DKH
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OT - NO POLITICS 2024 Paris Olympics
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Mick Riddleton
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This is comedy gold; there are hardly any reporters for the Olympic Hammer Throw presser, but bronze medalist Mikhail Kokhan from Ukraine has replaced them all very well. Canadian Ethan Katzberg, who won his first gold medal at his first Olympics, took his turn interviewing the Ukrainian. This is like watching 'The Office'. One of the best moments at the games so far.
Bruinaura
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I coulda been a contendah....
Not!
(But yes, that's me, in high school, eons ago....)
I coulda been a contendah....
Not!
(But yes, that's me, in high school, eons ago....)
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With that mask you look like Jason from Friday The Thirteenth
The box each medal winner gets contains this poster
Just reflecting on my personal Olympic history
It started in 1980 when ABC hired WSBK-TV 38 to cover overflow games at the 1932 Arena in Lake Placid which was pretty much like the old Boston Skating Club in Brighton. ABC hired CTV in Montreal for the main arena.
My work got me an invitation to go to Sarajevo in 1984 a city that would be reduced to rubble in a civil war a few years later. I also worked Olympic soccer at Harvard Stadium that same year.
Come 1992 I signed a contract with CBS for 3 Winter Games in France, Norway and Japan. Best gig of my career.
CBS theme music was perfect
In 2000 NBC hired me for Sydney
It has been one hell of a run but all goes back to that USA/Norway game in 1980 that was given full network live
It started in 1980 when ABC hired WSBK-TV 38 to cover overflow games at the 1932 Arena in Lake Placid which was pretty much like the old Boston Skating Club in Brighton. ABC hired CTV in Montreal for the main arena.
My work got me an invitation to go to Sarajevo in 1984 a city that would be reduced to rubble in a civil war a few years later. I also worked Olympic soccer at Harvard Stadium that same year.
Come 1992 I signed a contract with CBS for 3 Winter Games in France, Norway and Japan. Best gig of my career.
CBS theme music was perfect
In 2000 NBC hired me for Sydney
It has been one hell of a run but all goes back to that USA/Norway game in 1980 that was given full network live
The US Figure Skaters finally get their gold medals from Beijing this morning. 2.5 years in the making.
Fenway you have to write a book about all of this I’m sure it would be a bestseller!!!!
Great. Now lets fix the '72 Men's Basketball Team gold medal while we're at it.....
So happy their families and friends were able to see them all get their medals.
Only Madison Chock and Evan Bates are still competing. They are poised to make a run for Cortina 2026.
Only Madison Chock and Evan Bates are still competing. They are poised to make a run for Cortina 2026.
ODAAT
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Katzberg is a beauty, from here on Van Island (Nanaimo), seems like the kind of dude who`d simply be hilarious to hang with
Bruinaura
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One of my favorite Olympic stories even though it happened when I was a year old lol
EverettMike
FIRE DON SWEENEY INTO THE SUN
USA Silver in Women's pole vault.
Pole Vault is ridiculous!!!! Just how do they do that!?
Pole Vault is ridiculous!!!! Just how do they do that!?
EverettMike
FIRE DON SWEENEY INTO THE SUN
Bruinaura
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I want to know who was the first person who thought it would be a good way to jump over something? lol
Great question! I had to look it up because I am genuinely fascinated by it!
According to wikipedia
It's kill the man with the ball, but in a pool. The basketball portion really takes a backseat.
The cameramen have been annoying and interfering with athletes all games long.
Even Simone Biles said something. They bump into athletes. They don't apologize. It's like they have no spacial awareness
