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

[zx81]

I watched 3 woman judo fights. All ended on penalties. No judo move completed. Yawn. Respect to the athletes but it's pretty boring.

 

[TesseractPrice]

Pretty historic medal for Deguchi. 1st gold medal ever in Judo for Canada at the Olympics. Pretty tense golden score

A bit sad for Jessica Kilmkait who was also was in the >57 and who could have gotten a medal too. Still, she lost her place to the gold medalist!

 

[The Real Timo]

I watched 3 woman judo fights. All ended on penalties. No judo move completed. Yawn. Respect to the athletes but it's pretty boring.

I don't understand why Judo is an olympic sport and jiu jitsu isn't.

Canada is getting their asses handed to them by France in ladies basketball. Is Kia Nurse Darnell's sister?

 

[TesseractPrice]

I don't understand why Judo is an olympic sport and jiu jitsu isn't.

Canada is getting their asses handed to them by France in ladies basketball. Is Kia Nurse Darnell's sister?

Judo has uniform rules and is governed by the IJF. It's basically the same sport at a given time no matter where it is played. Jiu Jitsu, on the other hand, has several declinations such as BJJ that makes it harder for the games to harmonize. This is a huge problem for the Olympics regarding qualifications

 

[MarkJ]

DOMINATION!

 

[TRG]

I don’t get the drone thing. I mean how do you train at soccer or american football (or any sport played in a stadium or arena) and hope not a single person in the stadium is looking? It’s not like stealing the next pitch or play? Heck even that who cares you still have to hit the ball or throw on time to 2nd base… Good for you for outsmarting them; just play.

I always felt it was pretend fair play, one eyed closed “nah, I ain’t looking!’.

Like “whhhat? you mean they’ll pass the ball and kick it? omg we’ve been doing it all wrong!”… weird.

Lineup, set plays, preferred approaches, etc

 

[The Real Timo]

McIntosh just killed it in 400M Relay. Insane! The girl is awesome.

 

[Habs10Habs]

I watched 3 woman judo fights. All ended on penalties. No judo move completed. Yawn. Respect to the athletes but it's pretty boring.

Judo is pretty boring. Until you have someone half your size, tossing you around like a ragdoll.

Congrats to Deguchi!

DOMINATION!

Damn, that was Micheal Phelps domination. lol

 

[ReHabs]

France vs Germany women’s beach volleyball has been fun. The French are smoking the Germans on a tactical level.

 

[Naslundforever]

Lineup, set plays, preferred approaches, etc

I get that but it seems like wishful thinking no-one is watching like pro teams are in a vacuum. Make it part of the strategy to be able and change it up/adapt/improvise. Make stealing strategies part of the steategy.

 

[Non Player Canadiens]

Mr Clean rugby player looks badass

 

[Fatbiggie]

Wow Summer McIntosh. Only 17 years old and an Olympic champion, just incredible.

At 17 I was doing jack s***

 

[FrankMTL]

Love watching Rugby Sevens. What an upset win by Canada against France.

Off to the semis!

 

[Twisted Sinister]

I do get it. I profoundly disagree and think you have no understanding of race relations in France. You're equating folks who may decide not to punch down with being a sacred cow. I find that dumb. There is nothing about Muslims in France - whether economically, politically or culturally that would dictate them being sacred cows.

 

[FrankMTL]

What a morning!!

Canadian men beat Australia in Basketball

Canadian women's Rugby team with another MASSIVE upset, this time over Australia in the semi finals. They will be fighting for a gold medal against New Zealand....Insane!!

 

[tazsub3]

What a morning!!

Canadian men beat Australia in Basketball

Canadian women's Rugby team with another MASSIVE upset, this time over Australia in the semi finals. They will be fighting for a gold medal against New Zealand....Insane!!

Everytime we crush Australia women in anything I am extra happy .
What a comeback , after being down 12-0 so early

 

[the valiant effort]

Canada holding their own so far in this sevens match (against NZ)

I played it for a year in HS. Some of the most fun I ever had playing sports, but we and all the teams in our area were super unrefined. The tournaments were bloodbaths and definitely sowed seeds of CTE in some of the boys

 

[FrankMTL]

Valiant effort from our women in Rugby. A 19-12 loss against a very tough NZ team. Very proud of them and the silver medal.

 

[The Real Timo]

So they are cancelling or at least delaying triathlon because of all the shit that float in Seine. Like that wasn’t known before?

Valiant effort from our women in Rugby. A 19-12 loss against a very tough NZ team. Very proud of them and the silver medal.

NZ has a lot of truculence.

 

[the valiant effort]

HAHAHAHA there’s an email trail for Canada’s soccer “spying” program

 

[The Real Timo]

Women's soccer team appeal has been dismissed. Who's shocked?!

 

[Redux91]

Big win for Felix

 

[TRG]

HAHAHAHA there’s an email trail for Canada’s soccer “spying” program

CSA's incompetence is astounding

 

[Habs10Habs]

Women's soccer team appeal has been dismissed. Who's shocked?!

I feel so sorry for the players. They're a solid team, there was no need to cheat in anyways.

 

[FrankMTL]

CSA's incompetence is astounding

Every time we think it can't get any worse, it does....

They really need to purge that whole association and bring in new members.