OT: Paris Olympics 2024 - Jeux de la XXXIIIe Olympiade Thread

[Redux91]

Alright
Let's go Women's beach volleyball Canadians
Sending them my spirit bomb energy baby
*hands up*

 

[SlafySZN]

Poor Lyles, his teammates forgot to tell him about the curse. The USA haven't made the 4x100m podium at the Olympics since Athens...

Their baton exchanges always been sh*t lol the women has the same problem but they still won.

this morning in practice they had Kerley on the 2nd leg, it was working and then they overthought this and switched Kerley and Bednarek for the race. Wouldn’t have happened with Lyles there in my opinion.

But still it was so good seeing De Grasse winning this

 

[le_sean]

Not only that but disrespect toward a very good athlete like De Grasse. De Grasse is almost 30 years old and his best days are behind him but he had a good enough career to warrant respect from peers in what will be his last OG probably. De Grasse now has 3 medals in 4 x 100m. One gold, one silver and one bronze. So saying "who" is a little bit meh!

De Grasse had the unfortunate timing of going up against Usain Bolt too. Lyles would have also got smoked in that era.

 

[Redux91]

First Blood!

 

[Redux91]

Man are they a good lil team

Good start!

 

[The Real Timo]

Canada is blowing it.

 

[Redux91]

Canada got screwed at the end of that 1st set man
Wtf kinda toss was that by Brazil

We're down 0-1..

 

[Redux91]

1-1 Can-Bra

 

[thebestnic]

That Ana Patricia girl seems like such a cuckoo

 

[Redux91]

Nice try girls

Silver medal, could be worse lol

 

[morhilane]

Their baton exchanges always been sh*t lol the women has the same problem but they still won.

this morning in practice they had Kerley on the 2nd leg, it was working and then they overthought this and switched Kerley and Bednarek for the race. Wouldn’t have happened with Lyles there in my opinion.

But still it was so good seeing De Grasse winning this

Men USA 4x100 team has been blowing up the relay exchange at the Olympics since 2000. They usually just plain drop it thought. So improvement this year!

 

[LaP]

Men USA 4x100 team has been blowing up the relay exchange at the Olympics since 2000. They usually just plain drop it thought. So improvement this year!

Overconfidence probably?

 

[CristianoRonaldo]

The end is near, congratulations to all our athletes, they worked their asses of for years, even their whole life to represent Canada proudly during the Olympics.

 

[morhilane]

Overconfidence probably?

The way they start too early and botch the exchange suggest that they don't train it that much. So maybe overconfident that they can't do it just because they are "fast". They do manage to win the relay at other competitions thought.

 

[ArtPeur]

That C1 finish

 

[morhilane]

8th Gold and Canada beat their Tokyo medals record*.

*that exclude the 1984 boycotted games.

 

[WeThreeKings]

What a race by her, hundredth of a second.

 

[Habs10Habs]

What a race by her, hundredth of a second.

You can't get closer than that. What an exciting finish.

 

[morhilane]

I just learned that Vincent won the gold with a world record, it was basically a footnote mention. She beat the 2018 record that belonged to Laurence Vincent Lapointe (Katie's former c2 500m partner, she retired 2 years ago).

 

[Redux91]

So pumped for Vincent
What a race, what a finish

The girls are crushing it man

 

[red devil]

Arop with a silver medal in the 800m. He ran his best ever time and finished only 1/1000 behind the gold medalist

 

[Skip Bayless]

Phil Wizard is my favorite canadian athlete.

https://x.com/i/web/status/1822305595069764017

https://x.com/i/web/status/1822301677157757216

 

[Redux91]

Man was Arop ever close to that Gold wow!
What an 800m run for Silver!
That was loads of fun to watch

So proud of all these guys man, damn

 

[red devil]

Phil Wizard is my favorite canadian athlete.

https://x.com/i/web/status/1822305595069764017

https://x.com/i/web/status/1822301677157757216

Going for gold against at a French athlete in about 20 minutes

 

[pepperMonkey]

Going for gold against at a French athlete in about 20 minutes

Phil Wizard vs Shigekix probably was the match to watch even if it was just the semi-finals. Those two look to be on another level. Hope Phil brings home another gold.
(Edit: Whoa, Shigekix just lost the bronze to the American. Don't understand how the judging works as I did like the Japanese performance over the American but not that I know anything about breaking so...)