Hey everyone, With the Olympic Games just around the corner, I'm curious to know what everyone is expecting from this year's event. Do you have any predictions for standout performances or memorable moments?
I was a little disappointed in NBCs choice of the hosts. Snoop Dog, Kelley Clarkson? How about some real former Olympic athletes? They shouldn't be too hard to find.
Simone Biles wins gold again, claiming the Paris Olympics all-around gymnastics title https://www.latimes.com/sports/olym...he-paris-olympics-all-around-individual-title
Katie Ledecky earns 13th Olympic medal to become most decorated American woman in history https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5674917/2024/08/01/katie-ledecky-medals-olympics-swimming/ Katie Ledecky is now the most decorated woman in American Olympic history. Ledecky earned a silver medal as part of the U.S. women’s 4×200-meter freestyle relay Thursday night at the Paris Games, giving her 13 Olympic medals throughout her illustrious career. Australia earned gold and China took bronze in the relay. No other American woman has ever won more than 12. No other female swimmer of any nationality has won more than 12, either. On Wednesday, Ledecky took gold in the women’s 1500-meter freestyle, her eighth Olympic gold medal and 12th overall, which tied her with Americans Jenny Thompson, Dara Torres and Natalie Coughlin. “I try not to think about history very much,” Ledecky said Wednesday after tying them. “I know those names, those people that I’m up with. They’re swimmers that I looked up to when I first started swimming. It’s an honor to be named among them. I’m grateful to them for inspiring me and so many great swimmers over the years in the U.S. that have helped me get to this moment.” Australian Emma McKeon, who is competing at these Games as well and added a gold medal to her tally in the Aussies’ 4×100-meter freestyle relay win, also has 12 overall medals and will likely have a chance for a 13th medal in the women’s medley relay. But Ledecky has one more event to go, too: The women’s 800-meter freestyle. She is the heavy favorite to win her fourth consecutive Olympic gold medal in that event Saturday night. With one more gold, Ledecky will tie Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina for the most gold medals for any female Olympian in history.
Swimming is a scam with so many specialized events. There should only be one medal for all categories.
My blood is boiling over men being able to compete in boxing against women! Seeing that man at 66kg floor his opponent with a single punch and stop her had me raging. Everyone can do what they want in this life IMO,I'm open minded enough to view peoples differences as 'interesting'.However,when the world says,"we're so terrified of not being seen as inclusive" that we will put an athletes health at risk to ensure thats not the case,thats when I realise its gone too far. We are at peak wokeness and it needs to be walked back from here. There is such a thing as circumstance.I wanted to be a 6'11" basketballer and dominate the NBA.Didnt happen so I moved on,I didnt petition the league to have to include 6 foot white guys with mediocre skills to be included on each time as a requirement and upon risk of cancellation. More on topic,I did not expect Australia to be beaten in Rugby Union by Canada and America.One of the reasons I very rarely bet on sports.
I don't like or watch the modern Olympics. Its all overtrained athletes. It was a lot better when they were amateurs & mainly trained in colleges. The boycotts in the early 1980s destroyed the old way of competing. I loved watching ABC's Wide World of Sports' coverage of the Olympics back in the 1970s and the great announcer Jim McKay. That guy was so knowledgeable on so many of the sports.
Imane Khelif is a woman with hyperandrogenism. She was never a man in her life, not even at birth. Dressed as a girl, competed in women boxing all her life, and lost plenty of fights. She fought 51 fights around the world in women categories and lost 9 of those. One could make an argument on how people with hyperandrogenism are to be considered in sport... But she is not a transgender and neither a man.
True. But I think they do checks and have limits in place already, she checked all boxes. Chromosomes aside, xy, but I don't think rules cover chromosomes. So far it all seems by the rules and Imane didn't deserve the abuse she got. Lia Thomas lost a legal battle trying to compete in the Olympics. I can't even imagine Algeria being cool about transgenders representing them, where being openly gay is illegal.