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2024 Summer Olympics & Paralympics
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I always watch the Olympics, summer and winter. The engrossing stories of working to get there can be good, but world class performances are simply enthralling. I relate most to sports of my own era (sprinter/long jumper and springboard diver in the 1960s), but I really enjoy them all, even futbol.
Don't care about opening or closing ceremonies. Wish the Olympics would be old school without many of the new additions like break dancing, or skateboard riding etc.
Mr. Shavington
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Who are the athletes you are really watching for this time? I have to say I’m not knowledgeable about who might be the Usain Bolt of this Olympics. Nice to see Simone Biles back - maybe it’s her.
Aaron Brooks, Kyle Dake and Spencer Lee that I have seen wrestle in person.
Skateboarding is great, I still get the urge.
I watched a couple of minutes of break dance qualifying and found it very meh.
The Olympics do have to add sports to draw in a bigger spectrum of viewers. Many last, some don't.
I'll be pulling for Gee and Woods in the road bike race, Degrasse in track. Aside from that, not savvy about many athletes.
And if course would be awesome to see Biles win more metal!
When I think of Olympics I think got Track & Field, Gynmnastics, Equestrian Event, Swimming, Archery, many of the New Event are X-Ga me Event, not olympic sports.
Mr. Shavington
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I could do without swimming, or rather reduce it to one event. It is absurd to me that there are hundreds of medals awarded for basically repeating the same event over and over again - slightly different numbers of lengths and different ways of paddling, etc - so you end up with one guy getting 7 gold medals merely because he is the best swimmer (which is worth one medal). And there definitely shouldn’t be any medals for breaststroke because that’s only for people who can’t swim especially well.
In equestrian events the horse should get the medal. The person riding on its back should get nothing.
Archery, of course, should be to the death.
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Breaking is news to me. Didn’t know they added that. Kinda silly IMO but everyone thought snowboarding wasn’t worthy of an Olympic sport and now it’s one of the biggest draws. 3x3 Basketball and Trampoline are the oddballs to me, I guess now Breaking is added to my “why is that an Olympic sport” list.
I've taken the liberty of nominating you for the team
Pass. Winter's watchable, though. Still remember the "Jamaican Bobsled" song. Jah!
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Opening Ceremony! I hope no one falls out of the boats!
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OK so far. But the dancers are the most un-synchronized I’ve seen at the past several Olympics.
Mr. Shavington
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Maybe now it’s started we should all do the rest of this thread en français. Non?
Mr. Shavington
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Quel dommage qu’il pleuve! 🌧
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I like how they say “presented commercial free” and still play commercials.
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I applaud the French for trying something new, but for me it simply does not work and is a massive disappointment. It reminds me of a ceremony one might have witnessed in the 1970s, and perhaps it is no bad thing to take events such as this back to their roots and focus more on the sports than a huge ceremony. Maybe it will improve, and perhaps it is better to witness in person than on television. At any rate, I am certainly looking forward to the sports, particularly the minority sports 
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I’m actually enjoying the diverse music. So far I’ve seen the French Metallica, French Beyoncé, and French Pit Bull.
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