The Official 2024 Paris Summer Olympics Thread (from July 26 - August 11) - Closing Ceremony replay at 7pm EST

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Hella Surreal LA is getting the next one, I still have the hat and shirt/sweater they were giving out when they were trying to get the Olympics to LA for 2024. They are having events in the Bay too right? No reason to not catch something.

Isn't that entire other cities? How the hell would that work?
 

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shyt, weed can have several competitive events itself.

Blunt rolling, weed bagging, plant cutting, lung holding, smoke signal exhales. :skip:
Weed & Henny qualifications and knockout stage :dead: :mjlol:

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I THOUGHT BREAK DANCING
WAS FOR FRANCE ONLY.

DID THEY RECENTLY CHANGE SOMETHING?

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yeah it wont be in 2028

Breaking (or breakdancing) made its Olympic debut in Paris during the last two full days of competition, but don’t get used to seeing it on the Olympic stage regularly.

The sport has garnered significant social media attention in its short time in the spotlight but for the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, breaking is not in the lineup of sports.

In October 2023, the World DanceSport Federation released a statement after it was announced breaking would not be included in the 2028 Games.

“It’s up to each local organizing committee to determine which [additional] sports to put forward that fit with their vision of the Games. Obviously, Breaking fit very clearly with Paris’ vision of a very youth-focused urban engagement,” IOC Sports Director Kit McConnell said in a press briefing ahead of the ongoing 141st IOC Session in Mumbai, India.

For the Tokyo Games, baseball-softball, surfing, skateboarding, karate and sport climbing were selected. Paris chose skateboarding, breaking, sport climbing and surfing.


LA28 is choosing to bring back baseball and softball and add lacrosse, cricket, squash and flag football.

Cricket and lacrosse will return to the Olympics for the first time since 1900 and 1908. Baseball and softball will return to the international stage after being dropped from the Olympics after the Beijing Games in 2008 but made a one-off return in 2020.

Flag football and squash will make their Olympic debuts in Los Angeles.

In addition to the new and returning sports being added some existing sports will see changes.

The modern pentathlon will be held in Los Angeles but the horse jumping event will be replaced with obstacle course racing.

Boxing will also be held despite not having a governing body recognized by the IOC after it withdrew the International Boxing Association’s recognition in 2023.

WDSF said it is working hard to ensure that breaking will be included in the 2032 Olympics in Brisbane, citing the example of baseball and softball not being in the 2024 Games but returning in 2028.
 

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Same place as 1992? Weird that they are going to do back to back Olympics in the Alps.
America too in 2034

USA hasn't had this much of a run of luck since 94 to 98 (World Cup. Olympics, and Winter Olympics)(they host all three events in 2026, 2028, and 2034.
 
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