Paris Olympics 2024 Thread

[longhorn320]

Women almost got got leaving their best guards at home. But overall, heck of an Olympics. Except for the breakdancing lady.

Next time bring Caitlin

[ELA]

Next time bring Caitlin

Nah, 2028 for sure

[ELA]

If UF was a country, we'd be 16th in the medal count.

And as a football team, they are 16th in the SEC

[ELA]

Agree.  But that's why I'm actually glad they split the summer and winter Olympics off the same year.  We have to wait 4 years for another summer games, but only 2 years for the next Olympics.  That's at least some relief.

Yup.  Although I definitely struggle to get as nearly into the Winter.

Obviously fewer sports I enjoy, but really it comes down to two major things...

#1 - It goes up against other sports, not just August MLB
#2 - So much of the racing sports are time trials.  Aside from speed skating and some of the cross events, you are just watching one participant at a time.  Swimming wouldnt be so interesting if they swam one at a time, and you were just watching times

[utee94]

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[GopherRock]

Yup.  Although I definitely struggle to get as nearly into the Winter.

Obviously fewer sports I enjoy, but really it comes down to two major things...

#1 - It goes up against other sports, not just August MLB
#2 - So much of the racing sports are time trials.  Aside from speed skating and some of the cross events, you are just watching one participant at a time.  Swimming wouldnt be so interesting if they swam one at a time, and you were just watching times

Friends of mine were, at one point in the early 2010s, practitioners of the sliding sports. I saw them in action when I was in Salt Lake some years ago.  One must go to the track to really comprehend how stupidly fast lugers, skeleton sliders, and bobsleds really go. So if you travels ever take you to Lake Placid, Park City, or Whistler, make sure you go by the sliding track when people are out there.

I think that another reason why this Olympics was a smashing success is that this is the first Olympics since 2018 where everyone was visibly enjoying themselves in Paris, instead of being locked in their Tokyo hotels or a Chinese gulag.

[utee94]

I've always loved bobsled, it fascinates me for some reason.  As a kid I also always loved to set up convoluted tracks for marbles to roll down, probably linked.

And I like the Alpine sports too.  I didn't appreciate them until I started skiing myself, then I understood just how special their capabilities are.

Figure skating does nothing for me, and ice dancing is even worse. 

Overall I'd say I like the summer and winter games about equally.  But for some reason the winter games seem more special, more spectacular settings in the mountains*.  Just my opinion.

* You know, other than the Beijing winter games, that were set against a factory hellscape.

[ELA]

Friends of mine were, at one point in the early 2010s, practitioners of the sliding sports. I saw them in action when I was in Salt Lake some years ago.  One must go to the track to really comprehend how stupidly fast lugers, skeleton sliders, and bobsleds really go. So if you travels ever take you to Lake Placid, Park City, or Whistler, make sure you go by the sliding track when people are out there.

I think that another reason why this Olympics was a smashing success is that this is the first Olympics since 2018 where everyone was visibly enjoying themselves in Paris, instead of being locked in their Tokyo hotels or a Chinese gulag.

I had forgotten the Zika thing in 2016 too.  That and it being in Rio I think kept some numbers down. 

Across the board this seems like the most positive reaction since Vancouver? 

[utee94]

You know, except for the three German swimmers who got the trots right after swimming in the Seine...

[ELA]

You know, except for the three German swimmers who got the trots right after swimming in the Seine...

German athletes have done worse to their bodies for gold

[GopherRock]

I had forgotten the Zika thing in 2016 too.  That and it being in Rio I think kept some numbers down.

Across the board this seems like the most positive reaction since Vancouver?

Either Vancouver or London, but yes. Easily the most positive reaction since then. Rio had the Zika virus in Brazil, and going to Vlad Putin's villa on the Black Sea didn't sit right from the get-go.

[Gigem]

Jesus, I have zero memory of the 2022 Winter Olympics being held in Beijing.  Not that I ever really watch them, but I remember many of the venues over the years including SLC, Sochi, Japan (seems like it got delayed that year due to warm temps), Lake Placid, and Lillehammer.  As I recall, they split the winter/summer games from the same year to every two years, starting I think with Lillehammer in '94.  

[Riffraft]

I remember as a kid and a young man following the olympics, but I can remember the last olympics (winter or Summer) that i pay attention to.  I think when the whole amatuer idea left I completely checked out, but it probably started sooner. 

[FearlessF]

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