TopShelfGloveSide
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GDT: Paris Olympics 2024
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He has an injured hamstring unfortunately. Was nice to see him win gold in the relay though.Sucks degrasse struggled in the individual races. Big fan of his. And unfortunately he probably just ran his last race in the olympics
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Drivesaitl
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Just when I thought I'd already watched the stupidest Olympic sport ever. Its a Friday night and down to watch some Olympics. Breakdancing comes on, I change the channel after one performance. Just stared at it like a car crash for 5 mins. Everything from the music to the commentators trying to be all rap or something was getting me to change the channel.
Then later CBC had the "FOMO" thing on where I'm supposed to care about the hosts or think they are funny or something. As in most cases with CBC its just added baggage and like advertising or prelude instead of just showing the damn events. Heres a clue to broadcasters. I don't want to see Andie Petrillio ever, or any of the other hosts, I JUST want the events. None of the talking heads describing a race or telling us what we will see next, just show the damn competition. No panels, no talking, no voice overs. Thats what I want.
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"Brandie" "She's a fine girl" (wonder if anybody gets that one) from the Womens beach volleyball team says hi.
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Most underrated Canadian star athlete.Sucks degrasse struggled in the individual races. Big fan of his. And unfortunately he probably just ran his last race in the olympics
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Canada is killing it these Olympics. Not only are they winning at traditional events they usually excel at. But also in traditional events they’ve never medaled in. I know Countries like Russia aren’t in it but still.
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Frank the Tank
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Raygun and Eddie the Eagle are why many sports have minimum standards to qualify for the Olympics.
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Canada are generally successful at both Winter and Summer Games though, something Australia can’t boast.
Frank the Tank
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China may finally beat the US in gold medals. They have been actively pursuing a strategy over the past few decades to pick off golds in relatively low participation sports to achieve this.
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Whatever they do, they are still a pariah state to the western world and countries, so few will really care that they did.
Everything they do is met (rightfully) with a discerning eye.
Frank the Tank
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Arop wins silver in the 800m. Loses gold by 0.01 seconds.
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Stoneman89
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Loses the gold by .01 seconds. We Canadians are just so darned polite!
Both China and Russia will do whatever they can, illegal or not, to try to "prove" their system is better than the west and democracy. When all they really have to do is sit back and look at the clowns running the U.S. and running for election and laugh.
True but Australia has a distinct lack of winter and almost half as many people.
China can suck a bag of dicks. They essentially kidnap children from their parents (who willingly go along to increase their social credit score) and stick them in sporting penal camps mercilessly drilling and training them and then casting them aside when their service to the glory of the state is complete.
But they get extra bonus social credit points to live out the rest of their lives in a state controlled dystopian society so there’s that.
f*** them.
I agree we’re doing well. While we might be “killing it” by our low standards, the country that is really killing it is Australia. Canada should emulate the commitment to amateur sport like they do. They are the gold standard for small countries in my opinion.
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I don't disagree. I was just commenting on how their strategy (parts gamesmanship and parts unethical) may finally work. They've been planning this moment for decades; there's no doubt their authoritarian style of government aids the process.
They need to be more selective of who qualifies, but I think it's dumb to scrap it.
The lineup to get into the arena for this even apparently stretched around the block outside the arena twice. The event had full attendance opposed to other events where like half the seats are empty.
There's definitely interest in this event, if you're going to have like a good dozen events no one gives a crap about, it just seems to me to be counter intuitive to scrap one of the more popular new events in an era where the TV/cable providers are crying that they can't get enough viewership from the 18-35 demo in particular.
I’m not sure anyone but the old men in black suits who run the CCP care to be honest. It proves nothing other than to their sense of self superiority but it’s very tainted in the world’s eyes other than by the countries who bend over to kiss their ass.
We're doing more than well. The only huge disappointment I think would be the men's basketball team getting knocked out before the medal round because Canada surprisingly has been producing top NBA talent the last few years especially.
I can still remember the 1988 *winter* Olympic games where Canada couldn't even win 1 single, lousy gold medal even while hosting the games on their home turf.
We've come a long ways since then.
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Yes that strategy is JUST f***ING CHEAT AT EVERYTHING
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