2024 Paris Olympic

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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
I volunteer to reward them when they come home. Call me a patriot.
 
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Sifan Hassan She is originally from Ethiopia and the marathon final came to a tussle between her and an Ethiopian runner. Lots of bad blood there.
There was a good bump between them as Hassan went to pass her right near the end. The Ethiopian tried blocking her out but Hassan was having none of that.
 

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What a miss! France came close to defeating the arrogant Americans in both men and women basketball.
As usual, the French cannot be relied upon. That's their rep, isn't it?
 

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Woke up at 6 like usual (because my dog needs his food and 06:01 is being late and he doesn't handle that well...), feed the dog but I don't open the tv as the olympics are over 😩

No doze of adrenaline this morning... No cheering a redhead who gave us first medal ever in Fence, no Vanessa Gilles scoring a dramatic finish, no women rugby team beating 2 power houses of the sport back to back, no summer gliding on water like a salmon ahead of everyone... and much more other shit that was so cool to watch.

i always hated reality tv because real reality tv has always been live sports to me.

I have the blues... i come here... open a political thread... there is 22 x post by mitch 😩 can't handle that right now!

luckily there is some good league cup this week. That will get me going until the PL starts.
 
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We finish ahead of GB, Germany and Italy. Not too shabby

The Dutch are physically phenomenal. Tall and so fit. The bike path are busier then the Gardiner Express at peak hours. Maybe also the fact that your appartement is probably on 4 or 5th floor with only staircases installed at 80 degrees might help to stay fit 😷
 
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Eh someone tell Gaby Thomas, her Jamaican roots are actually African roots. Just look at all the other American black athletes who won medals in track.

The gold medal Canadian 4x100m relay team, 800 m silver medallist Arop, Belgium heptathlon winner Nafissatou Thiam, Netherlands women marathon winner Sifan Hassan, Bahrain women 3000m steeplechase winner Winfred Yavi have African ancestry.

Stretch it further to the black US men and women basketball players: Lebron James and A'ja Wilson were the MVPs for the men and women tournaments, respectively.

And the gold medal US Women soccer players. Mallory Swanson, Sophia Smith and Trinity Rodman, the 3 strikers who call themselves Triple Espresso, all have African ancestry.

Most of the French men and women basketball teams, track athletes, soccer players have African ancestry. And so on and on.
 

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The most disappointing Canadian performances were registered by Tokyo decathlon champion Damien Warner and shot putter Sarah Minton.
Warner was second going to the pole vault and failed to clear a single height and bowed out of the competition.
Sarah was the indoor champion going to the Olympics. She failed to make the finals
 

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The most disgraceful overall performance was turned in by the US 4x100m relay team. Coming in as the clear favourites, they botched the baton exchange for the 5th consecutive Olympics and did not finish.
Obviously, just like Allen Iverson, these guys dont believe in practicing
 

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With all the attention focused on Parmesan girl, it took the pressure of her team-mates. Alice D'Amato and Manila Esposito took gold and bronze on the balance beam. I'm bamboozled, had no clue that Italy had a gymnastics team.

 

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Will that guy ever get old and ugly like the rest of us?
Tom Cruise is a psycho cultist and slave monger. Christian Bale said he took on his personality to play Patrick Bateman. Mr. Figaro I know you're young, you have to know these things.


He's also a very shallow actor. If he had made Longlegs, it would be a comedy.

 
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A blind runner who won 11 national titles as a man will compete as a woman in the Paralympics. This has to stop


Valentina Petrillo is visually impaired, but anyone can see this fact clearly.
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The Italian sprinter — who, later this month, will become the first openly trans athlete to compete in the Paralympic Games — is a strapping biological man and should not be racing against women on a world stage.

And yet: Different games, same old story. Man identifies as woman and the doors of female spaces magically swing open for them. Truth be damned.

Before transitioning in 2019, Petrillo won a whopping 11 national titles in visually-impaired categories as a man. Last summer, the runner took bronze in both the women’s 200 and 400 meters at the Para Athletics World Championships.

Petrillo, 50, told BBC Sport that competing in the games, which kick off on August 28 in Paris, would be an “important symbol of inclusion.”


 
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