Paris 2024 Summer Olympics: Thank you, France!🥇🥈🥉

[Xennial]

Parkour should've been the cultural tie in sport rather than breaking in Paris just like Sumo should've been it for Tokyo rather than Karate

 

[aepps20]

The breaking stuff was a disgrace and pathetic. Shouldn’t have even been an Olympic sport if you ask me. With that said, Raygun was leading on my cards and was robbed. She worked off the jab in the early round and did more than enough for gold.

 

[noskey]

IDK how the actual Olympic Flag Football event is going to go, but the memes that have been coming out and will continue until the games happen, have made it all worth it already.

 

[rolaholic]

 

[daruma]

is there anyway where they can have both the olympics and paralympics during the same time?

 

[elpablo21]

Raygun might not have won, but she made a name for herself. Can easily cash in with appearances if she wanted to

Her story seems perfect for the Coen
Brothers to direct

 

[shogun]

I saw the nbc youtube channel put out a video for top ten memes of the games and suspiciously left raygun off the list.

 

[Xennial]

will be interesting to see how many of the 2024 olympians will end up going the MMA or Pro Wrestling route. Outside of the olympians that already have lucrative careers in their sport, there's likely 30+ olympians that will cash in big from sponsors from the Olympics. There's usually some that don't fall under that that end up going to Cirque Du Soleil, MMA, Pro Wrestling.

 

[kdawg]

is there anyway where they can have both the olympics and paralympics during the same time?

Yesterday someone was telling me about a different event (can’t remember what it was though) that does that - basically 100m, now Paralympic 100m, high jump, Paralympic high jump…

I guess the problem with it is the number of events - everything would take at least twice as long (could be a lot longer with multiple Paralympic categories) and you’d need an Olympic village at least twice as big to fit everyone in.

It probably makes more sense to use the same facilities after the Olympics has finished.

 

[dontsteponmyshoes]

 

[rolaholic]

 

[picasso swerve]

YT TV has some events I missed out on that imma check out. There was just way too many events to keep track of. Back at the crib I only had USA and NBC, im house sitting my boys crib and he had access to everything with YTTV so im back catching up.

Any events yall recommend?

Edit:
Masai Russel dear god, das bae

 

[pmatic]

 

[lawdog1]

I really have been trying not to let JK’s weirdness in recent years tarnish my feelings about the Harry Potter books, but it’s getting more difficult.

 

[earldagoat]

 

[Xennial]

 

[daruma]

ON SIGHT

 

[dontsteponmyshoes]

The girl that they said stepped out of bounds but didn't was robbed not Jordan or the one who eventually got the bronze. I think she was Romanian too tho

 

[Cashflow]

 

[pmatic]

 

[aepps20]

I really have been trying not to let JK’s weirdness in recent years tarnish my feelings about the Harry Potter books, but it’s getting more difficult.

I was just about to post something similar. What happened to her? She used to go at anyone saying racist and sexist stuff about Serena Williams but then she changed.

 

[Sinner]

I'm still trying to understand what the whole deal about her was.

Clearly the athleticism she showed in her battles was nowhere near the level of her competitors.
And, surely, there are more athletic and, dare I say, skilled B-girls from Australia?
If her point was just to 'vibe' and have a good time with breaking, then she succeeded, I guess.
But at what cost? Not only did she take a spot from another more skilled breaker (I'm assuming spots are limited), but she also, inadvertently, took all the attention away from the eventual medalists.
Breaking was already gonna be a hard sell for the public on whether or not it should be an Olympic sport... and she made it it much tougher.

 

[BIG LEEMELONE]

Textbook colonizer. Masterful work

 

[BIG LEEMELONE]

 

[darthska]

I'm still trying to understand what the whole deal about her was.

Clearly the athleticism she showed in her battles was nowhere near the level of her competitors.
And, surely, there are more athletic and, dare I say, skilled B-girls from Australia?
If her point was just to 'vibe' and have a good time with breaking, then she succeeded, I guess.
But at what cost? Not only did she take a spot from another more skilled breaker (I'm assuming spots are limited), but she also, inadvertently, took all the attention away from the eventual medalists.
Breaking was already gonna be a hard sell for the public on whether or not it should be an Olympic sport... and she made it it much tougher.

Her point?
"MMMMMEEEEEEE!!!!"

I laughed, not knowing.
Very cringe now.
I hope her fall from grace is harder than her comedic rise.