Paris 2024

[mapuc]

The Olympic games have already made a false start by starting with Football and Rugby two days before the opening ceremony in Paris.

As a sport fantast there are lots of hours I'm going to watch from the Olympics in Paris

Here are some sports disciplines I'm going follow mostly

Handball-Here it will mostly be Denmark and Sweden I'm going to follow.
Kano slalom
Rowing - Here is my hopes for Denmark
Hockey-Here it will mostly be Germany I'm going to follow.

And athletic of course

Yes IOC is not worth its name and the Olympic spirit. The sportsfolk who attendee is not.

Markus

[Platapus]

The coverage here in the US is usually subpar. The only events covered seem to be only those events where the US is strong.



For the other events that I like.... good luck finding coverage here. :(

[mapuc]

The coverage here in the US is usually subpar. The only events covered seem to be only those events where the US is strong.



For the other events that I like.... good luck finding coverage here. :(

Then you should take a look at Eurosport 1 and 2 Europe and see how many hours per day they are going to broadcast from Paris 2024 the next 14 days.

Even our own two Danish sport channel(TV2 Sport and TV2 Sport X) are going to show many hours per day.

Find an IP-tv provider who have a box with a build-in VPN you can rent or buy. Thereby you can access the entire worlds tv.

Markus

[Moonlight]

The IOC sold the rights of the Olympic games in 2015 to a Pay TV company in a £920m deal, it begs the question, what happened to the money? and where has athletics benefitted from the money?, this has the stench of corruption written all over it.

I don't know about your countries but, here in the UK there hasn't been any initiatives in Athletics that have been paid for by the IOC, so I will assume it was just another snout in the trough moment by the Olympic Committee.
Sport in general has loads of these shady bastards at the top of the tree, it's time they all went through a root and branch investigation and they were all cleared out.

[Jimbuna]

^ Agreed :yep:

[em2nought]

Starting tomorrow my cable provider has set up two dedicated channels for the Olympics no additional charges. The TV advertising for the Olympics has looked particularly good this year. Boats on the River Seine, street side cafes, Simone Biles. I wish I was at least one tenth as physically fit as Simone. :D

[Jimbuna]

Chaos at Olympic football match as VAR rules out Argentina goal two hours after game suspended

A pitch invasion caused chaos at an Olympic football match between Argentina and Morocco - with a video review ruling out an equalising goal two hours after the game was suspended.

In what Argentina manager Javier Mascherano described as a "circus", his team were denied what looked like a 2-2 draw 16 minutes into added time after protesting Morocco fans forced the game to be suspended.

The decision ruling out the goal was delivered about two hours after play was halted when the teams re-emerged on to the pitch to finish the match in an empty stadium.

It meant Argentina eventually lost the match 2-1.

"It's a circus, I've never experienced anything like it in my entire sporting career," Mascherano said in comments reported by Argentinian newspaper La Nacion.

Immediately after Argentina player Cristian Medina looked to have made the score 2-2, bottles, cups and what appeared to be a flare were thrown on to the pitch.

Several fans in Morocco colours also ran on to the pitch, with some being escorted off the pitch by stewards.

Video boards informed fans to leave Stade Geoffroy-Guichard in the French city of Saint-Etienne.

It was initially believed the full-time whistle had been blown and even FIFA's website had declared the game over - but an hour later, organisers said the match was not officially finished.

Reuters news agency reports the venue manager said the game had been interrupted and a decision about whether the match would be completed was being discussed.

Meanwhile, an official reviewed the video of Medina's goal and informed players it had been overruled as one of Argentina's players was judged marginally offside in the lead-up to their equaliser.

The two sides played for about three minutes in an empty stadium before the final whistle officially blew.

Argentina had been two goals down before scoring in the 68th minute and believing they had tied the game deep into added time through Medina.

Following the controversy, Argentina star Lionel Messi - who is not in the squad for the Olympics - shared a black-background post on Instagram with the word "insolito" - unusual - alongside a shocked emoji.

Mascherano also claimed thieves had broken into the team's training ground and stole a watch and rings belonging to player Thiago Almada a day before the match.
https://news.sky.com/story/chaos-at-olympics-football-match-as-var-rules-out-argentina-goal-two-hours-after-game-suspended-13184415

[mapuc]

^ Here a team are the loser in a match if one of its supporters interrupt the game somehow.

Should have been the same in the match between Argentina and Morocco
As it was a Moroccan supporters who threw things into the field.

There are around 600.000 tickets who haven't been sold yet.

https://www.euronews.com/business/2024/07/24/financial-cause-for-concern-some-600000-paris-olympics-tickets-unsold

Markus

[Jimbuna]

I think the potential risk of that above Markus would be supporters of the losing team posing as the other teams supporters and causing the game to be abandoned.

Better still, the team of the offending supporters not being able to attend any future games.

[em2nought]

^ Here a team are the loser in a match if one of its supporters interrupt the game somehow.

Should have been the same in the match between Argentina and Morocco
As it was a Moroccan supporters who threw things into the field.

There are around 600.000 tickets who haven't been sold yet.

https://www.euronews.com/business/2024/07/24/financial-cause-for-concern-some-600000-paris-olympics-tickets-unsold

Markus
I was going to say they need to be careful about who wins events as to not upset the really bad actors. Wouldn't want Notre Dame to spontaneously combust again. :03: Instead, today Team Middle East enters the arena without provocation from any Olympic event whatsoever. :yeah:

Just my gut reaction, really really hoping it's not a reaction to the left changing up the rules in order to stay in power

[Moonlight]

RAPIST SHUNNED Paris Olympics volleyball star who raped Brit girl he groomed online is BANISHED from athletes’ village after outrage

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/29487234/paris-olympics-volleyball-rapist-banished-athletes-village/

Once a rapist, always a rapist, this Currant shouldn't ever have been given the chance to compete in National or International top level sport ever again after what he's done.
As for the Dutch Olympic Committee including this bastard in their team, I'd say they were more concerned about Olympic Medals than anything else.

[Jimbuna]

Pro-Palestinian athletes could show ‘solidarity’ in Olympics opening ceremony

Aspectacular boat procession down the Seine at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games could be used by national delegations seeking to show “solidarity” with the Palestinian cause.

Around 90 vessels carrying 10,500 athletes and officials are due to float in convoy through Paris on Friday night, including a delegation from Israel. Pro-Palestine organisers said discussions were taking place about a high-profile demonstration.

A “show of solidarity” could involve some unnamed national delegations flying the Palestinian flag or wearing messages on clothing, sources said, as part of a policy of those opposed to Israel’s involvement in the Games to target open-air events over the next three weeks.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/sport/other/pro-palestinian-athletes-could-show-solidarity-in-olympics-opening-ceremony/ar-BB1qCzjB?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=e4689a6707694d3480bc85596728e825&ei=20

[em2nought]

I hope the Israeli athletes have better security details than President Trump does.

[Dargo]

I hope the Israeli athletes have better security details than President Trump does.Oh, you can bet on that Paris is a fortified city.

[mapuc]

Oh, you can bet on that Paris is a fortified city.

Still there was somebody who manage to sabotage some train and train connections.

Markus

[Dargo]

Still there was somebody who manage to sabotage some train and train connections.

Markus100% security does not exist.

[mapuc]

100% security does not exist.

Or they have chosen to concentrate the protection where the sport and people are.

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Team GB have claimed their first bronze in a nail-biting finish in the women’s 3metre synchro diving competition.

[mapuc]

Here I have to agree most of it was crap

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1928620/paris-2024-olympics-opening-ceremony-worst-history

Markus

[Jimbuna]

It will come as a blow to France and French President Emmanuel Macron, whose government spent somewhere in the region of £8.4bn to bring the ceremony to the city centre - rather than the traditional stadium approach.

:o:oops:

[em2nought]

Or they have chosen to concentrate the protection where the sport and people are.

Markus

They seem to be really good at providing security in regard to more news about the attacks on the trains. Haven't heard another word about that. It's almost like they put Kimberly Cheatle in charge. :D

[Rockstar]

https://i.ibb.co/qFsfzZz/IMG-0245.jpg

[Gerald]

Woke agenda most disgusting! 😕

[Dargo]

The French railway has been repaired again after Friday's sabotage actions, reports the French railway company SNCF. Tomorrow, high-speed trains should resume running as scheduled and delays should be over. SNCF reports that the situation on the western high-speed line from Paris is already ‘almost back to normal’ today. On the line to the north, three out of four TGVs are running again.

[Skybird]

Woke agenda most disgusting! ��
My thoughts exactly after having seen a 25 minutes summary of it.

Civilizations falling are prone to mistaking diversity with decadence and degeneration. A culture that does not know its roots and origin anymore or, worse, actively denies or, worst, mocks them, has no future.


My interest was low from beginning on. After this I am done with the games completely.



Los Angeles 1984 were the most intense olympic games I ever followed, and I enjoyed every single day of them and was excited about practically every competition, staring on the TV many hours every day. Good memories!

[Aktungbby]

My interest was low from beginning on. After this I am done with the games completely.
:hmmm: I haven't worn a jock-strap in nearly half a century!:shucks: :arrgh!: And I centainly won't wear my speedo in the Olympic pool!!!??:k_confused: WSJ: https://www.wsj.com/sports/olympics/swimming-paris-games-pool-780dd98f NANTERRE, France—Swimming is a sport with only a few rules. No running on the deck. No diving in the shallow end. And definitely no peeing in the pool.

But here’s one of the dirtiest secrets of the Olympic Games: Everyone pees in the pool.

“I’ve probably peed in every single pool I’ve swam in,” said Lilly King, a three-time Olympian for Team USA. “That’s just how it goes.”

If you thought the Olympics was the culmination of four years of blood, sweat and tears, we regret to inform you that La Défense Arena in Paris will be overflowing with a different bodily fluid. It turns out that every athlete who takes a plunge into the Olympic pool will probably relieve themselves in there, too.

Zach Harting, who competed for the U.S. at the Tokyo Olympics, vividly remembers the first time he felt nature calling at an inconvenient time. He was about to compete in Alabama’s high-school state championships when he had the sudden urge to go. Unfortunately, he had already squeezed into his tight-fitting racing suit, which meant that a trip to the bathroom was a larger undertaking than he had time for.

In the end, he urinated in the suit, in the pool—and life as an athlete was never the same. “The world changed for me,” Harting said. “Every time I went to a pool after that, I only considered myself to have swam in it if I peed in it.”

This nasty habit isn’t just a lack of decorum. Swimmers insist there’s a good reason why they can’t do what most people learn by the age of four. At important competitions, swimmers hydrate until the last possible moment while also wearing ultra-tight suits meant to compress their bodies into the most hydrodynamic shape possible. It makes for a dangerous combination.

“I always have to pee,” said Tokyo Olympian Jake Mitchell, “because I’m so hydrated.” But swimmers know that after all the effort required to shimmy into their suits, a process that can take up to 20 minutes, going through the contortions again for a nature break isn’t worth it.

Tom Dolan, who won gold in the 400-meter individual medley at the 1996 and 2000 Olympics, remembers early versions of high-tech suits that went from his shoulders to his knees that effectively trapped urine inside them. “It was tiny, paper-thin material and it would bubble up,” he said.

Later in the aughts, when Speedo was developing its polyurethane LZR Racer suit that went down to the ankles, NASA engineers consulting on the project suggested adding ventilation to the legs. The idea was that any liquid or air that got trapped in the suit upon diving in could have an exit point.

Swimmers soon discovered that the vents were pretty good at letting another liquid exit their suits, too.

What happens once that liquid hits the water is a problem for anyone who has ever operated a swimming pool. The most common solution is copious amounts of chlorine.

According to Brian Spear, whose company handled the chemical filtration of the pools used for U.S. Olympic Swim Trials, the potent smell associated with swimming pools is the byproduct of odorless chlorine reacting with organic compounds in the water, like hair or dead skin. Or urine.

At that meet, where nearly 1,000 swimmers competed over nine days, Spear constantly needed to tweak the pH and chlorine levels to keep the water as clean as he could.

But a pool never stays urine-free for long. Which is why swimmers adhere to an unspoken code of conduct for underwater bathroom breaks. It’s best not to do it when other people are in close proximity. “You never want to swim through a warm patch,” said Cullen Jones, a four-time Olympic medalist.
The most talented swimmers are those who can multitask.

“I can actually pee as I’m swimming, which is kind of a gift,” King said. “It’s definitely a skill.”

For some expert aquatic urinators, that’s a bridge too far. “You’re crop dusting everyone,” Jones said. “That’s foul.”

The pool isn’t the only place at a swim meet that turns into an impromptu bathroom. Because swimmers must report to the ready room 15 minutes before their race, they are left with two dismal options if the urge strikes: hold it in or let it out right onto your towel or straight onto the deck.

Before the 400-meter freestyle at World Championships, two-time Olympian Katie Hoff remembered sitting next to a fellow American swimmer and “literally saw it roll down her leg and hit the floor,” she said. Hoff wasn’t fazed. “It sounds so gross to outsiders, but because there is so much chlorine you don’t even think about it.”

There is, however, one circumstance when no swimmers would ever relieve themselves in the water.

“If you have a drug test, you don’t pee in the pool during warm down,” Harting said. “That’s 101.”:Kaleun_Sick: https://dims.apnews.com/dims4/default/b3f2898/2147483647/strip/true/crop/8256x5504+0+0/resize/1440x960!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F%5B-%2F47%2F%2C%2030%2C%2034%2C%20-19%2C%20-58%2C%20-36%2C%20-113%2C%20-15%2C%20-54%2C%207%2C%2080%2C%2074%2C%2042%2C%2086%2C%20-72%2C%20-61%2C%20-55%2C%20105%2C%2086%2C%2047%2C%2097%2C%2085%2C%203 0%2C%20-47%2C%2078%2C%2027%2C%20108%2C%20-44%5D%2F32cb30043f03449891506881ee962a66 Le pisspot Olympique:O:

[Skybird]

^ Maybe they should not add chlorine but hexaflourantimonic acid to the water then! :D Think we would see plenty of world records, and the medals could be used several times, since they would not be worn anyway. :shucks:

[Aktungbby]

...personally I dont see the fuss. I've had to relieve myself on numerous SCUBA dives into my neoprene suit if only to warm up at 100 feet in 32⁰ F. white-shark infested seas; and, of course, Ghandi drank his own urine for health reasons??! :timeout::haha:

[em2nought]

I don't feel so bad about rubbing all the dead skin off my feet in the community pool now, and just like that I don't feel like watching any of the Olympics after that opening display either.

[mapuc]

It looks like they got the person behind the sabotage last week.

French authorities have arrested an activist for an ultra-left wing movement at an SNCF rail company site, days after sabotage attacks paralysed the network, a police source said Monday

https://www.barrons.com/news/french-police-arrest-ultra-left-activist-after-sabotage-attacks-source-f5369882?refsec=topics_afp-news

Markus

[Moonlight]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zid7jONyOOw&t=655s

Update

NOT SWIM-PRESSED Swimmer Ana Carolina Vieira sent HOME from Olympics ‘after sneaking out of athlete’s village for night with boyfriend’

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/29536873/swimmer-ana-carolina-vieira-sent-home-olympics/

Wow, what a load of bollocks, these athletes are adult human beings but they're being treated as if they were children. It would be better if all the Olympic Associations had a clear cut moral viewpoint as one of them thinks it's appropriate to have a Child Rapist in one of their teams. :o

So, which is the worst, a young lady who fancies a night of passion or a child rapist whose still at Paris 2024, these bent Association Members need a smack with a baseball bat to knock some sense into them.

[em2nought]

It looks like they got the person behind the sabotage last week.

french-police-arrest-ultra-left-activist-after-sabotage-attacks

Markus

The powers that be must be hating that. :03:

[mapuc]

The powers that be must be hating that. :03:

Do you think s/he could have been paid by a foreign government ?

Or is it perhaps some left wing group who have planned it and given the order ?

Markus

[Jimbuna]

https://i.postimg.cc/Xv8ncgPk/Untitled.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

[em2nought]

Do you think s/he could have been paid by a foreign government ?

Or is it perhaps some left wing group who have planned it and given the order ?

Markus

The only thing I think so far is that the leftist French gov't must have lots of pull with the media in order for nothing more to be appearing on the internet.

[Moonlight]

Female boxer yells 'this is unjust' and falls to her knees in tears as she quits fight against 'biologically male' Olympic opponent Imane Khelif after just 46 SECONDS following two powerful punches

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13697397/Boxer-Imane-Khelif-cleared-compete-Olympics-despite-deemed-biologically-male-leaves-Italian-opponent-tears-fight-abandoned.html

The International Olympic Committee have succumbed to the Woke Mind Virus, no proper woman will get any help from them.

No one has explained to me yet what the word "Woke" actually means. :o


Olympics cheating storm breaks out as Chinese swimmer, Pan Zhanle, breaks his own world record and beats elite field by 'an entire body length' in 100m freestyle domination

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/olympics/article-13697765/pan-zhanle-accused-breaking-world-record-olympics-coach-fumes.html

Drugs at Paris 2024, are they still at it?, I'd say with certainty that they are, proving it is another matter though.

It was explained to me that the Chinese swimmers have a vigorous testing procedure, right, I see, but wouldn't that help the drug cheats from being caught out in the first place then?.

[em2nought]

Drugs at Paris 2024, are they still at it?, I'd say with certainty that they are, proving it is another matter though.


Whoever came up with that opening ceremony mockery of the Last Supper certainly should be claiming that drugs made them do it. :har:

https://www.mykhel.com/img/2024/07/paris-olympics-mocks-last-supper-ft-1722068229.jpg

...and as to boxing LOL

https://i.imgflip.com/6ap40b.jpg

[Jimbuna]

:har:

[mapuc]

This Olympic games got it first scandal today.

The IOC has to find a way so men(who identify them as woman)doesn't meet reel woman in sport, like boxing.

Markus

[Skybird]

No one has explained to me yet what the word "Woke" actually means. :o

A parasitizing loser who is protected by quota regulations.

[Skybird]

:D




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNHph6srQbI

[Jimbuna]

A parasitizing loser who is protected by quota regulations.

:Kaleun_Thumbs_Up:

[Moonlight]

As the row over boxer Imane Khelife continues, Olympic boxing is branded an 'absurd and dangerous spectacle' by human rights chief as ANOTHER female boxer who failed gender test prepares to fight today

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13701557/imane-khelife-olympic-boxing-angela-carini-human-rights.html

This Olympics has been a bleeding disaster so far, it's took the frogs over 9 years to organize it so it should have gone ahead without a hitch.

Hahaha, but this is the frogs we're talking about and, not those Cultured people across the channel, you know who I mean, the white ones, and not the Migrant scrounging murdering bastards that are currently infesting the UK.

The IOC are going to let another failed gender boxer knock the (I'm not using that American word) poop out of another female victim to satisfy their misogynist bloodlust again.
Wow, I wonder if those Olympic Committee people go home and give their wives or rent boy a good kicking if their dinner isn't on the table when they get home.

The BBC coverage has been bloody abysmal so far and if things carry on the same over the weekend I'll switch it off for ever, I'm sure there are other events going on somewhere that is free to join in on.

You never know, I could get hitched up with a Far Right busty blonde who's begging for some action too, I'll show you mine love if you show me yours and all that, you've got to make sure these days as she could be one of Them There Alphabet thingies. :O:

[Jimbuna]

https://i.postimg.cc/cCTXKX7g/Untitled.jpg (https://postimg.cc/JHDbv32M)

[Moonlight]

Saint Lucia win gold in the Women's 100m, Julien Alfred is her name and in some circles she's known as "Alfred The Great", what a lovely name. :O:

[mapuc]

Forgot to tell you we have 5 tv channel who is broadcasting Olympic games from early morning to late evening.

Markus

[Moonlight]

Back in 2016 the BBC provided the best coverage in the world, if there was a camera at any sporting event at the Olympics we could watch it, after Rio the Olympic Committee went Mega Corrupt.

[Aktungbby]

As the row over boxer Imane Khelife continues, Olympic boxing is branded an 'absurd and dangerous spectacle' by human rights chief as ANOTHER female boxer who failed gender test prepares to fight today

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13701557/imane-khelife-olympic-boxing-angela-carini-human-rights.html

This Olympics has been a bleeding disaster so far, it's took the frogs over 9 years to organize it so it should have gone ahead without a hitch.

Hahaha, but this is the frogs we're talking about and, not those Cultured people across the channel, you know who I mean, the white ones, and not the Migrant scrounging murdering bastards that are currently infesting the UK.

The IOC are going to let another failed gender boxer knock the (I'm not using that American word) poop out of another female victim to satisfy their misogynist bloodlust again.
Wow, I wonder if those Olympic Committee people go home and give their wives or rent boy a good kicking if their dinner isn't on the table when they get home.

The BBC coverage has been bloody abysmal so far and if things carry on the same over the weekend I'll switch it off for ever, I'm sure there are other events going on somewhere that is free to join in on.

You never know, I could get hitched up with a Far Right busty blonde who's begging for some action too, I'll show you mine love if you show me yours and all that, you've got to make sure these days as she could be one of Them There Alphabet thingies. :O:Having played rugby against women in the 70's who could hold their own myself, if Irish champion boxer Amy Broadhurst, who previoudly defeated Imane Khalife, village girl from Algeria, says she's ok, then she's ok and so's the other boxer from Taiwan. Her boxing record stands at 37 wins, 9 defeats-so she's hardly invincable! :shucks: Out and out transgenders, ie males that change gender identification, should not be permitted tp compete against women. If the IOC persists then all olympic athletes should be tested and all male Neanderthals with excess testostrone above acceptable levels(like some of the second-row scrummies I played rugby with:o) should also be prohibited from particiption. Ex 'Merikan decathalon champion Bruce Jenner, now transgender Caiytlin Jenner, disagrees with my opinon...but then my tits and ass are the same size as his!:arrgh!::shucks::O:

[Dargo]

Ex 'Merikan decathalon champion Bruce Jenner, now transgender Caiytlin Jenner, disagrees with my opinon...but then my tits and ass are the same size as his!:arrgh!::shucks::O: Funny how life treats you how older you get more stuff grows expect the only important one. :D

[Jimbuna]

That was yesterday :03:

Also: Ukraine won their first gold medal at Paris 2024 with a thrilling victory in the women's sabre team event final over South Korea.

[Moonlight]

Yaroslava Mahuchikh wins women's high jump gold for Ukraine.

[Jimbuna]

https://i.postimg.cc/5Nv2qzhk/Untitled.jpg (https://postimg.cc/8jpGT7Ph)

[Moonlight]

Olympic judges made a 'big mistake', claims furious Team GB coach - as fans insist Amber Rutter was ROBBED of a skeet shooting gold medal following a controversial call

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/olympics/article-13709827/Team-GB-Amber-Rutter-Olympic-ROBBED.html

I watched the Skeet shoot and Amber did hit the target but, it wasn't a clean hit, it was missed by the judges but, not by Amber or a lot of the spectators, when obvious mistakes are pointed out it would be in everyone's interests to have a shoot off but, that's the trouble with judges, they don't ever think that they're wrong.

[Aktungbby]

C'MON NOW you old Fookhall corpse, :O: the Big Picture is: Ms Amber Rutter, suffering from post-partem depression, did not trigger the clay target's 'Purple Haze' in true Olympian fashion; has garnered yet another silver medal for team GB's high overall medal count( 38); :salute:...whilst Chile's 'Annie Oakley', Francisca Crovetto Chadid, hath garnered Chile's only gold medal(1)!... and by a hot Latina to boot in a 'machismo oriented' South American culture!:yeah: All in all, a victory for women's sports overall.

[Rockstar]

Snoop Dogg has exploded on the Olympics’ global stage. He’s just being himself

https://www.thewrap.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/snoop-dogg.jpg

https://apnews.com/article/olympics-2024-snoop-dogg-interview-c639ee0165a3c19df13c08e54ce4a816

[/QUOTE]PARIS (AP) — Snoop Dogg steps out of a sleek black SUV, his entourage in tow, as a Parisian crowd erupts into chants of “Snoop, Snoop, Snoop!” outside the NBC set.

Decked out in a custom-made, Noah Lyles-themed USA sweatsuit, the ultra-smooth entertainer glides past the adoring fans with flashing phone cameras into the Musee de l’Homme. Inside, his longtime friend Martha Stewart greets him with a hug. They chat, clink champagne glasses and then he “crip walks” onto the set to film a Sunday night segment.

OK, the show can start — Snoop has arrived. Literally.

At the Paris Games, grand entrances have become the norm in Snoop’s spectacular Olympic life.

“When the lights are on, that’s when I shine the best,” he told The Associated Press after returning from watching Lyles’ historic victory in the 100-meter sprint and filming a primetime segment with Mike Tirico and Stewart, a surprise guest.

“This opportunity was nothing but a chance for me to show the world what it’s supposed to look like when you put the right person in the right environment,” Snoop said.

Snoop, 52, has become the star of the Paris Games, ascending to new heights with several memorable moments. He’s carried the Olympic torch, captivated audiences as NBC’s prime-time correspondent, swam with Michael Phelps, attended a U.S. women’s soccer game with Megan Rapinoe, danced with Simone Biles and Jordan Chiles, and cheered on Caeleb Dressel alongside the swimmer’s wife and son.

[Moonlight]

C'MON NOW you old Fookhall corpse, :O: she did not trigger the clay target's 'Purple Haze' in true Olympian fashion; whilst Chile's 'Annie Oakley', Francisca Crovetto Chadid, hath garnered Chile's only gold medal(1)!... and by a hot Latina to boot in a 'machismo oriented' South American culture!:yeah: All in all, a victory for women's sports overall.

I wasn't complaining about Annie Oakley old boy as I'd love to have a shoot off with the little hottie. :up:

Keely Hodgkinson is the Queen of the 800 Metres, long may she reign. :salute:

[mapuc]

There was a lots of feelings in the second semifinal between France and Egypt in the mens Olympic tournament.

Markus

[Jimbuna]

https://i.postimg.cc/CLQx7C7j/111.jpg (https://postimg.cc/qz2rM39R)

[Rockstar]

2 Biological men will face off today for Olympic Gold In WOMEN'S BOXING!

Imane Khelif to fight Thai women’s boxer Janjaem Suwannapheng at the Olympics today.

Well that’s what women get for demanding they be allowed to play on men’s sports teams. What comes around goes around I guess.

[Scotch75]

2 Biological men will face off today for Olympic Gold In WOMEN'S BOXING!



Imane Khelif to fight Thai women’s boxer Janjaem Suwannapheng at the Olympics today.



Well that’s what women get for demanding they be allowed to play on men’s sports teams. What comes around goes around I guess.Yeah, these selection rules should be based on chromosomes. Nobody can change those, even if they want to identify as a pink rabbit. These days, I feel sorry for the biological lady athletes trying to compete.

My $0.02


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[Jimbuna]

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[Moonlight]

'Spiderwoman' Miroslaw wins speed climbing gold

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/videos/cly8zw4zzrzo

If only I was in my 20's again eh, nah, I'm not talking about Aleksandra you perverts, I'm talking about that speed climbing event.
I would have been in my element with a sport like that, you never know, I could have become a notorious cat burglar as well. When I was a young'un I had Rugby Union, Cricket, Horse Riding or Eventing force fed down my throat on a weekly basis, I hated my bloody childhood.

[Jimbuna]

Caster Semenya hits out at Olympic chiefs over ‘inconsistent’ gender rules

Caster Semenya has hit out at gender rule inconsistencies at the Olympics as she waded in to the row over the two boxers who allegedly failed sex tests.

Semenya, who has differences in sex development (DSD), controversially won Olympic gold in the women’s 800 metres at both 2012 and 2016.

But if she were competing in the same event now she would need to lower her testosterone levels under rules brought in by World Athletics.

Speaking out for the first time about the row engulfing Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting, Semenya suggested the International Olympic Committee should take some blame. “What happened at the Olympics now is not what happened in my space,” Semenya said, in reference to the IOC effectively accepting Khelif and Lin because it states ‘woman’ on their passports. “Each organisation has its own policy – boxing have their own and athletics has its own.”

The inclusion of DSD athletes like Semenya as well as transgender athletes at previous Olympics has been one of the most contentious issues the IOC has dealt with in the modern era.

The IOC now says ultimately it is up to individual sports to decide their rules based on “robust and peer-reviewed science” with competitors excluded when research “demonstrates a consistent, unfair and disproportionate competitive advantage and/or an unpreventable risk to the safety of the athletes”.

Semenya suggests the current row in boxing suggests a one-size-fits-all rule would be a better fit for the Games. She suggested she could relate to Algerian Khelif, who is now guaranteed a medal in Paris.

“Imane is a great boxer and people always criticise when someone is doing well, people always talk then,” Semenya told Sportsboom.com. “When she wasn’t winning, then everyone was quiet. But the IOC’s policy and constitution should not contradict each other. Sport is for all people and the constitution says no to discrimination. But the minute they allowed women to be disgraced, it confuses us.

“If sport is for all, then why does the big governing body allow this sort of thing to happen? They should stand their ground and lead by example. It’s about quality leadership that safeguards, protects and respects women.”
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/sport/other/caster-semenya-hits-out-at-olympic-chiefs-over-inconsistent-gender-rules/ar-AA1oksyM?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=2b6e5437ef9f467bbcaba07298ece48d&ei=50

[Moonlight]

Caster Semenya should STFU, when it looks like a man, runs like a man and has the muscle structure of a man, then he is a man, but, not according to the brown envelope gang of the IOC Committee, he's a woman. :haha:

[Skybird]

Genetics, hormonal balances, metabolic variables are what decides it for me. The hardware, not the software. Anyone can dress up for carnival.

[Moonlight]

Rio Olympics, all three of these are classed as DSD women by the IOC, and all of them won a medal in the 800 metres, if I didn't know who they were I'd be asking what men's event were they in. :doh:
Cheats are cheats and they'll always be known as cheats.

Disorders of sexual development are conditions where a person's reproductive organs and genitals are “mismatched” at birth. Examples include male chromosomes (XY) and genitalia that appears female (vulva) or female chromosomes (XX) and genitalia that appears male (penis).

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[Jimbuna]

China arrests woman suspected of 'defaming' Olympic table tennis players

BEIJING (Reuters) - Beijing police have arrested a woman suspected of posting defamatory comments on social media about Chinese athletes and coaches following the table tennis women's singles final at the Paris Olympics, the police said.

The suspect, a 29-year-old surnamed He, "maliciously fabricated information and blatantly defamed others, resulting in an adverse impact on society", the police at Daxing district said in a statement late on Tuesday.

The case was being investigated, the police said, although specific details about the defamatory comments were not disclosed.

In the Aug. 3 match, China's defending champion Chen Meng defeated teammate Sun Yingsha, also world No.1, 4-2, in a replay of their previous encounter in Tokyo three years ago.
Throughout the game, there were audible cheers for Sun and boos directed at Chen whenever she scored, according to a broadcast of the event.

After the game, many people took to social media to criticise the crowd's behaviour.

"If this kind of fan culture is allowed to permeate in sports, it can ultimately undermine even the most talented athletes, like Sun Yingsha," a user on Weibo said.

Weibo, China's popular X-like microblogging site, said it had deleted over 12,000 posts and banned more than 300 accounts over what it called "illegal" comments.

Many people also took to social media to express their joy and national pride after Chinese swimmer Pan Zhanle smashed his own 100 metres freestyle world record, even as China was plunged backed into the doping spotlight after media reports that two swimmers in 2022 had tested positive for a banned steroid.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/sport/tennis/china-arrests-woman-suspected-of-defaming-olympic-table-tennis-players/ar-AA1omn6x?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=43e28c1116ed4d8a8cacd7e8e3d61dc0&ei=55

[Eisenwurst]

Plucky little Australia. :)

[Jimbuna]

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[Jimbuna]

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[Dargo]

In 1992, newly united Germany still won 82 medals, including 33 gold. The 'GDR effect' was still visible in good Olympic results in the 1990s, but has since worn off.

[Ostfriese]

In 1992, newly united Germany still won 82 medals, including 33 gold. The 'GDR effect' was still visible in good Olympic results in the 1990s, but has since worn off.


"GDR effect" can easily be translated to "systematic use of performance enhancing drugs". Also Germany had 463 athletes competing in 26 sports in 1992, compared to 428 in 30 sports in 2024.
And of course it's also one of the long-anticipated consequences of the massive dominance of soccer: most other sports suffer from a lack of young talents as well as a lack of funding.

[Dargo]

"GDR effect" can easily be translated to "systematic use of performance enhancing drugs". Also Germany had 463 athletes competing in 26 sports in 1992, compared to 428 in 30 sports in 2024.
And of course it's also one of the long-anticipated consequences of the massive dominance of soccer: most other sports suffer from a lack of young talents as well as a lack of funding.Yes, that was my translation :D

[Shadowblade]

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I remember that I was asking if this was some kind of joke or what...

[Moonlight]

China Blames Others as Doping Scandal Hits Paris Olympics

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/sport/other/china-blames-others-as-doping-scandal-hits-paris-olympics/ss-AA1oyOQj?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=EDGEESS&cvid=6e98371d69f8418b921ee2b5f6928d9a&ei=7#image=12

These Chinese cheats have been using performance enhancing drugs for years, they were caught out at the Japanese Olympics in 2021, but they gave the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) a load of brown envelopes to disregard those test results.
I think they've come up with a substance that is undetectable, or they've tested this new drug so much that they know when they should stop giving it to the athletes, they've compromised the integrity of the WADA officials so much that an independent body should investigate these corrupt members and criminal charges should be brought against them.

WADA has just like the WHO (world health organization) become the paid property of China, I would put these Chinese cheats on the same par as the East German cheats of the 1970s and 80s.

[Jimbuna]

"GDR effect" can easily be translated to "systematic use of performance enhancing drugs".

Yep :yep:

[Skybird]

The GDR effect in the past: it makes more sense maybe to compare German medal tables from the 1984 (USSR and East Germany boycotted), and 1988 games (USSR and East Germany claimed 1st and 2nd rank). In 1984, West Germany was 3rd, in 1988 4th/5th together with South Korea, depending on how you count totals versus golds).

[Eisenwurst]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4Asqq78nBE

Big National pride down here :yep::yep:

[Ostfriese]

Oh, and before you go on bashing GDR doping: doping was by no means limited to East Germany alone, West Germany was not too far behind, only more subtle and with fewer long term consequences.

[Moonlight]

There has always been doping by athletes and they weren't limited to the GDR or the USSR but, this has to be said even though some people won't like it, no Western Nation had a state controlled doping plan like the Eastern European countries had, not then and not now.
What these other countries did have was individuals who had a lust for fame and glory vastly outweighing their abilities as an athlete, I won't name names, you already know who they are and, I believe State Controlled Doping is being resurrected by another communist country again, although WADA will deny that. :O:

[Ostfriese]

There has always been doping by athletes and they weren't limited to the GDR or the USSR but, this has to be said even though some people won't like it, no Western Nation had a state controlled doping plan like the Eastern European countries had, not then and not now.


Not controlled like that, but West Germany indeed had a wide-ranged doping program in the 1970s and 1980s that was funded by the government.


https://www.france24.com/en/20130805-doping-rife-among-west-german-athletes-decades-says-report

[mapuc]

A man is seen climbing the Eiffel Tower, prompting an evacuation hours before closing ceremony

https://apnews.com/article/2024-olympics-eiffel-tower-climber-1adeab420a778c7a99656af9b7d0e204

Markus

[Jimbuna]

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[Skybird]

Thank God it's over. I felt disgusted several times too often to just sit there neutral and disinterested.

The disgusting opening "ceremony" already emphasized the accent of these games right from the start. The following two weeks kept that promise.

On the positive, the ballon on fire was and is a nice idea.

I read financially the games were ruinous for the tourism business in Paris. Hopes and expectations that were had before, apparently have not been met.


My verdict is: thumbs down. (And No, the Germans' worst-ever performance has not even anything to do with it).

[Jimbuna]

Must admit I only watched the finals that had a British competitor.

[mapuc]

I watched almost all kind of sport during this Olympic tournament and I watched mostly sports event where either Denmark or Sweden was a part of.

Today Denmark won the Gold medal in handball by beating Germany 39-26.

Not to forget the Swedish competitor Duplantis who toke the Gold in pole vault and even set a new world record 6.25 meters in same sport.

Markus

[Jimbuna]

You wouldn't have had much to cheer about then :)

[Ostfriese]

I read financially the games were ruinous for the tourism business in Paris. Hopes and expectations that were had before, apparently have not been met.


They never are, the only one who profits from olympic games is the IOC. They don't even properly finance the athletes, of which many have to either find a sponsor or fund their participation on their own.
I certainly don't want any Olympics hosted in Germany in the future, let alone in my region (Hamburg's bid for 2024 was fortunately thwarted by a referendum)

[Jimbuna]

Would be interesting to see the actually full hosting cost.

[Skybird]

They never are, the only one who profits from olympic games is the IOC. They don't even properly finance the athletes, of which many have to either find a sponsor or fund their participation on their own.
I certainly don't want any Olympics hosted in Germany in the future, let alone in my region (Hamburg's bid for 2024 was fortunately thwarted by a referendum)
I am with you on all that, however, while the financial boosts for regional businesses, traffic and infrastructure always are exaggerated when they get projected during planning, hotels and restaurants usally profit from the visitors durign the event. But not this time, I red, for a simple reason: not as many visitors came as was expected/hoped for. Or they did not stay as long as hoped, since prices seem to have been very high. Many tourists seem to have been shocked by the costs. And Paris, I think, was already expensive before the Olympics. The games upped that price niveau.

Just a random read I had.

[Jimbuna]

The reward for greed then.

[Aktungbby]

Many tourists seem to have been shocked by the costs. And Paris, I think, was already expensive before the Olympics. The games upped that price niveau.

Just a random read I had.As a former Federal security officer, movie-set guard: Chasing Mavericks, (Gerard Butler)A Very Long Engagement,(Emily Blunt) Trauma,(Cliff Curtis) My Name Is Khan (Shah Rukh Khan) etc. and one private Aerosmith (20,000 Cisco employees in 2010) concert myself; I'm pondering the cost of the 50,000 police and military security used to prevent a possible 1972 Munich style fiasco. And they must have learned something from the recent Butler/Tump fiasco as the gendarmes immediately captured a man seen climbing the Eiffel Tower. Suitably repelled at Paris, the terrorists apparently turned their efforts toward Vienna; and Taylor Swift cancelled her concerts?!! ...just a random thought I had...:timeout:

[Catfish]

They sure know how to celebrate in Paris!

While Putin, Lukashenko and Kim Y. Un sit in their bunkers, 'protected' by their secret services, and think about how to make lives harder for the people of the earth.
Wish them all the worst.

[Jimbuna]

They sure know how to celebrate in Paris!

While Putin, Lukashenko and Kim Y. Un sit in their bunkers, 'protected' by their secret services, and think about how to make lives harder for the people of the earth.
Wish them all the worst.

DITTO

[Moonlight]

Paris Olympics Rocked by Allegations of Chinese Doping

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/sport/tennis/paris-olympics-rocked-by-allegations-of-chinese-doping/ss-AA1oyZzX?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=EDGEESS&cvid=24d8cee8d0a04e628a7d0abc30b0edc9&ei=31

Tell us something we don't know you morons. :O: