2024 Paris Olympic

shack

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That rule should change, it should be the waist only, one's centre of gravity, not the upper torso.
In which case we'd have runners doing dick thrusts at the finish line. Chest first is a natural finishing move.
Time to rid the games of all judged sports, let them have their own "Judged" Games"
Meaning eliminating all figure skating, gymnastic, ski jumping, boxing and other events I'm forgetting about. IMO it doesn't sound reasonable or traditional.
 

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Meaning eliminating all figure skating, gymnastic, ski jumping, boxing and other events I'm forgetting about. IMO it doesn't sound reasonable or traditional.
Yup, like I said, have their own "Judged Olympics".
 

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Yup, like I said, have their own "Judged Olympics".
I just wanted to clarify because a lot of those events are old-school traditional Olympic events.

It would be a major, major shift. I understand the sentiment, but there's not a snowball's chance in Grenoble that it will ever happen.
 

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Summer McIntosh and Ethan Katzberg will be Canada's flag bearers. Summer must been at Person Airport on Saturday night.

 
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Gnocchi power!

i still remember that race!!

We still don't know Summer's favourite meal but as most athletes I would bet a hundred its some kind of pasta.

back when I was living in Montreal I would go often to Cafe Dante on Dante street in the Italian district just to eat their wild mushroom Gnocchi 🥰
 

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There were phenomenal achievements in this Olympics. Leon Marchand winning 4 golds and a bronze in swimming. Summer McIntosh winning 3 golds and a silver in swimming. Gabby Thomas winning 3 golds in track. Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone breaking the WR in the 400m hurdles and adding a relay gold.

But the greatest achievement has to go to Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands. She run the heat and final in the 5000m, followed by the 10000m, winning bronze in both races. Then she won the marathon less than 36 hours later. In all, she run a total of 62.2 kilometers over 10 days. Just amazing. She is originally from Ethiopia and the marathon final came to a tussle between her and an Ethiopian runner. Lots of bad blood there. Special congratulations to Sifan Hassan 👏
 
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Shout out to the Canadian Women's Beach Volleyball team and their Silver medal win. Those ladies are a work of art! Fine as hell
 
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What a miss! France came close to defeating the arrogant Americans in both men and women basketball. Steph Curry saved the US men with some ridiculous 3 pointers just as he did against Serbia. And A'ja Wilson saved the US women
 
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