2024 Paris Olympics (Pre-thread)

[StrawberryBlondie]

Jun 20, 2024 12:05:04 GMT -5 frlcb said:

My daughter has been at the swimming trials all week watching with her team and she is sending me so many cool pictures and videos and she is so happy, 1000% in her element (her dream is to swim in college and make the trials. She's only 13 but she can dream!)

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Mine is 10 and has been glued to the trials too. She has a state qualifier meet this weekend and I'm curious if it'll be motivating. Tokyo was what got her into competitive swimming in the first place so I hope so.

[frlcb]

Jun 20, 2024 12:58:55 GMT -5 calamity said:

frlcb , DD wishes she was there but she is watching too (also 13 and obsessed with swim)! Seeing Regan Smith get the world record gave me chills. Same with Gretchen Walsh. So many amazing athletes!

My daughter said watching Regan Smith get the record was so exciting!!

[frlcb]

Jun 20, 2024 13:30:47 GMT -5 neverfstop said:

Jun 20, 2024 12:05:04 GMT -5 frlcb said:

@@ My daughter has been at the swimming trials all week watching with her team and she is sending me so many cool pictures and videos and she is so happy, 1000% in her element (her dream is to swim in college and make the trials. She's only 13 but she can dream!)

I happened to be in Indy yesterday for work & the town is festive!  I made  my coworker take a selfie of us in front of the mini Eiffel tower.

@@ My daughter sent me a pic in front of the Eiffel Tower too! She has had a blast.

[frlcb]

Jun 20, 2024 17:39:40 GMT -5 StrawberryBlondie said:

Jun 20, 2024 12:05:04 GMT -5 frlcb said:

@@ My daughter has been at the swimming trials all week watching with her team and she is sending me so many cool pictures and videos and she is so happy, 1000% in her element (her dream is to swim in college and make the trials. She's only 13 but she can dream!)

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Mine is 10 and has been glued to the trials too. She has a state qualifier meet this weekend and I'm curious if it'll be motivating. Tokyo was what got her into competitive swimming in the first place so I hope so.

Good luck to her! I hope her meet goes great!

[curbsideprophet]

Jun 18, 2024 9:44:19 GMT -5 chickadee77 said:

Jun 18, 2024 8:17:14 GMT -5 hermione said:

Thank you for starting this thread. I opened the old one and was like, THE OPENING CEREMONY MIGHT CANCEL BC OF COVID??

ME TOO lol. I'm still actually fairly covid-conscious and was like, wait, I didn't realize there was another resurgence!

Depends on where you are at. Wastewater levels are high in Alaska, Hawaii, parts of the the west coast and a few other states.

www.cdc.gov/nwss/rv/COVID19-currentlevels.html

[chickadee77]

Jun 22, 2024 11:12:25 GMT -5 curbsideprophet said:

Jun 18, 2024 9:44:19 GMT -5 chickadee77 said:

ME TOO lol. I'm still actually fairly covid-conscious and was like, wait, I didn't realize there was another resurgence!

Depends on where you are at. Wastewater levels are high in Alaska, Hawaii, parts of the the west coast and a few other states.

www.cdc.gov/nwss/rv/COVID19-currentlevels.html

Liking for the info, not the content. I'm about the only person I know that still masks in a lot (admittedly not all) of situations. It's hard to keep up to date since it seems a lot of info is either ignored or actively squelched which is what caused my double-take.

I hope the Olympics are easier to watch this year; it seems like the past couple have been subscription service only, or else just an hour or so of highlights. I miss the days when that was, like, ALL that was televised. :: shakes cane ::

[pugz]

I'M SO EXCITED!!!!!!!!

I am curious if Peacock will be less of a hot mess this year. I assume we have to watch a lot on there and last time they had so many spoilers at the top of the page whenever you opened it.

I'm planning to watch the gymnastics trials this week. Blind Landing podcast has a new season out now talking about a lot of the gymnasts.

Also excited for LA 2028!

[basilosaurus]

Jun 23, 2024 12:43:23 GMT -5 pugz said:

I'M SO EXCITED!!!!!!!!

I am curious if Peacock will be less of a hot mess this year. I assume we have to watch a lot on there and last time they had so many spoilers at the top of the page whenever you opened it.

I'm planning to watch the gymnastics trials this week. Blind Landing podcast has a new season out now talking about a lot of the gymnasts.

Also excited for LA 2028!

BBC iPlayer was really good during 2012, but you do need a VPN.

This will be the 3rd summer olympics I've watched in an Asian country, so I expect local coverage to be a lot of ping pong and badminton. However, the bars often will stream from various sources. Skynet has a few locations that they'll stream from for sporting events. Again, VPN might be necessary. Mine's very reliable (tons of us have it) and about $5/mo peacock cocks it up again.

[gretchenindisguise]

I've been watching a lot of the swimming trials. I absolutely love it.

I CANNOT wait until the 2028 LA Olympics. They keep showing a rendering of what the stadium is going to look like, and I really hope we're able to go to at least a few events. My dad and brother went to the 1996 Olympics and I'm still bummed I didn't join them.

[lahoagie]

Snoop is going to be a special correspondent in Paris! I can’t wait!

[wise_rita]

Jun 23, 2024 18:34:38 GMT -5 gretchenindisguise said:

I've been watching a lot of the swimming trials. I absolutely love it.

I CANNOT wait until the 2028 LA Olympics. They keep showing a rendering of what the stadium is going to look like, and I really hope we're able to go to at least a few events. My dad and brother went to the 1996 Olympics and I'm still bummed I didn't join them.

If I could I would absolutely buy tickets for Brisbane 2032 today.

[Michelle]

The only coverage I've caught so far is the controversy of the triathlon swim taking place in the Seine, and how filthy it is. I think Macron and someone else were supposed to swim it yesterday to prove it was safe, and then a bunch of Parisians planned to poop in it ahead of Macron's swim to make their point. So then Macron and team postponed their swim, and so now the poop protest has also been postponed?

www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/olympic-poop-protest-postponed-after-politicians-cancel-swim-in-feces-filled-seine/ar-BB1oNuUn?ocid=BingNewsSerp

What a hot mess!

[neverfstop]

I was watching some of the track & field trials tonight which were on at the restaurant we were at.....they were so cool & it's adding to my excitement!

[basilosaurus]

Jun 24, 2024 14:31:17 GMT -5 Michelle said:

The only coverage I've caught so far is the controversy of the triathlon swim taking place in the Seine, and how filthy it is. I think Macron and someone else were supposed to swim it yesterday to prove it was safe, and then a bunch of Parisians planned to poop in it ahead of Macron's swim to make their point. So then Macron and team postponed their swim, and so now the poop protest has also been postponed?

www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/olympic-poop-protest-postponed-after-politicians-cancel-swim-in-feces-filled-seine/ar-BB1oNuUn?ocid=BingNewsSerp

What a hot mess!

Parisians really take the gold in protests.

[kath16]

Jun 23, 2024 12:43:23 GMT -5 pugz said:

I'M SO EXCITED!!!!!!!!

I am curious if Peacock will be less of a hot mess this year. I assume we have to watch a lot on there and last time they had so many spoilers at the top of the page whenever you opened it.

I'm planning to watch the gymnastics trials this week. Blind Landing podcast has a new season out now talking about a lot of the gymnasts.

Also excited for LA 2028!

if it's anything like the trials coverage, i think they'll do better this time. 

i watched track & field live, but it was on too late for my kids, so the next day we were able to go through and click on specific events OR a replay of the overall coverage and there were no spoilers within the app. 

[bugandbibs]

Uniforms for various countries.

[basilosaurus]

I'd wear the shirt in the bottom right just for everyday.

[erbear]

No Alex Morgan on the USWNT. Bold choice to go young (though I wish they had left Korbin Albert off). I’m excited to watch them play!

[curbsideprophet]

Jun 26, 2024 12:46:10 GMT -5 erbear said:

No Alex Morgan on the USWNT. Bold choice to go young (though I wish they had left Korbin Albert off). I’m excited to watch them play!

I am not too surprised about Morgan and I am okay with that. I also would have been fine if she had been picked. May have made sense to make her an alternate.  However I do not agree with bringing Albert. I do not think they are handling that situation well at all.

[neverfstop]

For the first time in Olympic Games history, an equal number of men and women will compete.

When women competed for the first time in 1900, they made up 2.2% of all athletes.

In March 2017, the IOC, Summer and Winter International Sports Federations, and National Olympic Committees launched the Gender Equality Review Project.
At the Tokyo Games, gender parity was close with 48% women athletes participating.
By the numbers: Twenty-eight out of the 32 sports on the Paris 2024 program are fully gender-balanced.

There are 152 medal events for women, 157 events for men and 20 mixed-gender events.

www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-houston-08c303bd-ec79-4c63-b663-12030d4ccd30.html

[mccallister84]

Has anyone been following the Mykayla Skinner drama?

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[StrawberryBlondie]

Jul 7, 2024 15:28:52 GMT -5 mccallister84 said:

Has anyone been following the Mykayla Skinner drama?

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OMG.

[Velar Fricative]

Jul 7, 2024 15:28:52 GMT -5 mccallister84 said:

Has anyone been following the Mykayla Skinner drama?

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YESSSSSSS it is wild and I am here for it. Who told her that nonsense she posted would be a good idea?

[mccallister84]

Jul 7, 2024 18:36:03 GMT -5 Velar Fricative said:

Jul 7, 2024 15:28:52 GMT -5 mccallister84 said:

Has anyone been following the Mykayla Skinner drama?

😬😬😬😬

YESSSSSSS it is wild and I am here for it. Who told her that nonsense she posted would be a good idea?

I know! And then her first non apology apology.

She’s also 27. Way old enough to know better.

[erbear]

Jul 7, 2024 15:28:52 GMT -5 mccallister84 said:

Has anyone been following the Mykayla Skinner drama?

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What an idiot. Why can't people just say "I'm sorry. I was wrong. I was mad and I said stupid shit. I am so sorry"

[wawa]

Jun 24, 2024 14:31:17 GMT -5 Michelle said:

The only coverage I've caught so far is the controversy of the triathlon swim taking place in the Seine, and how filthy it is. I think Macron and someone else were supposed to swim it yesterday to prove it was safe, and then a bunch of Parisians planned to poop in it ahead of Macron's swim to make their point. So then Macron and team postponed their swim, and so now the poop protest has also been postponed?

www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/olympic-poop-protest-postponed-after-politicians-cancel-swim-in-feces-filled-seine/ar-BB1oNuUn?ocid=BingNewsSerp

What a hot mess!

It's funny watching all this take place while Baltimore just had their first swim event in the harbor after doing a lot of the same kinds of sewer overflow diversion projects that paris has been fast tracking, with all the same overblown reactions.  Maybe Paris needs a trash wheel...

The thing I keep having to explain to people here re: the harbor, and it applies to paris too, is that after a heavy rain basically NO open body of water near civilization is safe to swim in.  Literally the entire Chesapeake bay is not recommended for full body immersion for 48 hours after a rainstorm.  And that is a GIANT body of water.  Runoff is GROSS. (i ignore this routinely) Add in big city sewer overflow (which Paris has installed a huge project to mitigate, but it could still be overwhelmed in a truly epic rain) and yeah...swimming through cities is dicey.  The seine HAS been cleaned up by a great degree, but after a heavy rain its going to test above limits.  If the weather has been dry for a few days, then it's going to test fine.

Also there's a difference between actually clean water and "water that won't give you pink-eye, a rash or make you sick if you accidentally swallow a mouthful".  They're aiming for the second. We rarely get the first.  

As a amateur triathlete, we swim in some visually NASTY water.  I avoid race gear with light colors because they're going to get stained brown by the water at most races around here.  Worst on paper was the channel behind Atlantic City, which still kinda makes me shudder to think about but wasn't that bad when I did it.  They had us run through showers on our way out of the water...   Worst in actual experience was a really shallow little pond/lake that got churned up by the preceding athletes so I came out of the water with twigs and leaves and gunk EVERYWHERE and reeked like a swamp.  The only times I've had my swim actually cancelled for unsafe water was a very pretty little lake in a lovely suburban park, because it rained heavily the week before and took too much runoff.  So it looking dirty is meh for safety.  It actually being unsafe is a different issue - and if it rains before the event they're going to be fucked on that count - AS ARE MANY TRIATHLONS.

My question, which I haven't been able to answer from a quick google, is whether the sewer overflow mitigation basin, which came online like....last month?  month before?  has been keeping up with any rain they're getting.  Hopefully it's adequate.

And fuck off too all the Parisians mad about how much it costs to revamp an ancient city sewer system so their literal shit doesn't flow into a river every time it rains.  Do you LIKE your city being gross?  Do you like having destroyed an entire ecosystem?  that's fucking weird guys.  get a grip.  This needed to be done, and the olympics just provided a kick in the pants.

[Vespasia]

wawa I love the idea of Monsieur Trash Wheel!