I have not been following this Turkish shooter story very closely, but where has this guy been for like the past 3+ Olympics? Is this his first one?
Married.
The Judo team final between France and Japan was incredible. It was 3-3 which means they do a draw to see who will fight the tie breaker. The different weights roll on the screen and of course it stops on 90+, which means Teddy Riner, the ultimate French superstar gets to fight the tie breaker.
It took 6 and a half minutes of golden score with both Judokas with 2 penalties untill Teddy drops and ippons the Japanese and France wins the gold. Crowd goes as wild as I think anyone ever been in a Judo competition.
Netherlands just had an amazing comeback on the final 200m of the mixed 4x400m relay to win the gold in the finals.
yeah sha’carri didn’t want that smoke, tall chick flat dusted her twice in 2 hours.
The Netherlands thing is seriously mind-boggling. Femke Bol is an absolute freak.
Some stuff that makes no sense:
Bol’s split was 47.93, the 2 female splits in the WORLD RECORD time were 49.32 and 49.45.
Bol is not even entered in the 400m individual nor the 4x400 women’s relay (wtf that sucks)
She is entered in the 400m hurdles, so apparently is somehow EVEN BETTER in that than the 400 (how???)
Don’t know if there’s an overlap with 400m and 400m hurdles that makes it impossible to do both, but if there is, that’s pretty damn stupid.
I’ve been in Paris the last two summers right at this time. Those fucking wasps, bees or yellow jackets or whatever they are everywhere. They swarm any sugary pastry out on display in a boulangerie. We watched them surgically remove chunks of prosciutto with their mandibles and carry them off, presumably to their flesh-eating youngsters.
Fortunately they’re not very aggressive. But they are annoying.
Too wet, maybe’s she’s used to bone dry conditions (like Ben Shapiro’s wife)
First ever medal for St Lucia is a 100m gold. Not bad
semi final was 2 hours earlier, dry and she was right next to long legs and got beat even worse.
Men’s surfing allows 2 surfers per country and like 75% of the worlds best surfers are from USA, Brazil, or Australia.
3x World Champion Gabriel Medina, the guy from this photo
almost didn’t qualify because he only finished 6th in the world last year and 2 Brazilians were ranked ahead of him.
he had to enter the ISA World Surfing Games and win it to be awarded a spot, and it’s normally a contest that very few of the top 100 surfers in the world even enter.
The 2020 gold medalist is also from Brazil and a former world champion and he finished 13th in the world last year and didn’t even get to compete in this Olympics.
Apparently USA left out Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone of the team who is an absolute 400m relay boss (has a 47.91 split) b/c they didn’t want to break up the world record team. That’s some Trump campaign level strategerie right there.
If the semifinal team hadn’t busted their arses going for the record, they’d prob have had enough in the tank to hang on for their. BUT they felt like they had no choice b/c they were running for their spot in the finals relay team. Seems like you just decide on who’s in the semis and finals BEFORE so you can optimize strategy, no? (obviously barring a fitness issue)
True, but not really that important b/c you never know how hard people are going in the semis. Anyway, I just wanted to make a Shapiro joke more than anything.
Definitely better to be a swimmer or a gymnast. You finish in the first week, then the second week you can have all the sex.
Men’s rugby 7s was almost decided by the opening ceremonies. Those dudes have it made.