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2024 Paris Olympics Thread

  • Furlow
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Originally posted by VaBeachNiner:
Team USA wins first ever medal (bronze) for rugby.

What an amazing moment!

Originally posted by BobS:
Originally posted by JustinMT:
Originally posted by 49erKing:
Originally posted by TonyStarks:
Originally posted by VaBeachNiner:
Triathlon event may cancel the swimming portion. Apparently the river they are supposed to swim in has too much raw sewage from rains over the weekend.

Paris is low key nasty. I was not impressed everytime I visited..

What an Olympic-sized fail. There wasn't even a plan B??

They thought spending over a billion on cleaning the river would be enough.
That would be so unfair to the good swimmers. They need to go swim in a pool and then just stagger the starts on the bikes, or go find a lake.

It would have been a travesty if they turned it into a biathlon. I thought it was one of the more entrenched events in Olympic history. It actually surfaced as a medal event for the first time in 2000. Anyway they are back at it. Hope they emerge with no ill effects!

https://apnews.com/article/2024-olympics-triathlon-paris-seine-water-quality-358b29063ac00253c072290281043eaa
Originally posted by Furlow:
Originally posted by VaBeachNiner:
Team USA wins first ever medal (bronze) for rugby.

What an amazing moment!


Alex "BeastMode" Sedrick-Gould. Too bad it wasn't for gold!
[ Edited by 49erKing on Jul 31, 2024 at 7:59 AM ]
Simone Biles Is so amazing. One of the greatest American athlete. Been watching Olympics with my 4 year old and she can't get enough of Simone and Ledecky.
Ledecky is good.

Originally posted by VaBeachNiner:
Ledecky is good.


Ledecky
Originally posted by Phoenix49ers:

Japan got robbed bad
  • BobS
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Originally posted by 4ML:
Simone Biles Is so amazing. One of the greatest American athlete. Been watching Olympics with my 4 year old and she can't get enough of Simone and Ledecky.
I actually watched some gymnastics to check out Simone. Even to my untrained eye she looks in a different league than the rest. When did they change the scoring? Last time I watched gymnastics a 10 was a perfect score.
Originally posted by DeepNinerValue:
Originally posted by Phoenix49ers:

Japan got robbed bad

They sure did get screwed over by the home bias.
Curry was horrible.
Lebron was horrible.

Win by 17.

I dont think this team has played very well in the last 3 or 4 games. Will another team be good enough to beat us playing poorly, or are we going to steamroll through this tournament? Wouldnt be shocked by either outcome.
Originally posted by BobS:
Originally posted by 4ML:
Simone Biles Is so amazing. One of the greatest American athlete. Been watching Olympics with my 4 year old and she can't get enough of Simone and Ledecky.
I actually watched some gymnastics to check out Simone. Even to my untrained eye she looks in a different league than the rest. When did they change the scoring? Last time I watched gymnastics a 10 was a perfect score.

It has been a while since they went to the current system. I wanna say 20 years.

Biles is on another level. Her speed and power just pops on the screen - especially on floor exercise and vault. She makes her small mistakes like everyone else but her difficulty level is so far above everyone that it really doesn't matter unless literally falls down.
Originally posted by 4ML:
Originally posted by BobS:
Originally posted by 4ML:
Simone Biles Is so amazing. One of the greatest American athlete. Been watching Olympics with my 4 year old and she can't get enough of Simone and Ledecky.
I actually watched some gymnastics to check out Simone. Even to my untrained eye she looks in a different league than the rest. When did they change the scoring? Last time I watched gymnastics a 10 was a perfect score.

It has been a while since they went to the current system. I wanna say 20 years.

Biles is on another level. Her speed and power just pops on the screen - especially on floor exercise and vault. She makes her small mistakes like everyone else but her difficulty level is so far above everyone that it really doesn't matter unless literally falls down.

Midget power, 4'8 lol

most of the other gymnasts are 4 inches taller
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