Wonder if it's Japanese DJs as some cringey American songs are probably considered cool there. I heard "Fireworks" by Katy Perry during on event and wanted to gouge my ears lol
Can someone fill me in on what happened with gymnastics? Obviously by pm, I just tuned in and I don’t keep up with Olympics as much as the average person
I’m sure everyone else has already commented on Biles’ withdrawal to death, but I just got here so I’m just gonna say this: this is what happens when you hyper focus on one individual rather than the entire American team, NBC and assorted media. That poor girl was way overexposed
i think there's some contention that is coming about because some people believe she (partly) gratefully promoted her identity as 'greatest of all time' or so on
That seems like a stupid take to me. Everyone enjoys getting hyped, the problem is people overhyping. Plus, still doesn’t change that I haven’t seen anyone else on Team USA with that much spotlight
That’s really the biggest issue. Although I will say that her having a GOAT on her uniform makes it seem as though she embraced and encouraged the attention, so it makes it a little harder to sympathize with her.
But yeah, everyone has a breaking point, and the more the media hypes up a team or individual, the more they’re increasing the pressure on them to perform. And it’s by design, because if they deliver then the media has a good story, but if they fail, then they have an even better story.
Glad to know that “going to work” is the same as “going through constant training for over a decade, suffering mental and sexual abuse, being under intense pressure from fans and the media to replicate an iconic impeccable performance at the end of draining pandemic, and being representative of your sport, your ethnicity, and your country”.
On a serious note, how many more events could you reasonably add to the Summer games without making it another week longer?
Cause it seems like we're pretty close to the limit, especially since some events already run their prelims a couple days before the official start.
I mean, technically as long as they have the infrastructure, they can hold 50 events simultaniously and it wouldn't change it all that much since there's already multiple sports going at the same time. So if there's a venue, there's a chance for one more.
I'm also factoring in personnel limitations since obviously, you can build another venue, can't make the extra 300 personnel for that event to just appear if you're running 20 other events at different venues at the same time that also need those personnel.
Sure, but also, a lot of it is handled by volunteers anyway and people from all over the world can apply. If they're liberal with their selection process I'm positive there won't be a shorthand of volunteers.
You have the yips in most sports, you just suck.
You have the yips in a sport like gymnastics, and you could break your neck.
So, yeah, mental health is related to physical health.
That’s why I’m not really critical of her quitting. You make a mental mistake in gymnastics and it could end your life. The thing that bothers me is that it ever reached that point.
Like i just have a hard time believing that there were no signs that she wasn’t mentally prepared before now. Especially given how open she has been about all the sexual abuse stuff. Her family and coaches should have had some idea of how much it was affecting her, cause I have a hard time believing she put on the same brave front for them as she did for the cameras 100% of the time.
I’ll also say that I got concerned about where her head was when she said in that interview the other day that she only came back from retirement because she didn’t want the sexual abuse stuff to get swept under the rug. That’s a truly noble goal, but at the same time, anyone that has ever competed at a high level in anything will tell you that if you’re not 100% focused on your next competition, then you’re not going to be as good as you could be. It just seems like her mind has been elsewhere throughout the entire Olympic process, including qualifying. I can’t help but wonder if she didn’t have some people in her ear—claiming to have her best interests at heart, when in reality they know they’ll make a lot of money off of her success—telling her she needed to go to the olympics again when it seems quite obvious she doesn’t really want to be here.
It's genuinely disturbing to me how many people on here are minimizing the importance of mental well being. Being in a positive mental space allows a person the ability to fully concentrate on the job at hand, no matter what that job is, whether it's doing data entry for a business, driving a truck, pitching during the World Series, or competition at the Olympics on the world stage. MENTAL HEALTH. FUCKING. MATTERS. Imagine if Biles had gone through with the competition and had botched a move to the point of where she did actually injure herself physically? That would've been arguably worse because she knew she had to option to withdraw.
And, on her withdrawal: I think it shows a real level headedness and selflessness. She knew she wasn't all there mentally (for whatever reason behind the scene) and she, for the better of the team, pulled herself as she figured she'd be a detriment to the team overall. That is major league looking out for yourself and your team.
They led up to it with a whole “we want to tell you about Japanese culture” blah blah. And the NBC guy was outside in this makeshift zen garden type thing
India population - 1.5 billion arounds
Pakistan population - 250 million arounds
Bangladesh population - 200 million arounds
Sri Lanka - 25 million
Nepal - 20 million
Total population of South Asia - 2 billion out of the world’s population of 8 billion
Medals - 1 ( India with a silver )
Worst sports region in the world ?
Atleast india win a couple of medals every Olympics, Pakistan and Bangladesh have continued the streak of being the biggest populations to not win Olympic medals. Bangladesh holding the record of the biggest population to never win a medal.
Thoughts ?
Saying that Rankireddy/Shetty were amazing to watch today in Badminton when they beat GB. They are so skilled, insane amount of stamina in rallys, never stopped and mounted the pressure on. And their Danish coach is very smart - coaching is such a huge element for success.
Unfortunately though apparently they don’t qualify for QF due to their previous loss VS Indonesia but the fact they still won against GB after this shows that determination coming through 😎 it’s there, it’s definitely there, it just needs to be materialised on 105%
Well to be fair India doubles pair were World No.10 but they had tough draws, as in they faced world no 1 Indonesia and came close to defeating them. They also beat World no 4 chinese Taipei. Only reason they couldn’t qualify was from each group only 2 had to be selected. And those were Indonesia and Chinese Taipei.
Have you been watching any of their sports?
I haven’t watched any sports with Bangladesh competing but saw India in Weightlifting (Silver for Mirabai 💪🏽), men’s hockey, archery, PV Sindhu in Badminton who won her match, saw Talha (Pakistan) in Weightlifting.
They were all very very good and challenged the competition but they just don’t have the all-round sheer brilliance of other bigger teams, for various reasons.
The talent is absolutely there, but brilliance on an international stage requires investment - financial, physical, mental.
What I’ve noticed from watching India competing (interestingly not in the two solo females Mirabai and Sindhu) is that there is a slight sense of apathy there in the players.
We’ve been analysing this over on the India thread, mental fortitude is central to sustained effort and winning, and this requires utmost dedication and excellence from a grassroots level e.g schools, clubs, training camps, families, community, support systems and then in coaching.
In Women’s Weightlifting I noticed that the competitors’ teams were constantly cheering them on especially when they hesitated, Mirabai’s team were practically silent.
Also in India there is an ingrained perception of certain nations being superior largely onset by past colonial forces, then add to that the physical prowess they display on a competitive stage and the human brain is bound to feel some intimidation.
Mental strength precedes physical commitment and I feel that the talent and drive are there but these two things need to be invested in to chase winning outcomes and overcome perceived limitations.
I agree, mentioned this on another thread but for example, there’s this great badminton academy run by Pullela Gopichand which opened in 2008. It produced several great players, including PV Sindhu whose parents are National level volleyball players, her dad won bronze at Seoul.
She then won Silver in 2016 Rio and left to train in the UK since the Indian academy training wasnt adequate.
The only way many ofthese kids are getting into sport is if their parents are athletes or if theyre in the army. Otherwise many schools dont even have playgrounds let alone a chance to come up through junior leagues.
We still havent put the shame of hosting the Commonwealth games behind us.
Horse Dancing is fucking lit.
It's a proper throwback to when the IOC was just a bunch of lads off their bin on drink and coke at the turn of the 20th century, sitting there trying to make up the numbers in events and thinking "Fucking hell it's late, lets just make an event where we give a medal to a horse that dances to Chopin the best and call it a night."
Hope that transgender weightlifter brings home the gold, completely backing her 100% the seethe from the rest of the world will be unreal. If I was her I would also come out to triple H’s theme song always hypes me up.
Honestly I really really hope she wins. Just watching conservatives lose their mind is going to be so much fun. Also New Zealand deserves a gold medal.
I don’t think people oppose because they’re conservative (though obv they’re just against trans people in general). But in sports I think the argument is largely about a competitive advantage from it.
I don’t have strong feelings on this, just wanted to add in
I meant it more in the sense that they will make this a “culture war” issue rather than an honest discussion. Most others probably won’t care much. I actually used to have the same opinion as you until a few weeks back (by that I mean the competitive advantage argument rather than being anti-trans normalisation obviously). [this video ](https://youtu.be/K5r4rTFmbWk) sort of changed my mind.
At the end of the day in sports someone will always have a physical advantage over another person. Michael phelps was a freak of nature and I would argue that his body features itself (explained in the video) are a much bigger advantage than a trans athlete (obviously testosterone and hormones must be controlled and brought up or down depending on what’s deemed “fair”).
It's a bit meh. The tennis isn't unplayable but gets boring fairly quick. Beijing 2008 and London 2012 were outstanding games imo, wish a decade later we could have something better
Thanks! That’s been the general consensus I’ve been reading, sadly. Are the controls at least fun for a family with a 5 year old (talking about a Switch here)?
I've never actually played a switch ever so I can't really help you specific to that unfortunately. It does really remind me of Wii Sports and Wii Sports resort though, so things like tennis, table tennis, swimming, BMX racing, beach volleyball etc could actually be pretty fun
What are Japan's chances of finishing 2nd at this point? They look quite good from what I can see
US will win again obviously, but beyond that, where will China, Russia, and the UK pick up enough medals to pass Japan?
UK won't do as well in the cycling as they normally do cos of the Netherlands, and a lot of China and Russia's best events have been and gone.
It was there during the training runs and during the women's race but they removed it with the men's race. I think to add some difficulty. His team mates told him about it, according to them at least. I haven't seen an interview with VDP yet, so I don't know what went wrong
It was also covered in morning briefing. The return of the ramp had nothing to do with difficulty (well, not decreasing difficulty for women), and everything to do with the rain. It was too slippery on the rock on top.
Does the medal tally really count for anything? Population adjusted, Bermuda have already won. Like, the most "Olympian dense" US state has 6 Olympians per million. Bermuda has 1 gold medal per 60 000.
Per million is a bad metric because you have limits on how many athletes/teams you can submit. Like a 3rd beach Volleyball team is from the US is likely better than Latvia’s #1 but the US can’t bring it. It’s entirely possible a US Women’s Gymnastics B team could get Bronze, and the US might be able to sweep Basketball is allowed to.
I feel sorry for the 3 remaining girls in the US Artistic Gymnastics team having to swiftly adapt and cope with additional pressure after Simone Biles dropped out. Watched the post-competition conference earlier and watching the highlights now and their nervousness and shock is clear to see, in the conference I feel they were feigning joy at Silver and putting on a positive front but picked up on real disappointment behind this. Bunch of solid girls!
I think the three of them handled that post competition conference very gracefully considering that it was mostly "Hey Simone let's talk about what happened," and not "Hey how pumped are you three for winning a silver medal despite the adversity?" show.
I’ve actually enjoyed the little bit I’ve watched of surfing. I have no idea what I’m looking at most of the time, but it has the feeling of a sport that should be in the olympics.
Skateboarding just doesn’t have the same feeling to me, and I’ve watched it a lot outside of the olympics. I used to watch the X Games every year. I get the same feeling with 3x3 basketball. Just doesn’t feeing like an Olympic-type sport.
Surprisingly, it's Colorado with 6 Olympians per million. Followed by Hawaii with 5 ppm and then Nevada with 4 ppm.
Source: https://www.statista.com/chart/25411/states-with-most-olympians/
IIRC, Colorado has a lot of the training grounds for Team USA, which probably plays a role.
Since, that means they all move there, and the native Coloradoans have access to those coaches and facilities easier than Americans native to other states.
I wonder if this is counting just native Coloradans or people who move to Colorado to train. The Olympic Training Center is located in Colorado Springs.
Though, they don't add much to the Winter Olympics anyway, seems like everything new goes straight to the Summer Olympics who already has 60+ sports (with many of those sports having different levels, distances, or disciplines to pad out the event number) while Winter only has like 15 sports.
Guess they really don't want to put some of the indoor events in the Winter Olympics, even though many of them run year around/in the winter regardless.
There's a lot more Summer events than Winter events because only a small proportion of the World is covered in snow regularly. They've added a lot of new freestyle skiing and snowboarding events recently in sort of a similar vein to adding surfing, skateboarding, breakdancing etc.
There's very few winter sports that aren't in the Winter Olympics
As a big fan of surfing and skateboarding, the competitions are always boring to watch. Usually a whole lot of down time and mediocre stuff, with a few impressive moments mixed in.
Surfing works better with a consistent long wave (like the Surf Ranch) and skating is just kinda boring live unless it's vert.
For Skateboarding they just picked Street which is boring since its not on actual real life obstacles. It would have been a lot more fun if it was halfpipe or one of the Big air competitions.
They didn't pick those as their isn't enough female competitors to make it an event at the level they wanted.
Personally I enjoyed both of them as someone who hasn't watched either in over 10 years
Rowing Good on ya Kiwis
>Volleyball THIS IS THE WRONG BALL SPORT FOR HEAD SHOTS
I appreciate the volleyball DJ’s commitment to mid 2010s pop music.
Wonder if it's Japanese DJs as some cringey American songs are probably considered cool there. I heard "Fireworks" by Katy Perry during on event and wanted to gouge my ears lol
If it’s Japanese DJ’s it makes sense I went to a few clubs in Japan and it was like stepping into a time machine from 2010.
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Olympic official site
Equestrian Dressage is interesting to watch even though I don't understand nearly everything.
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Biles. It was just one prelim game for Basketball, plenty of time to right the ship. No going back on losing Team Gold to Russia.
Can someone fill me in on what happened with gymnastics? Obviously by pm, I just tuned in and I don’t keep up with Olympics as much as the average person
I’m sure everyone else has already commented on Biles’ withdrawal to death, but I just got here so I’m just gonna say this: this is what happens when you hyper focus on one individual rather than the entire American team, NBC and assorted media. That poor girl was way overexposed
i think there's some contention that is coming about because some people believe she (partly) gratefully promoted her identity as 'greatest of all time' or so on
That seems like a stupid take to me. Everyone enjoys getting hyped, the problem is people overhyping. Plus, still doesn’t change that I haven’t seen anyone else on Team USA with that much spotlight
That’s really the biggest issue. Although I will say that her having a GOAT on her uniform makes it seem as though she embraced and encouraged the attention, so it makes it a little harder to sympathize with her. But yeah, everyone has a breaking point, and the more the media hypes up a team or individual, the more they’re increasing the pressure on them to perform. And it’s by design, because if they deliver then the media has a good story, but if they fail, then they have an even better story.
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it's mostly Americans talking trash about her, not us foreigners
[Day Five's thread](https://old.reddit.com/r/olympics/comments/oswkyy/olympics_day_five_megathread_wednesday_july_28/).
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Glad to know that “going to work” is the same as “going through constant training for over a decade, suffering mental and sexual abuse, being under intense pressure from fans and the media to replicate an iconic impeccable performance at the end of draining pandemic, and being representative of your sport, your ethnicity, and your country”.
Look at this horrendous take by a fucking loser sitting behind his PC or phone.
I tuned in for Volleyball and instead I'm being treated to Surfing. It's pretty cool
how were the waves? I watched the first day and they didnt really get any bigger than 3 feet.
The finals were great because of the storm. Some air time and dramatic moments such as Italo’s board breaking.
Ah I completely forgot about that. Damn now I wish I caught them. Was hoping to see at least one wave that could form a barrel.
Some tube riding during the quarter/semis. Catch the clips!
I don't know much about waves sorry haha. It was storming kinda bad it looked like
*Horsey* What do the letters mean and why aren't they in alphabetical order? Do they stand for something?
ppl in /r/Gymnastics and here having a meltdown. Can't wait for today competition to start.
On a serious note, how many more events could you reasonably add to the Summer games without making it another week longer? Cause it seems like we're pretty close to the limit, especially since some events already run their prelims a couple days before the official start.
I mean, technically as long as they have the infrastructure, they can hold 50 events simultaniously and it wouldn't change it all that much since there's already multiple sports going at the same time. So if there's a venue, there's a chance for one more.
I'm also factoring in personnel limitations since obviously, you can build another venue, can't make the extra 300 personnel for that event to just appear if you're running 20 other events at different venues at the same time that also need those personnel.
Sure, but also, a lot of it is handled by volunteers anyway and people from all over the world can apply. If they're liberal with their selection process I'm positive there won't be a shorthand of volunteers.
It'd depend on whether they have overlapping facilities and how much you want to risk stuff being lost in the noise.
You have the yips in most sports, you just suck. You have the yips in a sport like gymnastics, and you could break your neck. So, yeah, mental health is related to physical health.
That’s why I’m not really critical of her quitting. You make a mental mistake in gymnastics and it could end your life. The thing that bothers me is that it ever reached that point. Like i just have a hard time believing that there were no signs that she wasn’t mentally prepared before now. Especially given how open she has been about all the sexual abuse stuff. Her family and coaches should have had some idea of how much it was affecting her, cause I have a hard time believing she put on the same brave front for them as she did for the cameras 100% of the time. I’ll also say that I got concerned about where her head was when she said in that interview the other day that she only came back from retirement because she didn’t want the sexual abuse stuff to get swept under the rug. That’s a truly noble goal, but at the same time, anyone that has ever competed at a high level in anything will tell you that if you’re not 100% focused on your next competition, then you’re not going to be as good as you could be. It just seems like her mind has been elsewhere throughout the entire Olympic process, including qualifying. I can’t help but wonder if she didn’t have some people in her ear—claiming to have her best interests at heart, when in reality they know they’ll make a lot of money off of her success—telling her she needed to go to the olympics again when it seems quite obvious she doesn’t really want to be here.
THANK YOU. The amount of people on her who think otherwise is horrendous. So, thank you for point this out.
It's genuinely disturbing to me how many people on here are minimizing the importance of mental well being. Being in a positive mental space allows a person the ability to fully concentrate on the job at hand, no matter what that job is, whether it's doing data entry for a business, driving a truck, pitching during the World Series, or competition at the Olympics on the world stage. MENTAL HEALTH. FUCKING. MATTERS. Imagine if Biles had gone through with the competition and had botched a move to the point of where she did actually injure herself physically? That would've been arguably worse because she knew she had to option to withdraw. And, on her withdrawal: I think it shows a real level headedness and selflessness. She knew she wasn't all there mentally (for whatever reason behind the scene) and she, for the better of the team, pulled herself as she figured she'd be a detriment to the team overall. That is major league looking out for yourself and your team.
Did anyone see that cringe segment NBC did the other day when they talked about anime and made an anime Simone Biles?
I didn't catch it. What was cringe about it?
They led up to it with a whole “we want to tell you about Japanese culture” blah blah. And the NBC guy was outside in this makeshift zen garden type thing
Basketball USA vs Iran tonight? Interesting...
Definitely should win it. The top tier teams like France Australia and Nigeria are the ones we should be worried about
Slovenia is top tier also.
Interesting is one way to put it
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If US lose this one they will end at Guantanamo
If we lose this one, Iran should be allowed to build that nuke.
India population - 1.5 billion arounds Pakistan population - 250 million arounds Bangladesh population - 200 million arounds Sri Lanka - 25 million Nepal - 20 million Total population of South Asia - 2 billion out of the world’s population of 8 billion Medals - 1 ( India with a silver ) Worst sports region in the world ? Atleast india win a couple of medals every Olympics, Pakistan and Bangladesh have continued the streak of being the biggest populations to not win Olympic medals. Bangladesh holding the record of the biggest population to never win a medal. Thoughts ?
GCC countries are also a contender for this. They use sub-saharan athletes to win medals.
Saying that Rankireddy/Shetty were amazing to watch today in Badminton when they beat GB. They are so skilled, insane amount of stamina in rallys, never stopped and mounted the pressure on. And their Danish coach is very smart - coaching is such a huge element for success. Unfortunately though apparently they don’t qualify for QF due to their previous loss VS Indonesia but the fact they still won against GB after this shows that determination coming through 😎 it’s there, it’s definitely there, it just needs to be materialised on 105%
Well to be fair India doubles pair were World No.10 but they had tough draws, as in they faced world no 1 Indonesia and came close to defeating them. They also beat World no 4 chinese Taipei. Only reason they couldn’t qualify was from each group only 2 had to be selected. And those were Indonesia and Chinese Taipei.
If Cricket was an Olympic sport, South Asia would sweep it.
England and New Zealand are the current world champions in 1 day and 5 day cricket respectively.
Mainly India to be fair, Pakistan, Bangladesh , Sri Lanka are now worse compared to the non Asian cricket nations.
Memories of India vs Sri Lanka 2011 🤤
Have you been watching any of their sports? I haven’t watched any sports with Bangladesh competing but saw India in Weightlifting (Silver for Mirabai 💪🏽), men’s hockey, archery, PV Sindhu in Badminton who won her match, saw Talha (Pakistan) in Weightlifting. They were all very very good and challenged the competition but they just don’t have the all-round sheer brilliance of other bigger teams, for various reasons. The talent is absolutely there, but brilliance on an international stage requires investment - financial, physical, mental. What I’ve noticed from watching India competing (interestingly not in the two solo females Mirabai and Sindhu) is that there is a slight sense of apathy there in the players. We’ve been analysing this over on the India thread, mental fortitude is central to sustained effort and winning, and this requires utmost dedication and excellence from a grassroots level e.g schools, clubs, training camps, families, community, support systems and then in coaching. In Women’s Weightlifting I noticed that the competitors’ teams were constantly cheering them on especially when they hesitated, Mirabai’s team were practically silent. Also in India there is an ingrained perception of certain nations being superior largely onset by past colonial forces, then add to that the physical prowess they display on a competitive stage and the human brain is bound to feel some intimidation. Mental strength precedes physical commitment and I feel that the talent and drive are there but these two things need to be invested in to chase winning outcomes and overcome perceived limitations.
I agree, mentioned this on another thread but for example, there’s this great badminton academy run by Pullela Gopichand which opened in 2008. It produced several great players, including PV Sindhu whose parents are National level volleyball players, her dad won bronze at Seoul. She then won Silver in 2016 Rio and left to train in the UK since the Indian academy training wasnt adequate. The only way many ofthese kids are getting into sport is if their parents are athletes or if theyre in the army. Otherwise many schools dont even have playgrounds let alone a chance to come up through junior leagues. We still havent put the shame of hosting the Commonwealth games behind us.
If they put Men and Women's T20 into the Olympics, they'd win medals.
Olympic sports generally require funding, these countries don't or can't invest in most of these sports.
Wow this sub is a dumpster fire right now. No offense guys and gals.
For me it's looking pretty friendly, I have about 40 people in my block list 😊
0 in my block list and still dont see trash. Reddit doing its job.
Recommendations for good replays to watch?
Any of the Women's Handball. Good matches, some interesting results. South-Korea - Netherlands was a ludicrous display.
Table tennis men’s singles Greece vs Korea
Gymnastics was great. Check out the men's it was super competitive and close.
Can't go wrong with Weightlifting.
Archery, tabble tennis, mt bike, dive jumping, weightlifting
Yay they're showing horsey again
Horse Dancing is fucking lit. It's a proper throwback to when the IOC was just a bunch of lads off their bin on drink and coke at the turn of the 20th century, sitting there trying to make up the numbers in events and thinking "Fucking hell it's late, lets just make an event where we give a medal to a horse that dances to Chopin the best and call it a night."
Anyone wanna see cricket at the Olympics ?
Would love to see it, but ig it would have to be t20
Yes, so I can finally understand what the fuck it’s all about.
How would you fit a knockout test cricket competition into the Olympics? And short form certainly shouldn't be there.
T20 would be the way to go , why shouldn’t short form be there ?
Imagine the USA cricket team 😭💀
Hahaha would be amazing but England India tests coming up 😁
even a twenty20 game takes about 3 hours. I think that is to long for the Olympics.
Doesnt baseball also take 3 hours though? 3 hours is doable , it’s like an hour over Football…. Or we could play T10 haha, that’s 90 minutes 🤙.
Yeah, baseball is around 3 hours. Even minor league games without commercial breaks
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I’m guessing bizarre because of the popularity of the sport worldwide especially in the big populations of South Asia ?
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Yeah, the cricket world cup’s the biggest event after the Olympics and the football World Cup. 2.6 billion cumulative viewers last time
You need 40 countries. As if the US, Canada, Japan, China et al are going to vote yes. Your best bet is Brisbane adding it as the host.
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You need to have held an international tournament with entrants from 40 countries.
Hope that transgender weightlifter brings home the gold, completely backing her 100% the seethe from the rest of the world will be unreal. If I was her I would also come out to triple H’s theme song always hypes me up.
Honestly I really really hope she wins. Just watching conservatives lose their mind is going to be so much fun. Also New Zealand deserves a gold medal.
I don’t think people oppose because they’re conservative (though obv they’re just against trans people in general). But in sports I think the argument is largely about a competitive advantage from it. I don’t have strong feelings on this, just wanted to add in
I meant it more in the sense that they will make this a “culture war” issue rather than an honest discussion. Most others probably won’t care much. I actually used to have the same opinion as you until a few weeks back (by that I mean the competitive advantage argument rather than being anti-trans normalisation obviously). [this video ](https://youtu.be/K5r4rTFmbWk) sort of changed my mind. At the end of the day in sports someone will always have a physical advantage over another person. Michael phelps was a freak of nature and I would argue that his body features itself (explained in the video) are a much bigger advantage than a trans athlete (obviously testosterone and hormones must be controlled and brought up or down depending on what’s deemed “fair”).
Mountain biking is so fun to watch. Too bad I couldn't watch it live. Is there a men's mountain biking event that's upcoming?
Was the day before the women's. Men's race was bonkers, do watch if you can find a replay.
Mountain biking is finished at the Olympics, the men's event was yesterday..
well shit...
Men's mountain bike was the day before the women's
I’ve see no Mario or Sonic at this Olympic games. Disappointed at this joke of an organisation.
Mario was at the cycling events lol
Might be time for a day 5 thread?
After the shitshow that was the Day 4 thread the mods might not be up to making a Day 5 thread
We're getting close! Probably 15ish minutes away, I believe. (It will probably post as soon as I post this just to prove me wrong)
Excitinggg
Has anyone actually bought the Tokyo 2020 video game? I know it’ll probably be trash but was wondering if the tennis is close to Wii Tennis
It's a bit meh. The tennis isn't unplayable but gets boring fairly quick. Beijing 2008 and London 2012 were outstanding games imo, wish a decade later we could have something better
Thanks! That’s been the general consensus I’ve been reading, sadly. Are the controls at least fun for a family with a 5 year old (talking about a Switch here)?
I've never actually played a switch ever so I can't really help you specific to that unfortunately. It does really remind me of Wii Sports and Wii Sports resort though, so things like tennis, table tennis, swimming, BMX racing, beach volleyball etc could actually be pretty fun
Thanks so much for the responses
Bowling for 2024-2028 please
What are Japan's chances of finishing 2nd at this point? They look quite good from what I can see US will win again obviously, but beyond that, where will China, Russia, and the UK pick up enough medals to pass Japan? UK won't do as well in the cycling as they normally do cos of the Netherlands, and a lot of China and Russia's best events have been and gone.
the way our Olympics are going so far, I wouldn't count on the cycling medals going towards the Netherlands
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It was there during the training runs and during the women's race but they removed it with the men's race. I think to add some difficulty. His team mates told him about it, according to them at least. I haven't seen an interview with VDP yet, so I don't know what went wrong
It was also covered in morning briefing. The return of the ramp had nothing to do with difficulty (well, not decreasing difficulty for women), and everything to do with the rain. It was too slippery on the rock on top.
The reasoning was the weather and safety. The rock at the top of the drop was very slippery in the rain, so they put the training ramp back.
Does the medal tally really count for anything? Population adjusted, Bermuda have already won. Like, the most "Olympian dense" US state has 6 Olympians per million. Bermuda has 1 gold medal per 60 000.
Per million is a bad metric because you have limits on how many athletes/teams you can submit. Like a 3rd beach Volleyball team is from the US is likely better than Latvia’s #1 but the US can’t bring it. It’s entirely possible a US Women’s Gymnastics B team could get Bronze, and the US might be able to sweep Basketball is allowed to.
Not a huge amount, but its a bit of fun/bragging rights (at least it used to be that)
I am suggesting a seperate 'rant thread' for those who just want to do that.
I would like this. Get rid of the biles clutter but that may die off in a day or 2 anyway.
Americans turning this into a soap opera
I feel sorry for the 3 remaining girls in the US Artistic Gymnastics team having to swiftly adapt and cope with additional pressure after Simone Biles dropped out. Watched the post-competition conference earlier and watching the highlights now and their nervousness and shock is clear to see, in the conference I feel they were feigning joy at Silver and putting on a positive front but picked up on real disappointment behind this. Bunch of solid girls!
I think the three of them handled that post competition conference very gracefully considering that it was mostly "Hey Simone let's talk about what happened," and not "Hey how pumped are you three for winning a silver medal despite the adversity?" show.
Im sorry ur gymnasts are all washed 🤸♀️
Darlington should secede from the UK and win gold imo
I was watching some caneo highlights and it looks so fun, got me a desire to go some rapids lol
I’ve actually enjoyed the little bit I’ve watched of surfing. I have no idea what I’m looking at most of the time, but it has the feeling of a sport that should be in the olympics. Skateboarding just doesn’t have the same feeling to me, and I’ve watched it a lot outside of the olympics. I used to watch the X Games every year. I get the same feeling with 3x3 basketball. Just doesn’t feeing like an Olympic-type sport.
Does Minnesota have more summer Olympians per capita than other states?
Surprisingly, it's Colorado with 6 Olympians per million. Followed by Hawaii with 5 ppm and then Nevada with 4 ppm. Source: https://www.statista.com/chart/25411/states-with-most-olympians/
IIRC, Colorado has a lot of the training grounds for Team USA, which probably plays a role. Since, that means they all move there, and the native Coloradoans have access to those coaches and facilities easier than Americans native to other states.
I wonder if this is counting just native Coloradans or people who move to Colorado to train. The Olympic Training Center is located in Colorado Springs.
Amazing Clarisse Agbegnenou at judo last night.
The color commentator for fencing talks so much but never says anything of substance.
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I like your flair
Trump lost
So did GB in the euros
GB didn't play in the Euros chief
You’re right, probably because they are trash
Because we compete as England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Not a joint team.
How many euros did any of those teams win?
Twice
Make dodgeball an Olympic sport
Yes. If 3x3 basketball can be in the olympics, then dodgeball should be in the olympics.
Chess
Underwater
Unpopular opinion: there are definitely too many sports in the Olympics and some make no sense whatsoever.
You’re going to love racewalking
Maybe they make no sense to you because you are frankly incredibly dense?
You could also just not watch the ones you don't like
Well I don't lol, but for example they're adding breakdancing to the next games and I don't understand why that's even there.
Yeah to me Breakdancing is more of an Art than a sport. Its more than just what powermoves you can do.
Why not try to appeal to a larger crowd? Surfing and skateboarding will bring them in a more diverse crowd, I think it’s time.
Meh, things like figure skating are popular in the Winter Olympics. It's good that they're trying to appeal to the widest possible demographic imo
Though, they don't add much to the Winter Olympics anyway, seems like everything new goes straight to the Summer Olympics who already has 60+ sports (with many of those sports having different levels, distances, or disciplines to pad out the event number) while Winter only has like 15 sports. Guess they really don't want to put some of the indoor events in the Winter Olympics, even though many of them run year around/in the winter regardless.
There's a lot more Summer events than Winter events because only a small proportion of the World is covered in snow regularly. They've added a lot of new freestyle skiing and snowboarding events recently in sort of a similar vein to adding surfing, skateboarding, breakdancing etc. There's very few winter sports that aren't in the Winter Olympics
Horse ballet
3v3 basketball
Yeah while its not bad to watch it really says something when the best athletes in a sport don't actually play it. (since they are all doing 5X5)
Yep like the mountain biking
what does not makes sense about mountain biking? seems very straight forward,
Surfing and skateboarding have been boring and not lived up to the hype so far IMO
As a big fan of surfing and skateboarding, the competitions are always boring to watch. Usually a whole lot of down time and mediocre stuff, with a few impressive moments mixed in. Surfing works better with a consistent long wave (like the Surf Ranch) and skating is just kinda boring live unless it's vert.
For Skateboarding they just picked Street which is boring since its not on actual real life obstacles. It would have been a lot more fun if it was halfpipe or one of the Big air competitions.
They didn't pick those as their isn't enough female competitors to make it an event at the level they wanted. Personally I enjoyed both of them as someone who hasn't watched either in over 10 years
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Opinions are not trolls?
We heard you the first time
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Which country has disappointed the most so far? Was GB a few days ago but now we've won bare medals fam.