2024 Paris Olympics thread

[Tom McAndrew]

 

[BobPSU92]

I could run like Quincy Hall, but I choose not to.

 

[Tom McAndrew]

what a surge at the end. He looked to be 4th place at best coming off the turn. Wow

 

[manatree]

I did not catch the prelims/qualifying but there were 19 to start in the finals instead of 12. You could see a huge gap between the top competitors and the rest. Some comical scratches once they jumped from 4.40 to 4.60m

USA's Katie Moon is guaranteed a medal.

Gold: Nina Kennedy - Australia
Silver: Katie Moon - USA
Bronze: Alysha Newman - Canada

 

[Tom McAndrew]

a shocker. Nobody had him (Rooks) as a medal threat.

 

[Tom McAndrew]

 

[Tom McAndrew]

Gold: Nina Kennedy - Australia
Silver: Katie Moon - USA
Bronze: Alysha Newman - Canada

 

[Tom McAndrew]

 

[BobPSU92]

Some guy from iran won a gold medal in wrestling. For f*ck’s sake.

 

[GrimReaper]

Some guy from iran won a gold medal in wrestling. For f*ck’s sake.

That's what the camel said.

 

[Tom McAndrew]

Some guy from iran won a gold medal in wrestling. For f*ck’s sake.

just a fyi -- Iran is one of the powers in international wrestling

 

[BobPSU92]

just a fyi -- Iran is one of the powers in international wrestling

l know, but screw ‘em anyway.

 

[Tgar]

what a surge at the end. He looked to be 4th place at best coming off the turn. Wow

Quincy Hall. That was fantastic.

 

[Tgar]

Just a shout out to @Tom McAndrew for all the great coverage as always. Tgar has watched a lot of the Olympics but scrolling through this thread is shear joy. Thank you Tom.

 

[manatree]

Since no Americans made the Men’s Discus finals, I abandoned my brothers in brawn for Katie Moon’s run in the pole vault.

That being said, here are the discus results.

Gold: Roje Stona, Jamaica, 70.0m (new Olympic record)

Silver: Mykolas Alenka, Lithuania, 69.97m (Alenka’s throw briefly set the new Olympic record until Stona passed it. Alenka is also the current world record holder at 74.35m)

Bronze: Matthew Denny, Australia, 69.31m

Jamaica had three in the final twelve and this was Jamaica’s first gold medal of the games and their first Olympic medal of any kind in the discus.

 

[Tom McAndrew]

I posted earlier today about the USA winning gold in this event. Here's a clip of the race, as well as video of the play-by-play announcer and the color analyst.

 

[Shadow99]

a shocker. Nobody had him (Rooks) as a medal threat.

Pray that Ethiopia's Lamecha Girma, current world record holder in the steeplechase, is ok and recovers quickly from the nasty fall in that same Rooks clip...

 

[Tom McAndrew]

Pray that Ethiopia's Lamecha Girma, current world record holder in the steeplechase, is ok and recovers quickly from the nasty fall in that same Rooks clip...

Yeah, pre-race analysis was that Girma was one of the co-favorites for the gold. That was a nasty fall, and left him parallel with the hurdle, just in the landing zone.

 

[BobPSU92]

Pray that Ethiopia's Lamecha Girma, current world record holder in the steeplechase, is ok and recovers quickly from the nasty fall in that same Rooks clip...

I just saw a clip on NBC stating that he is recovering well at a hospital.

 

[BobPSU92]

Men’s beach volleyball replay on USA right now. U.S. vs. “Qatar”. The two guys for Qatar aren’t from Qatar. They were recruited from other countries. For f*ck’s sake.

 

[Midnighter]

Hope this is allowed - salty language but an insane Tony Soprano impression Re Italian boxer at Olympics…

 

[Tom McAndrew]

I can’t get enough of Gabby Thomas. That girl is absolutely beautiful and is a fierce competitor as well.

since you can't get enough of her, I give you:

 

[NewEra 2026]

since you can't get enough of her, I give you:

Thank you, Tom. Gabby ran a great race for the gold.

NBC was pushing Richardson as the big US women’s track star for these Olympics, but Gabby took the crown and ran away with it.

 

[rudedude]

Men’s beach volleyball replay on USA right now. U.S. vs. “Qatar”. The two guys for Qatar aren’t from Qatar. They were recruited from other countries. For f*ck’s sake.

Kinda like Man City, eh? Or the tall guy Leon, for Poland’s volleyball team. His last name doesn’t end in “ski” or consonants!

 

[rudedude]

Our friend’s son swims tomorrow at 1:30 am EST in the 10k race in the Seine. It’s only on Peacock. Guess I’ll be up late! Ivan Puskovitch is his name.

 

[rudedude]

l know, but screw ‘em anyway.

I think this is the guy?

 

[Tgar]

Brooks with first win.

 

[Alphabets]

Brooks with first win.

Brooks with second win.

Also, Spencer made it look easy and RBY falls.

 

[Classof09]

Field hockey must be hell on one’s back. The stick is so short.

Bob that is setting up way too easily for a joke. You must not have had enough Starbucks today.

 

[Bones80]

Kite racing looks wild.

 

[Tom McAndrew]

Oh no, we only have Rowdy for one for Olympics.

 

[Tom McAndrew]

This is from a few days ago, but this is the 1st video I've seen of the shoot-out:

 

[throw2oj]

"Michelle Jenneke doesn't make it out of the repchage round."

 

[Tom McAndrew]

 

[Tom McAndrew]

 

[Tom McAndrew]

The 4x100 relay is too short to overcome major issues with the exchanges.

 

[Tom McAndrew]

 

[Tom McAndrew]

 

[Tom McAndrew]

 

[Tom McAndrew]