Paris Olympics 2024
Thought I'd start a thread about the Olympics. I'll be watching all nations coming together for this historic event. It is the gathering of the best athletes in the world. I like it all but I really like the track and field and gymnastics. Waiting to see who is the fastest man and the fastest woman on the planet and the beauty of the beam, vault, bars, and floor.
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They made break dancing an Olympic event. Pass.
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
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They made mocking Jesus Christ an event. Lost me there.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain4 -
They need to go through the list and get rid of anything that's not athletic.
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
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Thought about this a little. First, sorry @First_Warrior for jacking your good thread. Certainly a good idea. I'm not much into the whole thing, although I usually catch some portion of it when it happens. Some people are, as well as the athletes.
So, the thing is, all of these athletes have worked hard to get where they are, they are rarities in the world, always were. I'm going to bet that the athletes have virtually no say in what kind of production the masters of marketing dream up and put into play. It's not the competitors who made jackass decisions, it's the jackasses upstairs. If everyone in the world who actually does anything were to stop because the jackasses upstairs made a jackass decision, nothing would ever get done.
So, I'll probably catch some portion of the Olympics, Faye likes something or the other, we'll probably see that.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain6 -
We watched a bit of the Rugby Seven Bronze, and Gold/Silver matches. Fiji had its first ever loss of a match in the Olympics, to France, no less. I don't understand the rules, like when a guy gets tackled, then can flip to a teammate and keep on playing, but it was fun to watch, and those guys are jacked.
Some of the Fijian (?) players had tears streaming down their faces during the playing of their National Anthem. It's a huge deal for them to represent their country.
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I think you hit a nerve, Shawn. Nobody drops the "dancing" word, calling it "breaking" unless they got skin in the game.
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Back to sports! As far as Olympic competition goes it has to catch my interest. For example, I caught a few minutes of women's water polo. Wow! It's brutal. They're basically trying to drown each other. That caught my interest.
On the other hand, ten seconds is all it took to see they're wearing black yoga pants in women's beach volleyball instead of bikini bottoms.
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@Yakster said:
Water Polo is an aggressive sport. Back in my day, players would grow their toenails out.I googled it and found out it's older, as an organized sport than basketball, and made it into the Olympics in 1900 vs 1936 for basketball. Plus, some of the original rules were crazy. The goalies used to be outside the pool and would jump in to body check opponent who attempted a score.
Per Wikipedia
Early play allowed brute strength, wrestling and holding opposing players underwater to recover the ball. Players held underwater for lengthy periods usually surrendered possession. The goalie stood outside the playing area and defended the goal by jumping in on any opponent attempting to score2 -
I enjoy many more of the winter events. I don't have any form of cable right now so I doubt I'll watch any. But water polo does sound fun.
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I watched some surfing today (they were in Tahiti since Paris doesn’t have surfing waves). Interesting to watch, but seems a little bias on getting a good wave
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One of my strong takes is about swimming. Every swimming event should just be done in terms of getting from point A to point B. The different strokes are dumb. However you can swim the fastest if a shark is chasing you, should be how you swim in the Olympics.
For the running events, there's not a 100M running forward, then another 100M running backwards, and a third 100M for skipping. It's all just running. Why would anyone ever swim the butterfly stroke for any reason out in real life?
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athletics are stupid, all events should be for useful activities,,,bricklaying, oyster shucking, roof shingling, precision machining, etc.
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Yeah true, good point. I would absolutely love to watch what you just described though for what it's worth.
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Yeah, how about a team event with an oyster shucker and an oyster eater
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What a bunch of f$&king haters.
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I shared this in another thread, but thought it made sense here as well.
The obstacle is the way.
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I thought of a swimming contest I'd like to see. Something we all did as kids. Who can swim the farthest underwater without coming up for air.
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@rsherman24 said:
I watched some surfing today (they were in Tahiti since Paris doesn’t have surfing waves). Interesting to watch, but seems a little bias on getting a good waveFrom yesterday...
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@CalvinAndHobo said:
I thought of a swimming contest I'd like to see. Something we all did as kids. Who can swim the farthest underwater without coming up for air.We swam below the water treatment plant so we stayed on top as much as possible.
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@CalvinAndHobo said:
One of my strong takes is about swimming. Every swimming event should just be done in terms of getting from point A to point B. The different strokes are dumb. However you can swim the fastest if a shark is chasing you, should be how you swim in the Olympics.For the running events, there's not a 100M running forward, then another 100M running backwards, and a third 100M for skipping. It's all just running. Why would anyone ever swim the butterfly stroke for any reason out in real life?
Dissenting opinion.
If one is ok at the crawl but a city-stomping monster in the butterfly, I think it’s important to have a way to recognize that.There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.
Hunter S. Thompson
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@dirtdude said:
@CalvinAndHobo said:
I thought of a swimming contest I'd like to see. Something we all did as kids. Who can swim the farthest underwater without coming up for air.We swam below the water treatment plant so we stayed on top as much as possible.
No ****
There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.
Hunter S. Thompson
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You are correct, we never came out with turds in our teeth, apparently the filters worked.
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@dirtdude said:
You are correct, we never came out with turds in our teeth, apparently the filters worked.Filters are tight!
They intercepted sh !tThere is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.
Hunter S. Thompson
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In other news, aside from kvelling over that lion-hearted Simone Biles …
saw a wonderful table-tennis match between China and North Korea.While I’m not a fan of either nation’s regime, I gotta give props to the great athletes on both sides.
There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.
Hunter S. Thompson
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No fire in the Olympic torch. Econuts didn't want to burn fuels.
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
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Well, they could have put the fire out in their clean, pollution free river that they take such good care of.
If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.
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And no worries about the millions of gallons of fuel burned just getting to Paris for the event.
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Ahh!!!! I had this well thought out and lengthy response about the safety and the fuel usage and the symbolism behind the Cauldron..... it was Frank length worthy! And I go back to check and it never posted! WTF!
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