2024 Olympics - Blog Posts

watching the Olympics opening ceremony rn and there was a polyamorous couple and a bunch of gay people and my parents were uncomfortable and i’m over here like:

yes, you go! be gay! go slay! we love you guys!

Justice for v.phogat.

She protested against the government in 2023. She competed in the 48kg, 50kg and 53kg categories in various games. She's the first Indian woman wrestler to secure gold in Asian games and Commonwealth games. She was the first Indian woman to qualify for Olympic wrestling finals.

She beat a world champion this year. She lost 1.5 kilograms in a night. She overexerted herself.

She was disqualified for being 100g overweight.....

Did she deserve this?

Fact time : the place where they had the Metal/Marie Antoinette scene is the Conciergerie, which was a prison where a lot of people were detained in horrible conditions. One of its most famous prisonners was... Marie Antoinette, who lived her last days there before being brought to the gallows.

The blood spraying out of the Conciergerie symbolised (for me) all the deaths linked to this-still very interesting- place.

an incomplete list of some Things that happened in the olympic opening ceremony

Both Lady Gaga and Celine Dion gave performances

Three teenagers got lost in the catacombs with the olympic flame and got saved by the phantom of the opera

a ménage à trois

20 different pink clad marie antoinettes holding their own chopped off heads watched a metal concert

Dionysius showed up to preach about sobriety??

a guy dressed as Napoleon did BMX tricks

the peace flag was carried by this horsewoman of the apocalypse

The phantom of the opera did parkour. a lot of parkour

3 seperate pianos were rained on

One was on fire

The on fire piano was involved in a very sincere rendition of John Lennon's Imagine

They never actually explained the phantom of the opera bit? I was really expecting him to look different

The minions stole the mona lisa

Are the minions french???

A french man in red white and blue played the accordion while wearing a beret

In conclusion: excellent entertainment, excellent showing off, good luck america trying to top this

a lot going on w this whole boxing drama but have to say JK Rowling having made an enemy of the entire country of Taiwan is a definite highlight

south africa was banned in the olympics in 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988 & 1992. a total of 8 times. for 28 years they didn't set foot in the olympics. you know why? apartheid. apparently the olympics disagreed with the apartheid regime in south africa. russia & belarus aren't allowed to take part in the olympics this year. you know why? because of their involvement in the war in ukraine. several countries throughout history haven't been allowed to participate in the olympics because of various reason from their involvement in war to human rights abuses. now if the olympics aren't blind to all that... why in the world are they blind to what israel has been doing to gaza for the past 10 months? why is a genocidal apartheid nation allowed to participate in the olympics when any other country in its place would've been banned?

Me but yesterday my team fumbled one of the two events i actually cared about

i should be. doing things. but there are women with guns and swords and on horses and doing judo and swimming and gymnastics and hockey and and and and

made this art for the 2024 Olympics hehehe

(featuring @cake-mixx’s OC Faild and @shadybailiffmuffinwagon’s OC Violet)

My girlllllllll. She did us proud 🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨👏👏😤

Julien Alfred

mondo duplantis sets a new pole vault world record (6.25m)

The Paris Olympics Opening

HAD PHANTOM OF THE OPERA PARKOURING WITH THE TORCH

FUCK YES

I might draw him later..

I might..

Also Imagine a full poto adaptation with this Erik?! YESSS

So russian and belarusian athletes are banned from competing under their countries' flag for the war in Ukraine but Isreali athletes are still allowed to compete under Isreali's flag despite Isreal's genocide being 4 times as deadly as the Ukrainian invasion?? Fuck Isreal. Fuck Russia. Fuck the Olympic Committee. Free Palestine. Free Ukraine.

Yesterday's women's ITT was one of the first events held after the Opening Ceremonies, and it was a thoroughly uncomfortable day on the bike. The course through Paris wasn't overly technical, but many sections had cobbles or pavers that were quite slick in the pouring rain. And rain it did pour, all morning. Many of the riders, even experienced veterans, hit the deck as they navigated turns or roundabouts. Cecilie Uttrup-Ludwig was an early victim of the slick as was Lotte Kopecky. Both Americans, Chloe Dygert and Taylor Knibb, went down.

Many of the riders who didn't fall were taking turns very cautiously, and so the times really varied. Elisa Longo Borghini said she slowed down into the turns after she heard even Kopecky had fallen. Ellen van Dyke, who was a possible contender, had a very slow day, reportedly due to her health and nervousness around the slippery course.

The best of the best, who put down smooth power and managed to stay upright, was Grace Brown of Australia. She had the best time by a very solid 1:31 margin, and we have to admit that we're pretty happy to see her win Gold in her final season.

We're nearly as impressed with the ride by Anna Henderson, who won Silver. Like we said in our preview, Henderson has had a broken collarbone twice this season, which is terribly luck and very painful, but the Brit stayed in top shape. This was a great performance from her.

Rounding out the podium was Chloe Dygert, just 1 seconds down on Anna Henderson, who had fallen at least once on the course but remounted fast enough to hold on for Bronze. There a bunch of gifs of her falling, but we're most impressed that she kept putting in the power enough to make it to the podium.

Some other impressive performances included Frenchwoman Juliette Labous (4th), Dutchwoman Demi Vollering (5th), and the young New Zealander Kim Cadzow (7th).

Believe it or not, the Olympic individual time trial race is this weekend! The course is a very urban course through Paris, a very different course than many ITT races. It will be scenic and beautiful, but also very technical. Early reports of teams that have reconned the course say it is very slick from road traffic, so it may favor riders with well-honed bike handling skills.

Here are a few of the top contenders:

Chloe Dygert, the defending Olympic champion in her trademark pink socks or shoes, will be competing, as well as American triathlete phenom Taylor Knibb. We haven't heard much from Dygert lately as she prepared on her own, but we know she's fast. We also know that Knibb is very powerful, though this technical course probably doesn't suit her.

Australian Grace Brown, in her final professional season, will be really targeting this race, and she has looked really good this season. She's a veteran and will be wanting to take home gold in her final year of racing, and she's another top pick.

Another rider looking very good right now, who actually beat Brown by one second in the opening ITT of the Giro d'Italia Women, is Italy's own Elisa Longo Borghini. She will hope to carry her peak form into this weekend.

We don't know what to expect from Anna Henderson, who has broken her collarbone twice this year (ouch!) but is a regular ITT contender for Great Britain and could top the podium on a good day.

Speaking of injury, we would probably rule out Ellen van Dijk after her broken ankle in the first stage of the Vuelta Feminina six weeks ago, if she wasn't Ellen van Dijk. She has been out of racing but still targeting the Olympics, and she has to be considered a top contender.

Another serious Dutch contender is Demi Vollering, who sat out the Giro in favor of the Olympics and the upcoming Tour de France Femmes. She looked in fine form during the spring stage races, and is a regular threat in the ITT.

Finally, some names that won't be competing: Swiss time-trial powerhouse Marlen Reusser will miss the Olympics this year due to lingering issues from a viral infection last month. And Slovenian road race and time trial champ Urška Žigart was curiously not selected for the Slovenian Olympic team, which certainly raised some eyebrows.