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No. 865573

Let's discuss the shitshow that is the tokyo olympics

No. 865581

Literally no one I know is watching it, Olympics is gay and stupid.

No. 865586

The only thing I know about it is that the played Final Fantasy music during the intro.

So how many men are competing as women?

No. 865589

>>865581
Not watching it either. Hate sports, and the Olympics are no exception. I am keeping up to date via social media though. Even if I refuse to sit down and watch the events, I’ll admit it’s really nice to see so many talented women do well.

No. 865592

I loved this bit so much!

No. 865594

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>>865586
Not only are they competing, they are also judging! I've lost all respect for the olympics after these games.

No. 865595

Also sharing the videogame music!

No. 865604

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I like watching the women compete. I'm seriously impressed at the strength and endurance you have to have to get to this level. The most fun to watch imo are gymnastics, volleyball, and tennis

No. 865614

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Simone Biles arguably the greatest gymnast of the modern era or even of all time, is getting ripped to shreds for pulling out of the competition. Gymnastics is a dangerous sport. She could die if she's not 100% okay to perform.

No. 865621

>>865604
Same. I've only been keeping tabs on them.

No. 865623

>>865621
That was a cool moment for that kid to win gold in skateboarding.

No. 865630

>>865604
Who is this? She looks fab!

No. 865640

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>>865630
Naomi Osaka from Japan, one of the top tennis players in the world and only 23 years old. She also lit the torch in the opening ceremony!

No. 865643

I wanted to boycott it completely because of the troonery, but I got sucked into gymnastics (men's and women's) because it's just so fucking beautiful.
That being said, looks like the wokes have decided the Olympics are haram for a bunch of petty reasons, so it's probably on its way out. Watching the events with no live crowds is a bit bleak as well, I wonder if there will be a normal Olympics next time or if we'll all be quarantining from Nigerian monkeypox (a real thing)

No. 865644

>>865614
most of the people criticizing her are stupid scrotes (they also are republican, fwiw, kek) complaining that she is teaching children to be "weak" and "give up easily." Of course, no one in their right minds looks at Simone Biles and sees someone who is weak. Not only is she the GOAT, but she won gold medals while enduring sexual abuse from Larry Nassar.

The olympics are cringe because nationalist pride causes so many viewers to demand that athletes sacrifice everything for a medal. The fact that Kerri Strug is hailed as an Olympic hero still when she was essentially forced to perform on a broken ankle is a testament that these athletes are treated like objects.

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>>865621
Samfagging, the archery was pretty cool to watch, too. Makes me wish I joined some sport when I was a teen so I could be a part of a team, forming sisterhood with the other members.

No. 865655

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Thanks for the thread! The Olympics are messy af, but I can't help to appreciate them and I try to watch as much competitions as I can. Olympics or not, what are your favorite sports to watch?
>>865621
This was so cool, I'm sure skateboarding will become a very popular sport on the next years. I got emotional when I saw Rayssa Leal (silver medalist from Brazil) and Momiji Nishiya (gold medalist from Japan) hugging. Two girls so young from such different cultures, winning and celebrating together, so sweet.

No. 865659

>>865643
Wtf? Nigerian monkeypox??

No. 865660

>>865655
i love the swimming, diving, gymnastics and track and field.

No. 865674

So which program has the hottest men?

No. 865687

>>865674
weightlifting. apart from the fat ones

No. 865694

>>865674
Swimming, tennis, volley, gymnastics and sometimes football

No. 865697

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I'm excited for sport climbing next week. My favorite climbers, Ashima Shiraishi and Jain Kim aren't competing, but I'm still excited to watch it nonetheless.

No. 865700

>>865674
swimming for sure

No. 865704

>>865644
even worse re: kerri strug - if they had just calculated the points before her vault they would have gotten the gold without it anyway. so she basically did it for no reason.

No. 865717

>>865674
Gymnastics
Swimming
Weightlifting 59kg to 81kg

No. 865723

>>865700
swimming is def a hoe sport for men.

No. 865785

>>865614
>>865644
nah. I think there's a legitimate argument to criticize Simone for pulling out in the team event, ESPECIALLY if she decides to compete in the individual competition. The whole media spin that she's some kind of mental health hero is absurd. She had a shitty vault, saw that she was not going to beat the Russians and quit on her teammates. If she didn't want to compete in the team event, she literally should have stepped aside and gave her spot to someone else.

It will literally be confirmed if she comes back for individual competitions. But the media will spin it as some kind of redemption arc when she gets gold. But seriously, she's not a team player.

No. 865791

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Kind of annoyed/disappointed because I really wanted to see the equestrian events but I can't find footage of them anywhere.

No. 865792


No. 865795

>>865792
Oh awesome, thanks so much

No. 865811

>>865785
salty white girls sure are out here unleashing their pent up resentment of simone biles. Literally who the fuck on the planet are you, why the fuck are ypu talking? She's literally the best gymnast on earth and you're like "oh she's so awful, she's not a TEAM PLAYER." Bitch she's on the oreo box for being number fucking one herself personally. Who the fuck said being a "team player" is something you get to take this holy moral stand about? You're trying to cancel someone for not being a "team player"? Is this third grade? Literally take her name out of your mouth you ugly frothing school paste bitch.

No. 865815

>>865674
I thought the Russian gymnastics guy was cute, here’s an older video of him. I haven’t seen much of the olympics because the scheduling is always weird on NBC

No. 865822

I despise the Olympics and I'm fucking salty that France decided to host the 2024 Olympics instead of the World Expo.

No. 865829

>>865811
Kek nonnie cope harder, she quit because she was losing, no need to lick her butthole.

I don't know why the media is insisting she's so special for quitting, it's pretty patronizing. She's supposed to be an elite athlete not a 6 year old that fell off the balance beam

No. 865837

the only event i actually sat down and watched was skateboarding because i thought it would be interesting. its really cool that the gold medalist skated in that same park all the time and one the olympic gold there as well.

mostly i just keep it on in the background while i do chores or work but this is the first time ive been kind of into it? women's weight lifting was pretty cool and so was the mountain biking

No. 865853

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Not into sports/the olympics, but I just saw this. I had no clue she had been molested for years.
The people who are sperging about Simone quitting seem to be incels and racists who will never accomplish shit.

No. 865859

>>865621
Loved watching the girls skate! Especially seeing that old vid of the brazillan girl skateboarding in a fairy costume, so cute.
When it comes to the Olympics I love watching the women compete, especially weightlifting.

No. 865860

>>865829
She got the twisties, which is incredibly scary; it almost feels like you're having a stroke midair and you cannot control your body. Experiencing this seeds doubt, anxiety, and fear in the gymnast, and it undoubtedly impacts your mental health. You cannot complete gymnastic feats like these olympians unless you're at 100%. She clearly was not.

Biles is special for quitting because she, just like Naomi Osaka, actually put her own needs before those of retarded nationalists demanding that she sacrifice her mind/body "for the country."

No. 865863

>>865853
reading this made me sad. people are so heartless. i cant imagine having all that pressure on you to succeed and then messing up in a way that couldve ended your career. I would back out too thats scary as hell she probably saw her life flash before her eyes.

No. 865867

>>865785
i mean don't they have spotters for if something happens to the main team? technically she is giving someone a chance. Dont be so heartless

No. 865876

>>865860
anyone criticizing simone biles for not wanting to go out and break her neck on national television knows nothing about gymnastics. twisties are no joke and i've even seen interviews of simone before all this saying some of her skills make her feel like she's about to die already. it's a lot of anxiety and danger to carry with you on top of the pressure of the media and the shitty organization that is USAG.

No. 865880

>>865867
yep actually giving someone a huge chance. jade carey is taking her spot in the AA and she had originally come in 9th in quals.

No. 865882

>>865860
I don't blame her for leaving if she feels like she has to but this special treatment is ridiculous

Like. She lost. and that's it. lmao

No. 865884

>>865882
what special treatment is she really getting though? years and years of abuse led up to this point. i don't think it's surprising she has people rallying to her defense when her literal sex abuse on the team was publicized.

No. 865885

>>865674
Judo, Fencing.

>>865791
They've only done dressage so far, the horse dancing. I might watch the cross country race.

No. 865888

>>865882
You sound like a bitter and pathetic scrote.

No. 865894

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Some of the talks I’ve seen about judge favoritism is striking (and not unbelievable) but also bothering me. This year is definitely a shitshow and it feels like some people are sort of on edge and making problems on purpose. But I’m also not watching every event.
Did anyone see what the Korean channel broadcasting the Olympics put for other countries introducing photos? I can’t get over how a stream of people OK’d putting Chernobyl for Ukraine, pizza for italia, Dracula for Romania, protestors for Haiti, bitcoin for El Salvador, a filet of salmon for Norway etc. It became a diplomatic issue where the Ukrainian embassy received an apology.
>>865853
>The people who are sperging about Simone quitting seem to be incels and racists who will never accomplish shit.
They 100% are.

No. 865895

>>865876
I was watching it live and she was saying she didn’t trust herself and that she was stupid for doing it, it’s really sad because it was the lowest vault score of her career. It’s disappointing we won’t see her compete in the all around or maybe she’ll opt out of all events but it’s for the best since she wasn’t going to be on her A game. The rest of the team did a phenomenal job filling in for her and I’m excited to see Suni because she kills it every time.

No. 865898

>>865853
>I had no clue she had been molested for years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Nassar
the documentary Athlete A on netflix goes into the situation in depth

No. 865899

>>865884
Special treatment as in her leaving the team mid event is lauded as some revolutionary act when its just not.
It's unfortunate about her past though but its like… I guess that didn't matter when she was winning. But now it matters a lot since she lost

No. 865900


No. 865901

>>865876
I barely know anything about gymnastics but seeing routines in action like >>865815 it’s obvious that any mistake would result in a serious injury. It’s not like any normal person can do shit like that so why even complain when the superhuman don’t want to risk it

No. 865903

>>865621
Gah, seeing this made me cry. As a former skater who quit due to injury, seeing Nishiya take the gold for her home really hit me. So young but an absolute shredder. I'm very excited for the future of skating, in general. Especially now in Japan because they took the gold in both Men and Women's street. Skating, to my limited knowledge, is kind of contentious in Japan due to its associations with crime and the western culture that it pulls in. Hopefully this changes that forever and allows society to see the beauty and extremely hard work it takes. Woot woot, Nippon! I typically hate the Olympics but this really hooked me aside from the drama.

No. 865929

>>865811

>goes on gossip image board

>"wHy aRe yOu CriTicIzing mUh kWeen!!1"

Do you know where you are? Take it back to LSA you dumbass race sperg

No. 865930

>>865929
NTA but
>"Do you know where you are?"
>reddit spacing
>tells others to go back
The irony.

No. 865931

>>865930
Jfl literal redditors are less obsessed with reddit than some of you autistic farmers

No. 865932

>>865674
It's not in the summer but figure skating

No. 865935

>>865931
You're getting upset at people pointing out autistic spacing and defending Reddit now, too? Yeah, I think you need to really go back.

No. 865936

>>865931
take my updoot

No. 865938

>>865932
seems like the attractive male figure skaters are mostly gay

No. 866000

>>865894
It is so thoughtless that the Korean broadcasting channel used stereotypes and crises to announce countries… on the other hand, they did get a bunch of flack on social media by Koreans. Imagine if Korea was announced by a western country as "nation who eats dog". t. Diaspora Korean

No. 866080

>>865894
>>866000
Do you know where I can find a full list?

No. 866101

>>865640
Ugh I felt so bad for Naomi Osaka. She’s such an amazing athlete but Japan just use her for woke points. Like “look at us, we’re so progressive letting a blasian represent us” while in reality, she’s constantly shit on in Japan for her skin color. Even the Japanese old man from the Olympic committee (the chairman?) called her fat and said she should have a pig costume for the torch ceremony and call it “olympig”.

No. 866127

>>866101
to be honest their choice was fucking stupid. shes about as japanese as a california roll, she was raised in the united states her whole life. why on earth would anyone from such an ethnically and culturally homogeneous culture feel represented by her?

No. 866180

>>866101
the olympig comment was aimed at naomi watanabe, not naomi osaka

No. 866223

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Are there any good resources for watching the Olympics for free? I don't have cable and don't feel like forking money over to Peacock or something. They have some of the highlights on youtube but they're all pretty abbreviated. I'd prefer the coverage to be in English but I can put up with not understanding the narration if it's full coverage of the events.

Pic unrelated

No. 866224

>>866223
Claro sports on Youtube! they have a lot of livestreams simultaneously for each sport that happens live. Only thing is, it's in spanish!

No. 866225

>>866224
not available in my country :( might have to try messing with VPNs

No. 866227

>>866127
America wasn't willing to fund her career but Japan was. I don't blame her for it.

No. 866228

>>866225
Aw, as long as you chose a country like Mexico I think you'll be able to watch it. Video related is showing women's volleyball right now live!

No. 866260

>>866080
Someone on reddit posted a list with a link to a video https://www.reddit.com/r/olympics/comments/oq3anh/comment/h698qtz/
>>866000
Yeah I don’t understand how the few people who were in charge of this thought it wasn’t going to royally fuck shit up when any regular person could tell it was too much. The diplomatic impact it could’ve had should not have been such a major oversight for a huge broadcasting event.
>>866127
>shes about as japanese as a california roll
This take is retarded. Half of her family is japanese. She was raised by a Japanese woman from Japan who speaks Japanese. It’s not like all notions of being Japanese went out the window for her the moment Naomi was born. Athletes play through the support of countries’ funding but at the end of the day they play for themselves, and should only play for themselves anyways. They don’t owe entire nations anything.

No. 866269

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I hadn’t actually seen the olympics mascots before this. They’re pretty bland and uninspired IMO.

No. 866271

>>866269
They look like rejected pokemon designs.

No. 866276

>>866260
how is this take retarded when I said THEY made a stupid choice in choosing her for muh woke points and it ended up with her getting extra backlash because shes obviously not japanese enough for them.

No. 866279

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>>866271
The Candidate C mascots were a lot better.

No. 866280

>>866279
Samefag, like what’s more Japanese, a fox and tanuki or grid aliens?

No. 866286

>>866269
They kinda look like tamagotchis, which is cute, but the designs are too busy imo

No. 866302

>>866276
I was making an argument against their takes that you were speaking of, not you specifically. I already explained how it’s retarded.
>>866269
This is too lazy and gimmicky. They really do look like rejected animu pokemon.

No. 866310

>>866279
The tanuki is so cute. The other two options are dogshit in comparison. Who the hell decided this?

No. 866329

>>866279
Awww I love the top B one, so cute. Both are so cute
>>866224
Gracias claro por tanto, estoy todo el día viendo los juegos desde ahi

No. 866344

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>>866269
Really? I think they're adorable.
Bery modern, and they match the logo.

No. 866353

>>866223
I got YouTube tv, the free trial is 5 days long and you can use it to go on nbc and watch all the replays and stuff.

No. 866363

This genuinely looks like a lot of fun as someone who loves white water rafting.

No. 866373

>>866127
> why on earth would anyone from such an ethnically and culturally homogeneous culture feel represented by her?

O la la I gotta love the little sprinkle of /pol/tardation in your post!

No. 866380

>>866280
I think they’re supposed to be mechas like Gundams. Kind of Japanese.

No. 866415

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>>866344
reminds me of this. I find it cute

No. 866416

>>866279
Predictable. I love the one they chose.

No. 866701

why is someone who didn't even make it to the olympics in the thread pic?

No. 866705

>>866701
Does it fucking matter? Read the rules and don't complain about the thread in thread. And sage your pointless bullshit, newfag.

No. 866718

>>866101
>>866180
Isn't Naomi Watanabe in NYC currently though?

No. 866728

>>866705
Nta but it’s a perfectly reasonable question. Don’t tell people to sage in /ot/ newfag.

No. 866799

>>866705
You will never be a mod

No. 866802

>>865811
NTAYRT but I think you're replying to a /pol/ racebaiter. Anyway the shaming comes moreso from the fact that she's a woman than her race. Before you think that those "white girls" would empathize if that was the case, recall that women naturally hold women to higher standards than men. Not to mention people have dehumanized her as a GOAT incapable of failure. Realistically losing her difficulty and skills as an all-arounder ace was a huge loss for team USA. Up until this point Simone was a guaranteed gold medalist, you can't say the same for the other gymnasts going into the Olympics. Simone is human but she is also in her own league when it comes to gymnastics–so much so that she's inventing more difficult skills, some of which are named after her.
But on top of wanting to blame the best female gymnast we've got, it also comes down to people who don't realize how much gymnastics relies on your mental stability, better yet know anything about gymnastics kek. Knowing the height and the speed Simone gets she could get seriously hurt if she decided to compete with a mental block. Coaches specifically like to recruit as young as possible because kids have no fear.

No. 866959

>>865811
>salty white girls sure are out here unleashing their pent up resentment
PROJECTION

No. 867171

I’m so happy for Suni Lee, I cried when she won gold. She’s been my lock ever since I saw she outperformed in the Olympic trials.

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>>866363
Czech male gold medalist was so cute, first thing he did after winning was call his mom and then he was showing off his wedding ring during the ceremony. He also looked like a kid compared to other canoeists kek

No. 867462

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women's 5000m race

This can't be a woman? shit. it's hard to tell now they have let troons in to ruin womens olympics.

No. 867463

>>867439
wholesome scrote

No. 867466

>>867462

46XY intersex

No. 867467

>>867466
>46XY intersex
nigga, what? that sounds like a planet. Damn! the olympics is a whole ass mess this year!

No. 867482

>>867171
Good for her.

No. 867521

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I’m so happy for Hidilyn Diaz. I’m filam, and my bf and I watched her win the gold for weightlifting…..and the announcers immediately went in about how it’s the first time ever in history that the Philippines has won a gold. It was really funny, I (jokingly) said they were so shady and “oh my god these haters!” and my bf laughed at it all. In any case, she was so sweet and wholesome every time she successfully completed a lift. Really proud and excited about it.

No. 867525

>>867466
>XY
>Y

So a male.

No. 867529

>>867462
Your first instinct is usually the correct one, anon.

That’s a man.

No. 867545

>>867462
There were actually a few more athletes like that who weren't allowed to compete because of their testosterone levels, like Semenya.

>>867525
It's Africa, so born without a proper penis they were probably raised as women and it wasn't until puberty that it gets found out.

No. 867552

>>867545
these people deeply confuse me. like, is it a man or a woman? or no one can decide? and why is it always african countries with these intersex problems? not to sound racist but they seem overrepresented. They look like wholse ass men. I don't think they should be allowed with the women but the testosterone rule is ridiculous and completely unfair. they need to be under 10ml tes but thats still FAR, FAR higher than the average woman.

No. 867557

>>865723
Wet himbos make me so happy

No. 867562

>>867521
She's amazing!! So happy for her

No. 867627

>>867552
I guess at birth they're not thouroughly examined andd doctors would only notice if something can be seen from the naked eye in 5sec. Then when the kids grow up and show symptoms their family and coaches can just pretended nothing's wrong with them just so they can compete among women. Kinda like how I keep hearing about East Germany doping their female athletes without them noticing.

No. 867684

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tokyo-living-anon here.

I feel super bad for the Japanese govt cause they spent so much $$$ on this, expecting to get all that sweet sweet tourist money. Many businesses have closed etc.

As a side note I was watching the skateboard competitions and every time the Japanese won I couldn't stop picturing the queen (pic related) and how SPOT ON he is on how Japanese mom are.

No. 867686

>>867552
What we learnt in med school is that once you got Y, you're classified as male. Don't remember it exactly but XY with dysfunctional Y is still an 'intersex - male type'. When you only have X but overabundance of testosterone, making you really manly, you're still classified as biological female. Science isn't very grey, it's quite black and white about this no matter what TRAs say.

No. 867689

>>866127
I'm the anon who just posted the above comment but I can tell you most Japanese are very unhappy with the committee choosing her as the main athlete representing Japan for the olympics. Homegirl can't even speak Japanese and let's not forget she supposedly had a breakdown not even a week before (or more like a tantrum). She is japanese yes but she knows zero of the culture, lnguage or anything. If they wanted a haafu (half japanese) they had better options to choose from, like the guy who won the Judo gold for 100 kilo).

No. 867695

>>867627
> keep hearing about East Germany doping their female athletes
Jfc anon thank you for this I had to look it up and found this https://www.google.de/amp/s/www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/east-germanys-forgotten-olympic-doping-6949436.amp
That’s so fucked up and incredibly sad

No. 867726

>>867684
He's such a good actor I forget Jam'ie isn't real, even though she's a caricature of a teen girl and he's a middle-aged bloke kek.

No. 867729

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>>867726
It's because he is(as I said before) so spot on. I went to private school (only girls) and I can vouch that he 100% nailed it. Same with the Japanese mom dig and the drama teacher one, etc etc. He is so good at portraying how "x-people/person" behave.

No. 867731

>>867684
don't feel bad for the jap gov, they don't care about you. But kek, nice to see chris lilley still appreciated. He's cancelled now, in australia for muh racism. I know so many people who loved his ja'mie stuff to now denouncing anyone who watches he's shows to be an evil racist.

No. 867746

>>867684
Who is this i don’t get it?? A comedian who acts like Japanese mom?

No. 867764

I feel bad for An San because of how Koreans incels have been attacking her for having short hair. Pathetic males

No. 867797

>>867684
Isn't already a fact that the hosting countries will always lose money with the Olympics? It's never economically worth it. But yeah, I'm sure they could have done so many great things in normal times. I liked the Rio closing ceremony much more than the Tokyo inauguration for example

No. 867926

>>866269
Most Olympic mascots are bland at best tbh. London 2012 was objectively the worst.

>>866279
Agree, C are the best.

No. 868018

>>866279
C is too busy and overdetailed tbh, the design should be simple.

No. 868515


No. 869625

>>867627
I don't think they just pretend there's nothing wrong, I think whatever entity in their countries selects and trains olympians takes advantage of their condition in hopes of superior performance.

No. 870422

Yall heard about the trannies Laurel Hubbard and Rebecca Quinn

No. 870834

>>870422
I hate everything about Hubbard and he should go to hell, but isn't Quinn just a they/them woman playing in women team? Not really troubling

No. 871046

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Novak Djokovic threw a shit fit because he was losing, and received no penalties for his unsportsmanship-like behavior. No points deducted, not being disqualified, only 2 warnings. From anyone else they would be thrown out of the game. The best part is this is after he was asked by a reporter to comment on the Simone Biles situation and handling the pressure.
>"Novak, you would've heard about Simone Biles yesterday talking about mental health and the pressure of performing. You are in this position going for the Golden Slam, you know, there is no more pressure on a tennis player than you currently. Can you speak a bit about it?"
>"Pressure is a privilege. Without pressure there is no professional sport. If you are aiming to be at the top of the game you better start learning how to deal with pressure. And how to cope with those moments on the court but also off the court, all the expectations."

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>>871046
djokovic is a massive cow and is constantly throwing temper tantrums. he had one at the australian open earlier this year (picrel) and last year he got disqualified from the us open last year for hitting a line judge with a ball in a fit of rage. he constantly yells at ball boys for shit like bringing him towels and always smashes his racquet when things don't go his way.

No. 871061

>>867797
>Isn't already a fact that the hosting countries will always lose money with the Olympics?

this is only the case in situations when a country have big infrastructure projects before the olympics. Japan already has the fascilities built and they haven't made new stadiums,so they are not supposed to lose money

No. 871063

>>867764
I would have gone full Megalia on them with the finger gesture and all, I'm amazed at how well she kept it together. She got a lot of backlash when she had just 2 medals and even with the pressure of korean moids she won the 3rd anyways. What a legend.

No. 871069

>>865894
Why tf r they not covering their noses

No. 871072

>>871046
>"Pressure is a privilege. Without pressure there is no professional sport. If you are aiming to be at the top of the game you better start learning how to deal with pressure. And how to cope with those moments on the court but also off the court, all the expectations."
Kek other than the obvious hypocrisy, he can say that bc he can throw tantrums to release his stress. If a female player did the same thing she'd be blacklisted and shamed into oblivion with "crazy bitch".

No. 871074

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>Tall and fit
>Hot af
>Talented
>Literally broke a fucking record
>Lesbian
I love her so much she's like my dream come true, and boomers and homophobes can't bully her because she's literally the coolest shit that came out of this country so they have to stfu and seethe.

No. 871078

>>871074
based, good for Venezuela!

No. 871083

>>871063
Good for her! I had to laugh when moids started equating her medals to the military service. Kek they wish

No. 871096

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>>871074
>>871078
Moids cannot even compare (is there a thread were i could image dump?)

No. 871101

>>871096
the attractive women thread in /g/ i guess?

No. 871102

>>871096
yoooo and she's googles it 6'3?? Based as fuck
t. 6ft tall

No. 871137

>>871074
Holy shit Venezuela, congrats on producing the coolest fucking woman at the Olympics

No. 871229

>>871096
Starting to understand why short guys hate chads now hahahahah she looks like a beautiful avatar next to a pathetic scrawny human.

No. 871242

>>865581
THIS. Fuck the Olympics, ever since 2008 it all went downhill.

No. 871255

>>867729
Also went to private school, completely agree with you. I knew girls who probably would've done the whole "sponsoring an African village" thing and then gotten pissed off when they all died, kek

No. 871391

>>871046
>>871060
I don't know shit about tennis but aren't rackets really expensive?

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No. 872005

>>871990
I wonder what would've happened if they all told him what they really thought about it.

No. 872048

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I'm losing my mind over the women's climbing event.

No. 872096

>>871990
The first question is such good feelings. Two training partners fighting it out for the silver medal. Then we get the annoying follow-up.

No. 872175

>>871990
This was beautiful, but it's also a shame they have to be silent

No. 872188

>>871990
based. absolute legends

No. 872217

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Does anyone else skate? There’s a skateboarding gossip forum called SLAP, but it’s mostly guys who just talk about if female skaters are hot or as good as men.

The Olympics are controversial in skating and they definitely need to change a lot for the next games, but it made me so happy to see all the women turn out really hard for the Park Competition. Street was super boring and there was a lot of personal drama.

All the girls who got medals deserved it, but I’ll always have a soft spot for Lizzie since she’s broken so many barriers, took a fall off a mega ramp, and is one of the last millennials left in Park comps.

Even the guys on SLAP are surprised how good they are now

No. 872274

>>872217

I think it’s pretty cool and nice to see girls skating tbh

No. 872331

>>872217
I used to skate until I permanently fucked my knee up in a motorcycle crash. Still love the sport though and it's amazing watching it at the Olympics when a few years back I was starting to think it would never become an Olympic sport. It's great to see such young girls out there killing it, and they seem to be really friendly with each other too which is nice. I never tried SLAP, skateboarding can be a total sausage fest and social media makes thing much much worse so I never really discussed it too much outside of my token irl scrote friends and girls I used to know when I did skate.

No. 872643

Straight anons watch swimmers and gymnasts, what sports are fun to watch when you like women? Just saw the female hockey match from today and thought that literally everyone was so attractive

No. 872718

>>872643
i like womens rugby

No. 872874

>>872643
The women in track and field look amazing imo.

No. 873970

>>871046
He was misquoted btw he was talking about himself, not Simone. You can criticize him for many things but he isn't one to talk shit about other athletes cause he was demonized as a youth for being eastern european and successful.
The one story that should have gone viral is that the gold medalist in mens singles was accused by his ex gf of abusing her and the tennis association did absolutely nothing.

No. 873986

>>871046
Djokovic is a lot of things but he was misquoted there, he was talking about himself. Also love how people try to shit on him for the stupidest things, especially Brits when he was going against Andy Murray.

No. 874257

Card games are serious business! kek

Only in Japan


https://hypebeast.com/2021/8/yu-gi-oh-card-game-make-olympic-sport-petition-info(imageboard)

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No. 876294

So what did you all think of the ending ceremony? I thought it was underwhelming. Where are the next games gonna be held at?

No. 876295


No. 876306

>>876281
Me trying to impress my crush at school.

No. 876325

>>876294
Oui oui baguette

No. 876543

>>876294
You watched the ceremony and didn't realize what all the stuff about Paris was about?
Both ceremonies were pretty boring, but covid and orginizational trouble probably was a big reason so I can't blame them. At least the athletics went off fine.

Anyway, theres Winter in Beijing first which I really hope turns out ok. There's more sports I like in the winter.

>>876283
One thing 4chan is good for, lots of good webms.

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No. 876765

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No. 876768

>>876765
didn't she get eliminated because she abused her horse?

No. 876770

>>876768
Yeah the coach punched the horse and apparently the olympics censored some footage

No. 876774

>>876765
She didn't get eliminated, she just got 0 points for the show jumping section of the pentathlon, which brought her from having a record lead to the gold medal down to 31st place.

>>876768
>abused her horse
I didn't realise there were people retarded enough to actually say that unironically.

No. 876778

>>876774
>I didn't realise there were people retarded enough to actually say that unironically.
So, you saw the video and think she didn't harm the horse? It was clearly uncomfortable, got hit by both the rider and the trainer and forcefully pulled on the reins, this is unacceptable behavior and abuse of animals that has no place in neither casual riding and especially in pro competitions.
In general this competition is full on idiotic, horse sports depend a lot on the rider and the horse training together well and here the rider just gets a random horse they dont know right before their run begins, who came up with that.

No. 876782

>>876768
>>876765
here's the video of her hitting the horse

No. 876784

>>872217
>here’s a skateboarding gossip forum
there's a gossip forum for everything nowadays

No. 876785

>>876778
If rein pulling or some taps with a plastic crop on a 1000 kg animal is anuddah shoah you have to just ban horse riding.(racebaiting /pol/tard)

No. 876790

>>876785
Just say you like harming animals and go, I can't believe someone would watch animal being beaten up and forcefully pulled on a metal bar put in one of the most fragile body parts which is it's mouth and be like, this is ok I would do it. You can and should ride horses without doing either of these things.

No. 876796

>>876765
I don't know shit about equitation but I've read that the horse was randomly attributed to that girl for the competition and I just don't get it. Since it's the horse that actually runs and jump over obstacles and the rider just guides it, I thought each rider would just train with their own horse and compete with their horse that they've personally trained. How does that shit even make sense?

No. 876798

What do you think of that one girl that quitted due to anxiety?

No. 876803

>>872217
My brother browses that forum, kek
>>876782
Is that abuse? It looks like she's slapping him, but horses are so huge that it's hardly remarkable enough to do any damage or harm. And was that even a punch? Maybe it's just because the video is poor quality it just looked like a quick slap/shove.

No. 876813

>>876790
Just say you want horse riding banned. Why are you focusing on this particular case, is this just the first time you see an equestrian event outside of MLP?

>You can and should ride horses without doing either of these things.

You ride horses without reins?

No. 876816

>>876803
Aaww I find that adorable. A family of gossip forum lovers.

No. 876820

>>876782
https://www.eurosport.de/moderner-funfkampf/olympia-moderner-funfkampf/2021/olympia-2021-annika-schleu-verliert-fast-schon-sicher-geglaubtes-gold-im-springreiten_vid1523286/video.shtml
Here's a video of the whole thing. Through I'm not sure if you can watch it outside of europe.

>>876785
What your missing is her coach shouting at her that she should "Hit it really hard". And if you watch closely her coach even punches it.

>>876796
I guess the idea is that your supposed to get to grips with a new horse really fast. It's pretty idiotic, especially since riding isn't all that important for your overall score, meaning that most pentathletes are pretty mediocre riders.

No. 876824

>>876803
Horses are big and heavy but also sensitive enough to feel a fly sitting on them; getting hit by a crop full force repeatedly like that is abuse; especially since no one has any idea why the horse is refusing to jump, so even defending it as "punishment for misbehavior" makes zero sense. Pretty much everyone in the equestrian circles I saw agrees this situation was unacceptable, but just as unacceptable as this very competition existing given the rider doesn't know the horse. People who are the most to blame are the organizers.
>>876813
>Just say you want horse riding banned
As a matter of fact I do; maybe dressage is fine, but there's still stress the horse will feel getting transported across the globe so I don't think it should be done at all except locally.
>You ride horses without reins?
I ride without pulling forcefully on the bit, yes, that's how it's supposed to be done. Sometimes I'm riding without the bit at all. You may be surprised but reins are not essential in horseriding, although in pro jumping and all the rapid turns that have to be done they are, which is why in this sport you see more brute force approach than in dressage; especially on the lower competition levels. Top tier like olympics should be free of it.

No. 876825

From what I understand the rider was stressed and bawling her eyes out before the ride started despite winning gold before. A lot of horses tend to freak out if they're rider is in distress, especially riders they barely know. The whole thing was stressful to look at. The coach was also a dumbass. Wonder what they said to the rider that got them so stressed. Hard to believe these two are suppose to be pros.

>>876796
It's weird I know, but the logic is if you're a good rider you can control any horse. That and randomly assigned horses mean you can't dope up your horse with performance enhancers. That and to make it fair all horses are similar breed wise. Cuz lets face it, some horse breeds are just better at jumping.

This was rider error and the coach being a dumbass. I would just tell my rider to get off if she's crying that much, she could barely see or focus on the event anyway.
Horses are also ridden and inspected before hand to make sure they're good to go.

No. 876832

>>876824
That is very good information
why do you think the horse refused?

No. 876844

>>876825
>From what I understand the rider was stressed and bawling her eyes out before the ride started despite winning gold before.
Appearently her horse refused three times during the practice run, but your only allowed to change the horse if it refuses four times. This probably stressed both out like crazy espeacially since she was well on her way to win gold.
The random horse thing also makes the sport affordable to normal people, because buying, caring for and training a top tier horse is extremely expensive. (Then again, not many people care for pentathelon at all and I don't know anyone who has modern pentathalon as a hobby)

>>876824
Having watched a few videos on how these horses travel it doesn't seem that stressful to be honest. The argument that high level competition is always risky for the horses health holds more weight imo.

No. 876847

Can someone confirm, but from what I read up on most of these people are not even legit riders and learn to ride late just to fill the spot on the team. Like what's even the point? Seems like Olympic riding is a joke in the horse world and local events are taken more seriously and have more prestige.

No. 876851

>>876832
Honestly it's hard to say, from just watching a video it's a typical behavior of a horse that didn't get enough time to assess the obstacle in front of it so it refuses to jump it as he doesn't understand how far he'd have to jump and what is behind; going at the obstacle frontally the horse doesn't see it so it needs to trust the rider - which is obviously impossible in this specific competition where horses are randomly assigned - and also this rider is behaving erraticaly, displaying anger and fear, which the horse can sense, making it even harder to build any semblance of trust. The approach on the video seems a little narrow too, which gave the horse even less time to prepare for the jump, but, once again, if he know the rider he'd probably do the jump anyway just trusting the signals given.
Other possible scenario, even if that horse was fine jumping the track before, something happened in the recent past that made him scared and more likely to refuse to cooperate. We know it already behaved like that for other rider before, maybe that situation made it scared of something he was good at before, as horses are easily developing these kind of fears, even if irrational. Another theory, the horse may be hurt, even as recently as during the warmup right before the competition, not hurt enough to display wounded behavior like limping but enough to fear the pain of the impact of legs hitting the ground after such a jump, that's why he doesn't want to do it.
Finally, horses minds are really abstract. Even the best behaved horse can, idk, one day see something in the corner of it's eye and panic, especially under a rider it doesn't know and doesn't trust enough to take care of potential dangers. Overall, neither of these scenarios or just what we see on the video appears like any kind of malice from the horse, so any kind of punishment just makes no sense and would only give opposite results. I do understand the pressure and stress Schleu, the competitor, was under. This is the olympics after all and she was very close to the medal, I don't think she should be called animal abuser or a bad rider, she just had an awful moment and panicked. Her trainer for encouraging the hitting though is pretty shit.
>>876844
>Having watched a few videos on how these horses travel it doesn't seem that stressful to be honest.
It's usually organized well and with wellbeing in mind and most of the sport horses are more or less fine but it's still a bit so-so given animals cant really understand what's going on with them. I agree it's a lesser argument though.

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>>876851
So i just looked through the footage again, and he was ridden before by Gubaydullina Gulnaz (bib 19, starting number 18) where he showed some of the same behavior, he refused three times, after the third refusal he starts walking backwards and the attempt is appearently called off.
If the horse spergs of the thread want some more rage fuel, Micheli Elena and Guimares Ieda fall off their horses twice. Gumiares even ends up under the horse (pic rel), she luckily wasn't hurt.

No. 876911

>>876889
This looks so dangerous, lucky for her to get out of it safely. No idea why would they put a horse like this in the competition again.

No. 876926

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https://aramajapan.com/news/tokyo-2020-opening-ceremony-original-plan-leaks-in-full/114631/

This is apparently what was supposed to be the original opening ceremony. I understand why we got what we got but the opening and ending ceremonies were definitely underwhelming lol.

No. 876929

>>876911
The same horse (Caleansiena YH) had a faultless run with Marina Carrier later on which earned them third place.

No. 876931

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Also I've seen people point out that the third boulder problem in the men's finals looks like the "rising sun" and might be a reference to it. Apparently one commentator did say it looked like that, not knowing the significance behind the rising sun flag, and a Korean climber who was commentating on it put out a statement on instagram over it too. The setters were French I believe.

No. 877003

>>876926
i just wanted hatsune miku sorry

No. 877070

>>876931
Seems like a reach.

No. 877323

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Fuck horse riding, the most pathetic "sport" ever.
Anyways, anyone following the rhytmic gymnastics shitshow? I was not expecting Arina to be 4th, personally I don't know anything about the rules but I've seen people that do know, say that it was fair because of how the scoring works

No. 877334

>>876926
im so pissed. I was really hoping perfume was gonna do something since they do really cool AI stuff with their regular stages. im sure some of it would have changed because of covid anyways but they could have done some cool as shit and instead we got people fucking running on a treadmill and tap dancing

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No. 877379

>>877368
perfect meme fit

No. 877591

>>877323
I think that's interesting because it's the first time (in 25 years) when Russia didn't get a gold medal in this category.

I think she did great but I truly feel like Olympics, just like Eurovision and other things are all about poltiics now. After all Eurovision was a massive shitshow that got saved only by audience votes.

No. 877761

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Freaky

No. 877766

>>877761
Is this real?

No. 877774

>>877761
I like how the two men on the left are cosplaying minions

No. 879582

Just thought that it would be cool to have Daft Punk performing together at Paris 2024

No. 879585

>>877761
I hope this isn't real. Revolting!

No. 879617

>>879582
They broke up nonita and according to their former manager, do not give a shit.

No. 879623

>>879617
Knew the first part, that's why I thought it would be nice. Like Gisele Bundchen, she retired in 2015 but did a catwalk at Rio 2016. Guess it would be in my dreams~ but I can't blame them, they're old and have families

No. 879631

>>879585
Yeah track cyclists have massively overdeveloped bundas

No. 879636

>>879631
Everyone mocking your colossal man ass "but I came 4th in the Olympics!"

No. 879647

>>877761
>>879631
Imagine seeing a bunch of these guys waddling down the street irl kek.

No. 879677

>>879631
But how?? I just tried to google it and nothing came up about how its possible that these men have gained such gigantic asses. Like i know that you train your thigh when cycling but i didnt know you could get such a big butt?

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>>879677
I'm losing my mind over not being able to find this medal ceremony on video to confirm but in general when you look at track cyclists bodies, their thigh muscles are insanely huge, so I guess butts too.

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No. 879751

>>879741
I’ve never wanted to grab a man’s ass more in my entire life holy shit

No. 879753

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>>879744
Middle guy looks like a cartoon.

I just discovered this Brit, he looked way too handsome after a crash.

No. 879767

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>>879753
people in this sport really look bizarre in general, some photos look like they could go straight to ridiculous photoshoppers thread on /snow/

No. 879770

>>879767
This is how my legs looked when I only lifted and did exercise biking but fatter, ridiculous

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No. 879776

>>879677
It's also an open secret that Olympians take steroids to help them recover faster so they can practice more. With an extremely strict diet&exercise regime and some steroids, it wouldn't be surprising that the end result is… that.

No. 879872

>>879741
>>879751
Big butts on men look feminine so it turns me off anyway. But a friend pointed out another thing to me which is we know men have hairy assholes and don't wash properly so imagine how sweaty his dirty hole and cheeks are. I completely agree!

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>>866223
I wasn't aware of this thread before otherwise I would have contributed earlier, but I watched most of it on olympicstreams.me and freestreams-live.
Highlights for me were wrestling, judo, and above all weighlifting, especially Lasha and Wenwen.



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