dry.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

And now the men... years ago the US men had a lot of trouble holding on to the baton, don't know if they've worked on it (and their individual egos) since.

 

[Salvarani]

Oh Canada

Degrasse another gold for him

 

[Mayomaniac]

And now the men... years ago the US men had a lot of trouble holding on to the baton, don't know if they've worked on it (and their individual egos) since.

Still not good at it.
Italy blew a medal in the final exchange.

 

[tobydawq]

pretty humerous that someone who is going on about arrogant athletes discounts some of the oldest and most pretigous event in the Olympic because it "doesn't do anything for ME".

I actually meant that it can stay there but it's not something for me.

And I don't quite know what you are referring to about arrogant athletes? If it was the basketball comment, I didn't mean that they were morons, my comment was an illustration of the slight hypocrisy that they're allowed to do such antics while Noah Lyles is dismissed as being a toolbag.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Oh, Canada... cool!

American men messed up the handoff again, it's become an unfortunate tradition.

 

[Salvarani]

Coleman messed up I think and faded badly

Dont think it was Bednarek really going too early there

 

[Samu Cuenca]

De Grasse high!

 

[Mayomaniac]

Tortu looking a lot more mechanical and less fluid on the finishing straight these days.

 

[RedheadDane]

I don't know much about relays, but I don't think that's how you're supposed to do the handoff...

 

[Sciatic]

Lyles is just an American Tamberi, always needs to have all eyes on him and suffering from severe main character syndrome.

Sprinters are usually arrogant, and Tebogo making a statement like that is equally arrogant as Lyles. Arrogance can show up as loud self-promotion or as being completely dismissive of others with an air of superiority.

 

[Sciatic]

I don't know much about relays, but I don't think that's how you're supposed to do the handoff...

😁

 

[Valv.Piti]

Who was to blame there?

 

[Sciatic]

Is Kenzel’s tattoo meant to be barbed wire?

 

[Netserk]

Hilarious relay. May we see more like it.

 

[RedheadDane]

Alexis Holmes taking "false start" to the extremes.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Alexis Holmes taking "false start" to the extremes.

She's just a fan Simone Bikes (that's her name now).

 

[Sciatic]

Brief slide into sexism (apologies) but Kazcmarek is such a beauty

 

[Sciatic]

Wow, one the fastest non-Koch times ever.

 

[Barnacle Bill]

And in the football final France have come back from 3-1 down against Spain, 3-3 in extra time now...